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Redwood City in San Mateo County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
The Path of History
This was one of two blocks of land in the town site survey donated for public use by Mezes. The other piece of land at Warren and Standish streets, now called Mezes Park, is still in use as Mezes had originally intended. These blocks are believed to be the first property in California donated for public use and recreation.
Beginning with the construction of the Hall of Justice and Records in 1958, the entire block has been developed in the years following as part of the San Mateo County Government Center administrative and court complex.
Erected by Redwood Historic Resources Advisory Committee.
Location. 37° 29.245′ N, 122° 13.805′ W. Marker is in Redwood City, California, in San Mateo County. Marker is at the intersection of Hamilton Street and Marshall Street on Hamilton Street. Click for map. Marker is at or near
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. A different marker also named California Square (within shouting distance of this marker); "Old" San Mateo County Courthouse (within shouting distance of this marker); Lathrop House (within shouting distance of this marker); Lathrop-Connor-Mansfield House (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Old San Mateo County Courthouse (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); New Sequoia/Fox Theatre (about 400 feet away); Fox Theater (about 400 feet away); Former Site of Sequoia High School (about 500 feet away). Click for a list of all markers in Redwood City.
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There has been a long-standing interest in the assessment of the neurobehavioral integrity of the newborn infant. The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS) was developed as an assessment for the at-risk infant. These are infants who are at increased risk for poor developmental outcome because of insults during prenatal development, such as substance exposure or prematurity or factors such as poverty, poor nutrition or lack of prenatal care that can have adverse effects on the intrauterine environment and affect the developing fetus. The NNNS assesses the full range of infant neurobehavioral performance including neurological integrity, behavioral functioning, and signs of stress/abstinence. The NNNS is a noninvasive neonatal assessment tool with demonstrated validity as a predictor, not only of medical outcomes such as cerebral palsy diagnosis, neurological abnormalities, and diseases with risks to the brain, but also of developmental outcomes such as mental and motor functioning, behavior problems, school readiness, and IQ. The NNNS can identify infants at high risk for abnormal developmental outcome and is an important clinical tool that enables medical researchers and health practitioners to identify these infants and develop intervention programs to optimize the development of these infants as early as possible. The video shows the NNNS procedures, shows examples of normal and abnormal performance and the various clinical populations in which the exam can be used.
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In vivo Macrophage Imaging Using MR Targeted Contrast Agent for Longitudinal Evaluation of Septic Arthritis
Institutions: University Hospital of Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg, University Hospital of Strasbourg.
Macrophages are key-cells in the initiation, the development and the regulation of the inflammatory response to bacterial infection. Macrophages are intensively and increasingly recruited in septic joints from the early phases of infection and the infiltration is supposed to regress once efficient removal of the pathogens is obtained. The ability to identify in vivo
macrophage activity in an infected joint can therefore provide two main applications: early detection of acute synovitis and monitoring of therapy.
noninvasive detection of macrophages can be performed with magnetic resonance imaging using iron nanoparticles such as ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO). After intravascular or intraarticular administration, USPIO are specifically phagocytized by activated macrophages, and, due to their magnetic properties, induce signal changes in tissues presenting macrophage infiltration. A quantitative evaluation of the infiltrate is feasible, as the area with signal loss (number of dark pixels) observed on gradient echo MR images after particles injection is correlated with the amount of iron within the tissue and therefore reflects the number of USPIO-loaded cells.
We present here a protocol to perform macrophage imaging using USPIO-enhanced MR imaging in an animal model of septic arthritis, allowing an initial and longitudinal in vivo
noninvasive evaluation of macrophages infiltration and an assessment of therapy action.
Medicine, Issue 80, Biomedical Engineering, Anatomy, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Diagnostic Imaging, Musculoskeletal System, Bacterial Infections and Mycoses, Macrophage, MR imaging, infection, arthritis, USPIO, imaging, clinical techniques
Determination of Tolerable Fatty Acids and Cholera Toxin Concentrations Using Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells and BALB/c Mouse Macrophages
Institutions: Kingsborough Community College, University of Texas at Austin, Kean University.
The positive role of fatty acids in the prevention and alleviation of non-human and human diseases have been and continue to be extensively documented. These roles include influences on infectious and non-infectious diseases including prevention of inflammation as well as mucosal immunity to infectious diseases. Cholera is an acute intestinal illness caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae
. It occurs in developing nations and if left untreated, can result in death. While vaccines for cholera exist, they are not always effective and other preventative methods are needed. We set out to determine tolerable concentrations of three fatty acids (oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids) and cholera toxin using mouse BALB/C macrophages and human intestinal epithelial cells, respectively. We solubilized the above fatty acids and used cell proliferation assays to determine the concentration ranges and specific concentrations of the fatty acids that are not detrimental to human intestinal epithelial cell viability. We solubilized cholera toxin and used it in an assay to determine the concentration ranges and specific concentrations of cholera toxin that do not statistically decrease cell viability in BALB/C macrophages.
We found the optimum fatty acid concentrations to be between 1-5 ng/μl, and that for cholera toxin to be < 30 ng per treatment. This data may aid future studies that aim to find a protective mucosal role for fatty acids in prevention or alleviation of cholera infections.
Infection, Issue 75, Medicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bacterial Infections and Mycoses, Mucosal immunity, oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, cholera toxin, cholera, fatty acids, tissue culture, MTT assay, mouse, animal model
Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents
Institutions: Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Exposure to chronic stress is a reliable predictor of depressive disorders, and social stress is a common ethologically relevant stressor in both animals and humans. However, many animal models of depression were developed in males and are not applicable or effective in studies of postpartum females. Recent studies have reported significant effects of chronic social stress during lactation, an ethologically relevant and effective stressor, on maternal behavior, growth, and behavioral neuroendocrinology. This manuscript will describe this chronic social stress paradigm using repeated exposure of a lactating dam to a novel male intruder, and the assessment of the behavioral, physiological, and neuroendocrine effects of this model. Chronic social stress (CSS) is a valuable model for studying the effects of stress on the behavior and physiology of the dam as well as her offspring and future generations. The exposure of pups to CSS can also be used as an early life stress that has long term effects on behavior, physiology, and neuroendocrinology.
Behavior, Issue 76, Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Physiology, Anatomy, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Neurobehavioral Manifestations, Mental Health, Mood Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, behavioral sciences, Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms, Mental Disorders, Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Postpartum, Maternal Behavior, Nursing, Growth, Transgenerational, animal model
Inducing Plasticity of Astrocytic Receptors by Manipulation of Neuronal Firing Rates
Institutions: University of California Riverside, University of California Riverside, University of California Riverside.
Close to two decades of research has established that astrocytes in situ
and in vivo
express numerous G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that can be stimulated by neuronally-released transmitter. However, the ability of astrocytic receptors to exhibit plasticity in response to changes in neuronal activity has received little attention. Here we describe a model system that can be used to globally scale up or down astrocytic group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) in acute brain slices. Included are methods on how to prepare parasagittal hippocampal slices, construct chambers suitable for long-term slice incubation, bidirectionally manipulate neuronal action potential frequency, load astrocytes and astrocyte processes with fluorescent Ca2+
indicator, and measure changes in astrocytic Gq GPCR activity by recording spontaneous and evoked astrocyte Ca2+
events using confocal microscopy. In essence, a “calcium roadmap” is provided for how to measure plasticity of astrocytic Gq GPCRs. Applications of the technique for study of astrocytes are discussed. Having an understanding of how astrocytic receptor signaling is affected by changes in neuronal activity has important implications for both normal synaptic function as well as processes underlying neurological disorders and neurodegenerative disease.
Neuroscience, Issue 85, astrocyte, plasticity, mGluRs, neuronal Firing, electrophysiology, Gq GPCRs, Bolus-loading, calcium, microdomains, acute slices, Hippocampus, mouse
Determination of the Transport Rate of Xenobiotics and Nanomaterials Across the Placenta using the ex vivo Human Placental Perfusion Model
Institutions: University Hospital Zurich, EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, University of Bern.
Decades ago the human placenta was thought to be an impenetrable barrier between mother and unborn child. However, the discovery of thalidomide-induced birth defects and many later studies afterwards proved the opposite. Today several harmful xenobiotics like nicotine, heroin, methadone or drugs as well as environmental pollutants were described to overcome this barrier. With the growing use of nanotechnology, the placenta is likely to come into contact with novel nanoparticles either accidentally through exposure or intentionally in the case of potential nanomedical applications. Data from animal experiments cannot be extrapolated to humans because the placenta is the most species-specific mammalian organ 1
. Therefore, the ex vivo
dual recirculating human placental perfusion, developed by Panigel et al.
in 1967 2
and continuously modified by Schneider et al.
in 1972 3
, can serve as an excellent model to study the transfer of xenobiotics or particles.
Here, we focus on the ex vivo
dual recirculating human placental perfusion protocol and its further development to acquire reproducible results.
The placentae were obtained after informed consent of the mothers from uncomplicated term pregnancies undergoing caesarean delivery. The fetal and maternal vessels of an intact cotyledon were cannulated and perfused at least for five hours. As a model particle fluorescently labelled polystyrene particles with sizes of 80 and 500 nm in diameter were added to the maternal circuit. The 80 nm particles were able to cross the placental barrier and provide a perfect example for a substance which is transferred across the placenta to the fetus while the 500 nm particles were retained in the placental tissue or maternal circuit. The ex vivo
human placental perfusion model is one of few models providing reliable information about the transport behavior of xenobiotics at an important tissue barrier which delivers predictive and clinical relevant data.
Biomedical Engineering, Issue 76, Medicine, Bioengineering, Anatomy, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Pharmacology, Obstetrics, Nanotechnology, Placenta, Pharmacokinetics, Nanomedicine, humans, ex vivo perfusion, perfusion, biological barrier, xenobiotics, nanomaterials, clinical model
Modeling Neural Immune Signaling of Episodic and Chronic Migraine Using Spreading Depression In Vitro
Institutions: The University of Chicago Medical Center, The University of Chicago Medical Center.
Migraine and its transformation to chronic migraine are healthcare burdens in need of improved treatment options. We seek to define how neural immune signaling modulates the susceptibility to migraine, modeled in vitro
using spreading depression (SD), as a means to develop novel therapeutic targets for episodic and chronic migraine. SD is the likely cause of migraine aura and migraine pain. It is a paroxysmal loss of neuronal function triggered by initially increased neuronal activity, which slowly propagates within susceptible brain regions. Normal brain function is exquisitely sensitive to, and relies on, coincident low-level immune signaling. Thus, neural immune signaling likely affects electrical activity of SD, and therefore migraine. Pain perception studies of SD in whole animals are fraught with difficulties, but whole animals are well suited to examine systems biology aspects of migraine since SD activates trigeminal nociceptive pathways. However, whole animal studies alone cannot be used to decipher the cellular and neural circuit mechanisms of SD. Instead, in vitro
preparations where environmental conditions can be controlled are necessary. Here, it is important to recognize limitations of acute slices and distinct advantages of hippocampal slice cultures. Acute brain slices cannot reveal subtle changes in immune signaling since preparing the slices alone triggers: pro-inflammatory changes that last days, epileptiform behavior due to high levels of oxygen tension needed to vitalize the slices, and irreversible cell injury at anoxic slice centers.
In contrast, we examine immune signaling in mature hippocampal slice cultures since the cultures closely parallel their in vivo
counterpart with mature trisynaptic function; show quiescent astrocytes, microglia, and cytokine levels; and SD is easily induced in an unanesthetized preparation. Furthermore, the slices are long-lived and SD can be induced on consecutive days without injury, making this preparation the sole means to-date capable of modeling the neuroimmune consequences of chronic SD, and thus perhaps chronic migraine. We use electrophysiological techniques and non-invasive imaging to measure
neuronal cell and circuit functions coincident with SD. Neural immune gene expression variables are measured with qPCR screening, qPCR arrays, and, importantly, use of cDNA preamplification for detection of ultra-low level targets such as interferon-gamma using whole, regional, or specific cell enhanced (via laser dissection microscopy) sampling. Cytokine cascade signaling is further assessed with multiplexed phosphoprotein related targets with gene expression and phosphoprotein changes confirmed via cell-specific immunostaining. Pharmacological and siRNA strategies are used to mimic
SD immune signaling.
Neuroscience, Issue 52, innate immunity, hormesis, microglia, T-cells, hippocampus, slice culture, gene expression, laser dissection microscopy, real-time qPCR, interferon-gamma
Assessing the Development of Murine Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Peyer's Patches Using Adoptive Transfer of Hematopoietic Progenitors
Institutions: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
This protocol details a method to analyze the ability of purified hematopoietic progenitors to generate plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) in intestinal Peyer's patch (PP). Common dendritic cell progenitors (CDPs, lin-
) were purified from the bone marrow of C57BL6 mice by FACS and transferred to recipient mice that lack a significant pDC population in PP; in this case, Ifnar-/-
mice were used as the transfer recipients. In some mice, overexpression of the dendritic cell growth factor Flt3 ligand (Flt3L) was enforced prior to adoptive transfer of CDPs, using hydrodynamic gene transfer (HGT) of Flt3L-encoding plasmid. Flt3L overexpression expands DC populations originating from transferred (or endogenous) hematopoietic progenitors. At 7-10 days after progenitor transfer, pDCs that arise from the adoptively transferred progenitors were distinguished from recipient cells on the basis of CD45 marker expression, with pDCs from transferred CDPs being CD45.1+
and recipients being CD45.2+
. The ability of transferred CDPs to contribute to the pDC population in PP and to respond to Flt3L was evaluated by flow cytometry of PP single cell suspensions from recipient mice. This method may be used to test whether other progenitor populations are capable of generating PP pDCs. In addition, this approach could be used to examine the role of factors that are predicted to affect pDC development in PP, by transferring progenitor subsets with an appropriate knockdown, knockout or overexpression of the putative developmental factor and/or by manipulating circulating cytokines via HGT. This method may also allow analysis of how PP pDCs affect the frequency or function of other immune subsets in PPs. A unique feature of this method is the use of Ifnar-/-
mice, which show severely depleted PP pDCs relative to wild type animals, thus allowing reconstitution of PP pDCs in the absence of confounding effects from lethal irradiation.
Immunology, Issue 85, hematopoiesis, dendritic cells, Peyer's patch, cytokines, adoptive transfer
Inhibitory Synapse Formation in a Co-culture Model Incorporating GABAergic Medium Spiny Neurons and HEK293 Cells Stably Expressing GABAA Receptors
Institutions: University College London.
Inhibitory neurons act in the central nervous system to regulate the dynamics and spatio-temporal co-ordination of neuronal networks. GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) is the predominant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. It is released from the presynaptic terminals of inhibitory neurons within highly specialized intercellular junctions known as synapses, where it binds to GABAA
Rs) present at the plasma membrane of the synapse-receiving, postsynaptic neurons. Activation of these GABA-gated ion channels leads to influx of chloride resulting in postsynaptic potential changes that decrease the probability that these neurons will generate action potentials.
During development, diverse types of inhibitory neurons with distinct morphological, electrophysiological and neurochemical characteristics have the ability to recognize their target neurons and form synapses which incorporate specific GABAA
Rs subtypes. This principle of selective innervation of neuronal targets raises the question as to how the appropriate synaptic partners identify each other.
To elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms, a novel in vitro
co-culture model system was established, in which medium spiny GABAergic neurons, a highly homogenous population of neurons isolated from the embryonic striatum, were cultured with stably transfected HEK293 cell lines that express different GABAA
R subtypes. Synapses form rapidly, efficiently and selectively in this system, and are easily accessible for quantification. Our results indicate that various GABAA
R subtypes differ in their ability to promote synapse formation, suggesting that this reduced in vitro
model system can be used to reproduce, at least in part, the in vivo
conditions required for the recognition of the appropriate synaptic partners and formation of specific synapses. Here the protocols for culturing the medium spiny neurons and generating HEK293 cells lines expressing GABAA
Rs are first described, followed by detailed instructions on how to combine these two cell types in co-culture and analyze the formation of synaptic contacts.
Neuroscience, Issue 93, Developmental neuroscience, synaptogenesis, synaptic inhibition, co-culture, stable cell lines, GABAergic, medium spiny neurons, HEK 293 cell line
High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities
Institutions: Colorado State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Colorado.
Microbes in soils and other environments produce extracellular enzymes to depolymerize and hydrolyze organic macromolecules so that they can be assimilated for energy and nutrients. Measuring soil microbial enzyme activity is crucial in understanding soil ecosystem functional dynamics. The general concept of the fluorescence enzyme assay is that synthetic C-, N-, or P-rich substrates bound with a fluorescent dye are added to soil samples. When intact, the labeled substrates do not fluoresce. Enzyme activity is measured as the increase in fluorescence as the fluorescent dyes are cleaved from their substrates, which allows them to fluoresce. Enzyme measurements can be expressed in units of molarity or activity. To perform this assay, soil slurries are prepared by combining soil with a pH buffer. The pH buffer (typically a 50 mM sodium acetate or 50 mM Tris buffer), is chosen for the buffer's particular acid dissociation constant (pKa) to best match the soil sample pH. The soil slurries are inoculated with a nonlimiting amount of fluorescently labeled (i.e.
C-, N-, or P-rich) substrate. Using soil slurries in the assay serves to minimize limitations on enzyme and substrate diffusion. Therefore, this assay controls for differences in substrate limitation, diffusion rates, and soil pH conditions; thus detecting potential enzyme activity rates as a function of the difference in enzyme concentrations (per sample).
