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A very rare mammoth carving has been discovered on a wall in Cheddar Caves (Somerset, England). The 13,000 yearold carving is being hailed as one of the most significant examples of prehistoric art ever found in Britain.
The relatively small image (a little larger than a man’s had), is only the second piece of representational cave art found in Britain.
Archaeologists have dated the engraving, which is hard to see because of erosion, to the Upper Palaeolithic period. What makes the new find all the more sensational is that unlike the abstract rock art previously found in the area, this image reveals the clear outline of a mammoth.
Though Britain had a busy Stone Age culture, no cave paintings or carvings had been found – unlike the famous examples in neighbouring France and Spain. Recently, the discovery of prehistoric carvings of animals and humans at Cresswell Crags (Current Archaeology 197), near Sheffield, and and of probable Mesolithic age on Mendip (CA 197 and 199) launched a new hunt for prehistoric cave art.
Graham Mullan and Linda Wilson, of Bristol University, have spent several years minutely examining various Cheddar Caves, using sophisticated new lighting techniques. Experts believe the carving, in an isolated niche, may have been used by tribal shamans in religious rituals, as it lies beyond the main living area of the Stone Age tribe who inhabited the cave. The creature’s huge tusks are the clearest feature.
Unfortunately, conditions in the Cheddar caves are not particularly conducive to the survival of Palaeolithic art. Much of the original rock surface was damaged or removed during the exploration of Gough’s Cave in the late 19th century and the remainder is still subject to frequent flooding. Experiments in 1999 demonstrated that pigment survival was unlikely, and calculations by geomorphologists showed that the rock surface itself was subject to water degradation However, despite these problems, Mullan and Wilson noted a feature which appeared to be a partially engraved figure of a mammoth. Careful recording was carried out by drawing, photography and laser scan, and a close examination led to the conclusion that the drawing is prehistoric. According to Jill Cook, Deputy Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Prehistory and Europe:
Left: a line drawing of the image shows interpretation of the natural and engraved parts. i) the line of the dome of the head and the back, ii) the face and trunk, iii) the eye and iv) the tusks. Sections indicated by the arrowed lines A and B most clearly show human workmanship. Drawing: Graham Mullan. Photo: Mullan, Andrew Atkinson, and Steve Cottle.
'Had I been shown this outline of a mammoth during a visit to one of the well known cave art sites in France or Spain, I would have nodded and been able to accept it in the context of other more obvious pictures. At Gough’s, or anywhere in England, it is not so easy. Cave art is so rare here that we must always question and test to make sure we are getting it right. Opinions on this may differ but we do seem to be looking at an area of ancient rock surface and the lines which appear to form the head and back of the mammoth could have been made by a stone tool. They are certainly different from natural markings on the cave wall.’
The figure has now been protected and displayed by the management at Cheddar Gorge and Caves and is now open for all to see. Graham Mullan and Linda Wilson hope to complete a survey of the remainder of the cave’s walls in the near future.
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What is the connection between feminism and mental health treatment.? The mentally ill are no longer as stigmatized as they once were. Did early feminism have any influence in the evolution of mental health treatment? I read something in Feminine Mystique in relation to this but can't remember it in detail. Links, or sources will be much appreciated.
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By now most every American is painfully aware of the runaway suicide rate in the military, averaging 33 suicides per month in 2012, roughly one every seventeen hours. Even this number—representing confirmed suicides among active duty troops—falls far short of the dark truth. Off the DOD’s map and spreadsheets are the veterans who, weeks or months or years after their war service, take their lives, often without much national or even local notice. Here the numbers are even more shocking—22 a day in February 2013, nearly one every hour. Then there are the uncounted other deaths among veterans that result from clearly self-destructive behavior, but for a range of reasons are either not seen or reported as suicides. And what of the broken survivors, the legions of others whose lives, though spared in combat, have sprung so many leaks that they spend the rest of their days and nights just staying afloat?
In search of a cause for this crisis we are most often answered with an acronym: PTSD, a broad spectrum of “disorders” spawned by an even more broad spectrum of “stressors,” ranging from multiple combat deployments to the death of a “battle buddy” to something called “moral injury.” Recent studies focus on the last of these — moral injury — as the principle wound at the root of the most severe, intractable PTSD and of many if not most military and veteran suicides. Moral injury, in the view and experience of many, represents the “dark matter” that we must understand and address if we as a nation hope to cauterize and heal the open wound that so many of our men and women in uniform daily endure.
Moral injury is a term, or more accurately a concept, that a great many Americans cannot seem to comprehend or accept. The Marine Corps, in fact, has disavowed it altogether, on the grounds that military service rests on a high ethical standard, exemplifying rather than eroding moral character and behavior. The idea that military service does violence to the souls and humanity of those who take it up would seem to be sheer folly, even blasphemy; and yet this is what many of our veterans have painfully confessed, all too often in the words they have left behind before taking their own lives. We need to listen long and hard to them and to their brothers and sisters in arms who know their pain all too well. Claiming to be a “grateful nation,” it is the least we owe them.
One such opportunity to listen and to learn about moral injury will occur on April 24 [7pm, Calvin Coolidge Room, Forbes Library, Northampton] when Marine Captain Timothy Kudo will speak to the question of moral injury and military service. The idea that dutiful service to one’s country in war can be simply “wrong,” putting at risk one’s humanity and very soul, is blasphemous and unthinkable to nearly everyone except those who have experienced it to be the case. It is an idea that many or most veterans are unwilling to express, for they know the anger and resentment they will provoke with their words. Timothy Kudo, a Marine captain who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, learned this when he submitted a piece to the Washington Post in January 2013, entitled “I killed people in Afghanistan. Was I right or wrong?” This was a question that at his own admission he never examined or resolved until his return home. “We were simply too busy,” he explained, “to worry about the morality of what we were doing.” Now, however, he thinks about it every day, because he knows and lives with the “ethical damage” that killing does to the killer, which he admits “may be worse than the physical injuries we sustain.” The best he can do is to say that “killing is always wrong, but in war it is necessary.”
Perhaps understandably, Timothy Kudo’s brief, honest, and heart-wrenching admission that the killing he did for his country was wrong—not because the war was unjust but because killing is always wrong—spawned a storm of outrage and dismissal. One particularly offensive response to Kudo was an article that soon appeared in the National Review, entitled “A Morally Confused Marine,” in which the author said that he has “to wonder why, given his belief that killing is always wrong, Timothy Kudo ever enlisted in the Marines.” The fact is that when Kudo enlisted the morality of killing was not on his mind. It was a question he hadn’t yet asked. It was the experience and inner aftermath of killing that raised the question and brought him to where he is now. He learned from doing, rather than from reading. The fact is that Captain Kudo, far from succumbing to moral confusion, has come to moral clarity, a moral clarity that sheds appreciable light on a dark matter we as a nation need to understand and confront.
Timothy Kudo will be joined by a panel of three respondents: Rev. David Whiteley, who served 20 years in the Army and has served for another 20 years as a VA Chaplain; Very Rev. Jim Munroe, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, a Marine combat veteran of Vietnam and a founder of the Veterans Education Project; and Bob Meagher, Professor of Humanities at Hampshire College, author of Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War, and (forthcoming in Fall 2014) Killing From the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War. | <urn:uuid:9ef71b82-ca34-4d8d-a6bc-be880b1d56fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://valleyadvocate.com/2014/04/25/the-dark-matter-of-moral-injury/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977019 | 1,162 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Spanish Water Supplies
1Lt. German Francisco Muñoz
First published in
SFOR Informer#165, September, 2003
The summer sun can destroy the work of several months
in just a few days. In Popovo Polje, an area between Trebinje
and Ravno, the Spanish Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
had to intervene to save approximately 110 hectares of plantation
from being devastated by drought.
Popovo Polje - In collaboration the non-governmental organisation
(NGO) Movement for the Peace Development and Liberty (MPDL)
and the Spanish government funded Team International Cooperation
Spanish Agency (AECI) the authorities of the region set about
the redevelopment of the valley. The initial task was to remove
the mines to allow cultivation to begin. Currently there is
now 110 hectares being farmed. In order to sustain the crops
the water conduits needed to be repaired but this has been
delayed to to problems with the antiquated system. The continuing
drought over the last three months has started to threaten
the plantations and the local population made a plea to the
Spanish Cimic Team for help. They provided two 9000 litre
water trucks, manned by a sergeant and eight soldiers who
temporally lived in the area, delivering water to the various
properties until the situation was resolved and the conduits
The farmers expressed their gratitude to the CIMIC team and
the long term plans to repair the irrigation system, rejuvenating
a once fertile area back to its pre-war condition. Farmer
Milan Komnenovic commented, " It is extremely heart warming
to see this project, because as one of the people whose livelihood
depends on cultivating this ground, without it my future would
be very bleak. I think it would be good to extend this program
to other areas which are in need of water".
Itzlar de Miguel, the person in charge for the project within
MPDL, stated that, "It is difficult for the project to
help everyone but by helping to repair these old irrigation
systems, and with the help of SFOR we are helping to prevent
these periods of drought becoming economic crisis's".
This has been an opportunity to help the local community both
Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat.
It has very satisfying seeing the faces of the farmers knowing
we have helped them maintain their livelihoods, and bring
Bosnia and Herzegovina one step closer to normalisation"
concluded Spanish Captain Raul Sanchez Prendes, Liason Officer
Spanish Cimic Team.
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Inshore and canoe fishermen in the country will from tomorrow recommence fishing in Ghana’s waters as the month-long moratorium on artisanal fishing ends today.
The maiden closed season for artisanal fishing started on Wednesday, May 15, to allow the country’s waters to replenish its depleting fish stock which had been a result of poor fishing practices and over exploitation of the sea.
The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD), Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, announcing the timeline said it was agreed upon after extensive consultation and stakeholder engagements.
According to a Fish Stock Assessment Report by the Fisheries Commission of MoFAD, last year, the fisheries sector suffered a decline of 14.5 per cent in total marine fish production from 342,427 tonnes in 2017 to 293,294 tonnes.
It is expected that the landing of small pelagic fish by artisanal fisheries will increase to 90,000 metric tonnes in 2020 from as low as 15,000 in 2017, if the season is well observed.
The ban on fishing was postponed from 2018 to 2019 following concerns expressed by players in the industry including insufficient consultation and unfavourable timeline.
This year’s timeline was equally met with opposition by some fishermen including the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNFC) who were of the view that the May/June timeline was unfavourable.
For them, a July 1 to July 31 timeline provided by a 13-member group, a scientific and technical working group chaired by Prof. Dr Kobina Yankson of the University of Cape Coast, was favourable.
Nii Abeo Kyerekuandah IV, the executive secretary of the council said the July timeline would result in an impact of 20 per cent or more as compared to the May timeline of which the impact is pegged at five per cent or less.
However, after an internal dispute over the timeline erupted at a press conference to register their disagreement, the council, decided to adhere to the timeline given by the government.
In an interview with the Ghanaian Times on Monday, the acting Secretary of the Council, Mr Samuel Commey Okine in an interview said fishermen nationwide complied with the directive despite the disagreement.
He said although a letter was expected from the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture to announce the end of the season, they were ready to resume fishing adding that they were expecting improved catch this Sunday.
Visits and checks by the paper at the landing beaches across the four coastal regions; Greater Accra, Volta, Central and Western indicate that the fishermen are preparing to resume work.
They are mending their fishing net, repairing and painting their canoes in expectation of better days ahead. The second phase of the closed season would be observed from August 1 to September 30 by industrial trawlers.
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Different people have different resume writing concepts of which some may be wrong .Listed below are resume blunders you should avoid.
- The word ‘Curriculum Vitae’
Typing curriculum vitae as the title of your resume is wrong. The employer knows that it is resume already, so why remind him.
- Listing three, four or more juicy references (unless required).
This is like putting the cart before the horse. Your top purpose is to get an interview. If the Organization is interested, you will supply a list of references. Wait till the employer/representative asks for references. Then match each reference with the employer’s reference specifications. Include title and your relationship with each reference.
- Misunderstanding what a resume is.
A resume is simply a marketing document disguised as a resume. Do not hesitate to display your skills and sell yourself in your resume. Do not undersell your background, experience, skills and abilities. Emphasize results in statements of accomplishment that relate to the job requirements. More results the better.
- Providing insufficient contact information.
Companies contact applicants in several ways. The two major are through phone and electronic mail. The company possesses the sole right to decide which means to use .Therefore, endeavour to put a valid email address and phone number. Also, in this “world of internet “it may be considered a minus not having an email address. Imagine someone applying for an Information Technology job and there is no email address on your CV. Does it tell well of you?
- Using weird, unofficial or artistic fonts
Picture a recruiter opening your resume and sees a ‘Christmas card’ instead of a resume. Using fonts that are artistic and casual makes your resume look like a ‘greeting card’ and sound very unserious. Fonts like Lucida, stencil, system, etc can make a caricature of your resume. Use font styles like Arial, Verdana, MS Reference, san serif, etc.
- Poor Resume Format
A recruiter going through your resume tries to paint a picture of who are you. A disorganized resume portrays a disorganized person. A resume that is poorly aligned is likely to be dumped. A resume with education /work history not properly arranged in either ascending or descending order (though it is highly advised to have your latest qualification or job experience first) is likely to be dumped. A resume that has your hobbies before your job objective may be dumped.
Inasmuch as your resume is a strong marketing tool, saying that you are what you are not is a serious blunder. Be sincere in your work and education history. Some firms go extra miles to confirm your claims, so do not add fictitious /forged work and education history.
- Another unpardonable lie is your age.
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Simple Definition of prediction
: a statement about what will happen or might happen in the future
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Journalists have begun making predictions about the winner of the coming election.
Despite predictions that the store would fail, it has done very well.
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First Known Use of prediction
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1 : an act of saying what will or might happen in the future <prediction of earthquakes>
2 : a statement about what will or might happen in the future <a weather prediction>
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Car specialist takes the RFID route
Car logistics company Assistor is using RFID to track vehicles in harbours and warehouses.
The system, developed by Digia, uses passive RFID technology to identify vehicles quickly and reliably. When unloaded from ships, vehicles are equipped with UPM Raflatac’s UHF Gen2 DogBone RFID tags.
An exact warehouse location is assigned to each vehicle so that they are easily located with a hand-held RFID reader. A total of 250 readers are used by the system. Each RFID tag carries information about all actions related to the vehicle during storage and production.
Assistor will deliver around 370,000 vehicles to Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia this year. It has vehicle terminals in Hanko and Paldiski and spare parts terminals in Espoo, Helsinki and Vantaa.
Tom Suvanto, deputy managing director at Assistor, said: “Maximal use of the real-time data from our processes gives us a competitive advantage. Furthermore, managing large vehicle warehouses and correctly locating vehicles has until now presented a major challenge.”
“UPM Raflatac’s UHF Gen2 DogBone RFID tags are designed to function even in the challenging weather conditions that vehicles might face during transport,” said Mikko Nikkanen, RFID business development director at UPM Raflatac. “Vehicles may be covered with snow or encounter heavy rain, for instance, both being conditions in which barcode technology no longer works.” | <urn:uuid:d640d09a-fd55-4540-916a-77e9e83df506> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.logisticsmanager.com/9162-car-specialist-takes-the-rfid-route/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00510-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940164 | 319 | 1.6875 | 2 |
In the rainy season, people should eat only fresh and home-cooked food.
To strengthen immunity, include ginger, garlic and lemon in the diet.
Monsoon Diet Tips: The rainy season is going on. In this season, people have to make a lot of effort to keep themselves healthy. From lifestyle to food and drink, there is a need to take care of it. According to experts, food kept for a long time should not be eaten during the rainy season. This can worsen your health and you can become a victim of trouble. Get to know the answers to all the questions about this from the dietician.
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What is Dietitian’s advice?
Kamini Sinha, former dietician of Medanta It is said that in the rainy season, one should avoid eating food kept for more than 3 hours. There are some such things, which spoil quickly in this season and eating them can cause many diseases including stomach infection. In the rainy season, people should eat only fresh and home-cooked food. While preparing food, utmost care should be taken of cleanliness and fruits and vegetables should be used only after washing them thoroughly. You can clean vegetables by adding salt to hot water.
Such fruits should be consumed
According to Kamini Sinha, there is a need to be careful while eating fruits in the rain. Try not to buy cut fruits. Fruits that can be eaten after peeling should be consumed. Apart from this, drinking fresh juice instead of packaged juice is beneficial for health. According to the dietician, distance should also be taken from street food in the rainy season, because it is not considered very good in terms of hygiene.
Also read: Can Exercising Reduce Obesity? Know what experts say
How to strengthen immunity
According to dieticians, during the rainy season, people’s immune system becomes weak and if we strengthen it, then the risk of diseases is reduced to a great extent. To strengthen immunity, you have to include ginger, garlic and lemon in your diet. Along with this, a healthy diet has to be taken. Cleanliness will have to be taken care of and outside food will have to be avoided. If all these things are taken care of, then immunity can be improved.
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The discrepancy between the proton size deduced from the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen and the average, textbook value based on regular (electronic) hydrogen has puzzled physicists for nearly a decade. One possible resolution could be that electrons interact with protons in a different way than muons do, which would require “new physics.” Bezginov et al. measured the Lamb shift in electronic hydrogen, which allowed for a direct comparison to the Lamb shift measured in muonic hydrogen. The two results agreed, but the discrepancy with the averaged value remains.
The surprising discrepancy between results from different methods for measuring the proton charge radius is referred to as the proton radius puzzle. In particular, measurements using electrons seem to lead to a different radius compared with those using muons. Here, a direct measurement of the n = 2 Lamb shift of atomic hydrogen is presented. Our measurement determines the proton radius to be r p = 0.833 femtometers, with an uncertainty of ±0.010 femtometers. This electron-based measurement of r p agrees with that obtained from the analogous muon-based Lamb shift measurement but is not consistent with the larger radius that was obtained from the averaging of previous electron-based measurements.
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It remains unclear whether lawmakers will move forward with any of the four Turkey sanctions bills introduced over the last week, but Congress is much closer to passing another irritant between the troubled NATO allies into law.
Turkey, which occupies Northern Cyprus, has launched a last-ditch attempt to convince lawmakers to drop a provision in the annual defense authorization bill that would lift the United States’ three-decade arms embargo on Cyprus.
“The longstanding US policy has purposefully not taken sides among peoples of the island or guarantor states to avoid promoting an arms race that might lead to an undesired or unintended consequences,” Turkish Ambassador Serdar Kilic wrote in a pair of identical letters to the chairman and top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee: Reps. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Mac Thornberry, R-Texas.
Kilic’s September letters urge Smith and Thornberry to drop the Cyprus language from the defense bill. The letters were distributed by Turkish lobbying firms Venable and Capitol Counsel.
The Senate version of the bill, which passed 86-8 in June, originally contained the provision. The language became part of the House defense bill after an amendment introduced by Reps. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., passed 252-173 in July.
“The Republic of Cyprus has long been a key ally in the fight against terrorism and emerging threats in Europe, but for more than 25 years, this embargo has not reflected the strength and importance of that relationship,” Cicilline said after the House adapted his amendment.
Including the Cyprus provision in both bills significantly increases the likelihood that the United States will soon lift the 32-year-old arms embargo.
Congressional efforts to lift the embargo first originated in the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Partnership Act, introduced by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The committee advanced the bill in June as an effort to deepen energy cooperation with Cyprus, Greece and Israel while rebuking Turkey for its natural gas drilling activity off the Cypriot coast.
Turkey recently expanded its drilling activities to areas where Cyprus has already awarded licenses for European companies to drill earlier this month, prompting the European Union to draw up sanctions earlier this week. Cyprus has also dispatched drones to surveil the Turkish drill ships.
And while Venable and Capitol Counsel have assisted Turkey in fighting the bills, Cyprus and Greece have lobbied several key lawmakers and staffers involved in creating the legislation.
Lobbying disclosure firms reviewed by Al-Monitor reveal that the law firm DLA Piper met with Thornberry and Bilirakis on behalf of Greece in late 2018. The firm also met with staffers for Cicilline and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this year.
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With Alberta in the grips of a measles outbreak, there are questions about whether the province should make vaccines and quarantines mandatory.
“Back in the early 1900’s, about one in every five houses in Canada had a picture of a dead kid on the mantle,” said Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious disease specialist with University of Alberta.
Saxinger told Edmonton AM’s John Archer that while Alberta’s approach of voluntary vaccinations and quarantines is a common one, places with stricter rules during outbreaks generally fare much better.
“That early period of measles where you have an infectious virus but might be showing very minimal signs of disease is a very bad one for getting out and about.”
She said the questions of mandatory prevention and quarantines are ones that should be asked on a case-by-case basis. For diseases like measles, she says she is seeing a lot of support among both doctors and the public for mandatory vaccines -- something she credits to a greater push to assure people about the low risks associated with vaccines.
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Innovations in agriculture don’t just come from veteran environmentalists or food industry heavyweights. In fact, many incredibly inspiring projects are the creations of youth and young people around the world. Food Tank is excited to highlight 10 young foodies who make us more hopeful about the future.
Back to the Roots founders Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez.
1-2. Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez, 26 and 27, on the precipice of their graduation from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009, turned down offers to enter the world of consulting and investment banking to pursue mushrooms. The pair had been experimenting with growing mushrooms on coffee grounds, and after a successful bucket of oyster mushrooms, they knew they had discovered a big opportunity. Oakland-based Back to the Roots was born, and, now five-years-old, its two main products are mushroom kits, which can grow mushrooms directly out of a cardboard box, and AquaFarm, a self-cleaning fish tank that uses the fishes’ waste to grow food. As declared on their website, “our mission is to make food personal again through the passionate development of tools that educate and inspire, one family at a time.”
3. Nicky Bronner, 17, has a sweet tooth, but found himself butting heads with his parents, who didn’t want him filling up on processed candies and junk foods. Unwilling to sacrifice peanut butter cups and chocolate bars, Bronner, then 13, worked with his father to found Unreal Foods, whose candies are made with real ingredients: no preservatives, grass-fed dairy, no corn syrup, gluten free and fair trade cocoa. The products have made their way from the Bronners’ home outside Boston, MA to big name grocery stores, and can be purchased throughout the U.S. at Target, Kroger and Wegman’s, just to name a few.
4. Tyson Gersh, 25, is owner and founder of the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging community members in sustainable agriculture on vacant plots of land, providing people with nutritious food, while making the community more conscientious about where their food comes from. Gersh, who graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn this year, is now head of an organization that boasts 2,500 volunteers and grew more than 10,000 pounds of produce this year alone. “Using agriculture as a platform to promote education, sustainability and community—while simultaneously reducing socioeconomic disparity—we hope to empower urban communities,” MUFI’s website reads.
5-6. Eve and Liam Knight, 12 and 13, are better known as the Spice Kidz. The duo moved from Ireland to Pensacola, FL and was disappointed by the lack of curry, which is widespread across the British Isles. Rather than settle for less curry in their diets, Eve and Liam decided to introduce an easy-to-use spice packet (inspired by a similar product in Ireland) to Americans, allowing them to create easy and nutritious meals. The pair won an entrepreneurship competition at the Young Entrepreneur’s Academy of Greater Pensacola, and their product is being sold at a local store. "We want everyone in America to have curry for dinner," Eve said. "And we want them to have it once a week."
7. Emily Meko, 23, is founder and owner of Eat What’s Good, a vegan and gluten-free vendor of packaged and prepared foods, consulting services, meal planning, catering and menu development. The Ontario resident, a culinary student who has also studied food science and human nutrition, hopes to get people excited about organic, healthy, food. “It's where healthy meets delicious, and getting away from the idea that healthy food has to taste institutionalized and boring,” she said. Meko’s products are already featured at a nearby wellness clinic as well as a yoga studio, and she hopes the reach of her healthy eats will continue to expand.
8. Benedict Mundele, 20, founded Surprise Tropicale, a food take-away and catering business, the idea for which she developed when she was in high school. The Democratic Republic of Congo resident started off by giving free breakfasts to members of the Kuvuna Foundation, an organization dedicated to sustainable development, leadership development and support for entrepreneurs. Mundele, who is studying social communication at the Catholic University of Congo, said that although her country has plenty of fresh food, it is often exported, processed, imported again and sold at higher prices. She wants to keep the DRC’s fresh food fresh, and hopes to soon supply her foods to local supermarkets. Mundele is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and will attend the World Economic Forum on Africa in Nigeria this year.
9. Ben Simon, 24, is executive director and one of the founders of the Food Recovery Network (FRN), a network of college chapters whose mission is simple: direct surplus food from their campuses to hungry Americans instead of landfills. The University of Maryland graduate started the program with several other students, and three years later, the organization boasts more than 95 chapters across 26 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. Since 2011, FRN has donated more than 400,000 pounds of food, and Simon was awarded US$10,000 by the Do Something campaign in 2013 to further FRN’s goals. FRN hopes to be on 150 campuses and to have donated 610,000 pounds of food by May 2015. “An amazing amount of food gets thrown into a trash can,” Simon said. “It evokes a very innate response to jump into action.”
10. Remmi Smith, 14, has launched an online cooking show and a spin-off, published a cookbook and had her products sold at Whole Foods—all before starting high school. The Tulsa, OK resident said her passion for food and cooking was sparked by the childhood obesity epidemic, and she hopes to inspire other kids to experiment with nutritious, tasty foods. Smith is also Sodexo’s student health and nutrition ambassador, participant in the Future Chefs program, and has given cooking demonstrations in front of Congress and the National School Board Association. | <urn:uuid:b0105146-434c-47f7-bde3-cbdbed43f30c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ecowatch.com/10-young-people-who-are-changing-the-food-system-1881939522.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969565 | 1,305 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Gibbs Law Group LLP is investigating injuries resulting from the use of Nizoral. According to the FDA, Nizoral (ketoconazole) oral tablets, which are used to treat fungal infections, can lead to adrenal gland insufficiency and potentially fatal liver injury. On July 26, 2013, the FDA released a safety alert and required changes to Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals Nizoral tablet labels. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended suspension of marketing ketoconazole after the Committee on Medicinal Products for Human Use found the risks do not outweigh the benefits. The review of ketoconazole was prompted by the suspension of the drug in France, where the French medicine agency had also found that the benefit-risk balance of the drug was negative.
New Warnings against Nizoral Oral Tablets
Due to serious side effects that include liver injuries, adrenal gland problems, and adverse drug interactions, the FDA required a label change and recommends limited use of Nizoral. The Nizoral label now states, “NIZORAL® Tablets should be used only when other effective antifungal therapy is not available or tolerated and the potential benefits are considered to outweigh the potential risks.” The FDA also requires the label include a new contraindication that patients with liver disease should not use Nizarol. The EMA has taken a further step in recommending that anyone taking ketoconazole make an appointment with their doctor to discuss the treatment and that doctors should stop prescribing the antifungal medication.
Nizoral has been used to treat blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, chromomycosis, and paracoccidioidomycosis as well as Candida and dermatophyte infections. According to the FDA, ketoconazole should no longer be prescribed for Candida or dermatophyte infections.
The FDA warns that Nizoral has led to:
- liver injuries (also known as hepatotoxicity), including damage leading to liver transplantation or death;
- adrenal gland problems due to insufficiency from decreased corticosteroid production; and
- dangerous drug interactions, including life-threatening problems such as heart dysrhythmia.
The FDA and EMA warnings apply only to the ketoconazole oral formulation, which usually comes in 200-mg tablets and was prescribed over 600,000 times in the United States last year alone.
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Motorcycles & Scooters
Considered a practical and important means of transport by many riders, motorcycle and scooter owners range from devoted enthusiasts of the open road to city-centre workers beating the traffic queues as part of their commute. Two-wheeled transport can certainly be an efficient way to get around busy cities and to park easily, with scooters offering ease of use and lower insurance costs than are applicable to larger vehicles. Scooters have a convenient step-through frame with a platform for the rider’s feet.
The original Vespas and Lambrettas have been complemented and redeveloped over the years, though contacting a motorcycle dealer may help when searching for vintage models. The modern scooter trader will often offer numerous makes and models, typically with continuous variable transmission instead of a manual gearshift. For a wide choice of models from leading scooter and motorcycle manufacturers including wholesale distributors, productpilot.com is a B2B supplier portal connecting buyers and sellers. Bodywork conceals the engine parts and gives scooters a stylish, aerodynamic look, with some protection from the wind and rain - especially with a screen. To add storage space under the seat, motorcycle trader and scooter manufacturers offer racks and top boxes.
A typical entry-level machine offered by a motorcycle trader will have an engine capacity of 125 c.c. (cubic centimetres), with a riding test and upward progression to 250cc models offering respectable acceleration, though the legislation covering driver age and size of motor may vary depending on the country. Engine displacements range from a 50cc moped through sporting 650s up to 1200cc (or more) on some elite touring bikes. Choices in motorcycle dealer showrooms include single cylinder engines, v-twins and responsive triples, while ABS braking systems increase safety.
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Anal itching occurs when the skin around your anus becomes irritated. You may feel intense itching around and just inside the anus.
Anal itching may be caused by:
- Spicy foods, caffeine, alcohol, and other irritating foods and beverages
- Scents or dyes in toilet paper or soap
- Hemorrhoids, which are swollen veins in or around your anus
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Taking antibiotics
- Yeast infections
- Parasites, such as pinworms, which more commonly occur in children
Self-care at Home
To treat anal itching at home, you should keep the area as clean and dry as possible.
- Clean the anus gently after bowel movements, without scrubbing. Use a squeeze bottle of water, unscented baby wipes, a wet washcloth, or wet unscented toilet paper.
- Avoid soaps with dyes or fragrances.
- Pat dry with a clean, soft towel or unscented toilet paper. DO NOT rub the area.
- Try over-the-counter creams, ointments, or gels with hydrocortisone or zinc oxide, made to soothe anal itching. Be sure to follow the directions for use on the package.
- Wear loose clothing and cotton underwear to help keep the area dry.
- Try not to scratch the area. This can cause swelling and irritation, and make itching worse.
- Avoid foods and beverages that can cause loose stools or irritate the skin around the anus. This includes spicy foods, caffeine, and alcohol.
- Use fiber supplements, if needed, to help you have regular bowel movements.
When to Call Your Health Care Provider
Call your health care provider if you have:
- A rash or lump in or around the anus
- Bleeding or discharge from the anus
Also, call your provider if self-care does not help within 2 or 3 weeks.
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Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Tools: A Review
Abstract:Machine learning is a new and exciting area of artificial intelligence nowadays. Machine learning is the most valuable, time, supervised, and cost-effective approach. It is not a narrow learning approach; it also includes a wide range of methods and techniques that can be applied to a wide range of complex realworld problems and time domains. Biological image classification, adaptive testing, computer vision, natural language processing, object detection, cancer detection, face recognition, handwriting recognition, speech recognition, and many other applications of machine learning are widely used in research, industry, and government. Every day, more data are generated, and conventional machine learning techniques are becoming obsolete as users move to distributed and real-time operations. By providing fundamental knowledge of machine learning tools and research opportunities in the field, the aim of this article is to serve as both a comprehensive overview and a guide. A diverse set of machine learning resources is demonstrated and contrasted with the key features in this survey. Procedia APA BibTeX Chicago EndNote Harvard JSON MLA RIS XML ISO 690 PDF Downloads 1203
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: : One of my 10-year-old cousins has just been diagnosed with osteoporosis. I don't know if it's IJO (which I assume is bad from what I've seen on the 'net so far) or not, but what I was wondering is if anyone could direct me to some pages about childhood osteoporosis..so far I've found a few, but nothing that's really painting a clear picture for me as to what this diagnosis means exactly. Replying to my email would be best since I don't get on the 'net too very often anymore. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.
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: Does your cousin have a genetic disease that the doctors felt may lead to decrease bone mass? How did they determine that he had osteoporosis, did he have a DEXA scan? It's interesting because I am currently involved in DEXA testing. At age ten the bones have not developed and reached peak adult bone mass. If his bone testing was compared to peak adult bone mass it would definitely show osteo. However, most bone density testing machines can compare bone density in a ten year old to age-matched values to determine if his bone mass is normal for his age.
: With a child his age, now is the most critical time for him to build his bones through increased calcium intake. You can find the National Osteoporosis Foundation at WWW.NOF.ORG and they will have the listing of optimal calcium intake for children and adults. hope this helps.
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Since the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, international efforts have intensified on vaccination schemes perceived as the only light at the end of the tunnel. Governments are working tirelessly to scale up the number of vaccinated people, just as vaccine manufacturers are stretching their facilities to meet the increasing demand for doses. The international community is trying to help the poorest countries in the world by improving vaccine supplies and removing obstacles. In this regard, India and South Africa have applied to World Trade Organisation to waive vaccine-related intellectual property rights. The proposal has sparked off academic debates as to its merit. This article addresses the waiver controversy. Following a critical review of both dimensions of the controversy, the article concentrates on the extent to which the waiver application contradicts the theoretical justification of the patent system. It concludes that the concerns raised over the conflict between the waiver proposal and the patent right philosophy are indefensible.
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In October 2020, India and South Africa applied to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for a waiver from its rules concerning intellectual property rights. The rationale for that application was that, ‘an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic requires rapid access to affordable medical products including diagnostic kits, medical masks, other personal protective equipment and ventilators as well as vaccines and medicines for the prevention and treatment of patients in dire need’, adding that ‘as new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for COVID-19 are developed, there are significant concerns how these will be made available promptly, in sufficient quantities and at affordable prices to meet global demand’ (Waiver From Certain Provisions of The TRIPS Agreement for The Prevention, Containment and Treatment of Covid-19 Communication From India and South Africa 2021). As a result, the proposal demanded ‘a waiver from implementation, application and enforcement’ of some provisions of the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.
Generally speaking, the TRIPS Agreement sets out the legal basis for waivers. Article IX.3 of that instrument states that, ‘in exceptional circumstances, the Ministerial Conference may decide to waive an obligation imposed on a Member by this Agreement or any of the Multilateral Trade Agreements’. Under Article IX.4, ‘a decision by the Ministerial Conference granting a waiver shall state the exceptional circumstances justifying the decision, the terms and conditions governing the application of the waiver and the date on which the waiver shall terminate’.
Despite a slow start, the patent waiver proposal later gained traction. In May 2021, the USA shifted from its initial reluctance to eventually support the commencement of talks about patent waiver related to COVID-19 vaccines (Even after US Shift, Opponents Resist COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver—CNA 2021). China and Russia soon followed the US’ step towards the tackling of the pandemic. The waiver proposal is now believed to be backed by about 100 countries (It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines 2021). Nevertheless, many high-income countries are still reluctant to back the proposal. A similar divergence of views is evident in the academic realm. This article reviews the main arguments of both the proponents and the opponents of the patent waiver application. It concludes that the unease expressed over the potential conflict between the waiver proposal and the patent right philosophy is unwarranted. However, compelling the rationale for patent protection may be, in the face of a global emergency like COVID-19, public health must trump patent right.
