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Career Awareness Program
Students make a collage of an assigned career. They present their collage to the rest of the class for them to guess the career.
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Inspiration®: Concept Map Creation
Creating a concept map not only helps learners organize their information, but it's fun, too! Although this resource is designed as a guide to use along with Inspiration® software, you may find the visuals useful on their own. Using the...
3rd - 12th 21st Century Skills CCSS: Designed
More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School
Put an end to wasted instructional time with this instructional activity on responsibility and preparedness. After completing this series of activities students will learn the importance of these social skills not only in the classroom,...
3rd - 12th 21st Century Skills CCSS: Adaptable
Animal Research: A Multimedia Approach
Explore the animal kingdom from the safety your classroom. Intended to build on previous learning about ecosystems, this lesson involves students working in pairs to research their favorite animal and present their findings to the class....
3rd - 6th Science CCSS: Designed
Discovering Japan Through Cooperative Research
Search a variety of sources to create a multimedia or book project about Japan. Learners use the independent investigation method to plan and conduct research about Japan. They use the information they discover to create a computer book...
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STEM is an essential skill set that is very beneficial in this generation since it is a way of thinking and doing which enables people to work together in solving some of the world’s major challenges. STEM private schools prepare students with a wide range of interests who move into any industry with valuable abilities that allow them to succeed.
This form of education offered in STEM private schools teaches kids more than just math and science principles. The emphasis on practical application-based learning fosters the development of a range of skill sets, creativity, and 21st-century competencies.
The skill sets are problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, curiosity, decision-making, leadership, entrepreneurship, and acceptance of failure. These skill sets go a great way toward training these kids to be innovative, regardless of the future professional route they are planning to take.
STEM education programs are the first step in preparing today’s youngsters to become tomorrow’s innovators and inventors. Summer camps, after-school programs, and maker spaces offer chances to refocus traditional education on the practical application and hands-on learning essential for fostering a creative mindset. | <urn:uuid:5749fd85-5230-47ad-9c0b-881777587ea8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://renantech.com/2022/08/how-stem-private-schools-can-be-beneficial-to-your-child/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945992 | 234 | 3.4375 | 3 |
In economics there is a theory called the Tragedy of the Commons, the basic premise being that public resources are inferior to private resources in creating wealth and prosperity.
In recent years, the United States has been moving away from the idea that private concerns are superior, as the welfare state grows and politicians clamor for more resources for public consumption.
Sadly, in our nation, the government does not fully appreciate all that the private sector can do, and at times even actively works against private entities that operate for the public good. Don’t believe me? Here are just a few examples.
Over the last few years, “food truck” dining has become more popular as a way to get a good meal at an inexpensive price. Not too long ago, people in cities across the country started to get the idea that they could use a food truck program to feed the homeless and poor in their communities. They began doing great work and meeting the needs of those less fortunate in their area–that is until the government got wind of what they were doing. Many municipalities stepped in and shut down these operations because they didn’t have their local government’s seals of approval.
In Las Vegas, “The City began ticketing good Samaritans who shared food with more than 24 people, under the belief that giving food to people already in the public park violated statutes requiring permits for gatherings of 25 or more people. When the ACLU of Nevada took issue with this interpretation of permit laws, the City took a more direct approach: it explicitly outlawed the sharing of food with anyone who looked poor.”
In New York City, they banned food gifts to the poor and homeless because the city could not assess their salt, fat and fiber content. So because NY couldn’t judge the health worthiness of the food, the people should starve? But it’s not just Vegas and New York; it’s happening across the country.
Another example of the government’s extreme inefficiency at work has been playing out in Washington, D.C. A local garden artist going by the moniker the Phantom Planter had been surreptitiously planting flowers in a barren DC Metro garden. The Phantom Planter, Henry Docter to his friends, has been doing similar acts of anonymous public beautification all over the world since the 1970s. However, the DC Metro authority is not amused. They have ordered him to cease and desist and announced that if he attempted to give any care to the flowers he had planted he could be fined or arrested. Well, the transit authority has now ensured that the evil (said with tongue firmly planted in cheek) Phantom Planter could do no more harm. The Metro has ripped out all thousand of the flowers planted by Docter. There it is folks, government efficiency… the garden lays barren until someone comes and spends their own money to beautify it. Then an agency that routinely whines about not having enough resources spends those resources to rip out a thousand healthy and beautiful plants. Awesome use of your tax dollars.
Lastly, lets look at the most recent plight of a good natured citizen in Jackson, Mississippi. The man has run afoul of the law by admitting that he has been stealing asphalt from the city maintenance department to fill potholes around the city. He has recently filled and fixed his 100th pothole, which has the local community calling him the “Pothole Robin Hood.” Jackson city officials are looking into the circumstance arising from his recent confession, but it’s not likely that he’ll face charges. If he does face charges, the city will probably have a lot of angry citizens on their hands for turning against a man who was doing a job on which the city had been dragging its feet.
The moral of the story with these three short examples is simply this: the government is better at screwing up a job than it is at getting a job done. The less the government has to do, the better it will perform. Let’s work together to get the government out of anything that the private sector could likely do better (which would be just about everything).
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TRENTON, N.J. (CNS) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Feb. 17 made good on his pledge to veto a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the state Legislature but at the same time said he might name an ombudsman to make sure the state’s current law recognizing civil unions is respected.
The state Assembly passed the bill Feb. 16 with a 42-33 vote. The state Senate approved it 24-16 Feb. 13.
When the bill reached his desk and he vetoed it, Christie said in a statement that “same-sex couples in a civil union deserve the very same rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples — as well as the strict enforcement of those rights and benefits.”
“Discrimination should not be tolerated and any complaint alleging a violation of a citizen’s right should be investigated and, if appropriate, remedied,” the Republican governor said, suggesting an ombudsman be appointed.
As the same-sex marriage measure moved through the Legislature, Christie, a Catholic, said legalizing marriage for same-sex couples should be put on the November ballot for voters to decide the issue.
In testimony at a Jan. 24 hearing, the executive director of the New Jersey Catholic Conference urged state lawmakers “to continue to recognize marriage as a union between one man and one woman. This is critical as marriage is the foundation of the family. The family, in turn, is the basic unit of society.”
“Marriage as a union of one man and one woman has its roots not only in human tradition and history, but also in natural law, which transcends all man-made law,” said Patrick Brannigan, executive director of the conference, which is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops.
“Marriage is a natural institution,” he said. “New Jersey, like other states, has from the beginning recognized marriage, honored it, and sought to support and protect it.”
He also said while the Catholic Church opposes legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, it teaches that homosexuals “must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.”
“The fundamental human rights of homosexuals must be defended and we must strive to eliminate any forms of injustice against homosexual persons,” Brannigan said.
He noted that many supporters of same-sex marriage claim that the civil unions law “is not working,” but that the state’s Division of Civil Rights found that out of a total of 13 complaints filed since 2007, when the law was passed, authorities had found “probable cause” in only one of those complaints.
Brannigan also said couples in civil unions claim they are not able to participate in their partner’s health care decisions, but he said the law guarantees they can, noting that Catholic-run health care facilities specifically allow individuals to designate “anyone they wish as a health care decision-maker.”
Supporters of same-sex marriage criticized Christie’s proposal to appoint an ombudsman to make sure the civil unions law is being upheld properly, saying that it is not an acceptable substitute for marriage for same-sex couples.
“It’s not equal. It’s not the same,” Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, told reporters. He and other advocates of legalizing same-sex marriage say it is a civil right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
The bill as passed by the Legislature included an exemption for religious leaders, churches and faith-based organizations so they could not be forced to perform marriage for same-sex couples or allow such couples the use of their facilities.
In Maryland, the House of Delegates Feb. 17 passed a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in that state. The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee was expected to pass the House version Feb. 21 and advance it to the full Senate for consideration later in the week.
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You’re a system administrator and want to prevent users from changing the desktop background or the Windows 7 themes? Read this tutorial to learn how.
You can prevent that users change the desktop background or any themes. Let’s see how.
Tip: You need Windows 7 Professional or higher to open the Group Policy Editor. If you’re on Windows 7 Starter or Home you can modify the registry.
1. Step Enter gpedit.msc into the search bar on your Start menu
2. Step Uncollapse User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, Personalization
3. Step In the right pane you can now do the following:
Prevent changing color scheme
Prevent changing theme
Prevent changing visual style for windows and buttons
Prevent changing windows color and appearance
Prevent changing desktop background
Prevent changing desktop icons
Prevent changing mouse pointers
Prevent changing screen saver
Prevent changing sounds
Enable or disable screensaver
Prohibit selection of visual style font size
Force specific screen saver
Load a specific theme
Force a specific visual style file or force Windows Classic
4. Step As you can see there are quite a few options to prevent users from changing any Windows 7 themes or specific elements like wallpapers, icons or screensavers.
5. Step If you only want to prevent them from changing the desktop background and Windows 7 theme, double-click on Prevent changing theme and Prevent changing desktop background and select “Enabled” (you need to select enabled to prevent it, not disabled)
6. StepIf you dont want any theme at all I would also recommended to force the Windows Classic theme.
Alternative Solutions: Auto-Repair Your PC And Drivers
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The United States Congress designated January as Cervical Health Awareness Month. According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year.
All women are at risk for cervical cancer, but it occurs most often in women over age 30. Long-lasting infection with certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of cervical cancer. HPV is a common virus that is passed from one person to another during sex.
The good news is that in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer has decreased significantly. This decline is the result of many more women getting vaccinated and having regular testing which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer.
HPV vaccines can help prevent infection from both high-risk HPV types that can lead to cervical cancer and low-risk types that cause genital warts. The CDC recommends all boys and girls get the HPV vaccine at age 11 or 12 as the vaccine produces a stronger immune response when taken during the preteen years. For this reason, up until age 14, only two doses of the vaccine are required. The vaccine is available for all males and females through age 45 but, for those 15 and older, a full three-dose series is needed.
A Pap test can find cell changes to the cervix caused by HPV. HPV tests find the virus and help healthcare providers know which women are at highest risk for cervical cancer. Pap and HPV tests (either alone or in combination) are recommended for women over 30. Each woman should ask her healthcare provider how often she should be screened, and which tests are right for her.
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1. Synchronized Development Process
The design theory of CoreIoT integrates the creation of the product and antenna into one continuous integrated operation.
At the same time as product creation, antenna design begins. From the start, the specifications for the antenna are taken into consideration and the product model, including the antenna, is designed as one complete, integral system.
The joint team can respond quickly to changes and consider the new necessities promptly in each aspect. We can direct you to settle on the right choices from the earliest starting point of the cycle to dodge different expensive pitfalls identified with, e.g., product variants, SAR-limits, and certifications.
Partnering together with CoreIoT is simple. We have a long involvement with developing wireless products, one next to the other with organizations around the world. In this way, we communicate in a similar language as your team!
Stand apart from the opposition with superior wireless performance, quicker an ideal opportunity to-showcase, and decreased expenses! CoreIoT’s synchronized product and antenna development process takes wireless performance into account from the beginning and evades expensive and tedious cycles.
Simulation-Driven Agile Development
Different solution variants can be easily tested with CoreIoT’s simulation-driven antenna design to select the one that provides your product with the optimal wireless performance. We can filter out the sub-optimal design choices early in the process with simulations and minimize expensive prototype rounds. Typically, if tested with simulations, the first prototype performs as planned. Wireless efficiency can also be estimated with models with respect to legislation and certifications. In addition, we can foresee how the output of the antenna would affect mechanical components, structures, and metal and how the system would act in diverse conditions, such as when cast in concrete, submerged in water, buried underwater, or near a human body.
The agile simulation-driven antenna architecture of CoreIoT speeds up the process of production, minimizes test rounds, cuts costs, mitigates risks and helps you to launch a great wireless device on time!
Wide expertise in wireless product creation beyond the antenna
In designing wireless devices with a holistic approach, CoreIoT has deep, in-depth know-how, considering the device and antenna as a fully integrated framework.
We also collaborated with a wide variety of companies and sectors, including human and animal wearables, audibles, mission-critical gadgets, trackers, IoT sensors, gateways, and tablets, and more, as well as other product forms on the market. With many fields, such as mechanics, circuitry, screens, and audio, we work effortlessly. So, we understand what makes or breaks a wireless product – beyond the antenna.
In all sorts of RF environments worldwide, wireless devices with the antenna architecture of CoreIoT are used-on-body, underwater, water, automobile, aircraft, aerospace, and everything in between. The systems run from the low frequencies up to the peak 5G mmWave bands on all frequency bands.
CoreIoT, the team with the world’s broadest expertise of antenna architecture, leads you easily to the best approach by eliminating traditional mistakes and minimizing construction costs and BoM antenna.
World’s Most Creative Antenna Talents’ Squad
Accelerate the learning curve for wireless product growth by collaborating with CoreIoT! The talent squad opens up access to the world’s most advanced and of-depth know-how in wireless product development, which has been acquired internationally in hundreds of projects.
For certain clients, the pure understanding about what would succeed and where there might be a pitfall has saved time and money. To minimize development lead times, risks and project costs, we use the latest design software and quality assurance tools. Our team has an established track record of groundbreaking ingenious antenna solutions that are difficult to create where anything better wouldn’t do, helping our clients to launch global blockbuster products against all odds! In a day, we can repair an issue or find a solution, which will normally take weeks.
Accept no wireless efficiency compromise – make your next product epic with CoreIoT, the most imaginative antenna production team in the country, and optimize your margin!
Antenna Design Quality Assurance
The typical project management model of CoreIoT guarantees that your project meets high-quality working practices; it is delivered on schedule and under the budget, thus maintaining everyday job creativity.
In every project, our field-proven project team configuration is identical:
- Our team keeps the timetables and budgets under check and encourages open and proper coordination with all members of the team.
- Our team practices hands-on design.
- Our team oversees the operational execution, supervises the big picture and leads the team to the most burning decisions.
- and our team guarantees that the product is provided with the new in-depth know-how, regardless of whether it uses Cellular, Bluetooth, Sigfox, LoRa, RFID, WiFi, or GPS.
With CoreIoT, grow your wireless product and relax! Our Quality Assurance design guarantees excellent finishing and a timely launch of the product while maintaining the budget within limits.
Leading 5G mmWave Antenna Design Experience
We are ready to help you build commercial 5G systems, facilitate the dynamic development process, and incorporate 5G mmWave into multi-radio equipment.
Partner with CoreIoT and gain immediate access to the leading 5G mmWave antenna design expertise! Get a head start in the sprint to launch 5G mmWave products!
CoreIoT Lab – World-Class Facilities and Tools
CoreIoT Lab delivers world-class in-house capabilities before joining the official testing to pre-verify wireless results. We will expose the possible problem areas in the CoreIoT Lab, easily make changes, and ensure that your product passes the official checks successfully. During R&D, the in-house laboratory is at your service at any moment.
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Order of Chaeroneaest. 338 BC
“And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other’s side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger?”
– Plato, Symposium
The Order is a religion; a religion of Love and Lovers.
A service and an attitude towards Mystery; with no divine revelation.
The mythic origin of our Order dates back to the year 338 BCE, and the Battle of Chaeronea, where 300 male lovers perished in the arms of their beloved ones.
The Cause is that of Lovers; of Lovers who have been wronged.
We believe in Love as a sacred and holy force, inherent to the human nature. A trait that ought to be treasured and protected.
We hold that to be our Duty, viz. to protect all forms of free love between consenting individuals. To champion the force of Love.
The membership to the Order is only attainable through the Service of Initiation, tied to a Duty and bound by an Oath.
Initiation into the Order is by invitation only. The Novice must be sponsored by an existing member of the Order.
We welcome any sincere individuals committed to the Cause.
Why a web presence?
After much consideration, we thought that a web presence may provide a useful platform to inspire others to fight for equality and the right to free love.
How can I get in touch?
In order to avoid spam, we have decided not to include a contact form on the website. You can reach us via our Facebook Page.
How can I contribute?
We do not accept any donations. However, we will feature different causes, initiatives and organisations, and we strongly encourage you to contribute with those.
I have met an alleged member. How can I be sure?
If a member of the Order has been in touch with you and/or has claimed to belong to it, you can get in touch with us to verify it.
Each initiate is given specific details that identifies them to the Order. After undergoing the Service of Initiation, they are also introduced to the Secretary, which acts as a hub for all communications.
Why the secrecy?
Unfortunately, there are still a number of countries where being involved with LGBTQ causes or initiatives, may be considered ground for imprisonment.
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Time flies – we’ve published ten episodes of The Brainfluence Podcast already. This seemed like the perfect time to provide a quick guide to these sessions with some of the world’s top experts in persuasion, psychology, neuromarketing, and more. Each episode is about 30 minutes of audio, and the show notes page for each episode (linked below) includes a full text transcript as well as links to any resources mentioned in the discussion. To avoid missing any future episodes, subscribe to The Brainfluence Podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Podbay.FM, or the player of your choice.
Nathalie Nahai was our top choice for our first installment of The Brainfluence Podcast. Who could be more perfect for our listeners than “The Web Psychologist?” In Episode #1: Web Psychology and Online Persuasion with Nathalie Nahai, Nathalie talks about design’s influence on the brain, a website’s appeal to the brain levels, the surprising differences between the way people from different cultures respond to web content, and more. We also spend time on a few of the topics she convers in her fantastic book, Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion.
In Episode #2: The Psychology of Habit-Forming Technologies with Nir Eyal we met the author of Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products. Nir Eyal is the founder of two tech companies and an advisor for start-ups, incubators and venture capitalists in the bay area. Nir’s book has created a lot of buzz, at first in Silicon Valley and now far beyond. In our chat, Nir talks about his Hook Model. Based in part on BJ Fogg’s Behavior Model, the Hook Model defines the four key phases in making an application, website, or other product habit-forming or even addictive.
In Episode #3: The Seven Characteristics of Flow with Steven Kotler,we talk about flow, a concept that has been written about for many decades and is now getting mainstream acceptance. Author Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and fellow Forbes contributor. He co-founded the Flow Genome Project, and is dedicated to teaching others about flow and how to achieve it. In this episode we chat about flow basics, hacking flow, and whether open offices help or hurt workers achieve highly productive states of flow.
One of the criticisms of neuromarketing has been the lack of published data supporting the validity of neuromarketing technologies. Neuromarketing pioneer Carl Marci wants to change that. In Episode #4: Multimedia Engagement with Carl Marci, the founder and CEO of neuromarketing firm Innerscope Research discusses a recent academic study that provides evidence of effective neuromarketing use. Carl and I also talk about the science of empathy, differences and interaction between television and online marketing, immersive and flexible engagement, and the use of neuromarketing as a tool to boost website conversion rates.
Gini Dietrich is tired of public relations practitioners being called spin doctors. In Ep #5: Building an Impactful Online Reputation with Gini Dietrich we talk about some of the concepts in her book Spin Sucks: Communication and Reputation Management in the Digital Age. Gini and I talk about why 20th century PR techniques like “spray and pray” press releases and a reliance on “spinning” everything into a positive message don’t work today. Transparency and authenticity are far better. Gini gives advice on content marketing, community management, and even dealing with trolls and haters.
I’ve been writing about neuromarketing for a decade now, and it was a great privilege to welcome Dr. David Lewis, often called “the father of neuromarketing,” to the show. In Episode #6: Shopper Science, Big Data, and Neuromarketing with Dr. David Lewis, we learn the story of the mostly accidental birth of neuromarketing. David and I discuss his book, The Brain Sell: When Science Meets Shopping. We delve into such diverse topics as consumer neuroscience, shopper science’s evolution and its impact on retail, ethical boundaries, and “Big Data.”
Owner Magazine’s Chris Brogan is not normal, and that’s a good thing. He is proud to have thrived as what he calls a “freak.” His new book, The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth, describes how people dismissed as oddballs are often the most successful entrepreneurs. In Episode #7: Chris Brogan on Freaks, Owners, and Entrepreneurs we also learn about Monchu, Dunbar’s Number, the different species of freaks, and more. Watch for Chris’s great answer when I ask if some people should forget entrepreneurship and stick to their day jobs!
The role of the salesperson has changed dramatically in the last few decades, and it continues to evolve. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing fame explains how todays salesperson can succeed in his new book, Duct Tape Selling. In Episode #8: Marketing Makes Better Salespeople with John Jantsch we learn how salespeople are no longer just a source of product information. Is the ideal salesperson a one-person marketing department? Listen and find out.
There’s no guest in Episode #9: Gliding Down The Persuasion Slide – you are stuck with just one voice, me! I do an audio explanation of my Persuasion Slide™ model with a particular focus on conscious vs. unconscious motivation, maximizing conversion by eliminating friction, and more. The Persuasion Slide is a great tool to analyze your ecommerce or lead generation website as well as many other kinds of persuasive processes.
Chris Nodder is a usability expert who has written a fascinating new book, Evil by Design. It looks at user experience and how evil, or at least aggressive, websites manipulate user behavior. In Episode #10: Psychology of Usability Design with Chris Nodder we discuss a few of the seven deadly sins in the context of web design. Sloth, for example, takes advantage of our brain’s inclination to always take the easiest path; skilled UX designers ensure that path leads to their desired outcome. You don’t have to be evil to apply Chris’s knowledge to boosting your own web results!
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Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a highly decentralized parliamentary republic whose complex constitutional regime is embedded in the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the 1992–95 Bosnian War. Political affairs are characterized by severe partisan gridlock among nationalist leaders from the country’s Bosniak, Serb, and Croat communities. Corruption remains a serious problem.
- In January, the government of BiH’s Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS) entity was revealed to be recruiting the services of Russian-trained paramilitaries from Serbia. It emerged in February that the RS government was acquiring significant quantities of arms in an effort to militarize the entity’s police forces.
- Protests began in late March and continued throughout the year following the unexplained death—and presumed murder—of David Dragičević, a 21-year-old Banja Luka man. Demonstrators accused RS authorities of involvement in the death or a subsequent cover-up amid broader concerns about policing and the rule of law in the entity.
- In October, BiH held its eighth general elections since the conclusion of the war. The balloting was marked by irregularities and mostly confirmed the positions of the entrenched nationalist blocs, though negotiations on a new government were ongoing at year’s end.
|Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections?||2.002 4.004|
The 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the civil war in BiH created a loosely knit state composed of two entities—the Federation, whose citizens are mainly Bosniak and Croat, and the Serb-dominated RS—that operate under a weak central government. The position of head of state is held by a three-member presidency comprising one Bosniak, one Serb, and one Croat; they are each elected to a four-year term, which they serve concurrently.
The chair of the Council of Ministers, or prime minister, is nominated by the presidency and approved by the House of Representatives. The chair in turn nominates other ministers for approval by the House.
The October 2018 elections were once again led by the country’s three entrenched nationalist blocs: the Bosniak nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA), the Croat nationalist Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ-BiH) , and the Serb nationalist Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD). Milorad Dodik of the SNSD, the longtime president of the RS entity, won the Serb seat in BiH’s state presidency, and Šefik Džaferović of the SDA won the Bosniak seat. However, Željko Komšić of the center-left Democratic Front party decisively defeated the HDZ-BiH incumbent for the Croat seat of the presidency. At year’s end, the exact shape of the ruling coalitions at the state level and at most other levels of government remained unclear, as negotiations were ongoing. In December, however, five parties from across the political spectrum formed a coalition without the SDA in the Sarajevo Canton, and the SNSD formed another government in the RS, with Radovan Višković replacing Željka Cvijanović, now the entity president, as prime minister.
Serious concerns were raised about the integrity of the elections, with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) noting a “lack of confidence in the impartiality of all levels of the election administration, largely due to suspected commissioners’ political and ethnic bias.” Prior to the elections, independent media revealed a fraudulent absentee voter registration scheme—allegedly supported by Moscow—that implicated the HDZ of Croatia and its Bosnian sister party, the HDZ-BiH. The postelection period was marked by growing concerns about the extent of the alleged fraud, with the Social Democratic Party (SDP), whose candidate finished a close second in the race for the state presidency’s Bosniak seat, demanding a formal recount.
Score Change: The score declined from 3 to 2 due to credible reports of large-scale fraud in the 2018 presidential elections.
|Were the current national legislative representatives elected through free and fair elections?||2.002 4.004|
The Parliamentary Assembly, a state-level body, has two chambers. The 15-seat upper house, the House of Peoples, consists of five members from each of the three main ethnic groups, elected by the Federation and RS legislatures for four-year terms. The lower house, the House of Representatives, has 42 popularly elected members serving four-year terms, with 28 seats assigned to representatives from the Federation and 14 to representatives from the RS.
The SDA, HDZ-BiH, and SNSD dominated the 2018 general elections, capturing nine, five, and six seats in the highly fragmented House of Representatives and many other posts at the entity, canton, and municipal levels. However, they faced stiff competition from other parties, particularly the SDP, which took five House of Representatives seats, and the left-wing Democratic Front–Civic Alliance, which won three. Nine smaller parties also won representation at the state level. Election monitors noted significant irregularities and a decline in overall quality as compared with prior polls.
|Are the electoral laws and framework fair, and are they implemented impartially by the relevant election management bodies?||2.002 4.004|
Under BiH’s constitutional regime, the CIK administers elections with the help of municipal election commissions. Both are subject to significant political party interference. The CIK is a largely ineffectual body, unable to act decisively without political support. The election of its president in September 2018 was criticized as illegal by the winner’s opponent, who argued that the law did not allow a commissioner to serve as president twice in the same seven-year mandate.
Conflicts over fair ethnic representation continue to surround aspects of the constitution. For example, BiH citizens who do not identify as members of the country’s Bosniak, Serb, or Croat “constitutive peoples” remain barred from the presidency and membership in the House of Peoples, despite 2009 and 2016 rulings by the European Court of Human Rights that the exclusion of members of other ethnic groups violated the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Federation’s upper house, also known as the House of Peoples, had yet to be formed at the end of 2018 due to an unresolved legal dispute over its system of ethnic seat allocations. A 2017 Constitutional Court ruling had struck down the existing legal provisions, and after Federation lawmakers failed to enact new rules, the CIK attempted to resolve the problem in December. However, the SDA and other Bosniak-led parties appealed the decision to the Constitutional Court. The dispute also held up the formation of the state-level House of Peoples, whose members are appointed by the entity legislatures.
Separately, the city of Mostar has not held municipal elections since 2008 due to an unresolved legal dispute over the allocation of city council seats between Croats and Bosniaks.
|Do the people have the right to organize in different political parties or other competitive political groupings of their choice, and is the system free of undue obstacles to the rise and fall of these competing parties or groupings?||3.003 4.004|
Political parties typically organize and operate freely, though the political arena in the Federation is generally limited to Bosniaks and Croats, while Serbs dominate politics in the RS. While coalitions at all levels of government shift frequently, incumbent parties maintain their positions with the help of vast patronage networks, making it difficult for smaller reform-oriented forces to achieve meaningful breakthroughs.
|Is there a realistic opportunity for the opposition to increase its support or gain power through elections?||2.002 4.004|
There are no explicit legal barriers preventing opposition parties from entering government, but expansive veto powers granted to the constitutive peoples and their representatives have helped the dominant nationalist parties to manipulate the system and shut out reformist and multiethnic challengers. This pattern was largely reinforced in the 2018 elections, despite the HDZ-BiH’s defeat in the contest for the Croat seat of the state presidency.
Score Change: The score declined from 3 to 2 because a series of elections in recent years have demonstrated that the political system created by the Dayton Accords favors establishment parties.
|Are the people’s political choices free from domination by the military, foreign powers, religious hierarchies, economic oligarchies, or any other powerful group that is not democratically accountable?||2.002 4.004|
The Office of the High Representative (OHR), which was created by the Dayton Accords, operates under the auspices of the United Nations and has the authority to remove elected officials if they are deemed to be obstructing the peace process. In recent years, the OHR has been reluctant to intervene in the country’s politics.
Both Serbia and Croatia wield outsized influence in the Bosnian political sphere through their respective local allies, the SNSD and the HDZ-BiH. Two other foreign states, Russia and Turkey, have offered support to preferred parties and candidates.
|Do various segments of the population (including ethnic, religious, gender, LGBT, and other relevant groups) have full political rights and electoral opportunities?||2.002 4.004|
Political rights in BiH are in large part contingent on one’s ethnic background and place of residence. Ethnic minorities including Jews and Roma are constitutionally barred from the presidency and from membership in the House of Peoples, despite the European Court of Human Rights rulings against those provisions. Serbs who live in the Federation and Croats and Bosniaks who live in the RS are also excluded from the presidency. Some Croats argue that their rights to representation are violated by electoral laws allowing non-Croats a significant voice in the selection of the Croat member of the presidency and Croat members of the House of Peoples, contributing to the ongoing legal dispute over the Federation’s House of Peoples. Women are underrepresented in politics and government. Nine women won seats in the House of Representatives in 2018.
|Do the freely elected head of government and national legislative representatives determine the policies of the government?||2.002 4.004|
Government formation and policy implementation are seriously impeded by the country’s complex system of ethnic representation. Under the Dayton Accords, representatives from each of the three major ethnic groups, at both the state and entity levels, may exercise a veto on legislation deemed harmful to their interests.