Fluorescence enzyme assays are typically more sensitive than spectrophotometric (i.e.
colorimetric) assays, but can suffer from interference caused by impurities and the instability of many fluorescent compounds when exposed to light; so caution is required when handling fluorescent substrates. Likewise, this method only assesses potential enzyme activities under laboratory conditions when substrates are not limiting. Caution should be used when interpreting the data representing cross-site comparisons with differing temperatures or soil types, as in situ
soil type and temperature can influence enzyme kinetics.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 81, Ecological and Environmental Phenomena, Environment, Biochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology, Ecology, Eukaryota, Archaea, Bacteria, Soil extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs), fluorometric enzyme assays, substrate degradation, 4-methylumbelliferone (MUB), 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (MUC), enzyme temperature kinetics, soil
Real-time Imaging of Myeloid Cells Dynamics in ApcMin/+ Intestinal Tumors by Spinning Disk Confocal Microscopy
Institutions: INSERM U661, Functional Genomic Institute, University of California.
Myeloid cells are the most abundant immune cells within tumors and have been shown to promote tumor progression. Modern intravital imaging techniques enable the observation of live cellular behavior inside the organ but can be challenging in some types of cancer due to organ and tumor accessibility such as intestine. Direct observation of intestinal tumors has not been previously reported. A surgical procedure described here allows direct observation of myeloid cell dynamics within the intestinal tumors in live mice by using transgenic fluorescent reporter mice and injectable tracers or antibodies. For this purpose, a four-color, multi-region, micro-lensed spinning disk confocal microscope that allows long-term continuous imaging with rapid image acquisition has been used. ApcMin/+
mice that develop multiple adenomas in the small intestine are crossed with c-fms-EGFP mice to visualize myeloid cells and with ACTB-ECFP mice to visualize intestinal epithelial cells of the crypts. Procedures for labeling different tumor components, such as blood vessels and neutrophils, and the procedure for positioning the tumor for imaging through the serosal surface are also described. Time-lapse movies compiled from several hours of imaging allow the analysis of myeloid cell behavior in situ
in the intestinal microenvironment.
Cancer Biology, Issue 92, intravital imaging, spinning disk confocal, ApcMin/+ mice, colorectal cancer, tumor, myeloid cells
Preterm EEG: A Multimodal Neurophysiological Protocol
Institutions: University of Helsinki , University of Helsinki , University of Helsinki , University of Helsinki .
Since its introduction in early 1950s, electroencephalography (EEG) has been widely used in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) for assessment and monitoring of brain function in preterm and term babies. Most common indications are the diagnosis of epileptic seizures, assessment of brain maturity, and recovery from hypoxic-ischemic events. EEG recording techniques and the understanding of neonatal EEG signals have dramatically improved, but these advances have been slow to penetrate through the clinical traditions. The aim of this presentation is to bring theory and practice of advanced EEG recording available for neonatal units.
In the theoretical part, we will present animations to illustrate how a preterm brain gives rise to spontaneous and evoked EEG activities, both of which are unique to this developmental phase, as well as crucial for a proper brain maturation. Recent animal work has shown that the structural brain development is clearly reflected in early EEG activity. Most important structures in this regard are the growing long range connections and the transient cortical structure, subplate. Sensory stimuli in a preterm baby will generate responses that are seen at a single trial level, and they have underpinnings in the subplate-cortex interaction. This brings neonatal EEG readily into a multimodal study, where EEG is not only recording cortical function, but it also tests subplate function via different sensory modalities. Finally, introduction of clinically suitable dense array EEG caps, as well as amplifiers capable of recording low frequencies, have disclosed multitude of brain activities that have as yet been overlooked.
In the practical part of this video, we show how a multimodal, dense array EEG study is performed in neonatal intensive care unit from a preterm baby in the incubator. The video demonstrates preparation of the baby and incubator, application of the EEG cap, and performance of the sensory stimulations.
Neuroscience, Issue 60, neurophysiology, preterm baby, neonatal, EEG, evoked response, high density EEG, FbEEG, sensory evoked response, neonatal intensive care unit
Accurate and Simple Measurement of the Pro-inflammatory Cytokine IL-1β using a Whole Blood Stimulation Assay
Institutions: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Inflammatory processes resulting from the secretion of soluble mediators by immune cells, lead to various manifestations in skin, joints and other tissues as well as altered cytokine homeostasis. The innate immune system plays a crucial role in recognizing pathogens and other endogenous danger stimuli. One of the major cytokines released by innate immune cells is Interleukin (IL)-1. Therefore, we utilize a whole blood stimulation assay in order to measure the secretion of inflammatory cytokines and specifically of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1β 1, 2, 3
Patients with genetic dysfunctions of the innate immune system causing autoinflammatory syndromes show an exaggerated release of mature IL-1β upon stimulation with LPS alone. In order to evaluate the innate immune component of patients who present with inflammatory-associated pathologies, we use a specific immunoassay to detect cellular immune responses to pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), such as the gram-negative bacterial endotoxin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS). These PAMPs are recognized by pathogen recognition receptors (PRRs), which are found on the cells of the innate immune system 4, 5, 6, 7
. A primary signal, LPS, in conjunction with a secondary signal, ATP, is necessary for the activation of the inflammasome, a multiprotein complex that processes pro-IL-1β to its mature, bioactive form 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
The whole blood assay requires minimal sample manipulation to assess cytokine production when compared to other methods that require labor intensive isolation and culturing of specific cell populations. This method differs from other whole blood stimulation assays; rather than diluting samples with a ratio of RPMI media, we perform a white blood cell count directly from diluted whole blood and therefore, stimulate a known number of white blood cells in culture 2
. The results of this particular whole blood assay demonstrate a novel technique useful in elucidating patient cohorts presenting with autoinflammatory pathophysiologies.
Immunology, Issue 49, Interleukin-1 beta, autoinflammatory, whole blood stimulation, lipopolysaccharide, ATP, cytokine production, pattern-recognition receptors, pathogen-associated molecular patterns
A Mouse Model of in Utero Transplantation
Institutions: University of California, University of California, University of California.
The transplantation of stem cells and viruses in utero
has tremendous potential for treating congenital disorders in the human fetus. For example, in utero
transplantation (IUT) of hematopoietic stem cells has been used to successfully treat patients with severe combined immunodeficiency.1,2
In several other conditions, however, IUT has been attempted without success.3
Given these mixed results, the availability of an efficient non-human model to study the biological sequelae of stem cell transplantation and gene therapy is critical to advance this field. We and others have used the mouse model of IUT to study factors affecting successful engraftment of in utero
transplanted hematopoietic stem cells in both wild-type mice4-7
and those with genetic diseases.8,9
The fetal environment also offers considerable advantages for the success of in utero
gene therapy. For example, the delivery of adenoviral10
, adeno-associated viral10
, and lentiviral vectors12,13
into the fetus has resulted in the transduction of multiple organs distant from the site of injection with long-term gene expression. in utero
gene therapy may therefore be considered as a possible treatment strategy for single gene disorders such as muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis. Another potential advantage of IUT is the ability to induce immune tolerance to a specific antigen. As seen in mice with hemophilia, the introduction of Factor IX early in development results in tolerance to this protein.14
In addition to its use in investigating potential human therapies, the mouse model of IUT can be a powerful tool to study basic questions in developmental and stem cell biology. For example, one can deliver various small molecules to induce or inhibit specific gene expression at defined gestational stages and manipulate developmental pathways. The impact of these alterations can be assessed at various timepoints after the initial transplantation. Furthermore, one can transplant pluripotent or lineage specific progenitor cells into the fetal environment to study stem cell differentiation in a non-irradiated and unperturbed host environment.
The mouse model of IUT has already provided numerous insights within the fields of immunology, and developmental and stem cell biology. In this video-based protocol, we describe a step-by-step approach to performing IUT in mouse fetuses and outline the critical steps and potential pitfalls of this technique.
Medicine, Issue 47, development, stem cells, transplantation, in utero
The Citrobacter rodentium Mouse Model: Studying Pathogen and Host Contributions to Infectious Colitis
Institutions: BC Children's Hospital.
This protocol outlines the steps required to produce a robust model of infectious disease and colitis, as well as the methods used to characterize Citrobacter rodentium
infection in mice. C. rodentium
is a gram negative, murine specific bacterial pathogen that is closely related to the clinically important human pathogens enteropathogenic E. coli
and enterohemorrhagic E. coli
. Upon infection with C. rodentium
, immunocompetent mice suffer from modest and transient weight loss and diarrhea. Histologically, intestinal crypt elongation, immune cell infiltration, and goblet cell depletion are observed. Clearance of infection is achieved after 3 to 4 weeks. Measurement of intestinal epithelial barrier integrity, bacterial load, and histological damage at different time points after infection, allow the characterization of mouse strains susceptible to infection.
The virulence mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens colonize the intestinal tract of their hosts, as well as specific host responses that defend against such infections are poorly understood. Therefore the C. rodentium
model of enteric bacterial infection serves as a valuable tool to aid in our understanding of these processes. Enteric bacteria have also been linked to Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs). It has been hypothesized that the maladaptive chronic inflammatory responses seen in IBD patients develop in genetically susceptible individuals following abnormal exposure of the intestinal mucosal immune system to enteric bacteria. Therefore, the study of models of infectious colitis offers significant potential for defining potentially pathogenic host responses to enteric bacteria. C. rodentium
induced colitis is one such rare model that allows for the analysis of host responses to enteric bacteria, furthering our understanding of potential mechanisms of IBD pathogenesis; essential in the development of novel preventative and therapeutic treatments.
Infection, Issue 72, Immunology, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Anatomy, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology, Gastrointestinal Tract, Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections, Colitis, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Infectious colitis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, colitis, hyperplasia, immunostaining, epithelial barrier integrity, FITC-dextran, oral gavage, mouse, animal model
In vitro Coculture Assay to Assess Pathogen Induced Neutrophil Trans-epithelial Migration
Institutions: Harvard Medical School, MGH for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Mucosal surfaces serve as protective barriers against pathogenic organisms. Innate immune responses are activated upon sensing pathogen leading to the infiltration of tissues with migrating inflammatory cells, primarily neutrophils. This process has the potential to be destructive to tissues if excessive or held in an unresolved state. Cocultured in vitro
models can be utilized to study the unique molecular mechanisms involved in pathogen induced neutrophil trans-epithelial migration. This type of model provides versatility in experimental design with opportunity for controlled manipulation of the pathogen, epithelial barrier, or neutrophil. Pathogenic infection of the apical surface of polarized epithelial monolayers grown on permeable transwell filters instigates physiologically relevant basolateral to apical trans-epithelial migration of neutrophils applied to the basolateral surface. The in vitro
model described herein demonstrates the multiple steps necessary for demonstrating neutrophil migration across a polarized lung epithelial monolayer that has been infected with pathogenic P. aeruginosa
(PAO1). Seeding and culturing of permeable transwells with human derived lung epithelial cells is described, along with isolation of neutrophils from whole human blood and culturing of PAO1 and nonpathogenic K12 E. coli
(MC1000). The emigrational process and quantitative analysis of successfully migrated neutrophils that have been mobilized in response to pathogenic infection is shown with representative data, including positive and negative controls. This in vitro
model system can be manipulated and applied to other mucosal surfaces. Inflammatory responses that involve excessive neutrophil infiltration can be destructive to host tissues and can occur in the absence of pathogenic infections. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms that promote neutrophil trans-epithelial migration through experimental manipulation of the in vitro
coculture assay system described herein has significant potential to identify novel therapeutic targets for a range of mucosal infectious as well as inflammatory diseases.
Infection, Issue 83, Cellular Biology, Epithelium, Neutrophils, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Respiratory Tract Diseases, Neutrophils, epithelial barriers, pathogens, transmigration
Setting-up an In Vitro Model of Rat Blood-brain Barrier (BBB): A Focus on BBB Impermeability and Receptor-mediated Transport
Institutions: VECT-HORUS SAS, CNRS, NICN UMR 7259.
The blood brain barrier (BBB) specifically regulates molecular and cellular flux between the blood and the nervous tissue. Our aim was to develop and characterize a highly reproducible rat syngeneic in vitro
model of the BBB using co-cultures of primary rat brain endothelial cells (RBEC) and astrocytes to study receptors involved in transcytosis across the endothelial cell monolayer. Astrocytes were isolated by mechanical dissection following trypsin digestion and were frozen for later co-culture. RBEC were isolated from 5-week-old rat cortices. The brains were cleaned of meninges and white matter, and mechanically dissociated following enzymatic digestion. Thereafter, the tissue homogenate was centrifuged in bovine serum albumin to separate vessel fragments from nervous tissue. The vessel fragments underwent a second enzymatic digestion to free endothelial cells from their extracellular matrix. The remaining contaminating cells such as pericytes were further eliminated by plating the microvessel fragments in puromycin-containing medium. They were then passaged onto filters for co-culture with astrocytes grown on the bottom of the wells. RBEC expressed high levels of tight junction (TJ) proteins such as occludin, claudin-5 and ZO-1 with a typical localization at the cell borders. The transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) of brain endothelial monolayers, indicating the tightness of TJs reached 300 ohm·cm2
on average. The endothelial permeability coefficients (Pe) for lucifer yellow (LY) was highly reproducible with an average of 0.26 ± 0.11 x 10-3
cm/min. Brain endothelial cells organized in monolayers expressed the efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp), showed a polarized transport of rhodamine 123, a ligand for P-gp, and showed specific transport of transferrin-Cy3 and DiILDL across the endothelial cell monolayer. In conclusion, we provide a protocol for setting up an in vitro
BBB model that is highly reproducible due to the quality assurance methods, and that is suitable for research on BBB transporters and receptors.
Medicine, Issue 88, rat brain endothelial cells (RBEC), mouse, spinal cord, tight junction (TJ), receptor-mediated transport (RMT), low density lipoprotein (LDL), LDLR, transferrin, TfR, P-glycoprotein (P-gp), transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER),
A Mouse Model for Pathogen-induced Chronic Inflammation at Local and Systemic Sites
Institutions: Boston University School of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
Chronic inflammation is a major driver of pathological tissue damage and a unifying characteristic of many chronic diseases in humans including neoplastic, autoimmune, and chronic inflammatory diseases. Emerging evidence implicates pathogen-induced chronic inflammation in the development and progression of chronic diseases with a wide variety of clinical manifestations. Due to the complex and multifactorial etiology of chronic disease, designing experiments for proof of causality and the establishment of mechanistic links is nearly impossible in humans. An advantage of using animal models is that both genetic and environmental factors that may influence the course of a particular disease can be controlled. Thus, designing relevant animal models of infection represents a key step in identifying host and pathogen specific mechanisms that contribute to chronic inflammation.
Here we describe a mouse model of pathogen-induced chronic inflammation at local and systemic sites following infection with the oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis
, a bacterium closely associated with human periodontal disease. Oral infection of specific-pathogen free mice induces a local inflammatory response resulting in destruction of tooth supporting alveolar bone, a hallmark of periodontal disease. In an established mouse model of atherosclerosis, infection with P. gingivalis
accelerates inflammatory plaque deposition within the aortic sinus and innominate artery, accompanied by activation of the vascular endothelium, an increased immune cell infiltrate, and elevated expression of inflammatory mediators within lesions. We detail methodologies for the assessment of inflammation at local and systemic sites. The use of transgenic mice and defined bacterial mutants makes this model particularly suitable for identifying both host and microbial factors involved in the initiation, progression, and outcome of disease. Additionally, the model can be used to screen for novel therapeutic strategies, including vaccination and pharmacological intervention.
Immunology, Issue 90,
Pathogen-Induced Chronic Inflammation; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Oral Bone Loss; Periodontal Disease; Atherosclerosis; Chronic Inflammation; Host-Pathogen Interaction; microCT; MRI
Use of Shigella flexneri to Study Autophagy-Cytoskeleton Interactions
Institutions: Imperial College London, Institut Pasteur, Unité Macrophages et Développement de l'Immunité.
is an intracellular pathogen that can escape from phagosomes to reach the cytosol, and polymerize the host actin cytoskeleton to promote its motility and dissemination. New work has shown that proteins involved in actin-based motility are also linked to autophagy, an intracellular degradation process crucial for cell autonomous immunity. Strikingly, host cells may prevent actin-based motility of S. flexneri
by compartmentalizing bacteria inside ‘septin cages’ and targeting them to autophagy. These observations indicate that a more complete understanding of septins, a family of filamentous GTP-binding proteins, will provide new insights into the process of autophagy. This report describes protocols to monitor autophagy-cytoskeleton interactions caused by S. flexneri in vitro
using tissue culture cells and in vivo
using zebrafish larvae. These protocols enable investigation of intracellular mechanisms that control bacterial dissemination at the molecular, cellular, and whole organism level.
Infection, Issue 91, ATG8/LC3, autophagy, cytoskeleton, HeLa cells, p62, septin, Shigella, zebrafish
A Restriction Enzyme Based Cloning Method to Assess the In vitro Replication Capacity of HIV-1 Subtype C Gag-MJ4 Chimeric Viruses
Institutions: Emory University, Emory University.