The COVID-19 patent waiver debates
Advocates of the waiver of COVID-19 patents rely on multiple premises to substantiate their position (figure 1). First, is that the right of access to vaccines is one of the vital components of the human right to health, which must be prioritised over intellectual property rights. The TRIPS provisions must not be construed or applied in a manner that undermines the right of all peoples to access vaccines in an affordable, fair and equitable way. In this regard, it is worth noting that Article 7 of the TRIPS Agreement provides that the ‘protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights’ shall be ‘in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare’.
Consequently, private profit shall be sacrificed for the sake of public health. In December 2020, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged companies to be alert to their social responsibility and to engage conscientiously in the fight against the pandemic, calling on them to deem vaccines as public goods (Human rights and access to COVID-19 Vaccines 2020). This call seems reasonable, considering that public spending played a crucial role in supporting the creation of the patented vaccine inventions (Sariola 2021). In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is argued that intellectual property rights tend unjustifiably to protect industry and profit over public health (Sariola 2021).
The second argument of the waiver backers is that, although one of the main goals of patent protection is to give patentees a privilege against competitors, in the context of a pandemic like COVID-19, global health and not competition is the priority (It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines 2021). Patent right is a reward for the disclosure of inventions. Yet, the disclosure of vaccine patents is asserted to be unsatisfactory. Furthermore, public access to patent applications is justifiably delayed. Moreover, overlapping patent applications with only slight variance tend to create patent thickets that preclude competitors from further research and development, which could otherwise benefit society (Thambisetty et al 2021).
Supporters of the patent waiver proposal also contend that vaccine producers have tried to profit unfairly from the freedom of pricing (Thambisetty et al 2021). According to them, TRIPS paves the way for patent holders to determine prices for their products, which can be kept high and beyond the reach of patients who need them more. For instance, AstraZeneca sold its vaccines for US$2.16 per dose to the EU market, while selling the same for US$2.25 per dose to South Africa (Sariola 2021). Although another pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, promised to provide vaccines at a low price or for free to low-income countries, the contract between that company and the Dominican Republic reflects the opposite (Binagwaho, Mathewos, and Davis 2021). Vaccine producers have, no doubt, made a considerable amount of profit. This is despite the significant public funding received for their research and development that produced the vaccine inventions (It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines 2021 (Sariola 2021). Cross et al (2021) reported, for example, that over 97% of the funds employed in the research and development process leading to the invention of the AstraZeneca vaccines was public. It is estimated that public funds amounting to over US$100 billion were spent on the development of vaccines (Thambisetty et al 2021).
Statistics on the progress of vaccination were relied on to support the waiver proposal. The world shall vaccinate 70% of its population to ensure a safe return to normalcy (It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines 2021). Yet, by March 2022, 50 countries with 20% of the world’s population just received 7.7% of vaccines (More Than 11.1 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker 2022). WHO estimates that just 0.03 went to low-income countries (Iacobucci 2021). It is believed that the pattern of the current vaccination schemes will leave some poor countries unvaccinated until the end of 2023 (Binagwaho, Mathewos, and Davis 2021). Even more disturbing is that some African countries will only reach the vaccination programme by 2040 (A Patent Waiver on COVID Vaccines is Right and Fair 2021). Patent rights and fears of costly infringement suits have restricted research, manufacture and supply of vaccines needed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic (Contreras et al 2020). Approval of the patent waiver application would surely help countries that have manufacturing facilities to produce vaccines and export them to needy countries (Ranjan 2021).
Despite the merit of the above arguments and the noble goal that underpins them, other researchers raise opposing voices. The first and most common adversarial argument is that patent protection is not the obstacle to vaccine production. Opponents of the waiver proposal stress that waiver will not quicken the manufacture of vaccines (Ouellette et al 2020). There is a low supply of raw materials and lack of capacity to produce vaccines (Hilty et al 2021). More than just patent waiver, vaccine production requires the availability of vaccine components, training of people and enactment of suitable legislation, all of which will take some time (It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines 2021). Furthermore, vaccine patents are also accompanied by other intellectual property rights, such that the waiver of patent rights alone will not solve the production problem (Bostyn 2021).
More significantly, there is knowhow that should be disclosed, without which patent waiver will be fruitless (Hilty et al 2021). In other words, for waiver to be useful, patent holders must agree to share their knowhow and transfer the relevant technology (Santos Rutschman and Barnes-Weise 2021). In the same vein, vaccine production requires authorisation from health authorities, which is normally based on evidence presented by the manufacturer that the medicine is safe for human use. Producers of COVID-19 vaccines can help local partners to fulfil this requirement only if there is patent protection. Patent waiver will minimise prospects for such cooperation (Hilty et al 2021). Additionally, opponents of patent waiver argue that it is an extreme measure, and should only be a solution of last resort to the lack of vaccine supply (Hilty et al 2021; Mercurio 2021).
Some flexibilities are available to confront health crisis (Ranjan 2021). The TRIPS regime allows compulsory licensing during emergencies. This tool can be used to facilitate vaccine manufacture (A Patent Waiver on COVID Vaccines is Right and Fair 2021). According to one study, between 2001 and 2016, out of 144 cases in which countries applied for TRIPS flexibilities, 100 of them used compulsory licensing (Ranjan 2021). Supporters of patent waiver contend, however, that compulsory licensing is restricted under Article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement. First, it requires negotiation between applicants and patent holders (Sariola 2021). Second, there is an obligation to pay compensation to patent holders, which will exert a heavy burden on low-income and middle-income countries in pandemic situations. Lastly, many other countries in need of treatment, but without production capacity, will not benefit from compulsory licensing as production must be reserved exclusively for the applicant’s domestic market (Ranjan 2021). Thus, the compulsory licensing flexibility is a time-consuming and complex process (Thambisetty et al 2021).
A further argument advanced by opponents of patent waiver is that this option will not lower vaccine prices. First, vaccine producers have already indicated that they will provide vaccines based on a non-profit approach. Second, vaccine prices are dictated by the cost of intellectual property and by the expensive technologies used in the production process (Hilty et al 2021).
To combat the spread of COVID-19, numerous holders of intellectual property rights voluntarily allowed users worldwide access to such rights without any payment or threat of infringement litigation. Also, vaccine producers and rich countries backed a scheme called COVAX, meant to supply 2 billion doses to vaccinate poor communities in 2021 (COVAX Joint Statement: Call to Action to Equip COVAX to Deliver 2 Billion Doses in 2021). Nonetheless, there were reservations over the capacity of COVAX to reach its target (It’s Time to Consider a Patent Reprieve for COVID Vaccines 2021). Eventually, it just administered 900 million does by the end of 2021 (Akhtar 2022). According to critics, COVAX has been unable to remove the global injustice experienced in respect of access to vaccines (Sariola 2021; Thambisetty et al 2021; Holzer et al 2022).
Perhaps, the main argument put forward by those averse to patent waiver is that it will constitute a hurdle to drug innovation, which is essential to tackle the emergence of COVID-19 variants (Hilty et al 2021; Mercurio 2021) . Vaccine producers are adamant that unpermitted copying will endanger public health and increase the risk of the emergence of new viruses (Baachus 2020). The widely deployed justification for patent protection is to compensate inventors for their breakthroughs, as well as encourage them to continue to contribute to economic growth and the diffusion of innovative technology both domestically and globally (Baachus 2020).
Waiver contradicts the justification of the patent system and undermines its goals as it might be exploited by competitors to obtain the expensive technologies that were used in the invention of vaccines (A Patent Waiver on COVID Vaccines is Right and Fair 2021). Rewarding inventors and persuading them to put more funds in underfunded fields is more important than waiver (Santos Rutschman and Barnes-Weise 2021). The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) raises the concern that waiver will endanger the supply of raw materials by directing it to less-qualified producers. The result will be low-quality vaccines (EFPIA/Vaccines Europe Statement on IP Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines—Vaccines Europe n.d.).
Finally, it is argued that the USA and other high-income countries will not back a limitless waiver. Time and scope limited waiver could be a solution, but this also takes considerable time as the decision-making procedure in the TRIPS system is cumbersome and time-consuming (Mercurio 2021). Unless there is a consensus among WTO members, to reach an agreement on waiver will involve long-drawn negotiations (Baachus 2020).
The justification of the patent system in the COVID-19 context
One of the main points raised against patent waiver is that it conflicts with the justification of the patent system as a whole. As mentioned earlier, waiver supporters do not deny this fact. Nevertheless, they maintain that patent protection must be reconciled with public health and the right of access to essential vaccines. It seems that, while advocates of patent waiver view it as a temporary expedient for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, for some opponents, it amounts to a reformation of the international patent system (Sariola 2021).
Clearly, the COVID-19 crisis has reflected loopholes in the international patent system as a tool for grappling with emergency situations, and has proven its general ineffectiveness (Thambisetty et al 2021). The crisis has fuelled the debate over the inconsistency between the international patent system and the right to health. This reality was reflected in a 2016 UN report, which called for the negotiation of a new code for research and development in the biomedical field and steps to address gaps in innovation related to the medical sector (The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines Report 2016).
It is worthwhile to note that patent waiver opponents do not use natural right theories as a premise for their arguments. This is probably because natural right-driven rationales are unpopular or because insistence on natural right would be baseless in pandemic conditions. All theories of utilitarianism are based on the belief that patent right is created to encourage inventors to disclose their inventions and boost scientific progress. In return, inventors are rewarded through the grant of exclusive rights, which enable them to prevent others from using their inventions without authorisation.
Multiple rationales have been built on the above system of thinking. For instance, public interest was one of the most popular justifications for the patent system; the idea that the public undoubtedly benefits from the monopoly of patents. Without the patent system and the protection it offers, inventors would not have been persuaded to embark on risky, time-consuming and expensive activities to produce their inventions (Bently and Sherman 2014). The public interest argument has now extended to include the benefit gained through the disclosure of technological information in patent specifications.
Such disclosure is crucial to the development of the state of the art, and the information disclosed would have remained secret, if there had been no patent protection (Machlup and Penrose 2011). The patent system has also been justified in that it encourages inventors to produce more and more inventions to get rewarded by the system (Machlup and Penrose 2011). Lastly is the contract-based rationale, which claims that the patent system guarantees limited time protection for inventors, in return for which they agree to disclose information underpinning their inventions to the public (Bainbridge 2018).
To discuss the rationale of the patent system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, two points should be mentioned. First, the antiwaiver faction seeks to apply the theories of the domestic patent system on the international plane. The debate is not about the enforcement of patent rights at the domestic level. Rather, waiver is being sought on the international scene. The preamble of the TRIPS Agreement starts with the phrase, ‘desiring to reduce distortions and impediments to international trade……’ This reflects the main foundation of the international patent system, which is the promotion of international trade. Although technological objectives are also considered, the trade-based justification remains the core rationale for the international patent system.
While the TRIPS Agreement aims to maintain effective protection for intellectual property rights, it also strives to reconcile this with the imperative of ensuring that steps taken to enforce such rights do not constitute obstacles to free and fair trade. No doubt, by granting proprietary rights for new ideas, the patent system encourages innovation. Still, at the international level, the quest for innovation is not a tenable justification for the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The present international patent system differs, in historical origins, from the domestic equivalents.
As international trade has blossomed in recent decades, with unprecedented flows of goods and services across borders, the inadequacies of the patent system in some domestic jurisdictions came into limelight. The legal framework for the protection of intellectual property rights, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, was perceived to be weak or even non-existent. Consequently, inventors from high-income countries considered their investment interests threatened in those countries, with loss of returns caused by violations of their patent rights (Atibasay 2014). They felt that divergences in domestic patent regimes posed a challenge to the effective protection of their patent rights (Chun 2017) as well as international trade (Barton 2004). Weak patent protection was also viewed as inimical to trade across borders through the counterfeiting of goods (Correa 2007).
The need to prevent patent infringements and maintain undistorted international trade created the desire for the harmonisation of patent systems across the globe to ensure an organised and uniform international patent system (Chun 2012). The result of all this was the adoption of the TRIPs Agreement, which has, for nearly three decades, served as the linchpin of the international patent system, chiefly focusing on the reigning in of counterfeiting and illegitimate trade behaviour (Atibasay 2014).
At the same time, it is relevant to remember that the TRIPS Agreement is part of the Marrakesh Agreements, which established the WTO system relied on by COVID-19 patent waiver applicants. Thus, the key underlying justification of the TRIPs Agreement is the promotion of international trade (Abbott 1998), a point equally acknowledged by Harvey Bale, Director of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (Bale 1998). As Abbott reflects, strictly speaking, intellectual property protection per se was never the main concern of the WTO (Abbott 1998).
Before the advent of the TRIPs Agreement, several attempts were made to streamline patent laws worldwide within the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) system (Chun 2017). Those efforts failed as the integration of intellectual property protection into the WIPO system was resisted by low-income and middle-income countries, which also called for a review of the patent rules contained in the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883 (Helfer 2003). Amidst that stalemate, the USA concluded that the harmonisation of patent systems was not attainable within WIPO (Braithwaite and Drahos 2000). Based on this realisation, the USA turned its efforts at the international regulation of patent systems away from WIPO to the WTO (Helfer 2003).
Accordingly, and with the collaboration of European countries, the USA steered the incorporation of intellectual property rights into the international trade arena through the Uruguay Round of discussions on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), precursor to the WTO, especially during the early phase of the 1990s (Sell 2002). Chun explains that Western countries eventually managed to create a harmonised international patent system through the TRIPS Agreement by successfully linking patent protection and international trade (Chun 2017). Today, according to Adrian Otten, erstwhile Director of the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO, the TRIPS Agreement constitutes a key part of the international trade system (Otten and Wager 1996). Subscription to the TRIPS Agreement is now a prerequisite for accession to and involvement in the WTO system (Ngenda 2005). Oguamanam (2008) observes that the TRIPS Agreement is a turning point in the international regulation and governance of intellectual property. He, like Chun (2017), attributes this to the ideological connection established between intellectual property and the international trade system during the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations.
All that said, the patent system, as it presently exists, does not command the same level of justification in low-income and middle-income countries as in their developed counterparts. The capacity to generate patent-eligible inventions is limited in low-income and middle-income countries, where most patents are foreign-owned. The immediate concern of these countries is to acquire a fair share of recent technological advances, which continue to be controlled almost exclusively by high-income countries (Oddi 1987).
The COVID-19 patent waiver controversy further highlights the ineffectiveness of TRIPS as a mechanism for the fair and equitable distribution of the fruits of technological development. Low-income and middle-income countries have persistently nursed reservations about the international trade system, fearing that it is fashioned to serve the parochial interests of some of their developed counterparts (Chun 2017). The genesis of this discord can be traced to the failure of high-income countries to advance acceptable justifications for the harmonisation of the patent system (Chun 2017).
An additional point worth making is that the promotion of innovation tenet, which is much articulated in theories of intellectual property, is not an end in itself, but rather, a means to an end. No matter how construed, the real essence of those theories still revolves around meeting the needs of society, which provides impetus for the generation of ever more inventions. Admittedly, innovation, particularly in the healthcare domain, is vital to the maintenance of product and service quality (Evren Subasi and Subasi 2021; Marika 2021). This claim is consistent with the findings of Marciano and others, who, from their empirical study, also conclude that innovation results in reduction of the cost of services (Marciano et al 2020). As well, Halpaap et al (2020) maintain that innovation helps in enhancing transparency and accountability in the healthcare sector, and its overall durability.
Concurrently, when patent rights are granted as reward for innovation, they are expected to contribute to the achievement of a robust and competitive economy in the country granting them (Evren Subasi and Subasi 2021). They should facilitate optimal resource allocation by reducing costs associated with disease treatment (Zozaya, Alcalá, and Galindo 2019). New drugs invention should play a role in curbing hospital visits, admission and related treatments (Zozaya, Alcalá, and Galindo 2019). Proksch et al (2019) contend that medicare innovation boosts national productivity, as new drugs production support human health, vitality and productivity (Schiener et al. 2021). As WHO notes, an unhealthy population translates to a unhealthy workforce, which, in turn, results in shortage of critical manpower and a shrinking national reserve (Who Guide to Identifying The Economic Consequences of Disease and Injury 2009).
A plethora of studies clearly demonstrate a nexus between sound health and productivity, at both the levels of individuals and firms (Thomas and Strauss 1997; Mushkin 1962; Bloom, Canning, and Sevilla 2004; Arora 2002). In Germany, Schiener et al. (2021) investigated the socioeconomic effects of migraine and found that this disease caused the country a productivity loss of €112 billion. Significantly, the authors also found that this loss could have been reduced to about €85.5 billion, if the Aimovig drug was used for migraine treatment. With regard to vaccine inventions, these have also spared the healthcare system of substantial sums. The smallpox vaccine is reported, for example, to have resulted in annual savings of US$2000 million (Ehreth 2003). Similarly, the US economy recorded substantial economic gains from the polio vaccine, which are worth more than six times its actual cost (Thompson and Tebbens 2006). In the same vein, the use of vaccines for influenza and pneumonia led to a reduction in cases of hospital admission by about 39% (Nichol, Wuorenma, and von Sternberg 1998). The CNN reports that COVID-19 vaccination could similarly have produced savings of US$21 752–US$49 441 in the cost of hospitalisation for a single patient, which got as high as 150–300 times the cost of vaccination (Murez 2021). Needless to mention, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic adversely impacted domestic productivity across the globe. As shown in figure 2,1 gross domestic product (GDP) in the G20 member countries during the four quarters of 2020 declined dramatically, when compared with the corresponding quarters of the previous year. The GDP growth was 3%, 3%, 2.8% and 2.5%, respectively in the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2019, compared with those for 2018. By contrast, the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns caused the GDP to fall in the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2020 respectively by 1.6%, 8.8%, 2.2% and 0.7%.
Table 12 shows the change in GDP in the IP5 countries, which are the leaders in global innovation, and with economies that rely very much on intellectual property rights. Hence, the innovation-based justification is well-established in their patent systems. Notwithstanding, it can be asserted that, overall, the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic takes away the economic justification from patent protection as it slows down vaccination, which is the solely available pathway to the recovery of humanity.
Opponents of the patent waiver proposal raise many questions over its merit. One of the most significant arguments is that waiver contradicts the philosophy that underlies patent protection. The patent system is designed to encourage inventors to make painstaking efforts to create new ideas that promote the economy and the overall welfare of society. On this account, opponents fear that waiver will serve as a tool for competitors to free-ride on the findings of inventors, without affording them any reward. Thus, waiver will not be a solution to the COVID-19 pandemic, but rather an obstacle to the fight against it.
This study makes two main arguments. First, the antiwaiver faction wrongly applies the philosophy of the domestic patent system to the international arena whose foundation is different from that of the former. The international patent system is mainly designed to remove obstacles to international trade, which is undeniably damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, innovation is, at the end of the day, a mere tool for economic growth. Current statistics show that the pandemic has negatively affected the production of goods and services worldwide. Ultimately then, vaccination should be prioritised over the protection of innovation, important as it may be.
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1. The data have been derived from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) website: https://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/g20-gdp-growth-Q1-2021.pdf Last access on 27 July 2021.
2. The data have been derived from the OECD website: https://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/g20-gdp-growth-Q1-2021.pdf Last access on 27 July 2021.
Contributors Authors contributed to the manuscript equally. NMA is the guarantor of the paper.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
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The Orthodox Christian Church dedicates St. Lazar’s day to St. Lazar, whom Jesus Christ raised from the dead on the fourth day after his burial to show him his gratitude for his hospitability. Our people call the holiday “Lazar”, “Lazaritsa” or “Lazar’s Saturday”. It does not have a fixed date in the calendar. It is always on Saturday, a week before Easter. It is characterized with several particularly interesting and ancient in their origin maiden’s customs – “lazaruvane”, “kumichene” and “boenek”. Early in the morning on St. Lazar’s day the dancers (“lazarki”), clad in new and clean maidens’ national costumes, decorated with wreaths and fresh posies on their heads, in groups, start going round the houses of the village. All the time they sing holiday ritual songs and perform their ritual dance, most often called “boenek”.
On 10th March is celebrated Mummer’s Day. From that day on during the whole week mummer’s dances are performed in south and east Bulgaria. The mummers – masked young men go round all the houses in the village to bring to the people health and fertility and the hosts give them plenty of gifts. At the end the mummers’ group symbolically starts ploughing and planting the “mummer’s filed” on the square in the middle of the village, thus they send the evil away and predestine welfare for the village and its inhabitants. The holiday ends with a mummer’s round dance on the square. The following days of the week the people consider as black days. Black Tuesday – also called dry Tuesday is thought to be the worst of all Tuesdays during the year. Mad Wednesday – they celebrate it in order to protect from madness. On scatter-brained Thursday the women should not roll yarn, should not work with yarn crutches in order to protect people from brain-scattering and giddiness. Black Friday is considered to be the worst of all 12 black Fridays throughout the year.
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UNESCO ambassadors from 45 countries are on a visit in Veliko Tarnovo. The guests are on a 8 day trip in Bulgaria. Visiting the Rila monastery, Boyana church, Kazanlak tomb, Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo and Arbanassi.
There are ambassadors, minsters and secretaries of the national commisions in UNESCO, as well as people on the behalf of tne Ministry of foregn affairs and Ministry of culture of Bulgaria.
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Unknown thieves tried to steal an ATM in the city of Biala cherkva, municipality of Pavlikeni, near Veliko Tarnovo, police officials said.
The bandits broke into the deli, housing the machine and got rid of the automated security system. Then they tried to cut away a metal part, keeping the ATM in its place. As they didn’t succeed, they left the machine alone, not taking any money from it.
But to make their run “count”, they took 230 levs from the food store and, cigarettes, liquor and some food.
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If you want to sense the true atmosphere of the past times and meet the sunrise awaken by the song of the first cocks, you must visit any of the Rhodopi villages. At the feet of the north-eastern slopes of the Perelik locality of the western Rhodopi and the south-west slopes of Chertanitsa you will find the village of Shiroka laka. It is officially recognized as an architecture and ethnographic reserve. The village is 24 km. away from Smolyan and 5 km. away from Pamporovo. Your visit to the village will give you a clear notion of the life style of Bulgarians about hundred years ago. You will see the Rhodopi as they were at times of the Bulgarian Renaissance. Most typical of all id the architecture of houses: Zgurovski mayoralty, where the ethnographic museum is located, the Kalaydzhiyska, the Grigorovska and the Bogdanovska houses. You can taste the traditional Bulgarian food and enjoy the folklore entertainment, or go sightseeing accompanied by a tourist guide.
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Tags: holiday, mountain, resort
Ribaritsa is situated 12 km. to the east of Teteven.. The biggest attraction is the wild nature of the Balkan. The village bounders to the national park of Central Balkan and one of its nine green pearls – the Biospheric reserve of “Tsarichina”. Comfortable tourist roads lead to the two neighboring reserves of “Tsarichina”: “Boatin” to the south-west, and “Kozya stena” to the south-east. Starting from there the road leads to a number of mountain hostels. The village offers excellent conditions for rural and eco-tourism. Guests may enjoy the funny stories of the local people. The protected area of “Cherven rat” is very attractive for ornithologists. There one may observe a large variety of birds. One can enjoy a ride on the tourist train or mountain bike and visit the place where Georhi Benkovski was killed, near the Roman Bridge and the old villages of Bryazovo and Gorunyovo.
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Koprivshtitza is a national architectural reserve with entirely preserved architectural appearance since the Renaissance. It combines our historical past and splendid folklore with perfect mountain resort and ecological paradise. The Renaissance houses are the greatest treasure of Koprivshtitza. They are ancient, luxuriously decorated with fretworks, planes and frescoes, with cobblestone yards and motley flower-beds. The cobblestone streets with stone bridges over the mountain brooklets, fountains and snug little houses are unabolished part of the antique appearance of the town. You can take with you a real memento of the artistic crafts, practicing even to this day – fretwork, weaving, ceramics, and fragrant sweeties of aromatic wild fruit. The oak and pine forests, pure mountain water, favourable climate and temperate temperatures are suitable for the sterling rest and relish in this mountain paradise. | <urn:uuid:e81c97e0-4f33-43d3-918b-7db3a3be6dce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://velikotarnovo.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00398-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946172 | 1,412 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Recycling is all the rage. But instead of throwing all of those empty coke cans into a recycle bin, save a few to make spinning crafts for your home and garden. Commonly known as whirligigs, spinning crafts are powered by air currents. This craft can be done in an afternoon and will add a touch of whimsy to your decor.
Add some color to your garden with flower whirligigs. Just cut off the top of your coke can, and cut the body into strips leaving them still attached to the bottom of the can. Flatten out the strips, twist each strip slightly and paint them with brightly colored spray paint. Let dry. Attach the center of the flower to a post that will act as the stem.
Airplane with Spinning Propeller
You can make a cool airplane with a spinner propeller out of just three coke cans. One soda can serves as the body. Cut one of the other cans to form the tail, wings and wheels. Cut the final can to form a spinning propeller. Hang the airplane from a wire where the wind blows freely and enjoy your creation.
Soda Can Spinner
Create an impressive soda can spinner craft by hooking two or more of these spinners together with wire to make a long spinning sculpture. First fill the empty coke can with water (but not to the top) and freeze it. Use an exacto knife to cut the sides of the can into diagonal strips. When the ice melts, squeeze from the top toward the bottom to open up the cuts, then slightly twist each spoke. Add some bling by adding beads to the wire that strings the cans together.
Tips for Working with Aluminum Cans
Wear thick gloves when cutting your coke cans. It is easy to cut skin with an exacto knife or the sharp edges of the can itself.
Sharp scissors also work well to cut through aluminum cans. You don't need special cutters if you don't have them.
Use long cuts for smooth straight lines and short, smaller cuts for curves.
Always dispose of scrap aluminum carefully. Bend the scrap pieces together so that no sharp edges can cut you. Then place the scraps in the recycle bin.
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Generally defined, vulnerability is the potential for loss due to hazards ranging from loss of property, natural resources, or human life. Social vulnerability represents those social, economic, demographic, and housing characteristics that influence a community’s ability to prepare for, respond to, cope with, recover from, and adapt to environmental hazards. The hazards-of-place model (Cutter 1996) combines social vulnerability and biophysical vulnerability (physical characteristics of hazards and environment) to determine the overall hazard vulnerability of places.
- Socioeconomic Status (Income, Political Power, Prestige): Socioeconomic status affects the ability of a community to absorb losses and cope with hazard impacts. Wealth enables communities to better prepare for disasters through mitigation and absorb and recover from losses more quickly using insurance, social safety nets, and entitlement programs. Low status communities have little ability to absorb losses due to poverty and disadvantaged populations.
- Gender: Women often have a more difficult time during recovery than men because of sector-specific employment (e.g., personal services), lower wages, and family care responsibilities.
- Race and Ethnicity: These factors impose language and cultural barriers and affect access to post-disaster funding and occupation of high-hazard areas.
- Age: Extremes of age affect movement out of harm’s way and require outside supervision and care. Parents lose time and money caring for children when day care facilities are affected; the elderly may have mobility constraints or medical and cognitive concerns increasing the burden of care before, during, and after the emergency.
- Employment Loss: The potential loss of employment following a disaster increases the existing number of unemployed workers in a community. Such losses compound the impact of the hazard and leads to a slower recovery from the disaster. At an individual level, employment loss equates to a lower ability to pay for necessary goods and services, effectively lowering the ability to prepare and recovery from disasters.
- Residential Property: Home value is an indicator of financial capacity. The value and quality of residential construction affect potential losses and recovery. Expensive homes are costly to replace, mobile homes are easily destroyed by water and winds. The viability of neighborhoods based on the number of unoccupied housing units also contributes to slower long term recovery.
- Renters: People rent because they are transients, do not have the financial resources for home ownership, or do not want the responsibility of home ownership. They often lack access to information about financial aid during recovery and are not covered by current federal disaster recovery programs. In extreme cases, renters lack sufficient shelter options when lodging becomes uninhabitable or too costly to afford.
- Occupation: Some occupations, especially those characterized as primary extractive industries, may be severely affected by a hazard event. Primary sector jobs are impacted first during major disasters. For example, self-employed fishermen suffer when their means of production is lost (boats), and they may not have the requisite capital to resume work in a timely fashion; therefore, they may seek alternative employment. The same is true of migrant workers engaged in agriculture. Low-skilled service jobs (housekeeping, child care, and gardening) may suffer similarly as disposable income fades and the need for services declines.
- Family Structure: Families with large numbers of dependents and/or single-parent households often have limited resources to outsource care for dependents and thus must juggle work responsibilities with care for family members. All these factors affect coping with and recovering from hazards.
- Education: Education is linked to socioeconomic status in that higher educational attainment affects lifetime earnings, and limited education constrains the ability to understand warning information and access recovery information.
- Medical Services and Access: Health care providers, including physicians and hospitals, are important post-event sources of relief. The lack of proximate medical services lengthens the time needed to obtain short-term relief and achieve longer-term recovery from disasters. Nursing homes represent an increase in socially vulnerable people as the resident populations are less able to independently cope with disasters. The availability of health insurance is another factor influencing social vulnerability.
- Social Dependence: People who are totally dependent on social services (social security, food assistance) for survival are already economically and socially marginalized and require additional support in the post-disaster period.
- Special-needs Population: Special-needs populations (infirm, institutionalized, transient, homeless) are difficult to identify, let alone measure and monitor. Yet it is this segment of society that invariably is left out of recovery efforts, largely because of this invisibility in communities.
The majority of the sources used by the HVRI are obtained from the five-year American Community Survey estimates compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data are also obtained from the Geographic Names and Information System (GNIS), and model-based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) published by the U.S Census Bureau. Data variables are used to represent the population characteristics that affect social vulnerability (See list above). For instance, the number of people older than 65 and the number of people under 5 years old were used to represent the socially vulnerable population due to age.
County-level socioeconomic and demographic data were used to construct an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards, called the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI®) for the United States. SoVI® is an empirically-based comparative assessment of social vulnerability of places. The current configuration uses data from 2010-2014 and 29 distinct variables for county study areas. The original SoVI® methodology and results was published in the following article: Cutter, S.L., B.J. Boruff, and W.L. Shirley. 2003. “Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards.” Social Science Quarterly 84(2): 242–261.
The SoVI® is constructed using a statistical procedure called a principal components
analysis. The output (factors that are generated) are then labeled and their influence
on social vulnerability determined (increases or decreases). The factor scores and
their directional adjustments (increases or decreases vulnerability) are then put
into an additive model to generate the total score. The scores are then mapped using
standard deviations from the mean, normally using either 3 or 5 classes. Get the SoVI® recipe. [PDF]
The SoVI® was created as a comparative index at a county-level for the entire United States. Therefore, the SoVI® scores need to be displayed in relation to each other. Generally, the SoVI® is classified using standard deviations. Social vulnerability scores that are greater than 1.5 standard deviations above the mean are considered the most socially vulnerable places and are usually mapped in red, while scores below 1.5 standard deviations less than the mean are the least vulnerable places usually mapped in blue.
The total SoVI® score is represented as a numeric value, but it has no inherent mathematical properties. Because the score is a relative score and not an absolute score, it cannot be used to compare two places directly (e.g., a county with a SoVI® score of 10 does not have double the vulnerability of a county with a SoVI® score of 5). SoVI® scores are used to show the relative placement of a county relative to others on the continuum of scores with variable ranges. As such, SoVI® scores should be classed (e.g., by standard deviation) for mapping and analysis purposes or can be examined using percentile ranks.
The variable names represent short-hand notations for longer descriptions of the variables. The codebook is listed below.
QASIAN — Percent Asian
QBLACK — Percent Black
QSPANISH — Percent Hispanic
QINDIAN — Percent Native American
QAGEDEP — Percent Population under 5 years or 65 and over
QFAM — Percent Children Living in 2-parent families
MEDAGE — Median Age
QSSBEN — Percent Households Receiving Social Security Benefits
QPOVTY — Percent Poverty
QRICH — Percent Households Earning over $200,000 annually
PERCAP — Per Capita Income
QESL — Percent Speaking English as a Second Language with Limited English Proficiency
QFEMALE — Percent Female
QFHH — Percent Female Headed Households
QNRRES — Nursing Home Residents Per Capita
QNOHLTH — Percent of population without health insurance (County Level ONLY)
QED12LES — Percent with Less than 12th Grade Education
QCVLUN — Percent Civilian Unemployment
PPUNIT — People per Housing Unit
QRENTER — Percent Renters
MDHSEVAL — Median Housing Value
MDGRENT — Median Gross Rent
QMOHO — Percent Mobile Homes
QEXTRCT — Percent Employment in Extractive Industries
QSERV — Percent Employment in Service Industry
QFEMLBR — Percent Female Participation in Labor Force
QNOAUTO — Percent of Housing Units with No Car
QUNOCCHU — Percent Unoccupied Housing Units
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The History Center in Tompkins County presents Media Construction of War with Chris Sperry on Wednesday, September 8, at 5:30 p.m.
Join Chris Sperry, director of curriculum at Ithaca College's Project Look Sharp, as he leads participants through an examination of the role of the media in constructing the public conception of war. Discussion will begin with World War II propaganda and trace the history of the topic up through the war in Iraq.
Throughout September and October, the History Center's current exhibition, A Campaign of Communication, will be the backdrop for insightful discussions about the power of visual images and their impact on our lives from World War II to the present.
This event is free and open to the public, and is made possible through generous support from Ithaca College and Project Look Sharp.
Have dinner with your program! Special offers from Sticky Rice Thai & Laotian Restaurant and Napoli Pizzeria -- buy your dinner at either of these restaurants, located downstairs from the History Center, and receive a free soft drink. Just let our friends at Sticky Rice or Napoli know you're heading up to the program at the History Center. Call in advance to place your order: Sticky Rice (275-3641) or Napoli's (272-3232).
Project Look Sharp is an initiative to promote and support the integration of media literacy and critical thinking into classroom curricula at all grade levels and instructional areas, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy education in the schools. This curriculum-driven initiative works directly with teachers to reach students and aims to foster a spirit of collaboration among educators using media literacy. Project Look Sharp provides strategies, advice, and materials for media literacy instruction and acts as a liaison between teachers and the media literacy field at large.
Information on this event: contact Kelly Calnon Falck, 273-8284 extension 3.
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Project Look Sharp
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During the next three years, some 2,000 older women throughout King, Pierce and Snohomish counties will get a special invitation in the mail from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. This invitation is an opportunity to participate in a study that will help researchers understand the causes of breast cancer among women ages 65 to 79 -- a group that accounts for more than a third of newly diagnosed breast malignancies in the United States.
"The highest incidence of breast cancer is in this age group, and yet nearly all studies to date have excluded this population," says Janet Daling, Ph.D., who along with Kathleen Malone, Ph.D., is a lead investigator of this National Cancer Institute-funded study, called the Puget Sound Area Breast Cancer Evaluation, or PACE..
Women with and without a history of breast cancer will be targeted for this population-based study, which will allow for a greater understanding of the many components that affect an older woman's risk of developing breast cancer.