The state government is undercut by movements within each of BiH’s entities for greater autonomy. In the RS, the hard-line SNSD government has deepened its security ties with Russia. In January 2018, evidence emerged that Dodik had hosted Russian-trained paramilitaries from Serbia—who were said to be establishing a paramilitary unit within the RS—in the entity’s presidential palace. In February, follow-up reports found a sharp increase in the RS government’s procurement of arms, which the OHR characterized as a push to militarize the entity’s police force.
In May 2018, canton police units controlled by the HDZ-BiH obstructed a migrant convoy accompanied by state police from Sarajevo. The ensuing hours-long standoff raised fears of a possible shooting incident.
|Are safeguards against official corruption strong and effective?||1.001 4.004|
Corruption remains widespread and systemic, and legislation designed to combat the problem is poorly enforced. When corruption probes are actually opened, they rarely result in convictions. In June 2017, Transparency International BiH said it had noted a significant decline in the efficiency of corruption adjudication in the country over the last eight years, and particularly in 2015 and 2016. In September 2018, the US State Department imposed sanctions on a state-level lawmaker and high-ranking member of the SNSD, Nikola Špirić, on the grounds that he had “engaged in and benefited from public corruption.”
|Does the government operate with openness and transparency?||1.001 4.004|
Government operations remain largely inaccessible to the public. Procurement awards are often made in secret and, according to a 2017 report published by Mediacentar Sarajevo, a local nongovernmental organization (NGO), most public institutions do not comply with BiH’s legal requirements related to freedom of information. Candidates for major offices are required to make financial disclosures, but the relevant laws do not meet international standards, and the resulting disclosures are considered unreliable. Debate and decisions on matters of great public interest, including legislation and subjects pertaining to EU accession, routinely occur during interparty negotiations that take place behind closed doors, outside of government institutions.
|Are there free and independent media?||2.002 4.004|
Freedom of expression is legally guaranteed but limited in practice. Journalists face harassment and threats as well as political pressure. In 2017, the Institution of the Human Rights Ombudsman of BiH issued a report recommending that the country build a stronger legal infrastructure for punishing attacks on journalists. In August 2018, a reporter covering ongoing protests over the RS government’s response to the presumed murder of David Dragičević in Banja Luka was attacked and beaten with rods by two unknown assailants. Several other assaults and threats against journalists were reported during the year.
|Are individuals free to practice and express their religious faith or nonbelief in public and private?||3.003 4.004|
Religious freedom is not subject to formal restrictions, but in practice religious communities face some discrimination in areas where they constitute a minority. Acts of vandalism against religious sites continue to be reported.
|Is there academic freedom, and is the educational system free from extensive political indoctrination?||2.002 4.004|
The education system is racked by corruption and clientelism, and the curriculum is politicized at all levels of education. At some schools in the Federation, Bosniak and Croat students are divided into separate classes on the basis of their ethnicity. Some Bosniak returnees in the RS have sent their children to temporary alternative schools to avoid curriculums they call discriminatory, and some Serb families have described discriminatory educational environments in the Federation.
|Are individuals free to express their personal views on political or other sensitive topics without fear of surveillance or retribution?||3.003 4.004|
Freedom of expression for individuals in BiH is generally protected from overt government interference. However, peer pressure and the risk of an adverse public reaction remain significant curbs on the discussion of sensitive topics. The news media often report on “controversial” social media posts by members of the public.
|Is there freedom of assembly?||3.003 4.004|
Freedom of assembly is generally respected in BiH, and peaceful protests are common. However, demonstrators sometimes encounter administrative obstacles or police violence. In 2018, persistent and often large-scale protests followed the unexplained death—and presumed murder—in March of David Dragičević, a 21-year-old Banja Luka resident whose case touched on broader concerns about policing and the rule of law in the RS. Dragičević’s father and opposition leaders have accused the RS police, prosecutor’s office, and political leadership of either playing a role in or covering up his son’s death. In an attempt to clamp down on the movement, police on Christmas Day closed off a Banja Luka square utilized by protesters and arrested some 20 people, allegedly using excessive force in the process.
|Is there freedom for nongovernmental organizations, particularly those that are engaged in human rights– and governance-related work?||2.002 4.004|
The NGO sector in BiH remains robust but is sometimes exposed to government pressure and interference. There have been reports of prolonged tax investigations of NGOs by the RS government. Many organizations rely on government funding, posing a potential conflict if they seek to criticize the authorities. In 2018, a proposed RS law that would have placed restrictions on foreign donations to NGOs was withdrawn in the face of organized objections from civil society.
|Is there freedom for trade unions and similar professional or labor organizations?||2.002 4.004|
Labor unions operate freely in the whole of BiH, although workers often have limited bargaining power in practice. The right to strike is legally protected, but labor law in the Federation erects significant barriers to the exercise of this right. Legal protections against antiunion action by employers are weakly enforced. The leading political blocs in the country have significant sway over unions in their respective strongholds.
|Is there an independent judiciary?||1.001 4.004|
The judiciary is formally independent, but weak in practice, and the Constitutional Court continues to face challenges from the SNSD and HDZ-BiH in particular. Dozens of Constitutional Court decisions have been disregarded by political leaders. In August 2017, after the Constitutional Court ruled that all military installations in the RS were BiH state property, RS government figures indicated that they would ignore it. In January of that year, the president of the HDZ-BiH joined Dodik in questioning the inclusion of foreign judges on the Constitutional Court.
The existence of four separate court systems—for the central state, the RS, the Federation, and the self-governing Brčko district—contributes to overall inefficiency.
|Does due process prevail in civil and criminal matters?||2.002 4.004|
Guarantees of due process are inconsistently upheld. Access to adequate legal counsel can be contingent on one’s financial standing. Police corruption is a problem and sometimes stems from links to organized crime. Public prosecutors are widely reputed to be corrupt and under political control.
The process of prosecuting war crimes in domestic courts has been slow, with political interference and courts’ lack of resources and capacity contributing to a large backlog of cases. A push to reinvigorate the process was ongoing at year’s end, but impunity for war crimes including killings and sexual violence has persisted.
|Is there protection from the illegitimate use of physical force and freedom from war and insurgencies?||2.002 4.004|
Harassment by police remains routine for vulnerable groups, which now includes a significant population of migrants. Many prisons are overcrowded or feature other substandard conditions, and detainees are subject to physical abuse by prison authorities.
Active land mines still in place following the war continue to pose a threat to civilians. The reports of paramilitary activity and rearmament by politically controlled police units during 2018 raised concerns about the possibility of renewed conflict in the country.
|Do laws, policies, and practices guarantee equal treatment of various segments of the population?||2.002 4.004|
Discrimination against minorities is illegal but nevertheless widespread, particularly against members of the Romany minority. Bosniaks and Croats in the RS experience difficulties accessing social services. Members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community face discrimination, harassment, and occasional physical attacks, and authorities often fail to investigate and prosecute crimes against LGBT individuals adequately. People who returned to their homes after being displaced during the war face discrimination in employment and housing in regions where their ethnic group constitutes a minority. Women are legally entitled to full equality with men but face discrimination in the workplace in practice.
More than 20,000 migrants and asylum seekers arrived in the country during 2018, marking a sharp increase from previous years. Most lacked accommodation and basic services, as the authorities’ limited capacity to provide for them was overwhelmed. The influx resulted in political disputes among different levels of government over responsibility for the newcomers.
G1. Do individuals enjoy freedom of movement, including the ability to change their place of residence, employment, or education? 3 / 4
The law protects freedom of movement, and this right is generally upheld in practice. Land mines limit movement in some areas. Corruption and bureaucratic obstacles can hamper people’s ability to change their formal residency or place of employment.
|Are individuals able to exercise the right to own property and establish private businesses without undue interference from state or nonstate actors?||2.002 4.004|
Although the legal framework broadly supports property rights and private business activity, widespread corruption and patronage remain major barriers to free enterprise. There is no comprehensive legislation on restitution of property seized during and after World War II, and individuals who returned to their homes after being displaced by the 1992–95 war have faced attacks on their property. The European Commission has called for further progress on compensating people for property that cannot be returned.
G3. Do individuals enjoy personal social freedoms, including choice of marriage partner and size of family, protection from domestic violence, and control over appearance? 3 / 4
Individual freedom on personal status matters such as marriage and divorce is generally protected. Same-sex marriage is not recognized, though the Federation government agreed in October 2018 to consider legalizing such marriages.
Domestic violence remains a serious concern despite some government efforts to combat it. Incidents of abuse are believed to be considerably underreported, and civic groups have found that law enforcement authorities are often reluctant to intervene or impose strong penalties.
|Do individuals enjoy equality of opportunity and freedom from economic exploitation?||2.002 4.004|
Legal protections against exploitative working conditions are poorly enforced, and workers in some industries face hazardous conditions. In January 2018, factory workers in Zenica engaged in hunger strikes and protests over unpaid salaries and pension contributions. Patronage and clientelism continue to adversely affect hiring practices and contribute to de facto restrictions on economic opportunity.
According to the US State Department’s 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report, men, women, and children are subject to trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor, with Romany children particularly vulnerable to forced begging and forced marriages that amount to domestic servitude. According to the report, the government was making efforts toward prosecuting perpetrators, protecting victims, and preventing trafficking, though its efforts in the first two areas decreased somewhat during the coverage period.
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Tuesday, 10 May 2022
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We continue to highlight the importance of the World Food Programme and support for it. It issued a terrifying warning, I believe, that an additional 47 million people could fall into the grip of acute hunger in 2022. That is from a pre-war baseline of 276 million people. That means that up to 323 million people could become acutely food-insecure in 2022. That is increasing for men, women, boys and girls. Many of Ireland's international humanitarian partners purchase their grain from Ukraine. The impact of price increases means that the World Food Programme, realistically, will be able to reach fewer people with lifesaving assistance within existing resources. Global humanitarian responses will become more expensive, or else we will reach fewer people, at a time when global insecurity and food hunger have been increasing. The United Nations Secretary-General has said the Russian invasion of Ukraine is holding a sword of Damocles over the global economy, especially for poorer and developing countries. Ireland shares those concerns. In December 2021 Ireland signed a three-year strategic partnership with the World Food Programme. That agreement commits Ireland to the provision of €75 million for the period up to 2024. | <urn:uuid:087c7de6-bbfa-4d89-b89f-9796cbc9dc0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kildarestreet.com/debate/?id=2022-05-10a.426 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.937003 | 268 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Project Management Concepts is a 3 day introduction to project management theory and application using the Knowledge Areas and Processes of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as a framework.
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Course Description: 3 Days
Project Management Concepts is a 3 day comprehensive introduction to project management theory and application using the Knowledge Areas and Processes of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as a framework. Using a combination of theory based lecture, case studies, and practical exercises, students are introduced to the project management best practices associated with planning, executing, and controlling projects. Students use a typical case study (custom case studies can be developed upon request) to analyze the project business case and deliverables, develop project Scope, Schedules, and Quality objectives, and investigate project execution and change control.Course Audience:
This course is intended for both project team members and project managers wishing to gain a thorough introduction to, and understanding of, the PMI framework for managing projects. Team members and managers looking to improve their project management skills, looking for a set of project management best practices and looking to improve their project success statistics should take this course. Even though this is an introductory course, it provides students with a comprehensive set of immediately available skills. As a refresher, project managers can hone their skills with advanced topics that are included. Students wishing to take follow-on project management topical courses and/or beginning their preparation for the PMP examination should take this course.
Strategic Course Goals and Objectives:
1. Understanding of the PMI framework and it’s sponsored set of project management best practicesObjectives:
2. Fluency in project management terminology
3. Identification and analysis of why projects fail and what skills are required to implement projects successfully
4. Practice with the identification of project deliverables, requirements, and objectives
5. Identification and analysis of project stakeholders and project communications
6. Comprehensive understanding of how the various project management elements integrate into an effective mechanism for project planning and execution
7. While designed as a stand along course, this class positions the student to maximize the value of follow-on topical courses in the curriculum
1. Knowledge of the PMI framework and architecture
2. Write a Project Charter and Scope Statement
3. Develop a Work Breakdown Structure
4. Develop a project schedule
5. Network Analysis
6. Management of the project triple Constraints
7. Identify and analyze project risks
8. Develop a Project Plan
9. Analyze requirements
10. Execution and Control a Project
11. Analyze project variances
a. Risk Management
o Procurement Management
o Human Resource Management
o Communications Management
o Quality Management
- Prerequisites & Certificates
Certifcate of completion
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Cancellations or postponements received more than ten business days prior to the first day of the course, will be subject to a 15% administration fee, and course ware fees where applicable. The cost of the course is payable, in full, for any cancellations or postponements received within ten business days, or less, prior to the first day of the course.
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The Joy Luck Club
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About the Author
Other works by Amy Tan
- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- The Kitchen's God's Wife
- Saving Fish from Drowning
- The Chinese Siamese Cat (adapted into the television series Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat)
Novels featuring Chinese Culture and History
- The Red Chamber by Pauline Chen - An epic reimagining of the Chinese classic "Dream of the Red Chamber" is set against a backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing and follows the intersecting lives of three women, including orphaned Daiyu, who becomes tangled in a web of intrigue with ties to the Emperor's Palace.
First-Generation and Immigrant Stories
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Novels featuring Mothers and Daughters
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Nonfiction featuring Chinese Culture and History
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, describing the life of the author's grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother, a member of the Communist elite, and the family's experiences during the Cultural Revolution.
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord.
- The NEA's Big Read website has a Reader's Guide and more information about the book and the author.
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No matter how robust your planning phase and how hard you try to evaluate all possible failures, problems, and defects will occur. When an unexpected issue arises and can impact product quality, how do you approach this situation? The key to preventing a jump in manufacturing costs is to find a solution and put measures in place to avoid repeating the problem.
Reacting fast is important, but only if you deeply analyze root causes and implement measures to correct them. Then you can solve the problem and avoid reoccurrence while improving the quality of the product itself.
Consumers are requesting more innovation, faster delivery, and cheaper products while demanding higher quality and safety assurance. Adopting a closed-loop quality management solution helps design, manufacturing, and quality teams to immediately react to an adverse event by sharing the same information for continuous quality improvement through faster complaint management.
Problem-solving following a systematic approach
The problem-solving process for the resolution of a quality issue, nonconformance, or customer complaint follows a systematic approach that can be shaped to cover 8D (eight discipline) principles or CAPA(Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions). It is important to systematically investigate, analyze and resolve quality issues, streamline the definition of measures to prevent recurrences, and report the results in a clear and intuitive manner.
Quality teams need to react immediately to discover root causes and implement corrective and preventive actions to solve the problem and avoid a reoccurrence. Design, manufacturing, and quality teams can share the same views about the needed information to continuously improve product and process quality.
Managing defects centrally
Watch this webinar and discover how your design, manufacturing, and quality management teams can share the same views of the information they need to continuously improve quality.
We will explore:
Steps to support your ability to review investigations using consistent processes
How to integrate quality issues, problem-solving, and change process flow
Why common change management enables manufacturers to realize the greatest benefit from the continuous improvement process
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Meet the speakers
Siemens Quality Solution Domain Owner
Katrin is responsible for global business development for the Siemens sales and service organization in the area of quality management software. She started her professional career with IBS in Germany in 1991. Katrin worked in several areas, including sales and customer product and relation management. She holds a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
Industry Manager – Discrete Manufacturing
Valentina is an industry manager for Siemens Digital Industries Software, with a focus on quality. She started her journey with Siemens three years ago in the business enablement team of manufacturing operations management. Before joining Siemens, she held different positions in quality management and R&D, both in Italy and Poland. She also covered project management positions, as a “Certified Project Management Associate – IPMA Level D®️”.
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It's a strange and wonderful ancient world.
Is it possible that thousands of years ago, perhaps at a time when history as we know it was not even written, ancient civilizations studied the stars and etched intricate star maps on massive monoliths across the world?
What exactly are the curious spirals, lines, circles, and dots etched on massive stones scattered across the globe?
Are they just randomly carved symbols without a special meaning? Why do many of these ancient symbols seem to repeat and are so similar in design?
Are these ancient symbols messages from our ancestors?
Thousands of years ago, at a time when history as we know it didn’t even exist, many ancient cultures walked the surface of the Earth, slowly leaving a legacy for future generations.
Advanced ancient civilizations appeared all over the world. So no matter where we look, whether it is America, Europe, Africa, or Asia, the Earth saw great civilizations come and go through history.
While many of these ancient civilizations are long gone, with traces of the existence present in history books and museums around the globe, some vestiges have been forgotten, hidden, and protected by nature for thousands of years.
Traces of long-gone civilizations are found in many ways. Some are the massive pyramids erected across the globe, some of which are eerily similar in design and shape, despite being separated by thousands of kilometers.
Traces of their existence comes in the intricately carved stones, like the massive blocks of stone in Bolivia’s Puma Punku. Some of the stones there are cut with laser-like precision. So intricately carved, designed, and polished, some have even claimed that these ruins were once created using technology that far surpasses our own.
Of course, stones that resemble the precision and design of Puma Punku are found in many other places. Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman are just a few examples in the Americas. Halfway around the world, in present-day Egypt, we also find traces of stones that have been carved with mind-boggling precision.
But monuments can be destroyed. Pyramids crumble to the ground. Evidence of that are what many scholars say are the oldest pyramid on the surface of the planet: The Brazilian Pyramids. These ancient structures–which today resemble no more than massive hills–were once gigantic structures topped by temples and used by ancient cultures in Brazil, more than 5,000 years ago, predating even the oldest Egyptian pyramids, which are thought to be thought to be have appeared around 4,700 years ago.
At that time, around 5,000 years ago, a city-state in present-day Peru dubbed Caral built a sprawling metropolis decorated by massive pyramids.
But even before these great accomplishments, different civilizations came and went. Some of them left traces behind that we have found and are currently studying. Some of them have left traces but which have been devoured by thousands of years of history, buried beneath the surface upon we walk today.
Luckily, from time to time, we come across amazing discoveries that remind us of just how incredibly sophisticated ancient civilizations were on Earth.
Monolithic star maps?
Say you live more than 5,000 years ago in the dense Amazonian rainforest. You observe the sky each night, trying to make sense of the movement of the stars. You carefully trace them and decide to record something of great importance. Paper doesn’t exist. Nonetheless, you feel compelled to record something you saw or discovered.
The best way to convey this message is to carve it in stone. Stone survives even the harshest of environments. Carving a message on a stone is to make sure your message will be seen by future generations that will come thousands of years after carving the message.
This is exactly what the ancients did. They carved symbols, lines, odd geometric figures, zig-zags, and many different symbols on stone.
Some of these symbols are carved on massive rocks, and some of these “monoliths” are older than history itself.
One example is a massive rock located in present-day Brazil.
Though to be around 6,000 years old, researchers have dubbed it Pedra do Inga.
Pedra do Inga Symbols
This massive rock covers an area of approximately 250 square meters. Its primary vertical wall measures 45 meters in length and 3.8 meters in height.
The Pedra do Inga has a massive collection of different symbols carved on its surface. Some of these symbols depict humanoid figurines, constellations, stars, and animals.
However, among its most notorious symbols are representations of what many argue is the Milky Way Galaxy and Orion’s Constellation.
Analysis of the symbols has shown Pedra do Inga features more than 400 engravings on the stone’s surface.
Some of these symbols appear to be zoomorphic in nature, while others represent abstract symbols and stars.
One of the most notorious studies performed on the Pedra do Inga was undertaken by Spanish engineer Francisco Pavía Alemany. In 1976, he ventured out to study the mysterious rock formation, and his results were published in 1986.
Pavía Alemany discovered a series of bowls etched on the stone that formed a solar calendar, over which a gnomon projected the shadow of the first sun rays of each year.
However, Pedra do Inga is not alone when it comes to strange symbols that appear to be ancient star maps.
Located in Scotland is another monolithic mystery.
The Cochno Stone
Nearly as old as the Pedra do Inga, the so-called Cochno stone is one of Scotland’s most curious monoliths. Dating back around 5,000 years, the stones and its curious collection of intricate symbols were discovered in 1887 by Rev. James Harvey.
Etched on its surface are more than 90 curious symbols that many experts have interpreted as parts of a gigantic cosmic map. The stones feature a series of circles, spirals, dots, and lines etched on its surface.
It measures 10 meters in length and nearly 8 meters in width. The symbols decorating the stones are considered the finest examples of petroglyphs in Scotland.
“Some people think that the Cochno Stone is a map showing the other settlements in the Clyde Valley – that’s one of the theories. I think it was probably used for lots of things; it was never used for just one thing, and over hundreds of years, it changed use,” explained History researcher Alexander McCallum.
However, there are many other similar stones. One such monolith was recently studied by experts who traveled to Peru to study it.
A Peruvian star map?
Believed to date back at least 2,000 years, hidden within the heart of the Peruvian jungle, it is a massive monolith that weighs around one ton.
This massive stone is covered in fine symbols that closely resemble the intricate shapes etched on the surface of the Pedra do Inga and even the Cochno Stone.
It features intricate lines, circles, and spirals, and many of its shapes have remained hidden from sight for thousands of years.
Only after experts scanned it with 3D technology were they able to reveal some of the stone’s most interesting shapes.
This monolith is three meters long, seventy-six centimeters high, and one-and-a-half meters wide. Experts say the monolith is made of sedimentary rock that is not found anywhere near its current position. Therefore, experts say that the massive one-ton rock was transported in ancient times from a distant quarry.
How this was achieved remained a mystery. Dragging it to its current location across rivers and extremely dense parts of the jungles must have been challenging. Nonetheless, it was achieved somehow, which means that the massive rock must have been of great importance to the ancients.
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|Noun||1.||action at law - a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong|
antitrust case - a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market place
civil action - legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)
counterclaim - a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action
custody case - a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce)
lis pendens - a pending lawsuit
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criminal prosecution, prosecution - the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior
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Hereditary genetic conditions, certain diseases (heart issues, lung tissue scarring, aplastic or pernicious anemia), exposure to radiation, Vit B12 deficiency, thyroid problems, stress, and lifestyle choices like smoking can cause premature graying and hair loss. Ayurveda advises avoiding hot, spicy pitta-enhancing foods and advocates the topical application of maka juice, amla, triphala, on the scalp.
Being called a silver fox or mistaken for being older than you are – these are things anyone who has begun going gray will relate to! Gray hair may be a sign of wisdom and growing older for most of us, but that isn’t always the case. Sometimes when your hair starts turning gray in your 20s or early 30s, it could be masking an underlying problem.
Why Does Your Hair Turn Gray?
As you grow older, your hair shaft starts wearing down and the hair follicle itself too begins to age. As the follicle gets older, the melanocyte function responsible for giving your hair its color also becomes less effective. And that’s when your hair starts turning gray.
Premature aging due to a family history or genetic condition, exposure to radiation, and lifestyle choices like smoking could all bring on premature graying. Your scalp itself undergoes both internal and external aging due to what you expose your body to.
Here’s a look at some of the factors that could cause your hair to go gray before it should.
Oxidative stress from free radicals in the body can bring on premature gray hair. Researchers have found that this interferes with melanocyte growth, depleting their number and causing hair to turn gray in the absence of these specialized cells responsible for pigmenting hair. Oxidative stress can come from inflammation in the body, exposure to radiation, and even psychoemotional stress, making it vital that you address the root cause to prevent long-term damage or more serious consequences.1
Genetic Causes And Family History
Find out how old your parents and grandparents were when they began to see visible signs of graying hair. Familial premature graying is not uncommon, and it could well be the case that you’re genetically predisposed to gray hair early on. In general, Caucasian or white-skinned people tend to see signs of graying in their mid-30s, while Asians begin to go gray in their late 30s. African-Americans gray later than other races.
Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare syndrome with premature graying of hair as a symptom. An inherited syndrome and aging disorder, it causes patients to have increasingly short telomeres (the coating on the DNA that determines how we age). This results in the graying of hair, higher risk of osteoporosis, dental loss, and in more severe cases eventual bone marrow failure.2
Heart Disease, Lung Scarring, And Aplastic Anemia
Short telomeres, which can cause signs of aging such as premature graying, are also present in those who are susceptible to heart failure. Those with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis or scarring of the tissue on the lung also see telomere shortening. The shorter length and telomerase activity levels impact how well stem cells can regenerate tissue, including hair.3
Aplastic anemia, where the body is not producing adequate new blood cells, could also result in early graying.4
Vitamin B12 Deficiency And Pernicious Anemia
Vitamin B12 stimulates the body’s melanocytes that give your hair their color. A deficiency of this essential vitamin or pernicious anemia, which prevents absorption of adequate levels of the vitamin by the body, can also cause hair to lose its pigmentation.5
Human hair follicle function is impacted by thyroid hormones. As one study found, T3 and T4 both modulate various aspects of hair biology including pigmentation. And that’s why a thyroid problem could also result in early graying.6
Smoking And Graying Hair
Studies have found that smokers may show signs of aging before their time. Smokers may develop facial wrinkles and even find their hair going gray earlier than it should. Researchers found a link between graying hair and smoking in both men and women. The good news is if you stop smoking soon enough, you may be able to halt the progress of this accelerated aging and restore it to normal levels.7
How You Can Fight Premature Graying
Your first line of defense against premature graying is understanding what specifically is causing the problem. If you find it is due to a deficiency or disorder that is treatable, your doctor may prescribe appropriate medication or treatment to help. Topical products like hair conditioners, antioxidants, photo protectors, and humectants made from anti-aging compounds will usually be suggested. Hair transplantation may be an option for some.
Newer solutions like topical liposome targeting of proteins and melanins are also being explored. Until then, hair care products and natural looking hair colors also offer a means to address aesthetic concerns around premature aging and can restore a younger-looking you.8
Ayurveda’s Answer To Premature Graying
In general, maintaining good mental and physical health is considered the best way to ensure good glossy hair. According to Ayurveda, a pitta imbalance is manifested as palitya or premature graying in some people. The body’s digestive essence called rasa is believed to determine hair color and overall health.
There are some tried and tested ways you can use Ayurvedic remedies to stop graying hair.
- Avoid eating too much hot, spicy pitta-enhancing food when you have such an imbalance to slow graying. In addition, nasya karma, or the administering of medicines through the nostrils, is suggested to treat the problem.9
- Applying maka or bhringaraja juice to the hair is a commonly used ayurvedic treatment for darkening hair naturally. Besides this, formulations using amla, triphala, harada, and beheda are other options.10
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File Transfer Protocol or FTP it is a protocol used to move files between computers. The FTP uses the client/server model. The server is always listening and waiting for FTP requests from other remote clients. When the server receives a request, it establishes a connection and handles the login.
During this tutorial, we are going to cover installing the FTP server and will show you some examples of how to upload and download single and multiple files.
Install FTP on Ubuntu
Before starting in the installation process of FTP, we need to ensure that the system is up-to-date using the following commands:
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Next, let’s install the FTP server.
Step 1. Install the vsftpd package using the below command.
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
Step 2. Check the vsftpd status.
sudo service vsftpd status
As you can see from the above screenshot that the FTP server is active and running successfully.
Step 3. In case you need the vsftpd service to run automatically when the system starts up, you can use the command:
sudo service vsftpd enable
Now let’s move to the next section.
Configure The Firewall
After installing the required FTP server package, we need to perform some more configurations on the firewall.
Step 1. One of the basic configurations is adding a rule for the SSH, and this will prevent you from being locked out of by the server.
sudo ufw allow ssh
As you can, the output of the previous command will be something like the below screenshot:
Step 2. Now let’s open the 20 and 21 ports for FTP.
sudo ufw allow 20/tcp
The output of the previous command should be something like the below screenshot:
sudo ufw allow 21/tcp
You may find the rule already added as the below output:
Step 3. Also lets open the ports for the passive FTP.
sudo ufw allow 40000:50000/tcp
Step 4. Now let’s enable the firewall if it is not already enabled.
sudo ufw enable
To ensure that all of the previous rules have been added successfully, you can check the status of the firewall by running the below command:
sudo ufw status
Configure the vsftpd Configuration File
Some other few configurations needed to be done by editing the vsftpd configuration file which is found in “/etc/vsftpd.conf.”
Step 1. First and before editing the vsftpd configuration file, we need to take a backup from this configuration file.
sudo cp /etc/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.conf.backup-copy
Step 2. Open the vsftpd configuration file using your favorite editor; here we are going to use the vi editor.
sudo vi /etc/vsftpd.conf
Step 3. After opening the configuration file, you can search for the below settings, uncomment them and ensure that they have the right value.
write_enable=YES --> Allow the FTP users to write files to the FTP server. chroot_local_user=YES --> Prevent the FTP users from browsing outside their own home directory. local_enable=YES --> Allow local users to login through FTP. local_umask=022 --> Give the correct permissions to the uploaded files/directories.
There are a lot of settings in the vsftpd configuration file you can check them and decide which is best for you.
Step 4. After editing the vsftpd configuration file, save and quit it.
Step 5. Now we need to restart the vsftpd service to enable all the previous changes.
sudo service vsftpd restart
Test The FTP Server
To test the FTP server, you need to connect from another machine using the FTP client which is already installed on most of the Linux systems. In case the FTP client is not installed, you can install it using the command as follows:
sudo apt-get install ftp
Step 1. From the client machine, connect to the FTP server.
where the above IP is the FTP server machine IP.