The protective effect of many HLA class I alleles on HIV-1 pathogenesis and disease progression is, in part, attributed to their ability to target conserved portions of the HIV-1 genome that escape with difficulty. Sequence changes attributed to cellular immune pressure arise across the genome during infection, and if found within conserved regions of the genome such as Gag, can affect the ability of the virus to replicate in vitro
. Transmission of HLA-linked polymorphisms in Gag to HLA-mismatched recipients has been associated with reduced set point viral loads. We hypothesized this may be due to a reduced replication capacity of the virus. Here we present a novel method for assessing the in vitro
replication of HIV-1 as influenced by the gag
gene isolated from acute time points from subtype C infected Zambians. This method uses restriction enzyme based cloning to insert the gag
gene into a common subtype C HIV-1 proviral backbone, MJ4. This makes it more appropriate to the study of subtype C sequences than previous recombination based methods that have assessed the in vitro
replication of chronically derived gag-pro
sequences. Nevertheless, the protocol could be readily modified for studies of viruses from other subtypes. Moreover, this protocol details a robust and reproducible method for assessing the replication capacity of the Gag-MJ4 chimeric viruses on a CEM-based T cell line. This method was utilized for the study of Gag-MJ4 chimeric viruses derived from 149 subtype C acutely infected Zambians, and has allowed for the identification of residues in Gag that affect replication. More importantly, the implementation of this technique has facilitated a deeper understanding of how viral replication defines parameters of early HIV-1 pathogenesis such as set point viral load and longitudinal CD4+ T cell decline.
Infectious Diseases, Issue 90, HIV-1, Gag, viral replication, replication capacity, viral fitness, MJ4, CEM, GXR25
An In vitro Model to Study Immune Responses of Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells to Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection
Institutions: Radboud university medical center.
Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) infections present a broad spectrum of disease severity, ranging from mild infections to life-threatening bronchiolitis. An important part of the pathogenesis of severe disease is an enhanced immune response leading to immunopathology. Here, we describe a protocol used to investigate the immune response of human immune cells to an HRSV infection. First, we describe methods used for culturing, purification and quantification of HRSV. Subsequently, we describe a human in vitro
model in which peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are stimulated with live HRSV. This model system can be used to study multiple parameters that may contribute to disease severity, including the innate and adaptive immune response. These responses can be measured at the transcriptional and translational level. Moreover, viral infection of cells can easily be measured using flow cytometry. Taken together, stimulation of PBMC with live HRSV provides a fast and reproducible model system to examine mechanisms involved in HRSV-induced disease.
Immunology, Issue 82, Blood Cells, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human, Respiratory Tract Infections, Paramyxoviridae Infections, Models, Immunological, Immunity, HRSV culture, purification, quantification, PBMC isolation, stimulation, inflammatory pathways
Strategies for Study of Neuroprotection from Cold-preconditioning
Institutions: The University of Chicago Medical Center.
Neurological injury is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality from general anesthesia and related surgical procedures that could be alleviated by development of effective, easy to administer and safe preconditioning treatments. We seek to define the neural immune signaling responsible for cold-preconditioning as means to identify novel targets for therapeutics development to protect brain before injury onset. Low-level pro-inflammatory mediator signaling changes over time are essential for cold-preconditioning neuroprotection. This signaling is consistent with the basic tenets of physiological conditioning hormesis, which require that irritative stimuli reach a threshold magnitude with sufficient time for adaptation to the stimuli for protection to become evident.
Accordingly, delineation of the immune signaling involved in cold-preconditioning neuroprotection requires that biological systems and experimental manipulations plus technical capacities are highly reproducible and sensitive. Our approach is to use hippocampal slice cultures as an in vitro
model that closely reflects their in vivo
counterparts with multi-synaptic neural networks influenced by mature and quiescent macroglia / microglia. This glial state is particularly important for microglia since they are the principal source of cytokines, which are operative in the femtomolar range. Also, slice cultures can be maintained in vitro
for several weeks, which is sufficient time to evoke activating stimuli and assess adaptive responses. Finally, environmental conditions can be accurately controlled using slice cultures so that cytokine signaling of cold-preconditioning can be measured, mimicked, and modulated to dissect the critical node aspects. Cytokine signaling system analyses require the use of sensitive and reproducible multiplexed techniques. We use quantitative PCR for TNF-α to screen for microglial activation followed by quantitative real-time qPCR array screening to assess tissue-wide cytokine changes. The latter is a most sensitive and reproducible means to measure multiple cytokine system signaling changes simultaneously. Significant changes are confirmed with targeted qPCR and then protein detection. We probe for tissue-based cytokine protein changes using multiplexed microsphere flow cytometric assays using Luminex technology. Cell-specific cytokine production is determined with double-label immunohistochemistry. Taken together, this brain tissue preparation and style of use, coupled to the suggested investigative strategies, may be an optimal approach for identifying potential targets for the development of novel therapeutics that could mimic the advantages of cold-preconditioning.
Neuroscience, Issue 43, innate immunity, hormesis, microglia, hippocampus, slice culture, immunohistochemistry, neural-immune, gene expression, real-time PCR
Activation and Measurement of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activity Using IL-1β in Human Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells
Institutions: New York University School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Inflammatory processes resulting from the secretion of Interleukin (IL)-1 family cytokines by immune cells lead to local or systemic inflammation, tissue remodeling and repair, and virologic control1,2
. Interleukin-1β is an essential element of the innate immune response and contributes to eliminate invading pathogens while preventing the establishment of persistent infection1-5
Inflammasomes are the key signaling platform for the activation of interleukin 1 converting enzyme (ICE or Caspase-1). The NLRP3 inflammasome requires at least two signals in DCs to cause IL-1β secretion6
. Pro-IL-1β protein expression is limited in resting cells; therefore a priming signal is required for IL-1β transcription and protein expression. A second signal sensed by NLRP3 results in the formation of the multi-protein NLRP3 inflammasome. The ability of dendritic cells to respond to the signals required for IL-1β secretion can be tested using a synthetic purine, R848, which is sensed by TLR8 in human monocyte derived dendritic cells (moDCs) to prime cells, followed by activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome with the bacterial toxin and potassium ionophore, nigericin.
Monocyte derived DCs are easily produced in culture and provide significantly more cells than purified human myeloid DCs. The method presented here differs from other inflammasome assays in that it uses in vitro
human, instead of mouse derived, DCs thus allowing for the study of the inflammasome in human disease and infection.
Immunology, Issue 87, NLRP3, inflammasome, IL-1beta, Interleukin-1 beta, dendritic, cell, Nigericin, Toll-Like Receptor 8, TLR8, R848, Monocyte Derived Dendritic Cells
High Throughput Quantitative Expression Screening and Purification Applied to Recombinant Disulfide-rich Venom Proteins Produced in E. coli
Institutions: Aix-Marseille Université, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) Saclay, France.
Escherichia coli (E. coli)
is the most widely used expression system for the production of recombinant proteins for structural and functional studies. However, purifying proteins is sometimes challenging since many proteins are expressed in an insoluble form. When working with difficult or multiple targets it is therefore recommended to use high throughput (HTP) protein expression screening on a small scale (1-4 ml cultures) to quickly identify conditions for soluble expression. To cope with the various structural genomics programs of the lab, a quantitative (within a range of 0.1-100 mg/L culture of recombinant protein) and HTP protein expression screening protocol was implemented and validated on thousands of proteins. The protocols were automated with the use of a liquid handling robot but can also be performed manually without specialized equipment.
Disulfide-rich venom proteins are gaining increasing recognition for their potential as therapeutic drug leads. They can be highly potent and selective, but their complex disulfide bond networks make them challenging to produce. As a member of the FP7 European Venomics project (www.venomics.eu), our challenge is to develop successful production strategies with the aim of producing thousands of novel venom proteins for functional characterization. Aided by the redox properties of disulfide bond isomerase DsbC, we adapted our HTP production pipeline for the expression of oxidized, functional venom peptides in the E. coli
cytoplasm. The protocols are also applicable to the production of diverse disulfide-rich proteins. Here we demonstrate our pipeline applied to the production of animal venom proteins. With the protocols described herein it is likely that soluble disulfide-rich proteins will be obtained in as little as a week. Even from a small scale, there is the potential to use the purified proteins for validating the oxidation state by mass spectrometry, for characterization in pilot studies, or for sensitive micro-assays.
Bioengineering, Issue 89, E. coli, expression, recombinant, high throughput (HTP), purification, auto-induction, immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC), tobacco etch virus protease (TEV) cleavage, disulfide bond isomerase C (DsbC) fusion, disulfide bonds, animal venom proteins/peptides
Wolbachia Bacterial Infection in Drosophila
Institutions: Boston University.
Developmental Biology, Issue 2, Drosophila, infection, fly
Isolation of Mouse Peritoneal Cavity Cells
Institutions: Blood Research Institute.
The peritoneal cavity is a membrane-bound and fluid-filled abdominal cavity of mammals, which contains the liver, spleen, most of the gastro-intestinal tract and other viscera. It harbors a number of immune cells including macrophages, B cells and T cells. The presence of a high number of naïve macrophages in the peritoneal cavity makes it a preferred site for the collection of naïve tissue resident macrophages (1). The peritoneal cavity is also important to the study of B cells because of the presence of a unique peritoneal cavity-resident B cell subset known as B1 cells in addition to conventional B2 cells. B1 cells are subdivided into B1a and B1b cells, which can be distinguished by the surface expression of CD11b and CD5. B1 cells are an important source of natural IgM providing early protection from a variety of pathogens (2-4). These cells are autoreactive in nature (5), but how they are controlled to prevent autoimmunity is still not understood completely. On the contrary, CD5+
B1a cells possess some regulatory properties by virtue of their IL-10 producing capacity (6). Therefore, peritoneal cavity B1 cells are an interesting cell population to study because of their diverse function and many unaddressed questions associated with their development and regulation. The isolation of peritoneal cavity resident immune cells is tricky because of the lack of a defined structure inside the peritoneal cavity. Our protocol will describe a procedure for obtaining viable immune cells from the peritoneal cavity of mice, which then can be used for phenotypic analysis by flow cytometry and for different biochemical and immunological assays.
JoVE Immunology, Issue 35, Immune cells, Peritoneal cavity, Macrophage, B cell, B1 cell, isolation procedure
Interview: Glycolipid Antigen Presentation by CD1d and the Therapeutic Potential of NKT cell Activation
Institutions: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
Natural Killer T cells (NKT) are critical determinants of the immune response to cancer, regulation of autioimmune disease, clearance of infectious agents, and the development of artheriosclerotic plaques. In this interview, Mitch Kronenberg discusses his laboratory's efforts to understand the mechanism through which NKT cells are activated by glycolipid antigens. Central to these studies is CD1d - the antigen presenting molecule that presents glycolipids to NKT cells. The advent of CD1d tetramer technology, a technique developed by the Kronenberg lab, is critical for the sorting and identification of subsets of specific glycolipid-reactive T cells. Mitch explains how glycolipid agonists are being used as therapeutic agents to activate NKT cells in cancer patients and how CD1d tetramers can be used to assess the state of the NKT cell population in vivo following glycolipid agonist therapy. Current status of ongoing clinical trials using these agonists are discussed as well as Mitch's prediction for areas in the field of immunology that will have emerging importance in the near future.
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Last week I noticed all the many comforts of homeschool. This week I was struck by the flexibility we have.
There wasn’t really but one ‘regular’ day this week. Is there really a regular day when homeschooling? Here’s what I noticed…
Tuesday – Little ones are done and off playing. They’ll join us for Olympic studies and science in a bit.
When we had two friends visit for the day, the children got half of the day’s school work done the afternoon before. That next morning the children got up early and finished the day’s subjects!! They had the day free to play and enjoy their friends. And we got to help a family and keep up in our school work because of the flexibility of homeschool.
Tuesday and Thursday – 1. & 2. Making bobsleds with chalk pastels! | 3. It’s Olympic unit studies time! Learning about figure skater Michelle Kwan during/after lunch (Winter Games unit study is on sale through Saturday!) Verse of the day in our study: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:30
When the Winter Olympics are coming up we can incorporate those fun studies with the rest of all the regular. Because it is current events and we want to learn more about it. We can set aside something for a few weeks or simply build in the extra time. A unit study adds so much to our learning and really blends with the rest of all we do.
Yogli Mogli with my girl.
When I stay up late talking to Eldest Girl, we can sleep in just a bit and start a little later. Because some things like building relationships and getting rest are just that important.
Monday – When we have one warm winter day we can ride scooters lots. Because we know that the arctic blast is coming back and we simply have to get outside!
Thursday – When there are days that are completely BURR we can stay in and do some of the favorite winter activities like Lil’ Buddy listed in his Saxon K graphing. Build with LEGO® bricks, read a book by the fire, paint!, have Nerf battles, play and listen to music.
Last Friday – When Hodgepodgedad has an extended weekend we can grab our Georgia Aquarium passes and head over to look up close at the Aquatic Bodies Revealed exhibit. Because there are several of the dissection labs in our Apologia Marine Biology labs that match up. And what is offered at the aquarium is far above what we could possibly do at home. (My full review of Apologia Marine Biology for high school coming Monday at Curriculum Choice – with a giveaway!)
Wednesday – From this photo you would never know there is an amazing amount of noise from a Nerf gun war going on 🙂
And when the noise of the age range is amazing, I have the flexibility to pause and think soothing thoughts. Don’t you think?
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- Weekly Wrap-Up hostess Kris at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
- No Fear Homeschool High School hostess Connie at The Daisy Head
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Wells, Elizabeth A. (1966) The struggle for Responsible Government in Newfoundland, 1846-1855. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Newfoundland Liberals, because they lacked dynamic leadership when the Whigs were granting responsible government to the neighbouring colonies, had to wait until 1855 for their share of power and patronage. The 1840’s in Newfoundland were a period of political apathy. Under the amalgamated system Governor Harvey maintained harmony and weakened party ties by distributing patronage to both parties, a policy continued after the restoration of the bicameral system, by his successor, Sir Gaspard LeMarchant. Thus, until 1850, the Liberals were lulled into silence by the inducements of office, and political calm prevailed. -- Eventually economic discontent gave rise to political excitement which, after 1850, centred around the question of responsible government. By 1852 the Liberals were threatening to cut off supply, and denominational strife was as bitter as it had been in the 1830’s. The reason for this renewal of politics was the rise to prominence of Philip Francis Little, a young Roman Catholic lawyer who entered politics in 1850 to find a few straggling reformers dissatisfied with the exclusive control of the local Conservative oligarchy. Supported by Dr. Mullock, the outspoken Roman Catholic Bishop, Little quickly became the leader of a disciplined Liberal party, which refused to settle for anything less than responsible government. -- The population of the colony was almost equally divided into Protestants, who tended to support the Conservatives, and Roman Catholics, who supported the Liberals. Protestant Conservatives, fearing the loss of their privileged position and the establishment of a permanent Roman Catholic oligarchy, opposed responsible government. Roman Catholics, on the other hand, regarded it as a means of bettering their economic and social position. The Conservatives, exploiting the sectarian issue, depicted the question solely as the struggle of Roman Catholics for power and patronage, whereas the Liberals saw themselves as the champions of the working classes, regardless of denomination. -- After the 1852 election, in which responsible government was the main issue, the Liberals held a majority of seats in the House of Assembly. In 1853 Little led a delegation to London, which persuaded the Colonial Secretary, against the advice of Governor Hamilton, to concede responsible government. Even then its introduction was delayed by the failure of the Liberal Assembly and the Conservative Council to agree on the fulfillment of certain preliminary conditions, by the Governor's refusal to mediate, and by the preoccupation of the British government with the Crimean situation. The House of Assembly found it necessary to stop the supplies and to send Mr. Little across the Atlantic a second and a third time before they secured the removal of the obstructive Mr. Hamilton and his replacement by Charles Henry Darling, whose ability and tact made for a smooth transition to responsible government. -- Finally, after a Liberal victory at the polls in May, 1855, P.F. Little formed the first responsible government, and a Roman Catholic administration took office.
|Item Type:||Thesis (Masters)|
|Additional Information:||Bibliography: leaves 271-283.|
|Department(s):||Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of > History|
|Geographic Location:||Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador|
|Library of Congress Subject Heading:||Newfoundland and Labrador--History--1763-1855; Newfoundland and Labrador--Politics and government--1763-1855|
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Common Werewolf Tropes You Should Think Twice Before Using
Full disclosure: I don't really like werewolf stories. Not because I don't like the concept of werewolves - it's perfectly fine, even interesting. No, the reason why I usually shy away from tales of werewolves is because of the tropes that keep coming up - the same repetitive plot points that we see in stories like Blood and Chocolate or Being Human. The kind of thing that didn't make sense the first time, and now is being driven into the ground by imitators to the point where the entire market becomes unbearable.In the interest of improving current and future werewolf fiction, here's a breakdown of the tropes in question, and why it behooves a writer to avoid them.
Table of Contents
- Obsession with forming "packs."
- Rigid "alpha/omega" dynamics.
- Excessively painful and graphic transformations.
- Violent rampages while transformed.
- To recap!
Obsession with forming "packs."
Despite being a relatively recent addition to werewolf myths, this one has rapidly gained traction as a canon part of the mythos, and it is everywhere. Werewolves have packs. You get bitten by a werewolf, you join a pack. So on, so forth.
So what's wrong with it?
Humans are already pack animals. That's why we have things like families, friends, etc. That's one of the reasons we get along with dogs - our specially-bred, domestic versions of wolves. "Pack" is literally just another word for "inner social circle."
Assuming there is a gathered group of werewolves - and there's nothing wrong with that; having similar people around is good for the psyche - they're not likely to call themselves a "pack." They might consider themselves a family, or a community, or if they want to get REALLY pretentious, a brotherhood. They also aren't likely to clump together into a tightly-knit community in the woods. Asking anyone who got bit to give up their entire lives and livelihoods is a tall order, after all - and werewolves have demonstrated themselves fully capable of having a normal human life as long as they manage their urges properly. It's far more likely that they'll meet up every Thursday for tea and pork chops, or even have an Internet forum where they can stay in touch.