"Regardless of whether a woman has had breast cancer, she can help improve the understanding of the disease, and possibly how to prevent it, by taking part in the study," Daling says. "This type of research is only successful if both women with and without breast cancer agree to be interviewed."
By looking at factors such as lifestyle, genetics, medical and reproductive history, and use of hormones and other medications, researchers will try to determine why some older women get breast cancer and others don't.
All women invited to participate will be rigorously selected according to age and geographic region to ensure that the study accurately reflects the community as a whole. Those who've had breast cancer will be identified through a special database located at the Hutchinson Center called the Cancer Surveillance System. Those without a history of the disease will be selected, through a scientifically random process, from a list of all Medicare beneficiaries in the three-county region.
For the results to be scientifically meaningful, everyone selected for evaluation must take part.
"A very high percentage of those selected must agree to participate," says Daling, an investigator in the Public Health Sciences Division. "When a woman refuses to participate when called upon, she cannot be replaced, and an important piece of information is lost."
Those who accept the invitation will be interviewed about their health and lifestyle, and be asked to provide a small blood sample. The blood sample, however, is not a requirement for participation. Certified interviewers from the Hutchinson Center will come to the participant's home, office or wherever is most convenient to conduct the interview. While those studied will receive $10 for their time, the true value of their contribution is priceless.
"In one way or another, every woman is affected by breast cancer. We all know friends, co-workers, neighbors and family members who have had the disease," Daling says. "Each woman who agrees to be interviewed for PACE is directly contributing to a better understanding of breast cancer, regardless of whether she has had breast cancer herself."
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California Voters Pass Sweeping Democracy Reform
California Common Cause applauds voter approval of democracy reform ballot measures statewide – 59 and 54 - and local measures
California voters sent a clear message to the nation that the democracy reform is needed to bring balance to our democracy. Voters across the state approved several measures to help create a democracy where everyone’s voice is heard and vote is counted.
Voters passed two statewide measures aimed at making government more accountable to ordinary voters. Proposition 54, which requires all legislative proceedings to be videocast on-line and for bills to be in print for 72 hours before a final vote, was passed by 64% support with 93 percent of precincts reporting. Proposition 59, which tells Congress to limit campaign spending and contributions by passing a federal constitutional amendment, passed with 52% voter approval.
“Voters are sending a message that we want to take our government back from special interests and ensure everyone has a voice in our democracy,” said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause. “Now Californians must take the next step of holding each member of Congress accountable to the will of the voters as expressed in Proposition 59 and use our access granted by Prop 54 to keep tabs on state legislators.”
California Common Cause joined the League of Women Voters, California Chamber of Commerce, and the NAACP in backing Proposition 54.
California Common Cause joined the California Clean Money Campaign, CALPIRG, Money Out Voters In, and many others in supporting Proposition 59. Using a California constitutional process that dates back more than a century, the legislature placed Proposition 59 on the ballot after a grassroots campaign where more than 100,000 people contacted the legislature. The measure instructs elected officials to overturn the Supreme Court’s rulings in Citizens United v. FEC and other cases that equated campaign spending with free speech and granted the same constitutional rights to artificial entities like corporations as enjoyed by human beings.
Additionally, several citywide initiatives approved by voters spotlight innovative reforms to make local government more accountable to everyday voters:
- In Berkeley, voters approved Measure XI (64%), which will a citizen funded election program to increase the power of small donors by matching their small contributions with public funds.
- In San Francisco, voters approved Proposition T (87%), which will strengthen the city’s lobbying and ethics laws to create a more accountable government.
- In Sacramento, voters approved Measure L (53%), which will create an independent citizens-led redistricting commission to draw city council districts.
“Our local governments are leading by showing our democracy doesn’t have to be dominated by gridlock and big money in politics,” said Feng. These local reform measures show voters can be in the drivers’ seat in our democracy and will help create local governments that are truly of, by, and for the people.” | <urn:uuid:22985821-8b5d-4fea-8d41-6132fc943bca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commoncause.org/california/press-release/ca2016results/?referrer=https | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.935539 | 581 | 1.976563 | 2 |
A dilapidated cabman's shelter has been restored after two decades in the doldrums. Soon, you may even be allowed inside.
Anyone who walks around London with their eyes open will have noticed these distinctive green shelters. They are the secret abode of the cab drivers, a place where cabbies can get a hot meal, exchange gossip and enjoy a cup of tea. No one can usually set foot inside unless they are a black cab licence holder. But not for much longer...
The first cab shelters appeared in 1875. These roadside refuges provided hot meals and drinks for drivers, as well as a friendly place to escape the London elements. Much like phone boxes and police boxes, each was constructed to a consistent design — one celebrated today as a Victorian classic.
A total of 61 were built around London by the Cabmen's Shelter Fund (a charity still operating today). Just 13 remain, and fans of stereotypes might chuckle to note that all are north of the river. Most carry Grade II listed status, and are still used by cab drivers.
The shelter on Chelsea Embankment, beside Albert Bridge, is a later model, opened in 1910, and the only one not in use by cabbies. 'The Pier', nicknamed for its Thames-side location, fell into disrepair after the road was designated a red route. With no parking available, it was no longer a convenient stop for cabbies. The shelter sat unused for almost 20 years. David Fletcher created this amazing 3-D model of the shelter in its shabby state.
Now, thanks to the Cabmen's Shelter Fund and a grant from the Heritage of London Trust, it has been completely restored. The shelter has new timber round three sides, a new roof and ventilation turret, and a fresh coat of that all-important green paint.
The restored shelter will eventually open as a bijou cafe for the general public. Unless you own a black cab licence or are good at blagging, this will be your only way to get food inside one of these historic structures.
The other 12 remain off-limits to non-cabbies (though they do serve remarkably cheap drinks to the public via side-hatches, and you can sometimes sneak a look inside as part of Open House festival).
The hoardings come down on 7 January 2022, but it won't yet open as a cafe just yet as a tenant is still being sought. | <urn:uuid:b2ef63be-07d4-4fa7-a778-d1da2c8a48e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://londonist.com/london/history/this-green-cab-shelter-has-been-restored-and-will-open-to-the-public-soon?ref=related_links | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.962744 | 509 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Giving your camellia the right amount of fertilizer at the proper time makes the difference between a shrub that thrives and one that merely survives. Follow the camellia fertilizer tips and information in this article to grow the best camellias on the block.
When to Fertilize Camellias
The best time to fertilize camellias is in the spring after the flowers fade. Before fertilizing camellia plants, pick off all the faded flowers from the shrub and clean up fallen flowers from the ground around the shrub. This keeps the bush looking neat and prevents the formation of seeds. Seed formation drains energy from the plant and limits growth. Removing the flowers also helps control blight, which is a serious problem for camellias.
You can fertilize camellias again in midsummer. Fertilizing results in a flush of new growth that is sensitive to cold temperatures, so fertilize at least two months before the first fall frost to give the new growth time to harden. Otherwise, tender new twigs and branch tips may suffer frost damage.
How to Fertilize Camellias
Pull back the mulch before fertilizing camellia plants to help prevent runoff. Camellias don’t need much fertilizer, and too much nitrogen can burn the leaves and cause them to drop off. Spread 1/2 to 1 pound of 8-8-8 or 10-10-10 slow release fertilizer over the root zone. Scratch the fertilizer into the top inch or so of soil with a garden rake and then replace the mulch. Water deeply to help the fertilizer work its way into the soil.
You can also use special fertilizers formulated specifically for azalea and camellia feeding, but only on well established landscape plants and never on container plants. Camellias like a soil pH between 4.5 and 6.5, and azalea and camellia fertilizer acidifies the soil as it feeds the plant. Different brands of these special fertilizers vary in the percentage of nutrients, so read the label and follow the instructions for the brand you choose.
Pale, yellow leaves that drop from the plant are symptoms of insufficient fertilizer as well as soil with a pH too high. Check the pH of the soil before assuming that your camellias need more fertilizer. | <urn:uuid:38470b54-1e97-4c32-94cc-102bcf554aef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/camellia/camellia-fertilizer-info.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914073 | 479 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The Price of Life
Synopsis The vast majority of Americans agree that drastic measures must be taken to reform health care to serve all citizens equitably and effectively. And many also agree to increased funding for greater access to new technologies and health services. But beneath partisan programmes for change, what are the practical limits to any health care policy? Does more medical care mean a better quality of life? What does a life cost? Robert H. Blank goes outside the current debate about who pays for medical care to illuminate the fundamental social, economic and cultural dimensions to health in American society. Offering a concise, critical summary of the major proposals for reorganizing health care delivery, Blank demonstrates that America's inability to ensure quality health care for all of its citizens is caused in large measure by deep social and moral divides: there is little or no consensus on the role of individual responsibility for health, on the definition of health - or on the value of life itself. "The Price of Life" shifts the discussion to issues that have been overlooked in the debates about payment plans and procedures. How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is betset by poverty, illiteracy and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood - and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive redistribution of resources to the poor and elderly; at the same time, he describes sanctions that would encourage individuals to be more careful about their own health, and limit or change destructive behaviour. Only a major shift in perspective can unblock the health care reform logjam - from individual medical solutions to national programmes to reduce social and economic inequities that are the source of so much illness. This powerfully argued book should be an essential resource for policymakers, scholars in political science, public health and medical ethics, as well as anyone interested in health care reform. | <urn:uuid:d5ed4ce5-b897-4983-a620-546de9346eb1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.uni-protokolle.de/buecher/isbn/0231102941/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951222 | 380 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Game developers and platform providers are increasingly integrating non-fungible tokens (NFTs), virtual currencies, and digital marketplaces into their games and platforms, creating seamless, novel, and interactive experiences. While the industry has moved ahead quickly, federal and state regulators are taking a much closer look at how these technologies fit within existing legal frameworks.
In a recent webinar, partner Ellen Berge and associate Chris Boone of Venable’s Advertising Law and Payments groups explored the latest regulatory developments and addressed how to spot and avoid compliance and regulatory risks associated with NFTs, virtual currencies, and other platform-based monetization mechanics. We received insightful questions from members of the audience, which our lawyers answer below.
Q: Would you compare an NFT to a numbered art print? Are there other comparisons that would help us understand why someone would pay a lot of money for a string of digits?
A: A numbered art print is a good comparison. An NFT is secured by a blockchain using cryptography and a network of computers that update a common shared ledger. This technology makes it virtually impossible to counterfeit or double-spend, and it proves the authenticity of the NFT. There is no clear answer for why some people will pay millions for a particular NFT. Scarcity, novelty, the idea of owning a bit of history, a need to collect, and human psychology all likely play role.
Q: New projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club and Cool Cats are gaining traction on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea. How are regulators approaching these developments?
A: Regulators are still trying to understand the technology and landscape surrounding NFTs, and they may hold workshops in the future, much like the FTC’s 2019 workshop on loot boxes. For NFT platforms dealing primarily in NFTs of original artwork, the FTC will likely focus on consumer protection issues like unfair and deceptive acts or practices. The NFT ecosystem is so new that we do not know exactly what types of issues will arise, but they could include claims that the NFTs will increase in value or regulators could raise concerns over the security of digital assets held by the platform on behalf of consumers. To the extent these platforms host giveaways, sweepstakes, and other promotions, regulators will apply traditional regulatory principles to those applications. Money transmission and securities regulators may step in to regulate edge-use cases where the NFTs begin to look more like investment contracts or operate like a substitute for currency. Regulators are still trying to figure out how their analytic principles will apply to these assets in practice.
Q: It sounds like NFTs can be a token for a digital artform or luxury product. How can NFTs be regulated in a market that hasn’t had much regulation in the “real” market?
A: Regulators are interested in learning more about these concepts and how their enforcement powers intersect with the use of NFTs. We expect consumer protection issues to be at the forefront and exchanges/marketplaces to be the most obvious subjects of regulation. While some NFTs make the news for being hugely expensive, most are not. How these assets are marketed will be a consumer protection touchpoint. In addition, government agencies may decide to regulate instances where NFTs resemble investment contracts or a substitute for currency.
Q: What are some concerns and/or considerations for including an NFT as a prize in a sweepstakes, contest, or tournament?
A: Sweepstakes are heavily regulated, and those same principles apply if the prize is an NFT. The promoter will need to include a free alternative method of entry (AMOE) and ensure clear and conspicuous disclosure of the AMOE. We have seen at least one recent class action targeting a cryptocurrency exchange for failure to clearly disclose the AMOE in a sweepstakes promotion with cryptocurrency as its prize. There is a whole body of law on this and related sweepstakes topics. Sweepstakes promoters must be careful not to misstate the prize or how the winner can claim or use it. For example, a regulator could find it a deceptive practice if a promoter suggested the prize would be an NFT worth a significant amount, but in reality the NFT was worthless.
If the NFT is simply a representation of digital artwork, securities concerns appear to be minimal. The more complex the NFT becomes, the more likely it is that a regulator could find a regulatory hook. For example, if an NFT entitles the holder to interest or payouts in cryptocurrency, that could raise concerns under an investment contract analysis.
It is unclear how the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) views NFTs in terms of whether they act as a substitute for currency. The more fungible the NFT is, the more likely it is that it could be considered a substitute for currency, and its transmission regulated as money transmission. This risk is heightened if the NFT can be melted or transformed into an underlying cryptocurrency, such as Enjin coin. Enjin offers a flexible platform to create, integrate, and scale tokenized gaming assets. You can mint an NFT using the Enjin coin, so each NFT has the cryptocurrency built into it. Conversely, you can “melt” the NFT back down to its component cryptocurrency.
There are a lot of open questions, so all eyes are on the regulators to see how they will approach these complex topics.
Q: Has Venable received any direction from the payment brands regarding appropriate Merchant Category Code (MCC) classification for NFTs?
A: Visa and Mastercard have not published definitive guidance on how they classify NFTs. Card brands might view such digital assets as digital goods under MCC 5816 in some cases but might not in others. Card brands’ views on NFTs are also developing, and their current approach may change as their understanding and the NFT ecosystem evolve. It’s important to note that under Visa’s rules, merchants that sell cryptocurrency in a card-absent environment are classified as a High-Brand Risk Merchant, which carries important implications. It’s not entirely clear how Visa defines cryptocurrency in this context, but a key factor may be the asset’s ability to be used outside of a game platform as a replacement for fiat currency.
Laws surrounding cryptocurrency and NFTs are evolving rapidly, and our lawyers can help address your unique concerns in this area. Click here to learn more about our Advertising Law Practice Group and here to learn about our Payment Processing and Merchant Services Practice Group. Click here to watch the full webinar. | <urn:uuid:08e0267d-a3ab-419d-a154-2d66f4c1aba4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allaboutadvertisinglaw.com/2021/07/you-asked-we-answered-nfts-and-virtual-currency-in-games-compliance-issues-and-legal-risks.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.949143 | 1,351 | 1.710938 | 2 |
|Vol. 16 No. 8 August 2014||
In James 1:12-15, James established that God is not responsible for temptation and sin in Christians’ lives (James 1:13); rather, the responsibility for temptation and sin lie at the feet of individuals who relinquish control to their own lust (James 1:14). James reminded the brethren not to err in this fashion (James 1:16), and he further established his case by revealing the truth about God.
First, James declared the truth about God’s giving with these words, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above” (James 1:17a). While some were blaming God for temptation and sin in their lives, James declared two very important facts about God’s charitableness: (1) God’s giving is good; (2) God’s gifts are perfect. The first word translated “gift” denotes the act of giving while the second word translated “gift” signifies the product. In other words, God is not the source of temptation; He is the source of giving that is beneficial (“good”) for Christians. In addition, God is not the source of the product of uncontrolled temptation, namely, the uselessness of sin (James1:15). The opposite is true; God gives blessings that are complete (“perfect”). If there is good in your life it came from God.
Second, James declared the truth concerning God’s reliability with these words, “with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17c). James refuted the notion that the same God who is purely motivated and gives profitable, complete gifts could also be motivated by base purposes and give incomplete, evil gifts. God is consistent; He is incapable of dispensing both good and evil. The variation (“variableness”) and change of shadow (“shadow of turning”) which commonly appear among the physical “lights” of which He is the Creator (“Father,” Ephesians 1:17; 2 Corinthians 1:3) do not reflect upon the character of God (Malachi 3:6; 1 John 1:5). God is reliable without question.
Third, James declared the truth concerning God’s motives, “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures” (James 1:18). God’s motives are pure, and His gifts are complete; perhaps there is no greater demonstration of this truth than the Gospel (“word of truth”), which He revealed to us through inspired men. The Gospel is perfect and lacks nothing (2 Timothy 3:15-16; 2 Peter 1:3) and was given to us by God out of pure motives, namely, that we would be born of God (“begat he us”). While sin gives birth to death, God brings us forth through the Gospel. When the plan of salvation is obeyed, which involves hearing the Word (Romans 10:17), believing that Jesus is the Son of God (Mark 16:16), repenting of past sins (Acts 2:38), confessing Jesus (Romans 10:9) and being immersed (“baptized,” Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; 8:38), one becomes a newborn babe in Christ (John 3:5; 1:11-13). It is important to notice that the instrument that brings forth this “new birth” is not a creed book, relative or some special supernatural event, but simply “the word of truth.”
The truth concerning God is simple. God’s charitableness is good and perfect; His reliability is unwavering, and His motives are pure.
Quite frequently we hear false teachers tell their listeners to “Just say the sinner’s prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart.” Of course, since there is no Scripture that teaches this, no Scripture references are given. Those who are told, and who may be inclined to believe this fantasy, need to read Solomon’s warning in Proverbs 28:9. Hear him: “One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.” Since in the New Testament both Jesus and His apostles give in no uncertain words the terms by which man accepts God’s gift of salvation, one is without excuse when he turns away his ear from the law of Christ and imbibes the babble of those who encourage him or her to “say the sinner’s prayer.” These teachers are encouraging them to commit an abomination. Such teachers ought to be ashamed.
Friend, obey the Gospel to have the forgiveness of your sins. As you do so, the Lord will add you to His church, not to some denomination. Then, as a child of the heavenly Father you will have the God-given right to pray, “My Father who art in heaven…” Isn’t this what you yearn to do? | <urn:uuid:f80f2821-4a2f-42b2-919b-388533c88bb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2014/aug/page5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.942503 | 1,109 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 here at 1:45 p.m. April 10 carrying a classified national security payload.
The payload was designed and built by the National Reconnaissance Office.
"I am proud of the persistence and focus of the launch team, the wing, NRO, ULA and other mission partners, to make this launch happen," said Brig. Gen. Nina Armango, the 45th Space Wing commander, who also served as the Launch Decision Authority for the launch. "Our entire team worked together flawlessly once again to ensure mission success."
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Sirach 31Wycliffe Bible (WYC)
31 Waking of honesty shall make fleshes to fail (Waiting for, or Watching over, riches shall make the flesh to pine away); and (the much) thought thereof shall take away sleep. [The waking of honesty, (or The waiting for, or The watching over, riches), shall dwindle the flesh; and the thinking of (or about) it shall do away sleep.]
2 Thought(s) of before-knowing turneth away wit; and grievous sickness maketh sober the soul. [The thinking of before-cunning turneth away wit; and heavy infirmity sober maketh the soul.]
3 A rich man travailed in the gathering of (his) chattel; and in his rest he shall be filled with his goods. [The rich man travailed in the gathering of substance; and in his rest he shall be full-filled with his goods.]
4 A poor man travailed in (the) decreasing [or in the less(en)ing] of (his) lifelode; and in the end he is made needy. (A poor man worked hard, even though his livelihood continued to decrease; and in the end, he is still needy.)
5 He that loveth gold, shall not be justified; and he that (pur)sueth [or followeth] (after) wasting (or corruption), shall be [full-]filled thereof.
6 Many men be given into the fallings of gold, that is, many men felled into sins for gold; and the perdition of them was made in the fairness thereof. [Many be given into the fallings of gold; and the loss of them is made in the fairness of it.]
7 A tree of offence (or of stumbling) is the gold of them that make sacrifice; woe to them that (pur)sue [or follow] it, and each unprudent man shall perish therein.
8 Blessed is a rich man, which is found without wem of covetousness and avarice; and that went not after gold, neither hoped in money, and treasures. [Blessful is the rich man, that is found without wem; and that after gold went not, nor hoped in money, and treasures.]
9 Who is this, and we shall praise him? for he did marvels in his life.
10 Which is proved, (or tried, or tested) therein, and is found perfect, and everlasting glory shall be to him? which might trespass, and trespassed not, and do evils, and did not. [Who is proved in it (or Who is tested by it), and perfect is found, and shall be to him everlasting glory? that might trespass, trespassed not, and do evils, and did not.]
11 Therefore his goods be established in the Lord; and all the church of saints shall tell out his alms-deeds.
12 Thou hast set at a great board (or at a bountiful table); open thou not first thy cheek on it, that is, begin thou not to eat first. [And] Say thou not, whether those be many things, that be on it.
13 Have thou mind, that an evil eye is wayward [or evil is the shrewd (or the depraved) eye]. What thing worse, than an eye is made? therefore of all his face he shall weep, when he seeth. (Remember that an evil eye is a wicked thing. Yea, what worse thing is made, than an eye? for out of all the parts of a face, it shall weep, when one seeth.)
14 Stretch thou not forth first thine hand; and thou defouled by envy, be ashamed. Be thou not oppressed of (or by) wine in a feast. [Not stretch thou out thine hand rather (or first); and by envy defouled, thou shame. Not be thou thrust together in the feast with wine.]
15 Understand of thyself the things, that be of thy neighbour. [Understand what be of thy neighbour, of thyself.]
16 Use thou as a discreet and temperate man these things that be set forth to thee; and (so) be thou not hated, when thou eatest (too) much. [Use as a temperate man these things that be laid to thee; and not when thou eatest, much to hate thou be had.]
17 Cease thou first because of learning, either nurture; and do not thou be outrageous, lest peradventure thou offend. [Cease rather (or first) because of discipline; and do thou not be too much, lest peradventure thou offend.]
18 And if thou hast set in the midst [or in the middle] of many men, stretch not forth [or not stretch thou out] thine hand sooner than they; and ask thou not first for to drink.
19 A little wine is full(y) sufficient to a learned man; and in sleeping thou shalt not travail for that wine, and thou shalt not feel travail.
20 Waking, and choler, either bitter moisture, and gnawing [or anguish] to an undiscreet and untemperate man. But the sleep of health is in a scarce (or a moderate) man; he shall sleep unto the morrowtide; and his soul (or his body) shall delight with him.
21 And if thou art constrained in eating [too] much, rise thou from the midst, and spew thou; and it shall refresh thee, and thou shalt not bring sickness to thy body.
22 Son, hear thou me, and despise thou not me; and at the last thou shalt find (that) my words (be true). In all thy works be thou swift; and all sickness shall not come to thee.
23 The lips of many men shall bless a shining man in loaves; and the witnessing of his truth is faithful. [The shining in loaves the lips of many shall bless; and the witnessing of the truth of him faithful.]
24 The city shall grudge (or grumble) in the worst bread; and the witnessing of wickedness thereof is sooth. [In the most wicked bread grudged the city; and the witnessing of the wickedness of it is very (or it is true).]
25 Do not thou excite them that be diligent in wine [or Busy men in wine do not thou stir (or Do not thou stir up men busy with wine)]; for why wine hath destroyed many men.
26 Fire proveth hard iron; so wine drunken in drunkenness shall reprove the hearts of proud men.
27 Even life to men is wine drunken in soberness; if thou drinkest it measurably, thou shalt be sober. What is the life which is made less by wine? What defraudeth life? death. Wine was made in gladness, not in drunkenness, at the beginning. [Even life to men wine in soberness; if thou drinkest it measurably, thou shalt be sober. What is the life that is less(en)ed with wine? What beguileth the life? death. Wine in mirth is formed, not in drunkenhood, from the beginning.]
28 Wine drunken measurably is full out joying of soul and of body. Sober drink is (the) health of (the) soul and of (the) body.
29 Wine drunken much maketh voiding, and ire, and many fallings, or mischiefs. [Wine much drunk stirring, and wrath, and many fallings maketh.]
30 Wine drunken much is bitterness of (the) soul. Strength of drunkenness and hurting of an unprudent man maketh virtue less, and making wounds. [Bitterness of soul wine much drunken. The willfulness of drunkenhood the offensions of the unprudent, less(en)ing virtue, and making wounds.]
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JAM27 - Performance and Debugging for Web Developers
Adam Stanley, Konrad Piascik
This session reviews various debugging techniques for web apps in BlackBerry® 10, including CPU bandwidth memory optimization and web inspector to profile and debug your apps. Using example apps to demonstrate techniques, this session is ideal for developers who want to refine their skills in app development to speed up development cycles. | <urn:uuid:e795c140-5635-446b-b8ba-4126c81d1966> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://hosting.desire2learncapture.com/RIM/1/watch/55.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00064-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.85565 | 96 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Erbach, M.; Mehnert, H.; Schnell, O.
Volume 26, Issue 1, pp. 50-55
Diabetes mellitus has been reported to be associated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer. The review analyzes current epidemiological data on the association of diabetes and the risk for colorectal cancer. Hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycemia, and inflammation are suggested to play a key role in the pathophysiology of cancer in diabetes. Data regarding potential treatment-related risks, particularly in conjunction with the use of insulin and insulin analogues, are also presented. Furthermore, the impact of glycemic control and cardiorespiratory fitness on cancer prognosis is considered. Finally, the preventive potential of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and the recommendations concerning colonoscopy-screening are presented. | <urn:uuid:c3395e00-dc1a-42f0-b7c8-7db7d3449b56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-diabetes-and-its-complications/free-most-downloaded-articles/diabetes-and-the-risk-for-colorectal-cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00204-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89412 | 180 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Limited gun restrictions don’t violate the Second Amendment
After this last terrible shooting in the school in Newtown, Conn., we can expect some kind of action from the president on gun control; we can also expect reactions from the National Rifle Association.
The Second Amendment states, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
I as a citizen do wholeheartedly agree with the founders and will fight to keep the amendment in place. In the 18th century when this amendment was written the only arms known were the sword, the muzzle-loader rifle and pistol. Both of these arms were single shot; they were heavy, awkward and took several seconds to reload. I don’t believe even Ben Franklin who I believe possessed the greatest foresight of the time could have foreseen how far advanced those muzzle-loaders would become.
We might visualize today a gunman walking into a crowded area armed with a muzzle-loader rifle and pistol. How many shots could he get off before he was taken down? Today a .22-caliber revolver is a deadly weapon. Would this weapon satisfy the founders at that time? I believe it would, because it would be a hundred times more efficient than what was then available.
The Founding Fathers would leave the type of weapons to the discretion of future generations. This brings us to the touchy situation facing us today. If we remove weapons from the public that are not needed and have been responsible for so many deaths, are we ignoring the Second Amendment? I think not, because we haven’t in any way removed the teeth from the amendment.
However, we should be careful that certain elements from the far left who are working to change the Constitution into a living document do not look upon any restriction of weapons as a green light allowing them to attack other segments of the document.
The question before us today is this: Do we need high-velocity full and semi-automatic rifles to protect our families and homes?
Leon White, Columbiana
Look again at Mahoning Ave.: Skid-row look is already there
I am writing about the recent article in The Vindicator about the thrift store on the West Side.
The owners may have done wrong, but the excuse of city Councilman Mike Ray isn’t fooling anyone. All he is worried about is the so-called saturation of thrift stores, giving Mahoning Avenue a “skid-row” appearance.
This is said as if the bars, tattoo parlors and car lots don’t give it this appearance already! I am 57 years old, born and raised on the West Side, and I am still here.
I can tell you that it was a lot nicer when I was young! So Mr. Councilman, get your priorities straight!
Dana Olsen, Youngstown
Three cheers for Kasich budget
Gov. John Kasich recently unveiled his new Ohio Jobs Budget 2.0, and while there has been much hoopla in the media since, one thing is clear: the governor’s budget is focused on doing the right thing for working families and job creators.
There are three main points of Gov. Kasich’s Jobs Budget 2.0 that show this. Reforming Ohio’s education funding, implementing common-sense tax reform, and standing up for Ohioans’ health care all indicate a clear emphasis on getting results, instead of the politics as usual we have come to know only too well here in Ohio.
Before John Kasich took office as Ohio’s governor, our state was hemorrhaging jobs and was billions of dollars in the hole.
Now Ohio leads the Midwest in job creation, and our state is on the right path. I for one am grateful that John Kasich has dedicated himself to expanding opportunity to learn, grow, work and have good health care for all Ohioans.
Suellen Blasdell, Canfield
Snowfall at Vienna airport often doesn’t match that in Boardman
If I had not already heard correct information to the contrary, as a Mill Creek Golf Course cross country skier, I still would have doubted the assertion in the March 2 story by David Skolnick that “The Valley” had received 20.3 inches of snow in February, making it the ninth snowiest February on record.
The skiing conditions on the golf course during the month hadn’t been that good for there to have been that much snow. I often found myself skiing over downed branches or over golf-cart trail gravel.
However, on a local television newscast, an anchor reported that while the National Weather Service Station at the regional airport in Vienna had recorded 20.3 inches of snow for the month, the total at his station (located in Boardman near the golf course) had been only 12 inches.
Thus the southern portion of “The Valley” received much less now than did the northern portion.
Perhaps global warming could explain this anomaly, since the Vienna airport is closer to Lake Erie and is thus more prone to the lake-effect snow squalls caused by cold air passing over the warmer waters of an ice-free lake.
Thus due to global warming, the amount of precipitation recorded at the airport may no longer reflect what has fallen on the entire Mahoning Valley, at least during the colder months.
Robert R. Stanger, Boardman
Heroes abound at American Red Cross of Mahoning Valley
March is Red Cross MONTH, and the American Red Cross recognizes our everyday heroes who help their community by giving of themselves — the volunteers, blood donors, class takers and financial supporters who help us assist those in need.
March also is a great time to become part of the American Red Cross by doing such things as developing a preparedness plan for the household, becoming a volunteer, giving blood or taking a Red Cross class.
The Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 disasters a year in this country. It provides 24-hour support to members of the military, veterans and their families; collects and distributes about 40 percent of the nation’s blood supply and trains more than 7 million people in first aid, water safety and other life-saving skills every year.
Here in the Mahoning Valley, the American Red Cross of the Mahoning Valley in the past year responded to 523 local emergencies, assisted 807 members of military families and trained thousands of people in lifesaving skills. And, people from this area donated 11,250 units of blood.
We thank those whose generosity enables us to continue our work, and encourage everyone to become an everyday hero this month by helping their neighbors.
Karen E. Conklin, Warren Conklin is executive director of the American Red Cross of the Mahoning Valley.
There’s no balance in socialism
I’m so sick and tired of the Socialist propagandists in Washington, including President Obama, using the term “balanced” to describe their so-called approach to federal spending and budgets. And these Marxists use this term ad nauseam.
Let me be frank with no pun intended: The truth is there is no balanced approach to Socialism. Throughout history, it has always been “Government Take All, From All.” Period.
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BY RabIT software engineering · March 27, 2020
Unlike Scrum, the Kanban approach is not iterative, so it allows the software to be developed in one large development cycle. This cycle has no predefined end point. The software requirements get broken up into smaller work items, which then enter the development process in a prioritized order. A work item is not allowed to move on to the next phase until some capacity opens up ahead. This approach is more useful if fixed timeframes aren’t sustainable for the project.
RabIT software engineering
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Short and sweet to highlight how women are pushing back against the war against the Second Amendment rights of Americans that is being waged by Barack Obama and liberal politicians.
Via The Blaze:
While there’s still a major gender gap in ownership when comparing women and men — a 2011 Gallup poll found that 23 percent of women own guns as opposed to 46 percent of men — the tides are changing. Just consider the fact that a Gallup poll in 2005 found that only 13 percent of women personally owned a firearm. That’s a 10 percentage-point jump worth noteworthy. Plus, there are other indicators. The New York Times has more:Women’s participation in shooting sports has surged over the last decade, increasing by 51.5 percent for target shooting from 2001 to 2011, to just over 5 million women, and by 41.8 percent for hunting, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.
Gun sales to women have risen in concert. In a survey last year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, 73 percent of gun dealers said the number of female customers had gone up in 2011, as had a majority of retailers surveyed in the two previous years.In describing the growth of female shooters during a special investigation into this phenomenon, CNN’s Ed Lavandera quipped that ”Prada and bling” are increasingly meeting “bullets and pistol grips.” In exploring this development, he visited some locations where women are helping one another learn how to shoot properly.Take Rene Blaine, for instance, who, along with her husband Dean, founded Austin Hotshots, a firearms school in Austin, Texas. Blaine, who has a passion for helping other women learn how to properly use weapons, told Lavandera that she’s seen explosive growth of late among females who are interested in weaponry.“The movement towards women in guns is unlike something I’ve never seen before,” she said.
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Many factors influence consumer preferences in any market structure and this may be due to several factors. Some factors may have negative reactions from the consumers. One of such factors is the product-harm crisis. This term can be defined as well-known events related to product defects of some products or harm associated with them. A product may be found to be defective and harmful to the customers, which will make the consumer avoid purchasing it. With a business set up, however, there are ethical bases, which act as a watchdog or guidelines to help in the operation of the company. They, for example, specify how consumers and producers should act, their core values, expectations, missions and visions. In doing so, they avoid misunderstandings between the traders and their consumers and amongst themselves. Such measures will make producers more careful on what they produce and how they handle their clients. Business ethics is an integral part of responsible business environment and it provides the ground for business decisions and conduct. In a case, where there are no ethical bases in a business set up, there will be hostility of consumers and low levels of purchasing. Consumers will avoid interaction with the producers and their product.
This research highlights the Chinese business, their consumer inferences concerning business ethics and their negative reactions towards the product-harm crisis. China is amongst the leading economies in the world. Its economic power ranges from producing household goods, textiles, machinery, food products and electronics. It has nearly 200 million consumers. The products ranging from automobiles, global energy and materials to financial services travel and transport and infrastructure among others use various strategies and development, which have made it the world’s second largest economy. Product-harm crises have been witnessed in China nevertheless. For example, the production company Nestle faced this phenomenon a few years ago, which led to its drop its leading position. The company producing powder milk faces product-harm, when certain unwanted components were accidentally added to its product. The producers had to issue a public apology and station health officers in shops to assure the consumers that everything was rectified. However, a drastic drop in sales was realized.
Product- Harm Crisis
Product-harm is the event when a product associated with a given brand is found to be harmful or defective. Product-harm crises have adverse effects on crisis-brand equity. Heerde et al (232) asserts that if a brand is under crisis, it may lose its base line scales and, therefore, will become a bit more sensitive to the competitor’s market activities. This crisis influences brands (Heerde et al 239) and market structure. The company or firm producing certain products will realize a drastic drop in its sales or in worst-case scenario collapse. Other products manufactured by the same organization may also be of less demand from consumers. The consumers tend to believe that if one product is defective, then the rest of the products are not of high quality either.