As you can see from the previous screenshot when you try to login to the FTP server, by default, it suggests the local user that you can use to login. After you enter the username and password, you will get the successful login message.
Step 2. Now let’s try out some commands, check your current directory.
As you can see from the previous output, the “/” here means the home directory of the local user logged in which in our case is “hendadel.”
List the content of the current directory.
Step 3. From the FTP server machine, try to create a directory and create some files in it like the below screenshot.
Step 4. From the FTP client machine, move to the newly created directory and list its content to download it on the client machine.
Step 5. Now let’s download a single file.
As you can see from the previous screenshot, the file has been downloaded successfully. You can find the downloaded file in your client’s machine logged in user home directory like below.
Step 6. To download multiple files from the FTP server.
And you can check the downloaded files as shown previously.
Step 7. From the client FTP machine, while you are connected to the FTP server create a directory like the below screenshot.
Move from your current directory to the newly created directory.
Step 8. Now let’s upload one single file to the FTP server.
Step 9. To upload multiple files to the FTP server.
From the FTP server machine, you can check the uploaded files as below.
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Driving in Iceland
There are many things about driving in Iceland which are unique and may come as a surprise. We at Thrifty Iceland Car rental are concerned about your safety. The roads, the weather, the nature, the road signs and law is in many cases very different from your home country. Please read carefully the information below when planning your car rental in Iceland or Iceland 4x4 rental.
The following information is are important general information regarding driving in Iceland. We urge you to take time to read it through for your safety.
If you are travelling around Iceland in the winter time please ALSO read Winter Driving in Iceland.
We advice you to take the time to watch the short film here below of our friend Elfis who drives around Iceland giving many advices about driving in Iceland.
Please remember that you are responsible for your driving and for checking road and weather conditions and assessing whether it is safe for you to travel.
Instructed by law seat belts should always be worn by the driver and all passengers (fron and rear) when driving in Iceland. Fatal accidents are on the rise due to tourists not wearing them.
Headlights on at all times !
It is also of great importance that you keep the headlamps lit 24 hours a day while driving and make sure you also have lights on the rear side of the vehicle.
Most modern vehicles have an automatic daylight setting that has minimum lighting and often no lights on the rear side of the car. We have your safety in mind when we advice you to turn on the lights so the vehicle is visible from all angles.
The headlight settings are often in a button similar to this. Can be either on the left side of the steering wheel or on the indicator stick on the left side of the steering wheel. Often the settings are set to the AUTO settings but we advice our customers to always put on the setting with the blue circle. This gives you the best lighting possible. Please remember to TURN THEM OFF when you turn off the car, in most cases this light uses up the battery on the vehicle so it might not turn on the next morning if you leave it on!
Stopping on the roadside
In Iceland there are increasing problems and accidents due to tourists who stop on the roadside to take photos. This is unsafe, illegal and dangerous to you and passengers in other cars heading your way. You should ALWAYS find a safe place to park the car on a designated parking lot to take photos.
It is also not allowed to feed animals in fences such as horses and other animals.
Don't drive tired !
In the summer time when the sun is up almost 24 hours a day drivers need to be careful to rest over the day during long trips. It is a great idea that you take turns driving. We offer an additional driver for low cost so you can add on an extra driver so you can enjoy your travel to the fullest.
If you are travelling alone, find a designated parking lot and rest if you are feeling tired.
It is very dangerous for you and others if you fall asleep under the steering wheel. Can cause fatal accidents.
Iceland gravel roads
Iceland roads are total of 13 thousand km but only about 5000 km. are paved with asfalt. The majority is gravel roads which need special attention while driving and are not suitable for fast driving. The roads are narrow and sometimes with one-lane bridges. Please drive carefully and show consideration at all times. When a car comes from the opposite direction, slow down and pull out to the right side of the road. This can reduce risk of costly damage from flying stones.
Many bridges are narrow, allowing only one car to cross at a time. Before entering narrow bridges, please slow down and make sure that no one is entering from the opposite direction.
Please note that there was a recent fatal accident due to drivers entering a narrow bridge at the same time.
Animals on the roads
Please be prepaired for animals grazing by the roadside and straying into or crossing the road. Drivers who cause injury or death to such animals may be liable to claims for compensation for the animal. Most common are sheep but horses and cows are common close to farms. Reindeers are also common in the east Iceland. If an animal is injured or killed in a collision, please contact the nearest farm and pass on the information so the animal can be taken care of.
Average driving speed Iceland
In urban areas the speed limit is 50 km/h unless indicated otherwise and the limit in rural areas is 90 km/h on paved roads but only 80 km/h on gravel roads.
When driving in poor weather or on a rough road we advice you to driver slower than the above. Please note that speed cameras are located on many roads and always in road tunnels. Speeding fines are costly.
Iceland Ring Road and F-roads
The Ring Road (route 1), called by the locals Hringvegur, is narrow but mostly paved and easy to drive on.
In Iceland there are socalled F-roads which are montain (highland roads), often impassable far into summer and known for strong winds. F-roads aren't regularly maintained, resulting in large holes or rocks possibly found on the road. These can severely damage the underbody of the vehicle, a very costly damage for the renterl. F-roads are only suitable for AWD or 4x4 vehicles and NOT allowed for passenger cars (2x4)
When leaving the Ring for the F-roads to reach the Iceland highland you must have the correct vehicle, extra caution is needed and important to check if the road is open for driving. Some F-roads may be drivable only by larger 4x4 rental.
Average opening times on popular F-roads in Icleand:
- Lakagígar (F206) - Jun 12th.
- Fjallabaksleið nyrðri (Landmannalaugar, Eldgjá) (F208) - Jun 12th
- Landmannaleið, Landmannalaugar (F225) - Jun 15th
- Kjölur (Hveravellir) (F35) - Jun 11th
- Sprengisandur (F26) - Jun 27th
- Askja (F88) - Jun 20th
- Kverkfjöll (F902) – Jun 19th
- Uxahryggir (F52) – Jun 5th
- Kaldidalur (F550) – Jun 13th
Please note that these dates are only average opening dates for these roads. You should always check the road and weather conditions before traveling to these destinations such as else.
Iceland off-road driving
Even though you are driving 4x4 all off road driving, like driving off designated roads, is illegal in Iceland. The reason is that Iceland nature is very unique and fragile and minor damage to it can take years to recover or may never be recoverable. Off road driving is subject to high fines and even imprisonment.
Sand and ash storms can damage the car
Please be aware of sand and ash storms when travelling in Iceland. Sand and ash storms can damage the paint, glass, lights and numerous other parts of the car. The renter is liable for the full repair cost unless purchasing specific Sand and Ash Protection. The damage can be very costly. In windy weather we recommend staying away from areas known for risk of sandstorms. If you see a storm ahead, stop, find a place for the car where it's sheltered from the wind and wait for the storm to pass.
Please note that even small rivers can turn out to be very dancerous. The renter is liable for the repair unless buying a specific Insurance; River Ford Crossing protection.
Crossing rivers requires a special driving technique and knowledge about where to cross and the condition of the riverbed (whether it is gravel, clay or large rocks). You need to find the correct ford, water depth should not be higher than 50 % of the wheel and you should drive SLOWLY. Slowly means about 4 km/h.
Iceland road and weather conditions
The Icelandic Road Administration, Vegagerdin, offers information about open and closed roads and road conditions and can be called at 1777 or reached on the web. The Icelandic Met Office, Vedurstofan, offers Weather condition and forecast on the web. The mobile network covers large parts of Iceland but there can be blind spots in rural areas which should be taken into account if relied on as a safety device.
Roads can be blocked temporarily due to extreme road conditions, weather, snow, sandstorms, etc. This can happen any time of the year. Please do not enter a road that is blocked as it may be dangerous and cause serious damages to your car. You can see all information regarding blocked roads at road.is or by phone at 1777.
Does anyone know where you are going?
We urge you to leave your travel plan with someone in case of an emergency. It is possible to leave your plan with www.safetravel.is
We also recommend downloading the 112 Iceland app. The app sends a text to the Icelandic emergency service 112, with the phone's GPS location, before calling 112. If used properly, it will enhance the security of the user by providing vital information.
Additional useful safety information @ safetravel.is page
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Osteopathy is based on a number of principles and a system of diagnosis and treatment for a number of medical conditions.
An osteopath will use a number of tests and movements to diagnose and treat the symptoms which include neuromuscular of the upper and lower limb, muscle strength assessment, joint range of movement to assess the bone and muscle structure.
Osteopathy can be used for the effective treatment of joint and muscle pain, back and neck pain, sciatic and sports related injuries. The techniques used aim to enhance and assist with the body's natural self-healing mechanism.
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The pandemic is affecting people in many different negative ways all over the world, but apparently is allowing traffickers to grow their business. This worrying trend poses many risks to global security and it can have a long-term impact on millions of people across the globe, who have become increasingly vulnerable during the pandemic and will have little to no resources to escape human traffickers and exploitation.
Impact of lockdowns and travel restrictions
In early May, Europol reported that human traffickers were taking advantage of the pandemic to further their activities and exploit more people. According to the statement:
“Criminals are finding new ways to abuse the vulnerability of irregular migrants wishing to enter or travel across Europe and those financially struggling, victimized in labor or sexual exploitation schemes. “
Travel restrictions and lockdowns have not stopped the business of human trafficking, but may actually be contributing for it to thrive. Europol added that traffickers were continuing to use several means of transportation, such as boats or cargo trains, to conceal migrants.
Ghada Fathi Waly, the UNODC Executive Director, has also alerted authorities to the situation of acute vulnerability for trafficking victims during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Waly, “With COVID-19 restricting movement, diverting law enforcement resources, and reducing social and public services, human trafficking victims have even less chance of escape and finding help”.
As legal routes for migration close down all over the world, more and more people are vulnerable to exploitation and to be victimized by traffickers, which can originate from basically any country or nationality. From Africa to Europe to Asia to America, all continents suffer from the criminal activities of trafficking rings.
Closure of support services
Not only are trafficking victims at risk of becoming infected with the virus and not being able to access healthcare, but the few support services available are also shutting down in many countries due to the lockdowns. Some are even at the risk of not re-opening, due to the funding crisis of the third sector.
Support services that do continue to operate have to do so under extremely challenging conditions, trying to provide assistance online or by phone. Considering how trauma recovery for victims of trafficking is already quite difficult, NGO workers worry that their beneficiaries will effectively feel cut off and alone, and may be unable to escape situations of exploitation.
According to a UNODC representative, “in some places, trafficking victims no longer have access to shelters, some refugees have even closed down due to the virus and others lack protective equipment – putting both victims and staff at risk.”
Still, some NGOs are carrying on and finding new ways to fight traffic. One example is Love Justice International which has turned its attention toward deceitful job ads on Facebook and is trying to raise awareness of the dangers of social media by engaging users in conversation.
Difficulties in identifying victims
Shortages in support services and trained staff also mean that it is increasingly hard to properly identify trafficking victims. With law enforcement mobilized to combat the pandemic and enforce lockdown measures, organized crime is able to thrive and come up with new ways to find victims.
It’s also harder to check up on places that routinely profit from trafficking, such as brothels, and victims stuck at home with their traffickers have fewer chances of seeking help.
Other systems for the identification of trafficking victims, such as through the intervention of health care workers, will also be at risk of being ineffective while the combat against the pandemic dominates health care facilities all over the world.
Considering how all major world economies are expecting an unprecedented financial crisis caused by the pandemic, the number of desperate people all over the world will probably increase, as more and more workers have trouble finding jobs and income to sustain themselves and risk everything for the chance of a better life. According to UNODC:
“…the global economic downturn bringing along a sharp increase in unemployment rates is likely to increase cross-border trafficking in persons from countries experiencing long-lasting drops in employment. The same trend could be observed during the Global Financial Crisis during 2007-2010 when trafficking victims from countries particularly affected by prolonged high unemployment rates were increasingly detected in countries with a faster recovery. The economic consequences of the lookdown measures put in place to reduce the diffusion of the virus will likely result in losing jobs and increasing poverty in a large segment of the population in many countries. As it has happened in the past, this will increase the risks for these people to be targeted by traffickers.”
This economic downturn is worrying on many levels, but the threat it poses to global security is probably one of the most important things to take into consideration. The predicted amount of people who will emerge from this pandemic more fragile and without resources is staggering, and that level of desperation will certainly direct more and more victims towards trafficking rings.
Better anti-trafficking policies
The international community and human rights defenders acknowledge the importance of lockdowns and restrictive measures in combating the pandemic, but they also stress that for each policy that limits mobility and freedom, other support policies must be made available without discrimination for trafficking victims and those at risk of becoming trafficking victims.
Considering how trafficking is intertwined with essential economic activities, such as agriculture, governments must be more vigilant and ensure that organized crime will not profit from their dependence on foreign labor. That means providing migrants with adequate residence permits and other documents, and not letting them fall into the hands of traffickers in order to work.
Human trafficking is one of the most heinous human rights abuses and unfortunately many governments are accomplices in protecting trafficking rings and organized crime. COVID-19 will probably not result in more victims of trafficking being properly identified and protected, but rather in higher pay-offs for traffickers wanting to cash in on the desperation of thousands of workers who are now left without livelihoods. | <urn:uuid:331620b0-016f-4552-97be-3b1c420a6c9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mzemo.com/2020/06/03/the-pandemic-is-benefiting-human-traffickers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.95941 | 1,192 | 2.375 | 2 |
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The Brontës : From Parsonage to PrintAnd at The Morgan Library & Museum, a screening of Jane Eyre 1944:
Friday, September 16, 12.00 noon
1 Belden Ave
Norwalk, CT 06850
Presented by part-time Reference Librarian Mona Garcia
1847 witnessed the publication of Currer Bell's Jane Eyre, Ellis Bell's Wuthering Heights, and Acton Bell's Agnes Grey. Currer Bell, Ellis Bell, and Acton Bell were the pseudonyms for three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Please join us for The Brontës: From Parsonage to Print in which we discover that the life stories of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë are as fascinating as the fictional worlds they created.
Friday, September 16, 7 pm
Director: Robert Stevenson
(1943, 97 minutes)
This classic American film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel of the same name stars Orson Welles as Mr. Rochester and Joan Fontaine as Jane Eyre. After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young ward. Original music by Bernard Hermann and cinematography by George Barnes.
The exhibition Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will will be open for program attendees before the screening.
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Gardening journals help you keep track of what seeds you start, what plants you have planted, and where. When you keep organized your gardening efforts are easier to enjoy!
Gardening journals are a great way to keep track of all the things you love about your garden! It can be anything from planting tips, photos during the season, or even recipes. It can also help you stay on budget, which is important too.
You have the beginnings of a garden diary if you save your seed packets, plant tags, or garden center receipts, and you’re only a few steps away from finishing it up completely. This post provides suggestions for creating a garden journal that can help you learn from your triumphs and failures while keeping track of your garden’s progress.
This is a great way to help your kids learn about gardening too. Involve them in writing down observations and let their creativity shine through by allowing them to draw pictures of the plants they’re growing or bugs on their leaves.
Gardening journals, what are they?
A garden journal is a written record of your garden, you could call it your garden diary. Some people refer to them as a garden planner because, in the long run, it can help you plan out things for the garden through the seasons.
This year I created my own garden planner aka journal. Many of the ones out there had way more than I needed or would use. As I go along I may add more pages. Sometimes, as I am going along, I think about something that would be helpful, so I will create another page.
My Garden Journal and Planner
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You can keep your garden journal contents in any notebook or on note cards organized into a file. Some like to use a ring binder because it allows you to add pages as needed. For example, you can print the graph page from my printable journal for each section of your garden and add it to your binder. Put in plant names, location of planting, and more.
Calendar with the Garden Journal, Planner, Diary
Print each month’s calendar page to jot little notes to keep track of where you are at in the year. This helps me to see if a window of opportunity is slipping by when I need to be getting a certain garden task done.
Some people use plastic pockets for seed packets and I have included a page where once you empty them you can attach them to keep them on hand to refer back to or to have a photo of the plant. I have also photocopied a packet and added it to the page instead.
Saving plant tags from ones you have purchased can be helpful too.
Why Keep a Garden Journal or Diary?
Keeping a garden journal gives you a written record of your garden layouts, where you planted what (I have forgotten by spring if I have planted seeds in a certain area), plans, successes, and failures, and you’ll learn about your plants and soil as you go. This information can be helpful when trying to remember what worked well in a certain area of your flower garden or which plants struggled last year.
I am finding my video journal, which is my YouTube channel, is also a huge help to me. You may not want to start a YouTube channel but keeping some videos of your garden through the season can give you added help.
I have done a lot of video just on my iPhone and then downloaded to my computer to save in files. I name the files, like “Secret Garden tours”, “Front garden” or “veggie garden”. This helps me find them again when I want to refer back to them.
Garden Diary – Vegetable Gardens
An essential duty of the journal or diary for veggie gardeners is to keep track of crop rotation. Planting the same crop in an identical location can deplete the soil and contribute to pest pressure, fungal problems, and plant diseases. Some suggest vegetables should be grown on a three- to five-year cycle. Your garden design plans are an important planning tool from year to year.
Keep track of which veggies do well together or how long each plant yields. Each year can be a bit different but you will get a feel for things.
Succession planting is a great way to ensure you have produce all season long! Plan and track what you can plant after the early Spring crops are fading.
Succession planting also works well in flower gardening. Before Spring flowers fade you can sow summer annuals like Zinnias or Cosmos.
Record of Seeds
Keep a record of the seeds you already have so you don’t end up buying more of the same one. This is especially helpful if you have winter cabin fever and those gorgeous seed catalogs lure you into a buying spree!
Pests and Disease tracking
Did you have a pest problem last season? Or maybe an outbreak of a fungus or plant disease? Keep track of what is going on in your garden by noting when pests or diseases strike. You might be able to take steps to prevent them from happening again next year. Prevention is always preferable over waiting for the problem to occur.
I have found this book to be invaluable in helping me to use companion planting to mitigate problems organically: Plant Partners.
A garden diary or gardeners logbook allows you to keep a permanent record of your garden, which you may refer to from year to year. I also have a digital archive of photos along with the videos, from my garden and that is helpful too. The garden maps I have sketched have been invaluable when I am planting early in the season and prevent me from planting on top of a perennial that is dormant.
In winter, as you plan the next season’s garden it is refreshing to look over what you enjoyed most the prior season and what you may wish to repeat or toss.
The budget page helps you keep track of spending and a record of what you have purchased during the growing season. If you have a plant you wish to acquire but it is on the pricier side, plan a way to save for it. I am coveting a Black Bamboo but to purchase an established one is very expensive. By budgeting or making sure I don’t buy seeds etc I already have I can start saving for it.
This year I am going to pass on buying more Dahlia tubers. Not only do I have some saved from last year I have decided that as they are such a fussy plant for me and zinnias provide something similar in shape I can sacrifice buying more. Saving the money and making do with the tubers I have saved will give me a chunk of change to put towards a Black Bamboo. (that is if I can’t find a garden friend that already has one and can give me a start)
Ideas and Observations
This is a page to write down ideas that may pop up through the gardening season of what you may wish to try. Or make observations of the weather. Did you have a hot spell? What plants fared well and which obviously suffered. Or just use this page to keep notes of any kind.
Keeping a garden journal is a great way to make the most out of your gardening efforts! Not only does it help you stay organized, but it can also be a source of inspiration for the next season. What will you include in your garden journal this year?
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Printable Garden Journal
After creating my Garden Journal I decided to share it with you all. You can print as many or as few pages as you wish. To purchase the digital file just press the button. I wanted to keep this affordable so it is $5
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Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
The Ph.D. qualifying exam will consist of the three phases described below and will be required of all doctoral students.
Written Qualifier Students starting in the summer or fall semesters are required to take the exam the following May after the end of the spring semester (~1 year after they enter the program). Students starting in the spring semester are required to take the exam in May of the following year (~1.5 years after they enter the program).
- Day One - All students will take an exam based on the "Introduction to Materials Science" class which is currently based on the book by Callister. This is intended as a "leveling" exam since students from different natural science and engineering backgrounds are in the graduate MTSE program. All faculty may participate in writing questions.
- Day Two - Students will elect to write a specialty exam on one of the following areas:
- Metals and intermetallics
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These exams will be written by faculty committees with the appropriate specializations. The Ph.D. exam coordinator, Dr. Wonbong Choi will oversee formation of the committees. The exams will be based on specific elective courses and/or a specific reading list (book(s), edition, specific chapters or pages) (Click here for reading list details). The exams will incorporate fundamentals from the core classes wherever possible. The core classes may be a part of the reading list.
Oral Qualifiers / Ph.D. Proposal Defense Must be completed after the end of year 1, but no later than the end of year 2 in the Ph.D. program.
Students will propose and defend a topic that is expected to lead to their Ph.D. dissertation. The topic must therefore be approved by the Ph.D. advisor. All faculty may participate in the exam. The Ph.D. committee is expected to participate in the exam. Students will be admitted to Doctoral Candidacy after successfully passing the "Ph.D. proposal defense".
Every Ph.D. proposal must be presented within the Heilmeier framework and must address the following questions:
- What are you trying to do? What is the problem? Why is it hard?
- How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?
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A Pre-Dissertation Presentation must be conducted between 6 and 12 months prior to final dissertation defense.
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This is a question that I get several times a day. Many people will go get a hearing test, see what their hearing healthcare professional recommends, and then come home to do some research online. Upon researching the aids online, people come across advertisements and opportunities to purchase hearing aids online, whether it be from an online dealer or from a person who is selling aids (perhaps from a loved one who is deceased, or maybe for someone who had a change of hearing and is no longer a candidate for the aids they had).
Purchasing hearing aids online can be a difficult and frustrating task, but every once in a while a good deal can be found. Please keep in mind that this is more of a rarity than it is the norm.
Buying Used Aids Online
People sell barely used hearing aids online all the time. eBay and other similar venues will have hearing aids listed on there by manufacturer and model. For someone who is looking to replace an older aid, or maybe one got lost or chewed up by the dog, this can be a viable option. It would be important to make sure that the hearing aid is a BTE (behind-the-ear), Open Fit, or RIC (receiver-in-the-canal) style of instrument. Avoid any custom products, as the likelihood that they will be a good fit for another person’s ears are slim to none. Buying used aids online is always a risk…diseases can be passed from person to person through earwax and other bodily products, there’s no way to tell how well the person selling the aids took care of them, and it can be challenging to find a hearing healthcare professional who is willing and able to program the hearing aids if purchased online. Please…before putting someone else’s used hearing aid in your own ear, take it to a hearing healthcare provider who can show you how to properly clean and sterilize the device.
Buying New Aids Online
Some hearing aid dealers and insurance groups do have the option of selling hearing aids online these days. They will require the patient to send in an audiogram (and sometimes an ear impression) and then they program the aids based off of the test results and send them back to the patient. The problem with this particular model is that the service component is a huge part of getting a hearing aid, so if one orders new aids online and they are uncomfortable or don’t work properly, are too loud or not loud enough…one must send them back to the place from whence they came and hope that when they get them back in a few weeks, things are better. Once again, one of the major pitfalls of this particular model is finding a local provider who can help you with learning to use the aids.
A few points to consider:
- Research the aids. If it seems like it’s a deal that is too good to be true, it probably is.
- Before purchasing anything, contact local hearing health providers. Ask them “How much do you charge to program a hearing aid I didn’t buy from you/that I bought online/that I bought used?” Ask them if they charge per device or if the quote is for two aids. Ask them what they charge for each follow up visit. Ask them if they have the necessary software to program your aid, and if not, ask them what they will charge you to get it. Then, add all these costs to whatever the price is on the computer screen. THAT is the new cost of your “great deal” hearing aid.
- If buying a used aid, find out what area of the country or what climate it’s coming from. Find out how old it is, who used it and how much. Find out why they aren’t using it anymore. Ask what battery size it takes, if there is a case included, if there are cleaning tools included, etc.
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Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses and perception. Much before scholars in the arts and humanities took their recent ‘ontological turn’ toward the new materialism, black British art had begun to expose cultural criticism’s overreliance on the concepts of textuality, representation, identity and difference. Illuminating that original field of aesthetics and creativity, this book shows how black British artworks themselves can become the basis for an engaged and widely-reaching philosophy. Numerous extended descriptive studies of artworks spell out the affective and critical relations that pertain between individual works, their viewers and the world at hand: intimate, physically-involving and visceral relations that are brought into being through a wide range of phenomena including performance, photography, installation, photomontage and digital practice.
Whether they subsist through movement, or in time, through gesture, or illusion, black British art is always an arresting nexus of making, feeling and thought. It celebrates particular philosophical interest in:
- the use of art as a place for remembering the personal or collective past;
- the fundamental ‘equivalence’ of texture and colour, and their instances of ‘rupture’;
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- and the interconnections between art, politics and emancipation.
Drawing first hand on the founding, historical texts of early and mid-twentieth century phenomenology (Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty), and current advances in art history, curating and visual anthropology, the author transposes black British art into a freshly expanded and diversified intellectual field. What emerges is a vivid understanding of phenomenal difference: the profoundly material processes of interworking philosophical knowledge and political strategy at the site of black British art.
Dr Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History, The Open University.
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|Additional Physical Format:||Online version:
Simmons, Roger E. (Roger Edwin).
Wood-using industries of North Carolina.
Raleigh : E.M. Uzzell & Co., 1910
|Material Type:||Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource|
|Document Type:||Book, Internet Resource|
|All Authors / Contributors:||
Roger E Simmons; J S Holmes; Homer S Sackett; North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey.; United States. Forest Service.
|Notes:||"Prepared jointly by the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey and the U.S. Forest Service"--Page .|
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|Series Title:||Economic paper (North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey), no. 20.|
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World Stationery Day is an annual event observed every last Wednesday of April and this year it will be held on April 26. We use the day to celebrate all stationery which includes pens, pencils, paper, staplers, erasers, highlighters, markers, postcards, crayons, and adhesive tape. Stationery is used for written correspondence and is an important tool of correspondence. Since prehistoric times, humans have made use of a wide variety of tools and implements to write letters, pass across messages, or preserve information. Today, stationery still plays a major role in our society despite the advancement in technology.
History of World Stationery Day
The word ‘stationery’ is derived from the Medieval Latin word ‘stationarius’, meaning ‘unmoved’ or ‘permanent.’ According to Wikipedia, stationery refers to “commercially manufactured writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements, continuous form paper, and other office supplies.” Stationery could also mean special paper used for writing letters. According to several historians, paper was invented by a Chinese eunuch named Tsai Lun around the year 121 A.D. He apparently did this by mixing the inner bark of a mulberry tree with bamboo fibers. Prior to that, ancient records were written on either bamboo, which was quite heavy, or silk, which was costly. Also, ancient Egyptians would fashion papyrus plants into solid, dried sheets.
Pens can also be traced back to ancient times. In 1300 B.C., metal styluses were used to write on wax tablets by the Romans. These iron instruments were shaped like pencils, sharpened to a point at one end, while being flat and circular at the other end. During the same period, Asian scribes made use of bronze styluses. Years later, Egyptians used thick bamboo/calamus reeds. The famed quill pen didn’t make an appearance until the sixth century in Seville, Spain. Made with either swan feathers or goose feathers, the quill pen lasted for centuries and came into use all over the world. The 19th century saw the invention of ballpoint pens, which immediately phased out quill pens.
In the 21st century, pen and paper are becoming less popular due to the advancement of technology. Online learning, with the use of mobile devices, has recently revolutionized the educational system. Texting and email communication have phased out the old art of letter writing. Even personal notes are now shared via mobile applications. Yet in all this, old-fashioned stationery has not completely died out as it still proves useful in the world.
World Stationery Day timeline
Paper is invented in China by Tsai Lun.
The quill pen is invented in Seville, Spain.
Ballpoint pens replace quill pens.
The Biro brothers file the first patent for a ballpoint pen called ‘Birome.’
World Stationery Day FAQs
What is inside a pencil?
Pencil lead is usually made of graphite powder mixed with a clay binder, which is then fired in a kiln.
When were pencils invented?
Pencils were first invented during the 1700s.
What are the ingredients in pen ink?
Pen ink is primarily made up of dye or pigment particles, along with other additives such as water, polymers, linseed oil, and so on.
How to Observe World Stationery Day
Use your stationery
In our world of phones, laptops, and gadgets, writing things down with pen and paper is almost becoming a lost art. Today, be intentional in doing things the traditional way be it making a to-do list or sending someone a nice hand-written note.
Buy more stationery
Thinking of the perfect present for that friend or family member? Give them something unique by sending them a lovely stationery set.
Use the hashtag
Not everyone knows that World Stationery Day exists. Make a fun post about it on social media and make use of the hashtag #worldstationeryday to create wider visibility.
5 Interesting Facts About Stationery
Stale bread makes good erasers
Before erasers were invented in 1770, stale bread was used to clean pencil marks.
Post-it notes were created accidentally
Post-it notes were created because a scientist invented glue that was too weak for other purposes.
King Louis XIV had customized stapler pins
In the 18th century, the stapler pins invented for the French King Louis XIV bore his insignia.
Paper is produced in tons
Every year, over 300 million tons of paper are produced around the world.
Pencils have a lot of mileage!