Unless they're all huge fans of pop culture werewolf fiction; then all bets are off.
Rigid "alpha/omega" dynamics.
This is another recent one, and it ties right into the "pack" cliché. It's based off of scientific studies that claimed wolves had rigid social structures, with an "alpha" at the top and a linear hierarchy of dominance all the way down to the sad "omega" loser. In fiction, this often results with one werewolf declaring himself the alpha of his pack and demanding total obedience from its members, resulting in inevitable angst and conflict when someone disagrees with his decrees or another pack member decides they want to be alpha instead.
So what's wrong with it?
This cliché is based on outdated science, for one. Wolves don't actually have a linear alpha-to-omega hierarchy - they live in familial groups, with the parents more or less at the "head", and other relationships determined on a case-by-case basis of "who can beat whom in a fight". Basically, a lot like human families.
Beyond that, this is an incredibly inefficient way to run a community - especially when you take into account the ludicrous amounts of conflict and angst that arise in fiction because of it. And not without some basis in reality, either - monarchy as a government system has a strong tendency to produce power struggles, which divides the community as individuals take sides, and generally makes it harder for them to operate as a cohesive unit. And these aren't regular wolves - they're people, which means they're intelligent enough to question why they should go on living in this system. Someone, at some point, is going to get fed up with the drama and demand some changes - whether that means democracy, anarchy, or something else.
Excessively painful and graphic transformations.
I credit An American Werewolf In London for kicking this one off. It was the 80's, they were making a horror movie, and they had some cutting-edge SFX they wanted to show off. It worked, the audience was impressed, etc. And people have been imitating it ever since.
So what's wrong with it?
Firstly, there's the simple fact that no one questions its existence. It's just taken for granted in almost every less-than-comedic werewolf story that the transformation will be painful, with absolutely no explanation given, and no thought to the problems that this could cause. Beyond the obvious problem of "pain being unpleasant", going through that much agony on that frequent a basis is a huge waste of energy, and traumatic to boot. Unless you specifically want lycanthropy to be a Miserable Curse of Misery, it makes more sense from both an evolutionary and magical standpoint to have some kind of workaround for all that pain - a prompt to the body to produce painkillers/endorphins, or something to that effect.
Secondly, writers have a bad tendency to go overboard when describing the transformation. We see and hear things like "cracking bones" and "bulging, shifting muscles" as the individual transitions from man to beast (or beast-man). But there's no logical reason why this should happen. Even if you exclude the fact that breaking bones is a horribly impractical way to transform - for all the reasons mentioned above, plus the overall risk of creating wanton fractures in a person who is writhing around in agony - there is no part of the human skeleton that should need to break entirely. Humans and wolves have roughly the same number and arrangement of bones; the main things that would change would be the shape and size, which would likely result in a lot of grinding, but relatively little actual cracking. It's roughly the same with muscles and internal organs - they're liable to change size and shape, but not in any way that would cause them to "bulge" or "writhe". While a transformation might well be unpleasant, it's not likely to be the magical equivalent of going through a trash compactor.
Violent rampages while transformed.
The one trope on this list that's actually been around for a while, this is the concept that werewolves are pretty much human until "the wolf takes over", sending them on a rampage of murder and destruction as they kill their loved ones/the neighbor's cattle. This is usually justified by "transforming makes you really hungry" and "wolfish instincts."
So what's wrong with it?
Ever wonder why it is, in fiction, that when this sort of thing happens people notice? It's because this is not normal behavior for wolves, which immediately destroys the "instincts" argument. No wolf is going to waste time and energy trying to hunt humans, particularly not when they're far more numerous and liable to carry guns, unless the wolf is literally starving and have no other options. Cattle are a somewhat more likely target, as hungry and desperate wolves have been known to go after livestock, but again, they would risk raising the ire of not only the entire herd, but any dogs and humans that might be guarding them. Even if they're guaranteed to survive the encounter, it's still going to use time and energy that would be better spent chasing down unguarded prey somewhere else.
A lone wolf - even one with super-strength and invulnerability - is far more likely to go for targets that either won't fight back, or at least will be easier to catch. Large game like deer or antelope is probably out of the question; not only do animals of this size require pack tactics to bring down successfully, but it's going to have far more meat than a single werewolf is going to have room for in its stomach, even one with a magically enhanced appetite. Group hunting is another story, of course, but one werewolf on its own is more likely to take out a few rabbits or pheasants.
So, to recap...
- Werewolves should not be going out of their ways to form packs with people they don't really know, let alone separating themselves from human society. What's the point? Why should they give up their entire lives for something so trivial?
- The alpha/omega dynamics that pop up in werewolf fiction so often these days is total hogwash - the whole thing is based on research that's been discredited for some time.
- Transformations do not have to be painful and probably shouldn't be, nor must they involve overblown dramatics like cracking bones and bulging muscles.
- Going on violent rampages because of "wolfish instincts," "the beast within," or whatever is also hogwash. Wolves do not work that way.
And these pages might be relevant to you:
Random Wolf/Werewolf Generator
Things Writers Should Know About Animal Behavior
Tips & Ideas To Write More Believable Masquerades
Alexis Feynman's Guide To Writing Better Vampire Fiction
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India floods: Town buried in mud abandoned
28 June 2013 Last updated at 20:09 BST
Nearly 3,000 people are still stranded in India's Uttarakhand state where more than 800 people have died in floods and landslides.
Nearly 100,000 people have been evacuated so far, with the military continuing helicopter flights into the mountains to reach the last of the Hindu pilgrims and tourists who remain there.
Rivers swollen by monsoon rains have swept away houses, buildings and entire villages in the Himalayan state.
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A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had symptoms for six months or less. Symptoms included pain, function, general health, work status and patient satisfaction.
"Patients often ask their physicians whether the duration of their symptoms will affect their potential for a full recovery, and the goal of our study was to address this question," said orthopaedic surgeon Jeffrey A. Rihn, MD, and one of the study authors.
Several studies conducted over the past 30 years have demonstrated the effectiveness of lumbar discectomy. One of the most common spinal surgical procedures, lumbar discectomy involves the removal of the herniated disc material that is pressing on a nerve root or the spinal canal to treat lumbar disc herniation. However, despite the proven effectiveness of this procedure, there is no consensus on the timing of surgery. Various studies suggest waiting anywhere from "an appropriate amount of time" to 12 months after symptoms begin.
"According to our study and generally speaking, patients who had symptoms for more than six months had less improvement in pain, function, general health, work status, and patient satisfaction," said Dr. Rihn.
- The study authors observed 1,192 patients enrolled in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT), which was conducted at 13 multidisciplinary spinal practices in 11 states.
- The patients were older than age 18 and suffered from various symptoms of lumbar disc herniation.
- Patients were assigned to undergo either operative treatment -- lumbar discectomy -- or nonoperative treatment -- such as physical therapy, education, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, and/or counseling with home exercise instruction.
- The patients completed questionnaires at the beginning of the study and at follow-up intervals -- six weeks, three months, six months, one year, two years, and four years after treatment. Using various tools, the study authors analyzed the outcomes of the operative and nonoperative treatments. They compared the treatment outcomes of the 927 patients who had symptoms for six months or less to those of the 265 patients who had symptoms for more than six months prior to enrolling in the study.
The study authors also found that operative treatment was significantly more effective than nonoperative treatment. However, the relative increased benefit of surgery over nonoperative treatment was not dependent on the duration of symptoms.
"Patients who have had symptoms for longer than six months can find relief with either nonoperative treatment or surgery, but they may not reap as much benefit as those who have had symptoms for six months or less," said Dr. Rihn. "Surgery still has significant benefit compared with nonsurgical treatment, even in patients who have had symptoms for longer than six months."
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About the film
Military Comfort Woman
Release Date: July 17, 1974
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Some years ago, I heard an entrepreneur whom I greatly admired, and with whom I had the opportunity to work, say the phrase: “when things are done right, they turn out well.”
That phrase impacted my young mind and my way of working during a time in my life in which I worked on a business project of my own.
This morning, as I studied the story of Daniel in the Bible, I reflected on the keys to his success, and I pondered the question, what must I do to make my life go well?
Today, I would like to share with you an answer to this question based on an excerpt from Daniel’s story.
As we have already mentioned in the previous days in other posts on this blog, Daniel was taken captive to Babylon, along with other young Jewish men.
Once there, he and his friends, among other young men, were selected for Babylonian education, in order to prepare them to become advisers to the king.
One of the king’s orders for their education was to eat the same food that the king ate.
However, these foods were not suitable for Jewish people.
They had been offered to pagan idols and contained meats that God had told them not to eat because they were unclean.
Among other things.
Daniel decided to obey God, and not defile himself with that food.
So he asked his supervisors to give him the opportunity to eat only vegetables and water for ten days.
He told them that if after ten days he and his friends looked bad, they could do with them as they wanted.
It so happened that after ten days, Daniel and his friends looked much better than the other young people who were being trained.
Read with me a couple of verses from the Bible that allow us to see what happened as a result of this:
So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning.
And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service.
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
| Daniel 1: 16 – 20
Here is the key to what we must do to make life go well for us.
Despite refusing to eat the same foods as everyone else, Daniel hoped to have good results because he trusted God to help him if he remained obedient and faithful to Him and his own personal convictions.
We then see how God honored his faith and his faithfulness by keeping them in the best health and by lavishing wisdom and intellect on them.
God’s blessing was so great that they were ten times better than all the experts and advisers in the Babylonian empire.
His faithfulness and trust in God was the reason God honored his faith.
Without a doubt, Daniel and his friends did well in life.
As I ponder this story, I think this is what we need to do to make life go well for us.
Like Daniel, we must do our best, and stay true to God’s will.
If we do, we can trust that He will work for us as He did for them at that time.
Our faithfulness to God and our integrity by placing our trust in Him are the means by which we allow God to pour out blessings on our lives.
I hope this message has been a blessing in your life.
What do you think? Would you like life to go well for you? What is your experience? Share in the comments.
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EvoWorld Io is a survival game, and your primary goal is to survive and complete the tasks required to survive. How do you stay alive? The answer is to eat creatures with a green border and eating weaker creatures allows you build up your own power, which means you’ll be more powerful and can take on more powerful adversaries. The game also has a progression feature in addition to survival objectives that is, for you to survive, you need to remain in a state of constantly progressing, quite easy, right?
There are powerful creatures all over the map If you find one, run as far you can away from it. The most powerful creatures have a red border Be aware of that.In busy times, there are many players playing the game. it is dependent on the server you’ve chosen however, the main thing I’d like to point out is that competition in this game is very high and there are many players flying around the world and searching for creatures with low levels in the similar to you. Make sure to study the map with care and search for weak creatures when you find one attack as otherwise character development could take forever.
When you eat weak animals, you gradually increase in size and change into something else It starts as a fly. After that, you transform into an insect, then a butterfly, and finally a wasp, etc. The more you eat, the quicker you’ll progress. Each level of progression there are a variety of natural enemies. In some instances, your enemies could be wasps, and in other instances, birds. As I’ve said previously be aware of your creatures’ outline. when they have red lines, avoid those and if they’ve got an orange outline, attack.Avoid places that are crowded and also know that there are plenty of things to do in these places However, there are also enemies too. Being in the midst of crowds can be risky and could get you killed.
There are some very crucial graphs in the game that you need to be attentive to. look at the middle portion of the game’s window, there you’ll see three graphs that are important the current state of evolution, the level of oxygen, and the level of water. Be sure to have enough oxygen if you’re underwater, and make sure you’re well-hydrated. If you don’t pay attention to these rules, your character will be killed! | <urn:uuid:c6a40bc0-0ecb-47af-a92c-01c81066f546> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://toryburchoutletinc.net/archives/27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.970111 | 502 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Are “Ballot Selfies” Illegal In Michigan?
Turns out, it varies by state and you might want to get the specifics before a simple social media misstep could void your vote.
Social media lately has been a hub for people ranging from your neighbor to major celebrities telling you to vote or trying to sway your vote. It has really been a great tool and while it could potentially get more voters to the polls, it also can make for some sticky situations.
We're not just talking about fighting about politics on Facebook, we mean posting a photo of your ballot or taking a "selfie" as you vote could make yours not count.
Apparently there are a few states where taking a selfie either in your polling place as you vote or straight-up posting photos of your completed ballot is actually "illegal."
However, it is really up to state and local governments to make that decision, "[But] 18 states, including Alabama, Illinois and Florida, say it is not allowed. And for six others, the rules are ambiguous," says The Times.
Back in 2018, The Times had Michigan grouped in with the states that do not allow "ballot selfies" but when you look at the "official" statement from 2019 by the Secretary of State, I would argue Michigan falls into the more "ambiguous" category.
The state had reached a settlement agreement that would allow voters to take a photo of their ballot, only within the voting booth but other actions like taking a selfie in the booth or within the area of other people voting is prohibited.
Other "prohibited" selfie-ing actions include "taking any other type of photograph within the area of people voting" and "Sharing images of a voted ballot within 100 feet from the polling place – the buffer zone where electioneering is prohibited."
While many more people are voting absentee this year, these rules may fall into a real grey-area.
So, if you still would like to make sure your voice is heard, both in the voting booth and online, you may just want to play it safe and stick to the old stand-by of a picture with your "I Voted" sticker.
Worried about other ways you could mistakenly make your vote not count? Here are some tips on voting absentee:
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What are the differences between MediaFire and Wuala?
Let us understand the concepts of MediaFire and Wuala before learning the differences between them.
MediaFire is a cloud storage service and file hosting service which became more popular as a platform for sharing large files. It was owned by MediaFire LLC in 2006. Actually, it has a reputation for having poor privacy which is difficult for it to overcome, and because of its limited capabilities it has been kept aside from the list of the best cloud storage services.
MediaFire is providing 10GB storage for free and up to 50 GB free with bonuses, we can store all our files, photos, audio and videos. It helps us to easily share large files through emails. It provides unlimited ad-supported downloads with no waiting times.
The features of MediaFire are as follows −
Instantly recover deleted files
Share and collaborate files
Easily share large files and folders
File sharing management
Cloud storage security
The advantages of MediaFire are as follows −
10GB free storage
Very large file size limit
More transfer speeds to and from MediaFire
Easy to use
Cost-effective consumption based-model
Very reliable and secure platform
The disadvantages of MediaFire are as follows −
No file encryption
Too many ads
Very few features
Poor customer support
Data consumption is more customizable
It is a secure online file storage, file synchronization, versioning and backup service provided by Caleido Inc and developed by Dominik Grolimund and Luzius Meisserin.
It was developed using Java, offered 5 GB free storage space and was launched in 2008. But in the year 2015, Wuala announced that they are discontinuing its service and all stored data would be deleted on 15 November 2015.
Wuala is a secure cloud storage service that enables users to store, encrypt, sync, backup, and access their files online.
The features of Wuala are as follows −
Keep files private
Share files with other registered and unregistered users
The advantages of Wuala are as follows −
More space is available in Wuala
The uploads automatically encrypted
Bandwidth can adjust
Supports mobile devices
The disadvantages of Wuala are as follows −
It will be slow at any time
It is an operating system dependent
It requires a separate program to work with files.
The major differences between MediaFire and Wuala are as follows −
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|MediaFire maximum storage size is 100TB.||The Maximum storage capacity is 2TB.|
|MediaFire maximum file size is 20 GB.||Wuala Maximum file size is 10.|
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|MediaFire is still in use.||Wuala was suspended in the year 2015.|
|MediaFire supports file versioning.||Wuala also supported file versioning.|
|MediaFire offers free unlimited file storage with no sign up required.||In Wuala, sign up is mandatory.|
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An invasive plant called hydrilla is spreading from the Piedmont toward lakes near the coast.
Biologists say the aquatic weed first found in Wake County is now on river banks in northeastern North Carolina and in lakes near Wilmington. Dr. Rob Richardson is a crop science professor at N.C. State University. He says the plant grows in thick patches, which can cause problems in drinking water supplies.
"Large mats have, at times, clogged turbines," says Richardson.
"Hydrilla can also serve as a breeding habitat for some species of mosquito. It can also get so thick that depending on the situation, it can stunt some fish growth because then only small fish can weave their way in and out of dense beds."
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Figure. MnO2/RGO composites show improved Li-ion battery performance. The reason for the improvement was attributed to better electrode kinetics, more rapid diffusion of Li+ to intercalation sites, and a greater capacitance effect during discharge.
One of the key components that must be combined with an energy source, such as photovoltaics, that relies on sunlight is an affordable, robust energy storage method. This energy storage can be done in a variety of ways, but one of the most promising technologies is batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are of particular interest in the search for high capacity, light, batteries because of lithium's low molecular weight (6.9 g/mol) and high discarge voltage (typically 3+ volts). This gives Li-ion batteries the highest specific energy (energy per weight) of any type of battery. In Li-ion batteries, upon discharge, Li+ ions move from the negative to the positive electrode through an electrolyte and back to the negative electrode upon charging. Most commercial rechargable Li-ion batteries use a graphite anode (negative electrode) and a LiCoO2 cathode (positive electrode) in a design pioneered by Sony.
Check out these links for more info!
- Origin of Enhancements Using RGO - A webinar on the enhancements in battery operation by utilizing reduced graphene oxide as an electrode substrate.
- Is Lithium-ion the Ideal Battery? - Learn about some of the fundamental advantages and disadvantages of Li-ion battery technology from the Battery University.