Moreover, product-harm crisis may affect company’s stock price in the stock market exchange. Sales will be affected negatively, too (Heerde et al 240). Sales will drop because there will be less demand for the product. Consumers will go for alternative brands. In China, when Nestle faced this crisis, consumers opted for alternatives to the Nestle products are chose competitor brands. This led to a decline in sales of Nestle products. It should be noted that when a product is faced with product-harm crisis, other brands take the customer’s loyalty, especially if the product is new and is being introduced to the market. Consumers will shift their loyalty from the defective product to the new product. Loyalty to the new product will, however, remain low.
When a bigger firm is faced with this undesirable crisis, the harm is less than for a small firm. In the business world it is always better to be a bigger brand and it is always bad to be a small brand (Heerde et al 236). According to the author, smaller brands are more damaged than bigger brands after a product-harm crisis. In China, this has been witnessed in the event of Nestle against its competitors. To further explain the effects of product-harm crisis, a model can be used called the NBD-Dirichlet model.
Case Study of China
Following a series of product-harm crises, related studies have since commenced to carry out further research on the same issue. The effects of product-harm crises have been great and negatively influenced brand equity. The crisis also affects the brand stock prices and the general Chinese market. Nestle company is one of the leading brands of milk in China. Product-harm crisis of Nestle milk powder began on May 25th, 2005 according to ABC news. The company made milk powder that contained more iodine than what China national standards allowed for circulation in the market. This news spread around the country, forcing the company to apologize publicly about the production of defective products. Nevertheless, many consumers stopped using the product. The Nestle Company had to remove defective milk powder from the shops and give the required samples. Doctors were then stationed in shops and supermarkets in Beijing so as to assure the consumers and address the customers’ concerns (Chieh-Peng Lin 461). This totally interfered with the brand’s performance and almost destroyed the company.
Influences of Product-Harm Crisis
A product-harm crisis influences brands and the market structure. To explain this, the NBD-Dirichlet model will be provided to highlight on numerous issues later in the research. Product-harm crises can be classified into three categories.
The first one has descriptive checklists, which suggests the strategies work or do not work in terms of business practices. It provides limited guidance to how the product-harm works. The second one focuses on research on laboratory experiments, which has theories and research. It aids in understanding the part, in which moderators play a role. The last one is the NBD-Dirichlet model, which qualifies the effects caused by product-harm crisis. These effects include market share penetration, market structure and purchase frequency. NBD-Dirichlet model is based on a stationary market assumption. According to Siomokos Kurzbad (36), the model can be used to audit performance of the established brands.
The model was developed by Chartfield and Goodhardt in 1975, and was later on improved by Ehrenberg in 1988. The NBD-Dirichet is a model, which shows statistics that are based on two well-established and defined assumptions. The first one states that customers have a steady habit of personal purchase and the second one claims that brands are characterized with purchase probabilities and their market shares. In many business firms, this model has been embraced and relied on to describe observable brand performance patterns and used to explain these performances patterns. It was even employed to predict the performance patterns. When a product is faced with product-harm crisis, the brand is stressed a lot and the market share and penetration drops. After or during post-crisis period, the brand recovers but it will still be lower than pre-crisis levels. This is predictable when producers use NBD-Dirichlet’s model. Those brands that do not face crisis end up benefiting greater with higher penetration. Crisis is therefore said to influence the purchase frequency.
Estimation Using NBD-Dirichlet Methodology
The market will no longer be stagnant because of the product-harm crisis and this leads to some discrepancies or differences between the theoretical or predicted and real values that have been observed. This difference will be used to show that the stagnant market was disturbed. The performance of the brand, and the purchase frequency decrease when a product faces this crisis. Loyalty of the customers to the product goes down. When Nestle Company faced product-harm crisis, there were more than 70 other milk powder brands in the market. The market before May 2005 is assumed to have been stable or stationary. Twelve months before the crisis a year between April 2004 and April 2005. This can fit in NBD-Dirichlet model, which can be used to predict the normal brand performance and market structure. From October 2005 to December 2005 the post-crisis took place. Each period, that is, pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis were estimated using the fitted NBD-Dirichlet model with estimated values compared to observed values. This helps to detect any deviations because of the product-harm crisis.
Competitors during Product-Harm Crisis
When faced with product-harm crisis, business organizations ought to identify potential allies and competitors among their stakeholders, which may include competitors, the media, consumers and regulatory agencies. Competitors become more aggressive and active during product-harm crisis and, therefore, interfere with the situation of the defective product. They weaken the product facing the crisis by financing their advertisements and lowering the prices of their items in a bid to lure more and more customers. This is a strategy to benefit from the chance to take up greater market shares. They destroy public image and reputation of the product involved in this crisis, making the consumers lack confidence in their products. Negative information about the product undergoing product-harm crisis spread around to consumers and the affected company as a whole. In some cases, this becomes such a major issue and impact on the viability of a company. Some businesses close down or are declared bankrupt due to their unsuccessful operations, which achieved limited number of customers.
Media sources such as national televisions, radios and the Internet can be used to defame companies, which have been discovered to have defective products. This consists of a very fast means of sending information. Competitors take advantage of the vacuum created during product-harm crisis and advertise all over the media houses in order to get attention of the customers. Some even ridicule and publicize the company facing this crisis. Siomkos and Kurzbard claim that negative information spreads (41) and it not only affects the brand under turmoil but also influences other brands of the same company (39).
However, the manner, in which a company will handle this crisis, will determine its future success. Siomkos and Kurzbard (34) argue that a crisis is measured by a company’s reputation during the crisis. Conjoint analysis can also be done during the pre-crisis and post-crisis period. Conjoint analysis is a technique that is used to approximate how respondents develop preferences for products, services or ideas and measure the trade-offs that consumers make when making a decision.
Consumers, who shift from the well-established product in the market structure to other products, may after all not be habitual consumers to the alternative products. They change from one product to another without remaining loyal to one product. Interestingly, during post-crisis time of recovering, the initial consumers might still start using the very product though others remain reluctant.
A firm undergoing product-harm crisis may experience an increased sensitivity to rival firms’ marketing activities, too. Product-harm crisis affected Nestlé’s brand performance negatively and at the same time created opportunities for other brands producing milk. It is therefore generally or universally accepted that product-harm crisis have a negative influence on crisis-brand equity.
General Attitude of Consumers
Herdee et al. (241) states that attitude of an individual towards a certain brand is the individual’s general assessment of a notion pertaining to that brand. The attitude of consumers regarding the brands are usually reflected by their capability or personal likelihood to appraise brands in a consistently positive or negative manner. Conversely, researchers argued that as much as action and perception are related, and one may influence the other, it is not essential for them to be completely unchangeable. The common sense introduces the idea that if the consumer prefers a certain brand, for instance, he would be highly likely to buy that product. This is not any different to the Chinese markets. Therefore, a positive change in consumers’ perceptions of a fastidious brand is likely to lead into the growth in sales. That is why testing the attitude of the consumers provides the important contribution to the marketing research in this study. Marketers must thus realize that the attitudes of the clienteles are functionally useful in attracting consumers to brands that they feel are valuable in satisfying their needs, aspirations and wants.
The most important predecessor of brand attitude is usually influenced by advertisements that attract the buyers to purchase a certain commodity (Heerde 239). While Siomkos, and Kurzbard (39) further expounded on the influence of attitudes towards an advertisement, the attitudes towards brands have been proven to influence the purchasing less, since markers need to have ads that are based on emotions. However, a few cases prove that the consumer has a favorable perception of a brand as a result of advertisement that he/she enjoyed. This is because after looking at the ad, one finds himself or herself compelled towards purchasing a certain commodity. Without proper advertisements, favorable attitudes towards a certain brand may diminish. Additionally, in cases where the purchase action is right on time without delay, there is the probability of variables like the price to rule out the reliability between mindset and behavior.
The other behavioral factor that affects the emotions and perceptions of brands and regulates the buying decision is motivation. In that regard, Siomkos and Kurzbad (36) state that people generally do not realize the real psychological forces that can explain the way they behave. The authors further advocate that a person has limited understanding of what exactly triggers their decision of purchasing a certain product. Further, they claim that as we grow up, many urges are repressed and such urges do not really eliminate the inside motivational forces held by each individual. An example is the case of brands of different bottled drinking water, which are always in theme hotels, and each and everyone is compelled to buying a certain product because of taste, thirst quenching ability, reliability among other reasons. The implication here would be for a young adult, who purchases any given product with the underlying motive of the consumer, or purchase a beverage because of a certain reason. The brand thus can be used as a perception of the consumer of the image or self-presentation, since it is a function of social interaction as suggested by Siomkos and Kurzbad (38). Thereby consumption of any given product is looked at as an act of self-presentation. The consumer is compelled to link himself with a desired image or his/her lifestyle.
It should be noted that when a product is rendered defective, it therefore faces product-harm crisis, the producers have an uphill task of bringing it back to its standard during post product-harm crisis. Whenever this crisis occurs there will be negative reactions and huge losses incurred. It is however not very conclusive, since this research was conducted on China’s reaction towards product-harm crisis. Other nations might have opposite reactions. This research has catered for only a position of China but not other countries. It however gives a general overview of an assumption, which is realistic and may appeal to many other nations. Notably, if this crisis occurs, sales will dramatically drop, stock exchange price becomes unstable to the advantage of competitors, who use this chance to publicize their products. The prices of competitive products will be lower, which makes them appealing to the customers. This also affects brand’s performance and market structure. This affects the product faced with product-harm crisis due to the negative brand publicity and a negative attitude towards it.
In addition, this research provided an assessment on the attitudes of Chinese consumers in a global world and their cultural preference and distinction. In so doing it has also tried to present the branding effects on different classes of consumer purchasing activities within the Chinese market. It is vital to use numerous examples that are related to some products in order to try examining the diverse attitudes of consumer buying behavior groups in analyzing brand effects in the Chinese market. A contingent of individuals and researchers scrutinize the concern of the firms in the marketplace and the nature of consumption. In that regard, it was vital that in this research to utilize a number of examples to help understand both the perception and the general behaviors of the consumers. | <urn:uuid:3ed5255d-9021-429d-93af-c8180aa12ea3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://supremeessays.com/samples/Business/understanding-the-chinese-consumer-inferences.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954466 | 3,292 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Archaeologists dig down to find shipwrecks
- On 11/01/2012
- In Parks & Protected Sites
By Nikki Wilson-Smith - ABC
For shipwreck archaeologists, it's a dream come true...a surprise find in a car park in the coastal town of Bunbury.
Five metres below the surface, a team has found historic hidden treasure and experts say there's no site quite like it in the world.
Ross Anderson, who's the head marine archaeologist at the West Australian museum, is leading the excavation and the team has found the remains of three shipwrecks.
"We're just hitting solid material all through here and it's wooden so that's a pretty good sign that there is a shipwreck here," he said.
The area around Bunbury is known as the shipwreck coast and there have been rumours through the years of American whaling ships wrecked near the beach and smothered by sand.
John Cross, 66, was just 16-years -old when he worked at a sand mine at the site.
In 1961 he was on night shift when he struck wood.
"I'd hit something, it wasn't a rock and it wasn't steel it was, well in the process of working through the evening it turned out that it was wood and it was oregon wood and oregon wood is American," he said.
Fifty years later he's back working on the same site as a member of an archaeological dig to confirm his suspicions that the car park is a shipwreck graveyard.
"Best job I've been on in my life, actually I've had some tough jobs in my time you know and this is about the best I've had so I'm sort of whistling dixie you know !
Ross Anderson says it turns out the hunch about the wood was right.
"This would have gone down the side of the hull so it's a piece of deck that's fallen over on its side and there's barnacles along that piece of metal so this would have been in the intertidal zone at one stage," he said.
Mr Anderson says there is no other site quite like it in the world.
"With three of them we think in the same location, it's absolutely unique," he said.
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This last week I attended 2 seminars at my local TAFE – one on Dyslexia and another about supporting readers through the use of phonics.
Both sessions were filled with scary data, thought-provoking questions, numerous definitions and last but not least, lists of apps and websites.
Yes, like always, there are a few different aspects to consider when given a list of resources to use with students:
A) Is it free?
B) If it costs, is there a free trial where I can access EVERYTHING?
C) Does it suit the technology I have available to me?
D) Is it actually going to benefit the student?
There are 2 (so far – I’ve barely had time to check any out!) that I rate quite highly.
- Oxford Owl is a website that provides free eBooks for students, at various age levels and genres. Yes, they have provided audio (with expression!) and the books are actually interesting! I discovered this site through the Spelfabet website, under a list of decodable book resources.
- ReadTheory is a website that I also heard about at the seminar (from the girl sitting next to me, rather than the presenter!) – free, online, engaging comprehension texts, with questions to match, based on the Lexile Reading Scale. It does refer to Common Core, but Aussie teachers can still benefit! The girl next to me said her students in Year 4 were loving it, as it strikes up a bit of friendly in-class competition while still being matched to each child’s ability. I did a little bit of extra reading about ReadTheory here.
Double bonus, both of these resources are iPad-compatible! Yay! I’ve linked QR codes to both of these sites, printed them (along with student log-in details for ReadTheory) and popped them up in the classroom I worked in today.
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Apple has announced several accessibility features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive limitations. These features will be available later this year via a software update. One of the most interesting features is the Apple Watch that allows people to navigate its interface using AssistiveTouch. iPhone and iPad users will also be part of the new accessibility-focused treatment. Additionally, Apple has announced a new sign language interpreter service called SignTime that will be available to communicate with AppleCare and retail customer care.
AssistiveTouch on watchOS will allow Apple Watch users to navigate a cursor on the display through a series of hand gestures, such as a pinch or a press. Apple They say The Apple Watch will use built-in motion sensors such as a gyroscope and accelerometer, along with optical heart rate sensors and on-device machine learning, to detect subtle differences in muscle movement and tendon activity.
New gesture control support through AssistiveTouch will allow people to more easily answer incoming calls, control the onscreen motion pointer, and access the Notification Center and Control Center – all on an Apple Watch – by touching the display or digitally. crown without the need to move. However, the company hasn’t provided any details about which Apple Watch models will be compatible with the new features.
In addition to gesture controls on the Apple Watch, iPadOS will bring support for third-party eye-tracking devices, allowing users to control the iPad using their eyes. Apple says that compatible MFi (made for the iPad) devices will track where someone is looking on the screen so that the pointer can be moved accordingly to follow the person’s gaze. This will work for users to perform various actions on the iPad, including a single tap, without requiring users to touch the screen.
Apple is also updating its preloaded screen reader — VoiceOver — to allow people to explore more detail in images. These descriptions will include text, table data, and other objects. People will also be able to add their own descriptions to the images along with the markup to bring a personalized experience.
For neurodiverse people or anyone distracted by everyday sounds, Apple is bringing background sounds such as balanced, bright, and deep noises, as well as ocean, rain, and stream sounds to mask the unwanted environment in the background. Will keep moving in or extraneous sound. These will “help users focus, stay calm or relax”, Apple said.
Apple is also bringing mouth sounds like a click, pop, or “ee” sound to replace physical buttons and switches for non-speaking users with limited mobility. Users will also be able to customize the display and text size settings for each app individually. Additionally, there will be new Memoji customizations to represent users with oxygen tubes, cochlear implants and a soft helmet for the headwear.
Along with its primary software changes, Apple is adding support for new bi-directional hearing aids to its MFi (Made for iPhone) hearing device program. The next generation models from the MFi partners will be available later this year, the company said.
Apple is also introducing support for recognizing audiograms — charts that show hearing test results — for headphone housing. This will allow users to upload their hearing test results to the headphone housings so that softer sounds can be amplified more easily and certain frequencies can be adjusted to match their listening abilities.
No concrete timeline has been provided to users as to when they can expect the new features to reach their Apple devices. However, it’s safe to expect some details to be announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month.
Apple will also launch SignTime service to communicate with AppleCare and retail customer care directly from a web browser using American Sign Language (ASL) in the US, British Sign Language (BSL) in the UK and French Sign Language (LSF) in France . , It will also be available at physical Apple Stores for remote access to a sign language interpreter, without the need for any prior booking.
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 6, 2006
Fact Sheet: Highlights of the President's FY2007 Budget
Press Briefing on the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget by Office of Management and Budget Director Joshua B. Bolten
In Focus: Budget 2007
The President's 2007 Budget continues the successful pro-growth policies that have encouraged robust economic growth and job creation. A strong economy, together with spending restraint, is critical to reducing the deficit. The Budget builds on last year's successful spending restraint by again holding the growth of overall discretionary spending below inflation, proposing to reduce non-security discretionary spending below the previous year's level, and calling for the elimination or reduction of programs not getting results or not fulfilling essential priorities. Like last year, the budget proposes savings and reforms to mandatory spending programs, whose unsustainable growth poses the real long-term danger to our fiscal health.
Continuing Our Economic Expansion
The Budget continues the President's pro-growth policies vital to our economy's continued expansion. With the full implementation of the President's tax relief plan in 2003, the Nation has added more than 4.7 million new jobs, productivity has increased at a 3 percent annual rate, homeownership has reached all-time highs, and the American economy is growing faster than other major industrialized nations.
- Because America needs more than a temporary expansion, taxpayers need more than temporary tax relief. The Budget proposes to make permanent the tax relief enacted in 2001 and 2003, preventing a tax increase on families and small businesses.
- The strength of our economy has produced rapid increases in the level of Federal receipts, which are critical to reducing the deficit. From 2004 to 2005, receipts grew 14.5 percent ($274 billion), or more than twice as fast as the economy itself. The Budget forecasts receipts to grow another $132 billion from 2005 to 2006, an increase of 6.1 percent.
Restraining Spending and Cutting the Deficit
Through continued pro-growth economic policies and spending restraint, the Budget keeps us on track to meet the President's goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009. The Budget:
- Again holds the growth of overall discretionary spending below inflation and again proposes to reduce non-security discretionary spending below the previous year's level.
- Terminates or reduces 141 programs that are not getting results or not fulfilling essential priorities, for a proposed savings of $14.7 billion, building on last year's success in which savings of $6.5 billion were achieved in 89 of the President's proposals.
- Requests that Congress give the President a Constitutional line-item veto. All savings from the line-item veto would be used for deficit reduction.
- Projects the deficit will decline from its projected 2004 peak of 4.5 percent of GDP ($521 billion) down to 1.4 percent ($208 billion) in 2009, more than in half and well below the 40-year historical average deficit of 2.3 percent.
The Long-Term Fiscal Danger
The greatest threat to our fiscal health over the long-term comes from unsustainable growth in entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- The Budget saves $65 billion over 5 years by slowing the future growth of entitlement spending.
- In addition, it paves the way for further reforms that will be needed over the longer term to bring Medicare's finances in line with available resources.
- The President will also continue to promote comprehensive reform of Social Security to place the program's finances on sustainable footing for future generations.
Focusing On National Priorities
The Budget focuses taxpayer resources on National priorities like the War on Terrorism, health care, energy research and strengthening our global competitiveness through improved math and science education and research.
- Fighting the War on Terror. To give our troops the resources they need to fight terror and protect our Nation, the Budget increases defense spending by nearly 7 percent. This funding will maintain a high level of military readiness, develop and procure new weapon systems to ensure U.S. battlefield superiority, and support our service members and their families.
- Defending the Homeland. Government-wide, non-defense homeland security funding, including fee-funded activities, increases by more than 8 percent. The Budget also provides resources to strengthen our borders with funding for 1,500 new border patrol agents, 6,000 new detention beds, 560 detention and removal personnel, and 257 attorneys to expedite removal of illegal immigrants.
- Reducing Health Care Costs and Improving Access. The Budget makes health care more affordable and available with improvements to Health Savings Accounts, health information technology, and medical liability reform.
- Reducing our Addiction to Foreign Oil. The Advanced Energy Initiative provides a 22-percent increase in research funding for cleaner, cheaper, more reliable energy: solar, wind, nuclear, zero-emission coal, batteries for hybrid and electric cars, hydrogen, and biomass - with the goal of replacing 75 percent of oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.
- Strengthening our Competitiveness. The American Competitiveness Initiative commits $5.9 billion in FY2007, and more than $136 billion over 10 years, to increase investments in research and development, recruit new math and science teachers, encourage American innovation, and strengthen our nation's ability to compete in the global economy.
- Promoting Compassion and Strengthening Families. The Budget continues to advance compassionate programs that are effective in addressing social concerns, including $322 million in targeted Faith-based and Community initiatives. These efforts fund the Helping America's Youth initiative, as well as other priority programs.
- Delivering Results and Controlling Spending. The President proposes reforms to control spending and to ensure programs deliver greater results. The 2007 Budget:
- Proposes statutory limits on discretionary spending, enforced by across-the-board cuts.
- Proposes biennial budgeting, which would allow lawmakers to devote more time every other year to ensuring that taxpayers' money is spent wisely and efficiently.
- Proposes creation of a Results Commission and a Sunset Commission to improve agency and program performance and reduce unnecessary costs to taxpayers.
- Launches ExpectMore.gov to improve Federal program transparency and accountability and focus on results.
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A constitutional monarchy of north-central Europe, Denmark lies between the North and Baltic seas. Area: 43,094 sq km (16,639 sq m), excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Pop. (1995 est.): 5,223,000. Cap.: Copenhagen. Monetary unit: Danish krone (crown), with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of 5.55 kroner to U.S. $1 (8.77 kroner = £1 sterling). Queen, Margrethe II; prime minister in 1995, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
Political debate in Denmark in 1995 centred on the survival and upholding of one of the world’s most sophisticated cradle-to-grave social welfare systems, in a country that levied more tax in relation to gross domestic product (GDP)--51.2%--than any other European Union (EU) member state. At the opening of the new session of the Folketing (parliament) in October, Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen announced plans to tighten the generous welfare benefits that many blamed for the country’s chronic unemployment. "The welfare state should not just be a safety net," he said. "It should also be a springboard of opportunity." A poll indicated that most Danes had misgivings about their role in the EU, however.
In November Denmark’s Social Democrat-led government reached an accord with the opposition Conservative People’s Party on a 1996 budget that modestly tightened fiscal policy to ensure a soft landing after a powerful economic upswing. The budget forecast GDP growth falling to 2.9% in 1996 from 3.9% in 1995 and 4.4% in 1994, when fiscal policy was eased to increase private consumption and promote growth after a long recession. The budget was designed to tighten government spending, with cuts corresponding to 0.5% of GDP in a move aimed at countering financial market fears that the economy might overheat and cause inflation to rise. It called for a deficit of 29 billion kroner for 1996, a tightening of unemployment benefits, and small cuts in military spending. The target date for a balanced budget was set at 1997. Denmark’s impressive economic recovery continued in 1995, with inflation at a low rate of just over 2%, solid trade and balance of payments surpluses, and unemployment--the government’s chief concern--falling to just over 10% from 12.5%, thanks to government job-activation schemes.
In Denmark’s first impeachment trial in 85 years, former justice minister Erik Ninn-Hansen was found guilty of having violated refugee legislation and sentenced to a provisional four months in prison by a special 20-judge tribunal. Ninn-Hansen stood accused of having broken the law in 1987 when as justice minister he ordered a halt to family reunifications for Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, Denmark’s Supreme Court upheld an eight-year prison sentence on a Bosnian Muslim refugee found guilty by a lower court of having tortured other Muslims to death at a Croatian-run prisoner-of-war camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the verdict was the first delivered in a series of war crime trials being held outside former Yugoslavia.
In March Copenhagen served as host to one of the major global gatherings of the year, the weeklong UN World Summit for Social Development, a forum that assembled to address goals of eradicating poverty, creating jobs, and ensuring the well-being and security of peoples in the post-Cold War era. It was attended by approximately 20,000 participants from some 180 nations. Copenhagen was also to be European City of Culture in 1996, the 12th host for this yearlong, 1 billion kroner, 600-event arts jamboree. | <urn:uuid:3fc00321-305b-440c-b47c-7eaeafd78867> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Denmark-Year-In-Review-1995 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949717 | 779 | 2.65625 | 3 |
An enriched screen usually surmounted by a rood, in the rood-loft, placed between the chancel and the nave, i.e., between the clergy and the people, of medieval churches. Its precise origin is obscure, though it is possibly traceable to a merely ornamental feature of two 4th-century basilicas; doubtless its later use was practical rather than symbolic. Some are constructed of stone and later examples are of metal work, but usually they are of wood, having close paneling often with painted figures of saints, below, and open screenwork above, supporting tracery and richly carved cornices and crestings. In some churches the rood-screen extended across the aisles. Notable remaining examples are at Cawston, England; Troyes, France; Louvain, Belgium; and Lubeck, Germany. | <urn:uuid:6b940aa5-c925-44ec-aa7d-81af672b7449> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://catholicsaints.info/rood-screen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721387.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00447-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973655 | 179 | 2.921875 | 3 |
In this talk, I will consider the group of signals which can be (precisely) reconstructed from a finite number of samples. More specifically, I talk about the class of signals with sparse representation in a known domain and signals with finite rate of innovations (FRI). The recently introduced framework of infinite-dimensional compressed seining shows that the signals in the former class can be recovered from a finite number of random samples in a different domain. The recovery algorithm solves a basis pursuit problem after a proper selection of the range and the number of random samples. On the other hand, in the latter class, a limited group of FRI signals can be reconstructed from carefully-chosen samples using the annihilating filter method. This method is very sensitive to noise and cannot be easily generalized to all of the signals in this class. Motivated by the infinite-dimensional compressed sensing, I am trying to find a new recovery algorithm for FRI signals by solving a basis pursuit problem. The new algorithm (if it succeeds) will be more robust to the noise and can be extended to all of the signals in this class.
April 9th, Mitra
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Our Top 10 list of indoor jungle gyms for toddlers is meant to encourage your child’s adventurous side. Home is where your child learns everything first. Thus, helping them develop their skills while making sure that they do not miss out on the excitement each child their age should be experiencing is something every parent aims for.
Jungle gyms also called monkey bars or climbing frames would make a great addition to your playground. You can consider buying jungle gym accessories such as jungle gym slides, steering wheels, climbing holds set, and bucket straps if you are looking to upgrade what you currently have.
The best indoor jungle gyms for toddlers should be those that promote experiential learning and encourage both independence and nurturing of social skills. As play becomes a huge part of your child’s everyday life, so should be their development.
Experiential learning gives kids a chance to learn through experiences while allowing them to do so at their own pace. The key benefits that it brings include a better grasp of concepts, promotion of critical thinking, and development of problem-solving skills, among many others.
Physical play can contribute to this goal. Children are given the freedom to act on their own with adult supervision. As they encounter hurdles, they learn to remember what they did wrong in the previous attempt. Then, they begin to apply this learning dynamically
You may like to read: Best Play Tunnel for Toddlers – A Mini Park at Home!
Indoor Jungle Gyms for Toddlers: What Make Them Fun
This list is more than just your jungle swings. Indoor jungle gyms promote self-confidence and self-reliance. Children love it when they have to overcome a challenge because their competitive nature calls for it. Indoor jungle gyms for toddlers offer unlimited opportunities for your child.
Do you know those jungle gyms or foam climbing blocks for toddlers can help in the development of your child’s muscles that in turn contribute to good posture? Once they climb up or hang off these indoor jungle gyms for toddlers, they stimulate muscle movement and develop their hand- and eye coordination as well.
Furthermore, they can even make fun of themselves when they stumble down and, in the process, learn to develop their creativity and strategic skills to avoid such incidents from happening again. This is a fun learning process for them because they are learning how to look at the positive side of things.
Certainly, the best part for parents is that you get to have some quiet time while looking from a distance. Toddlers need adult supervision but be sure to give them enough room or freedom to discover something new every time they engage in this fun play.
1. Eezy Peezy Monkey Bars Climbing Tower
Type: Playground Climbers
Age level: 3 to 10 years
What is great about this toy: Lightweight but very sturdy
What is not so great about this toy: Assembly may be a bit more complicated than what you could expect from other indoor jungle gyms for toddlers. Use tools such as flat head screwdrivers or the like.
This Eezy Peezy Monkey Bars Climbing Tower features interlocking plastic tubes and connectors that are integrated with double self-locking springs that make the set durable yet lightweight, allowing for ease of transfer.
The plastic material is made of high-quality components with UV protection. Thus, even if you bring the set outdoor, you can rest assured that your child’s skin remains safe from the sun’s harmful rays.
With a detachable top, strong structure that can accommodate most kids aged 3 to 8 years, a child-sized frame, and a wide, no-tip base that eliminates the risk of tipping over, this indoor jungle gym is certainly worth checking out.
2. Kids’ Jungle Gymnastics: Expandable Climbing Tower
Type: Playground Climbers
Age level: 3 years and up
What is great about this toy: Sturdy and you can fold it up in 5 seconds for easy storage
What is not so great about this toy: There may be a need to buy pipe braces to screw it down so it doesn’t move that much when being played on.
This Kids’ Jungle Gymnastics: Expandable Climbing Tower is foldable, easy to store, and made of quality steel. You can even adjust its height from 36 inches up to 52 inches. This guarantees more opportunities for your child to develop their skills over time.
It is quite sturdy, as evidenced by the feedback of satisfied parents. Perfect for building a child’s core and arm strength. Note that this is for little kids to practice their climbing skills and not recommended for gymnastic practice. It may be, however, your partner in nurturing your child’s love for the sport!
3. Indoor Playground for Kids: Jungle Gym Play Set
Type: Toddler Gyms & Tables
Age level: 24 months and up
What is great about this toy: The perfect size for an indoor play space
What is not so great about this toy: The set does not fold. You have to unscrew a few bolts if you wish to store it flat.
This Jungle Gym Play Set features natural wood, pine, and beech and does not contain harmful plastic. Also, the jungle gym parts are well polished and varnished, making it a climber structure that your child will surely love.
With its bright design that boasts of environmentally friendly painting, reliable fastening, and a weight capacity of up to 50 kg, this set can help your child develop their physical skills, body strength, critical thinking, and creativity. It can even stand on itself so there is no need for you to attach it to the wall or ceiling.
The toddler climber can also gather 2-3 kids in one spot so your child’s social skills can take a positive turn when they play with this set together with friends and/or siblings.
The multifunctional set includes a Swedish ladder, steps, climbing net, monkey bars, slide, and gymnastic rings. Surely, this may be your child’s favorite playground at home!
4. EVAS Kids’ Gym Play Set
Type: Play & Swing Sets
Age level: 3 to 12 years
What is great about this toy: Very sturdy and offers various ways to set them up indoor or outdoor
What is not so great about this toy: The ring set may need a little sanding for a nicer grip.
This EVAS Kids’ Gym Play Set is your perfect gift set for your active child as it includes full jungle gym equipment:
- single round wooden disk swing and 100% cotton rope
- gymnastic rings for junior kids
- a wooden climbing ladder that is made of an oak tree
- a full hanging kit of fasteners in the box
Note that the horizontal bar is not included with the set. You can order this separately. Also, you may want to consider buying gloves for your kid’s hands so they do not become sore especially if they are playing for long periods.
Overall, this is one of those indoor jungle gyms for toddlers that can be a good gift for gymnastic enthusiasts.
5. Jungle Gym Kingdom 18″ Trapeze Swing Bar Rings
Type: Play Set Ring & Trapeze Attachments
Age level: 3 months and up
What is great about this toy: Easy to use and sturdy with coated chain that protects rust from accumulating even under the sun
What is not so great about this toy: Chains may seem loon for some so a little bit of maneuvering to hang it at the right height may be required.
This Jungle Gym Kingdom 18″ Trapeze Swing Bar Rings: 48″ Heavy-Duty Chain Swing Set features a fully assembled trapeze bar with rings and chains that are plastic coated plus 2 steel carabiners.
Also, it showcases reinforced trapeze handles in which upgraded easy-grip triangular plastic green rings are attached below the bar with metal insert.
The manufacturer highly recommends using swing hangers to achieve a relatively friction-free back and forth motion. They do not recommend a stationary fixture such as eye loops as this can cause friction and may result in safety concerns.
6. Gym1 Deluxe Indoor Playground Set
Type: Play & Swing Sets
Age level: 3 to 12 years
What is great about this toy: Installation is simple and the set feels very sturdy and quiet
What is not so great about this toy: A reminder that the door will not close while the jungle gym is in place. You can take it down in just a minute or two though.
This Gym1 Deluxe Indoor Playground Set is strong and safe enough to hold 300 pounds but lightweight enough that it only weighs less than 10 pounds. You can assemble it in minutes without having to drill any holes. The set includes a patented core doorway unit and swing, ladder, rope, trapeze, and rings.
Note that it only fits regular 25- to 36-inch wide doorways that have trim at least on top. You cannot install it on wider doors.
The manufacturer has also reinvented the pullup bar with patented vise-grips and motion stabilizers to allow kids to safely swing, climb, and play as long as they want. Most noteworthy, it is great for autistic kids and kids with disabilities, since it is recommended by occupational therapists and healthcare specialists.
The Gym1 playground set has been certified and tested according to the ASTM International Standards for home playground equipment. This can very well compete with other indoor jungle gyms for toddlers.
7. Pegas: Children’s Indoor Home Gym Swedish Wall Playground Set
Type: Playground Climbers
Age level: 4 years and up
What is great about this toy: Well crafted and very sturdy structure – kids can play for hours while indoors
What is not so great about this toy: May be well over your budget as it is our most expensive set among our indoor jungle gyms for toddlers but it will certainly be worth spending money on.
This Pegas Indoor Home Gym Swedish Wall Playground Set is your complete entertainment playground set for little kids who are stuck at home because it may be raining or just too hot outside.
It is the largest model of the manufacturer among its other indoor jungle gyms for toddlers. The set contains the following:
- curved ladder
- rope ladder
- monkey bars
- horizontal bar
- basketball ring
- gymnastics rings
- climbing rope
The standard model fits in rooms with a ceiling height of 7 feet and 9 inches to 9 feet and 11 inches and comes in orange, blue, or green colors. Note that you have to pick up safety mats as the gyms are not shipped with them.
It may take you longer to assemble and install, but the results will be pretty much a different kind of adventure and fun for your little one(s).
Foam Climbing Blocks for Toddlers
8. SoftScape Toddler Playtime Corner Climber
Type: Kids’ Indoor Climbers & Play Structures
Age level: 6 months to 3 years
What is great about this toy: Soft material but very sturdy
What is not so great about this toy: May be smaller than it appears in the picture so please refer to dimensions first before ordering
This SoftScape playtime corner climber for infants and toddlers may be one of your best choices for indoor climbing toys for 1-year-olds. It comes in four variants: blue/red, contemporary/green, earth tone/contemporary, and navy/powder blue.
It is made of durable material that even a 45-pound toddler jumping all over the structure will not worry about the parts losing their shapes.
Just a reminder to follow the instructions on the box and do not use a knife to avoid accidentally slicing the leather material while opening the item.
Infants and toddlers can sit, climb, crawl, and slide so they become active and engaged for longer. The toy encourages hand and feet coordination and helps improve gross motor skills and functional development.
It promotes a safe, active play. Its textured non-slip bottom reduces incidents of slipping and sliding. It even comes with hook-and-loop fasteners to keep pieces in place.