The average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.
Why World Stationery Day is Important
It takes us back to the old days
This holiday takes us right back to when things were simpler. We’re encouraged to put our devices down for a while and use our stationery instead.
It supports stationery makers
Ever wonder about the people who make paper, pens, and other materials that are so useful in our daily lives? This day not only shines a spotlight on them but purchasing stationery also keeps the stationery industry afloat.
It aids focus and learning
According to several studies conducted by scientists, it has been proven that writing with pen and paper aids focus and has positive effects on the cognitive process. This means the simple act of writing things by hand is much more beneficial to us than typing on a keypad.
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Garth VII Gardener
Garth VII Gardener by Magali Villeneuve
|Full Name||Garth of House Gardener, the Seventh of His Name|
|Titles||King of the Reach|
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Garth VII Gardener, called the Goldenhand or Garth Goldenhand, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. He is considered the greatest Gardener King in the history of the Reach, for his deeds both in war and in peace. He became king at twelve and had reigned for eighty-one years when he died.
As a boy, Garth turned back a Dornish invasion when King Ferris Fowler led a thousand men through the Wide Way intent on conquest. Soon after he drove the last of the ironborn from their strongholds on the Misty Islands. He then renamed them the Shield Islands, and resettled them with his own fiercest fighters and finest seamen, granting them special dispensations with the goal of turning them into a first line of defense against ironborn raiders. This proved a great success.
In his final and greatest war, Garth VII faced an alliance between the Storm King and the King of the Rock, who intended to divide the Reach between them. The Goldenhand defeated them both, and then with cunning words he sowed such strife between the two that they turned on each other with great slaughter at the Battle of Three Armies. In the aftermath Garth married his daughters to their heirs and signed a pact with each, thereby fixing the borders between their three kingdoms.
But Garth's greatest achievement was to give his kingdom and people three-quarters of a century of golden peace. During the long years of his reign, the Reach was at war for less than ten. Generations of boys were born, grew to manhood, and sired children of their own and died without ever having to know what it was to grasp a spear and shield and march away to war. And with this long peace came an unprecedented prosperity. This period became known as the Golden Reign, and was when the Reach truly flowered.
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The Bora is a wind that blows in a North North-Easterly direction from the mountains into the Gulf of Trieste. It blows intermittently with gusts that can occasionally be very strong.
Trieste and the Bora are inseparable. Trieste is the city of the Bora and the Bora is the wind of Trieste. When it arrives, the city wakes with an intense shudder. Trieste residents love it and endure it, but cannot be without it; when it isn't blowing, they hope for its return. It is an essential element of this city, perhaps because it sparks real and intense emotions that few can ignore.
When Trieste is lashed by the Bora, its beauty is extraordinary.
Writers and poets of every type have dedicated verses and passages to this wind, almost as if it were flesh and blood, but perhaps in reality it is even more, it is the spirit of Trieste.
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I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
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A landmark decision by the Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled the elementary teachers’ union waged an unlawful strike in two school boards by encouraging an after-school boycott when it was not in a legal strike position.
The ruling could prevent future use of the sort of wink-wink work-to-rule campaign that cancelled extracurricular activities for most of the school year for 1.3 million students across the province’s public English-language schools.
“This is a very big deal — it represents a precedent that school board lawyers will take into consideration across the province,” noted education lawyer Eric Roher hours after the Wednesday ruling.
While labour board chair Bernard Fishbein stressed extracurriculars are always voluntary — no one can force any teacher to coach — he said that by advising all members to stop doing everything from field trips to plays, clubs and even pizza lunches, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) actually advised illegal strike action under the Education Act because it interfered with the normal activities of schools and school boards.
“By encouraging members to no longer perform any of these activities, ETFO (was) interfering with the normal activities of a board — these activities have been routinely offered for long periods of time,” said Fishbein in the 75-page finding issued eight weeks after arguments ended in the case launched by two school boards.
The Trillium Lakelands District School Board in cottage country and the Upper Canada District School Board in eastern Ontario had sought a cease-and-desist order against ETFO bulletins last January that advised members to stop doing anything other than teach the required 300 minutes a day to protest the imposition of contracts under Bill 115.
Fishbein noted that he had been ready to release his ruling March 26 when ETFO suddenly lifted its boycott because of progress in talks with the government of new Premier Kathleen Wynne.
However, he said he felt he still needed to rule because the fuzzy legal status of the after-school boycott “has bedevilled teacher labour relations in this province and others for decades . . . ETFO has not asserted that it will not resort to this conduct again . . . Accordingly, I am not convinced there is no labour relations purpose to issuing this decision.”
On Wednesday, ETFO President Sam Hammond said his members will honour the ruling, although the union has said it intends to challenge it on the grounds that the Education Act definition of a strike restricts a teacher’s right to freedom of association under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Added Hammond: “You can’t legislate goodwill. There is no other profession where people are expected to perform hours and hours of voluntary service each week, and then are castigated for making personal decisions to put their principles, their families, and their own welfare first.”
Education Minister Liz Sandals said the government is reviewing the decision but her focus remains on “our ongoing discussions with ETFO and rebuilding relationships across the sector.”
ETFO lawyer Howard Goldblatt said he has no reason to believe Fishbein’s ruling would interfere with the ongoing talks between Queen’s Park and ETFO.
Already some teachers are returning to extracurriculars.
For now, the ruling has removed a “black cloud of uncertainty that has been hanging over this issue, because we didn’t know where we stood,” said Trillium Lakelands chair Karen Round. “This was never meant to be an anti-union move; we don’t want to mandate teachers to do extracurriculars but it was meant to be pro-student. We have lost many activities we can never get back this year.”
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Starting with the definition, international business strategy refers to the process of planning and focusing on exporting the products and services to other foreign or international markets. It basically acts as a guide for any commercial transaction that occurs between entities located in different countries.
Conducted with an intention to increase profits and induce growth in the business, the plans and actions are mostly formed for private entities instead of government ones.
Why do we need an International Business Strategy?
With globalization hitting the world, the competition has intensified for all kinds of companies and industries. A movement towards doing business abroad is not as easy or straightforward as it may sound. Hence, comes in picture the need for an international business strategy that helps businesses make a blueprint and get prepared for any foreseen and unforeseen hurdles.
Types of International Business Strategies
There are three types of known international business strategies. Let us see each one of them individually and discuss how they differ from each other.
- Multi-domestic Strategy: A marketing tactic mostly used by the MNCs, multi-domestic strategy is where each branch forms its respective marketing strategy that is based on the distinguished needs of each country
- Each strategy is established keeping in mind the cultural and traditional needs of the country
- The firm focuses on the responsiveness to regional requirements within its markets
- An example of such a marketing strategy is McDonald’s that has a different menu in each country depending on the preference of the people
- Global Strategy: A strategic guide to globalization, such strategies are generally used by firms that are facing cost reduction pressures and financial difficulties. These strategies do not concern themselves with local needs and allows the company to sell a standardized product across the globe
- A complete opposite to multi-domestic strategy, this strategy focuses more on efficiency
- The standardized products at times results in having a negative impact on the learning curve
- Healthcare company, Pfizer is a good example of this strategy as it sells its same medicine across the globe
- Transnational Strategy: Transnational strategy consist of a series of actions that are laid down by a company in order to conduct operations in the market abroad. Firms that adopt this strategy hold central coordination at a particular location.
- The word “Transnational” pertains to the methods and structures that allowa an organization to commence and further maintain functions in abroad.
- They may have multiple subsidiaries across the countries conducting businesses on behalf of the parent company
- A mid-point between multi-domestic strategy and global strategy, this strategy focuses both on efficiency and preferences and needs of local people in each country
- One good example of this strategy is Unilever that has multiple subsidiaries all over the world that help in achieving the target of the parent company
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Whether on paper or online, reading the newspaper is nothing new to Fletcher, but the MIB program has recently given new meaning to the phrase. Kristen tells us more.
This academic year, the MIB program has launched a new lecture series called Fletcher Reads the Newspaper. The series gathers Fletcher faculty and guests to debate, from an interdisciplinary perspective, several sides of a recent business-connected news item. Topics this year ranged from the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh to Edward Snowden’s impact on Google.
The goal of Fletcher Reads the Newspaper is to bring the faculty’s multiple viewpoints together for students in a way that doesn’t always happen in a classroom setting. Once the professors have established the context for the problem, Dean Chakravorti runs a case-style discussion through which student attendees solve a problem related to the challenge. These sessions give students the opportunity to be analytical and thoughtful about the headlines we see every day.
You can read more about recent sessions, including full event reports, on our website.
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How to Write a Recommendation for Your Student
Published on Aug 24, 2018 by Full Sail University
Your student walks in with a special request. They want you to write a letter of recommendation. Before you say “yes,” ask yourself these questions:
- Do you have time to write a meaningful letter that will help your student stand out?
- Are you the best representative of your student’s talents, work habits and personality traits?
- Do you know what’s most important to this student and his/her future goals?
If you have the time to write, make sure you also have time to sit (or email) with your student to ensure you understand his/her goals. Letters of recommendations should be professional and personal. If you have a form letter that you like to use, throw it out now!
Your assignment is to write a letter that will shine a light on everything your student has to offer the prospective college. Be sure that you communicate all the necessary facts, along with any extras that make this individual uniquely qualified for the opportunity at hand.
The letter should include a discussion of:
- How long you’ve known the student.
- Why you are qualified to recommend the student.
- How he/she has demonstrated academic excellence in your classroom through specific coursework.
- What traits and attributes make the student a desirable applicant.
- Why he/she is a good match for the school being considered in terms of his/her talent, goals and activities.
The letter should be an appropriate length to say what needs to be said without exaggeration, hyperbole, or repetition, but short enough to make for an easy and pleasant read.
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EMI/RFI Shielding Components are photo-etched to specifications.
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December 11, 2012 - EMI/RFI Shielding Components are photochemically etched from such base materials as brass, copper, nickel, stainless steel, and steel with various finishes. Suited for integration into PCBs and other electronic devices, custom-manufactured metallic components can be supplied as one- or two-piece fabrications, flat or formed, and can incorporate slots and holes, half-etch bend lines, tabs, or other special features.
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Press release date: December 5, 2012
Stork Veco EMI/RFI Shielding Components are photochemically etched from a variety of base materials such as brass, copper, nickel, stainless steel, and steel with various finishes. Manufactured to customer specifications, they can be supplied as one- or two-piece fabrications, flat or formed, and can incorporate slots and holes, half-etch bend lines, tabs, and other special features.
Supplied in prototype through production quantities, the advantages of Stork Veco photo-etched EMI/RFI Shielding Components being photo-etched include low-cost tooling which can be easily modified and burr- and stress-free finished products that offer good solderability and surface contact. Typical parts include cans with a choice of lids, sidewalls, and mounts, and enclosures, fences, and board-level cans with complex walls and sections.
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During this year’s EvoLang conference, a book was launched with perspectives on the last conference. The past, present and future of language evolution research (McCrohon, Thompson, Verhoef & Yamauchi, 2014) is a volume of student responses to EvoLang9 in Kyoto. It includes basic reviews and criticism, synthesis of current approaches, experiments and sociological perspectives.
It makes for interesting reading. What comes across in all the papers is a drive for collaboration and integration of fields and ideas, as the diagram from the contribution by Barcceló-Coblijn and Martin shows. These are serious attempts to understand what has been learned so far and find new perspectives that incorporate empirical evidence. Many papers see neuroscientific evidence as a key to expanding many areas of research.
An electronic version of the book can be downloaded at the Evolang Website (although at the time of writing, the website was down). Below, I review the chapters to give a flavour of the book.
Junko Kanero reviews vocal and gestural theories of language origins, and asks whether a vocalisation-only theory is testable. They suggest that recent advances in neuroscience will be able to test whether gestures and spoken language share common neural substrates.
Cory Cuthebertson compares claims of abrupt versus gradual evolution of the language faculty in the proceedings of the first EvoLang conference in 1996 and the 2012 conference. They observe a broadening of approaches between the two, but theories have become less unified and the discussion of sudden versus gradual evolution has become much less explicit. Only two papers assumed an abrupt evolution of language.
Xiaoxia Sun and Uwe Seifert discuss the origin of language and music, and whether they evolved separately, in sequence or together. They suggest that neuroscientific approach should also be able to differentiate between whether there were shared cognitive resources that served both language and music, but then split. They review existing neuroscience evidence and point out a gap in the literature: there should be more experiments with non-Western languages and musical styles.
Tessa Verhoef reviews laboratory experiments of cultural evolution. Literature from computational neuroscience is used to suggest an integrating framework for studying cultural evolution and the brain by discussing compression and efficient coding.
Seán Roberts and Justin Quillinan challenge the keynote lecture by Matsuzawa on working memories in chimpanzees. In a visual memory game, the chimpanzee Ayumu outperformed a small sample of humans. Roberts and Quillinan replicated the human study online and found participants who performed as well as Ayumu. Saccade distance and the fidelity of the ordering of numerals across the screen were predictors of performance. While no support was found for Hurfrod’s suggestion of a trade-off between auditory working memory and visual working memory, they suggest this could be tested in more detail in the future.
Rie Asano contrasts studies which compare human cognition to animal cognition with studies which compare different human cognitive systems (e.g. language and music). They argue that these address two separate domains –human uniqueness and language uniqueness, and this distinction should be incorporated into Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch’s distinction between FLN and FLB.
Anne van der Kant reviews inter-species comparative work and suggests how non-invasive neuro-imaging can be applied to birds and primates to perform longitudinal studies of vocal learning.
Caroline Green uses results reported at the 2012 EvoLang to hypothesise that FOXP2 mediates the relationship between finer auditory sensitivity and finer motor control of vocal production to allow vocal learning. They suggest an experiment that could elucidate this further.
Michael Pleyer discusses views of language as a complex adaptive system, and notes that the ontogenetic, glossogenetic and phylogenetic elements are complex adaptive systems in their own right. They suggest that cognitive-functional and usage-based approaches can help synthesise these timescales by emphasising properties of language use and social factors.
Marisa Delz and Johannes Wahle review studies of language evolution in networks from the conference. They synthesise the approaches under a single concept of embedded networks that they call Multiple-Network-Population. They suggest that it should be possible to compare and contrast studies that find social networks to be important for language evolution under a unified framework.
Mauricio Martins, Archishman Raju and Andrea Ravignani review critical issues in quantitative modelling approaches to language evolution. They call for more rigorous scrutiny of assumptions in models and better validation against real data. Researchers in language evolution should learn from similar techniques in other fields. They suggest that quantitative modelling should be an intermediate step between theory and experiment.
Lluís Barceló-Coblijn and Txuss Martin argue that approaches from evolutionary biology should be used to identify the unique aspects of language and study its evolution. Unlike the recent paper by Hauser et al., they see the best approach as involving the integration of many other disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and modelling.
Dillon Niederhut argues that neuroscience should be more central to the field. They review how methods in neuroscience can generate, constrain and test hypotheses of language evolution.
Christian Bentz discusses how theories from the EvoLang conference could be unified into a cohesive picture. They present the concept of a ‘language helix’ which captures the idea of language as a complex adaptive system (similar to Pleyer) where regularities in language are constantly being inferred, ‘unfolded’ and inferred again at different levels and timescales.
Richard Littauer, Seán Roberts, James Winters, Rachael Bailes, Michael Pleyer and Hannah Little provide a sociological review of the conference, and note the increasing role of technology. Participation of EvoLang 9 extended outside of Kyoto via the internet through twitter and blogging, and an increasing number of people were connected to the internet during talks, making it possible to fact-check claims immediately. They also discuss the role of blogging and academic publishing for the future of the field.
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Monopolistic Market Structures
By Devin Jackson
Monopolistic Competition: This is when producers sell products that are similar but not identical.
Characteristics: It is a very common market structure, and works well when there are a lot of buyers and sellers.
Advantages: It provides consumers with plenty of substitutes. It allows each seller to have influence over small sections of the market. An example is that people who make cat shirts control the market for people who like cats. There is also not very much of a barrier to entry which lets
Disadvantages: Sometimes creates unnecessary waste, and the advertising can be seen as a waste for monopolistic areas.
Oligopolies: Only a few sellers offer a similar product. It is less competitive than monopolistic competition.
Characteristics: A few large companies have percentages of the total share of the market, and dominate it completely. An example of this is the movie industry, because most of the movies you see will be made by the same few companies.
Advantages:They can work towards long term profits, which can dictate price. The high profits generated can be used to make technological innovations and development of new products.
Disadvantages: Dominant companies may not think of improving their products, and new companies can have difficulty in entering the market.
Natural Monopoly:the costs of production are lowest when only one firm provides output. This can happen when it is in the most basic or natural economic state. An example is Waste Management.
Government Monopoly: this is when the government either owns the business or authorizes only one producer. An example is the US postal service.
Technological Monopoly: This is when the company controls the manufacturing method or technology that allows for an increased rate of production at a lower cost. Examples are Apple and Google.
Geographic Monopoly: This is when there are no other producers or sellers within a certain region. An example is Cable companies.
Advantages of a Monopoly: The increased output can lead to a decrease in average cost per product, and can lead to research and development opportunities.
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Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles discussing the provision of acupuncture and Oriental medicine to indigent patients in the clinic/hospital setting. This article provides background information on the author and how his unique career path evolved.
In a sense, I started working in the recovery field in May 1970 in Olongapo City, the Philippine Islands. Three jeeps filled with shore patrol, the military police and the Philippine constabulary surrounded the jitney my friends and I had hired to take us to a secluded area to get high.
I managed to get out of the U.S. Navy with a general discharge under honorable conditions and no jail time, but that is another story. Like some veterans of every war, I had lost myself to alcohol and drugs in search of the elusive, ultimately unattainable bliss of forgetfulness.
In 1980, I graduated from a Veterans Administration Hospital program in Menlo Park, Calif., for sufferers of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chemical dependency, and was gainfully employed in a working-class job. In 15 years, I had gone from a stoned working-class drone to a stoned military drone to a stoned, long-haired freak drone, and then back to a working-class drone - although this time I was clean.
In 1983, I was newly married, a new father, enrolled in the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and on my way to a new life. At least half the people I went to acupuncture school with came to the path late in life. I was 36 years old when I started: a new father with a 9-month-old son, a part-time job in a hospital storeroom and a very tolerant wife who supported me (literally and figuratively) for the 45 months it took me to graduate. I alternately worked part- or full-time and went to school as much as we could afford.
I come from a lower working-class family, which is the polite American way of saying we were poor. Neither of my parents has a high school diploma. My mother worked at the soda fountain in a drug store and my father worked in produce at a grocery store. Two low-wage paychecks and three children meant I went to work as soon as possible, at age 12, with a paper route. The money from the paper route, such as it was, went to help with bills, rent or food. I was the only Vietnam veteran (another lower-working-class poverty experience) in my school. To this day, I have yet to meet another American-born acupuncturist who is a veteran. My past has given me a unique perspective on the path of my acupuncture career. For starters, I was the first in my family to have a career and letters after my name, rather than just a job.
About six months after I got my license, I had the opportunity to bring the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) protocol to a methadone clinic in Oakland, Calif. This was very convenient, since I lived just a couple of miles from the clinic. I had started nada certification before I even got my license because the idea of working in a community-based clinic with patients who couldn't afford acupuncture appealed to me. So did a steady paycheck.
I started my NADA training at the Bayview Hunter's Point Foundation in San Francisco just before I got my license. I finished the NADA training right afterward. The Bay View clinic had four to six acupuncturists who not only offered services to the drug and alcohol program, but also performed general medicine acupuncture for anyone who walked in or - as was occasionally the case - was carried in the door. It was quite an experience for a new acupuncturist.
I had a part-time private practice, but I never liked it. I had a hard time with the money part. I found it difficult to ask people who reminded me of my family for enough money - sometimes for money at all. But we were in deep debt. I had gone to school on credit cards. The school I attended had not been around long enough to satisfy the state requirement for duration. Students did not qualify for loans.
Most of my private-practice patients were poor, hard-working laborers or just plain poor. Whenever the opportunity to work a wage-earning job doing acupuncture arose, I jumped at it. Consequently, the bulk of my career has been (and remains) working with the medically indigent and the poor; first with addicts and probationers, then with AIDS, HIV and hepatitis patients and eventually with general medicine patients referred by doctors with privileges at the Alameda County Medical Center hospitals and outpatient clinics.
Most acupuncturists I know who work in the detox field string together part-time jobs with a private practice. Six months after starting at the methadone clinic in Oakland and one year after licensure, I was hired part time at Bayview Hunter's Point. I stopped my private practice as soon as I could and have never gone back. I was working 40 paid hours a week doing acupuncture. The methadone clinic eventually lost its funding, just as BVHPF got more money, and I worked 35 hours a week there.
For the past 16 years, I have been employed as an acupuncturist at Highland General Hospital in Oakland. Highland General Hospital is part of the Alameda County Medical Center, which comprises two general medicine hospitals, a psychiatric hospital and five community clinics in various cities of Alameda County. I am a permanent employee with almost full benefits: sick leave, vacation pay, paid holidays and COLAs (cost-of-living adjustments). My position is listed in the "Memorandum of Understanding," the contractual agreement between hospital management and the Service Employees International Union [SEIU 1021], as #5887, Acupuncturist. As a union employee, I receive medical, dental and vision benefits, and an illusion of job security. I have all the seniority in the classification because I am the classification, although I am clear that no other union member is going to go on strike to save my job - not with a classification comprised of one person. One of the more pleasant union benefits is that they reimburse 80 percent of my CEU costs.
I now only work part time (20 hours) in the chemical dependency unit, but I have worked for various periods of time for Children's Hospital in Oakland with pregnant women and mothers and their children (newborn to age 2). I also have worked for the probation department of Alameda County and various chemical-dependency clinics (methadone, 12-step, harm-reduction and dual-diagnosis, all in various combinations). I have been able to offer treatments to the medical center/county staff and provide general-medicine acupuncture to patients referred from the outpatient clinics located at all three county hospitals and the five community clinics. I have worked in the Highland Hospital Outpatient Adult Immunology Clinic. Through this clinic, I have provided services to the HIV, AIDS and hepatitis patients, as well as to patients of this outpatient clinic when they were hospitalized. To summarize, I have been able to treat outpatient, inpatient and staff, sometimes all in one day.
When I was about to graduate from acupuncture school, I had no idea what I was going to do with my license. This path has been a turbulent but pleasant surprise. It is with these credentials that I offer this continuing series of observations on indigent acupuncture and working in a hospital setting.
May Quan Yin smile on you and yours.
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Graphing the Pitchers: LOB% and BABIP
Thanks to the work of Voros McCracken and later Tom Tango, Defense Independent Pitching and Fielding Independent Pitching have become widely accepted in the baseball community as better measurements of pitching effectiveness (and predictability of future results) than earned run average (ERA). DIPS and FIP focus on strikeouts, walks, and home runs — the three primary outcomes that a pitcher controls. Except for perhaps catchers, fielders have no impact on these events.
While SO, BB, and HR play a large part in determining ERA, the latter is also a function of defensive and bullpen support, as well as performance with bases empty vs. runners in scoring position. As a result, the difference between ERA and FIP is almost entirely accounted by strand rate (LOB%*) and batting average on balls in play (BABIP). Each variable has a coefficient correlation of nearly 80 percent with the delta between ERA and FIP.
* Based on the formula, the strand rate is an estimator of LOB% rather than an actual tally.
When you put the two together (LOB% divided by BABIP), the coefficient correlation jumps to 90 percent. Accordingly, the coefficient of determination or R² is 81 percent. In other words, more than four-fifths of the difference between ERA and FIP is due to LOB% and BABIP. As such, in addition to SO, BB, and HR rates, it makes sense to study LOB% and BABIP to understand why a pitcher's ERA may be better or worse than his FIP.
The MLB averages for LOB% and BABIP have been running at almost exactly 72 percent and .300, respectively, for several years. These percentages held true once again in 2010.
Plotting LOB% on the y-axis and BABIP on the x-axis for all 147 pitchers who threw at least 100 innings in 2010, I created the following graph. As has become customary around these parts, I broke the graph into quadrants via the intersection of the LOB% and BABIP means. The pitchers in the northwest quadrant had high LOB% and low BABIP. Moving clockwise, the pitchers in the northeast quadrant had high LOB% and high BABIP, the hurlers in the southeast quadrant had low LOB% and high BABIP, and those in the southwest quadrant had low LOB% and low BABIP.
The numbers were lifted from FanGraphs in January. The BABIP data was subsequently recalculated, perhaps due to FanGraphs using an incorrect formula initially. While directionally correct, the BABIP used for this graph are generally about .005-.010 higher than those listed on the site now. The LOB% data matches exactly. You can download the spreadsheet with the applicable data here.
Starting with LOB%, I highlighted the six pitchers with strand rates over 80 percent and compared 2010 with their career marks. All but Madison Bumgarner (who pitched just 10 innings prior to last season) have career LOB% that are well below their results in 2010. That said, I found it interesting that the career rates were all above the MLB norm of 72 percent.
In addition to sharing high LOB%, the common thread among these pitchers is that they fared better with RISP than with the bases empty.
Nate Robertson, Tim Wakefield, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Jeff Francis, and Paul Maholm all posted career low LOB%. Scott Feldman, Jeremy Bonderman, and Tony Pena produced the second-lowest LOB% while Jamie Moyer had the third-lowest since he broke into the majors in 1986.
In addition to sharing low LOB%, the common thread among these pitchers is that they fared worse with RISP than with the bases empty.
Matt Cain has never had a league-average BABIP and, in fact, has not exceeded the .278 he allowed in 2007.
Hudson and Hunter appear on the most favorable LOB% and BABIP lists. Moyer, on the other hand, was the only pitcher to appear on a leader and laggard board.
Maholm and Feldman appear on the least favorable LOB% and BABIP lists.
There are several takeaways embedded in this study, some of which are more obvious than others:
There are also a few questions: Is the discrepancy in performance between RISP and bases empty due to a pitcher's ability to work from the windup as opposed to the stretch? Do certain pitchers have an extra gear that they can employ when the going gets tough? Is there a self-fulfilling prophecy at play here, a Yogi-ism where pitchers perform well until they don't perform well? The answers to these questions could go a long way toward understanding how much skill or luck is involved in the year-to-year fluctuations in LOB%. | <urn:uuid:3f96a1bf-f827-4622-a962-c575662ce59f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2011/03/graphing_the_pi.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973057 | 1,020 | 2.28125 | 2 |
VFX house Cinesite has completed over 800 visual effects shots and converted over 87 minutes into steroescopic 3D for Disney’s John Carter, which is hits cinemas today (unfortunately generating some hilarious bad reviews).
Cinesite created the majority of the film’s environments, including the opposing cities of Zodanga and Helium, and the Thern Sanctuary, as well as a big air battle and full-screen CG digi-doubles of John Carter and Princess Dejah. The environments were populated with CG crowds and hundreds of CG props.
Cinesite spent over two and a half years working on Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton’s first live-action feature film, which based is Edgar Rice Burroughs 'Mars' series of novels. Senior visual effects supervisor Sue Rowe headed up Cinesite’s efforts, working closely with Stanton and spending several months on set in the UK and Utah.
For the travelling city of Zodanga, Jon Neill and his team created the mile-long myriapod-like rusty metal tanker that roams the surface of Mars extracting the vital fuel element ‘radium’. Cinesite populated the city with an arsenal of warships and troops, before furnishing it with more than 200 CG props. The city was heavily textured to give it an industrial look and feel, and a sense of scale needed to be cleverly depicted to give the audience the full experience of a huge moving city. Timed animation caches were used to ensure the 674 digital legs moved randomly. The team also had to scale up and efficiently manage Cinesite’s render farm to cope with the challenge of rendering two-billion-polygon shots with up to 20,000 objects.
Christian Irles oversaw Princess Dejah’s city, Helium (above), which houses the Palace of Light (seen at the back). Seen from various angles and used as the backdrop for the final battle sequence, Helium has a clean and elegant look and feel. The team created a matte painting of the outside of the city and, using photogrammetry projections, built up the terrain using high-res stills taken on location in Utah.
For the Palace of Light, dubbed by Stanton as ‘the jewel of the city’, the team modelled the exterior as a full CG building and digitally extended the live-action set to create the interior and the illusion of the palace scaling up to hundreds of feet. The cathedral-like structure has solid vertical ribs supporting glass feather-like wall panels. Dealing with a glass structure in a moonlit scene presented a huge challenge for shaders, reflections and refractions.
Ben Shepherd supervised the huge aerial battle between Zodanga and Helium. His team created each side’s airships, which use solar wings to travel on light, as well as explosions, cannon fire, digital people, a CG Thark City environment and set extensions based on photogrammetry. The giant airships are seen at close proximity so the detailing needed to be precise. The challenge was to achieve the desired look, which was a 19th Century-style sailing ship to reflect the time the novels were written, while giving them a modern twist with the use of solar wings. Each of the solar wings was covered in hundreds of tiles which were individually animated to create a shimmering effect as the airships fly through the sky.
Simon Stanley-Clamp led Cinesite’s work on Thern, the mysterious power controlled by the Thern priesthood which appears in various guises throughout the film. Briefed by Stanton to create something ‘that has never been seen before’, the initial challenge was defining what the effect would look like.