Our Research Focus
- Improve Li-ion intercalation rates for faster charging/discharging
- Couple Li-ion cathodes with carbon based nanostructures for improved Li-ion diffusion and charge transport
- Increase battery lifetime through the design of more stable cathode composites
- Elucidate the mechanistic aspects of common Li-ion battery materials
- Doped MnO2 nanowires on graphene oxide with nickel for a stable Li-ion battery material
- Synthesized "holey" graphene which may increase diffusion and lead to better Li-ion batteries
- Implemented reduced graphene oxide (RGO) into the anode of an α-MnO2 based Li-ion battery that showed a capacity of ∼150mAh/g after 20 cycles at 0.4C rate
- Elucidated the mechanistic nature of the performance increases seen in Li-ion batteries of the RGO on the commonly observed improvements in cycling and capacity
444. Nickel-Doped MnO2 Nanowires Anchored onto Reduced Graphene Oxide for Rapid Cycling Cathode in Lithium Ion Batteries Radich, J. G.; Chen, Y.-S.; Kamat, P. V. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 2013, 2 (10), M3178-M3181.
439. Making Graphene Holey. Gold-Nanoparticle-Mediated Hydroxyl Radical Attack on Reduced Graphene Oxide Radich, J. G.; Kamat, P. V. ACS Nano 2013, 7 (6), 5546–5557.
431. Graphitic Design: Prospects of Graphene-Based Nanocomposites for Solar Energy Conversion, Storage, and Sensing. Lightcap, I. V.; Kamat, P. V. Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46 (10), 2235–2243.
425. Origin of Reduced Graphene Oxide Enhancements in Electrochemical Energy Storage. Radich, J. G.; Kamat, P. V. ACS Catal. 2012, 2, 807–816.
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In the Linux operating system, a command-line utility known as “finger” is used to display all available information about the system’s user.
This guide will see how to get the system’s user information through several finger command options.
Follow the below syntax:
finger [ option ] [ username ]
Installing finger on Linux:
Linux distribution almost does not provide the finger command by default. It is not present on Ubuntu.
First, install a finger command on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux operating system. Follow mentioned command:
The finger command will be installed in our system.
Use finger command:
If you don’t define an argument with the finger command, it will give all the currently logged-in user information.
Finger will display all those who are currently logged into the system if no arguments are mentioned.
Getting started with different options.
Display specific user information:
If you want to get information of any specific user, pass the user’s name as an argument with the finger command:
It shows the following information:
User: who is the user
Name: User name
Directory: User’s home directory
Shell: Talks about the shell user is using
On since: Logged in time and date.
Mails: It will show the mails if you have.
Plan: It shows the user’s created plan.
Display a long list of one user:
Use -l option to display a long list of user information.
Display user information column-wise:
Use –s option to display the output column-wise.
Restrict some information:
Sometimes the user does not want to show the plan’s content, the project,” and. PGP key. Use –p option to omit some information.
Prevent matching of username:
By default, the input user name is balanced with both user username names and real names. On the other hand, you can use the -m option to disable the above matching.
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The Insider: NASA buys bag clips, but lips are sealed on their use
Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, June 12, 2005
TO CONTAIN ALIEN LIFE FORMS, MAYBE?: Textura Design, a home-based startup in West Seattle, since late 2002 has produced a humble but clever device for resealing plastic bags, called Clip-N-Seal. The soft plastic rod-and-clip device has attracted attention from dairies, manufacturers and the military, among other customers.
Now the Clip-N-Seal (three for $4.99, available in four sizes) may be going into outer space, says company founder D.L. Byron, 38. The company shipped a dozen 40-inch-long Clip-N-Seals, at $7 apiece, to NASA earlier this month.
NASA won't say when, or whether, or how the clips will be used. The next opportunity they'll have to fly is aboard the shuttle Discovery when it launches sometime between July 13 and July 31-- depending on weather conditions -- to resupply the International Space Station.
"All NASA will say is they're for a large object," Byron said.
The British Antarctic Survey is also considering the clips for use on its next mission.
"Not bad for something we invented to keep potato chips fresh," he said.
MICROSOFT'S FRIGIDAIRE PROJECT: It's one of the greatest mysteries in the history of the household appliance -- and Microsoft has solved it.
The whole thing began when researchers at Microsoft's lab in Cambridge, England, came up with a project called the SenseCam, in which a wearable camera automatically captures moments of a person's life by taking pictures when it senses changes in the scene in front of them. The project was publicly unveiled last year.
But someone in the lab saw the camera and came up with an alternative use, explained Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research senior vice president, during a presentation last week at the MobiSys mobile systems conference in Seattle. The person decided to put the camera inside a refrigerator, to capture images of people as they retrieved items from inside.
And that's when the mystery in question was inadvertently solved.
"Purely from a research perspective, we have now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that when you close the refrigerator door, the light goes off," Rashid said. "You can look for that in Nature or something."
INTEL EMBRACES APPLE: Apple made a sharp departure last week by announcing that it would switch from IBM to Intel microprocessors in its Macintosh line, forging a partnership with the big chipmaker better known for its role inside PCs running Microsoft Windows.
But which company was more excited about their newfound partnership? It might well have been Intel, judging from what happened when the pact was announced during an Apple event at San Francisco's Moscone Center. As Intel CEO Paul Otellini walked on stage, Apple CEO Steve Jobs extended his arm to shake hands. But Otellini instead gave Jobs a hug that looked awkward in part because it clearly caught the iconic Apple executive by surprise.
In a post on BusinessWeek's Tech Beat weblog, Peter Burrows called it "the hug that wasn't." Burrows quoted the observations of an anonymous onlooker: "In this sense, Steve is like the Queen of England. You just don't hug the queen."
DREAMING OF DENALI: When you are on the side of a 20,000-foot-tall mountain, the weather can turn against you.
Unfortunately that's what happened to REI Chairman and WRQ co-founder Doug Walker -- who had to abandon his summit attempt on the Alaska mountain last month.
"We kind of got into a low-pressure thing that went on forever," said Walker, who spent nine days between 14,000 and 17,000 feet waiting for a break in the weather.
Walker, who was named chairman of outdoor retailer REI in March, said he has never climbed Denali before. That's because it takes a three-week commitment -- time he never had when running Seattle software company WRQ.
Since the sale of WRQ in December, Walker has been spending more time in the mountains. But -- as was reported in last week's Insider column -- Walker hasn't completely traded in his khakis for gaiters. The 54-year-old executive is currently sharing office space with Madrona Venture Group, helping the high-profile Seattle venture capital firm evaluate deals and portfolio companies.
Could that lead to another startup company?
"I've got some things I am working on," Walker said in his South Carolina drawl. "They are not cooked enough at this point."
And what about another Denali attempt?
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A torque/speed curve plots the torque of a motor against the speed that it is going at. The relationship between the torque and the speed is critical to choosing the right motor for your application. Consider the torque/speed curve below for a typical stepper motor.
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What are the common problems of PETG high gloss film?
Posted by Admin | 07 Jul
1. Definition of High Gloss PVC Film
High Gloss PVC Film refers to a film composite product with a gloss of more than 100, usually including polyester film (PET film), surface treatment agent, ink, adhesive, PVC film and other parts. compounded.
2. Features of high gloss film
(1) Beautiful appearance: The surface effect of the high-gloss film is crystal clear and bright, changing and colorful, and it will not change color for a long time. With soft hand feel and colorful surface design, it is a safe and environmentally friendly building material that can be selected according to the changes in the color feeling of the times. The color of the film and the film is matched with individuality, and both taste and taste. PVC decorative film for wrapping, ordinary film, PVC Wood Grain Decorative Film and many other varieties can meet the various needs of consumers.
(2) Environmental protection: No need for electroplating and painting, saving energy and eliminating pollution problems such as waste liquid and exhaust gas.
(3) Excellent performance: moisture-proof, anti-corrosion, good durability, easy to clean, easy to install, light weight, non-flammable (tested by the National Building Materials Center, in line with national fire protection standards. The kitchen is a place with the highest temperature in the room, and Each time the heat dissipation is concentrated on the top, so when purchasing metal ceilings, fire performance should be one of the key points to consider).
3. High gloss film cleaning
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(2) The dirty surface can be cleaned with a soft cloth or sponge with warm water added with detergent, or with 2% or 3% soapy water.
(3) Please do not scrub directly with a dry cloth or dry sponge
(4) Antistatic plastic cleaning and care agents, such as Darmstadt, are specially used for cleaning and care of plastic surfaces.
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Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1 )
GOOD MORNING! Last week Last week I shared with you the "Letter to His Son" - the Ethical Will of the Ramban. This week I share with you a modern day Ethical Will of Joe Berman. Joe and Helen Berman were visionaries and philanthropists who cared deeply about the Jewish people. Their leadership and generosity enabled the founding of the Aish HaTorah branch in Toronto. So many organizations world-wide have benefited and made a difference because of the Bermans. There is much that we can learn from Joe's Ethical Will.
Joe Berman's Ethical Will
"All of you are familiar with a legal will, in which you dispose of all your property and designate the beneficiary of each asset. Likewise, according to Jewish tradition, an ethical will is your reflection on your life as a Jew. What the prime motivating values governing your life are -- and how through the prism of your own experience, God's laws are enacted and validated.
"Make a commitment, and get thee a spouse -- a lone person is nothing but lonely -- but with a spouse, and with God's help, children can be a reality. A family is formed, and you are at the beginning of the future. A family leads to being part of a community, and within a community, you are a force and you have strength. As a community you claim kinship with your people, its collective experience and its collective memory, roots, a past.
"Make your family home an oasis of faith, tranquillity, light and warmth so that it becomes an example worthy of emulation.
"Share -- share your feelings, your joys, your sorrows, and your blessings. Sharing is caring and its material implementation is Tzedeka (righteousness -- philanthropy). All you have is not only a result of your own efforts, but by and large, it is Providential. When trouble strikes we all ask 'Why me?' Similarly, when you have abundance, you should ask 'Why me?' Share your earnings, your income, and your assets with your community and its institutions.
"This must be planned, not only on a current basis, but on an endowment basis, for continuity of support. A balance must be struck between competing needs, between institutions and individuals, between impersonal-giving and one-on-one interacting, and between the mature and the new, the innovated, the untried.
"Be alive. Learn to let yourself feel. Learn the language of emotion. Learn to savor each moment even if it does not last - in fact savor it because it does not last.
"Learn to thank God for creating emotions and feelings. Each day let one person feel comfort because of you. Each day let one person see hope because of you."
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When your time on this earth is complete, what is it that you would like to leave to your children? Most people who have something of value expend the money to hire a lawyer to create a will to pass on their material wealth. Think about your spiritual wealth -- what you have learned about life, what is truly valuable, insights into character and relationships, how to use the time allotted us. Is it worth the time and expense to pass on that wealth? There are guide books and workbooks available to help you in your library, bookstore or on Amazon.com.
Chukas, Numbers 19:1 - 22:1
Another week of action, adventure and mystery as the Jewish people wander the desert in their 38th year. First, the laws of the red heifer (Parah Adumah) which was burnt with cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet thread. The ashes were then used in a purification ceremony for those who had come in contact with the dead. Strangely enough, all who were involved in the making of the ashes became ritually impure, but all who were sprinkled with them became ritually pure. It is a lesson that we must do the commandments even if we can't understand them. God decreed the commandments. They are for our benefit. We may not always know why.
Miriam, Moshe's sister and a prophetess, dies. The portable well which had accompanied the Israelites on her merit, ceased to flow. Once again the people rebelled against Moshe and Aharon because of the lack of water. The Almighty tells Moshe to speak to the rock for water. Moshe gets angry and hits the rock and water rushes forth. However, the Almighty punishes Moshe and Aharon for not sanctifying Him by forbidding their entry into the land of Israel. (It pays to follow instructions and to withhold anger!)
Aharon dies. His son, Elazar, is appointed the new High Priest. The Canaanite king of Arad attacks the Israelites and later is soundly defeated. Then there is another rebellion over the food and water which is answered by a plague of poisonous snakes. Moshe prays for the people and is instructed by God to put the image of a snake on a high pole. All who saw it would think of God, repent and live.
The Israelites then annihilate the Amorites and Bashanites who not only would not let us pass peacefully through their lands, but attacked us. There are many questions which need to be asked. Please consult the original work and a good commentary.
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based on Growth Through Torah by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
After the war with Sihon, king of the Amorites, the Jewish people took all the cities and settled in the Amorite cities. The Torah, in speaking about the city of Cheshbon, says:
"Because of that, they who speak using parables (HaMoshlim) say: 'Come to Cheshbon (Bo-ooh Cheshbon). Let the city of Sichon be built and established' " (Numbers 21:27).
The Talmud (Bava Basra 78b) uses a play on words to teach us a lesson in life: " 'Hamoshlim' refers to those who rule over their impulses. 'Bo-ooh Cheshbon', is telling us to come and make an accounting of our behavior. Think about what you lose by performing a mitzvah (a commandment) and weigh that against all that you gain from it. Think about what you gain from transgressing and weigh that against what you lose. If you do this, you will be built up in this world, and will be established in the world to come."
Regarding making an accounting of one's behavior, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato writes that a person needs to keep an eye on all that he does; he should work on overcoming his negative habits and traits. Successful businessmen keep close track of all of their investments and constantly weigh their financial situation. Likewise, a person should make an accounting of his behavior each day to work on self-improvement.
When you do make an accounting of your behavior, feel joy in every bit of improvement. Do not allow yourself to become discouraged when you see your faults and mistakes. When you keep your focus on how you have already done something positive, you will be motivated to keep on improving.
(or go to http://www.aish.com/sh/c/)
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Failure is when one stops trying,
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Hirota, Keiko (2006): Review of Lead Phase Out for Air Quality Improvement in the Third World Cities Lessons from Thailand and Indonesia. Published in: Journal of Studies in Regional Science , Vol. 36, No. 2 (June 2006): pp. 527-541.
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Due to the rapid economic growth, and increase of motor vehicle ownerships in Asian countries, people are suffering from serious air pollution problems, especially in large cities. There has been a worldwide movement to eliminate lead from gasoline since the 1970s. In accordance with lead elimination from gasoline, the concentration of lead in air and its health impact have also decreased. This paper is an attempt to discuss about environmental measures in Thailand and Indonesia. From a point of view on environmental measures, the case studies show different problem and process of lead phase out policy because of different socio-economic backgrounds, the initial conditions of the oil industries and government capacity. Behinds environmental measures, the case studies indicate that the most important change driver is strong leadership to achieve consensus among different stakeholders.
|Item Type:||MPRA Paper|
|Original Title:||Review of Lead Phase Out for Air Quality Improvement in the Third World Cities Lessons from Thailand and Indonesia|
|Keywords:||Asia, Coordination, Air Pollution, Sustainability, Regulatory Policy|
|Subjects:||R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R5 - Regional Government Analysis > R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
P - Economic Systems > P4 - Other Economic Systems > P41 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
N - Economic History > N7 - Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services > N75 - Asia including Middle East
|Depositing User:||Keiko Hirota|
|Date Deposited:||21. May 2009 13:53|
|Last Modified:||28. Apr 2015 19:36|
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Last week, a surprising announcement from Tokyo got all the television folk in Britain hot and bothered. No, it wasn’t that long-awaited apology to British POWs. It was an official decision to delay the launch of digital TV until 2003, issued by the Japanese Ministry of Telecommunications, which spread horror in the British broadcasters’ canteens.
The Japanese TV industry admitted that only three top regions, Osaka, Tokyo and Nagoya, will be ready for interactive TV by 2003, and the rest of the country by 2006. The decision was reached after a study of the current technology and the “uncertainties” for the broadcasters (ie, costs of digital roll-out, calculated at the level of a trillion yen, or Dollars 7.3bn). Their decision has brought to light two interesting issues: first, that commercial TV companies are unwilling to throw money into technology research. A few billion dollars is nothing compared with the hundreds of billions being poured into developing the Internet on a daily basis. So the fact that such a small figure put the Japanese broadcasters off signals an end to the myth that TV companies can hack interactive TV on their own.
The announcement from Tokyo also brought home the uncomfortable message that, unlike Internet technology, which over the past four years has developed a solid electronic commerce infrastructure, with major brands securely trading over the Net, interactive TV is still very much in its “blue sky” research phase. That TV networks are backing off pure media research in Japan is understandable, as they are obviously ill-suited to take on Microsoft’s aggressive young superbrains in the upcoming TV vs sofa-PC battle. That goes for broadcasting folk world-wide, where technology has so far only tested the brainpower of the post-production room, while the rest of the industry operates in an environment pretty much untouched by change since the Fifties, and where the average executive age is well over 45.
Television’s lack of technical IQ perhaps explains the sad saga of interactive TV in our own land, driven by broadcasters despite their lack of rationality, logic and technical know-how. If my money were invested in one of the UK’s half-baked attempts, I would be very worried indeed watching the recent squabbles of BDB and BIB over standards for the encoding technology inside the set-top boxes.
Digital terrestrial decoders are at present not standardised and will not be able to access the electronic programme guide and impulse pay-per- view systems in a standard way, thus creating a split in the set-top box market – that is, if there will be any market left after the industry’s technical squabbles have put the consumers and developers off interactive TV.