Most noteworthy, it is GREENGUARD (Gold) and CertiPUR-US certified for low emissions into indoor air. Also, the manufacturer complies with CAL 117 flammability regulations.
The assembled climber measures 36 inches in length and width, respectively, and 10 inches in height. Expect light assembly.
Technical specifications aside, this soft, durable polyurethane material is easy to clean. Just wipe with a mild soap-and-water solution. The manufacturer recommends that children remove shoes before use.
The design will work well if you install it in a corner. This ensures a safe and fun playtime for your little one.
9. ECR4Kids SoftZone Climb and Crawl Activity Play Set
Type: Freestanding Slides
Age level: 9 months to 3 years
What is great about this toy: Seams can hold up to use and abuse – satisfied users claim that it is still good even after 1.5 years.
What is not so great about this toy: No tunnel in this set – you can buy more blocks if you feel the pieces may be inadequate.
This ECR4Kids SoftZone Climb and Crawl Activity playset promotes safe, active play, is low maintenance, features soft leather feel, and helps improve motor development. This is a testament to the mission of ECR4Kids to make playtime the best it has ever been.
The set measures 24 inches (L) x 16 inches (W) x 8 inches (H). It is certified for healthier indoor air, constructed with CertiPUR-US Certified foams, made without phthalates, and CPSIA and CA-117 compliant for added safety.
Also, there is no need for assembly. The dense structure of the foam keeps kids safe and cozy while the non-slip bottom keeps all the pieces stable and in one place.
What is interesting is that kids can step on the foam pieces, they can easily regain their shape. Adults can pretty much crush them when they step on them, but it will take only a couple of seconds for them to reform.
You can arrange and rearrange the five soft foam shapes (square, rectangle, wedge, cylinder, and half-moon) for more fun and colorful playtime.
Available in three variants – assorted, contemporary, and earth tone – this foam playset may be one of the best climbing toys for 1-year-olds yet.
10. Costzon 4-in-1 Unique Shapes Convertible Climb and Crawl Foam Set
Type: Kids’ Indoor Climbers & Play Structures
Age level: 0 months and up
What is great about this toy: The foams are very firm and do not compress so it can hold up longer, making it sturdy and durable enough for kids who have the energy of adults!
What is not so great about this toy: You may find the layout a bit weird but your child will certainly love moving the shapes and climbing, jumping, or building forts.
This Costzon 4-in-1 Unique Shapes – Convertible Climb and Crawl Foam Set allows your child to freely combine the set into many shapes. They can even make a table or a sofa out of them.
The color splicing blocks can stimulate your child’s imagination and creativity. Also, the set features a dense foam structure that is thick and elastic. It is soft enough to cushion crash landings and firm enough to support all kinds of activities your child loves to do, from just sitting to climbing to jumping.
The colorful set is waterproof and non-slip. With a strong dirt resistance, cleaning is easy as you just need to wipe it off with a damp cloth if you need to remove stains.
Combining practicality and playfulness, this indoor jungle gym for toddlers can make their playtime more fun and adventurous!
Indoor Jungle Gyms for Toddlers: Our Verdict
With these carefully selected indoor jungle gyms for toddlers, you are sure to find your child’s perfect companion. Each offers something different. Thus, you have wider choices and more time to decide which one can work well with your child’s needs.
We love that the manufacturers always take measures to make sure that their products are safe for every child out there. Even our selection of foam climbing blocks for toddlers promises hours of great fun while keeping little ones safe in the comforts of your home.
Thinking of considering purchasing an indoor jungle gym for your child? Now is the ideal time to do it! A different kind of adventure awaits your child!
Frequently Asked Questions for Jungle Gyms
1. What is a jungle gym?
A jungle gym, also called monkey bars, or in other cases, climbing frames, is a playground equipment that kids can use to practice their climbing or hanging skills or to just sit on. It is a structure featuring horizontal and vertical metal bars or it can comprise of ropes – depending on what you think will best suit your child’s needs.
2. How to build a jungle gym?
Building a jungle gym may be simple or quite complicated, depending on how large the jungle gym you purchased is. Normally, manufacturers include installation instructions to guide you in the assembly process.
If you wish to add the jungle gym to your existing backyard playground set, check out first what tools you may need – in case you have to buy them. To make it more fun, encourage your child to build the jungle gym with you for more bonding moments.
3. Why are jungle gyms recommended for kids?
Aside from motivating your child to exercise, jungle gyms can also help improve their motor and sensory skills as well as a sense of balance. They can also allow your kid to overcome their fears like when crossing the monkey bars.
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The ongoing debate over insurance rates in Saskatchewan has resulted in some more suggestions from government-run insurer SGI.
Some of the suggestions SGI is putting forward are standard in other parts of the world – things like restricting new riders to smaller motorcycles, or charging them more money for insurance if they skip rider training. Some, like issuing stiffer fines for not wearing helmets, probably won’t change a thing.
But the most interesting suggestion of all is the idea of making riding gear mandatory. Canada requires helmets in every province, but no jurisdiction has any laws regarding jackets, pants, or other protective equipment.
Whether or not such a move would really make motorcyclists safer is another question. Many riders are already on the roads with the smallest, skimpiest helmets they can find. Requiring motorcyclists to wear riding gear would keep some safer, but many others would simply opt for jackets and pants that comply with the letter of the law, but not the spirit.
For some background on the Saskatchewan insurance issue, read here and here. Basically, SGI was threatening to raise rates by an average of 73 per cent this spring; some riders would have seen much larger hikes than that. They pulled back on the issue after bikers were outraged, but they are still trying to figure out how to reduce insurance costs. | <urn:uuid:ed955d6c-246f-47e7-a9d4-c43a6ed1d8ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://canadamotoguide.com/2013/07/10/saskatchewan-could-make-riding-gear-mandatory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00264-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971325 | 270 | 2.25 | 2 |
A mule is the offspring of a jackass (yes, that is really what a male donkey is called, the females are known as jennies) and a female horse. When this is reversed, and a female donkey and a male horse breed, the offspring is known as a hinny. Because a mule is a hybrid, the chances of it reproducing are extremely slim, although it has been known to happen.
Mules have larger heads than horses, and huge ears. Their ears can measure as much as 33 inches from tip to base. Their ears are sensitive to being touched, and much can be learned about a mule's mood by watching the ears. When a mule's ears are perked forward, the animal is intently watching or listening for something. This trait has alerted many mule skinners to danger long before they would have become aware of it using human senses. A mule with ears folded back is angry, and likely to bite or kick.
Mules vary in size, depending on their specific breed. Today there are five mule breeds. The smallest is the pack mule, standing about 4 feet at the shoulders and weighing about 600 pounds. Cotton mules are the next largest, and are the result of a burro sire and a pony mother. They were bred to carry cotton sacks on southern plantations. Their size was such that slaves picking the cotton didn't have to stand up to put cotton into the bags carried by the mule. Farm mules are slightly larger than cotton mules, but smaller than the sugar mule, who weighs in at 1,150 pounds. The largest and heaviest mule breed is the draft mule, who weighs over 3,000 pounds and is the mule used in the famous twenty mule trains that hauled borax from Death Valley in the 19th century.
The first mules in the United States were bred by George Washington. He imported the first jackasses to America and began a mule breeding program in 1785 to furnish mules to the US Army. Mules were the backbone of the military until the invention of the internal combustion engine.
Mules are stronger than horses, having inherited the heavier, thicker bones from their donkey father. This also makes them slower than most horses as well, however. Mules are also credited with being very intelligent and quite stubborn at times. Mules also have a very long memory and have been known to remember a person who mistreated them for many years. Mules live over 30 years, so that's a pretty long memory. | <urn:uuid:59d39229-c2c9-454e-9b4c-f8421e0548d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://everything2.com/title/Mule?showwidget=showCs1121059 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00131-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98279 | 526 | 3.46875 | 3 |
New study: Are voters influenced by campaign visits?
Los Angeles, CA (August 17, 2016) Despite their extensive national press coverage, campaign visits might not be worth presidential candidates' time and resources. A new study out today finds that voters are largely unaware of and unresponsive to campaign visits. The study was published as part of a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (a journal from SAGE Publishing) titled "Elections in America." "Of all the tools in a campaigns' strategic arsenal, the campaign visit is distinguished by its unchanging nature," wrote study author and campaign consultant Dr. Thomas Wood. "The observed pattern of visits within the swing states -- where the most politically pivotal markets were not more frequently visited -- suggests campaign consultants intend visits to affect the national media narrative rather than local coverage. Visits' effects on voters themselves, however, are much more modest than consultants often claim."
Wood looked at voter data to assess the impact of specific candidate visits during the 2012 presidential election. Comparing survey responses from 64,312 voters whose local TV channels aired the visits, did not air the visits, or did not air the visits but had access to non-local channels that did, Wood found:
In areas visited by both Romney and Ryan, 36% to 45% of respondents were unaware of the visits. In areas visited by either Romney or Ryan, 56% to 57% of respondents were unaware. The visits' impact did not spread to outside of the areas visited; awareness of the visits was similar for respondents who had not received local visits, even when they had access to local channels that aired the visits. Visits increased Democrat and Republican support for their parties' candidates by 2% to 3%, with this effect starting one day after the visit and ending by the third day after the visit. While Independents were 5% more likely to vote for Romney after the visits and were the only group affected by visits for longer than two days, Wood concluded that such a modest response would only matter in marginal elections.
Wood also found that the relationship between candidate visits and local media coverage to be modest, with no more than three extra stories from a visit than what would occur from general campaign coverage.
"Taken together, these findings invite a thought experiment: if visits have only a moderate impact on voters but consume vast amounts of the candidates' and their staff's time, attention, and resources, why not neglect visits and instead redouble candidates' attention to fundraising?," continued Wood. "New resources could then be spent on those activities that have been shown to more reliably influence voters--advertising, building out campaign infrastructure at the local level, and providing more resources for voter contact--and especially inspire turnout."
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State in middleHawaii falls just below average compared with other states in how much it spends per student in public schools, according to figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
in U.S. per-pupil
The islands rank 25th among
the states and District of Columbia
By Lisa Asato
The state's No. 25 ranking among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., did not come as a surprise to observers who said Hawaii typically falls in the middle of the pack.
But the number can be misleading, they said, as it does not take into consideration Hawaii's high cost of living.
"In the past when they did cost of living, we were dead last," said Hawaii State Teachers Association President Karen Ginoza, referring to a report by the American Federation of Teachers.
According to today's census report, Hawaii spent $6,487 per student in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000 -- or $348 less than the national average of $6,835.
New Jersey spent the most at $10,283. Utah spent the least at $4,331.
In the previous year's report, Hawaii spent $6,082 per student and ranked 26th.
Hawaii's per-pupil spending has increased every year since 1991-92 when it spent $5,045, just above the national average of $5,001.
Mike Griffith, policy analyst with the Education Commission of the States, said higher spending does not necessarily mean better results, and the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt.
"It doesn't come close to speaking to the quality of education," he said. "It's just raw numbers. Is it going for transportation? Sporting events? High school football teams? ... Some might be spending less but targeting it right."
Griffith said it was difficult to compare Hawaii with other states because Hawaii has a single statewide school district, a high cost of living and captive labor and student markets.
He also said the numbers can be deceptive because "all that money could be going to special education. A lot of states are struggling with ... how to find enough money to meet federal mandates."
Hawaii has been under a court mandate since 1994 to improve educational and mental health services for special-needs students.
Greg Knudsen, spokesman for the state Department of Education, said the state's increasing per-pupil spending over the years was mostly due to rising teacher salaries and expanding special-education services.
But he said special-education funding "should not have any kind of unbalancing effect on where we rank among the states" because many states are in the same situation.
Because cost-of-living adjustments would further decrease Hawaii's ranking, Knudsen said the state's 25th ranking "is clearly where we do not want to be or need to be."
Knudsen said the department's $24 million in budget cuts for the next fiscal year will likely affect per-pupil spending.
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Health: News In Brief
Thursday, May 6, 1999 Published at 11:36 GMT 12:36 UK
Cervical screening 'saved 1,300 lives'
The national cervical cancer screening programme is saving lives, a study has shown.
It is the latest report to suggest the programme is effective at cutting deaths.
The programme has been criticised by some as a waste of resources.
The researchers, from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, estimate that screening in previous years saved 1,300 lives in 1997.
Their study was published in the British Medical Journal.
Ecstasy link to Parkinson's
Repeated use of the drug MDMA - Ecstasy - could lead to Parkinson's disease, doctors have suggested.
The three doctors, from Michigan University, described the case of a 29-year-old man who took the drug nine times in 1997 and once in May 1998.
Three months later he developed symptoms of the degenerative brain disorder.
The doctors said: "Although we have no firm evidence of a causal relation between this patient's drug use and his parkinsonism, there are no other tenable explanations."
A 1995 Johns Hopkins University study linked ecstasy with brain damage in animals.
Gene hope in lung cancer
Gene therapy against lung cancer, one of the disease's most incurable forms, could prove successful, researchers have said.
Dr Stephen Swisher and colleagues at three US cancer centres have described their early results of the technique as "hopeful". They were writing in the Journal of the (US) National Cancer Institute.
They tested the method, which involves introducing new genes to diseased tissue, on patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Their intention was to test the method to see if it was safe - they said it was - but also found good results in several patients. One has seen the cancer disappear for 18 months.
The team described this finding as "remarkable".
Capsules without cattle
A UK company has developed an alternative to the beef-based pill capsules in use for the last 65 years.
Gelatin, a by-product of waste in the beef industry, has been used in the production of dietary supplements and medicinal capsules since 1935.
The substance is offensive to vegetarians, and some fear it could carry the cattle brain disease BSE. But until now, there has been no viable alternative.
However, Cambridge-based BioProgress Technology has developed Xgel, which uses a non-animal based water-soluble film to encapsulate oils and powders.
Initially it is being used to make toiletries, such as bath beads, as well as paint balls, but a health supplement variety is currently undergoing trials.
Kidneys' role in diabetes
Kidneys play a key role in maintaining blood-sugar levels, which could lead to new treatments for diabetes that reduce the risk of comas, researchers have said.
It had been thought that only the liver controlled the release of glucose into the bloodstream.
But, publishing his findings in the journal Diabetes, Dr John Gerich said kidneys play a separate role.
His team found that the kidneys increase the release of glucose into the blood when blood sugars fall too low.
Dr Gerich, of Rochester University, New York, said drugs that affect the liver but not the kidneys might be easier to control and could reduce the danger of overdose.
"That way, we reduce the amount of glucose in the blood, but the kidneys are still there as a back-up system in case glucose levels suddenly become too low."
Sex effects of cancer treatment
One in four patients with cervical cancer experience sexual problems after treatment, regardless of what that treatment is, a study has found.
In the first study to look at the impact of cancer treatments on sex, researchers also found that the treatments do not harm the nerve centre that triggers an orgasm.
The study looked at 256 Swedish women who had received surgery, radiation therapy or both for cervical cancer.
Their experiences were compared with those of 350 women who showed no signs of the cancer.
The researchers said 26% of the women treated for cancer "reported moderate or much distress due to vaginal changes, as compared with 8% of the women in the control group."
They published their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Ice cream or condoms?
An advertisement where a man opts for an ice cream treat rather than safe sex has been branded "an attack on public health".
The advertisement, for Magnum ice creams, shows a man locked in a passionate embrace with his girlfriend. He heads for a condom dispenser but decides to buy a Magnum instead.
It has been broadcast in Portugal, where the AIDS charity Abraco has called for it to be banned.
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Hundreds of thousands of construction workers are injured each year and thousands killed while constructing commercial buildings, high rises, apartment complexes, strip malls, new housing developments, or any of a myriad of structures, developments and infastructure.
There are two broad types of construction site accidents that can result in serious injuries and death: (1) accidents involving the construction workers themselves, and (2) accidents involving bystanders and passers-by.
While construction companies are responsible for the safety of the workers and the work environment, in certain circumstances, a landowner or occupier may be liable for the dangerous conditions on the premises.
Since construction sites typically involve highly dangerous and potentially hazardous life-threatening conditions, these types of accidents may often result in very serious injuries and even wrongful death. Personal injuries suffered at construction sites can be among the most severe.
Some states have enacted laws that prevent an employee from suing his/her employee as a result of an injury at a construction site. Similar state laws and worker’s compensation laws have also placed limits as to the amount of compensation an employee may recover for injuries resulting from a work site accident. Since worker’s compensation typically does not provide the necessary compensation for personal injuries suffered while at work on a construction site, in order to recover compensation for additional damages such as pain and suffering, it is necessary to find a party other than the employer that was liable for the injuries.
Situations frequently arise where a party other than the employer is to blame for the injuries at the construction site. Construction equipment may be found to have been defective and/or dangerous both in design and manufacturing. While the construction company is responsible for providing a safe work environment, dangerous cranes, falling scaffolds, forklifts, conveyor belts, trucking equipment, drilling cranes, defective rock grinding machines, cement mixer, vehicle-mounted elevating machines, rotating work platforms, sawmills, tractors, welding machinery, chemical and biological materials may be found to have been the cause of the accident and resulting injury.
With respect to injuries caused by the carelessness (“negligence”) of an employee working for the same contractor as the injured employee, the injured employee is usually limited to recovering worker’s compensation benefits. However, if the worker was hurt by the negligence of another contractor’s worker, the injured worker has the right to sue the person who injured him or her and that person’s employer. The reason for trying to find a third party who is legally responsible (“liable”) to the injured person is crucial, because if the injured employee’s injuries or death are deemed to come within the parameters of the worker’s compensation system, his or her damages will usually be significantly less than they would be if the injured worker (or the survivors of a deceased worker) could hold a third party liable.
As for bystanders and passers-by, suppose a crane is moving some beams from the ground to the fifth floor of the building under construction, and because of the crane operator’s negligence, the beam falls from the sky and kills the people below. In such a situation, you can sue the crane company for the wrongful death of the persons who were killed. If the crane itself was defective, a lawsuit may be filed against the manufacturer and distributor of the crane under the doctrine of “products liability.”
If you or a loved one has been seriously injured or killed in a construction accident, contact us today for a free evaluation of your potential case. Even if the worker was seriously injured or killed by a fellow worker who worked for the same contractor, there are certain situations in which the contractor can be held liable for the injuries or deaths to his or her own employees outside of the worker’s compensation system. Don’t guess about your rights and call today (888) 845-9696 | <urn:uuid:a35c77a2-3093-41c6-8907-9ff07eca27b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.torklaw.com/practice-areas/construction-site-accident/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00154-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962271 | 796 | 2.1875 | 2 |
1. Quote of the Week.
My best advice in all architecture, and platform choices, like RDBMS vs NoSql. The number 1 question, every single assumption you have about the system, the "this is important because X Y X and this that etc etc. Every single "has to be" you have there, expect every single part of it to change. How would you build your system if every "key fact" was expected to change. These key facts, that are supposed to be pillars are actually volatility themselves and need accounted for, not accepted. --LinkedIn
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3. Online exchanges I participated in
I am referring you back to an item I posted in last update:
4. What do these two items tell you?
Currently search engines are thought of as tools to find text but Ashok Chandra, Microsoft distinguished scientist and general manager of the Interaction and Intent Group at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, believes people soon will think of search engines as “task engines.”
“Search technology began with words,” says Chandra. “We built a whole search infrastructure around words. But in this new era of search, we are working with entities, because people think in terms of them, such as a hotel, a movie, an event, a hiking trail, or a person. The Leibniz platform is designed from the ground up to deal in entities, with the goal of making it easier for people to accomplish the tasks they set out to do.”
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BY AKIKO OKAZAKI STAFF WRITER
A growing number of married Japanese couples are paying big bucks in Thailand to ensure their baby is the sex they want.
In the past year, at least 30 married couples have traveled to the country for gender selection, which requires the diagnosis of fertilized eggs, according to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun.
In Japan, diagnoses of fertilized eggs are allowed only for serious genetic diseases or possible miscarriages, on the grounds that it could lead to selective breeding.
According to Thai brokers, they communicate with their Japanese customers through e-mail messages and meet them when they come to Thailand. Many of these married couples have already had two or more male children and are wanting a female child.
The cost for the diagnosis is about 1.5 million yen ($19,600). The brokers report that the number of customers is increasing, and since summer, they have been receiving requests from seven or eight couples a month.
A clinic in Bangkok said, "In addition to Japanese, we have many customers from China and India. Almost all of our customers from those countries are hoping for male children."
Thailand, which has been improving its medical technology, is becoming advanced in the medical treatment field and is enjoying a growing popularity among overseas patients. About 15 medical institutions are conducting diagnoses of fertilized eggs.
The Asahi Shimbun interviewed two medical institutions that are often used by Japanese couples. There, they found that Japanese couples have been increasing over the past two or three years, with about 30 couples undergoing diagnoses of fertilized eggs during the past year for gender selection.
Originally, diagnosis of fertilized eggs was conducted to see whether the babies that will be born are suffering from genetic diseases. After an in vitro fertilized egg divides into four or eight cells, one or two of them are removed to see whether there are abnormal genes or chromosomes.
When doctors diagnose the fertilized egg, however, they can also see whether the baby will be male or female.
The diagnosis requires in vitro fertilization. Therefore, even married couples who are not infertile are offering their sperm and eggs for in vitro fertilization.
According to the Thai royal society of obstetrics and gynecology, diagnosis of fertilized eggs is conducted about 600 times a year in Thailand. Of those, about 60 to 70 percent are used for gender selection.
According to the society's guidelines, diagnosis of fertilized eggs is not allowed except for the checking of genetic diseases. However, the society's guidelines are not binding on doctors, and there is no punishment mandated even if they break them. Therefore, the diagnoses are used widely for gender selection.
In Germany, diagnosis of fertilized eggs is prohibited on the grounds that it could lead to selective breeding and the concept of eugenics. In particular, the diagnosis has many ethical concerns in the case of gender selection because the fertilized eggs are abandoned when the sexes of the children are not what the parents want.
Many of the countries that allow the diagnosis of fertilized eggs for genetic diseases do not do so for gender selection.
In Japan, the necessity of diagnosis of fertilized eggs is individually examined only for serious genetic diseases or possible miscarriages under the guidelines of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Those genetic diseases include muscular dystrophy.
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It includes in its interior a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) organic, 20 nm in size approximately, comprising an RNA genome complexed using a structural proteins, HDAg, surrounded with the envelope glycoprotein, HBsAg, which may be the just helper function supplied by HBV.4 In infected cells, the forming of Zotarolimus the RNP is independent of HBV, however the RNP with no HBV envelope protein cannot egress the infect and cell other hepatocytes.5 Thus, HDV is a satellite television virus of HBV and will only infect people who simultaneously acquire HBV (coinfection) or superinfect an HBsAg carrier (superinfection). the top HDAg is vital for anchoring the ribonucleoprotein to HBsAg Zotarolimus for the set up of virion contaminants. HDV gets into into hepatocytes utilizing the HBV receptor, the sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP). Unlike various other RNA infections, HDV will not encode its polymerase but exploits the web host RNA polymerase II for replication. Hence, as opposed to hepatitis and HBV C pathogen, which possess virus-specific enzymes that may be targeted by particular inhibitors, having less a virus-specific polymerase makes HDV a challenging therapeutic target particularly. Treatment of hepatitis D continues to be unsatisfactory, and Zotarolimus interferon- continues to be the just approved drug within the last 30 years. This informative article examines the unconventional character of HDV, the existing administration of chronic hepatitis D, and exactly how new insights through the HDV life routine have resulted in the introduction of 3 book classes of medications (NTCP receptor inhibitors, farnesyltransferase inhibitors, and nucleic acidity polymers) that are under scientific evaluation. strong course=”kwd-title” Keywords: Hepatitis D pathogen, persistent hepatitis D, treatment, regular interferon, pegylated interferon, Myrcludex B, lonafarnib, REP 2139 Hepatitis D pathogen (HDV) was uncovered a lot more than 40 years back by Rizzetto and co-workers in Italy.1 Initially referred to as a fresh antigen-antibody system (delta/antidelta) in chronic hepatitis B surface area antigen (HBsAg) carriers, following transmission research in chimpanzees conducted in the first 1980s on the Country wide Institutes of Wellness demonstrated the fact that delta antigen (HDAg) was the inner component of a fresh transmissible pathogen, the delta agent.2 Epidemiologic analysis in the 1980s showed the fact that delta agent was found worldwide and was a significant reason behind severe acute and chronic hepatitis.3 Due to its medical importance and exclusive virologic features, the delta agent was identified in 1983 as a definite hepatitis virus and specified HDV, and the condition it causes was specified hepatitis D. This informative article testimonials the unconventional character of HDV, the way the dramatic modification in the epidemiology of the pathogen has customized the clinical situation of hepatitis D in Traditional western countries, the existing treatment Zotarolimus problems posed by this pathogen, and exactly how new insights through the HDV life routine are paving just how for the introduction of book strategies for the treating chronic hepatitis D. The Pathogen HDV is certainly a faulty RNA Zotarolimus pathogen that will require the HBsAg from the hepatitis B pathogen (HBV) for virion set up, release, and transmitting.4 The virus is a 36-nm particle. It includes in its interior a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complicated, around 20 nm in size, comprising an RNA genome complexed using a structural proteins, HDAg, surrounded with the envelope glycoprotein, HBsAg, which may be the just helper function supplied by HBV.4 In infected cells, the forming of the RNP is independent of HBV, however the RNP with no HBV envelope proteins cannot egress the cell and infect other hepatocytes.5 Thus, HDV is a satellite television virus of HBV and will only infect people who simultaneously acquire HBV (coinfection) or superinfect an HBsAg carrier (superinfection). People who’ve antibody to HBsAg (anti-HBs), who are immune system to HBV infections, are not vunerable to HDV.3 sequencing and Cloning from the HDV genome in 1986 verified the initial top features of this pathogen,6 which includes been classified as the just member of another genus, em Deltavirus /em .7 HDV may be the only animal pathogen undertake a single-stranded round RNA genome of harmful polarity, of 1700 nucleotides approximately, which may be the smallest genome in animal virology.6 Besides genomic RNA, in infected cells, you can find 2 additional HDV-specific RNAs: the antigenomic RNA, which may be the exact complementary duplicate from the genomic RNA but is much less abundant, as well as the messenger RNA (mRNA), which is produced through the genomic RNA.8 Rabbit Polyclonal to LYAR The antigenomic RNA, which isn’t assembled into virions, provides the open reading frame that encodes the single structural proteins of HDV, the HDAg. You can find 2 types of HDAg: the tiny HDAg (S-HDAg) of 195 proteins, and the huge HDAg (L-HDAg) of 214 proteins, which contains 19 extra amino acids on the C-terminus. The L-HDAg is transcribed as a complete consequence of posttranscriptional RNA editing from the antigenomic. | <urn:uuid:dfacf618-5956-4be3-8c23-67278d4436cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.health-e-nc.org/2022/01/15/%EF%BB%BFit-includes-in-its-interior-a-ribonucleoprotein-rnp-organic-20-nm-in-size-approximately-comprising-an-rna-genome-complexed-using-a-structural-proteins-hdag-surrounded-with-the-envelope/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.91216 | 1,193 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Scale name: The Diet Self Efficacy Scale (DIET-SE)
Scale overview: The Diet Self-Efficacy Scale (DIET-SE) is an 11-item self-report measure. Respondents rate their degree of confidence in managing eating situations.
Authors: Stich et al. (see reference below)
Response Type: A 5-point Likert Type rating of confidence
0 = Not at all
1 = A little confident
2 = Moderately confident
3 = Quite confident
4 = Very confident
1. You are having dinner with your family and your favorite meal has been prepared. You finish the first helping and someone says, "Why don't you have some more?" How confident are you that you would turn down a second helping?
5. You are invited to someone's house for dinner and your host is an excellent cook. You often overeat because the food tastes so good. How confident are you that you would not overeat as a dinner guest?
Subscales = 3
Subscales = 3
HCF = HIGH CALORIC FOOD TEMPTATIONS
SIF = SOCIAL AND INTERNAL FACTORS
NEE = NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL EVENTS
Test-retest correlations for a 2- to 3-week interval were rtt = .83 for the full scale. Subscale results were: HCF .75, SIF .77, NEE .80
Internal consistency values ranged from alpha = .82 to .87 for the full measure and for the subscales, alpha values were HCF .70-.77; SIF .71-79; NEE .75-.79.
See the Stich et al. (2009) reference for details.
Construct validity was evaluated by factor analysis, which supported the three subscales. See the article for evidence of convergent and criterion-related validity.
The article can be found in various databases. See Table 1 for the items.
Permissions -- if identified
Reference for the scale
Stich, C., Knäuper, B., & Tint, A. (2009). A scenario-based measure of dieting self-efficacy: The DIET-SE. Assessment, 16, 16-30. See ResearchGate
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Constant Light without a source??? Is it possible to create a constant light using a laser pointer and two highly reflective parabolas. If the two parabolas open out to face eachother, and then you shine the laser into one, would the laser reflect until it reaches the centre and then continualy bouncing back and forth creating a constant light, at this point turning the laser off cause there to be no light source. Eventually this would fade out but is it possilbe. Any ideas on where to buy products for this would be usefull. | <urn:uuid:07e3dc5e-ed1a-48ad-8ec0-45ffb602fa0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/constant-light-without-a-source.288211/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00089-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907135 | 112 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Some facts about Estonia
• Capital - Tallinn
• National language - Estonian
• Population – 1, 3 mln people (2008): Estonians 68,8%; Russians 25,6%; other 5,6%
• Independence – 24th February 1918
• European Union – 1st May 2004
• Skype and mobile parking were invented by Estonians
• One of the first countries to develop e-state and e-government
• One of the most innovative and IT developed countries in Europe
• Tallinn is the European Cultural Capital in 2011
• To get to know more about Estonia visit:
- AIESEC Estonia wiki: http://myaiesec.net/content/viewwiki.do?contentid=10024733
- Estonia in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia
- Estonia in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYZXyTv5xs,
Company – MarkIT
Name – MarkIT
Web-page - http://www.markit.eu/ee/en
MarkIT is dedicated to provide IT purchasing services to
international customers who have distributed operations, high IT
needs and centralized purchasing and/or IT
In the coming years MarkIT will expand their core
services into 4‐5 new countries per year, pan‐
European coverage will be achieved by 2011
MarkIT is looking for you
• If you have marketing and business administration background
• If you are fluent in English speaker with good Danish,
Norwegian or Swedish and Spanish or Italian
• If you are up to challenges and are proactive
MarkIT operates in many EU countries: Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, UK, Ireland,
France, Spain and Portugal.
Company HQ and development center
are located in Tallinn, Estonia.
MarkIT is looking for
backoffice customer support
who will be helping the company to expand to new
TN form ID: TN-In-EE-TL-2009-1278
• Assist Country Managers in their everyday work (remotely via telephone,
• Take care of backoffice work of the assigned countries – communication
with customers, wholesalers, web programming team
• Checking accounts receivables and work on collection.
• Organize logistics.
• Help Country Managers with local marketing
• Help Country Managers to set up customer
meetings in their countries.
• Co-ordinate A-customers recruitment actions
Introductory Manag. / Business Admin.
Good Danish, Norwegian or Swedish
Client Servicing Skills
Marketing / Selling skills
Starting date: 01.07.2010
Ending date: 01.04.2011
Salary: 680 USD
MarkIT offers YOU
• YOU will get intensive training upon arrival.
• YOU will leave Estonia with a firm knowledge how to run a hi-tech company
subsidiary in his or her home country.
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• YOU will run backoffice work for numerous
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Deadline for application is 19th of June!
For further information contact:
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EXCERPT FROM UNSEEN WARFARE by St Theophan the Recluse
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: In what order should you fight your passions?
It would be very useful for you, my brother, to know well the order in which you should fight your passions, so as to do this work as it should be done, instead of simply haphazardly, as some people do, without great success, and at times even with harm to themselves. The order in which it is necessary to fight your enemies and struggle with your bad desires and passions, is the following: enter with attention into the heart and examine carefully with what thoughts, dispositions and passionate attachments it is specially occupied, and which passion is most predominant and tyranically rules there. Then against this passion first of all take up arms and struggle to overcome it. On this one concentrate all your attention and care, except only at the times when some other passion happens to arise in you. In that case you should deal with this one without delay and drive it away, after which you must once more turn your weapons against your chief passion, which constantly manifests its presence and power. For as in every kind of warfare, so in our unseen battle, we must fight first what is actually attacking us at the present moment. | <urn:uuid:5af19f4f-6cf4-4038-9ad2-a6bba4eac726> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.asna.ca/articles/200503-04.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00378-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97072 | 267 | 1.75 | 2 |
In addition to working individually with students, the AEC offers several psycho-educational groups during the academic year. These groups are available to AEC registered students.
Mindfulness and the Brain: Meditation for Academic Success Level 1
In recent years, the positive effects of meditation have garnered increasing validation from the scientific community. Research has shown that the practice of mindfulness meditation has the potential to improve focus, attention and working memory, as well as enhance contentment, while decreasing anxiety and fear. Studies show that just a few minutes of practice a day can create dramatically increased activation in the parts of the brain associated with happiness and well being. In this group, you will learn a variety of mindfulness meditation techniques, and their impact on respective areas of the brain. Special attention will be paid to the topics of test anxiety, stress management, and increasing concentration.
Mindfulness and the Brain: Meditation for Academic Success Level 2
This group will provide opportunities for deeper practice and exploration of the techniques and concepts learned in level 1.
ADHD Group - Using Insights from Neuroscience to Unlock Your Potential
Hang out with creative, funny, intelligent peers while learning strategies that fit your brain-style and make your academic and personal life easier. In this group you will:
- Discover your ADHD-related strengths
- Overcome procrastination
- Learn ADHD-specific time & task management strategies
- Develop ADHD-specific study skills
- Explore connections between exercise, nutrition, and the ADHD brain
- Conquer perfectionism
Come laugh and learn with like-minded peers!
This group is open to all AEC registered undergraduate and graduate students.
Social Connectedness Group
The Social Connectedness group is an educational/social support group offered through the Accessible Education Center for students who are interested in improving social skills, connecting with other students, and finding community on campus. This group was initially created for students who identify as being on the Autism Spectrum, but has been beneficial to other AEC registered students as well. | <urn:uuid:ec8071a7-2e84-45e2-b75d-7f4b915715f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aec.uoregon.edu/node/33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00407-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932381 | 409 | 2.34375 | 2 |
No employee should be allowed to discriminate against or harass their coworkers or customers simply because they can claim a religious reason for discriminating. And certainly no police officer, health care worker or counselor should ever be able to jeopardize another person's health or safety by claiming a religious reason for refusing to do his or her job.
But the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (S. 893 ) introduced by Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) would do just that. It is so poorly written that it could harm civil rights protections -- and make health care less accessible, more discriminatory and riskier.
The Santorum legislation would make a few good changes in the law to provide additional help for employees seeking to take time off for religious observances or to wear religious clothing at work. But the bill is so sloppily drafted that it will have harmful -- and potentially dangerous -- effects on other rights.