The Thern effect system was built using a combination of Maya, Houdini and in-house software. Based on the principles of nanotechnology, it provided a semi-automated way to ‘grow’ Thern into any environment and geometry. It took a full year of development time to evolve and bring to the big screen. Thern’s most impactful state is in the Thern Sanctuary, a huge cavern where its scale, depth and complexity can be fully appreciated by the audience in stereo 3D. | <urn:uuid:141561c5-2df3-4a8a-9722-fc59da1a2603> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/motion-graphics/cinesite-gets-its-vfx-mars-for-john-carter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957025 | 881 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In this study, a novel suspended ceramsite was prepared, which has high strength, optimum density (close to water), and high porosity. The ceramsite was used to feed a moving-bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) system with an anaerobic–aerobic (A/O) arrangement to treat petroleum refinery wastewater for simultaneous removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonium. The hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the anaerobic–aerobic MBBR system was varied from 72 to 18 h. The anaerobic–aerobic system had a strong tolerance to shock loading. Compared with the professional emission standard of China, the effluent concentrations of COD and NH3-N in the system could satisfy grade I at HRTs of 72 and 36 h, and grade II at HRT of 18 h. The average sludge yield of the anaerobic reactor was estimated to be 0.0575 g suspended solid/g CODremoved. This work demonstrated that the anaerobic–aerobic MBBR system using the suspended ceramsite as bio-carrier could be applied to achieving high wastewater treatment efficiency.
Treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater using a sequential anaerobic–aerobic moving-bed biofilm reactor system based on suspended ceramsite
Mang Lu, Li-Peng Gu, Wen-Hao Xu; Treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater using a sequential anaerobic–aerobic moving-bed biofilm reactor system based on suspended ceramsite. Water Sci Technol 1 May 2013; 67 (9): 1976–1983. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2013.077
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What defines a nationality? Is it a skin color, an accent, a history, or a persona? We as Americans live a unique life where our world is the furthest thing from homogenous. The “melting pot” truly is the diverse crossroads of the world, where races, accents, languages, and cultures come to intermingle. However this complicates what it means to be an American, do we hyphenate our names with a nationality or do we hold true to the stars and stripes? My American creed is that we as Americans embrace who we are, what we stand for, and how unique our situation is. America was not made free, it had to be woven into our fabric of culture as time wore on. The nationality Americans can share is freedom.
When I was asked once what I believed was the epitome of American freedom, the first thing that came to my mind was the day we as Americans killed Osama Bin Laden. Freedom rang from the Atlantic to the Pacific and all races and languages who felt the blow of September 11, 2001 rose up in pride. Unity had no barrier on this day, the lives lost were revenged and the man who held the cards had fallen. There is no country on the planet that has the power we have, and with great power comes great responsibility. The responsibility that holds the utmost importance is the action of connecting with those who are also Americans, meaning those who live in the 50 great states of this country. When we go to a local market, we meet men and women of all different cultures, this interaction is what makes us American. The American dream is one of pride but also one of culture. Americans stand for the flag not just for those who died, but also for those connections made.
What do I believe the American nationality is in the modern world? The word American is a name for the people lucky enough to wake up everyday and have no one dominating. These individuals can work with whomever they want, talk to whomever they see or meet, and bring forth whatever they believe is their contribution to the world. There is no responsibility in lifting up your neighbor and fellow American, there is freedom to do this, and that freedom can never be taken away. The world looks at Americans and sees success, a little bit of crazy, and most importantly, freedom. Even when the political landscape of our nation is in shambles we still pave the way for the world to follow. The way our nation has succeeded is through each other, not through money or cheating. A republic can only be as free as its people allow, following that notion I encourage the people of America to fight for their daily lives to be uniquely their own, and uniquely American.
My American creed is a simple one, do not stray from what built our country. To be an American is to embrace who we are, what we stand for, and how unique our situation is. Take pride in everyday life in this country and do not forget how lucky you are to be in the greatest country on earth. Stand for the flag for those who can't. | <urn:uuid:7879bad1-8420-4089-bf62-382e8aa08105> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://writingourfuture.nwp.org/americancreed/responses/8870-my-american-creed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965446 | 630 | 2.3125 | 2 |
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Drying your freshly made pasta helps that it retains its form after cooking. Even if you have a fine touch with a ravioli cutter, if you don’t thoroughly dry your new pasta, the filling may end up at the bottom of the saucepan. Even worse, you can wind up with a clump of spaghetti that is unpleasant to eat.
- 1 Can You Dry noodles in dehydrator?
- 2 Do pasta noodles need to dry before cooking?
- 3 Why do you dry fresh pasta?
- 4 Do noodles need to be refrigerated?
- 5 Why do you let noodles dry?
- 6 Why do you dry egg noodles?
- 7 Is pasta drying rack necessary?
- 8 How do you dry noodles?
- 9 Can you let homemade noodles dry overnight?
- 10 Do you have to air dry pasta?
- 11 Is it safe to air dry egg noodles?
- 12 Do you have to dry homemade egg noodles?
- 13 Can you leave egg pasta out to dry?
- 14 How long will dried homemade pasta keep?
- 15 What can I use if I don’t have a pasta drying rack?
- 16 How is pasta dried?
- 17 How long does homemade pasta need to dry before cooking?
- 18 Can you dehydrate cooked pasta?
Can You Dry noodles in dehydrator?
It is possible to dry fresh noodles. At room temperature, they should only be allowed to dry for a maximum of two hours before being thrown away to avoid the possibility of salmonella development. The drying of noodles in a food dehydrator is also an option; drying in a food dehydrator is recommended to take between two and four hours at 135 degrees Fahrenheit.
Do pasta noodles need to dry before cooking?
Prior to boiling the noodles, they must be allowed to dry for several hours after being rolled into thin sheets and sliced into narrow strips.If you have a pasta maker, you may use it to mix and shape your noodles, using the thinnest template available.Even the pasta maker noodles, however, must be dried before they can be cooked.Please accept our apologies; the video player was unable to load.
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Why do you dry fresh pasta?
In fact, one of the key benefits of drying handmade pasta is that it results in a product that is solid and firm and retains its shape throughout the cooking process. In what situations do I need to dry fresh pasta?
Do noodles need to be refrigerated?
Noodles are a type of pasta, however they vary from other types of pasta in that they include eggs or egg yolks, whereas other types of pasta do not.It is required by the FDA that a ″noodle″ have 5.5 percent of the total solids in the form of egg solids, which makes the raw egg component a potential food safety problem.Noodles cooked from scratch should be consumed immediately or refrigerated for up to three days.
Why do you let noodles dry?
In order to prevent clumping and sticking together during the cooking process, the pasta must be allowed to dry sufficiently so that it becomes somewhat firm and less sticky before it can be cooked. It also helps the shaped pastas retain their shape if they are allowed to dry out a little before cooking.
Why do you dry egg noodles?
Instructions for Making Homemade Egg Noodles Before preparing and keeping homemade egg noodles, it is recommended that they be dried. The drying process causes the noodles to become firmer and less sticky. In addition, air drying the noodles helps to prevent them from clumping together. Additionally, when the noodles are made, they will maintain their general form.
Is pasta drying rack necessary?
A pasta drying rack isn’t absolutely necessary for drying fresh pasta, but it may be quite helpful. Dried pasta is easier to separate when it is dried on drying racks, which is especially useful if you are preparing large sheets of pasta or long noodles. You may, however, easily put up a DIY pasta drying rack as a temporary solution.
How do you dry noodles?
If you wish to dry your handmade pasta for later use, spread it out on a big baking sheet in a single layer. Allow the pasta to sit uncovered in a dry location for 12 to 24 hours, gently tossing and rotating it a few times during that period. Because flour is temperamental, factors such as humidity, temperature, the size of the noodles, and so on will all influence the entire cooking time.
Can you let homemade noodles dry overnight?
In either case, you can either cook the noodles straight away (for about 3 minutes in hot boiling water or broth if cooking soup) or you may let them dry overnight before storing them in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Do you have to air dry pasta?
You will need to let your pasta to dry entirely in the open air. Depending on the temperature and humidity in your kitchen, this might take anywhere from 12-24 hours or even longer. If you want to speed up the process, you can use a fan—just point it toward the pasta and turn it on at a low speed to produce a gentle breeze.
Is it safe to air dry egg noodles?
The noodles can be left to air dry (be careful not to allow them to contact one other or they will cling together) before being added to your soup or stew mixture (give them about 5 minutes to cook). I prefer to use them fresh, chopping them up and tossing them into my soup straight away.
Do you have to dry homemade egg noodles?
If you wish, you may cook the noodles without soaking them beforehand; they will cook more quickly this way. Check to be that the egg noodles are thoroughly dry before placing them in an airtight container. Refrigerate for up to 3 days before serving. Alternatively, place dried noodles in a freezer bag or freezer container and freeze for up to 8 months before using.
Can you leave egg pasta out to dry?
At room temperature, they should only be allowed to dry for a maximum of two hours before being thrown away to avoid the possibility of salmonella development.
How long will dried homemade pasta keep?
Although dried pasta may be stored forever and remain safe to consume, the USDA recommends that dry pasta be stored for no more than two years in order to maintain the highest quality.
What can I use if I don’t have a pasta drying rack?
It is possible to construct this DIY pasta drying rack with wood, wooden dowels, wood glue, and a few simple hand tools.
How is pasta dried?
The drying procedure for long and short pastas differs differently, but in general, the pasta is exposed to hot air to dehydrate it before being cut into pieces. The process of ″pre-drying″ begins immediately after extrusion, during which the pasta hardens on the exterior while remaining soft on the inside.
How long does homemade pasta need to dry before cooking?
Allow your pasta to dry for at least 30 minutes (but no more than 2 hours) before cooking or storing your Fresh Homemade Pasta for your favorite pasta recipe.
Can you dehydrate cooked pasta?
After rinsing the pasta with cold water, the cooking process will be halted. Prepared pasta should be spread in a single layer on dehydrator mesh sheets or prepared trays (for small pasta shapes). Dry pasta at 135 degrees Fahrenheit/57 degrees Celsius for 2-4 hours, or until it is hard. | <urn:uuid:3a9c374d-232c-4c92-a75c-2cee72cb4a38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://goszechuanhouse.com/chinese-food/why-do-you-have-to-dry-noodles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.9332 | 1,571 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Hepatic Vein Thrombosis Anatomy
To better understand Budd-Chiari syndrome, it helps to understand the anatomy of the liver.
The liver is located in the upper right abdomen. It helps digest food and remove toxins, such as alcohol, from the blood.
Continue to Hepatic Vein Thrombosis Pathophysiology
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- Molmenti EP, Segev DL, Arepally A, Hong J, Thuluvath PJ, Rai R, Klein AS. The utility of TIPS in the management of Budd-Chiari syndrome. Ann Surg. 2005 Jun;241(6):978-81.
- Valla DC. The diagnosis and management of the Budd-Chiari syndrome: consensus and controversies. Hepatology. 2003 Oct;38(4):793-803.
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Title: Memoirs On The Late War In North America ...
Publisher: Old Fort Niagara Association
Publication Date: 1994
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Old Fort Niagara Assoc., 1994. Hardcover. Royal Octavo. In Fine condition, a superior edition of gift quality. Reprint of 1781. 568p. Maps. Leatherette. A very handsome copy. Pouchot (April 8, 1712 - 1769) was a French military engineer and officer in the French regular army. He was born at Grenoble, France, son of a merchant. In 1733 he joined the regular army as a volunteer engineer and on May 1, 1734 was appointed a second lieutenant in the Regiment de Bearn. He later served in Italy, Flanders, and Germany and became an assistant adjutant within ten years. In the War of the Austrian Succession his engineering service won distinction and he received the cross of the order of St. Louis and in September, 1748 a Captain's commission. Seven Years' War in North America:The French and Indian War, St. Lawrence and Mohawk theater Lake George Fort Bull Fort Oswego 1st Snowshoes Sabbath Day Point Fort William Henry German Flatts 2nd Snowshoes Fort Carillon Fort Frontenac La Belle-Famille Fort Niagara Fort Ticonderoga Beauport Quebec St. Francis Sainte-Foy Thousand Islands In 1754 during the French and Indian War his regiment was selected for service in Canada. He arrived at Fort Frontenac in July, 1755 and then was sent to Fort Niagara to improve its defenses. In July and August, 1756 he assisting in laying out the siege works in the Battle of Fort Oswego. After came construction in Montreal, then Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Frontenac. He was then given command of Fort Niagara. In October 1757, he was removed from his command at Fort Niagara and rejoined his regiment in Montreal. He was dispatched again as commander of Fort Niagara in March, 1759 (Wikipedia). Bookseller Inventory # 000089
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The Remsen-to-Lake Placid Travel Corridor has just been placed on the 2016 list of historic properties to be saved, by the Preservation League of New York State, creating a potential pause to rail removal being proposed from Tupper Lake to Lake Placid.
The Preservation League draws statewide attention to New York’s most important and at-risk historic places through its “Seven to Save” list of endangered places.
The list seeks to draw attention to the plight of New York State historic resources that are in danger of disappearing due to disinvestment and development pressure, among other concerns.
The Preservation League of New York State is an Albany-based organization.
President Jay DiLorenzo said the group is challenging New York State’s proposal to turn 34 miles of active rail line into a recreational trail.
Rail removal would likely not happen immediately anyway, despite Adirondack Park Agency approval of such activity.
This isn’t preventing rail advocates from celebrating Preservation League intervention, however.
“The Adirondack Railway Preservation Society (ARPS) Board of Directors is very pleased,” said Bill Branson, President of Adirondack Railway Preservation Society (ARPS).
The Preservation League is a heavyweight organization, according to Branson.
“We believe the League’s communications and advocacy experience in such matters will help highlight all the issues involved in the proposed destruction of a significant portion of the travel corridor, so that it gets the state-wide attention it deserves,” he said.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) sponsored proposal plans to remove 34 miles of designated historic trackage in the travel corridor to create a multi-use recreation trail.
The Adirondack Park Agency recently considered the plan and ruled that it conforms with the Adirondack State Land Master Plan.
This was a major hurdle to be surmounted by rail removal advocates.
Since the Unit Management Plan adopted in 1996, rails with trails has been the preferred New York State policy.
Bill Branson believes that rail-friendly policy should continue.
He also said rails and trails can coexist without sacrificing either.
“There are many residents and visitors to the Adirondack Tri-Lakes region who have written their support that New York State fulfill the principles adopted in 1996. We look forward to working with members and staff of the Preservation League and others to achieve a robust rail operation and complementary trail system that supports economic and recreation opportunities for residents and visitors of all ages and abilities throughout the length of the travel corridor,” Branson said.
The Preservation League noted that 70,000 passengers on the line included 21,000 on the Lake Placid to Saranac portion of the railroad in 2014.
It also noted that the Adirondack Scenic Railroad provides $3.7 million in direct economic impact and leverages an additional $5.4 million.
In addition to the financial impact, the collapse of the historic rail corridor would threaten the preservation and public use of stations, depots and other rail infrastructure—including historic stations at Saranac Lake and Lake Placid currently in active use.
“The removal of the tracks from an active railroad line to produce multi-use trails is without precedent,” according to the League.
The League has been working with Historic Saranac Lake and Adirondack Architectural Heritage to ensure that the regulatory obligations of the State Historic Preservation Act are followed when considering the impact of proposed changes on National Register-designated resources.
“Seven to Save designation will allow the League to work toward an outcome where both rails and trails deliver a robust recreational trail system to the Adirondacks,” said League President Jay DiLorenzo.
The Adirondack Preservation Society operates the Adirondack Scenic Railroad, offering an authentic and unique experience with a ride on a heritage railroad through the six million acre Adirondack Park.
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In 1066, when the Normans invaded England, they brought two languages with them; French and Latin. Latin was mostly used for written language, especially that of the Church. Gradually, these languages mixed with the Anglo-Saxon and Viking tongues to form English, although the influence was mostly in terms of vocabualry. During various periods of expansion of vocabulary, such as the Elizabethan age, Latin has been used as a source of neologisms.
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Sun And Moon Coloring Pages For Toddlers. Supercoloring.com is a super fun for all ages: Use the sun printables as stencils and have your toddler or preschooler practice their pencil grip and fine motor skills by tracing the outline with a pencil.
Trip to the moon cards from every star is different for this activity, i used a multicraft tray and crayons for doodling on the moon. Then use the print function on your browser to print the active frame. Pokemon coloring pages sun and moon.
Doodle On The Moon From Mr Printables Free Printable:
This line art illustration is from mandy groce. Just the way, goodnight moon makes for a perfect bedtime picture book, this image makes for a perfect coloring activity. On the banner paper, glue one magazine picture and label it, using your copy of reproducible page a as a guide.
An Illustration Of A Tent In Front Of A Bonfire With A Moon And The Sun Aligned Above It.
Today we have some great printable moon coloring pages. For boys and girls, kids and adults, teenagers and toddlers, preschoolers and older kids at school. Pokemon coloring pages sun and moon.
Free Printable Solar System Coloring Pages For Kids And Adults At One Point Or Another, You Or Your Child May Have Raised The Question Of Whether We Are Alone In The Universe.
Halloween bat on the moon: Here we have come up with sun theme coloring pages. Coloring pages for kids simple shapes and characters you can print and use for arts and crafts with toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten children.
Make A Sun Suncatcher That You Can Hang In Front Of A Large Window.
• page a, 1 copy for each child preparation 1. This picture brings together everything that your kid loves. Through all its phases and shapes humans have pondered the celestial being out there since the beginning of time.
The Existence Of Aliens Is Still Debatable, But We Know That Planet Earth Has Numerous Sister Planets, Some Of Which Can Potentially Sustain Life.
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Electronic transcripts provide an efficient alternative to paper transcripts. Unfortunately, security measures for some electronic transcripts render these documents virtually unusable in most settings. To understand the capabilities and limitations of these transcripts, it is important to discuss a few key technologies that electronic transcripts may employ.
Electronic transcripts may provide a digital signature embedded in the document that cryptographically verifies that a document has not been modified since a particular signing key was used to sign it. These signing keys may themselves be signed by a trusted "certification authority," which is one of a handful of organizations that can assert that a particular organization has rights to use a particular name. Slate provides full support for documents with digital signatures.
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DRM is used to restrict how a document can be used. For example, DRM may be used to prevent a document from being edited, printed, spliced, or combined with another document. These "rights" are enforced through the PDF viewer and application and are transmitted as metadata on the PDF document.
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H. R. 2225
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 16, 2011
Mr. Hensarling (for himself, Mr. Bachus, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Neugebauer, Mrs. Capito, and Mrs. Biggert) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to add a definition of family office.
The Congress finds the following:
Family offices are not of national concern in that their advice, counsel, publications, writings, analyses, and reports are not furnished or distributed to clients on a retail basis, but are instead furnished or distributed only to persons who are members of a particular family.
Family offices do not hold themselves out to the public as investment advisers.
Family offices do not engage in the business of advising others, but instead provide a wide range of services to members of the family they serve, only one of which involves investment advice, for which they may receive compensation from the members of the family.
Since the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 was enacted, the Securities and Exchange Commission has regularly issued orders to individual family offices exempting them from all of the provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Section 409 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act expressly exempts family offices from all of the provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
It was the intent of Congress that section 409 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act be interpreted broadly to encompass all family offices as they are currently organized and operated, as well as to encompass changes in the organization and operation of family offices in the future.
Family office definition
Section 202(a) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b–2(a)) is amended—
in paragraph (11)(G), in the matter added
by section 409(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, by striking
, as defined by rule, regulation, or order of the
Commission, in accordance with the purposes of this title;
by redesignating the second paragraph (29), as added by section 770 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as paragraph (31); and
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
The term family office means a company (including any director, partner, trustee, or employee of such company, when acting in their respective capacities as such) that—
has no clients other than family clients;
owned, directly or indirectly, by,
controlled, directly or indirectly, by, or
operated primarily for the benefit of,
does not hold itself out to the public as an investment adviser.
A person described under section 409(b)(3) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, but who otherwise meets the requirements under subparagraph (A), shall qualify as a family office.
For purposes of this paragraph:
The term control means the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of a company, unless such power is solely the result of being an officer of such company.
The term family client means:
Any family member.
Any key employee.
Any charitable foundation, charitable organization, charitable trust, or other non-profit organization established or controlled, directly or indirectly, by persons one or more of whom is a family client.
Any trust or estate funded exclusively by one or more family members or established primarily for the benefit of one or more family clients.
Any limited liability company, partnership, corporation, or other entity, if—
such entity is majority-owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by, or operated primarily for the benefit of, one or more family clients;
the family office is giving investment advice to such entity; and
persons who are not otherwise defined as a family client do not own interests in such entity.
Any former family member.
Any former key employee, if, upon the termination of such individual’s employment by the family office or family client, the former key employee shall not receive investment advice from the family office or the family client (or invest additional assets with a family office-advised trust, charitable foundation, or entity), other than with respect to assets advised, directly or indirectly, by the family office or family client immediately prior to the termination of such individual’s employment, except that a former key employee shall be permitted to receive investment advice from the family office with respect to additional investments that the former key employee was contractually obligated to make, and that relate to a family office advised investment existing, in each case, prior to the time the person became a former key employee. For purposes of this subclause, the term family office shall include any entity described under subclause (V).
The term family member means:
Any natural person whose economic activities created or substantially contributed to the family's wealth, and such person’s spouse.
The siblings, parents, grandparents of a person described in item (aa).
The spouse of a person described in item (bb).
The siblings of a person described in item (bb) or (cc).
The spouse of a person described in item (dd).
The lineal descendant of a person described in item (bb), (cc), (dd), or (ee).
The spouse of a person described in item (ff).
For purposes of this clause—
the term lineal descendant includes natural children, adopted children, and stepchildren;
the term spouse includes spousal equivalents; and
the terms siblings, parents, and grandparents include step-siblings, step-parents, and step-grandparents, respectively.
Former family member
The term former family member means a spouse or a descendant who was a family member but is no longer a family member due to a divorce or other similar event.
The term key employee means any natural person (and such person’s spouse or lineal descendant) who is an executive officer, director, trustee, general partner, or person serving in a similar capacity, of the family office or any employee of the family office (other than an employee performing solely clerical, secretarial, or administrative functions) who, in connection with his or her regular functions or duties, participates in the investment activities of the family office. For purposes of this subclause, the term family office shall include any entity described under clause (ii)(V).
The term spousal equivalent means a cohabitant occupying a relationship generally equivalent to that of a spouse.
a person that is not a family client becomes a client of the family office as a result of the death of a family member or key employee or other involuntary transfer from a family member or key employee, or
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Passive smoking is associated with early arterial damage, but the potential for reversibility of this damage is unknown.
To assess the reversibility of arterial endothelial dysfunction, a key marker of early atherosclerosis.
Academic medical center.
60 healthy persons 15 to 39 years of age : 20 with no exposure to active or passive smoking, 20 nonsmoking passive smokers (exposure to environmental tobacco smoke for>1 hour per day for>2 years), and 20 former passive smokers.
Arterial endothelial function measured by noninvasive ultrasonography.
Endothelium-dependent dilatation was significantly better in former passive smokers (5.1% ± 4.1% [range, - 1.2% to 15.6% ]) than in current passive smokers (2.3% ± 2.1% [range, - 0.2% to 6.7% ]) (P=0.01), although both groups were significantly impaired compared with nonsmoking controls (8.9% ± 3.2% [range, 2.1% to 16.7% ]) (P<0.01 for both comparisons).
In healthy young adults, arterial endothelial dysfunction related to passive smoking seems to be partially reversible.
Mots-clés Pascal : Tabagisme passif, Trouble fonctionnel, Endothélium, Artère, Réversibilité, Toxicologie, Partiel, Pollution air, Adulte jeune, Homme, Individu sain, Appareil circulatoire pathologie, Artère pathologie
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Passive smoking, Dysfunction, Endothelium, Artery, Reversibility, Toxicology, Partial, Air pollution, Young adult, Human, Healthy subject, Cardiovascular disease, Arterial disease
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According to its website accessed June 25, 2008, "GPP provides social justice groups with tools and frameworks for more strategic approaches to movement-building. Our frameworks are informed by and tested in the field through collaborative relationships with grassroots leaders and organizers in community groups, statewide coalitions and national networks. ... Since 1993, the Grassroots Policy Project (GPP) has been working with a broad cross-section of organizations, networks, coalitions, advocacy groups, policy shops and think tanks that are part of the progressive social movement landscape in the United States. ... Our programs combine political and popular education with strategic planning, leadership and organizational development. We believe that a set of long-term goals for social transformation (and for governing power) can make a difference in how groups work day-to-day. Our programs help organizations link their short-term organizing and campaign work with their mission and goals.
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- Kimberly Freeman, American Rights at Work
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Kernu manor was the former part of the Kohatu manor, which, on August 31, 1637, the guardianship of Queen Kristina confessed to Johann von Neukirch’s daughter Magdalena, who married Johann von Ulrich. From 1663, Magdalena von Ulrich, the widow of the mansion owner, and their children shared the estate. From 1671, only the son Ewert managed the estate, who in March 1680 pledged the manor to Diedrich Hasenkrug (Hirschberg).
The mansion (Klein Kohatt) was seized from Diedrich von Hirschberg on October 15. 1688, but was still left to the former owner for rent. Diedrich v. Hirschberg’s widow, Anna, remarried in 1708 to Rötgert Johann von Wrangel. Since serving in the general Kruse’s Royal regiment, the son of Diet v. Hirschberg, Nikolai, captured on 1709 on the Dneper river, died in Tobolsk and Rötgert Johann’s son from first marriage, Otto Wilherm v. Wranger, abandoned his right to inherit, in 1729, the mansion remained in the estate of Berend Johann v. Wartmann, Põllküla and Pikaküla mansion owner, the husband of the sister of Margaretha Juliane (listed as owner in 1733). Berend Johann v. Wartmann’s inheritor was his only son, Friedrich Johann, but by 1744, the mansion was already an estate of his widow, Agneta Helene v. Wartmann (snd. Derfelden). Their son, the highest court appraiser, Berend Johann, sold the domain on 25. III, 1784, on an auction together with Kohatu manor for 28 000 silver plaques to Count Berend Heinrich Tiesenhausen, the county counsellor and two terms office head of the Estonian Knight’s Chief, while settling himself and his family to a more modest Põllküla mansion that belonged to his grandfather.
According to the inheritance agreement, on the 2nd of August 1810, between count Tiesenhausen’s daughter, baroness Anna Dorothea Ungern-Sternbergs husband, baron Bernhard Heinrich Conrad Ungern-Sternberg and the sister of the latter, countess Anna Dorothea Bobrinsky, sir Heinrich Conrad Ungern-Sternberg inherited the estate. The manors were valued at 60.000 banknotes.
Based on the inheritance agreement on 7th of March,1853 between the kids, the widow, Natalie, of Bernard Heinrich Conrad Ungern-Sternberg, and the sister of the latter, the owner of the estates, which were now valued at 45.700 silver plaques, became the son, Alexei, from who his older brother, Theodor, inherited the states later on when they were valued at 60.000 silver plaques.
On the public sale on March 5, 1863, the mansion was acquired by Hermann Ferdinand Gotthard von Rosenthal, whose widow, Olga Cäcilie Justine Viktoria (ed. baroness Rosen), sold the premises to counsel Ernst von Kotzebuel on the 5th of June, 1880. He founded a family cemetery on the island in the artificial lake in front of Kernu manor. On April 28, 1908, he sold his premises to Tõnis Saarmann, who then decided to sell the estate to Edgar Schmidt on September 30, 1911. Nikolai Wrangell, general-major and baron of Luua, bought the premises on March 16, 1917. The cousin of Nikolai Wrangell, baron Peter von Wrangell, became known as one of the leading generals of the Civil War and later on as a military leader of monarchist emigrants.
At the end of the 18th century, when the manor belonged to the Tiesenhausen’s, the manors center was officially built. Baron Ungern-Sternberg rebuilt the manor in classical style during the years 1810-1813. The architect of the building is thought to be Carl Ludwig Engel.
In the center of the building there is a portico with four Ionic style pillars and a triangular porticoes, in the middle of the back of the manor, there is a half rotunda leaning on the four rounded pillars. In the past, the building also had long wing galleries, which ended at the ends of the two story buildings, unfortunately, nowadays, the have been destroyed.
For decades, there was an elderly home in the former manor, until in 2013, the building was acquired by a public limited company Evore. The extensive renovations begun and today, the Kernu manor café Ludvig is open at the wing of the main building. The complex is planned to be restored in the former beauty and to be opened for the public use together with a hotel, seminar-, conference center and a restaurant.
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Hard Times for Euro to Dollar Exchange Rate
It’s become ridiculously easy to forecast the euro to dollar exchange rate. It’s not that I’m brilliant or anything; it’s just that central banks on both sides of the pond make it really obvious. They telegraph their intentions for the EUR to USD so transparently.
Both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve have been perfectly clear about the preferred direction of their currencies. All we have to do is find the sum of their actions. So let’s break it down.
The Fed spent a bunch of years pumping money into the economy and pushing its interest rates toward zero. The Fed did that because it’s what central bankers are supposed to do in a recession. And it (somewhat) worked: unemployment fell and the stock market soared.