Any media technologist worth her mettle knows that the Internet was only successful as a mass medium because of open standards. These paved the way for your Mac, PC or even a good old Amiga to be able to configure a Netscape or Internet Explorer Web browser and download or buy stuff over the Net. Open standards are good and technology moves fast in the market that broadly supports compatibility. That makes the effort of investing in new enabling technologies a lot more efficient, as more companies can contribute and more consumers benefit from low prices. Distributing investment and research efforts widely has proved the only correct way for innovations to move fast, with all the technical holes being plugged as we go along by many different (therefore cheaper) suppliers. The fact that the middle- aged chaps in the broadcasting industry don’t “get it” would seem to indicate that they are in the wrong jobs. In the age of fast innovation, digging yourself into a non-standardised hole is a sure way to technical and financial disaster.
Judging by the explosion of Japanese restaurants in London, we have now completed the transfer from our legacy diet of fish and chips to one more suitable for computer-age living – ie, sushi – as sitting in front of a computer all day doesn’t require as many calories as does shovelling coal in Yorkshire. Now it may be wise to follow the Japanese TV bosses and admit that interactive TV will only happen as an extension of the Internet, and only when we find a simple, cheap and seamless way of slotting a PC into the TV set.
The money going into proprietary solutions for BIB or BDB seems like a lot. But if we compare it with the billions of dollars that Silicon Valley has put into semiconductors, PC and Internet infrastructure since 1994, add the billions that the telecommunications industry invests in opening the bandwidth worldwide, not forgetting the billions put into Internet companies like Yahoo by Wall Street, and round that up with the cost of many years of military research in encryption that allows safe electronic commerce to happen, then the local investment in interactive TV looks like a very small fish indeed and certainly no match for the IT industry.
So, short of committing hara-kiri, admitting that alternative routes to interactive TV are dead ends, giving the money back to the investors and waiting two or three more years for the PC industry to sort it out with TV set manufacturers would be the most honourable solution for the broadcasting execs. Investors then could put their money where the real answers are – in technical companies at the forefront of Internet e-commerce, online retailing and publishing, and then watch the developments in the knowledge that their money will be used well.
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The second proof depends on the (unproved) fact that lowest-term fractions are unique. This is actually a very strong theorem. It is true in the integers, but not in general domains.To fully address this, I need to discuss one of the most fundamental ideas of number theory, the prime factorization. Every positive integer is either a product of two smaller integers, or else is a prime. Primes include 2, 3, 5, and 7. 4 is not prime because it is the product of 2 and 2; 6 is not prime because it is the product of 2 and 3. 221 is the product of 13 and 17; 222 is the product of 6 and 37; 223 is prime. (1 is a special case, and is not considered prime.) This much you probably already know.
The primes were recognized by mathematicians thousands of years ago. Euclid's Elements, written around 2300 years ago, includes a proof that there is no largest prime number. The most important theorem about the positive integers, also known to the Greeks, is that every positive integer has a unique representation as a product of primes. This theorem, fittingly, is known as the "fundamental theorem of arithmetic".
It's quite easy to show that every positive integer can be represented as a product of primes. Suppose that this were not so. Then there would have to be a smallest positive integer n that was not so representable. The number n is either 1, or is prime, or is a product of smaller numbers. If it is 1, it is representable as the "empty product", another special case. If n itself is prime, then it is trivially represented as the product of the single prime n. (Mathematicians customarily allow such things.) Otherwise, n is the product of two smaller numbers, say p and q. But these two numbers are representable as the products of primes, since they are smaller than n, and n is the smallest number not so representable. And then n's representation would be the concatenation of the representations of p and q.
But showing that the representation is unique is trickier. If it seems obvious, you probably haven't thought about it enough. For example, consider the number 24. We can decompose 24 into the product of smaller numbers as 4×6. Then 4 decomposes to 2×2 and 6 to 2×3, so 24 = 2×2×2×3. But what if we had decomposed 24 differently, say as 3×8? Then we decompose 8 as 2×4, and 4 as 2×2, yielding 24 = 3×2×2×2. The two decompositions end up in the same place. But was that guaranteed? What about for a really big number, like 3,628,800? There are a lot of ways to decompose this. Can we be sure that all paths will end at the same place?
For the integers, the answer is yes, they do. But this is a special property of the integers. One can find simple structures, analogous to the integers, where two paths might not end at the same factorization.
The usual example of this is the so-called 3n+1 domain. In this world, we consider only the integers of the form 3n+1. That is, the only numbers of interest are 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, and so on. It's quite easy to show that the product of any collection of these numbers is another one of the form 3n+1. (Briefly, because (3n+1) × (3m+1) = 9mn+3m+3n+1 = 3·(3mn+m+n) + 1. But if you're not convinced by this, just try some examples.)
The 3n+1 domain has its own idea of what is prime and what isn't. 1, as usual, is a special case. 4 is prime, because it is not a product of smaller numbers. (2×2 doesn't work, because the 3n+1 domain has no 2.) 7 is prime, as usual. 10 is prime. (Again, because the 3n+1 domain has neither 2 nor 5.) 13 is prime, as usual. 16 is not prime; it is 4×4, as usual.
The proof that every number has a prime factorization goes through in the 3n+1 domain just as in the regular integers. But the proof that the factorization is unique does not go through, because in fact the 3n+1 domain does not have this property. The smallest example for which it fails is 100, which has not one but two factorizations into primes: 100 = 4 × 25 = 10 × 10.
The failure of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic in the 3n+1 domain triggers the failure of a long series of related results, like the first domino in a series knocking over the others. For example, in the regular integers, if p is prime, and ab is a multiple of p, then either a or b (or both) is a multiple of p. In particular, if the product of two integers is even, then at least one of the two integers must have been even. This does not hold true in the 3n+1 domain. A counterexample is that neither 4 nor 25 is a multiple of the prime 10, but their product is.
Yet another failure is the one with which I opened the article. We say that two integers have a common factor d if they are both multiples of d. (d = 1 is conventionally excluded, since all integers are multiples of 1.) For example, 28 and 18 have a common factor of 2 since they are both multiples of 2; 36 and 63 have a common factor of 9. 14 and 15 have no common factor. When we write fractions, we customarily forbid the numerator and denominator to have a common factor, since the fraction can then be written more simply by canceling the common factor. For example, we never write 36/90; we always cancel the common factor of 18 and write 2/5 instead. When the numerator and denominator have no common factor, we say that the fraction is "in lowest terms".
Each rational number has a unique representation as a lowest-terms fraction, as the quotient of two integers that have no common factor. There is no way to write 2/5 as the quotient of two numbers other than 2 and 5, except by multiplying them by some constant factor, to get something uninteresting like 200/500.
This property also fails in the 3n+1 domain. Some rational numbers have more than one representation. 4/10 = 10/25, but neither 4 and 10 nor 10 and 25 have common factors to cancel, since the 3n+1 domain omits both 2 and 5.
Exercise: Does the analogous 4n+1 domain have unique prime factorizations?
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Copenhagen Airport, December 2009
As the world's leaders gathered in Copenhagen in Denmark for the
COP15 world conference on climate change, so did two bear leaders,
McBear and Roger. At the latest TARF meeting, the council had decided
to send two delegates to the conference. McBear believed that toy
animals should be represented on equal terms with humans and Roger,
being a polar bear, believed, that if the North Pole was at risk of
melting, polar bears would indeed be the first to feel the consequences.
Having landed in Copenhagen Airport, we discovered some of the many posters that were hanging around to advertise this world event.
Click each photo to enlarge
We were staying with our humans in Slangerup and we had the opportunity to go to Hillerød and the famous Frederiksborg Castle. We had already seen the castle several times before, and since Christmas was approaching, we were more interested in the local Christmas market. Here were are at the local town hall square.
Hillerød, December 2009
At one of the stands we came across some lovely handmade bear
sized timber chairs and we decided to buy a chair.
It turned out that McBear had certain difficulties trying to squeeeeze in between the armrests. Roger on the other hand was perfectly fit to sit on the chair.
"Your bum is still too big!" Roger pointed out rather bluntly.
"And you spend too much time in front of your laptop!" he continued.
McBear didn't fully agree...
In the evening we sat down to enjoy a cosy fire in front of
the fireplace. Roger enjoyed sitting on his new armchair.
Our humans were very concerned and they were worried that one of us could catch fire.
Copenhagen, December 2009
The next day we went to Copenhagen to the town hall square. It looked
like it would be a busy place...
We had prepared some posters. On McBear's poster he had typed: "Humans & Toy Animals share climate responsibility". And Roger had prepared a poster on which he had printed: "Polar Bears support colder icebergs!"
Thousands of people had gathered at the town hall square to listen to talks and to demonstrate for a better climate in the world. We were a bit worried to become run over by people if we should mingle with the crowd...
We went to the Bella Center where the conference was taking place. But at
the entrance the police refused to let us in! It turned out that the Danish
government hadn't thought of inviting toy animals! Boy, was McBear disappointed!
Roger tried to give ham consolation.
"Don't worry, McBear. We'll be there the next time..."
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8 August 2011
At the end of July, the New Bodleian in its present guise was closed permanently following more than 70 years of service to the University. Over the next three years the building will undergo major renovation and redevelopment and will be reopen as the Weston Library in 2015.
Known to readers, scholars, visitors and to the Oxford community as a book fortress housing more than 3 million books, 1 million maps, 1.5 million items in the ephemera collection and 10,000 medieval manuscripts, the New Bodleian has been in major need of transformation and upgrading.
The closing down was marked by a celebration in the New Bodleian Reading Room, the same room were the opening ceremony attended by King George VI took place. The event was attended by over 150 staff members new and old, including Roy Beesley who began working at the Bodleian in 1934, before the New Library was built.
Dr Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian, quoted in her speech from a report written by one of her predecessors, Sir Edmund Craster, who had developed the detailed plans for a new library building, and had commissioned the architect Giles Gilbert Scott to design it: ‘To replace an old library by an entirely new one is a comparatively simple matter. But to retain and transform the old and add to it a great new library building is much more complex’. These words are still true today, as the library management have spent the last six years planning for the transformation of the New Bodleian.
Dr Thomas went on to thank the donors and supporters who have contributed to the renovation project, the large number of University staff who have been involved in preparing the building for renovation and the library staff who helped empty the building and ‘endured disruption of their workplaces, work processes, and the materials they work with, whether print, manuscript, or electronic’.
The event ended with a piper escorting Bodley’s Librarian, Sarah Thomas and our newly-acquired Austen manuscript as the final item to leave the building. A selection of pictures from the ceremony can be viewed in the picture gallery below.
‘My husband's aunt was in the WRENs during World War 2. Sadly she has now died but when she visited us in Oxford and I drove her along the Broad she reminisced about sorting people's holiday photos in the Bodleian. It was fascinating especially as she said that what she remembered was how many interesting people passed through. "I met Vaughan Williams one day!" was one remark that has stuck in my memory.’
It may come as a surprise to many that the New Bodleian had a different beginning than intended. Although the building was finished in 1939, because of the outbreak of the Second World War among the first occupants were not readers and librarians but staff from Naval Intelligence. One of their tasks was the planning and strategy for D-Day . In the safe underground stacks of the New Bodleian, they were sorting postcards from France collected from the general public, an activity which helped them to map the French coastline more accurately.
The New Bodleian also played a part in the breaking of the Enigma Code. The building’s eleven storeys were named using the alphabet letters with the exception of the letter ‘I’ to avoid confusion. When hearing this fact, a Bletchley Park archivist wondered if the Germans had used the same technique. It proved they did.
Extra preventive measures were taken to protect the building from the Nazi bombing. A concrete roof which had been newly laid made the New Bodleian a safe haven for the pictures of Christ Church, the stained glass of New College, the wood carvings of Trinity, the manuscripts of Balliol and Merton, as well as books from the British Museum, Natural History Museum, the V&A, and the Royal Society. Also the Bletchley Park archive was catalogued in the New Bodleian.
Pictures sourced from our archives featuring the history of the New Bodleian from its construction to the days before it closed its doors in 2011 can be viewed here.
Over the next three years, we will post regular updates on the renovation project. Don’t forget to come back and check the news on this page.
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
> When push.default is set to 'matching', git will push local branches
> to remote branches that already exist with the same (matching) name.
Yes, that's better than the original patch (and remains two lines).
>>>>> + "In Git 2.0 the new push.default of 'simple' will push only the
>>>>> + "branch to the same remote branch used by git pull. A push will\n"
>>>>> + "only succeed if the remote and local branches have the same name.\n"
>>> while you can see that it is not telling a lie if you read it twice,
>>> "will only succeed if" feels somewhat roundabout.
>>> ... push only the current branch back to the branch of the
>>> same name, but only if 'git pull' is set to pull from that
>>> branch. Otherwise the push will fail.
>>> might be an improvement, but I dunno.
>> I do not see much difference actually. I tend to prefer the original
>> version: to me the expected behavior is to make push and pull
>> essentially symetrical, and the fact that it fails if the branch is
>> named differently is a safety feature comming on top of that.
> In Git 2.0 (or now, if push.default is set to 'simple'), git will behave
> more conservatively by pushing only the current branch to the
> remote branch used by "git pull", and only if the remote and local
> have the same name.
I prefered the original, as it had two sentences. Reading only the first
one gave the important information.
> In Git 2.0, git will default to a more conservative 'simple' behavior
> that only pushes the current branch.
That's an option too, but I think mentionning "git pull" was a good
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“If you live or vote in the United States”, Mozilla would be much obliged if you would sign their pro-Net Neutrality petition, destined for the U.S. Congress, before February 26th.
Among other things, the petition affirms that:
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As a general rule, I do not sign petitions, but made an exception for this one, because:
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- I value the principle of net neutrality from a civil rights but also a human rights perspective; I do not see it as a partisan issue
- The birth of the Web is one of the most amazing things those alive today are privilege to witness — that is not meant to be hyperbolic or mawkish — but the Web is still young and can still be broken. In my opinion, it is not that those organizations in opposition to net neutrality are malicious or devious or reckless; they are short-sighted. Net neutrality supports a free and open Web, which benefits all individuals and organizations and businesses, large and small, incorporated and un-incorporated. | <urn:uuid:04cec080-aeb2-46b7-b155-144d81af874d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oereducated.neonacorns.org/2015/02/sign-mozillas-net-neutrality-petition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.95122 | 252 | 1.96875 | 2 |
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In the early James Bond movies, a technique known as rear window projection, or “driving a desk” was used to show a scene in the background of a stationary car (normally in a studio) to make it appear as though the car is in the middle of a high-speed car chase. This was due to the fact there were many places that it was practically impossible to take a full film crew, such as Times Square or other busy urban areas, due to the costs and restrictions in place at the time.
Also, this was well before the invention of image stabilization, meaning camera crews couldn’t simply rig their camera to the side of the car and the image would come out smooth and crisp like today. With this being the early days of Hollywood, this technique threw up some rather comical challenges, the biggest of which was that the direction of the steering wheel turned by the actor or actress would rarely match the movement in the background. This would mean if the car was really being driven in the direction it was supposed to be via the steering wheel, it would have taken a completely different route than we see onscreen.The team at WhoCanFixMyCar thought we’d retrace some of the early 007 car chase scenes to see where Bond and his accomplices would have really ended up if he had been steering a real car! The red routes below show where the car would have ended up if the steering input was real, and the white routes show the path the car takes according to the background and wider filming shots of the scene.
When people think of the first Bond car, they think of the Aston Martin DB5. But in fact, it was the modest Sunbeam Alpine that Bond put through its paces in Dr. No. The chase begins when, after leaving the apartment of Miss Taro, an enemy spy, Bond finds himself being pursued by an assailant.
The rear projection used in this chase is perhaps one of the most famous ever images of Sean Connery and Bond in general, making its way on to the cover of some versions of the DVD when it was released. Connery “controls” the car well in the opening of the scene until he stumbles upon some tight curves and hairpins, and then the chaos begins.
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San Francisco Art Institute | Fall 2016 | CS 500V-01 Fetish, Figure, Fact
"Artists inhabit the magical universe." -- William Burroughs
Instructor: Dale Carrico, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org, blog: http://fetish-figure-fact.blogspot.com
Course Description: We think of facts as found not made, but facts are made to be found and, once found, made to be foundational. Let us pursue together the propositions that fetishes are figures we take to yield false facts, while facts are figures we have fetishized to yield truths...
In this course we will explore the relations and distinctions in critical conceptions of fetishism, figuration, and facticity. We will discover early that theories of the fetish define the turn of the three threshold figures of critical theory from philosophy to post-philosophical discourse: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche (commodity, sexuality, ressentimentality). Fetishism recurs deliriously thereafter in contemporary critical theory, feminist, queer, anti-racist, post-colonial, technoscientific, and we will survey many of these. Fetishism, it turns out, may be indispensable to the delineation of the aesthetic, the constitution of the social, the adjudications of the cultural and subcultural, and to representational practices both artistic and political. Is the devotion of the critical to the separation of facts from fancies itself fetishistic? What if fetishism is just another kind of figurative language, or just another kind of literalization after all? What are we to make of the way distinctions between fetishism, figuration, and fact can themselves always be drawn fetishistically, figuratively, and factually? Our answers may well take us to the heart of making itself.
Notebook 15%, 10-min Report/Co-Facilitation 15%, Symposium Presentation 30%, Final Paper (12-15pp.) 40%
Week One | August 29 -- Introductions
Week Two | September 5 -- Labor Day Holiday
Week Three | September 12 -- Friedrich Nietzsche: On Truth and the Lie in an Extramoral Sense; Selections from The Gay Science and Ecce Homo on the Eternal Return and ressentiment.
Week Four | September 19 -- Sigmund Freud: Fetishism; Selections from Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Schreber.