The supporters of this legislation are trying to rush it to the Senate floor without even a single hearing on its current language. This sort of sneak attack on our civil rights must not be tolerated!
Take action! Urge your Senators to oppose this harmful and overreaching legislation.
The Santorum legislation could gut employer's nondiscrimination policies that go beyond the minimum that federal law requires. Many employers have their own civil rights policies and employee training that provide more protection than the law minimally requires against racial, sexual and religious harassment--and include categories such as sexual orientation and marital status. Employees could use the Santorum bill to claim that their religion requires them to flout these civil rights policies. The bill could also bolster the claims of employees that they do not have to comply with state and local civil rights laws that protect against sexual orientation or marital status discrimination.
This bill would harm the health and safety of people seeking health care. The Santorum legislation would strengthen the hand of police officers who want to pick and choose who they will protect, and emergency health care workers and mental health counselors who could abandon patients because their care conflicts with the worker's religious beliefs. A nurse who was employed in a maternity ward sued after she was fired because she refused on religious grounds to scrub for an emergency caesarian section and left a woman ""standing in a pool of blood"" for 30 minutes. In another case, a police officer sued after he was fired because he refused to guard an abortion clinic. The courts have correctly rejected these claims. The Santorum legislation, however, is designed to protect these individual's dangerous actions.
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Kindness is Contagious
Published Tuesday, March 8, 2022
By Lily Colquhoun, Prevention and Screening Clinical Services
A kind word can go a long way. It’s something that we should always keep in mind. After all, giving kindness to those who need it most can benefit everyone.
Performing acts of kindness is a great way to show our appreciation for others. Additionally, studies have shown that engaging in acts of kindness to others can have direct impacts on our own health. It can increase health benefits while decreasing harmful characteristics. A simple act of kindness could possibly be the easiest way to boost your health.
Did you know that acts of kindness can release beneficial hormones into our bodies? In fact, oxytocin, the love hormone, and serotonin, a feel-good chemical can be increased. These hormones boost our self-esteem, optimism, calm us down and make us happy.
Engaging in acts of kindness can also have an impact on our overall happiness. When we are kind to other people, our brain’s pleasure and reward centres light up as if we were the recipient of the act of kindness. This phenomenon is commonly called a “helper’s high”.
Being kind to others can also impact physical health. When we engage in acts of kindness, we produce endorphins, the brain’s natural pain killer. Additionally, being kind can reduce blood pressure and stress hormones, as well as decrease feelings of anxiety and depression.
Last month at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Prevention and Screening Clinical Services took part in Random Act of Kindness Day by setting up a kindness booth for staff. At the booth, staff were able to access kindness resources, activities, and recipes and were encouraged to pay the kindness forward. Staff were able to take a completed affirmation heart or create a heart of their own with a customized kind message to gift to someone in need.
Kindness is contagious. The positive effects of kindness are experienced by everyone who witnesses them, which causes their mood to improve and makes them likely to pay it forward.
Here are some ways that you can show your appreciation for others
- Deliver a healthy meal
- Shovel a driveway
- Leave a thank you note
- Pay for the person behind you in line
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The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) is a questionnaire by psychologist and researcher, Michael Liebowitz, whose objective is to assess the range of social interaction and performance situations which patients with social anxiety disorder may fear. It is commonly used to study outcomes in clinical trials.
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European court ruled that stability mechanism was not contrary to EU law. Image by Getty
By Professor Simon Deakin
Courts don’t often try to decide the direction of economic policy. However, in effect, this is what the European Court has recently done. In its Pringle judgment the court made a number of important decisions on the legality of bail-out policies being pursued by the European Union.
It ruled that the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism – the fund through which financial assistance will in future be channelled to eurozone states facing the possibility of bankruptcy – was not contrary to EU law. By implication, the ruling also supports the recent attempts by the European Central Bank to shore up the euro by buying the government bonds of debtor states on secondary markets (that is, buying them from commercial banks that have first purchased them from governments). Read more
By Heleen Mees
The fourth largest bank in the Netherlands, SNS Reaal NV, finds itself in trouble. The banking and insurance group, with €134bn worth of assets on its balance sheet as of the end of June 2012, has suffered €2.3bn in losses on its foreign – mostly Spanish – property investments. SNS Reaal’s capital reserves have fallen below levels allowed under international banking rules, while it still owes the Dutch treasury €750m from a government bailout it received in 2008.
SNS Reaal has been designated a systematically important financial institution, and therefore deemed not allowed to fail, by the Dutch government, mostly because the Dutch financial sector is already overly concentrated. That is also the reason why the European Commission in January apparently thwarted a rescue plan in which Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro would buy SNS Reaal. Read more
Stephany Griffith-Jones and Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen
Strategies to overcome the European crisis only focused on collective austerity are not working; they are bad arithmetic, worse economics and ignore the lessons of history. A key missing ingredient is the urgent restoration of growth, which European citizens demand and several leaders are increasingly stressing. However, meaningful actions on a sufficient scale have not yet been taken. Read more | <urn:uuid:6bc33f5b-42aa-4823-856e-f62d782ec244> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/tag/european-crisis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00317-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966315 | 448 | 2.078125 | 2 |
On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten — cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, World War II hero, last viceroy of India — set off on his fishing boat from the coast of Ireland after breakfast in his castle.
He was 79, a doting grandfather, a legend in British history. That day, his 14-year-old twin grandsons and their grandmother, Dowager Lady Brabourne, were among others aboard.
Just before 11:30 a.m. — boom.
“I remember a sensation,” grandson Timothy Knatchbull later recalled, “as if I’d been hit with a club, and a tearing sound. I don’t remember my journey through the air or hitting the water.”
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A powerful explosion had blown the boat to pieces, almost instantaneously killing Lord Mountbatten, Knatchbull’s twin Nicholas, and a 15-year-old friend of the twins, and severely injuring several other family members. Lady Brabourne died the next day of her injuries.
It was not an accident. It was an assassination. The target: Lord Mountbatten.
The Irish Republican Army quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, which the New York Times called “the boldest and most dramatic act of the long terrorist campaign” by the IRA, which opposed British rule in Northern Ireland.
“By their actions today,” Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, “the terrorists have added yet another infamous page to their catalogue of atrocity and cowardice.”
Lord Mountbatten’s death stunned the world but especially the royal family — in particular, Prince Charles, who thought of Mountbatten as a grandfather and wept at his funeral. On Friday, Prince Charles’s son, William, and his wife, Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, revealed that their new baby boy has been named after Lord Mountbatten.
Louis Arthur Charles, His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge.
“A touching nod,” the Daily Mail said.
The naming reminded Britons of a time when they lived in fear of what the IRA would blow up next.
Lord Mountbatten was a compelling target, both as a royal and a symbol of the British Empire: his great-grandmother: Queen Victoria. His second cousin: Queen Elizabeth II. His nephew: Prince Philip, the queen’s husband.
Known as Uncle Dickie at Buckingham Palace, Lord Mountbatten was celebrated after World War II as a brilliant military commander. In his later years, he served as the last viceroy of India and elder statesman for the royal family. His killing was such an audacious attack that there was “concern about the safety of Pope John Paul II,” who was about to visit Ireland, The Washington Post reported.
Mountbatten was also an easy target.
As he vacationed at his summer castle without security, the IRA was able to plant a bomb onboard the yacht the night before the attack, blowing it up via remote control.
“One witness,” the New York Times reported, “said that the boat had ‘lifted out of the water’ for an instant before it simply disappeared.”
Like other royals, Mountbatten loved the sea. He served in the navy. Fishing with his grandsons was a point of pride.
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The Kennedy Baby
The Loss That Transformed JFK
Steven Levingston & The Washington Post
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A sensitive portrait of how a profound tragedy changed one of America’s most prominent families.
“A warm, intimate, intriguing look at a less-well known side of JFK--as family man. Judiciously but movingly, Steven Levingston shows us the cool and ironic Kennedy becoming a tender husband and father in the last months of his life.” -- Evan Thomas, author of ROBERT KENNEDY: HIS LIFE
Their marriage is the subject of countless books. His presidency has been pored over minute by minute by historians. They lived their lives in the public eye and under a microscope that magnified all of their flaws, all of their scandals, all of their tragedies. Now Steven Levingston, nonfiction editor at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post, presents a devastating story in unprecedented detail, about a child John and Jackie Kennedy loved and lost.
On August 7, 1963, heavily pregnant Jackie Kennedy collapsed, marking the beginning of a harrowing day and a half. The doctors and family went into full emergency mode, including a helicopter ride to a hospital, a scramble by the President to join her from the White House, and a C-section to deliver a baby boy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, five and a half weeks early with a severe respiratory ailment. The baby was so frail he was immediately baptized.
Over the next thirty nine hours the nation watched and waited. The vigil was spread across the front pages of the newspapers; the country watched the life of Patrick unfold on the evening news. Within the Kennedy family, the drama was transforming the president and his marriage. Both he and Jackie, long known for their cool exteriors, were brought together by a shared sadness and love as they never had been. Although baby Patrick succumbed after 39 hours, his father was born anew through the tragedy.
THE KENNEDY BABY is a vivid drama of a national tragedy and private trauma for the Kennedy family, taking readers through the birth, the ordeal in the hospital, and JFK’s personal growth through his hardship and the progress toward a changed marriage – a breakthrough all the more acute in light of the tragedy that loomed only months away. | <urn:uuid:1a3974bf-2129-4ee7-ac93-f75b80208f7e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-kennedy-baby/id732099866?mt=11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962649 | 506 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Lots by Lacloche Frères at Sotheby's
About Lacloche Frères
Jewellery is often a family business, and the story of Lacloche Frères is ultimately a complex history of the Lacloche siblings and the cluster of businesses they created, which were responsible for some of the finest jewels of the early 20th century.
The patriarch of the Lacloche family was Hendricks Lacloche, and his six children (four boys and two girls) would all venture into the world of jewellery. Jules and Léopold Lacloche moved to Paris in 1892 to open Lacloche Frères (the best-known Lacloche company), but in Madrid their brothers Jacques and Fernand were selling Parisian jewels as Lacloche & Cie, while their sister Bertha had married Jacob Jacques Walewyk and was selling wedding trousseaus as Walewyk-Lacloche, and their other sister Emilie had married Joseph Cohen (Coven) in 1902, selling jewels as Coven-Lacloche.
Among their most famous Lacloche jewels are the exquisite ‘petit point’ bracelets made from fine platinum grids ‘stitched’ with diamonds in embroidered patterns, as well as imaginative animal-themed gold accessories created in collaboration with Julien Duval and Paul Frey. Probably their most highly regarded pieces, however, are their sumptuous Art Deco jewels in the Chinoiserie and Egyptian revival styles, intricately set with jadeite, diamonds, and buff-topped calibré-cut coloured stones. Perhaps their most prestigious commission came in 1930, when the Duke of Westminster commissioned an extraordinary ‘halo’ tiara from the firm for his bride Loella Ponsonby, which was set with the famed Arcot diamonds, eventually sold by Sotheby’s in 1959.
At their peak around the time of this commission, Lacloche Frères were collaborating with some of the best Parisian manufacturers of the era, including Lalique, Strauss, Allard & Meyer, Alfred Langlois, Verger Frères, Henri Picq and Georges L’Enfant, and catered to an elite clientele of socialites, aristocrats and royals throughout France, Spain, the UK, America and Argentina.
Unfortunately, despite their immense success, the business was struggling to stay afloat, and the very next year in 1931 they took the jewellery world by surprise by unexpectedly announcing their bankruptcy. Their jewels and premises were sold off, and the heyday of Lacloche Frères came to an abrupt end.
The only member of the family to endure was Jacques Lacloche, son of one of the founding brothers, who continued to design jewellery in the colourful contemporary styles of the 1930s-1950s. Despite being arrested in 1944 by the Gestapo (being of Jewish heritage), he survived the war to find success on his own terms, and counted Princess Grace of Monaco among his many clients. His interests diversified into contemporary furniture and decorative arts, which became his sole focus from around 1967, and his galleries in Paris and Cannes became essential shopping destinations for the latest in cutting-edge interior designs. His business closed in 1984, but its enduring influence was commemorated with an exhibition at Sotheby’s Paris in 2012, Hommage à la galerie Lacloche, de Marc du Plantier à Roger Tallon, design des années 60-70.
The family’s legacy has received renewed attention with a recent exhibition at the Ecole Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris, as well as a lavish new book, Lacloche Joailliers by Laurence Mouillefarine and Veronique Ristelhueber, and jewels by Lacloche continue to excite and inspire new generations of collectors whenever they appear at Sotheby’s. | <urn:uuid:6b6f9354-82b6-4c75-86c5-5079b66d7931> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sothebys.com/en/brands/lacloche-freres | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.970255 | 818 | 2.171875 | 2 |
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration called on Congress to modernize rules for cosmetics safety on Tuesday after it issued an alert warning consumers not to use three cosmetics products sold by Claire’s Stores Inc because they tested positive for asbestos, a known carcinogen.
The FDA said it would work with Congress to update the regulatory framework that the agency has been operating under for more than 80 years for cosmetics. It said there are currently no legal requirements for any cosmetic manufacturer selling goods to American consumers to test their products for safety.
In its safety alert, the FDA identified the products as Claire’s eye shadows, contour palette and compact powder and cited the talc used in the products.
Claire’s disputed the FDA test results, saying they “show significant errors” and have “mischaracterized fibers in the products as asbestos.”
The retailer, which emerged from bankruptcy in October, said, “There is no evidence that any products sold by Claire’s are unsafe.” However, out of an abundance of caution, it said it removed the three products in question from stores as well as “any remaining talc based cosmetic products.”
The FDA has come under intensifying pressure from lawmakers and consumer advocates to investigate possible asbestos contamination of talc following a report published by Reuters on Dec. 14 about talc in Johnson & Johnson powders. The Reuters report detailed that J&J knew that the talc in its raw and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos from the 1970s into the early 2000s. J&J did not disclose its test results to regulators or consumers.
The alleged presence of asbestos in talc products is at issue in thousands of lawsuits filed against J&J. Last month, J&J said it had received federal subpoenas for the first time related to the asbestos litigation and said it is cooperating with the inquiries.
J&J and its talc supplier, Imerys Talc America, have said numerous studies and tests by regulators worldwide have shown their talc to be safe and asbestos-free.
In response to the FDA’s call on Tuesday for new rules, J&J said it supports the agency’s efforts to “reaffirm the safety of cosmetic talc products.” The company said it has backed previous legislative efforts to modernize FDA’s regulatory authority over cosmetics.
J&J also reiterated Tuesday that “for decades global independent laboratories and health authorities have tested Johnson’s Baby Powder and have never found asbestos.”
In 2009, the FDA hired an outside lab to test 34 samples of cosmetic talc powders, including a bottle of J&J’s baby powder, as well as raw talc. No asbestos was detected when the results came back a year later.
“SHIFT THE SAFETY PARADIGM”
The FDA on Tuesday said it would investigate cosmetics manufacturers’ sources for talc and what steps they take to test the raw material or their finished products. The agency did not name specific companies.
“We also want to know how many cosmetics products contain talc and whether manufacturers have received adverse event reports associated with talc-containing products,” the FDA said.
In a joint statement on Tuesday, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who separately announced his resignation, and the director of the agency’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Susan Mayne, said federal rules have not keep pace with the cosmetic industry’s substantial growth and a global supply chain.
“To significantly shift the safety paradigm of cosmetics in the U.S., we would need to work with stakeholders, including Congress, to modernize the outdated regulatory framework that the FDA has been operating under for more than 80 years when it comes to cosmetics,” they said in the statement.
The FDA said the new rules for cosmetics manufacturers may require companies to report adverse events, provide access to consumer complaints during routine inspections and disclose known allergens on a product’s label.
In the meantime, U.S. regulators are asking cosmetics firms to voluntarily register their products and a list of ingredients, including talc, with the FDA.
Asbestos is a mineral often found near talc, a common ingredient in many cosmetics, and if steps are not taken to purify raw talc sufficiently the talc put in consumer products may be contaminated with asbestos, the FDA said.
Talc may be used in cosmetics, for example, to prevent caking or to make facial makeup opaque.
In 2017, the FDA said it became aware of reports of asbestos contamination in several cosmetics sold by Claire’s and another retailer, Justice, which is owned by Ascena Retail Group Inc. The two retailers subsequently removed certain products, such as glitter creams, eye shadows and make-up sets.
The FDA then ordered independent tests and the results received in late February confirmed asbestos in three Claire’s products and one from Justice. The Justice product had already been recalled from the market.
In a statement on Tuesday, Justice said it “quickly and responsibly issued a voluntary recall in 2017 out of an abundance of caution.”
The FDA said Claire’s had refused to comply with its request to recall the products that tested positive for asbestos. The FDA said it does not have the authority to mandate a recall, so it issued the safety alert.
The United States Public Interest Research Group last May reported the health and safety regulator for the Netherlands ordered Claire’s to remove several makeup products from Dutch shops after a study by U.S. PIRG showed contamination with asbestos.
Claire’s in March 2018, in a statement, questioned the accuracy of asbestos testing by Dutch authorities. It said its own testing at independent laboratories in the European Union and the United States labs found that Claire’s products were “compliant with all relevant cosmetic safety regulations.”
Claire’s, based in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, operated 2,471 stores in North America and Europe as of August 2018.
Reporting by Chad Terhune; Additional reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; editing Leslie Adler and Bill Berkrot
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In hundreds of cities across the United States, for almost two weeks, a Black-led multiracial uprising of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, has been marching, sitting-in, and engaging in militant direct action. The masses are venting their righteous fury at the racist goon squads in blue who roam America’s streets. Everyday people are risking arrest, tear gas, and rubber bullets in acts of courageous and even joyous civil disobedience. Most are young, and many are being radicalized for the first time.
Reformism Loses Credibility
The extent to which the events of the past two weeks, let alone the past three months of Covid lockdowns, explosive unemployment, mass death, and hunger, have delegitimized the U.S. capitalist state is breathtaking. Up until a few months ago, reformist socialists were assuring us that this “democratic” state had too much legitimacy to be challenged. Change would only be possible by working inside the Democratic Party of the bourgeoisie. For years, the reformist or “Kautskyist” trend in the socialist movement, exemplified by Jacobin magazine and the majority leadership of the DSA, have told us that revolution is off the table. One of the leading theorists of this trend, Vivek Chibber, has been most explicit on this. Chibber, a professor at New York University, has said that revolution has not been possible since the 1950s; how strange it must be for him to look out his window and see large protests with mass support challenging the police. Three of Chibber’s recent programmatic statements — an article, a pamphlet, and an interview — are symptomatic of this trend and form the main subject of this article.
I’ve written a long two-part article about Chibber’s “road to power.” That was a year and a half before George Floyd’s murder. If anything, current events are vindicating my view. I say this with no sense of “I told you so,” but only with eyes pointed forward. Kautskyism was first buried a century ago. Recently, modern-day reformists around Jacobin have attempted to disinter it. Let us bury it once more.
Because of the supposed stability and legitimacy of the capitalist state, Chibber says, a revolutionary strategy of “rupture” is “hallucinatory.” (“Rupture” is his euphemism for the smashing of the capitalist state.) Instead socialists should work to elect pro-worker politicians to represent working class interests and to pass progressive legislation in the bourgeois state. This view was first popularized in his overt nod to Kautsky, “Our Road to Power,” published in Jacobin’s issue on the centenary of the Russian Revolution. He has reiterated this strategy in the Jacobin pamphlet The ABCs of Capitalism, published in early 2019, and in an interview with Verso published on May 18 of this year (the original appeared in German in late 2019). That interview appeared on the Verso site one week before the murder of George Floyd, and a full two and a half months into the new depression triggered by Covid-19, with tens of millions of new unemployed, long lines at food pantries, American politicians openly talking about sacrificing large sectors of the population to revive capitalism, etc.
Economism versus Marxism
The ABCs of Capitalism can be credited with clarity and accessibility. Unfortunately, that’s where its merits end. In the interview, Chibber says that he espouses “a fairly orthodox Marxist viewpoint.” Let us examine the theoretical basis for this claim. In pamphlet A: Understanding Capitalism, he writes that “capitalists aren’t motivated by greed but by market pressures” and “the simplest way to identify capitalism is on the basis of something called market dependence” (pp. 7-9, emphasis in the original). In fact, for Marx, market dependence is an effect of, not a basis of, capitalism, which is first and foremost a mode of production based on generalized wage labor. That’s why Marxists organize for the association of the free primary producers, “working with the means of production held in common,” (Marx, Capital vol. 1), for the abolition of the capitalist state and for communism. By contrast a strategy that’s limited to ending market dependence quickly becomes a liberal strategy of redistribution.
Since Chibber revises the meaning of capitalism to market dependence, it becomes inevitable that he revises Marxist strategy as well. No longer is the role of socialists helping the working class self-organize, develop its own organic leaders, and politically defeating the capitalist class on the path to communism. Rather, socialists pursue a reformist strategy of electing sympathetic representatives who can counteract the bourgeois “bias” of the existing capitalist state (B, pp. 6-8) and who can pass policies that “decommodify” more and more areas of the economy. All of this is based on a class struggle (or “class only”) strategy in the labor movement, where increased organization of workers creates favorable conditions for the aforementioned political changes.
In pamphlet A, we are told that there are only two effective anti-capitalist strategies: 1) “class struggle,” by which Chibber mainly means trade union struggle (this, supposedly, directly challenges the power of capital); and 2) state policy, which indirectly — again supposedly — challenges capital by according social rights to workers (pp. 38-39). The question of whether the main examples of historical “decommodification,” the U.S. New Deal and European social democracy, were anti-capitalist or helped to revive and reproduce capitalism is left unaddressed.
It bears noting that what Chibber terms “class struggle” could be described, at least in part, as “economism.” Though the “economists” to whom Lenin referred in What is To Be Done?, unlike Chibber, rejected the idea of a centralized party, like Chibber they were narrowly focused on economic gains in the form of wages and increased material benefits from workers’ labor. Like Chibber, they also eschewed revolutionary theory and were hostile to workers’ democracy.
A similar narrow economism has been a limitation of Bernie Sanders’s politics. Recently, for example, Sanders proposed a number of progressive if tepid reforms to policing, but among them was higher pay to enhance recruitment of officers. The implication is that cops are workers who deserve better working conditions and higher pay, just like any other worker. Compare this to more radical voices within the labor movement, who go beyond economism to call for the abolition of cop unions and reject the notion that cops are workers. Chibber’s understanding of class struggle leaves socialists bereft of a theoretical basis by which to reject the idea that cops are workers and that cop unions are a malignant presence in the labor movement. Workers’ real interests are not served by fighting for slightly better pay within a system based on racism and exploitation. Liberation from this system requires fighting against every form of oppression. Workers who are only interested in their own conditions, while their class siblings are being murdered on the street, are only strengthening their own oppression.
A Museum Antiquity
The next two pamphlets analyze the state and class struggle, respectively. In B: Capitalism and the State, Chibber rejects the idea that under capitalism the state can be neutral, a position he calls “pluralism.” Instead, the capitalist state is “biased” in favor of the wealthy (pp. 6-7). There are three sources of bias: 1) the wealthy dominate political office; 2) they exercise greater influence on the people in office; and most importantly, 3) the state is structurally dependent on capital in the form of investments and therefore taxation (pp. 8-9). Thus the key task for the working class is to “reverse” or “neutralize” “state capture” by the wealthy (19). Later he writes that “left to its own, the state cannot be relied upon as a counterbalance to the power of the capitalist class” (27). Phrases like these and similar ones, such as “in the normal state of affairs,” recur throughout these pamphlets, naturalizing and abstracting “the state.” Recent events, however, have intruded into this idyll, showing the true, repressive and capitalist class nature of the state.
Pages 28-29 of pamphlet B are most explicit about the role of a social democratic party: it “relieves the working class from having to hit the streets every time a policy debate comes up. The party fights for them instead,” though he concedes that having a party is never a substitute for building an organized and militant working class movement. He then draws a perspective for our organizing today. While in Europe revitalizing both the moribund social democratic parties and the labor movements is possible, in the United States, which lacks mass working class parties, the most likely scenario in the short term is the revitalization of the labor movement (35). The question of how socialists should relate to the Democratic Party, and the hardly less capitalist and demobilizing European social democracy, is left unanswered (why, for example, are those European parties such empty shells?).
Finally, pamphlet C, Capitalism and Class Struggle, emphasizes the role of the labor movement in anticapitalist strategy. What’s the strategy? Here, he repeats that it should be creating “room for more progressive policy” (13). The policy? A “significant” redistribution of income and changing the state’s spending priorities. Women and oppressed groups make a cameo on the last few pages of this 108-page text, and are quickly dispatched with the familiar line, “the welfare state especially benefits women and the oppressed” (my paraphrase). Hannah Archambault is correct that Chibber’s downplaying (or worse) of identity-based struggles plays into “the most pernicious, politically alienating” stereotypes of these struggles and also that these pamphlets make it seem as if women and other oppressed groups have no place either in reproducing capitalism or dismantling it. But the whole history of attempts to overcome capitalism has shown that women, Black workers, and other oppressed groups are on the front lines of struggle for social transformation.
None of the three ABCs pamphlets, nor the more recent comments in the Verso interview published on the eve of the Black-led uprising, goes beyond the horizon of economism and “progressive legislation” within the limits of the state as it currently exists. Nor does Chibber anywhere question the equation of the capitalist welfare state with socialism. In the end, Chibber is not so different from the “pluralists” he critiques. For both, the state is neutral in the abstract. The only difference is, for him, it can be populated with better, more “enlightened” politicians who can “represent” the interests of the working class. While in Chibber’s vision the working class can only make gains if it is organized and “militant,” it’s unclear to what this “militancy” refers. At one point he even implies that the relation between workers, on the one side, and party and union, on the other, is ideally a paternalistic one: a “condition of dependence on somebody else isn’t harmful if the dominant party has the same interests as the weaker one and assumes responsibility for the weaker one’s welfare” (C, p. 5). Is this vision of a slightly improved version of bourgeois representative democracy, acting on behalf of a working class managed by top-down bureaucratic organizations, really in touch with an economy in freefall, in times of pandemic, and with the mass fury at the antihuman criminality of the U.S. capitalist state?
It has been nearly 140 years since Engels said that the state is a machine, consisting of “special bodies” of armed men whose function is the brutal repression of workers’ struggles for economic gains and political power, and over a century since Lenin cited him as an authority in pointing the way toward the triumph of communism. Engels, further, noted that a key indicator of the depth and breadth of the revolutionary workers movement would be its ability to relegate “the whole state machine … to the museum of antiquities.” Witnessing the spontaneous uprisings in Minneapolis, New York, and in hundreds of other cities in the US and beyond, it is shocking how fresh Engels’s and Lenin’s texts remain, and how stale — and to use a phrase from Chibber himself, “hallucinatory” — these three 2019 pamphlets are. Engels and Lenin still speak to us. The ABCs of Capitalism, by contrast, is already a museum antiquity.
Goodbye to All That
Joshua Clover writes that “it took just 66 days to get from the first shelter-in-place order to the first riot.” What’s even more noteworthy, however, is that it took barely a week for a number of radicalizing effects of those “riots” to appear. Trump delivered a proto-fascist speech while cops and the national guard were tear-gassing and beating protesters to clear the way for his bible-thumping photo op. Social media revealed the patterns in the police riots: the ramming of protesters with police SUVs, reminiscent of the Nazi who murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesville; wanton police brutality, mayhem, and provocation — even against the elderly.
But the past two weeks have also revealed how quickly the situation can change. Respectable politicians and TV pundits are now saying what would have been unthinkable two weeks ago, such as calls to dismantle the police. The rebellion has accomplished more in two weeks than have decades of slow, incremental electoralism.
The role that communists can play, beyond giving unconditional support to the uprising, is to win over to revolutionary Marxism the best and most combative fighters from among the radicalized masses taking to the streets and putting their lives on the line for Black Lives, and together to go on to build a party that can lead to the abolition of the capitalist state and its terror police. To do that, we will first have to disabuse ourselves of reformist and electoral illusions in this decrepit capitalist state. To the warmed over Kautskyism of incremental electoral socialism, we say “goodbye to all that.” | <urn:uuid:9d32dada-141f-4021-b303-8cd5870064ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.leftvoice.org/vivek-chibbers-abcs-of-reformism-reality-has-overtaken-social-democratic-illusions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.955542 | 3,078 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Tribunal Leader in Hussein's Case Is Target of Plot - New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: November 28, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 27 - Less than 24 hours before Saddam Hussein's scheduled return to court on charges of crimes against humanity, the police in northern Iraq said Sunday that they had arrested 10 Sunni Arab men carrying orders from a fugitive associate of Mr. Hussein's to assassinate the court's best-known judge.
Iraqis in Najaf held photos of relatives they said had been killed by the government of Saddam Hussein.
Prosecutors have said they plan to bring their first witnesses against Mr. Hussein and other defendants when the court resumes in Baghdad on Monday after a six-week recess." | <urn:uuid:679ae545-1505-47e0-85ba-8430a98c2c49> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://johnfburns.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00214-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966652 | 152 | 1.5 | 2 |
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfully executed the attack can cause a local privilege escalation given unprivileged users administrative rights on the target machine. | <urn:uuid:fe4755e6-ec12-4115-b17a-b9339efd9a98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/amazon-linux-ami-2-cve-2021-4034/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.890164 | 122 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Applying mirror glass to alcoves creates the illusion of a freestanding chimneypiece, while the room is reflected and appears much larger and full of light
Ben Addy from Moxon Architects has subverted the uniformity of this space by applying mirror glass to the alcoves in this London house. This creates the illusion of a freestanding chimney breast and also makes the room appear much larger.
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The chemistry of lead and zinc in the bubbling fluidized bed combustion of recovered waste wood (RWW) was studied based on advanced thermodynamic equilibrium calculations. The condensation behavior of zinc and lead compounds in different parts of the boiler was evaluated, and the dependence of the fuel composition on the condensation behavior was investigated. Zinc and lead were found to vaporize mainly as Zn(g) and Pb(g) in the lower, reducing part of the furnace. In this area condensation of metallic Pb and Zn and PbS can be expected. Condensation of PbCl 2 and ZnCl 2 can be expected on heat transfer surfaces later in the convection section. The theoretical results were supported by long-term deposits from full-scale boilers burning fuel mixtures containing RWW. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. | <urn:uuid:1a2b64d6-f96a-4517-8dcc-b3b29c81020f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sintef.no/en/publications/publication/1013421/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.96579 | 177 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Founded in 2006, the company is the leading manufacturer of Mobile, Modular and Compact Substations, as well as MV& LV Panels. Sane shargh Company has developed its activity in the distributed generation in order to solve combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, which is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single fuel source.
- Construction of mobile, modular substations up to 230 kV and compact up to 33 kV
· Manufacturing low voltage, medium voltage and sliding panels under LSIS license
· Construction of residential towers and industries electrical panels
· Designing, Consulting and supplying diesel generators, gas burning engines and DG power plants
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The Three Most Common Red Flags in the Residency Application
There are three main sections of the residency application that can have red flags: the USMLE exams, Background Gaps, and Supporting Documents.
The USMLE exams are typically the most frequent red flags to appear in your residency application. You can have low USMLE exam scores, multiple USMLE attempts or USMLE score gaps.
If you have been out of medical school for +5 years or left the medical profession and want to return you have what is considered Background Gaps.
There are also a number of red flags that can appear in your Supporting Documents such as the Personal Statement, Letters of Recommendation, and MyERAS Common Application.
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In Sikhism, Karah is a kind of semolina halva made with equal parts of entire-wheat flour, butter, and sugar. It’s supplied to all guests to the Darbar Sahib in a Gurdwara. It’s considered meals deal with for attendees of gurmat seminars. Because it has a really excessive sugar and oil content material, guests might ask the Sewadar for a small portion.FRIST AUTOMATIC MACHINE SERVE KARAH PARSHAD
As an indication of humility and respect, guests settle for the Karah sitting, with palms raised and cupped. The providing and receiving of this meals is a crucial a part of hospitality protocols. It has the identical quantity of semolina, butter and sugar, to stress the equality of women and men
The Sewadar serves it out of the identical bowl to everybody in equal parts. The Karah is a meals which if not accepted could also be interpreted by some Sikhs as an insult. Karah can also be taken on the initiation ceremony of Amrit Sanchar on the very finish the place it’s shared out equally amongst all. It’s a image exhibiting that everybody is equal.
The Gurdwara is the place the place Sikhs go to worship. Gurdwaras might be any dimension or form, however one factor they all the time have is a kitchen, or langar. Folks can go there for meals, and may even relaxation there for the night time. Daily a meal is ready right here for as many individuals who wish to eat, you’ll be able to eat free right here. FRIST AUTOMATIC MACHINE SARVE KARAH PARSHAD
You will need to word that in Sikhism parshad is outlined within the Guru Granth Sahib as data given to an individual’s thoughts when she or he accepts reality itself to be one’s trainer. That is acknowledged as ek onkar satguru prasad previous varied stanzas within the Granth Sahib. Given this definition meals can’t be thought of parshad. There isn’t any idea of blessed meals in Sikhism
Punjabi meals is healthful and stuffed with rustic flavour. The customized of cooking in neighborhood ovens or tandoors prevails in rural pockets even right this moment. The delicacies is characterised by a profusion of dairy merchandise within the type of malai, paneer and dahi. The dals are a speciality of any such delicacies, manufactured from complete pulses like black gram, inexperienced gram and Bengal gram. They’re cooked on sluggish hearth, typically simmered for hours until they flip creamy after which flavoured with spices and rounded off with malai for that wealthy end. The meals is solely scrumptious.
Probably the most distinctive factor about cooking in a tandoor is the smoky flavour that the meals will get making it tastier. Furthermore it’s a wholesome approach of cooking since minimal fats is required and the meals usually will get cooked in its personal juices thus retaining its pure flavours. In addition to it’s not solely simple to digest, additionally it is very hygienic. In conclusion one can safely say that it’s via tandoori cooking that Indian delicacies first acquired globally acknowledged. | <urn:uuid:3f67d356-6fb2-4f04-b625-0b939a9d0c75> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hotvideoviral.com/frist-automatic-machine-serve-karah-parshad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943496 | 706 | 2.0625 | 2 |
October 21, 2008
HUD AWARDS FUNDING TO FIGHT HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IN MASSACHUSETTS
Funding part of $21 million awarded nationwide
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $781,750 in funding to three Massachusetts agencies to assist people who believe they have been victims of housing discrimination.
The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston received a $274,750 grant; the Housing Discrimination Project received
a $275,000 grant; and the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts received a $232,000 grant. The funding is part of $21.8 million awarded to 92 to fair housing and other non-profit agencies nationwide.
The funding is being awarded under the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), which helps local agencies
investigate alleged housing discrimination and enforce the Fair Housing Act and state and local laws that are substantially equivalent to the Act. Grants are also used to educate the public and housing providers about their rights and obligations under federal, state and local fair housing laws.