So they pulled back on the money printing back in 2014 and (finally!) raised interest rates by the end of 2015. Anyone who studied Econ 101 knows that’ll make the U.S. dollar appreciate in value. But the Fed didn’t want to turn markets upside down, so the rate hike was a measly 0.25%.
By contrast, the European Central Bank was just sitting on the sidelines. It wasn’t as active as the Fed after the financial collapse of 2008. The European economy is proof enough—it’s been growing so slowly that the ECB finally decided to use a tactic from the Fed’s playbook. The ECB started printing euros last year. (Source: “ECB Faces Difficult Balancing Act to Revive Eurozone Inflation,” The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2016.)
The ECB has been pouring 66 billion euros a month into the money supply. Once again, anyone who’s taken Econ 101 knows the goal here is to devalue the euro. That’s what money printing is supposed to do. It makes a country’s exports more attractive by depreciating the currency.
So on one hand, we have the ECB printing more cash. And on the other hand, we have the Fed raising interest rates…hmmm I wonder why the EUR to USD has been falling? To borrow a phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
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People who enjoy going out on long trips usually have an RV with themselves. This vehicle acts as their home and provides them with all the necessary items to enjoy their trip. Although. Sometimes you might notice that your RV is starting to turn into technical problems.
It can be hard to point down the exact cause for this but the most common reason for this is that your RVs converter is having some issues. This converter is usually used to prevent your RVs battery from getting drained when the user is connected with a generator.
While using an onboard generator, the RV is connected to outside electrical sources through an RV converter. This will then reduce the amount of current coming from 120 Volts AC to only 12 Volts DC. Keeping this in mind, if your RV is still draining its battery after the converter has been used, then here are a few ways you can troubleshoot.
How To Fix RV Converter Draining Battery?
- Voltage Range
One reason for your battery to be getting drained even though a converter has been applied can be that your vehicle is not receiving stable voltage. You can check this by using a multimeter. This device will test the range of both AC and DC voltage coming through the main power source and then tell you that through its meter.
Any abnormal reading on this device indicates that the problem is most likely with the main power source. Set the range on your meter to 110. After this observe the meter. The voltage readings should be between 110 to 128 volts. If the reading is not between this and is either too high or too low then this might indicate that your onboard converter is starting to run into problems. After this check the breaker box.
This time make sure that you set the meter to 12 Volts DC and observe the range between 10 to 14 Volts. This method will help you pinpoint the location where the current is flowing too much or too low. You can then easily fix it by replacing wires, components, or the breaker.
- Cooling Fan
An internal fan is used in almost all RVs to prevent the onboard converter from getting overheat. This fan is usually running constantly while you use the converter and it prevents the converter from getting too hot. Although, sometimes this fan gets damaged due to fluctuations in current. Alternatively, the fan might just get damaged or the thermal sensor may have become faulty.
Whatever the case may be, if the fan stops working then your onboard converter will start to get hot. Considering this, if your converter is getting overheated then it will start giving you problems. This is why you should fix your cooling fan by finding out what is wrong with it. To check if the fan itself has not become damaged, take out the sensor from it and unplug it from the current wiring.
After this, plug your fan into another socket and then check if it is working. If the fan works then the problem might be with your sensor or socket. You can check your socket by using a voltmeter. If the power coming from it stable then the problem lies in your thermal sensors.
These can be quite tricky to fix if you have no prior knowledge about similar stuff. This is why you should contact a mechanic to help you replace the old sensors with new ones.
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This stops the current from flowing through them, protecting all your devices from getting damaged through the high surge of current. In short, the fuse acts as a security measure for your devices. The fuse you are using might have become damaged or just gotten too old. Although, these can easily be replaced by you. Use a plier to pull out the old broken-down fuse.
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but maybe you just need a few moms in your corner. Every week, we check in with a diverse group of parents for their comments and some savvy advice.
Today, we want to get some advice about something you've probably been thinking about. If you have school-age children, you've probably gotten the message that you need to keep their heads in the academic game somehow over the summer, especially reading. And this may conflict with your children's plans, which may run more toward playing video games and seeing how many bags of chips they can eat in a day. Well, we can't help you with the chips, but our panel today have spent a lot of time thinking about keeping kids excited about reading, even reluctant readers, even in the summer.
So with us now are Loriene Roy. She's a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. She's also past president of the American Library Association and a mom of one. Monica Olivera is cofounder of Latinas for Latino Literature, a freelance writer, also a mom of two. And Marjan Ghara is mom of two and founder of the online book club for kids BiblioNasium. It allows children to share and rate books that they have read. Welcome to you all. Welcome back, I should say. Thanks so much for joining us.
MONICA OLIVERA: Thank you.
MARJAN GHARA: Thank you.
LORIENE ROY: Thanks, Michel.
MARTIN: Loriene, let me start with you. Why should reading be a big part of summer?
ROY: Well, you don't want to head into the area of what we call the summer slide. You want your kids to be ready for school in the fall, you want them on reading and above reading track, and you want to be working with your public library and involved with their summer reading programs.
MARTIN: So Monica, you write about education. Talk a little bit more about this, the summer brain drain or summer slump. Is that such a - is that so terrible?
OLIVERA: Well, actually, yes, because during the summer months, a lot of times children can lose up to three months of learning. And so then, when they start back to school in the fall, a lot of times they have lost a lot of the concepts or the skills that they learned towards the end of the previous school year. So teachers have to spend time covering that material over again, so that everyone can be caught up.
MARTIN: So Marjan, why don't we start with you on the question of how to get kids excited about reading. One of the things that you were telling us is that books are like shoes. You can't just go by what's on the label, saying this for this child's reading group. They're like shoes. You've got to look for the right fit. Will you talk a little bit more about that?
GHARA: Sure. Actually, this came from my own personal experience, when my second-grade son picked up Harry Potter and I was this very proud parent who had a eighth-grader reading a 400-page book. He made it through the first one and he started the second one and he never finished. And at the time, I told my husband, he must be the only kid in America who doesn't like Harry Potter. And it was only after we started this project - is we realized that there's actually the concept of reading levels and finding the right fit for your reading ability makes a big difference in the way children experience books.
So the metaphor of using - that books are like shoes is because when you go buy a pair of sneakers, you don't walk in and say, I want a pair of sneakers for a second grader. You have to have their feet measured and then, based on that measurement, you find the right sneaker. So it's the same concept with books and I think this was something, as a parent, that had escaped me during all of the time that I was looking for books for my kids to read.
MARTIN: Loriene, this might where, though - you were talking about how it's really important to work with your librarians on this. Tell us more about that. How can a librarian help you find that right fit?
ROY: Well, let's start with summer reading programs. They've been taking place in public libraries for the last hundred years and there is evidence of the impact of summer reading programs on preventing that reading slide over the summer, but really helping kids get ready for the school year. And there is also evidence from studies that say parents actually read more, kids have more books in the home, there's more conversation about reading, and you can rely and work with your public librarian during the summer and also with your school librarian. You want to be in the school, you want to advocate for having a certified school librarian who'll be working with the teachers, with the kids, and with the parents year-round.
MARTIN: Well, what do you mean by working with? Give me an example of what you should do. Maybe some schools are not as proactive about this as others. I mean, some kids - some schools are sending reading lists home with the kids in their backpacks and some schools are actually saying, you know, I want to see this, you know, when you come back in the fall. I want to see this filled out or I want to see letters. Other schools aren't doing any of that. So how should you work with somebody or what should you be looking for?
ROY: Well, I was at the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico just last week, and there as they were planning and working with their children for summer reading and the kids were engaged with art examples. They were watching film, too, they were reading, they were counting their minutes reading, they were getting incentives, and the kids were so excited. And by working with that librarian, it means bringing your kids to the site, it means working with them, developing that reading list with the librarian if that's what you want to do, suggesting other topics, and being a reader in the home. You know, the best role models for reading are the parents. So being able to read or listening to audio books in the car, so the kids know that reading is a part of every moment and a part of everyday life.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're talking about how to keep your kids reading over the summer. We're talking with three moms who've thought a lot about this. Marjan Ghara of BiblioNasium.com, Monica Olivera of Latinas for Latino Literature, and Loriene Roy. She's a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, a former president of the American Library Association. So Marjan, talk a little bit more about your site. How does that work?
GHARA: Well, BiblioNasium, we use the metaphor of gymnasium because we believed that, just like in sports, you need discipline, you need practice, you need to set goals, and then you will see the results and the rewards. And it's the same thing with reading. So these principles are all built into the features that we have on the site. The site itself connects children to the three constituents that most influence what they read, and that's their friends and their librarians and the teachers and the parents. And it's a really social community where they can share and exchange book recommendations and talk about books and what they like. We also provide...
MARTIN: Obviously, with parental permission...
GHARA: Of course.
GHARA: Yes, absolutely. We are targeted towards elementary and middle school children, so our site is COPPA compliant, which is Children's Online Privacy Protection Act regulations.
MARTIN: Okay. But what do kids like about it? Let's talk about the fun part, you know. How does it make it more fun?
GHARA: Well, you know, this generation is growing up digital and they like to be online. They like to socialize online. They like to have a, I guess, a digital presence online. And what we do is they personalize their experience, there's animated avatars, they set up virtual bookshelves where they can track and catalog what they're reading, what they like to read, and it's social, so you can see what your friends are reading. You can recommend for books to your friends and of course we have rewards built into there. So we are a BiblioNasium so we give out trophies and awards for completing reading challenges. So we work on it on all levels. It's social and it's personalized.
MARTIN: Loriene, talk a little bit, if you would, about the role of choice. And we know that - and how much choice do you think kids should have about what they pick up to read in the summer? I know, for myself, during the rest of the year I'm very much driven by work, and in the summer I, kind of, just want to read garbage, if I can put it like that. And I'm just wondering, Loriene, if you feel that kids should get the same privilege? Should they just be able to pick up whatever they want to read as long as it's not say, a girlie magazine?
ROY: Well, I think that's what we advocate for. At all levels, librarians support people's right to read and that extends to the earliest readers. I remember the day when I quit buying the books that I wanted my son to read because he was showing me what he preferred. And I supported it because he reads. You know, I don't read science fiction and fantasy as much as he does and I learned through him. And so, you support your kids in many ways and that reading preference is a way for them to be independent and also for them to start to really enjoy reading, make their own selections.
MARTIN: Monica, what do you think about that? The idea of - you know, obviously a lot of parents are interested in directing or being involved in what their kids read. They want them to read about maybe figures that are part of their heritage, right, they want to learn more about their heritage, but maybe their kids just want to read fantasy or something like that. Where are you on this question of how much choice to give your children in choosing what to read?
OLIVERA: You know, I really think it's a balance of things. I think kids definitely, in order to be inspired and motivated to read, they need to be able to choose the books and the topics that they want. But I think that can be balanced out and parents should also play a hand and make selections and offer them as well, different types of books because, a lot of times kids might not know that they would love a certain book just because they haven't read it before, but once they start reading it, they might find that they really, really, absolutely love it. So I think it's a blend of both, definitely.
MARTIN: Where are you, Monica, on this whole question of offering incentives or prizes? I know that's another thing that's somewhat controversial. I mean, I know people do use these incentives, like, in schools they use them. You can say, if you read X number of books then, you know, we'll have a pizza party or something like that. Do you do that, Monica? What do you think about that idea?
OLIVERA: Yes. Yes, I actually do. I do think that kids need to be motivated and inspired a lot of times and rewarded for their hard work. I know that with my kids, they're more likely to pick up a book and read if they know that, for example, when we go to the library they're going to get more tickets. And then, at the end of the summer they can turn those tickets in for some sort of prize like, you know, a new book or a new toy. I think those are powerful motivators and we need to keep those in mind.
MARTIN: Loriene, talk a little bit, if you would, too, about these summer reading programs. How do they work? And if your community isn't already starting one, what would you recommend?
OLIVERA: Well, actually...
MARTIN: I was asking Loriene about - I'm sorry, let me get Loriene on this and then we'll go to the other moms. Okay.
ROY: Sure, a lot of summer reading programs are organized through public libraries within a region or a state, often, according to a theme. For example, I mentioned being at the Laguna - Pablo of Laguna Public Library last week and their theme this summary is Dig into Reading. And there's an event every day, story and reading time, arts and crafts, gaming day, arts and crafts again, movie day, but all also related to books and reading, where the kids can come and have activities. They often get reading logs or they record minutes of reading or titles. They might record minutes doing other things where they're helping others. So in many ways is developing a reading community, extending it through the summer, and working in a, you know, the safe, protected, reliable, and loved place that's the library.
MARTIN: Marjan, what did you want to say?
GHARA: I was going to comment on the incentive portion - is that on our site, actually, parents can set up a reading challenge for their kids. And we offer some suggestions, like a child's favorite dinner maybe two nights in a row. Maybe an extra 20 minutes of sleep on a Saturday. So you don't have to really give yourself - your child an iPhone to incentivize them to read. It could be something as simple as their favorite meal two nights in a row. And really, nobody knows how to better incentivize a child better than the parent. So that's what we also provide through our platform - is for parents to engage their kids on that digital platform and kind of agree to some kind of reward for the reading.
MARTIN: I thought that a trip to the amusement park might be in there somewhere, wouldn't it? I would think that that would go over rather well. Another book, I don't know. Monica, what were you going to say?
OLIVERA: No, I was just going to mention that a lot of times finding those cultural books and starting a book program like we did, which this is the first year or first summer that we've actually launched an online summer reading program, specifically for Latino families. And there hasn't been anything like that online before.
Many of the programs offer some Spanish aspects to it but ours is specifically geared for Latino families, and that includes the reading lists, which are all full of - solely of Latino children's literature. Which is something that I think a lot of kids really need to see their own faces reflected in the books they read. And sometimes parents just don't know where to find those. So that was one of the biggest projects that we've done this summer and we've seen such a tremendous response. We already have over 400 families signed up and that's just been in two weeks. So we have to consider a person's heritage and culture, the children's, to help them be excited about learning and reading about other kids just like himself.
MARTIN: I was going to ask Loriene about that, because I know you've done research in this area and also with your work at the American Library Association. Have you observed that to be true, that the kids, and you're also Native American, Loriene, I think it's - I wanted to mention that as well and there hasn't always been a lot of literature available featuring people from the different tribes and their heritage and so forth. Have you found that to be true in your experience, Loriene, that if kids are exposed to literature that maybe speaks to their heritage, that they might get more excited? Or does it matter?
ROY: It really matters. In many ways, in terms of children seeing someone like themselves, seeing someone who is enjoying all aspects of life, seeing people who are recognized and honored for their backgrounds, and the children having similar backgrounds. We're very fortunate within library land that there are also ethnic library associations that are affiliated with the American Library Association. For example, the American Indian Library Association, and they also have youth media awards and youth literature awards. So you can look online and see these are the books that librarians with those backgrounds, with those interests, recommend also to parents and to children.
MARTIN: Okay, now before we let you go. Thank you for all these great suggestions for the kids. Now I'm really going to put you all on the spot and ask you what're you all reading this summer. Loriene, I'll start you.
ROY: Well, I just finished Nia Vardalos' "Instant Mom." And if you know Nia, she was the woman whose movie is "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." And it was fun but also a great read about foster parenting. And then I'm starting "House Made of Dawn," which I read many years ago and Scott Momaday, whom I met last week, and kind of revisiting that book as well.
MARTIN: Okay. Monica, what are you reading this summer?
OLIVERA: This summer I have a list of Latino authors that I'm trying to get into. I've just picked up a new one by, oh sorry - I'm having a momentary...
MARTIN: Oh, don't even tell me it's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, okay. Don't even try to tell me that it's all, like, Nobel Prize winners. Don't even pretend like that. You know you want to read something - some romance or something, come on.
OLIVERA: Right. Well, I'm reading lots of different things, like Garrison Keillor. I just picked up Garrison Keillor to read this summer, because I read that with my kids. And they love to listen to him on the radio, so I like to pick up his book "Lake Wobegon Days," which is one of the ones I've read. And I spend a lot of time reading to my kids, so I read that. I every day, usually at bed time we pick up a book. We read "Little House on the Prairie" or we read Garrison Keillor, we have started Harry Potter. So just lots of different authors.
MARTIN: Marjan, what are you reading this summer?
GHARA: I'm looking forward to reading "Contagious" by Jonah Berger. It's about how things go viral.
MARTIN: Oh, interesting. That sounds very interesting. Monica, the Garrison Keillor one, I hope that's, like, really true and you're not just, like, making up to us, right?
OLIVERA: Oh, no.
MARTIN: You're not just, you know, telling us that to, you know, get on our good side, right?
OLIVERA: Oh, yeah that's right.
MARTIN: Monica Olivera is cofounder of Latinas for Latino Literature. She's a mom of two, we caught her on the line from Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Marjan Ghara is a mom of two and the founder of BiblioNasium, that's an online book club for kids. We caught up with her at NPR New York. Loriene Roy is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the school of information there, she's a mom of one, and she joined us from member station KUT in Austin. Thank you all so much. Happy reading everybody.
GHARA: Thank you, Michel.
OLIVERA: Thank you.
ROY: Thank you.
MARTIN: And that's our program for today. I'm Michel Martin. And you've been listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Let's talk more tomorrow. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:f11305c4-960a-4a72-8632-82d9b8506f26> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kios.org/post/books-your-kid-might-give-video-games-read | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00165-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982102 | 4,294 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Recap Of Major 2017 Vehicle Recalls
Faulty Ford F-150 and Super Duty Door Latches
In October 2017, the Ford Motor Co. issued a recall for 1.3 million 2015 through 2017 model year F-150 pickup trucks and 2017 Super Duty pickup trucks due to faulty door latches that may not open or close properly, or may open while the vehicle is in motion.
In a move that will cost Ford $267 million, the company announced it would install a water shield in the affected pickups to solve the door latch issue.
Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep Airbag and Fire Risk Recalls
In July 2017, Fiat Chrysler announced two large recalls, affecting a total of 1.3 million vehicles. The automaker recalled 538,000 2011 through 2015 model year Dodge Journey crossover SUVs, as well as 233,000 Fiat Fremont SUVs, due to a wire chaffing issue that could lead to a short circuit, resulting in accidental airbag deployment. Fiat Chrysler will replace the wiring and add protective covering to prevent chaffing. The issue has been linked to several minor injuries.
Fiat Chrysler also recalled more than 565,000 other vehicles due to fire risks associated with faulty alternators. The diodes on these alternators were prone to premature wear that could lead to smoke, fire, engine stalls, and antilock braking system malfunctions. Replacing the alternator will solve this issue, which has been linked to at least two accidents.
Affected vehicles include:
- 2011-2014 Chrysler 300
- 2011-2014 Dodge Challenger
- 2011-2014 Dodge Charger
- 2011-2014 Dodge Durango
- 2012-2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Hyundai and Kia Vehicles Recalled for Stalling Risk
In April 2017, Hyundai and Kia recalled approximately 1.5 million vehicles sold in the United States over a manufacturing defect linked to older Theta II four-cylinder engines. The engines were at risk of stalling due to metal debris in the crankshaft. Hyundai and Kia will offer replacement engines in cases where the defect has caused significant damage.
The following vehicles, produced prior to model year 2014, may be affected:
- Kia Optima
- Kia Sorento
- Kia Sportage
- Hyundai Sonata
- Hyundai Sante Fe
Honda Accord Fire Risk Recalls
In July 2017, Honda recalled approximately 1.15 million Accords from the 2013 through 2016 model years due to faulty battery sensors which could potentially short out and cause a fire. The sensors are especially at risk of shorting during inclement weather, as they're not adequately sealed against moisture. Honda dealerships will repair or replace the sensors at no cost.
Additional Takata Airbag Recalls
Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata has recalled more than 37 million airbags due to faulty inflators that have been linked to nearly a dozen deaths and more than 180 injuries. The Takata airbag recalls continued in 2017 and affected vehicle brands include:
Consult an Experienced Car Accident Attorney
Recalled vehicles can pose a significant threat to the safety of America's roads. If you were injured in an accident caused by a defective vehicle, you may be entitled to compensation for medical expenses, property damages, lost wages, pain and suffering, and additional damages. An experienced and knowledgeable car accident attorney can review your case to determine any and all potential avenues of compensation.
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what's the matter with kids today?
By Diogenes (articles ) | Oct 27, 2009
While you slept, your children consumed enough oxygen to fuel three dozen gerbils for six weeks at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Aren't you ashamed? What follows from the U.K. Guardian is not, regrettably, a parody:
The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO2 every year of their lives. In their turn, they are likely to have more carbon-emitting children who will make an even bigger mess...
In 2050, 95% of the extra population will be poor and the poorer you are, the less carbon you emit. By today's standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be at least 60 times as productive as one of Bangladeshis... As Rachel Baird, who works on climate change for Christian Aid, says: "Often in the countries where the birth rate is highest, emissions are so low that they are not even measurable. Look at Burkina Faso." So why ask them to pay in unborn children for our profligacy…?
But how do you reduce population in countries where women's rights are already achieved and birth-control methods are freely available? Could children perhaps become part of an adult's personal carbon allowance? Could you offer rewards: have one child only and you may fly to Florida once a year?
You have to love the Orwellian archness of the phrase "countries where women's rights are already achieved" -- meaning, of course, countries where inconvenient children may be dismembered in the womb. Fortunately WE live in a nation where Roman Catholic office-holders like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden will protect the defenseless from arbitrary assault on their lives in the name of ecological progress.
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Oct. 28, 2009 12:01 AM ET USA
Leave Pelosi and Biden alone...., Rather, show me a real bishop.
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Oct. 27, 2009 4:05 PM ET USA
When Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" in 1729 it WAS satire. This just shows how far the world has progressed since then. I use the word "progressed" to give the self-styled "progressives" the credit due them. | <urn:uuid:1e30a48f-ddf1-4591-8fa0-459843ccb6f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otr.cfm?id=5106 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00262-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946958 | 550 | 1.796875 | 2 |
This summer has been particularly hot for almost every part of the world. North Eastern states of the US have been struggling to keep up with the constant temperatures reaching near 100 F. There were severe heat strokes reported in Moscow, Russia, which lead to some deaths and many hospitalizations. Nothing brings relief like cold drinks in this scorching summer season, such as carbonated soda, juices, slush, smoothies, etc. Smoothies have become particularly popular drink, but you should be careful as according to a latest report they are linked to outbreak of typhoid fever in the US.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), seven cases have been confirmed – three in California and four in Nevada. Two more California cases are being investigated and five people were hospitalized. The victims range in age from 4 to 31.
- five of the victims drank milkshakes or smoothies made with frozen mamey (ma-MAY’) fruit pulp
- Four of them used pulp sold by Goya Foods Inc. of Secaucus, N.J.
- No other food was linked to the illnesses, which occurred between April and July.
A sample from one package found in Las Vegas tested positive for the bacteria that causes typhoid, the Food and Drug Administration reported Wednesday.
What is Mamey?
Mamey is a sweet, reddish tropical fruit grown mainly in Central and South America. It is also known as zapote or sapote. As per CDC, it is peeled and mashed to make pulp.
Has infected food recalled?
The company has recalled packages of the pulp, sold in mostly western states. The recalled mamey pulp was sold in 14-ounce plastic packages...
in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington.
What is Typhoid and its symptoms?
Typhoid fever is caused by a type of bacteria called Salmonella typhi and can be fatal. Symptoms include a sustained fever as high as 103 to 104 degrees, along with headache, weakness, stomach pains or loss of appetite. Some patients have a rash of flat, rose-colored spots. It can be treated with antibiotics.
How long does it take to see symptoms of typhoid after consuming a smoothie?
Dr. Ezra Barzilay, the CDC epidemiologist said that it can take between three days to eight weeks for an infected person to develop symptoms.
Is Typhoid common in the US?
No, typhoid is rare in the United States. There are only about 400 cases annually, and most people caught it while traveling abroad, as developing countries have much more cases of typhoid.
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Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (February 15, 1914 - Undetermined; presumably October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader.
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- Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance.
- Speech before Congress (April 22, 1971)
- [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover lied his eyes out to the [Warren] Commission – on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it.
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“Hacer Conejo” – an expression meaning to bail out on the check at a restaurant incorporates folk simile, folk gesture and humor. Holding up two fingers (index and middle fingers in a spread out V) behind your head means you are thinking about doing “conejo” and lets the others in your group to get ready to run without paying the bill. It is also a way to freak out a friend who is still eating and scare them in to thinking you are about to bail out. When I asked my grand Aunt Marlly, who had married my Grandfather’s brother, she said she had never hear of the story and the expression that it sounded rather sordid. I realized that the story was attached to what social economic level you grew up in. My grand aunt came from an upper class family, while my Grandfather and all of his brothers came from a poorer lower class family where being able paying the bill was not always possible. My Grandmother came from an impoverish class that would never even think about eating in a restaurant in the first place, but she was aware of the expression and knew people who had gotten away with it. The trick was to be a very fast runner and not to have eaten too much.
Analysis: This folk simile, to my maternal grandfather, is more of a humorous gag expression, meant to scare or outrage the other diners you were with. Making the gesture is a way to get a point across without tipping your hand. I personal think is kind of funny, especially when I explain it to other people. In the U.S. the folk gesture of the rabbit ears made with the fingers has a different meaning and when I explain what it means in Colombia, I usually get a laugh or extreme fascination.
My Grand Aunt Marina, my grandfathers sister, swears the following legend of “La Llorona” is absolutely true. She knows there have been other stories about La LLorona but hers is the “god’s honest truth”, the real story. She told it on Good Friday at a dinner at my grandmother house
When they would go out to the country for a family camping weekend near the Magdalena River, my aunt said “that on nights with a full moon if you went to the river at dusk or dawn you were sure to see a Llorona/The Crying Woman. She tells me that a young woman drowned her own children in the river because her husband did not care for them and had abandoned them for younger woman (Marina rolls her eyes at this point of the story and murmurs “typical”). Marina continues but more feeling her voice… “no matter how hard she tried to forget her husband, he had left them without any money and had taken all of their meager belongings. She tried to find work but with four young children to take care of, it proved to be impossible and in a moment of desperation after hearing her children cry all night from hunger, she drowned her children at dawn, letting the river take away their bodies downstream and when she saw her child were no longer with her she cried out in grief and after no longer able to bear the pain she kills herself. St. Peter finds her at the gates of heaven and deems her unworthy for purgatory or even hell because of the gravity of her sins and was sent back down to earth and to find her children. For this reason she roams around at dusk and dawn, crying as she looks for them.” Marina assures me that she had heard La Llorona on many occasions down by the Magdalena River but only saw her once. This is where Marina gets super serious and lowers her voice to almost a whisper… “One early morning she woke up and saw it was only dawn, she tried really hard to hold back her need to go to the bathroom but was unable. She thought if she was quick enough nothing bad would happen but on the way back to the campsite through the misty dawn she saw a woman wearing rags down by the river crying. She says she felt her blood run cold and ran to the campsite arriving in a cold sweat!” Seeing La Llorona is considered a bad omen and Marina says she was inconsolable all day, finally the family headed home that day to find that grandmother Celestina had passed away. She never went camping to the river again. Marina finishes the story with tears in her eyes because she says that she felt some kind of responsibility for Celetistina death. My Abuelo thinks this is absurd mainly because Celestina was very old and lucky to have survived as long as she did. He cannot collaborate his sister’s story because he was already living in the U.S. but Marina swears it is the God’s honest truth “te juro ha dios” and she is very Catholic. My Abuelo said he did have a dream where his grandmother Celestina talked to him at length, telling him all that was to come in his life, the night before she past away.
Analysis: Although there are some aspects of the supernatural and personal loss, overall I found the story very melancholy and haunting. The way she spoke of La Llorona made me believe that she believed what she had experienced was true. She was so upset during the retelling, she had to get up and leave to the restroom, when she came out she was dabbing her eyes and refuse to tell me any more stories. I feel fortunate to have been allowed to have such a personal retelling.
My mom really enjoys telling me about The Chupacabra story- meaning “goat sucker”. Ironically, she wrote a paper about the Chupacabra for her college Folklore class. In her contemporary retelling the Chupacabra, or “Chupee”, it is a defender of powerless Latinos against of white people in positions of authority who abuse their power in California and throughout part of the southwest. It was no coincident that in May of 1996 reports of Chupacabra reached an all time high in terms of sighting in light of heighten social anxieties. Chupee was talked about on the radio and television with spoof interviews. Local issues about undocumented workers, border patrol incidents, Proposition 187, and the potential demise of affirmative action worried the Latino community. Projecting fears onto a blood-sucking creature was a safe way to air concerns. San Bernardino had a massive spike in Chapacabra sighting after an unarmed Latino woman was dragged from her car and beaten. It caused the LA Times to run a front-page story about the Chupacabra and publishing the photo attached.
My mom thought it was awesome that Latinos living in the U.S had appropriated a Mexican legend and had unleashed it on Southern California, Arizona and parts of Texas. Several cattle in Texas were found dead with puncture marks on their necks. For the first time white ranchers were suddenly scared because they were dealing with an unknown entity. My mom was shocked when the LA times ran a front page article with a drawing of the Chupacabra. But it validated what she was thinking about the multiple sightings.