Week Five | September 26 -- Karl Marx: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof from Capital, Volume One; Selections from The German Ideology
Week Six | October 3 -- Screening and discussion of Max Ophuls, dir.: Earrings of Madame de…
Week Seven | October 10 -- Walter Benjamin: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility; Naomi Klein, Logo: No Logo, One and Two
Week Eight | October 17 -- Frantz Fanon: "The Fact of Blackness" & other selections from Black Skin, White Masks
Week Nine | October 24 -- Laura Mulvey: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"; Kobena Mercer: "Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe"
Week Ten | October 31 -- William Burroughs: "On Coincidence"; Elizabeth Grosz: "Lesbian Fetishism"; Charity Scribner: "Object, Relic, Fetish, Thing: Joseph Beuys and the Museum"
Week Eleven | November 7 -- Screening and discussion of Alfred Hitchcock, dir.: North by Northwest; Michael Taussig: "State Fetishism"
Week Twelve | November 14 -- David Harvey: The Fetish of Technology; Bruno Latour: Selections from The Modern Cult of the Factish Gods
Week Thirteen | November 21 -- Symposium (first panels)
Week Fourteen | November 28 -- Symposium (second panels)
Week Fifteen | December 5 -- Closing Remarks, Hand in Final Papers and Notebooks.
Syllabus for my undergraduate Critical Theory survey course, still coming up (I don't expect it to be much changed from the earlier versions I've been teaching for over a decade, however)....
Instructor: Dale Carrico, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org
Course Blog: http://patriarchalphilosophistry.blogspot.com
August 25-December 8, 2016, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3.30-5pm, LeConte Hall, Room 2
Participation/Attendance/In-Class Activities, 20%; Reading Notebook, 20%; Precis, 2-3pp., 15%; Figurative Reading, 2-3pp., 15%; Final Paper, 6pp., 30%. (Rough Basis for Final Grade, subject to contingencies.)
Provisional Schedule of Meetings
Tuesday, September 13 | Euripides, Hecuba
Thursday, September 15 | Plato, Apology
Tuesday, September 20 | Plato, Protagorus
Thursday, September 22 | Plato, Gorgias
Tuesday, September 27 | Plato, Phaedrus
Thursday, September 29 | Plato, Symposium
Tuesday, October 4 | Plato, Republic Book V and Book VII
Thursday, October 6 | Aristophanes, Wasps
You should have posted your first short piece, whether your precis or figurative analysis by now.
Tuesday, October 11 | Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I and Book II and from Topics
Thursday, October 13 | Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book III and from Poetics
Tuesday, October 18 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, Against Verres, Against Cataline, Against Antony
Thursday, October 20 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, On the Ideal Orator
Tuesday, October 25 | Terence, Eunuchus
Thursday, October 27 | A selection of poems by Ovid
Tuesday, November 1 | Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii
Thursday, November 3 | Suetonius, Caligula
Tuesday, November 8 | Quintus Tullius Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis
Thursday, November 10 | Juvenal, Satires I, II, III
Tuesday, November 15 | Hortensia's Forum Oration to the Second Triumvirate. Quintilian, from Institutio Oratoria: Book I -- Preface, Chapters 1-3; Book III -- Chapters 1-5; Book VI -- Chapter 1; Book VII -- Chapters 8-10; Book VIII -- Chapter 1-3, and also Chapter 6; Book IX -- Chapter 1; Book XII -- Chapter 1
Thursday, November 17 | Libanius, "The Silence of Socrates"
Tuesday, November 22 | Gaius Petronius, Satyricon
Thursday, November 24 | Thanksgiving Day Holiday
You should have posted your second short piece, whether your precis or figurative analysis by now.
Tuesday, November 29 | Augustine, from City of God, Read as much as you like but Books I and XI are the crucial ones for us.
Thursday, December 1 | In-Class Workshop for Final Paper
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The theory of 'Marginal Gains' states that if you make tiny improvements in all aspects of your performance, then these improvements will all add up and create a significant overall improvement. The theory of Marginal Gains can also help with your photographic workflow.
As a travel photographer, I shoot a lot of pictures on a wide variety of subjects. On a recent two day trip to Belgium I came back with well over two thousand pictures, for example. If you're the sort of photographer who relies on sorting everything out on a computer later, then even a couple of days of shooting is going to take you a while to process. As such, it's far better to get everything as close as possible in-camera and have minimal edits left for post-processing.
One of the ways in which you can minimize the amount of work you need to do in post-processing is to calibrate your camera. Many digital photographers are familiar with calibrating their computer monitor to help them get accurate results when adjusting images - some will even go to the trouble of calibrating their printers to get better, more predictable print results. But few think of calibrating their camera.
Whatever the device, the principle of calibration is the same. You create a custom profile for your device, so that color management capable software can make allowances for any variances. So when you calibrate a monitor, you're measuring how it varies from an agreed standard in how it displays colors. Top flight monitors might not vary all that much, but a lower-end screen might be significantly 'off'. The resulting profile is used to adjust how your images are displayed on that screen, to eliminate the discrepancy.
All cameras see colors differently and to recreate a scene as you remember it, you might have to make a number of edits in post-processing to render the colors accurately. Calibration will mean you have a better, more accurate starting point and so each image will, in theory need fewer edits.
Calibrating a camera works in a similar way: essentially you are measuring any variance in how it sees the world, and creating a profile to correct these individual differences at the Raw processing stage.
I first became convinced of camera profiling some years ago, when processing some images of an Irish sunset shot on a Nikon D2x. The colors came out too yellow and muted, and not the vibrant purples I remembered from the scene. So, on a whim I created a profile from a calibration image that I had photographed but never used, and then watched amazed as each image preview rendered in exactly the way I recalled.
Depending on your camera and light source however, you might not notice such a prominent color shift, but the theory of Marginal Gains teaches us that even apparently unnoticeable improvements in quality will add up.
Creating a custom profile for your camera has never been easier. I use the Xrite ColorChecker Passport and the plug-in that allows me to create profiles direct from Adobe Lightroom. You can also use the bundled software to create tailor-made camera profiles for Adobe Camera Raw. Adobe terms these as DNG profiles, but you don't need to convert your Raw files to DNGs (Adobe's Digital Negative format) to use them.
|ColorChecker Passport photographed in bright sunlight.|
The actual ColorChecker Passport consists of a standard 24-patch color target in a hard plastic case. You also get a grey card, which can be used for white balance and a color enhancement target, but the most useful is the standard color target.
Creating a camera profile
To create a camera profile, simply photograph the target under a given light. If you have more than one camera, then use each body, with the same lens if possible. I tend to use a mid-range zoom which is the one I use the most when out shooting. Since I'm capturing raw files exclusively and not JPEGs, it doesn't matter which color space - Adobe RGB or sRGB - I select in camera, but I always process the files in AdobeRGB since it gives a wider color gamut. You should use the same color space for both the calibration shot and subsequent images which will use the same profile.
The following is my workflow, using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
In Lightroom, select the imported image of the calibration target then select the Export command and then select the ColorChecker Passport preset that is loaded when you installed the software that comes with the Passport. Simply name your profile and the software does all of the rest.
After you restart Lightroom, the resulting profile can then be applied through the Profile pop-up in the Camera Calibration panel of Lightroom. Remember though that you'll only see profiles that are created by the camera that shot any Raw file you have selected. For an enhanced workflow, this profile can be saved as part of a Develop Preset and applied to a batch of applicable pictures.
|Adobe Lightroom Export dialog showing the ColorChecker Passport interface.|
The difficult thing is to work out how many calibrations you need to do. In theory you should perform a calibration for each lighting source, lens, and even ISO. In practice, unless you work in very controlled conditions this is probably too unwieldy and will slow up your workflow.
The trick is to find a balance for your type of shooting between having to create and apply so many different calibrations that it will be too time consuming and having too few profiles to be any use. As with most things to do with calibration, even having calibrated your camera once will be an improvement on most photographers' workflow.
How to use custom profiles
Working as a travel photographer, I tend to make a custom profile for each location area. So if I am shooting in the Himalayan region of Ladakh in India, I'll create a profile, and if on the same trip I were to head to a completely different area, such as the lush state of Kerala in the South of India, then I would repeat the process.
The ColorChecker Passport software has the ability to combine two different calibrations into a Dual-Illuminant DNG Profile. This gives a more accurate profile for your camera if you are shooting under any lighting source, and not just the sources you have actually profiled. What you'll need to do is shoot two different calibration shots under significantly different light sources. Then select the two calibration images and the software will create a combined camera profile, which is said to be much more accurate when applied under different lighting conditions than a single profile.
The sooner you perform these calibrations, then the sooner you can apply them automatically as a Develop Preset when importing any new images.
If you don't use Adobe Lightroom, then you can use the ColorChecker Passport standalone software to create your DNG Profiles, which can then be applied through some other Raw processing software including Adobe Camera Raw and CaptureOne. Currently, the ColorChecker Passport and DNG profiles are not compatible with Apple Aperture.
Steve Davey is a writer and photographer based in London. He juggles a young family with traveling as much as possible to some of the more exotic and photogenic parts of the world. Steve has just released the second edition of Footprint Travel Photography, which has been hailed as the leading guide to traveling with a camera.
The book is also available on Kindle, iBookstore, Barnes & Noble and Kobo editions. To complement the first edition of the book, Steve launched his own range of travel photography trips to some of the most photogenic parts of the world. Uniquely falling between a photography tour and a workshop, Steve accompanies each trip providing copious instruction as well as countless photo-opportunities. More detail on these trips and Footprint Travel Photography on www.bettertravelphotography.com.
Steve's professional site can be found on www.stevedavey.com
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sigh, as she eyed the rabbits in all sizes and colors.
"That's why we still have 'Nike' and 'George,' " her mother
said with a laugh as the children pointed to the oldest rabbits in the barn.
The Robbins and other area families turn to Treva Muhlenkamp,
affectionately known as The Rabbit Lady, when they have hare raising questions. Muhlenkamp
has been the adult superintendent of the 4-H rabbit barn for about 15 years.
"I got involved with rabbits when my own daughter got one for a
4-H project 15 years ago," Muhlenkamp said. "I thought it would be an easy
Together, she and her daughter learned the ins and outs of raising
hares. At one time the family had 60 or 70 of them, she said.
Muhlenkamp said she read countless books on the subject and, just like
the Robbins family, took advice from the American Rabbit Breeders Association.
Rabbits can be kept in the house and some owners even housebreak their
animals just like cats, Muhlenkamp added.
"I know people that say rabbits are easier to housebreak than dogs
and cats. They'll always go in the same spot," she said.
The Robbins have had few problems with their rabbits, except for the
mysterious bunny escapade.
"Elizabeth would come flying in the house with a puzzled look on
her face and say, 'Mom, they got out again,' " Kim Robbins said with a grin.
"We'd go out in the barn and find the little bunnies huddled together in a corner on
The family couldn't figure out how the bunnies escaped until one day
they realized the metal feeders weren't tight against the cage. The little
"Houdini" bunnies were mischievously pushing the feeder aside and dropping to
the floor, miraculously without injury.
"Then we got smart and wired the feeders to the cage,"
Elizabeth said smiling.
The Robbins love their soft, furry friends but realize not everybody is
cut out to be rabbit owners.
"Consider why you want one and make sure you can devote the time,
space and money to keep them," said Kim Robbins. "Like the Rabbit Breeders
Association says, they're a real, live, 10-year commitment."
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With all the talk of Standard & Poor’s downgrade, no one mentioned that the ratings agency’s business model is, essentially, lying for money.
Instead, many politicians insist that the S&P downgrade is the reason for the market turmoil — not the banking freeze-ups in the Eurozone or political paralysis here. The credibility accorded to S&P by U.S. political elites shows that the rot is indeed deep — and worrisome.
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Let’s note, at the start, that this downgrade was absurd. The credit rating of the United States is not in jeopardy. The U.S. government prints dollars — it can no more run out of dollars than a bowling alley can run out of strikes.
What’s really happening is an attempt by both parties to justify slashing Social Security and Medicare. Republicans have long wanted to roll back the New Deal. What is relatively new is that a Democratic president is now dead set on cutting these programs as well.
President Barack Obama, in his speech Monday about the downgrade, used the market turmoil as an excuse to do just that. After a debt ceiling deal in which the Democrats argued that defense spending cuts — not entitlement cuts — could close the long-term deficit, Obama said Monday that there’s “not much further” he can trim defense. Despite the fact that defense spending has gone up on his watch. Instead, Obama said, we need cuts in social spending, or, as he phrased it, “modest adjustments to health care programs like Medicare.”
In effect, there seems to have been a merger of both parties into a single force advocating for the interests of bondholders and the cutting of Medicare and Social Security. It’s why both Republicans and Democrats are now blaming each other for the downgrade — as though the downgrade were to be taken seriously.
So let’s look at S&P and then find out why it is so disturbing that this “downgrade” is being viewed as important.
First, if S&P calls for Treasury debt to be treated as a problem by the markets, Treasury borrowing rates should have increased. But they fell — because investors want to hold U.S. government debt as the world’s safest harbor.
Why trust S&P, anyway? Let’s review the carnage and incompetence of this company. It was, more than almost any other firm, a creator and catalyst for the financial crisis. And its analysts knew it.
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Today, young people are the least likely to give and technology may be to blame. Recent Yale graduates, Sahil Gupta and Bill Cavell, created the smartphone app to meet millennials where they are in terms of the technology and social media platforms they already use on a daily basis. By making philanthropy social and removing barriers to entry, microChange hopes to engage tech-savvy millennials in giving back. They will be marketing to NGOs and donors alike, with the goal to make all charities mobile so that they can quickly and cheaply reach donors and demonstrate impact. LEARN MORE | <urn:uuid:9f4eeec1-2dab-42d2-8e60-4bdb0efce64c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thehandfoundation.org/newsletter-article.php?App-to-Give-Back-163 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.934682 | 178 | 1.851563 | 2 |
I thought I was sufficiently cynical about the state of the world until I heard Suzanne Humphries point out the glaringly obvious fact that the “side effect” of certain vaccines causing chronic disease in certain populations happens to fit the pharmaceutical industry’s business model to a T. Chronic disease means lifetime customers.
… Around 2006, CDC took stock of the persistently low compliance with its influenza recommendations, largely ignored by both doctors and pregnant women, and began more aggressively promoting flu shots for pregnant women. In an update in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC cited as evidence of the vaccines’ safety during pregnancy a grand total of two retrospective epidemiological studies of medical records—one of which was published in 1973.
In 2011, CDC and other medical trade organizations also began recommending that all pregnant women get the Tdap vaccine (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis), which, among other ingredients, contains neurotoxic aluminum. Tdap coverage in pregnancy increased substantially following this recommendation, particularly in women who also received other vaccines during pregnancy. The FDA’s original approval of the two Tdap brands (Boostrix and Adacel) in the mid-2000s was as a booster for teens and adults, and the product inserts state that Tdap should be given during pregnancy only “when benefit outweighs risk.” At the time of the 2011 recommendation, no prelicensure studies of Tdap safety during pregnancy were available, so most of the (largely unpublished) data used to justify the recommendation came from post-licensure pregnancy pharmacovigilance conducted by vaccine manufacturers. To this day, online information for Boostrix states that “it is not known whether Tdap vaccine will harm an unborn baby.”
There is no place in the universe for these people. They would be cast out even from hell.
Regulators Remain Indifferent to Unsafe Levels of Aluminum in Vaccines
Vaccines are complex laboratory creations designed for one seemingly simple purpose: to stimulate a theoretically protective immune response. However, some vaccines are not as likely to have their intended effect without an “adjuvant” to amplify the vaccinated individual’s response. Aluminum salts are the most common type of vaccine adjuvant in use, despite abundant science establishing aluminum as a neurotoxin.
In 2002, only two childhood vaccines contained aluminum adjuvants, but the aluminum picture had changed dramatically by 2016, when children received five aluminum-containing vaccines from birth to age three and at least two more in the teenage years. Two independent researchers are raising important questions about the wisdom of this ramped-up use of injected aluminum in young children. In a study published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology (JTEMB) and a related online article, the researchers methodically show that current levels of aluminum in vaccines—wrongly termed “safe” by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—derive from “outdated information, unwarranted assumptions and errors.”
Missing science: counting the ways
According to the two researchers, current aluminum amounts in vaccines lack the rigorous scientific underpinning ordinarily required to make a proper determination of toxicity and dosing. One of the largest gaffes is that “the entire paradigm to aluminum dosing in vaccines [was not] determined considering body weight.”
The researchers note that whereas dosage should be expressed in terms of micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day (and should consider all injected and ingested sources of aluminum on that day), the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) simply references aluminum amounts in terms of micrograms per dose. As a result, aluminum amounts do not appropriately adjust for toxicological differences between adults and children, males and females or normal-birthweight versus low-birthweight infants.
The JTEMB article describes a number of other startling research omissions that have done a major disservice to infants and young children who receive aluminum-containing vaccines. For example:
Regulators based their inadequate aluminum safety thresholds on studies of adult mice.
The mice in question received “poorly absorbed, ingested aluminum” rather than “highly absorbed injected aluminum,” but the toxicity of ingested doses of other forms of aluminum has little to do with the toxicity of injected doses of aluminum salts.
Regulators and scientists relied for decades on a mistaken calculation of the “provisional tolerable weekly intake,” resulting in “overestimation of safe exposure levels.”
Dose-related toxicity has been ignored despite routine administration of multiple aluminum-containing vaccines at a single health care visit.