"These Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants will help us continue our efforts to educate the public, the housing industry, real estate professionals and financial institutions about their rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act," said Kim Kendrick, HUD's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. "Our local
partners are critical not only in enforcing the law but in reinforcing the message -- housing discrimination is illegal
and HUD will take action to eliminate it."
The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, family
status and national origin. The Act covers the sale, rental, financing and advertising of almost all housing in the nation.
HUD and its fair housing partners investigate approximately 10,000 housing discrimination complaints annually.
People who believe they are the victims of housing discrimination should contact HUD at (800) 669-9777 (voice), (800) 927-9275 (TTY). Additional information is available at www.hud.gov/fairhousing. | <urn:uuid:f0d514a5-1a02-42b9-937a-79dbf594f6ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archives.hud.gov/local/ma/news/pr2008-10-21.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.951655 | 454 | 1.6875 | 2 |
How Education 4 Life started their logo design journey
Education 4 Life
We are a team of entrepreneurs that like helping people to get onto the pathway they've always dreamed about. We advertise and work through a variety of mediums to find people and encourage them to get some further education behind them so that they can get into their dream career.
We then help them find a College that offeres that course; get them government funding where possible to make it affordable; and help them get over the initial hurdles of once again becoming a student. We believe that education does not have to happen in a classroom, but education is a lifelong path.
We not only promote courses here in Australia, but with the profit we make here we support students going to school from the slums of Bangalore, India. Even the business cards where this logo will be shown will have a charity link on the back of the card. So that everytime we give a business card, the receiver can go to our porthole and donate the value of that card ($1) to any of the charities listed and we will pay the bill.
We love what we do.
Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach
The target audience are:
- based in the State of Victoria
- organisations that assist people with getting back into the workplace;
- businesses looking for assistance in getting all of their staff upskilled in the workplace;
- individuals who are looking to start a new career path themselves through further education.
- We are looking for a logo that represents who we are as a business, and embodies what we stand for - Education 4 Life.
- This logo will be incorporated into buisiness cards, websites, social media sites, brochures, etc.
- The logo needs an appropriate typeface and matching icon to go with it.
- The logo needs to be supplied in small size for use on websites and business cards, as well as larger versions for use in printing a 1 metre long sign.
- We like greys and blues and generally avoid rainbow colourish. A few of our company sites, including the education 4 life site where thie logo will be going, are: http://www.education4life.com.au and http://www.tggroup.com.au http://www.offthedole.com.au http://www.jobsinhealth.com.au
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Healing your digestive system is the best way to reduce food sensitivities and digestive issues. We are what we eat, and if you eat the wrong foods, these could cause irritation and horrible digestive symptoms.
When I was a little girl, digestive systems were not as common as they are now. Why is this? I believe there are many reasons, some being:- high stress, dietary choices, toxic chemicals in our food and in our household goods, beauty products, pollution, electricals, lack of exercise… the list goes on. Our poor digestive systems take a beating every day, so no wonder they become weakened and sensitive.
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Patient: Zipper is a 6-year-old, 18-pound Shih Tzu mix
Diagnosis: Right hind CCL tear
Type of Device: Stifle brace
Case Study: As a highly active, energetic dog, Zipper is always on the move. He underwent knee surgery in 2019 for a Cranial Cruciate Ligament tear (CCL) as well as meniscus damage in his left rear leg. When he injured his right CCL in 2021, his family wanted to try to avoid surgery. From their previous experience, they knew the surgery recovery period was difficult for Zipper and there was the financial cost to consider as well.
Zipper visited My Pet’s Brace for an evaluation for a custom knee brace in February of 2021. A cast was taken of his leg and he returned a week later for the fitting of the device.
Zipper wore his knee brace for eight months. The knee brace helped to prevent the tibial thrust which promoted scar tissue formation. As his pain decreased, his weight bearing on his injured leg increased and the muscle mass in his thigh returned. His family said, “Zipper is back to running and jumping and the doctor is very pleased with his progress.” He loves going on walks and playing fetch brace free.
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Two malicious software programs that help each other stay on computers are proving difficult to remove.
A new piece of malware designed to delete files from hard disk drives and render computers unable to boot targets South Korean users, according to researchers from security firm Symantec.
Nintendo warned Friday against the use of a smartphone app that can be used to create custom, all-powerful Pokemon characters for use in its handheld games.
More than 1,600 websites selling pharmaceutical products, including some spoofing CVS and Walgreens pharmacies, were shut down this week in a sting involving 99 countries, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
A former high-ranking U.S. military official is reportedly under investigation for leaking classified information related to the use of malicious software to disrupt Iran's uranium refinement program.
If Google Glass isn't enough to get you worried about technology, how about a device that can see through walls using Wi-Fi?
The U.S. National Security Agency collected the email and Internet use records of some U.S. residents for about a decade following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to documents published Thursday by the U.K. newspaper the Guardian.
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware uses in-browser injection techniques combined with extensive content localization to steal log-in credentials and credit card information from users in different countries, according to researchers from ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit to force the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to turn over records about a facial-recognition database it is building.
Cisco Systems released security patches for its email, Web and content security appliances in order to address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute commands on the underlying OS or disrupt critical processes.
Opera Software said Wednesday hackers pilfered from its internal systems at least one code-signing certificate that was used to sign malicious software.
A U.K.-based researcher has netted US$20,000 for spotting a very serious flaw in Facebook that could have allowed an attacker to take over anyone's account with minimal effort.
One well-known gang of hackers contributed to cyberattacks on South Korea on Tuesday, which coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War, according to analysis from Symantec.
Microsoft is seeking permission to disclose "aggregate statistics" about the number of requests for data it receives under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, following a similar move by Google earlier this month.
Recent leaks about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency show an agency with little regard for the U.S. Constitution and laws on the books, two past NSA leakers said Wednesday.
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Pass Plus is a practical training course that takes at least 6 hours and is for drivers to improve their skills and drive more safely.
It can be taken at any time although it should be most useful to new drivers in the year after passing their test.
You’ll need a Pass Plus registered approved driving instructor (ADI) to teach you.
It may help you get a car insurance cheaper if you successfully complete the course.
How Pass Plus training works
Pass Plus training takes at least 6 hours. It has 6 modules, covering driving:
All modules should be practical sessions, although local conditions may mean some are theory based. You’ll normally spend at least 5.5 hours driving.
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Fire Ecology, Management & Technology Certificate
This 15-credit certificate program is designed for traditional and non-traditional students who would like to receive more depth than a few courses in the concepts, science and tools currently used in fire ecology and management, or for those seeking educational requirements required for federal employment. After completing this certificate program students will have the ability to apply sound science to solve complex issues facing fire management. Many of our students combine this certificate with a Masters of Natural Resources, Master of Science or doctorate. Others have combined this with the restoration ecology certificate program. | <urn:uuid:c78eb8ec-e817-4b9f-bd21-821e2dabd126> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hub.aashe.org/browse/academicprogram/24142/Fire-Ecology-Management-Technology-Certificate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.9335 | 116 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Do You Know a Red Flag When You See One?
By: Sydney Palese
Posted October 29, 2013
One in five college relationships involve intimate partner abuse – true or false?
Raychel Whyte, a senior health-sciences major, asked this question to a small group of college-aged women in an office decorated with posters about sexual assault and LGBT education in Montpelier Hall.
The answer was unfortunately true.
The group, led by Whyte, was training to prepare for the Red Flag Campaign, a weeklong series of awareness-raising events to educate students about intimate partner violence.
The Red Flag campaign takes place in October, which is “Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month”. According to the website theredflagcampaign.org, the annual campaign is a project of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, and was created by college students, college personnel, and community victim advocates.
Whyte, who is the Sexual Assault Prevention student employee through Student Wellness and Outreach (SWO), said the main goal for the JMU campus’ campaign is to make people understand what the red flags for dating abuse are and how to intervene.
Another component is “bystander intervention,” which she said is knowing how and when to spot these red flags. The purpose is wrapped up in a slogan that has been showing up all around campus – “Say something.” Red flags include sexual abuse, isolation, emotional abuse, stalking and coercion, along with visible signs of physical abuse.
Whyte said that former students in her position with Sexual Assault Prevention traditionally take on planning the Red Flag Campaign week every year; her work has been ongoing since she started the position at the beginning of the fall semester. In addition to her work with the campaign, she will also help coordinate other events like “Take Back the Night” and the “Clothesline Project”.
The campaign, which took place the week of Oct. 21-25, included events like raising awareness on the commons, a bake sale, trivia and “Wear Red Day”. Whyte said they got President Alger and his staff involved by wearing red.
Student volunteers for the campaign chalked the commons, hung banners and provided resident advisers with pre-made bulletin boards educating students about “red flags”.
Whyte said she hopes the campaign will open doors for involvement with sexual assault awareness. Beyond the Red Flag Campaign week, she said Sexual Assault and Prevention is always seeking ways to decrease sexual violence in addition to increasing reports of sexual violence, which she said a lot of people don’t do on college campuses.
“Sexual assault is something people don’t talk about or understand enough,” Whyte said. “Everyone is affected by it. It’s important to reach out to everyone and help them understand the issue.”
Whyte, who is concentrating in health assessment and promotion and carrying a minor in substance abuse prevention, hopes to work more with the issue of sexual violence and assault in the future.
Learn more about the Red Flag Campaign
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If you don’t have any outdoor space – or if you want to try extending your salad crops through the colder months – then growing herbs and salads indoors might be the answer.
Herbs and Salads to Try
You can enjoy plenty of homegrown salad ingredients – try some of these suggestions:
- Pea shoots: recently these have become trendy at gourmet restaurants, where they can be found artistically arranged on top of your supper. They are sweet, tender and quite strongly flavoured, so they make a nice addition to a mixed salad. They’re easy to grow in cool conditions: choose hardy pea seeds, and you could have a tray growing on your back porch. You’ll get two or three cuttings from each seedling, making this a good‐value salad crop.
- Long‐lasting herbs, such as chives, sage, oregano and mint. Tender annuals (like coriander and basil) don’t fare so well indoors, so stick to the woodier varieties. Give these Mediterranean herbs a sunny windowsill and make sure you rotate the trays to get the best crops.
- Mustard and cress: an old‐fashioned favourite and still a great choice for an indoor salad garden. These microleaves are ready in a week, and lend a punchy flavour to your favourite sandwiches. Note that these aren’t CCA varieties.
- Rocket, any variety: Notoriously hardy Rocket grows outdoors almost all year round, but if you don’t have space, sow a tray indoors and treat it as a cut‐and‐come‐again plant.
- Don’t forget about sprouting seeds: a fun project for children to try. You can buy mixed or individual packets of seed for sprouting (such as alfalfa, mung beans and chickpea). Use a clean jam jar and quarter‐fill it with seeds, then top up with water. Cover the jar with muslin and place it in a cool dark place overnight. Strain off the water every day, replacing it with fresh water. You’ll have sprouted seeds to enjoy in a few days!
Sowing Made Easy
Sowing seed is easy if you follow a few basic rules:
- You need two trays – one with drainage holes and one to put underneath to catch water. Once the seedlings have started to show, you should water by pouring into the bottom tray and waiting for the soil to drink up the moisture. Splashing water on top of delicate seedlings can uproot them.
- Fill the holey tray with special seed compost. It may seem expensive, but it’s worthwhile – your garden soil may have pests or diseases in it, and it is also probably too lumpy to allow tiny seeds to put out roots.
- Dampen the compost before sowing your seeds.
- Sow a pinch at a time, following the packet instructions for spacing. Some salad seeds do not require any covering, but others will prefer a light covering of soil (or vermiculite – available at garden centres).
- To speed up germination, put a plastic lid on the tray – or cover it with clingfilm. Keep an eye on the seeds and as soon as they start to sprout, remove the plastic.
- Rotate the trays now and again so that the plants get light on both sides, encouraging them to develop a more bushy habit.
- Harvest microleaves – such as cress and mustard shoots – when they are small, cutting with a scissors to encourage them to regrow (which they might not do).
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I would not leap to the conclusion that Lincoln was a Marxist. One of the great draw backs to the American Civil war was stuff like the draft and the income tax, at least the continuation of both. Lincoln made the tax progressive, but not because it was fair or anything of that nature. He just had to fund the war. He needed bodies – the draft and he needed money - the income tax. He did what he had to do to preserve the union. In the process he trampled on a number of things that would upset folks today. One example is suspending Habeas Corpus. He locked anybody and everybody up without due process. I think what Lincoln did is in line with what is required to deal with groups like al-Qaeda. The fact that Lincoln initiated a military draft and produced an income tax does not make either of them any better as ideas than suspension of Habeas Corpus.
I get the idea that a rich man’s dollar is not as great a sacrifice as a poor man’s dollar. I just do not want us to get carried away with progressive taxation. The French were toying with the idea of taxing the rich at a 75% level. The rich all threatened to move and the courts did not support it. Looks like that proposal may be a dead effort. Even the French understand that at a certain point progressive tax becomes excessive.
We will never agree on the concept of income taxes. I can concede the point that income redistribution is upward. There may not be anything evil about that particular trend. I do not have a problem with it and agree with Andrew Carnegie – 1889:
[em]“The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us to-day measures the change which has come with civilization. This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race …” NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. 1889 Andrew Carnegie http://eweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/carnegie.htm
If you like articles on taxes (I know everybody has their own spin on the data and I realize that this article has as much chance of changing your opinion as your wikipedia post had on mine) try this one by Walter Williams: http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/08/29/the_rich_dont_pay_enough/page/full/
Some Key points:
According to IRS 2007 data, the richest 1 percent of Americans earned 22 percent of national personal income but paid 40 percent of all personal income taxes. The top 5 percent earned 37 percent and paid 61 percent of personal income tax. The top 10 percent earned 48 percent and paid 71 percent of all personal income taxes. The bottom 50 percent earned 12 percent of personal but paid just 3 percent of income tax revenues.
President Obama and the Democratic Party harp about tax fairness. Here’s my fairness question to you: What standard of fairness dictates that the top 10 percent of income earners pay 71 percent of the federal income tax burden while 47 percent of Americans pay absolutely nothing?
Aside from the fairness issue, 47 percent of taxpayers having no federal income tax liability is dangerous for our nation. These people become natural constituents for big-spending, budget-wrecking, debt-creating politicians. After all, if you have no income tax liability, what do you care about either raising or lowering taxes? That might explain why the so-called Bush tax cuts were not more popular. If you’re not paying income taxes, why should you be happy about an income tax cut? Instead, you might view tax cuts as a threat to various handout programs that nearly 50 percent of Americans enjoy.
Tax demagoguery is useful for politicians who prey on the politics of envy to get re-elected, but is it good for Americans?
Here’s the question for us: Is the U.S. moving toward or away from the troubled EU nations? It turns out that our national debt to GDP ratio in the 1970s was 35 percent; now it’s 106 percent of GDP. If you think we’re immune from the economic chaos in some of the EU countries, you’re whistling Dixie. And when economic chaos comes, whom do you think will be more affected by it: rich people or poor people? | <urn:uuid:60503ed6-3c62-4dd3-8739-8a9310e532b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://themercury.com/forums/viewthread/109/P15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00216-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963625 | 919 | 2.125 | 2 |
Landscape PLANNING: Definitions Planning Agriculture Context theory Cycling EID Forestry Green Towns Greenways Landscape plans Minerals Parks POS Reservoirs Rivers Sustainability Transport Urbanisation Books on landscape planning Links
Landscape planning for mineral extraction Old mines can have new uses.
For centuries it has been known that mining produces a range of harmful side-effects - and that they can be ameliorated. The first European textbook on mines and quarries, written by Georgius Agricola in 1550, considered the case against mineral extraction and concluded:
The strongest argument of the detractors is that the fields are devastated by mining operations, for which reason formerly Italians were warned by law that no one should dig the earth for metals and so injure their very fertile fields, their vineyards, and their olive groves... And when the woods and groves are felled, then are exterminated the beasts and birds, very many of which furnish a pleasant and agreeable food for man. Further, when the ores are washed, the water which has been used poisons the brooks and streams, and either destroys the fish or drives them away... Thus it is said, it is clear to all that there is greater detriment from mining than the value of the metals which the mining produces (Agricola 1912 edn.).
Whilst mining continues, the environmental side-effects are wholly undesirable. But when working has ceased, beneficial side effects arise. Agricola knew this:
Moreover, as the miners dig almost exclusively in mountains otherwise unproductive, and in valleys invested in gloom, they do either slight damage to the fields or none at all. Lastly, where woods and glades are cut down, they may be sown with grain after they have been cleared from the roots of shrubs and trees. These new fields soon produce rich crops, so that they repair the losses which the inhabitants suffer from increased cost of timber (Agricola 1912 edn. 14).
There are three crucial points:
To save Europe and America's mineral industries from extinction, operators must learn:
It can be done. It must be done. It will be done, someday.
Future practice key in reclamation is figuring the eventual landscape and reuse plan before excavation is begun (Whyte 1970).
Mineral planning The alternatives are Similarity, Identity and Difference.
The economics of after-use
Down, C.G. & Stocks, J. 1977. Environmental Impact of Mining. London:Applied Science Publishers.
Haywood, S.H. 1974. Quarries and the landscape. London:British Quarrying and Slag Federation.
Jellicoe, G.A. 1979. Blue Circle Cement, Hope Works, Derbyshire. A progress report on a landscape plan 1943-93. London:Blue Circle Cement.
Turner, T, Landscape planning and environmental impact design. London:UCL Press 1998 Chapter 6=
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It is an interesting scenario that lawyers, who provide top notch advice on the most complex business management matters, are themselves often the worst at putting such advice into practice in their own organisations. Indeed, the same could probably be said of the myriad of other professional organisations which are in the business of giving advice.
How often do firms get caught out on the wrong side of legal issues in their own organisation's dealings from poor employment practices, such as the wrong procedures to get rid of staff, to discriminatory actions.
And partnership disputes are often handled so badly that they endanger the whole being of the firm. Indeed, it is astonishing to hear of the number of firms which do not have proper partnership agreements.
Firms must realise that not only are they in the field of giving advice, they must also ensure that their own procedures are up to scratch. Running a business necessitates this, otherwise firms can expect all types of problems to arise.
The recently set-up Association of Partnership Practitioners chaired by Ronnie Fox of Fox Williams, was formed to assist on this front. Fox says firms often need objective help from outside sources who do not have an axe to grind, since such disputes can often be extremely emotional.
The group is running a series of workshops in order to exchange ideas on how to deal with under-performing partners and on how to apply restrictive covenants, partnership agreements and partnership remuneration. Because it is a multidisciplinary group, the expertise of other sectors is on hand.
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Nourishing, well-made soups are comforting to the body and kind on the wallet. Soup can be made from ingredients that have been previously frozen and can be re-frozen, for up to three months, after they are made.
Many folks enjoy a cup of soup before a meal, but for others, it is the entire meal, especially when served with some wholesome bread. If you have the freezer space, save the ham bones and turkey carcasses leftover from the roasts you have made. With flavors essential to numerous kinds of soups and stews, those leftover bones are worth their weight in gold when trying to put together a meal at the end of a pay period.
Even if you don't have leftover bones, a delicious soup can be made with just a pound of ground beef, fiber-rich barley and some vegetables.
Unlike baking, which is more of an exact science, soup making can be creative according to circumstance and taste. Once a basic soup recipe is chosen, the recipe can be altered in a myriad of ways. Make someone happy and put on a pot of soup. There's always enough to go around and, in January, no shortage of those to enjoy it.
Sue Ade is a syndicated food writer with broad experience and interest in the culinary arts. She has worked and resided in the Lowcountry of South Carolina since 1985 and may be reached at email@example.com.
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Can we Test Parallel Universes?
More than a century after its discovery, quantum mechanics—which describes the behavior of physical entities at the scale of elementary particles—is still not clearly understood, despite the fact that its most disturbing predictions have until now always been completely borne out by measurement. Faced with the difficulty of giving meaning to this grand theory, we must content ourselves with simply accepting its three most important tenets. First, abandon the determinism of classical physics in favor of a probabilistic view; next, consider that many apparently continuous values, such as, metaphorically, the altitude of a person on a hill—are in reality discontinuous—comparable to the altitude of this same person in a multi-story building; and finally, accept that certain particles are in fact ubiquitous and may be present in several places or in several different states at the same time.
The strange death of the quantum cat
This ubiquitous quality stems from the most famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics, that of Schrödinger’s cat. Suppose that we enclose in an opaque box a cat and a radioactive nucleus whose decay—which, according to quantum mechanics, is a random event—triggers a mechanism that will kill the cat (a story that has always struck me as extremely cruel…). As long as no observer attempts to find out what is really happening inside the box, quantum mechanics assumes that the nucleus is in reality in a number of superimposed separate states, in other words it is both decayed and not yet decayed; consequently, the cat is at the same time living and dead… Much ink has been spilled over this paradox, and the question is far from being fully resolved.
In the 1950s, a young physicist at Princeton, Hugh Everett, put forward an incredible interpretation: every interaction between a quantum system and a classical system produced a bifurcation between several parallel universes. In other words, there is one world in which the cat is dead and another in which it is alive, with these two worlds being completely real, but entirely separate! Since such events are countless, there is no end to parallel worlds. While this proposal appears entirely devoid of reason, a “survey” among theoretical physicists shows that an increasing number of them consider this viewpoint to be correct.
Testing Everett’s improbable hypothesis
And for good reason: Everett’s theory of “multiple worlds” turns out to be more simple, coherent and elegant than the standard view, known as the Copenhagen interpretation, in which mathematical contortions are required to avoid the “living-dead” cat conclusion. Yet it is clear that the ultimate test would be an experiment.
Everett’s interpretation has long been considered unverifiable, and thus more akin to metaphysics than to science. In a recent article,1 I nevertheless show—following in the footsteps of physicist Don Page—that in theory, it is not impossible to subject this interpretation to observational analysis. The idea is to find a situation in which the two interpretations lead to different predictions. Amazingly, this is not impossible. In this study, I constructed a test using the evolution of the universe throughout the first instants immediately following the Big Bang, during which time it was still described by quantum physics.
Given that different possible quantum developments of the universe result in many different observers, it becomes possible, based on the study of our world, to decide between the two views. Technically, the heart of the argument stems from the notion that improbable universes truly exist in Everett’s hypothesis (in small numbers), although in the Copenhagen interpretation, they are only (generally speaking) possibilities without any material reality.
The central idea may be understood very simply using an analogy. Let us imagine a bag containing a million black balls and only one white ball. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, all of these balls are essentially the same.
However, according to Everett’s “multiple worlds” interpretation, there could be some factor strongly favoring the white ball: for example, it would always be at the top of the pile and, for example, a billion times larger and easier to grab than the black balls. Although the two interpretations predict the same number of balls of each color, they differ with regard to predictions about which color ball would be drawn at random!
The Copenhagen interpretation predicts that in all likelihood, a blind draw would lead to a black ball being selected, while Everett’s vision predicts that the white ball would be picked.
Too early to be able to say
Thus far, the two interpretations may be readily distinguished. One ball or another is favored according to which ball is in fact randomly drawn. Naturally, the ball that is drawn serves as a metaphor of the observed universe, in other words the one in which we find ourselves. In reality, however, it is still too early to be able to construct such an experiment. But within the context of an expanding universe, a number of approaches are already starting to become clear, and certain elements tend to support Everett’s vision.
Nevertheless, care is needed with these speculative, even subversive, propositions, regarding potential tests for the existence of parallel universes. Yet I feel it is important to ask these questions, particularly as the idea of multiple universes is currently emerging in cosmology for a number of other reasons. It may be that multiple universes do not exist and merely constitute an epistemological dead end. However, it would be regrettable to simply sweep them away dismissively for three reasons. First, they are predicted by certain of our theories (in this sense, they constitute not a hypothesis but a consequence) and it would be incoherent to use such theories while neglecting the results they generate. Second, contrary to received ideas, these theories may be scientifically tested, as we have just shown. Finally, this notion could have tangible effects on physics predictions in our own universe.
The analysis, views and opinions expressed in this section are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policies of the CNRS.
- 1. Aurélien Barrau, “Testing the Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics with Cosmology,” Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, 2015. | <urn:uuid:3f425899-99ca-457f-a10e-c4818eb0400f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.cnrs.fr/opinions/can-we-test-parallel-universes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.948303 | 1,281 | 2.921875 | 3 |
The Gunn Report's 'Power of Print' study, which is an analysis based on the creative ideas behind the most awarded print and outdoor ads in the world in the last 15 years, has been released in London.
The report identifies 13 basic dramatic formats used in print advertising to engage consumers creatively and effectively.
The report includes a description of the specific thought process involved to identify each of the 13 dramatic formats and 140 examples of work that support the analysis. The most represented countries across the 140 ads and campaigns featured in the study are the UK (24 ads/campaigns), US (21), France (15), Brazil (12), Germany (9) and South Africa (9). The five most represented agencies, with five ads/campaigns each, are AlmapBBDO (São Paulo), Saatchi & Saatchi (London), Saatchi & Saatchi (New York), Scholz & Friends (Berlin) and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris (Johannesburg).
Donald Gunn, founder of The Gunn Report, says, "This is a comprehensive and useful study that identifies 13 best opportunities for finding engaging and effective creative solutions for print advertising. A valuable tool for experienced industry professionals looking for a spark of inspiration, or an educational and training document for students and young creatives alike, it is a compelling insight of best practice used in brand communications."
13 Dramatic Formats
Demo in Print
Dramatise The Need/Problem
Exaggerated Graphic for The Need/Problem
Tell a Story
Exaggerated Graphic for The Benefit
Associated or Used Imagery Lifestyle/Attitude Reflect The Benefit
Product Provides The Graphic
Borrowed Format or Parody
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Acute lung injury (ALI), Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), and Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (NRDS) are common, devastating clinical syndromes that affect large numbers of adult and neonatal patients (200,000 cases in the US per year) and have up to 40% mortality with the current standard of care. Our ultimate goal is to develop nonviral gene therapy approaches to treat ALI. We have shown that electroporation can be used to transfer genes to lungs with established lung injury and pulmonary edema to treat the disease and lessen the severity of the injury. The method is simple, fast, and safe. In order to move this toward clinical application, we must demonstrate its efficacy and safety in a large animal model that represents the human disease and develop the most simple and safe method possible in order for it to be accepted by clinicians. The highest recommendation for an animal model is ?good evidence?that the results of the study would be similar in a clinical trial To this end, we have recently applied this approach to a group pigs (35-40 kg) using energies less than 0.1 J/kg and have achieved gene transfer to the lungs with no mortality or injury. Our R21 Phase specific aims are to (1) optimize electroporation parameters for safety and gene transfer to the lungs of pigs, (2) evaluate methods of DNA delivery, (3) develop and optimize a bronchoscope-based electrode for lung gene delivery, and (4) determine whether gene transfer of ENaC as well as Na,K-ATPase subunit genes increases efficacy of gene therapy for treatment of lung injury in a mouse model. At the end of the R21 phase, we will have established optimal parameters for gene delivery to the pig lung and have determined the best therapeutic gene combination to treat lung injury in two complementary pig models of ALI. The R33 phase specific aims are (1) evaluate efficacy of electroporation-mediated gene transfer of Na,K-ATPase/ENaC gene subunits to prevent lung injury in a saline lavage model of mild-moderate ALI, (2) determine whethere transfer of these genes can treat pre-existing lung injury in this model, (3) determine whether transfer of these genes can protect from lung injury in a severe sepsis-induced cecal ligation and pucture model of ARDS, and (4) evaluate whether this approach can be used to treat previously established sepsis-induced lung injury in this model. These studies will provide us with the proof-of-principle for transthoracic pulmonary electroporation and establish the safety and efficacy in an two established pre-clinical models. PROJECT NARRATIVE Acute lung injury, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), and Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome are common, devastating clinical syndromes that affect an estimated 200,000 adult and neonatal patients each year in the US and have up to 40% mortality with the current standard of care. We have developed a nonviral gene therapy approach using electric fields that can prevent as well as treat existing ARDS in two small animal models. The work proposed in this study will extend these findings to a large animal model to evaluate whether these findings can be translated into larger subjects and ultimately humans. At the end of the study, we will have demonstrated efficacy of this novel approach to treat lung injury in an established pre-clinical model.
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Today is February 19, which means that there are only 10 more days left in Black History Month. By now you've surely heard the facts and stories: how Frederick Douglass learned to read; how Harriet Tubman freed her people; the enduring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
But there's an entirely different angle to celebrating Black History Month, one steeped in understanding the lesser known facts—or complete falsities—behind some of our country's greatest African American heroes and happenings. For that, we have Little Known Black History Facts, a Tumblr page Louisville, Ky., writer and humorist Tracy Clayton has managed since 2008.
In that time, it's grown into 34 pages of outlandish African American falsehoods and stereotypes, from identifying the first person to refer to something as a "hot mess" to recognizing the first woman to "claim that she doesn't hang out with a lot of females because they're too much drama."
"It all started as a hashtag," Clayton wrote to the Daily Dot. "I'm a Twitter addict, and I love a good, fun hashtag. By the third hour, I said to myself, 'Someone should compile all these.' So, I made a quick little Tumblr to keep them in, and decided to revive it and add more 'facts' each February for Black History Month."
In that time, Little Known Black History Facts has grown from Clayton's own baby to a Web-wide phenomenon, with people posting their own facts elsewhere online (though Clayton says that the many of them are tasteless and disrespectful).
Toeing that line is something that must be done carefully, and it's there that Clayton excels.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story stated that Little Known Black History Facts accepts reader submissions. It doesn't, but several others have posted their own facts elsewhere on the Web.
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How a new bipartisan law will help our Afghan allies resettle in the US
While we managed to rescue at least 100,000 of our Afghan allies, tens of thousands still remain. Make no mistake, rescuing those still at the mercy of the Taliban should be our most urgent priority. Images of desperate Afghans chasing after departing planes may no longer be plastering our TV screens, and that is to the advantage of the brutally merciless Taliban. On a daily basis, my team and I hear from Afghans who are hiding in basements or worse because they’re being hunted down for helping the United States.
That said, we should also ensure the success of our Afghan allies who have made it to our shores.
Earlier this month, Congress took an important step by passing a bill I wrote— the Welcoming Evacuees Coming from Overseas to Mitigate Effects of Displacement Act of 2021—also known as the WELCOMED Act. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska introduced the bill with me, making it bipartisan, and President Biden signed it into law.
The bill addresses a major challenge for many of the more than 100,000 Afghans being relocated to the United States: getting the basic resources afforded to refugees. Because we started the evacuation so late and had to do paperwork on the fly, State Department officials had to use a technical loophole to get around the forms that are normally required, which barred many of our allies from these standard benefits. These evacuees are Afghan-American heroes. They shouldn’t be punished for the way we brought them out.
Here are just a few of the major things this bill will accomplish for our friends:
Even with an economy quickly recovering from the pandemic, the U.S. has 10 million unfilled jobs. The good news is Afghans are ready to work. I met recently with an interpreter that was resettled to my district who hopes to be a commercial driver, something we desperately need. The WELCOMED Act will provide evacuees with employment authorization and the resources to fill these jobs so they can contribute to strengthening the American economy.
Many of these Afghans are entering the U.S. as lawyers, engineers or accountants with advanced degrees, and will have to begin in entry-level jobs. But they are willing to work, and we have work for them to do.
Speaking of working hard: Imagine working hard enough to buy your very own home, but having to abandon it before even being able to sell it.
That’s the reality for thousands of our evacuees. Amid a strained housing market, increasingly high rents and record-levels inflation, securing housing for our evacuees is proving to be the steepest challenge. The WELCOMED Act will equip evacuees with a stipend to put towards rent.
For more than two decades, Afghanistan has been a warzone rife with conflict and instability. As a result, our allies, particularly those who served alongside our military, as troops, translators or drivers, are arriving with complex physical and mental health care needs.
The WELCOMED Act will connect our evacuees with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement who will provide our friends with long-term medical assistance to combat everything from post-traumatic stress and depression to heart disease, respiratory issues and more.
The effort to secure life-saving benefits for our allies who stood beside us for the past two decades has been a united American priority and a personal goal of mine since I arrived in Congress in 2015. The WELCOMED Act is already working to give these heroes and their families the chance to build happy, sustainable futures here in their new home.
I look forward to witnessing them realize the American dream, and I’m grateful to my Democratic and Republican colleagues in Congress for working so hard to give them the start they deserve.
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With the holiday season upon us many people have been looking for ways to earn some extra cash for their gift lists. Most people dig in at work and work endless overtime, while others may clean house and sell off old devices. Another option that people of all ages (starting at 21) have been turning to rideshare apps.
Lyft and Uber are the current titans in this booming industry and are fighting neck and neck for riders AND drivers. Is their a difference between the two? Does one pay more than the other? Let's take a deeper look at both platforms and see where they differ and where they are exactly the same.
In the Beginning
Even though its name has caught on in recent years, Uber was founded almost 10 years ago by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick as Uber Cab. Like most life changing inventions, Uber was conceived on New Year's Eve after Camp and some friends had to foot an $800 bill for a private driver. Camp began to think of a way to rectify this, by first realizing that sharing the cost with friends would help, and from there he tumbled down the rabbit hole to Uber. After the first prototype was built by Camp, Oscar Salazar and Conrad Whelan, Kalanick was brought in as the advisor to the company. Kalanick credits Camp for the “idea” of Uber.
Lyft's story goes back even further than Uber's. Logan Green and John Zimmer launched Lyft in 2012 as an added service through Zimride. Zimride was a long distance ridesharing company they both founded in 2007. In the beginning, Zimride was more catered to those traveling long distances. It also used the Facebook Connection application to link passengers with drivers. Before the official name change to Lyft, Zimride was the biggest rideshare program in the US.
Uber Vs. Lyft: Sign Up
Signing up for either one of these companies is a breeze. There is no formal interview process, just a few questions about yourself and your vehicle. As long as you and your vehicle meet the requirements, you can be off on your way towards making money. There may be a difference in sign up bonus money, but they are still relatively the same. Both companies will allow you to use your own car as the vehicle you pick people up in, but that old beat up Pinto in the driveway probably won't cut it. Here are the vehicle and driver requirements for both companies.
Uber: Car Requirements
- Vehicle must be 10 years old or newer (model year 2007)
- Must be a four-door car, truck, or minivan
- Vehicle must have seating and seat belts for 4 passengers, not including the driver
- Must pass a mechanical vehicle inspection
- Driver’s full name must be on the insurance for the vehicle
- Driver’s name does NOT have to be on vehicle registration
Uber: Unqualified Vehicles
- No full-size vans (Ford Transit, Ford E-Series, GMC Savana)
- No taxis or other marked vehicles.
- No commercial markings or advertisements
- No salvaged or rebuilt vehicles (salvage title)
Uber: Driver Requirements
- No convictions for a a felony, violent crime, or sexual offense within the last seven years
- A minimum of 1 year U.S. licensing history
- If under age 23, must have at least 3 years licensing history
- International driving experience doesn’t count
- A clean Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) with no more than 3 incidents in the past 3 years
- No DUIs and no reckless driving
- California Uber drivers must not have a DUI in the last 10 years.