Analysis: I think the Chupacabra in this context sounds very interesting with lots of potential. My mom said while doing research for her paper she discovered that Chupee, “goat sucker” was written about in Mayan texts going back as far as 1400 B.C. This contradicts the contemporary belief that the Chupacabra was first spotted in Puerto Rico in 1995. Many Mexicans familiar with the Mayan legend reputed the origins and insisted that it was in fact part of ancient Mayan Mythology. Apparently it was their Mayan ancestor who were now seeking revenge against the white aggressors that almost wiped out their civilization. Many of the undocumented migrant farm workers at that time in California were of mostly indigenous descent. This perhaps was a way for a group of highly marginalized people to empower themselves with a creature that was mysterious and potentially deadly.
There was a proverb often repeated to me growing up by my grandfather. Whenever I had a problem I could not figure out, my grandfather would say just use your “Malicia Indigina” which literally means “ indigenous ways of knowing” and would follow it up with “Si no las sabes, las inventa” which mean “if you don’t know how to do something, invent a new way of doing it.” Or “if you don’t know, then innovate or improvise” which to me always sounded like “go fake an answer”, but he would explain that is was in our blood (Chibcha/Muisca indigenous heritage). Allegedly, they were a very intelligent people and could always figure out a solution to any problem if they just thought hard enough about it even if it was not the common answer, it would work nevertheless. The Chibchas/Muiscas were renowned for their skills because they were one of the very few indigenous tribes in Colombia to survive the arrival of the conquistadores and Spanish settlers. They were famous for getting rid of the conquistadores by giving them a map of “El Dorado” that they knew to be an area infested with jaguars and anacondas. It was a very effective ploy until they made the son of one of the chief to go with them to insure a safe return but instead the Chief sent a group of skilled hunters and killed all the conquistadores the first night with poison from frogs while they slept. After disposing the bodies, the Chibchas brought back the chief’s son and they were left alone for a long time. This story was told to me by my grandfather who was told by his father who was told by his grandfather who was a chief. The Chibchas are currently making a comeback after decades where their verbal language was outlawed punishable by physical violence (caning, whipping etc.). Now there are local schools where Chibcha is now taught as a language and children do not have to hide their heritage. Chibcha is considered the language but the tribe is the “Muiscas” but over time most of the members referred to themselves as simply “Chipchas”.
Analysis: This is considered a personal proverb that does not apply to those who lack indigenous genetic makeup. It seemed as a way to empower a group of people that were extremely marginalized and almost wiped out. However, being 1/16 Chibcha meant I could never receive simple empathy when struggling with a difficult problem, I was expected to somehow tap into my biological hidden powers and magically produce an awesome answer to every single difficulty that crossed my path. I always found this kind of annoying but perhaps contributed to sharpening my creative abilities.
“Como perros en misa”- Like dogs in church. This saying is used when one is having the worst day possible where you feel attacked from all sides with no warning. Back in the day in Colombia, churches used to have their door always open and on hot days, stray dogs would sometimes seek refuge inside a cool tile church only to be physically kick out by a variety of feet, leaving what should have been a sanctuary, bruised and confused. So when you ask someone how was their day and they answer “Como perros en misa” you now know that they have had a surprisingly terrible day. The correct response is “I am so sorry, that sounds horrible” as you would expect to react to a puppy being kicked without reason.
Analysis: There have been times this semester when everyday for a whole week I felt like a “perro en misa” because everything would go wrong and an undesirable event would happen like surprise reading quiz. The American version would be something like “ when it rains, it pours” but that along with “Mercury is in retrograde” seem more impersonal and generalized, while “perros en misa” is more specific and means that you are personally are being brutalized, not the whole world. | <urn:uuid:6243d40c-23f5-496b-893c-93e1d64817c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://folklore.usc.edu/author/antoniookun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.986357 | 2,526 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Il prurito origina dal rilascio, da parte di cellule epidermiche e dermiche, di mediatori che, legandosi a recettori specifici, stimolano le fibre nervose periferiche afferenti: Il prurito può quindi essere interpretato come dolore.
Come evidenziato nel recente articolo, qui di seguito riportato, il sistema endocannabinoide cutaneo è uno dei responsabili dell’omeostasi cutanea, indispensabile per il benessere del soggetto.
Molecules. 2019 Mar; 24(5): 918.
Published online 2019 Mar 6. doi: 10.3390/molecules24050918
PMCID: PMC6429381 PMID: 30845666
Cannabinoid Signaling in the Skin: Therapeutic Potential of the “C(ut)annabinoid” System
Kinga Fanni Tóth,1,† Dorottya Ádám,1,† Tamás Bíró,2,3,‡ and Attila Oláh1,*‡
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) has lately been proven to be an important, multifaceted homeostatic regulator, which influences a wide-variety of physiological processes all over the body. Its members, the endocannabinoids (eCBs; e.g., anandamide), the eCB-responsive receptors (e.g., CB1, CB2), as well as the complex enzyme and transporter apparatus involved in the metabolism of the ligands were shown to be expressed in several tissues, including the skin. Although the best studied functions over the ECS are related to the central nervous system and to immune processes, experimental efforts over the last two decades have unambiguously confirmed that cutaneous cannabinoid (“c[ut]annabinoid”) signaling is deeply involved in the maintenance of skin homeostasis, barrier formation and regeneration, and its dysregulation was implicated to contribute to several highly prevalent diseases and disorders, e.g., atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, scleroderma, acne, hair growth and pigmentation disorders, keratin diseases, various tumors, and itch. The current review aims to give an overview of the available skin-relevant endo- and phytocannabinoid literature with a special emphasis on the putative translational potential, and to highlight promising future research directions as well as existing challenges. | <urn:uuid:b94635af-df7a-409a-aac9-5d3d79d17ff9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbflanes.com/2019/11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.766986 | 560 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Internal Martial Arts are collectively referred to as Nei Jia Quan (內家拳), which literally means “inner family boxing”, or “inner school boxing.” The term Nei Jia Quan refers specifically to styles of martial arts that in English we call “internal.” Today, the Internal Martial Arts are considered to include Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, Ba Gua Zhang, Tong Bei Quan, and Liu He Ba Fa. Many teachers of internal martial arts never really say what an internal art is. The nature of something ‘internal’ is sensed and experienced internally, rather than perceived externally.
Chinese Internal Martial Arts focus on relaxation, mind-intention, stillness and natural movement. Rather than stressing techniques and developing muscular strength, speed and athletic prowess, training looks inward. Internal focus is an important part of the Internal Martial Arts for building and maintaining health, flexibility and refined strength. Additionally, training principles of the Internal Arts are completely congruent with the principles of Chinese medicine. This includes a deep understanding of the unified nature of the body, mind and spirit, and their connection to the natural world.
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The Rex is the first commercial powered exoskeleton by the Rex Bionics through which the individuals can move who are suffering with the spinal cord paralysis. It is the name of the mobility enhancing exoskeleton. The Rex cans support independently itself as well as the weight of the user.
Through this device, the range of the exercises is possible in the highly beneficial Rexercise mode which also includes lunges, leg swings as well as squats, starches and various sit-to-stand movements. It can also shift the weight from one leg to the other and along with this; it can walk forward and backward, turn and is capable of climbing the stairs.
- Stands Alone: It is hands free for functional exercise and activates of daily living.
Quick to get going: Through this, the new users can walk with the autonomous control in the few minutes.
- Maneuverable: It is fully automated and can perform all the turns such as forwards, backwards, sideways and turning movements.
- Widely accessible: People who are suffering with the several disabilities are able to successfully use Rex.
- Workhorse: Shares physical demand of the delivering therapy and can reduce the strain on therapists.
Unlike all other devices, now the users do not have the necessity to use the crutches as the exoskeleton is fully responsible for maintaining the balance of the operator. This Rex suit can be fitted in 5 minutes and can be used by customers with complete spinal cord injuries. | <urn:uuid:da6a4fb6-ae1f-4745-b41e-687905ffa66d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.enggbook.com/interesting-engineering/robotic-mobility-device/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.951024 | 301 | 2.125 | 2 |
Italian translation of clear-cut
ben definito(‑a) or delineato(‑a),
Example Sentences Including 'clear-cut'
The sun was now shining warm and bright, and the towers and tall houses cast long clear-cut shadows westward.THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2004)
You have to have something clear-cut , you know, or you won't be able to publish.The Complete Stories Volume 2
The first shout to reach her ears was from the Sergeant; a clear-cut order to halt.At the Stroke of Twelve
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25. Adequate Living
1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. | <urn:uuid:4cc4d33d-7d73-4c4f-a4e8-a290ac94b688> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://go-hre.org/adequate-living/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963093 | 112 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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wire mesh fence is also known as welded wire mesh fence,welded fences or welded fencing.This fence is pretty light yet durable,its composition is simply wire welded together to make a fece.The welds are fairly strong.
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3.Fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary.
Fence are constructed for several purposes.including:
1.) Agricultural fencing: to keep livestock in or predators act.
2.) Temporary fencing: to provide safety and security and to direct movement.wherever temporary access control is required,especially on building and construction sites.
3.)Boundary fencing: to demarcate a piece of real property.
4.) Barbed wire fence: can be made in different styles as per requirement,like for agricultural pruposes.protecting livestock,demaring property, etc
5.) Chain link fencing: is most commonly available galvanized which is silver color. We also carry colored chain link fence.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as
long as there is
imagination left in the world.
Imagination or Knowledge |
I have been up against tough competition all my life.
I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Motivational Sports Quotes |
I do not like to repeat successes. I like to go on to other things.
Positive Attitude |
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -
the things we live by and teach our
are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
There is great comfort and
inspiration in the
feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes -
a powerful force, to overcome the 'tough breaks' which are certain to come
to most of us from time to time.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20
years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time
when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest
ebb and disaster seemed right
around the corner.
Quotes about New Beginnings |
believe in a thing, believe in it all the way,
implicitly and unquestionable.
Positive Thinking |
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again
and bring their
Words of Encouragement |
The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
Quotes about Life |
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Edge Factor is proud to announce the launch of their NEW 2019/2020 Platform for schools and businesses.
The NEW Edge Factor platform provides students, parents, and job seekers with information to launch a rewarding career following Edge Factor’s timeline of understanding. The 2019/2020 platform categorizes Edge Factor content into four key zones; Inspiration, Exploration, Preparation, and Connection.
The Inspiration zone features award-winning films, documentaries, and TV shows! It’s all about using the power of storytelling to inspire audiences to explore career pathways and discover how STEAM comes alive in the real world.
The Exploration zone includes high impact videos on industries and specific career profiles. With hundreds of career exploration tools, this zone empowers students, parents, and job seekers to discover diverse opportunities.
The Preparation zone contains deep libraries of videos and interactive tools that connect STEAM to the real world, instill soft skills and promote educational programs. You can now create profiles that promote your school’s programs to local students and parents!
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With the use of Collections, Edge Factor is able to create a playlist of information that will take students, parents, and job seekers on a journey of career discovery, providing them with the right information at the right time.
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Carolyn, Our User Experience Specialist would love to connect with you on a short phone call to go over all of these new features and how you can use them most effectively. If you would like to arrange a time for this, please reply to this email giving your availability Monday – Friday, between 10 AM and 2 PM. | <urn:uuid:63456b33-850a-4ade-b89f-e1d51be1609b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.edgefactor.com/edge-factor-announces-the-launch-of-their-new-2019-2020-platform | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.909617 | 522 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Learn More About ADHD
Learning more about ADHD is the first step to an accurate diagnosis and effective treatment for individuals and families, as well as for the professionals who treat and support them. Here is what CDC is doing to learn more and raise awareness about ADHD.
CDC helps children with ADHD reach their full potential by working with partners to raise awareness of ADHD and improve knowledge of treatment options to support families, professionals, and the community.
What is ADHD and how is it diagnosed?
ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood and often lasts into adulthood. Many children have trouble focusing and behaving at one time or another. However, a child may have ADHD when symptoms like having trouble paying attention, acting without thinking about what the result will be, or being overly active, continue over time and cause difficulty at school, at home, or with friends.
Treatment for ADHD
Although there isn't a known cure for ADHD, it can be successfully managed. Some symptoms may improve as the child grows older. It is important to get an accurate diagnosis and the right treatment as early as possible. But not all children with ADHD are getting the right treatment, especially young children.
Treatment recommendations vary by age.
- For children under 6, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends behavior therapy first before trying medication. The most effective approach for young children is parent training in behavior therapy.
- For children 6 years of age and older, AAP recommends behavior therapy and medication as good options, preferably both together. Parent training has been shown to be effective up to age 12, particularly for children with disruptive behaviors.
What is CDC doing?
Raising awareness by educating the public
The first step to help children with ADHD is to increase knowledge and awareness of symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options, and ways to receive support. CDC works with the National Resource Center on ADHD (NRC), a program of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), to provide information on diagnosis, treatment, and living with ADHD for families, professionals, and the community. Learn more about the NRC's information and resources.
Increasing knowledge of treatment options
Not all children receive the recommended treatment. For example, among young children, only about half receive any kind of psychological services, and 1 in 4 children receives only medication. A first step is to ensure that parents and providers know the recommendations and learn about parent training in behavior therapy.
CDC worked with the National Council for Behavioral Health to conduct expert webinars for parents, healthcare providers, and other clinical providers that explained AAP's recommendation of behavior therapy first for young children, and what to look for when seeking behavior therapy. The webinars have been recorded and you can access them here. Continuing education credits for professionals are available.
Children with ADHD also need the right care in school, where being overly active, impulsive, and inattentive can make it difficult to learn. The NRC conducted a series of expert webinars for education professionals who work with young children with ADHD. The webinars have been recorded and you can access them here.
Information for States: Having the right resources to obtain the right care where children and families live with ADHD is important. States need to understand the impact of ADHD in their communities and learn more about potential barriers to treatment. Therefore, CDC is gathering data for states about rates of ADHD and treatment patterns, as well as information about policies that affect treatment. You can access information for states here.
- Page last reviewed: November 16, 2016
- Page last updated: November 16, 2016
- Content source:
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; Division of Human Development and Disability; Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
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Pierna Cruzada, Mexican Illustrator, Encourages Us All to Be More Gay
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Meet up-and-coming Mexican illustrator Gonzalo Angulo, the man behind “Pierna Cruzada.” Spanish for “crossed leg,” the name of the character cleverly references the idea that it’s ‘feminine’ when a man crosses his legs. Angulo creates fun, satirical cartoons about gay life, and to uncover more about his creations, we had a chat with the artist in his native language.
Who is the man behind “Pierna Cruzada”?
My name is Gonzalo, but everybody calls me Gonz. I’m originally from Cancún, a warm and fun city for many people, but it was small for me, so I decided to move to the big city (Mexico City) almost two years ago, and I love it! There’s everything you need here. | <urn:uuid:253ab1bf-da76-4c21-bbc7-f1cfb1daa1eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hornet.com/stories/pierna-cruzada-legs-crossed-interview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.946645 | 216 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Run the race to get the prize. 9:24-27
In chapters 8 to 11, Paul deals with the issue of eating meat offered to idols. Although Paul agrees with the Corinthian libertines that there is no god aligned with temple worship, he reminds his readers of the danger of leading a young believer astray. In our passage for study, Paul illustrates his own self-discipline, exercised for the sake of the gospel, by using an example of the training undertaken by elite athletes.
v24. Returning to the central point outlined in chapter 8 ("Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak" - with respect to participating in cultic feasts and/or eating foods consecrated to pagan idols), Paul uses the example of the Greek Games, of the runner who strives to win the prize. Be like a runner who is intent on winning the prize, says Paul; run with that same intent. The point of the illustration is not so much the application of effort in the Christian life, or of competing to win the eternal crown, but rather a focused intent - a self-disciplined dedication to the cause of the gospel.
v25. The illustration is extended to make two further points:
i] A runner goes into strict training, that is, they exercise strict self-control, self-discipline, they exercise mastery over themselves. For the believer on the "way", this entails setting aside personal rights and freedoms, especially when they undermine a brother's faith.
ii] A runner, training for a race, aims to win a wreath that soon falls apart, while the believer trains for an incorruptible wreath. At first glance, it seems that Paul is speaking about the prize of eternity, but he is actually referring to the work of the gospel, of the business of gathering the lost into the kingdom of heaven. The "fruit of souls" is the immortal prize.
v26. Using his own life, Paul extends the illustration to underline the necessity of a self-disciplined purposefulness in the Christian life. "I don't press forward in the Christian life like an athlete without a training schedule." The runner trains hard with their goal in mind, they don't just jog around the oval. Similarly with the boxer, he pummels the punching bag rather than plays at "shadow-boxing."
v27. Although this verse reads as if Paul is encouraging self flagellation, he is simply saying that he strives to bring his life (not his "body") under control; "I discipline my life, for I don't want to tell others to exercise self-discipline, and then find my own life exposed as undisciplined (literally "failed the test", not "disqualified for the prize")." Paul is again using his own life as an example of someone whose life-style is purposeful, marked by self-constraint, self-control, and this for gospel imperatives. Paul has willingly put aside his rights for the sake of the gospel.
1. Propose situations within a church fellowship where a brother or sister could be led away from their faith in Christ.
2. Consider the self-discipline required to avert a brother or sisters loss of faith.
The way of self-discipline|
Throughout the Western world the between-the-wars generation is thinning. When comparing this generation with the generations that follow, the baby-boomers and now generation X and Y, etc., we can't help but feel that there has been something of a decline in social values. The between-the-wars generation is best described as a people who only took what they needed, leaving more than they took. Their memory of the great depression drove their sense of community, their willingness to live simple lives, while funding the infrastructure necessary for the next generation: dams, telecommunications, people's banks, schools, hospitals ....... Sadly, their desire to build for the future has been overtaken by a new generation that uses more than it needs and burdens the next generation with the debt of its excess. Our governments privatize and sell off everything to pay for this excess and still the debt grows larger.
When Paul writes to the church in Corinth, he addresses a group who feels that their rights and privileges as believers stand over and above the spiritual welfare of their brothers and sisters in Christ. We can best describe this group as libertines; they have found liberty in Christ and now, with their new found freedom, they feel that they can take a few liberties. There they are, happily attending the local pagan festivals, eating foods offered in sacrifice to pagan gods, resting on the knowledge that pagan deities are but figments of the imagination. Yet, what about the new believer who only a week ago believed in those other gods, or what about the Jewish believer, who not only finds it difficult to eat unclean foods, but who is fearful to the core when it comes to idolatry? Would it not be better for these libertine believers to limit their right to freedom for the sake of the spiritual welfare of a brother?
As far as Paul is concerned, one of the most powerful motivators in his life is the work of the gospel, the gathering of the lost through the communication of God's saving grace in Christ. If attending some pagan feast is going to get in the way of the gospel then he is willing to give the feast a miss. This type of stance requires discipline, self-control. It can be compared to an athlete who intentionally abandons the flabbiness of self-indulgence and undertakes the rigors of a goal-focused training program.
It is very easy for us to absorb the spirit of our age, to allow the self-indulgence of our use-everything-and-leave-nothing generation to pollute our Christian lives. We sometimes even call our self-indulgence, our obsessions, "gospel ministry." When our actions undermine the faith of vulnerable brothers and sisters, then such self-indulgence is nothing but evil. Our journey of faith requires discipline, not indulgence.
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Katherine Quirk via Crowdrise
March 14, 2012
BENEFITING: Runwell: The Linda Quirk Foundation
ORGANIZER: Runwell: The Linda Quirk Foundation
EVENT: NYC Half 2012
EVENT DATE: Mar 18, 2012
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Runwell empowers those affected by addiction to obtain treatment and engages entire families on the road to recovery. By encouraging anyone involved with addictions, from chemical dependents to their friends and families, to get involved in sports, those in treatment and their support bases, have a greater chance of staying committed to recovery. Addiction is seldom won alone.
Please consider supporting Runwell. As a result of your generosity, we will:
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Together we will give the gift of recovery and wellness.
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A A condition that causes an employee to become suicidal may be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In that case, it would be an unlawful discriminatory practice to take adverse employment actions based on her condition, and she may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation. If an employee states that she “prays for death every night,” it might be best to initially address the situation under the assumption that she has a condition covered under the ADA.
You should begin by having a private conversation with the employee. Don’t ask if she has a medical condition. Rather, ask if there is anything you or the company can do to help. You can also ask if anything at work is causing or contributing to her problem and if she has any ideas about work-related changes that could help. If she has reasonable requests for accommodations, you should grant her requests. Follow up with her to ensure that the accommodations helped solve the problem. If not, it may be time to seek advice from your attorney to determine whether the employee is suffering from a condition covered by the ADA.
Be sure to document the entire process. Keep a confidential written record of:
- The employee’s complaint(s);
- Your inquiry about how you could help;
- The fact that you didn’t ask whether the employee has any medical conditions;
- The employee’s suggested accommodation;
- The fact that you provided the accommodation; and
- Your follow-up with the employee to see if the accommodation worked.
The only time it may be OK to ask an employee whether she has a medical condition is when the inquiry is job-related and consistent with business necessity. For example, the employee’s ability to perform essential job functions may be impaired because of the condition, or she may pose a direct threat to herself or her coworkers. However, it’s a good idea to consult your attorney before asking the employee if she has a medical condition.Although you generally shouldn’t ask whether an employee has a medical condition (such as depression), you can offer to listen to her and provide personal concern, support, and understanding to her as an individual and as a valued employee at your company. You shouldn’t ask about personal problems, but you can listen if she brings them up and wants to talk about them. It’s better not to offer advice, but you can offer hope that she will find a solution to her problems.
You can also let the employee know that counseling is available—for instance, through an employee assistance program, a crisis intervention or suicide prevention resource in your community, or a suicide prevention hotline. Be careful not to pressure the employee or imply that counseling is required or is some type of punishment. Again, keep your conversation confidential. | <urn:uuid:fb65f81d-9e10-44ae-b97d-0b2ae0a308e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2015/06/14/how-to-respond-to-an-employee-who-mentions-suicide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.969062 | 571 | 2.0625 | 2 |
ALAN BERGER raises an important subject (“Obama ought to meddle in Israeli vote,” Op-ed, Jan. 4). Every past US president since Jimmy Carter has at one point or another sought to interfere in an Israeli election or comparable leadership struggle.
Berger is correct that President Obama appears unlikely to intervene in Israel’s upcoming elections set for Jan. 22. He is also correct that carefully crafted gestures by Obama, such as a timely visit to Israel, could have helped moderate Israel’s next government by nudging a few extra coalition seats toward the center-left and away from the far-right.
However, this ship may have already sailed. Perhaps intentionally, Obama missed his window of opportunity to influence the election by avoiding the issue until now and keeping a low profile of late on the peace process in general.
Announcing isolated American gestures now, so close to the Israeli vote, would probably be too transparent to have the sort of impact that Berger hopes to see.
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- European Robotics Forum 2011 Workshop on the Orocos Toolchain
- European Robotics Forum 2012: workshops
- Geometric relations semantics
- KDL wiki
- Kuka LBR user group
- Links of Orocos components
- OCL v1.x wiki
- RTT v1.x wiki
- Documentation suggestions
- Examples and Tutorials
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- RTT Dictionary
- RTT on MS Windows
- The 1st RTT Developers Workshop
- The Road to RTT 2.0
- Goals for RTT 2.0
- Contribute! Which weakness have you detected in RTT?
- Contribute! Suggest a new feature to be included in RTT 2.0.
- Create Reference Application Architectures
- Detailed Roadmap
- Full distribution support
- RTT 2.0.0-beta1
- RTT 2.0.0-beta2
- RTT and OCL Cleanup
- Real time logging
- Redesign of the data flow interface
- Simplified, more robust default activities
- Streamlined Execution Flow API
- Upgrading from RTT 1.x to 2.0
- Using Eclipse and Orocos
- Using Git and Orocos
- Toolchain v2.x
- Wiki for site admins
- iTaSC wiki
Provides vs Requires interfaces
Users can express the 'provides' interface of an Orocos Component. However, there is no easy way to express which other components a component requires. The notable exception is data flow ports, which have in-ports (requires) and out-ports (provides). It is however not possible to express this requires interface for the execution flow interface, thus for methods, commands/messages and events. This omission makes the component specification incomplete.
One of the first questions raised is if this must be expressed in C++ or during 'modelling'. That is, UML can express the requires dependency, so why should the C++ code also contain it in the form of code ? It should only contain it if you can't generate code from your UML model. Since this is not yet available for Orocos components, there is no other choice than expressing it in C++.
A requires interface specification should be optional and only be present for:
- completing the component specification, allowing better review and understanding
- automatically connecting component 'execution' interfaces, such that the manual lookup work which you need to write today can be omitted.
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Are you part of the “Y” generation of people currently in their twenties? Generation Y grew up in the information age of social networking, texting, and constantly-connected life, yet often seek a more authentic, deeper connection to their inner wisdom. This workshop is for people who want a life that is aligned with the deep care and passion that they feel inside for the world—a life that is not confined by ideas of who others think they are and who their families want them to be.
We will practice mindfulness meditation, dyad self-inquiry exercises to reveal inner calling, and give and receive authentic feedback in the larger group.
People will have the opportunity to find a deeper connection to what is true for them and create next steps to express this truth. Through the various activities, we will allow people to more clearly see what life is calling forth in them and how that calling wants to express in the world. Participants will come away with a deeper connection of what is true for them, potential next steps to take, and identify ways the group can support each other after the workshop.
Kerena Saltzman is a Gestalt therapist, coach, trainer, mother, and seeker of truth. She founded the business Through Insight, which provides counseling and coaching to the Gen Y twenty-somethings. She facilitates groups for the University California Santa Cruz students teaching mindfulness, identifing authentic calling, and building community.
Kerena and Soren are siblings. Both spent a significant amount of time at Esalen in their twenties. Their time at Esalen was foundational in discovering who they were and building a life on what was meaningful to them.
Soren is the founder and host of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, the annual event exploring living with awareness and wisdom in the technology age. He is also the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Teachings for the Creative and Constantly Connected (HarperOne, 2009), and is a regular contributor to the Social Media blog, Mashable.
He has led mindfulness programs in a wide range of settings, including to youth in New York City juvenile halls, trauma workers in Rwanda, teachers in Nigeria, and US technology companies. As project director for Richard Gere's public charity, Healing the Divide, he organized the Healing through Great Difficulty Conference with his Holiness the Dalai Lama. His website: www.sorengordhamer.com | <urn:uuid:5634a331-1622-412f-b487-dd722d40109f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://authenticpath20s.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963251 | 494 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Rebeat Digital, the company who filed the patent, is now pushing to file patents in the United States and worldwide, and hopes to revolutionise the way that records are made.
The company has been quick to dispel fears that the new records wouldn’t play on current turtables, with the CEO Guenter Loibl saying, “This is a completely backwards-compatible technology. It will play on any existing turntable; you don’t need to buy a new system to enjoy the benefits.”
The main roadblocks for a lot of artists – particularly smaller artists – in getting their music pressed on vinyl are cost and time. This product could potentially reduce the stamper-related costs by 50% and the time required by 60%.
This could be a big step for the industry, which is currently struggling to keep up with the demand for records caused by the vinyl revival. If the current trend of vinyl purchasing is still consistent in three years time – when this product is expected to be on the market – then vinyl sales and production could skyrocket even further.
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When the foundations of the modern internet were laid in the 70s, people didn’t trust each other much more than they do now. They certainly did not leave their front doors standing open at night in case the neighbors wanted something.
The internet was developed by academics and engineers, though, who did just that when putting those early designs together. Recently, Rapid7 released its National/Industry/Cloud Exposure Report, taking a deep dive into the internet protocols still in common use today. It found that there are still a lot of doors without locks on them at all, with many clear text protocols still putting users at risk.
Examples include Telnet, the remote command line access protocol, which almost always exposes both the authentication data and the content in clear text. Another is rsync, a synchronization protocol that the authors call “an accident of early internet engineering”. Almost a quarter of a century old, that protocol has no encryption at all at its core. Enhancements have introduced encrypted authentication, but the session data still travels in clear text.
Some of this code is remarkably clean, suffering from few if any vulnerabilities over the years. Telnet has relatively high-score CVEs, for example, but as the report points out that’s because it “makes little to no security assurances at all.” If you don’t promise security, then you can’t be accused of violating that promise.
FTP has long been known to have vulnerabilities. The newer version, FTP/S, uses SSH to secure logins. Unfortunately, it still sends the session content in clear text (and hardly anyone uses it). SFTP or secure copy (SCP) are better.
Some protocols that have been properly updated with encryption aren’t being used ubiquitously. The most important one is HTTP, the protocol that web servers use to deliver content to browsers. Browser vendors and search engines have made a strong effort to encourage the use of the encrypted HTTPS version and penalize stragglers. They have made great inroads, but HTTP usage is still slightly dominant with 51.5 million discovered HTTP nodes versus 36.1 million HTTPS ones.
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is clear text by default but there’s an SSL-wrapped version called SMTPS. There are still many servers (5.8 million of 13.3 million) running vanilla SMTP over port 25, which isn’t encrypted by default. Of the 7.9 million servers using IMAP, an alternative for reading and sending email, 4 million did so in clear text.
There are other services like DNS, which was originally designed to support only clear text, but which vendors are now redeploying with encryption in mind. Uptake of these is still relatively small, but growing.
There are some well-established protocols that are both free and well-designed, foregrounding encryption. One of these is SSH, commonly used to automate server access. This can also solve the encryption problem for some other protocols like rsync. Rapid7 recommended rsync as a file transfer and synchronization protocol but only when used over an SSH session.
Be careful with SSH, though, as it’s still subject to human error. Key management is a perennial problem. Developers frequently expose their SSH keys by mistake in GitHub repositories, for example, enabling others to find and use them. Locking all those open doors is great, but you have to be sure you don’t leave the key sitting on your front doormat. | <urn:uuid:488a9cb3-2a62-4792-8d2b-260ae32162be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://xochi.info/insecure-protocols-still-litter-the-internet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950074 | 728 | 2.828125 | 3 |
MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. Two Russian citizens have been brought to criminal responsibility for mining cryptocurrencies through infected computers of state organizations, Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents Nikolay Murashov told a press conference on Monday.
"In Russia, there have been two cases recently when people were brought to criminal responsibility for getting access to computers [of state organizations] and using them to mine cryptocurrencies," he said.
One of them [detained citizens - TASS] is a resident of Kurgan, who used almost a whole botnet in various regions of the country. In the second case, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of using the site of JSC Rostovvodokanal for mining, he said.
According to the official, attackers infect web pages, and mine [crypto currency] at the moment the pages are viewed in the browser.
He noted that the cost of most virtual coins is very high, so there are a lot of people who want to make money in such an easy way.
"Up to 80% of the computer’s free power can be used to generate virtual coins, and a legitimate user may not even know about it," the official said.
He noted that the use of large companies’ servers for mining could result in a significant reduction in their performance and significant damage to business.
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There were dirty trays, and wine-coolers en permanence on the sideboard, huge dirty gilt cornices
, with dingy yellow satin hangings to the barred windows which looked into Cursitor Street-- vast and dirty gilt picture frames surrounding pieces sporting and sacred, all of which works were by the greatest masters--and fetched the greatest prices, too, in the bill transactions, in the course of which they were sold and bought over and over again.
The palazzo suddenly seemed so obtrusively old and dirty, the spots on the curtains, the cracks in the floors, the broken plaster on the cornices
became so disagreeably obvious, and the everlasting sameness of Golenishtchev, and the Italian professor and the German traveler became so wearisome, that they had to make some change.
The rooms upstairs had great high wooden chimney-pieces and large doors, with panelled walls and cornices
to the ceiling; which, although they were black with neglect and dust, were ornamented in various ways.
I wandered, on a moonlight night, through the grass-grown enclosure within: here I stumbled over a marble hearth, and there over a fallen fragment of cornice
Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where PILASTERS round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want Cornice
or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures grav'n, The Roof was fretted Gold.
Here, led by his own words to contemplate the future, he looked desolately round the cornice
of the hall, as if it were a shelf on which somebody might have left a suitable lodging for him.
Look in the cornice
over my head," said he, "and I think you will see one.
The walls on either side were of bronze from end to end, and the cornice
was of blue enamel.
Yes, I perceived that a corner of the curtain in your window had been looped up and fastened to the cornice
as I had suggested should be done; and it seemed to me that your dear face was glimmering at the window, and that you were looking at me from out of the darkness of your room, and that you were thinking of me.
No accident of a disastrous kind occurred, excepting the loss of a horse, which, in passing along the giddy edge of a precipice, called the Cornice
, a dangerous pass between Jackson's and Pierre's Hole, fell over the brink, and was dashed to pieces.
Then he removed a spark of cigar-ash from the sleeve of his coat; he fixed his eyes for a while on the cornice
of the room, and at last he inserted one of his white hands into the breast of his waistcoat.
The tails of two snakes were hanging between the cloth and the cornice
of the wall.
On the cornice
of the wardrobe, the hand of an amateur had painted this inscription: "Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
Upon the cornice
of the tower a tall staff was fixed.
He had insisted that the library curtains should draw backward and forward on a rod, so that they might be closed in the evening, instead of remaining nailed to a gilt cornice
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Publicly traded petroleum multinational Equinor is moving to significantly reduce natural gas flaring by mining cryptocurrency, according to screenshots from Equinor’s intranet received by Arcane Research Friday.
- A new strategic partnership will see the firm implement Denver, Colo.-based Crusoe Energy Systems’ digital flare mitigation technology.
- This converts waste natural gas that would be otherwise released into the atmosphere into electricity at the well site.
- The operation will harness outflow at Equinor’s operations on the Bakken oilfield in North Dakota.
- “Historically, industry’s options for reducing flaring have been limited to costly measures like new infrastructure development or shutting in production,” reads the memo shared internally at Equinor.
- Crusoe’s digital flare mitigation “offers a win-win alternative for producers and investors alike,” it continued.
- "Mining cryptocurrency requires a lot of electricity to power computers, while a valuable commodity is wasted, and carbon emissions are created when we flare," said Lionel Ribeiro, manager sustainability at Global Unconventionals at Equinor. "By connecting these inverse pains, we can satisfy both needs with no cost to market expense."
- In December 2019, the originally bootstrapped Crusoe announced $70 million in funding for expansion of its innovative flaring solutions.
- The round was led by Bain Capital and joined by Founders Fund, Winklevoss Capital and Polychain Capital.
- Before partnering with Equinor, Crusoe already operated flaring systems in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
- Equinor is a state-owned multinational based in Norway and ranked as the 11th largest oil and gas firm globally.
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She reported seeing police, ambulances, yellow tape, family members crying or angry, hearing sirens, a crowd of neighbors standing outside the yellow tape, and the paramedics bringing a body bag on a gurney out the house to the ambulance. How unfortunate that she had to be there! This feels a bit like the face of your mind is a movie screen – the therapist’s office the theater – and the memories pass by one by one, like the images on a screen, but very actively tracking what’s coming to your mind, but not controlling the flow – just letting the thoughts, images, emotions and body sensations come as they will. Of course, they’re all stimulated by the bilateral stimulation, and, as those thoughts come up, they’re actually being re-encoded.
While we were doing that, at one point, she said, “I’m almost ready to freak out.” So she trusts me enough to work with me and disclose her state of upset. And I said, “Okay, let’s breathe a bit.” And I synced with her breathing and breathed with her, and I said, “Pretend that the light bar is two blocks away from you, and let’s continue and see how that goes.” So that seemed to help.
So let me say here that, for the most part, her mind was going from one memory after another, related to the memory that she came up with to begin with – the traumatic memory. That’ what we like to see, but sometimes it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes, the mind can go blank, or we can find ourselves thinking about something that seems unrelated, or we can loop back to the same material we processed earlier, or many things can come at once. And when these things happen, some people worry that they aren’t doing it right. But all of those things happen for a reason and EMDR clinicians know what to do with all of that. So, if you ever do EMDR, don’t worry about it. Just report what you get and everything will be fine.
Okay, back to the girl. After about fifteen minutes of processing, her memory began to turn less fearful and more positive. I asked her if the image had changed any, and she said, “Yes, it’s further away.” “And on a scale from zero to ten, how upsetting is it?” She said, “Zero.” So that’s what desensitization looks like. The image – the memory of it – is no longer upsetting.
Now on to phase five – installation. The idea here is to strengthen the positive thought that has emerged. Her’s was “I am safe.” “And how true is it now that you feel safe?” And she said, “It’s a seven.” “So what are you thinking about that now?” She said, “Well, we’ve always had a burglar alarm, and we lock the doors every night, and my mom is always home, but before that never seemed to help. And now, it does.” “Where do you feel that sense of safety in your body?” “In my heart. And my stomach is relaxed.” And I said, “Okay, that’s great. Think about safe in your body and watch the lights.” So I left it on for two passes – I don’t mean passes; I mean sets – and nothing negative emerged.
So that’s installation – phase five. So we installed that positive view of self as safe. And then comes phase six, which is called body scan.
Now I said to her, “Start at the top of your head and scan down your body to see if you can find any stress anywhere.” She said, “Just a little in my stomach.” “Okay. Just focus on the feeling and watch the lights.” And after two sets, the stress was gone. I said, “How do you feel?” She said, “Good! That’s so cool!” | <urn:uuid:5b94e814-d326-494d-8716-f905eea0fe8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://liferesource.org/portfolio-items/the-therapeutic-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.973684 | 902 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Gastroesophageal reflux is a backflow (reflux or regurgitation) of food and stomach acid into the esophagus, which is the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach. When reflux irritates the lining of the esophagus and causes burning pain, difficulty eating, weight loss, or other problems, it is called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Most babies have reflux. Babies with reflux may spit up. And some healthy babies may spit up frequently.
Babies who have GERD may cry because of the burning pain. Sometimes GERD causes breathing problems, if the baby breathes stomach contents into the lungs.
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Is the genetically- modified athlete on the way?
Is the genetically-modified athlete on the way?
To become an Olympic champion athletes have always needed dedication and perseverance, as well as natural ability. Nowadays, our understanding of the connection between our genes and sporting performance is growing and this understanding may soon radically transform the way we select and train the athletes of the future.
Firstly, it is known that in many sports genes are as important as hard work. Any athlete with ‘right‘ genes has an advantage over people who don‘t have them, because they allow them to train longer and harder, to recover from exercise more quickly and to produce power more efficiently.
What is more, the importance of the genetic component in sporting ability has many implications for the future. | <urn:uuid:20e30c26-565b-475b-9c49-332ef87ab5f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mokslobaze.lt/is-the-genetically-modified-athlete-on-the-way.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00530-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972514 | 161 | 2.640625 | 3 |
According to the Israeli officers,the cat was aiding prisoners by moving light objects (i.e. letters,bread etc) between the cells of prisoners.
It turns out that the cat had been providing its services to prisoners for several months until it was exposed recently and so the prison administration decided to place the cat in solitary confinement – the same way they do to the prisoners.
There are dozens of cats living between the cells and rooms of the Palestinian prisoners in several Israeli prisons and private prisons, and apparently the cats are trying to help them.
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Future of the Linux KernelBy Linus Torvalds, Helsinki University
Summary by Gordon Galligher
There was so much interest in this talk that the conference management made the "Client Tricks" session switch rooms, because its room was much larger. Once we were all seated in our new room, Linus began with a thank-you to all of the people who have been working on the OS and making it successful. He then went into a brief history of Linux and assured everyone that, by 1998, no one will have to worry about "Bill" anymore.
In 1991, Linux actually started out as a terminal emulator (it is the Emacs of terminal emulators). He added some Virtual Memory, some context switching, and voilá, he had UNIX! Actually, in March of 1994, version 1.0 was released, but it lacked good networking, which is one of the reasons it took so long. By March of 1995 version 1.2 was released, and the major change was that the networking really worked by then. In June of 1996, version 2.0 was released; it included multiple architecture support (i386 and DEC Alpha), SMP support and faster performance.
Linus's view of the future of Linux can be boiled down to two words: "world domination." He had a picture of Pinky and the Brain as the background for this slide, and he mentioned that he really wanted to see UNIX on the desktop. Many vendors are pushing their products as "servers" and "giving in" to other products for control of the desktop. Linus truly wants Linux to be a "fun" system, with games and other applications that people need in their work. "Sysadmin tools are boring. No one buys a system for administration tools. They buy it for the games!"
In Progress. The works already in progress for Linux include
better Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) support on the Intel and
SPARC platforms. He mentioned that it required finer granularity
for the clocking and that the current system does not scale well on
SMP platforms. There are also works to improve the filesystem
performance, especially Network Filesystem (NFS) performance. It is
written as a user-level application, and that does tend to slow it
down as compared to other operating systems that have implemented
NFS partially in kernel space. There is also an effort to make
kernel threads more efficient via the
More Distant Future. In the more distant future, Linus plans to concentrate much more on performance issues of the kernel. Having sat through the SPARCLinux port discussion, I can see that this idea was probably helped along considerably by pushing from David Miller (the person who performed the main kernel port of Linux to the SPARC). One way to implement that is by having "0-copy devices" so that the kernel is not wasting time copying data back and forth from user to kernel space.
Clone: Kernel Threads. Linus spent a considerable amount of
his time discussing the
After a few questions regarding this novel approach, Linus capitulated and stated that perhaps sharing of file descriptors may not be a good idea (because someone else could close a descriptor and it ends up closing yours). However, having threads that share part of their information, such as the virtual memory space but not the descriptors, is a good thing and is something that cannot be done with the existing thread models.
Realtime Features. Linus mentioned that there are a couple of plans to give both "soft" and "hard" realtime support to the Linux kernel. The soft realtime consists of memory locking, signal extensions, and scheduling issues. This is the "easy" realtime to implement, and it is nearly done. The more difficult one is the hard realtime that implements guaranteed latencies among all the other aspects of soft realtime. A member of the audience mentioned that there is a patch available that purports to supply hard realtime to the Linux kernel from the University of Mexico Tech.
Existing/Future Ports. The list of stable and "integrated" ports of Linux include the Intel 80x86 platform, the DEC Alpha, and the Sun SPARC. There are a number of other "unintegrated" ports available for platforms such as the MIPS, the PowerPC, Motorola's 68k architecture, and the Acorn ARM. The unintegrated ports are working versions of Linux, but their changes have not made it into the main source tree that Linus maintains. He mentioned that they would be integrated within a few months. As a result of the DEC Alpha port, Linux is already a 64-bit clean operating system. He then asked the audience, "Would you trust Microsoft or SCO/HP with the P7? They are not even out of the gate for a 64-bit clean OS."
Compatibility Issues. Through the use of the "Wine" program, Linux can run a number of Microsoft Windows programs. Linus mentioned that Microsoft Word runs on Linux, and the only drawback is that it cannot print directly from the application. This should soon be fixed. Once Wine is in more widespread distribution, many of the Microsoft applications can run on Linux. This could give Linux something that has been lacking from UNIX systems from the beginning: desktop applications. There is also support for running OSF/1 applications on the DEC Alpha port of Linux, as well as the SunOS (and some Solaris) applications on the SPARCLinux port.
Copyright/Trademark Issues. A member of the audience asked about the recent trademark dispute over the name Linux. Linus mentioned that there was ongoing work to try to invalidate the trademark, which was registered in 1995 using a "first use date" of 1994-well after Linux was in widespread use. Linus further mentioned that if the person wanted to continue to claim ownership of the trademark, he would lose in court. Another audience member mentioned that interested people could check out the Web page at: https://www.linuxmall.com/announce.html.
Overall, this was a very well attended and interesting session. Linus used humor quite a bit in his presentation, and the number of people who clamored to attend was astounding. Linus is leaving Helsinki University and moving to Cupertino, CA; but he mentioned that other than being "off the air" for a month, his role of updating and managing the development of Linux should not be impacted.
Originally published in ;login: Vol. 22, No.2, April 1997.
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, the church’s governing body, has adopted hard-line policy positions ahead of the Pan-Orthodox Council to be held in Crete in June 2016 – stating, among other things, that besides the “Holy Orthodox Church there are no other churches, but only heresies and schisms, and to call these ‘churches’ is theologically, dogmatically and canonically completely wrong”.
The Pan-Orthodox Council will bring together all the universally-recognised autocephalous churches of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the first such gathering in more than 1000 years.
It has been in the planning since 1961 and will cover a range of issues, including the relations between the Orthodox Church and the rest of the Christian world.
Other issues to be covered include the Mission of the Orthodox Church in the Contemporary World; The Orthodox Diaspora; Autonomy and its Manner of Proclamation; The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments; the Significance of Fasting and its Application Today.
Contentious issues, such as agreement on a church calendar common to all Orthodox churches, have been removed from the agenda.
Crete was chosen as the venue for the Pan-Orthodox Council over the originally-planned venue of Istanbul, seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, because the Russian Orthodox Church was extremely reluctant to go to the Turkish city because of the tensions between Moscow and Ankara over the 2015 downing of a Russian military aircraft by Turkey near the border with Syria.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod announced on April 21 its positions, amending an earlier draft document.
Chaired by Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit and attended by all but four metropolitans, the meeting considered letters from Lovech Metropolitan Gavriil, priests in his diocese, and a letter from Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai – backed up by a petition signed by 240 priests in his diocese – on the issue of the attitude of the Orthodox Church to the rest of Christendom.
On a point about the “unity of all”, the church said, it always had been understood that those who had fallen into heresy or schism had to first return to the Orthodox faith and prove their obedience to the Holy Church “and then, through repentance, they may be received into the Church”.
On the issue of “bilateral theological dialogues aiming to seek lost Christian unity, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church said that it should be noted that the “Holy Orthodox Church, which is the one and only, never lost unity in the faith and fellowship of the Holy Spirit among Christians and as it will last until the end of the world, the Lord has said that ‘the gates of hell will not prevail against it’ this fellowship will endure forever”.
The Holy Synod went on to state its view that “besides the Holy Orthodox Church there are no other churches, but only heresies and schisms, and to call these ‘churches’ is theologically, dogmatically and canonically completely wrong”.
Among other points, the document approved by the Holy Synod went on to say that “thank God” the Bulgarian Orthodox Church had left the World Council of Churches in 1998.
This was a reference to the fact that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which joined the WCC in 1961 and was an active participant – with Dr Todor Sabev as a WCC vice-chairman – quit in 1998 as an anti-ecumenical stance came to dominate the Bulgarian church. In any case, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s participation in the WCC had been less inspired by an ecumenical spirit but, in the decades of communism, as a means to help push Soviet influence over the body – as Bulgarian historian Momchil Metodiev explained in his book Between Faith and Compromise (the Dossier Commission identified Sabev, who died in 2008, as having been secret service State Security agent Damyanov).
That historical background aside, the April 2016 position of the church’s Holy Synod said that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church could not be a member of an organisation which holds a view of “one of many or as a branch of the One church, which seeks a way and struggles for its restoration through this World Council of Churches”.
The Synod quoted the Creed, saying that there was one God and one Church.
The April 2016 position of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is hardly the first time that a hard-line position has been heard from some of its leaders, perhaps most notably of all, Plovdiv Metropolitan Nikolai.
In 2007, in a television interview not long after becoming Plovdiv Metropolitan, Nikolai was asked his opinion about the Pope.
“If he professes a different belief than the Orthodox, then the church canons make him a heretic,” Nikolai replied.
However, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s relations with the Roman Catholic Church are not without some co-operation, such as commemorations on May 24 of their shared saints Cyril and Methodius, the fact that the late Pope John Paul II lent the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the use of a church in Rome, and in previous years, on the occasion of the Western and Eastern Christian churches’ Easter falling on the same date, some local joint liturgical celebrations by Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy.
Source: Written by The Sofia Globe staff on April 22, 2016 in Bulgaria
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The group of about ten is the first one scheduled to arrive in Italy with the Community of Sant’Egidio, following an agreement reached between the Holy See and the Italian and Cypriot Authorities during the Pope’s recent Apostolic Journey to Cyprus and Greece.
The refugees will be supported directly by the Holy Father, while Sant’Egidio will take care of their integration in Italy through a one-year migrant program, said the Holy See press office director, Matteo Bruni, in a statement.
‘You saved us’
Pope Francis welcomed the refugees in the Throne Room, and listened to their stories and those of their journeys from Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Somalia, and Syria.Some of them are doctors and computer technicians.
“You saved us!” a Congolese boy told the Pope. The Holy Father warmly welcomed the refugees addressing them individually and thanking them for their visit.
Wishing him “long life and good health” on his birthday, the refugees greeted the Pope with a picture by an Afghan refugee depicting migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
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FREEDIVING SAFETY PROGRAM
Everyone says, “I’m fine, I don’t push myself, I know my limits, I’ve never had a problem.” That does not mean you are immune to the risks.
Every year by my estimation there are 50-75 fatalities per year freediving in the USA, most occur while spearfishing while the rest occur training in pools. 99% of these fatalities would be easily avoided by following these simple and easy to implement freediving safety procedures. My goal for this course is to make you a safer diver by understanding freediving safety procedures.
COURSE CONTENT LISTED BELOW
Ted Harty begin his professional underwater career as a Scuba Instructor for PADI, NAUI, and SSI in 2005. In 2008 he took his first freediving class with Performance Freediving International. After that course on his days off he didn’t want to go scuba diving he wanted to go freediving and realized his passion was freediving. In 2009 Ted took PFI’s first official Instructor program and immediately started working for PFI helping Kirk Krack and Mandy Rae-Kruckshank teach courses all across the USA.
Ted went to his first freediving competition in 2009 as an overweight out of shape scuba instructor and progressed from 80-90ft freediver to 177ft in 3 weeks. After the experience, he wondered what he could do if he actually started training. Since that time he broke a USA Freediving record in 2011, won 3 freediving competitions, was selected to be the co-captain of the USA Freediving team in 2012, and his deepest dive is 279ft.
Ted has appeared on the Discovery channel training Tim Kennedy for his show Hard to Kill. Ted has appeared on the following podcasts, Ben Greenfield, Noob Spearo, and The Spear. Ted has appeared in the books Deep Freediving, What The Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, and One Breath. Ted has been a featured speaker for the past 6 years at the Blue Wild Expo the largest freediving and spearfishing show in the USA. Lastly, Ted has written a freediving column in every issue of Spearing Magazine since 2013.
Ted started Immersion Freediving in 2010 with the goal of providing the most comprehensive freediving course on the market in the USA.
Ted currently teaches his own Freediving classes in Fort Lauderdale through his own company, www.ImmersionFreediving.com
Founder of Special Forces Training Academy
With over 45 years of taking technical courses in military tactics, firefighting, paramedical life support, technical rescue, basic & advanced scuba, commercial deep-sea diving, exercise physiology, and lots of anatomy & physiology, I believe Ted Harty is one of the best instructors I’ve ever had.
Associate Editor of Deeper Blue
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February 17, 2016
New efforts aim to head off teacher biases by running preservice students through simulations or embedding them in urban neighborhoods.
African-American men like Chrissell Rhone make up just 2 percent of U.S. teachers and, for many of them, school can be a lonely place.
A state law aimed at encouraging—or prodding—small, rural districts to merge has hit some speed bumps on the road to implementation.
A growing share of the U.S. labor force works from home, and a handful of tech-savvy school districts in Alabama, Minnesota, and New Jersey have taken note.
Plans to streamline the application process for district and charter schools face parent resistance in some cities.
News in Brief
News in Brief
Teachers' common practice of sharing examples of stellar work can turn off struggling learners, says a study of online students.
To build and deepen empathy, a group of education organizations is calling on K-12 leaders to "shadow" a student.
An international study finds that the U.S. has fewer low-performers in science on the PISA but not so for math or reading.
Early education, scaling up promising district work, and socioeconomic integration are among the fiscal 2017 proposal's highlights. But it faces a skeptical, GOP-controlled Congress.
At a House oversight committee, members of Congress say they'll be watching closely as the states and U.S. Department of Education move forward on the Every Student Succeeds Act.
A new survey report finds that the Common Core State Standards have fostered instructional changes in U.S. classrooms, but offers less clarity on specific strategies that boost student achievement.
Best of the Blogs
State lawmakers must scramble to come up with a formula that satisfies that the court finds equitable or risk not having schools open for the 2016-17 school year.
Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.
PAGE 20 - Commentary
The push for greater accountability in teacher preparation risks undermining equity, write two Michigan State University professors.
Self-care is an essential component of good teaching, not a mark of selfishness, writes educator Christopher Doyle.
PAGE 21 - Commentary
Positive and diverse representations of nonwhite characters in children’s books are essential for all kids, writes Alvin Irby.
PAGE 28 - Commentary
A Flint, Mich., teacher weighs in on how the city's water crisis has damaged more than students' health.
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Selamat Datang di UNS GreenCampus
Launched in 2010 by the University of Indonesia, the UI Green Metric is an annual international ranking of universities on the basis of green and sustainable development. Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) is currently sitting amongst the top 10 of the UI Green Metric table 2020. The university is continuously providing efforts and initiatives to ensure the integration of sustainable development goals into the university’s vision and missions, by linking education and research with sustainable operational management, activities, green infrastructure, as well as research and innovations. The UNS Green Campus is a platform for all faculty members, the Rector, lecturers, staffs, and students to work collaboratively in providing various green-related programmes, activities, and infrastructure, all of which promote the achievement of Sustainable Development in our community. | <urn:uuid:e3e1af50-33ea-46f5-80fb-b3d1d7a6881f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greencampus.uns.ac.id/elementor-3419/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.922223 | 173 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Epilepsy, a brain disorder causing recurrent seizures, affects 2.3 million U.S. adults and 467,711 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Epileptics can support their drug regimen’s effectiveness by watching what they eat. A high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carb ketogenic diet or less-restrictive modified Atkins diet help control or reduce seizure frequency.
Strict compliance with the drug regimen your doctor prescribes is the best seizure prevention. These common anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) act as anticonvulsants.
Carbamazepine (Tegretol, Equetro, Carbatrol) is a single and add-on drug for many epilepsy syndrome types.
Clonazepam (Klonopin) controls myoclonic and atonic seizures other drugs can’t. It also treats Lennox-Gastaut epilepsy syndrome.
Ethosuximide (Zarontin) manages petit mal seizures if you haven’t experienced other types.
Gabapentin (Neurontin) is an add-on drug for complex and generalized partial seizures.
Lamotrigine (Lamictal) is a single and add-on partial-seizure drug. It’s also an add-on treatment for generalized seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and grand mal seizures.
Levetiracetam (Keppra) comes in oral and intravenous forms as add-on therapy for many seizure types.
Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal) is a single and add-on partial-seizure medication.
Phenobarbital (Luminal) and primidone (Mysoline) barbiturates prevent grand mal and partial seizures.
Phenytoin (Dilantin) treats grand mal and partial seizures, status epilepticus and high seizure-risk head injuries.
Pregabalin (Lyrica) and zonisamide (Zonegran) are add-on partial-seizure medications.
Tiagabine (Gabitril) is similar to phenytoin and carbamazepine.
Topiramate (Topamax) is a single and add-on drug for grand mal and partial-onset seizures plus seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Valproate (Depakene, valproic acid) and delayed-release divalproex sodium (Depakote) treat generalized seizures and prevent nearly all other major seizures.
Diet History and Studies
Ancient Greeks noticed how fasting controlled seizures. The ketogenic diet became popular with children in the 1920s. By 1930, study participants included teenagers and adults. The Mayo Clinic reported 56 percent of older patients improved on the diet and 12 percent stop experiencing seizures. Doctors recommended this diet less when anticonvulsant drugs become routine treatments in the 1950s. But for the 20 to 30 percent of people who can’t control seizures adequately with prescription drugs today, the specially formulated ketogenic diet has resurfaced as an important epilepsy management tool.
A new McGill University and University of Zurich study discovered an unexpected link between metabolism in brain cells and their ability to transmit signals. Metabolism controls the processes that inhibit brain activity, including those involved in epileptic convulsions. Other recent studies show a ketogenic diet reduces seizures by at least 90 percent in about one-third of patients. Another third experience a 50- to 90-percent improvement.
Around 2003, parents and patients discovered the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet’s induction phase controlled seizures. Johns Hopkins Hospital’s ketogenic diet team modified the Atkins diet by removing its weight-loss goal, indefinitely extending its induction phase and encouraging fat consumption. Studies show the modified Atkins diet reduces seizure frequency by over 90 percent in 27 percent of patients and by over 50 percent in 43 percent of epileptics.
The Ketogenic Diet
The calorie-limited ketogenic diet combines very high-fat (90-percent), adequate-protein (just enough for body maintenance and growth) and very low-carbohydrate amounts so your body will burn fats instead of carbohydrates. Your liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketones pass into your brain, replacing glucose as your energy source. An elevated ketone level in your blood, known as ketosis, reduces epileptic seizure frequency.
A nutritionist may begin your professionally monitored ketogenic diet with a fast or hospitalization. The typical starting ratio of fat grams to protein (based on your age) plus carb grams is 4-to-1. For at least 90 percent of your calories to come from fat, increase your consumption of high-fat foods such as nuts, cream and butter. Exclude high-carbohydrate foods like bread, grains, pasta, sugar and starchy fruits and vegetables.Ban packaged low-carb foods (shakes, bars, etc.) for at least the first month. This strict diet requires weighing, measuring and recording foods and beverages. Follow this diet carefully; any slight deviation can provoke a seizure.
The following is a typical day’s menu. In recent years, some variations substitute coconut oil or medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil for some of the heavy cream and butter.
Breakfast. Make an omelet with heavy cream, butter and bacon. Drink cocoa with cream.
Lunch. Serve tuna salad made with mayo and heavy cream on lettuce.
Dinner. Eat a salad (lettuce, celery and cucumbers) with mayonnaise, fatty steak, broccoli or cauliflower with cheese and artificially sweetened sundae with whipped cream.
Snacks. Make keto custard with egg and heavy cream. Create keto yogurt with sour cream, heavy cream and a little fruit. You can also enjoy peanut butter balls by mixing peanut butter with butter.
Modified Atkins Diet
This less-restrictive alternative doesn’t begin with fasting or a hospital stay. You need less dietitian support and don’t have to measure your intake. The modified Atkins diet’s initial adult carbohydrate limit is 20 grams per day. After a month, slowly increase it to 30.
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