- No speeding violations for driving 20 mph or greater over the speed limit in the past 3 years.
- You must be at least 21 years old
- In-state auto insurance with your name on the policy
- In-state driver’s license
- In-state license plates with current registration (commercial plates are acceptable as well)
- You must have a social security number
Uber will do a background check on you BUT NOT a credit check. You can log onto Uber's website and see which reports they actually check. After you've provided all necessary information it will go through the process of verification. The steps of verification are:
- Onboarding – reviewing your documents and background check
- Waitlisted – issues with your documents; re-running your background check if you’re already a driver.
- Consider – background check is still underway; taking a closer look at your background
- Active – you’re able to log into driver mode and accept rides
- Rejected – your application was rejected, or you’ve been deactivated
Its also important to note that you don't need a car to be an Uber driver. Uber will help you buy, lease or rent a car through Hyrecar.
Lyft: Car Requirements (full list of requirements per state on their website)
- 4-door car that is year 2006 or newer.
- Must seat 4 passengers
- No major cosmetic damage
- No salvage or rebuilt title
- Must pass a vehicle inspection
- Driver must pass a background check and driving record check
- Driver must be listed on vehicle’s insurance policy
Lyft: Unqualified Vehicles
- Full-sized vans (12 or 15-passenger vans like Ford Transit and E-Series, GMC Savana)
- Taxis and other commercially-marked vehicles
- Salvage title or rebuilt title, even if the vehicle is in great condition
Lyft: Driver Requirements
- You must be at least 21 years old
- Own a smartphone: iPhone 5s or newer running iOS 11+, Android devices running 7+
- Comply with any local regulations in your area
- No more than three moving violations in the past three years (e.g. accidents, traffic light violations)
- No major violations in the past three years (e.g. driving on a suspended license, reckless driving)
- No DUIs or other drug-related driving violations in the last seven years
- No extreme infractions in the last seven years (e.g. hit-and-run, felonies involving a vehicle)
Lyft does a similar background check to Uber's. Log on to their website to find out which databases they check. Unlike Uber, Lyft doesn't have a road markers throughout the process. Lyft asks that you give the background check 3-10 days. Similar to Uber though, you do not need to own a car to drive for Lyft. They too will help you get set up with Hyrecar if that is a route you would like to take.
Uber Vs Lyft: Compensation
With both Lyft and Uber its almost impossible to verify how much a driver can make an hr on a consistent basis. As you are not payed hourly, but by the rides you give and tips, it can vary from area to area, driver to driver and so forth. You may see a lot of ads by both companies advertising high pay days and instant payments. The truth is, most drivers can earn about $15/hr. It should be pointed out that that number comes with A BUNCH of asterisks…
Signup bonus: Uber and Lyft
Both companies offer high sign on bonuses of usually a minimum of $500 to as high as $2200. It's important to read the fine print as some of these bonuses are specific to a particular state. Some require a referral code and some require you to be a new driver. There are also some that require you to give a certain amount of rides before you see that bonus. In any case, before you sign up and go through the background checks and car inspections, make sure you know what is required of you to get the amount advertised.
Peak Times: Uber and Lyft
Both Uber and Lyft offer extra money when you drive during peak times like early morning and early evening. This is because a lot of people request rides at this time and there is a lot of traffic out on the road. For example, a ride that might net you $4 and some change at normal hours could possibly be upwards of $6+. Obviously it pays to drive around peak times, but it can be frustrating and extremely busy.
Hot Zones: Uber and Lyft
Just like with peak times, there are certain areas that utilize ridesharing a lot more than others. Normally in the city, drivers are paid extra cash for driving to these areas and giving rides. At the right time, these areas can provide a windfall of cash in a short amount of time, but again, these areas are very busy and very frustrating sometimes. You WILL earn your money in these areas.
XL, LUX, LUX BLACK, LUX BLACK XL: Uber and Lyft
These are services that both apps offer. All they are are bigger cars that can hold more people or luxury cars. If your car meets the requirements to be considered XL or LUX, you'll get a slightly better pay day than regular vehicles.
Money Guarantee: Uber and Lyft
Almost every week, Lyft and Uber will offer incentives to get drivers out on the road. They do this with money guarantees. It may say something like, “Give 25 rides by Sunday and get $250 guaranteed.” If there are no further requirements or restrictions, then all you have to do is give 25 (or amount specified) by the date specified and you are guaranteed $250. Let's say you give 25 and only net $200. Both Lyft and Uber will give you the difference of $50 or whatever the amount you're short. If you give the specified rides and make more than the guarantee, good for you. Nothing extra is coming your way though.
Uber Vs. Lyft: Using the App
Your vehicle passed inspection, you've passed the background check and you've got some time to knock out some rides…now what? You download the app for free. Make sure you download the “driver” app and not the “rider” app. Once again, both apps are nearly identical in what they offer.
Surge Map: Uber and Lyft
After downloading the app and logging in, your main screen will be a map, similar to the one you use regularly with Google or Apple. Your current location will be in the form of a colored “dot” and if you navigate around the map, you'll see the current Surge/hot zone areas, along with a percentage showing how much more you'll make if you drive to this area.
You may get pop up windows of important information that Uber or Lyft wants you to know like:
- Money Guarantees
- Insurance information
- News about the respective company
- Scheduled Pickups
Go Online/Live: Uber and Lyft
At the top of the app is a button that you will slide to the right. This will turn you “on” for giving rides. From this point you can sit in the house and wait for a ride to come through, or you can drive to a “central” location and increase the odds of getting more rides. This is the most straightforward way to drive for Uber or Lyft.
Profile: Uber and Lyft
In your profile tab you'll find all of the information like:
- Vehicle – summary of the vehicle in use
- Documents – all of your documents on file
- Navigation – how to change your navigation settings
- Payment info – your bank info and card info
Earnings: Uber and Lyft
Your earnings tab will break down how many rides you've given, how many hours you've driven, your weekly goal, earnings guarantees, bonus history and ride history. It's also in this tab that you would choose to get paid instantly. It's important to note that there is a small fee for instant deposit and the amount has to be a minimum amount of $7 – 10$.
Uber Vs. Lyft: Flexibility
The beauty of driving for Uber or Lyft is the flexibility. You can start when you want, stop when you want and there isn't a boss telling you how to do your job. There are also a few ways to customize your driving experience to fit your lifestyle. As stated earlier, ‘going live' is the basic way to start driving. You turn on the app and wait to get a ride. Here are some other ways to give rides…
Scheduled Pickups: Uber and Lyft
Rather than sitting around waiting to get the call to pick someone up, you can actually accept scheduled pick ups. These rides are offered hours or even days in advance. They'll tell you how much you should net, where you're going and how long it should take. This is great for folks who might want a little more ‘control' over where they go.
Destination Filter: Uber and Lyft
Destination filter is great for those that have somewhere to be at a specific time but want to earn some extra cash beforehand. Say you're a stay at home mom and you have to pick the kids up at 2pm. With destination filter you can set the schools address and the time you need to be there so that no rides will be offered to you that might make you miss that deadline.
Another function of destination filter is for when you're already on the road heading in a certain direction. With destination filter you can set the app to only offer rides to people that are heading in the same direction.
Uber Vs. Lyft: The Downside
Ride sharing is the perfect way to make money for anyone with a good car and some spare time. While it's hard to pinpoint just how much you can make an hr, if you put in the time, you can make good money. There is a downside to all that money you got floating around in your brain.
Car Maintenance: Uber and Lyft
If this is your “second job” then all the driving you do to get to and from work, pick up kids, pick up spouses and run errands can be a lot. Now imagine being on the road for Lyft or Uber for an hour or two…a few days a week. You're going to burn through your gas faster so some of that money you just made is going into your gas tank. You'll run your miles up faster so you'll need oil changes quicker…and brakes…and tune ups…and more gas.
Both Lyft and Uber offer perks on gas and car maintenance the more you drive and every bit helps, but a broke down car is always an inconvenience.
Hit or Miss Paydays: Uber and Lyft
Even though you can make your own schedule, you'll quickly learn that its more lucrative to drive during surge/peak times or in hot zones. Most hot zones are located in the city or busy areas and most surge times are rush hour traffic. If you yourself is working during those times, you can't reap the benefits. If you don't like driving at that time, you'll be even more frustrated. Going out on a Monday at 11 am for a couple hours will not always be worth your time. The best time to drive will ALWAYS be surge/peak times, hot zones and sporting events.
If you're looking for this to supplement income, unless you drive at the proper times to maximize your time out, it can end up costing YOU more.
You Just Never Know: Uber and Lyft
You're sitting at home and a ride comes through. A picture of a young girl or guy pops up and the app tells you this person is 5 miles away. It doesn't tell you where exactly this person is until you accept to pick them up. Some questions you might be thinking:
- Who is this person?
- Where do they live?
- Where do they need to go?
- Do I have enough gas?
- Is it just them?
- Do they have pets?
- Do they need to go far?
All valid questions, and you won't get any answers until you agree to pick them up, drive to them and then the app will tell you where you're going. Could be around the corner, could be 30 minutes away or it could even be 2 hours away! The point is, you never know until you pick someone up. That can be a little unnerving for some.
In the end, both companies are offering the same opportunities and virtually the same rates of pay. Uber is the more popular company as most of the world heard about IT first. Recent problems with hiring practices and CEO's has put them in a bad spotlight so Lyft might edge out just a little. Lyft has been seen to be more “young and hip” while Uber is more “professional”. Either way, whichever you choose make sure you get all the details you need to make the right decision. Find those hot zones and surge times and go get some of that fast money.
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Whether you are looking to make a little extra money for the holidays or a full-time job, or something in-between, Uber and Lyft are great options to consider.
In addition to earning cash, you can set your own schedule and work as little or as much as you like. Not too many companies offer this type of freedom with decent pay and benefits.
In some cities, you don’t even need your own car; you can rent a car from Uber or Lyft for a small fee. Some of the most commonly asked questions are answered below.
Begin the Application Process
To get started, you’ll need to know the basic requirements for an Uber driver. As you go through the application process, whether it is through the phone app or online, you’ll be prompted to provide some personal and vehicle information.
You will have to agree to a background and driving record check, but you will have a chance to explain any convictions or moving violations.
How can you start driving for Uber?
The first step is to download the app. Although you can apply online, you’ll need the app to begin driving anyway. You’ll complete the application, submit your documents, and find out if your car is eligible during the sign-up process. Then you’ll wait for them to check your background and driving record. Once that is completed, you can begin driving and earning money.
Should I drive for Uber?
Yes. If you don’t like it, you can easily remove yourself from the app. Driving for Uber is a great way to earn money whether you’re looking for full- or part-time work. Since you can make your own schedule, it’s a no-brainer.
How much money can you make driving for Uber?
Among all states in the U.S., Uber drivers make an average of $25 an hour after commission and sales tax. Keep in mind that the more hours you drive, the more money you will make. In most cases, if you reach a certain number of driving hours, you will also receive a bonus.
What is it like to drive for Uber?
Set your own hours and work as much as little as you’d like. You’ll meet all types of people from all walks of life. If you want Uber to be your only job, that is quite possible. Most drivers agree that the benefits greatly outweigh the occasional rude customer.
Is driving for Uber worth it?
Most Uber drivers give a resounding “Yes”. Although driving for Uber is what you make it, you can earn good money while making your own schedule and meeting new people. As long as you meet the basic age and vehicle requirements, you will always have a job.
How do I sign up to drive for Uber?
Signing up is easy, and you can do it via the app or online. Download the app or go to Uber.com to begin the process. You’ll submit your documents and then wait for them to complete your background and driving records.
Can you drive Uber at 20?
You have to be 21 years of age or older to become a driver for Uber. You can drive for Uber Eats when you are 19, so you may want to consider that option instead.
What are the requirements to drive for Uber?
You must be at least 21 years old and licensed to drive in the U.S. for at least 1 year (or 3 if you’re under the age of 23). The car you drive has to be a 4-door vehicle that is 10 years old (some cities allow 15) or newer and you’ll need proof of registration. Your license and plates must be issued by the state you wish to drive in, as well as the auto insurance policy with your name on it. You have to pass a background check and a driving record check.
Do you have to be 21 to drive Uber?
You do have to be 21 years of age or older to drive for Uber. In some states you may need to be 23 or older. Some of the food delivery services will let you drive for them if you are at least 19 or older.
How long does it take to start driving for Uber?
It typically takes about 3-5 days for the background and driving record check to be completed. In some areas it could take up to 7 days. You can be proactive during this time and scout some areas that will be good for picking up riders on a regular basis during the times you want to work.
What do I need to drive for Uber?
You’ll need the following documents to complete the sign-up process: driver’s license, proof of residency, and proof of insurance (if you plan on driving your own car). You can easily complete the entire process through the app by taking pictures of your documents.
Driving Records and Background Checks
Very few of us have spotless driving records. Riders want to know they are with a safe, experienced driver in a reliable vehicle. It’s important to understand the background and vehicle requirements before you begin driving for Uber or Lyft. Some requirements vary by state or region, but it’s relatively easy to figure out what you’ll need to begin earning money as a driver.
Is driving Uber safe for females?
Yes, driving for Uber is just as safe as any other customer service occupation. They have 24-hour emergency assistance and allow you to share your trips with others. If you are still concerned, you may want to look into Uber Eats, since they allow you to have a friend ride along with you.
Can you drive for Uber with a DUI?
If you have a DUI conviction within the past 7 years, then you will not be able to drive for Lyft or Uber. If you do not have a conviction you may still be able to drive for these companies, so it’s best to go ahead and apply to see if you are eligible.
Can you drive for Uber with a felony on your record?
In most cases, no, you cannot drive for Uber if you have a felony or any charge more severe than a misdemeanor. A violent crime or sexual offense will prevent you from being accepted as a driver.
Is driving for Uber safe?
Yes, there have rarely been reports of harm and or harassment from Uber drivers. Uber has multiple layers of safety established for its drivers: the app allows for 24-hour emergency assistance, and you can share all your rides with loved ones so they know where you are at all times.
How old can your car be to drive for Uber?
You’ll need a car that is less than 10 years old in most states; although some allow for cars 15 years old or less. The great thing about Uber is that you don’t have to drive your own car to earn money – you can rent a car, for a fee, but you’ll still be able to make money.
How far will I have to drive with Uber?
You’re free to choose which trips you’d like to accept through the app, but there are usually limits established by Uber. You probably won’t find a trip more than an hour or two, but 4 hours tends to be the maximum allowed.
Can I drive Uber in another state?
Most states required you to have an in-state license and registration, but some might give a 30-day grace period to switch over. When you sign up for Uber, you’ll be approved for certain areas and regions to drive in.
Can you drive Uber with a rental car?
You do have some options with Hertz to drive a rental car for Uber, but it’s way more expensive than renting a car directly from Uber. It’s best to avoid this option unless you have a particular circumstance or situation in which it is unavoidable.
Do you need special insurance to drive for Uber?
There’s no special insurance required to become a driver. All you need is your own car insurance to qualify to become a driver. While you are actively driving for Uber, they provide an additional level of liability insurance.
Can you drive for Uber with a manual car?
Yes, as long as the car meets all the other rules for eligible vehicles, you can drive a car with automatic or manual transmission. There are very few limitations for Uber vehicles.
Can I drive a corvette for Uber?
You could only drive a corvette if it has 4 doors and meets the other requirements for an Uber vehicle. If you need an alternative vehicle, you can rent on directly from Uber.
Find the Best Fit For You
There are some specialty services offered by Uber that you may want to consider, even if you don’t meet the eligibility requirements of an Uber driver, you still have options. Other services, like Uber BLACK, may allow you to increase your profits by doing the same amount of driving. You may also have unique circumstances you are wondering about. We’ve tried to address those below.
How to drive for Uber BLACK?
UberBLACK is specifically for luxury SUV’s with black exterior and interior that are 2010 or newer. The SUV must seat a minimum of 4 passengers. You’ll also need a commercial license and registration, and an airport permit. Preferred cars include Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz.
How can you drive for Uber eats?
You must be 19 years of age or older with a 1998 or newer vehicle and a valid driver’s license, insurance, and proof of vehicle registration. Uber Eats drivers must have 1 year of driving experience, and the ability to lift up to 30 lbs.
Can you have a passenger while driving for Uber eats?
Yes, you can! In fact, most people find it to be efficient to have a passenger to do the running, and the driver doing the driving. Females may also feel a bit safer making deliveries with a friend.
How much do you make driving for Uber eats?
You can earn around $12 an hour driving for Uber eats after deducting vehicle expenses. It will vary day to day, and it will also increase if you work during lunch and/or dinner rush hours.
What is a self-driving Uber?
Uber has tested a limited number of self-driving cars to transport passengers. So far, self-driving cars have not had a lot of success. In fact, there have been accidents involving self-driving cars that have raised concerns regarding their use.
Can I drive Uber on a F1 visa?
Being employed as a driver for Uber would violate the status of an F1 visa in most cases. If you are granted an economic hardship and are allowed to pursue off-campus employment, it still may not be possible.
Can I drive Uber with H1b immigration status?
No, you can’t; driving for Uber would be considered a violation, because you are only permitted to work for your H1b employer. You would need a concurrent H1b specifically to drive for Uber in the U.S.
Can international students drive Uber?
Because of the F1 status of international students preventing you from being employed, you would not be legally allowed to work for Uber. You must file a tax return if you earn more than $600 annually.
Maximize Your Profits
As you begin your work as an Uber driver, there are things you can do to maximize your earning potential. Whether you work full-time or part-time, you’ll want to make the most of every hour you spend on the road.
When is the best time to drive for Uber?
The best time to drive are various rush hours, where there are a large number of riders. Catch people going to work or heading to the airport in the morning and the evening. Later in the day, you might get a rush of people going out for dinner or drinks. People who’ve had too many drinks will then need a ride home. It’s up to you to decide which crowd you feel most comfortable with.
How to make the most money driving for Uber?
Rush hours are the best time to find riders, but you’ll make the most money by finding the times where drivers are in high demand. Some drivers sell snacks and drinks to their riders to add to their earnings.
How many people drive for Uber?
Uber reports that around 750,000 drivers are active in the United States. Worldwide, there are around 2 million drivers. You can find out how many drivers are in your area by checking online.
Can you sell while driving Uber?
Uber does allow you to sell goods like snacks and drinks (but not limited to that) to your riders. This can be a great way to make some extra money during your trips.
Does Uber drive long distance?
There will be a limited area for an Uber trip, but in some cases, it can be up to 4 hours one way. This is not typical. The longest rides may be 1-2 hours, but no more than that.
Do Uber drivers drive in snow?
Yes, they do. Rates may be higher during periods of snow, so if you feel comfortable driving, it may be a great time to earn additional money. Also, more people may be looking for rides when it’s snowing. Make sure your tires are good enough for snow. If you need better ones then shop for cheap car tires online.
How much do you make driving for Uber part time?
The average hourly rate for Uber drivers is between 12 and 25 dollars per hour. Depending on how many hours you want to drive and the times you are available, you may make more or less per hour.
Is it worth driving for Uber full time?
It depends on your specific situation, but if you are unemployed or you make less than ten dollars an hour, it’s probably worth it to try driving full-time. You can always begin driving part-time to see how you like it and if it’s worth your time. Read more: How can I make extra money?
Can Uber drivers drive anywhere?
When you sign up to drive for Uber, you will be approved within a certain area or region, and you won’t be able to drive outside of that area while working. The longest ride is typically 1 or 2 hours, and in rare circumstances may be up to 4 hours away.
There are always special circumstances when it comes to driving for Uber or Lyft, and your application is considered on a case-by-case basis. You do have the opportunity to explain your situation during the sign-up process, but it’s important to be truthful with your answers. If you don’t qualify to be an Uber or Lyft driver, you may still have other similar options.
Can you drive for Uber with a suspended license?
Probably not. You need a valid license in order to drive for Uber. If you have a suspended license, your insurance may not be valid.
Can I drive Uber with my child?
You cannot bring your child along if you are driving for Uber. Having any non-paying passenger of any age can get you deactivated from the Uber app and you will no longer be allowed to drive for them.
Does driving for Uber affect insurance?
You will want to check your policy before you begin driving for Uber. Some policies may not cover you while you are getting paid to drive, but you’ll have the coverage Uber offers while you’re working.
Can I drive for Uber if I have a SR22?
In most states, your insurance will have to be associated to the car you are driving, so as long as your insurance covers your car it should be acceptable with SR-22 insurance.
Do you need TLC to drive Uber?
You will need a TLC (Taxi and Limo Commission) license to drive in certain areas, including New York City and Long Island. You can check with Uber or begin the application process to find out the specific requirements in your area.
Can I drive Uber with my parents’ car?
In most cases, the answer is yes, as long as your insurance is tied to their car. Some states may require your name be on the car registration as well.
When will Uber use self-driving cars?
Uber has launched a limited amount of self-driving cars in certain cities, but some challenges are yet to be solved when it comes to self-driving cars. There is no set date for the widespread use of self-driving cars.
Can you drive for Uber and collect unemployment?
In most states, you are required to report any income to the unemployment office, and this may reduce the amount of unemployment compensation you will receive. You’ll want to read your unemployment terms before you begin driving.
Can I hire someone to drive my car for Uber?
As long as that person meets the requirements to be an Uber driver and has insurance tied to your car, then you can hire them (or allow them) to drive your car.
Will Uber give you a car to drive?
Yes, they will. You will have to pay a fee, but Uber will rent, lease, or sell you a vehicle if you do not have your own. You can review your options when you sign up.
Lyft vs. Uber?
There is much debate as to which service is better when comparing Uber or Lyft, but the truth is, many drivers work for both Uber and Lyft. It’s best to begin with just one and then add on the other once you feel comfortable with your schedule and have identified the most profitable areas in your region.
Should I drive for Uber or Lyft?
Both services are similar; however, Uber drivers report making slightly more per hour than Lyft drivers on average. You may want to check out the services in your area to see which one is better for you, or you can try both.
Can you drive for Uber and Lyft?
Yes. You can drive for both companies and switch between apps throughout your day if you choose, or drive for Uber one day and Lyft the next. Signing up for both will allow you to maximize your earning potential, based on rates and bonuses each one offers.
How to make a living driving for Uber and Lyft?
Without a doubt, you can earn a living income working for Uber or Lyft. If you maximize your earnings during morning and evening rush hours and other busy high-demand times, you can make more than some professionals do, all while setting your own schedule and being your own boss.
Why drive for Lyft?
If you want to be your own boss and determine your own schedule, driving for Lyft is a great idea, especially if you’re having a hard time finding work elsewhere. It’s a great way to make some extra cash whether you are looking for full-time or part-time work.
Where to Begin
It’s easy to get the process started if you’re considering becoming a driver for Lyft, regardless of if you are looking for full-time or part time work from home jobs. As you navigate through the application process, Lyft is there every step of the way in case you have questions or concerns. If you are still not sure you qualify, it’s best to complete the application process to be sure.
Who is better to drive for Uber or Lyft?
Hourly rates are slightly higher for Uber drivers compared to drivers for Lyft. Both offer bonuses, and many drivers work for both services to maximize their profits. It also depends on your specific location and the hours you choose to work.
What are the requirements to drive for Lyft?
You must be 21 years of age, pass a DMV and a criminal background check, and have a current, valid license and insurance. You will obviously need to have a device that will support the Lyft app. A moving violation, DUI, or criminal record may prevent you from driving for Lyft. Additional requirements may apply based on the city and state you drive in.
How to drive for Lyft?
Download the app or apply online to begin the process. Signing up is easy, and you can upload your documents by computer or phone. You’ll have to wait for them to complete the background and driving record check before you can begin earning money as a driver.
How much can you make driving for Lyft?
It varies based on the hours you drive and your specific area, but most Lyft drivers make at least ten dollars an hour after vehicle expenses. It is possible to make even more per hour, you just have to find the right time and location.
Is driving for Lyft worth it?
If you need to make some extra money and you have your own car, driving for Lyft is worth it if you don’t mind transporting strangers from one point to another. Although you will get some wear and tear on your vehicle, you will still make a profit.
What do I need to drive for Lyft?
You will need to provide your license, proof of residency and proof of insurance to begin the application process. You can submit these documents online or via the app, so it’s a very simple process.
How long does it take to start driving for Lyft?
It takes anywhere between 3 and 7 days for Lyft to complete the background and driving record check. Once that is completed you can begin driving and earning money immediately.
What is it like to drive for Lyft?
You can set your own schedule and work as many or as little hours as you’d like. Depending on the hours you drive, you’ll encounter various types of people from all walks of life. With wages and tips, you can make a decent living if driving for Lyft.
Do you need a bank account to drive for Lyft?
Yes, you will need a checking account in order to get paid as a driver for Lyft. You will also have to complete tax forms to get paid.
It can be a car, truck, or SUV, but you will need a vehicle to transport your customers. It doesn’t necessarily have to be YOUR vehicle, though, because you may be able to use someone else’s car or rent a car from Lyft for a small fee. You will have to pass a vehicle inspection regardless of whose vehicle you will be driving.
How old can your car be to drive for Lyft?
It varies by city and region, but you’ll need a vehicle at least 2003 or newer. Some areas may require 2006 or 2008 or newer, but you can find out on the app when you apply.
What year car to drive Lyft?
It depends on the area you are approved to drive in, but you’ll need a 2003 or 2006 model or newer in order to drive your car for Lyft.
Can you drive a leased car with Lyft?
Yes, as long as your name is on the lease and you meet all the other driver requirements, then you can use a leased car to drive for Lyft. You may want to track your mileage though, because most leases allow for limited miles. You don’t want to incur any fees due to going over your allotted miles.
Can I rent a car and drive for Lyft?
You’re better off renting a card directly from Lyft, because they offer much better options compared to a standard rental car company. Lyft has multiple options for renting or leasing cars while still allowing you to earn money as a driver.
Can someone else drive my car for Lyft?
If they meet all requirements for becoming a Lyft driver, and their insurance is tied to your vehicle, then yes, someone else can drive your car as a Lyft driver.
Can you drive Lyft with a 2 door?
Both Lyft and Uber require you drive a vehicle with at least 4 doors. If you don’t have one, you can rent one from them, so having a 2-door vehicle won’t prevent you from being able to make money driving for Lyft.
Can you drive Lyft with a cracked windshield?
It might depend on the severity of the crack. You will have to pass a vehicle inspection prior to being hired as an official driver for Lyft. If the crack in your windshield does not pass inspection, you can always rent a car from Lyft and use it to drive for the service.
Do you need your own car to drive for Lyft?
No, you don’t need to own your car in order to earn money driving for Lyft. You don’t need to be on the car registration, either. As long as you have valid insurance and meet all other requirements, you can drive your car or rent a car from Lyft.
Can I drive for Lyft without a car?
Yes, you can. Lyft has multiple options for renting or leasing a vehicle with unlimited mileage allowed. You will have to pay a fee, but you’ll still make a profit by utilizing one of their rental programs.
What car do you need to drive for Lyft?
You will need a 4-door vehicle that is around 2006 or newer (vehicle age requirements vary by city). It can be a car, truck, or SUV, but it must not have any major body damage and the interior must be decent, too. There will be a vehicle inspection before you can drive for Lyft.
Can you drive a salvage car for Lyft?
You won’t be able to drive for Lyft if you have a salvage title, even if your car is in excellent condition. You can look into rental options if you’d still like to earn money as a Lyft driver.
Can you drive for Lyft with a dent?
You will have to go through a vehicle inspection, so it might depend how large the dent is. If that disqualifies you, you can look into renting a car from Lyft so you can still earn money driving for their service.
Insurance and License
Every insurance policy is different, and licensing requirements also tend to vary by state or region. You will have to review your specific policies so you are well-informed as you complete your application and become employed by Lyft.
Do you need a business license to drive for Lyft?
In most areas you don’t need any special license to earn money driving for Lyft. Some cities or regions may require a special license, but as you go through the sign-up process you will know what you need to drive in your area.
Will my insurance go up if I drive for Lyft?
It might depend on your insurance policy. In some states, you might need a commercial policy to drive for Lyft, but keep in mind that while you are on the clock, Lyft offers additional protection in case of an accident.
Do you need a TLC license to drive for Lyft?
In some areas, such as New York City or Long Island, you will need a TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) license in order to drive for Lyft or any other drive-for-hire service.
Does driving for Lyft increase insurance?
It won’t increase your insurance in most cases, because Lyft will provide additional coverage and protection while you are on-duty working for them. Your private insurance policy will cover you on your personal time, when you are not driving for Lyft.
Do I need special insurance to drive for Lyft?
You won’t need any type of special insurance, but you will need insurance tied to the vehicle you’re driving. You will also want to check your insurance policy for any drive-for-hire caveats.
Can you drive Lyft with insurance under another name?
The car you drive can be in someone else’s name, but your name will need to be on a valid insurance policy that is associated with the vehicle you are driving.
Can I drive Lyft before I have registration for my new car?
Not necessarily, as long as you have insurance associated to that car, then you should be able to drive for Lyft in that vehicle. It is possible that this varies by state, but in most cases, you should be able to drive without the registration.
If you are not sure that you will qualify to be a driver, it’s best to still go through the sign-up process. You may come to a dead-end, but you won’t know if you qualify unless you try. Lyft may also give you additional information regarding how to improve your record so that you will become eligible in the future.
Can you drive for Lyft with a DUI?
A criminal background check will be performed, and you must have a clean driving record. You will not qualify will any trace of a DUI within the last 7 years.
Can I drive Lyft in another state?
When you sign up to drive for Lyft, you will be assigned a driving region. This could include different states based on your area. As you go through the sign-up process, you’ll see what options you have for driving regions.
Can someone else ride with me while driving for Lyft?
No, you can’t have a friend or other non-paying passenger ride along with you while driving for Lyft. If you are concerned by being alone, you can share your trips with family and friends so they can track your whereabouts.
Can you drive Lyft with out of state license?
The answer depends on your region. If you live in an area close to state borders, it’s possible you can drive in another state. During the sign-up process, you’ll see what areas and locations you are permitted to drive for Lyft in.
Can you drive Lyft with temporary tags?
As long as your temporary tags are not expired, you should be permitted to drive for Lyft with those tags. Once they expire, you will need to get permanent tags to continue driving for Lyft.
Can I drive for Lyft with someone else's car?
You can if you meet the requirements for a Lyft driver and if your insurance is associated with the car you will be driving. You may need to be listed on the car registration as well depending on the regulations in your state.
Can you have a felony and drive for Lyft?
You’ll be disqualified as a Lyft driver if you have a felony, a violent crime, or a sexual offense on your criminal record. Anything more than a misdemeanor will prevent you from driving for Lyft.
Can sex offenders drive for Lyft?
No, in most cases having a sexual or violent offense on your criminal record will prevent you from being hired as a driver for Lyft. You can apply to see if your criminal record is acceptable or not.
Can I drive for Lyft with a speeding ticket?
If you’ve had more than 3 speeding tickets in the past 3 years, then you may be disqualified from being a Lyft driver. Moving violations and accidents will also count toward this number and could prevent you from driving for Lyft.
How to drive for Lyft under age 21?
You must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Lyft, and the minimum age is 23 in some states. If you are at least 19, you can drive for food delivery services like Uber Eats. It is possible that you may not be eligible to become a Lyft driver, but don’t let that bring you down. Uber Eats and Doordash and other food delivery services have less stringent eligibility requirements than the straight driving services, so you may want to consider those options if you have your own car.
Can I drive Lyft without an SSN?
No, you need a social security number so Lyft can complete a criminal background and driving record check. Your SSN is how Lyft verifies you have legal work status in the U.S.
Can you drive Lyft while on disability?
You may be able to, but it depends on the terms of your disability agreement. There may be a limit to how many hours or how much income you can earn. If you are allowed to do a limited amount of work, then you can apply to drive for Lyft.
Can H1b students drive Lyft?
No, with an H1b status you’re typically prohibited from seeking employment outside of campus. Even if you have an economic hardship that allows you to seek outside employment, you still may not be able to drive for Lyft.
Maximize Your Earning Potential
The more hours you drive, the more money you earn as a Lyft driver. There may be a learning curve at the beginning, but once you figure out the best times and locations to drive in, you’ll easily be able to meet your financial goals, whatever they may be. It’s a good idea to try different times and locations at first, so you can find the one(s) that work best for you.
How much can I make driving for Lyft part time?
If you can arrange to drive during at least one of the peak times, you can earn anywhere between 10 and 20 dollars an hour or more driving for Lyft, even if it’s just part-time.
When is the best time to drive for Lyft?
There are multiple windows of time that tend to be the best for Lyft drivers. During the week, the morning and evening rush hours through dinnertime will be the best time. On weekends, late afternoon and evening through the early morning hours are the best times to drive.
How much can you make driving for Lyft full time?
You can make 25 dollars an hour or more working for Lyft if you drive during peak and high-demand hours. The more you drive, the more you can make.
Can I drive for Lyft in different cities?
In most cases, yes, you can drive for Lyft in different cities; however, it does depend on the specific city and state. For example, to drive for Lyft in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, VA, you may need to meet additional requirements. You can check the Lyft website for your state to see what the requirements are for different cities.
How to quit driving for Lyft?
All you need to do to quit driving for Lyft is to delete or deactivate your account. They will ask you to provide the reason you are leaving, and that’s pretty much it.
What is Lyft express drive?
Lyft Express Drive is a program that allows you to rent a car with unlimited miles allowed so you can still earn money driving for Lyft even if you do not have your own car.
How to drive Lyft premier?
Lyft Premier requires you to drive a luxury sedan or SUV that is 2010 or newer and seats at least 4 passengers comfortably. Lyft Premier is only available in select cities, but you can see all Lyft options when you sign up.
Can Lyft go through a drive thru?
It’s up to the driver to decide if they want to take the rider through a drive-thru. Drivers only make money per mile, so they’re losing money by doing this, particularly during busy hours.
Drivers and riders alike want to know they are safe at all times. Both can track rides and allow family and friends to track rides as well, which is just another layer of security Lyft offers in addition to a one-touch emergency assistance button within the app. As a driver, you get to choose which ride requests you feel comfortable with, and you can end the drive at any time.
Is driving for Lyft dangerous?
Driving for Lyft isn’t any more dangerous than similar occupations. You always have assistance in case of emergency, and you can let friends or family track your routes. You can choose which riders you wish to drive, so you have control over your passengers.
Is it safe to drive for Lyft?
Only rarely do Lyft drivers experience safety concerns, and the service does everything they can to ensure their drivers are safe. The Lyft app has a built-in emergency button that allows you to dial 911 at any time if you feel unsafe. Statistically, the greatest danger is getting into an accident or begin distracted while driving.
What is a clean driving record for Lyft?
In most cases, you can’t have more than 3 traffic violations in the last three years on your driving record to qualify as a Lyft driver. There is no cost to sign-up as a driver, so you can always apply and see if they accept your driving record.
Does Lyft check your driving record?
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