Although clearance rates of injected doses of aluminum are “not well characterized,” other researchers have suggested that vaccine forms of aluminum are not rapidly eliminated. At least “15% of injected aluminum goes to the brain and stays there.”
Regulators do not factor this issue of body burden into their equations, even though “the accumulated aluminum body burden at each vaccination interval will be higher than an individual aluminum level in a single vaccine.”
Using a more rigorous and extensively justified methodology, the two researchers offer their own calculations of provisional “safe” levels of aluminum in childhood vaccines. These calculations unequivocally show that the levels of aluminum currently present in individual vaccines and in the modern vaccine schedule as a whole are “problematically high.”
Aluminum in the brain can trigger chronic brain inflammation and a cascading series of other events that have all the hallmarks of autism and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Why baseline assumptions matter
In a related online commentary by one of the two researchers, the latter makes no bones about the low credibility of current regulatory thresholds for aluminum—shaped as they have been by “serious historical missteps,” “unfounded assumptions,” “rationalization,” “muddy calculations” and “misrepresentations of past science.” Unfortunately, the sobering bottom line of this “mathematical gerrymandering” is that “we are almost certainly looking at a global neurotoxicity disaster.” Aluminum in the brain can trigger chronic brain inflammation and a cascading series of other events that have all the hallmarks of autism and other neurodegenerative conditions. Is it any surprise, then, that researchers have confirmed massive aluminum accumulation in the brains of children with autism?
Unfortunately, the types of safety calculation errors and unjustified assumptions described by the two researchers will sound only too familiar to those who have followed the lengthy and disturbing saga of neurotoxic ethylmercury in the vaccine preservative thimerosal. In fact, both thimerosal and aluminum adjuvants have a longstanding role as “dominating interventional exposures encountered by fetuses, newborns and infants.” Despite the urgent need to minimize (if not eliminate) the neurotoxic effects of both substances, regulators appear satisfied to continue propagating errors and misplaced reassurances.
It’s quite a coincidence that aluminum adjuvant became a common ingredient in childhood vaccines at the same time that thimerosal perservative (mercury) was being phased out (except for bulk flu vaccines, which are given every year btw).
There should not be a connection here. Phasing out a neurotoxic preservative does not necessitate adding a neurotoxic adjuvant. Apparently we are to believe that the timing was coincidental.
Unfortunately for those who still cling to the benevolence theory of medical mayhem, there is a non-coincidental explanation and a plausible connection between the two. This connection is seen in the medical establishment’s argument that thimerosal could not be connected with autism because there was no reduction in autism rates when thimerosal was (mostly) removed. Therefore, we are to conclude, medicine and their pharmaceutical benefactors have no culpability in the plague of misery and brain damage which continues to spread among the children of this country.
There are no conflicts of interest in medicine. No financial incentives to keep doing what they have been doing in order to forestall exposure of mass quackery and legal liability. That’s why they stopped sexually torturing baby boys many decades ago, when even the most dimwitted among them could hardly avoid noticing that there was no scientific reason to do it and every humane reason to stop.
Even from a strictly Darwinian perspective, empathy is humanity’s ace in the hole. It is the foundation of social organization, without which we would not have language, science, technology or the desire to pass these gifts on to future generations. Without empathy, we would not have family and community. We would be isolated, defenseless, naked apes, easy prey for any carnivore of even moderate size, or, in a modern day context, for any social grouping of sufficient cohesion among themselves. Thus, in a very real sense, empathy is power.
But humans are born at a very early stage of development compared to other mammals. Aside from human breast milk, babies need pleasurable sensory and experiential inputs to activate their full neurological potential, especially their empathic potential. These require family cohesion and stability which is only possible with well-developed parental empathy and bonding. Thus in healthy nurturing families, empathy is amplified and passed on through the generations, with predictable benefits in terms of survival, success and fulfillment.
Nature has provided only 3 biological processes in which the hormones and the neural connections of love and empathy are activated in the human brain. These are sex, birth and breast feeding. While social and physical activity can contribute, these basic reproductive processes are foundational to making human brains receptive to other positive stimuli. Sex, birth and breast feeding are nature’s way of inducing the emotional states which bond families together and maximize empathic and survival potential. Such strong primal bonds naturally resist the dissociative social and economic pressures that the overlords use to divide people, and groups of stable families can form very stable and resilient communities, which are inherently subversive to the top-down management necessitated by large scale centralized social control.
Families and communities are a form of distributed autonomous hubs of economic activity and intelligence and a distributed information store. They are a source of inconvenient history, invention, innovation and mutual support and solidarity which raises constant trouble for anyone seeking to impose a top-down command-and-control social structure suitable for unchallenged rule, while their economic efficiency and largely self-contained economic activity reduces opportunities for the financial harvesting which would otherwise occur via loanable and taxable currency flows. Furthermore, they produce new people which at least initially are socialized outside of the seamlessly integrated banking / governmental complex to boot. A losing proposition all the way around for the parasitic financial and political overlay which has feasted on human activity for centuries. So it’s not surprising that the family has long been a prime target for empire builders, and aside from the usual economic, social and legal incentives used to disrupt families and push kids into state management, they also work behind the scenes to throw a monkey wrench precisely into sex, birth and breast feeding.
Fifty years have passed since a scandal broke over inhumane treatment of laboring women in U.S. hospitals, yet first-person and eyewitness reports document that medical care providers continue to subject childbearing women to verbal and physical abuse and even to what would constitute sexual assault in any other context. Women frequently are denied their right to make informed decisions about care and may be punished for attempting to assert their right to refusal. Mistreatment is not uncommon and persists because of factors inherent to hospital social culture. Concerted action on the part of all stakeholders will be required to bring about systemic reform.
“Cruelty in Maternity Wards” was the title of a shocking article published just over 50 years ago in Ladies’ Home Journal in which nurses and women told stories of inhumane treatment in labor and delivery wards during childbirth (Schultz, 1958). Stories included women being strapped down for hours in the lithotomy position, a woman having her legs tied together to prevent birth while her obstetrician had dinner, women being struck and threatened with the possibility of giving birth to a dead or brain damaged baby for crying out in pain, and a doctor cutting and suturing episiotomies without anesthetic (he had once nearly lost a patient to an overdose) while having the nurse stifle the woman’s cries with a mask.
“The article shook the country and triggered a tsunami of childbirth reform that included the founding of the American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics, now known as Lamaze International. Nonetheless, as Susan Hodges (2009) recently noted in her guest editorial published in The Journal of Perinatal Education, despite enormous differences in labor and delivery management, decades later, inhumane treatment remains distressingly common. American childbearing women still suffer mistreatment at the hands of care providers, ranging from failure to provide supportive care to disrespect and insensitivity to denial of women’s right to make informed decisions to common use of harmful medical interventions to outright verbal, physical, and even sexual assault. Furthermore, the more extreme examples are not aberrations but merely the far end of the spectrum. Abuse, moreover, results from factors inherent to the system, which increases the difficulties of implementing reforms.
ABUSE IN CHILDBIRTH: PARALLELS WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE
According to domesticviolence.org (an online resource devoted to helping individuals recognize, address, and prevent domestic violence), domestic violence and emotional abuse encompass “name-calling or putdowns,” “keeping a partner from contacting their family or friends,” “actual or threatened physical harm,” “intimidation,” and “sexual assault” (“Domestic Violence Definition,” 2009, para. 2). In all cases, the intent is to gain power over and control the victim. One could add that perpetrators, obstetric staff or otherwise, feel entitled to exert this control on grounds of the victim’s inferior position vis-a-vis the perpetrator as the following illustrate: …” — J Perinat Educ. 2010 Summer; 19(3): 33-42.
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As a loving pet owner, you’re bound to need the absolute best on your cat, and this all begins with making sure that they’re as completely satisfied and healthy as doable. Recognized by the CFA in 1957, this feline is now in 19th place among the hottest cat breeds for 2019. Anda dapat dengan mudah menghilangkan sekresi tersebut dengan kain kasa atau dengan tisu dan air hangat. Cats are the most well-liked pet in the world. Our interpretation is that Late Neolithic NE cats have been opportunistic synanthropes, most probably free-dwelling people (i.e., in a roundabout way counting on a human food supply). Domestic cats are inclined to eat slowly and don’t respond to other cats by both growing the rate of consuming or consuming the next volume of food.
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Mindfulness for Weight Loss.
Using the power of Mindfulness to achieve your ideal weight.
What you will learn
How to apply Mindfulness to manage body weight.
Understanding Mindfulness and importance of doing things cousciously
Understanding and benefits of Mindful eating.
Understanding and benefits of Mindful breathing.
Power of Gratitude and Acceptance.
Lot of us spend lot of time, money and effort to achieve the right body weight. How about applying Mindfulness techniques in achieving this goal? Mindfulness can really make us aware of whole realm of depth and sensitivity available in Life. Most of us live with conditions of our own mind. It is like a knot what we have tied bit by bit and that we can only unravel in just the same way, one piece at a time. We make the unconscious conscious, slowly one piece at a time. We are result of our actions but the question is how much conscious we are when me make these decisions and act. This applies to every aspect of life. How about applying these to reduce weight. The purpose of Mindfulness is personal transformation.
Mindfulness is running straight into reality. Life has a much deeper texture and beauty if we bother to look in the right way. We are part of the world we view. The very process of our observation changes the things we observe drastically. This is the direct benefit of applying mindfulness in every aspect of life.
This course explains simple techniques to take advantage of Mindfulness to achieve the right weight you aspire for. These techniques are awareness, mindful eating and mindful breathing. Mindfulness is a practice of being 100 percent honest with ourselves. It is about realizing how much to eat, how much to exercise and to listen to our gut and heart in what ever we do. | <urn:uuid:bf6ed1e6-efd0-4276-81c5-a4648149c312> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://comidoc.net/udemy/mindfulness-for-weight-loss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.945276 | 362 | 2.15625 | 2 |
You might not think of oxygen as a rare or expendable commodity, but for use in hospitals and ambulances, and by some 1.5 million Americans who rely on life-saving portable devices at home, the precious gas can be in precariously short supply when demand is high. Now, thanks to Covid-19, increased oxygen demand in some parts of the country and around the world is forcing rationing, governmental price caps, and life-or-death decisions by doctors and first responders.
“[…] Under normal conditions, under ideal conditions, everyone who needs oxygen would be admitted to the hospital”, says Dr. Rais Vohra, interim health officer in Fresno County, in California’s Central Valley. “Unfortunately, we’re operating in a disaster and so we don’t have that luxury, and we have to make really hard choices and do the best that we can.”
Oxygen shortages currently do not appear to be widespread in the United States. But with Covid-19 hospitalizations already at a record high across the nation, experts now fear a burgeoning caseload as the recently discovered and more contagious mutant coronavirus strain spreads throughout the country.
Yes, it’s in the air, but …
Earth’s atmosphere is made up of nitrogen (79.09%), oxygen ( 20.95%), argon (0.93%) and carbon dioxide (0.039%), along with traces of other gases and water vapor.
Like any gas used for industrial, commercial or health care purposes, oxygen must be extracted and separated into its pure form. That’s done either by on-site machines at hospitals or by outside companies that package and ship the oxygen in canisters or pump it into large on-site storage containers.
Oxygen is traded like other commodities — its price fluctuates based on supply and demand.
The price of oxygen has been rising gradually since about 2004, roughly doubling. The global demand is expected to skyrocket in coming years, for health care and industrial uses, with healthcare demand reaching $2.3 billion by 2027, owing to the “huge number of patients dependent on oxygen,” a new report predicts.
Now the production and delivery methods are being strained in multiple communities, threatening both the pumping of oxygen into patient rooms and the portable supplies used by paramedics and people at home.
For a healthy person, there’s plenty of oxygen in the air. But when someone’s lungs aren’t working properly, as can happen with Covid-19, oxygen is administered at varying levels of purity, or concentration. (Similarly, athletes and mountain climbers take oxygen to counteract the effects of extreme exertion or thin air.)
A Covid patient with severe symptoms might need 10 times as much oxygen as someone whose lungs are functioning reasonably well. Many other health emergencies and chronic conditions also require oxygen therapy, so any supply shortage is doubly troubling.
Rationing and rebuilding
In Los Angeles, ambulance crews have been instructed to ration their oxygen supplies, forcing decisions about who might survive or not, and putting some at risk for worsening symptoms due to lack of care. Hospitals have also delayed releasing Covid patients when they lack oxygen tanks to send with them.
There’s another purely mechanical problem at some hospitals: Oxygen is often stored in liquid form, at high pressures and extremely low temperatures. Now, with the demand being so high in some hospitals due to Covid-19, the flow of oxygen is freezing delivery equipment, particularly in aging systems that haven’t been modernized in years. The situation is so grave, the Army Corps of Engineers has been called in by the California governor to help rebuild some of the old setups.
For some poor countries that don’t have the technologies and supply chain for the precious air product, lack of oxygen has been a problem for many months. “Oxygen is one of the most important interventions, (but) it’s in very short supply,” Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said last June. In September, India capped the price of medical oxygen.
Meanwhile, hospitalizations in California continue to soar, and the nationwide caseload builds.
“Everybody is worried about what’s going to happen in the next week or so,” says Cathy Chidester, director of the L.A. County Emergency Medical Services Agency.
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Is heat good for infection?
Heat also helps reduce inflammation and the buildup of fluid in tissues (edema). Heat therapy is used to treat inflammation (including various forms of arthritis), muscle spasm, and injuries such as sprains and strains. Heat may be applied to the body’s surface or to deep tissues.
How often should you apply heat to an ear infection? Apply heat on your ear for 15 to 20 minutes, 3 to 4 times a day or as directed. Apply ice on your ear for 15 to 20 minutes, 3 to 4 times a day for 2 days or as directed.
Can you apply heat to an infected wound? Many skin wounds can usually benefit from an appropriate application of heat to the injured or infected site. While placing heat on a wound may seem simple, many individuals make common errors that can result in poor healing or even enhance the existing trauma. Heat needs to be applied with care and understanding. Here are some pointers.
Do you use heat or cold for a sinus infection? Believe it or not, heat is a natural nasal decongestant. Cold from an ice pack can cause mucus in your sinuses to thicken, making your symptoms worse. Heat can be used in various forms: Warm compresses: A heated towel on your face can help relieve pressure, and a washcloth works well, too.
Is it OK to apply heat to a toothache? If you have an infection the heat may draw that infection out causing more swelling. Apply COLD! If you are experiencing a severe toothache the best thing is ice water in the mouth. You may have gasses trapped in your tooth.
What should I do if I have an ear infection?
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During the initial flurry of stories concerning President Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the late ABC-TV news anchor Peter Jennings interviewed humorist and social commentator P. J. O'Rourke. Jennings asked O'Rourke to discuss "the alleged age difference between the President and Ms. Lewinsky," to which O'Rourke wittily replied, "Yes, Peter, we haven't yet determined whether there actually is an age difference between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. There is only an alleged age difference."
Jennings smiled at the reply, realizing that he had misused the word "alleged." The word allows journalists to discuss claims that have not been proved, but it is a word easily open to abuse.
The best way to use the words "allege," "alleged" and "allegedly" is not to use them at all. Instead, have your scripts reveal who is making the claim by using phrases such as "police say" or "prosecutors say" followed by the substance of the allegation. For example, a story about a bank-robbery suspect that contains the sentence
should be rewritten so that the sentence reads
As another example, if a sentence in a story about a local government official facing trial for corruption reads
rewrite the script into something like
Always use the verb "say" in such scripts. Avoid the temptation to employ other verbs (such as "claim," "state" or "charge") when reporting allegations. Other verbs bring connotations that will color your reporting. For example, if your script has police claiming that an individual committed a crime, your listeners may well interpret the script as indicating that you the reporter do not believe the police. To speak of someone charging an allegation implies legal actions -- charges -- have been filed. To maintain as unbiased and accurate a report as possible, stay with the neutral verb "say."
Learn the distinction between "accused" and "alleged." When legal charges have been filed against an individual, that individual becomes accused of the behavior detailed in those charges. The individual can then be described as an "accused rapist," "accused murderer," "accused embezzler," and so forth. In scripts, the use of the adjective accused should be limited to one occurrence at or near the beginning of the script in order to describe a suspect quickly and efficiently. Notice the use of the word in this story about a homicide trial:
In the above script, the adjective "accused" appears once and only once. Multiple use may lead listeners to believe that you the reporter want them to think a suspect is guilty because the adjective "accused" is weaker than the powerful nouns it regularly accompanies (such as "murderer" or "rapist").
As has already been mentioned, the verb "charge" implies that legal actions have been filed against an individual or company. The verb should be used only to describe the process of filing the action:
The specific legal charge should also be named, such as the "two counts of first-degree murder" of the previous example. Pay careful attention to the specific charge. Prosecutors may say that an individual is a murderer and organized-crime boss but charge him with only tax evasion. The defendant could then be described as being "accused of tax evasion" but not as an "accused murderer and crime boss" -- the murders and organized-crime connections are allegations, not charges.
Occasions do exist for the use of "allege," "alleged" or "allegedly." When claims are made concerning an individual but no legal charges have been publicly filed, and the source of the claims is complicated to identify, then "alleged" becomes an acceptable option for describing the individual and the claims. For example, a community group holds a press conference calling for the firing of the deputy chief of police. Earlier that week, three former civilian employees of the police department told a newspaper reporter that they have heard the deputy chief use racial slurs. The reporter was investigating a tip that the deputy chief had recently faced a closed-door, disciplinary hearing with the public safety director and the civil service commission.
The complex nature of the story can lead to extremely tortured syntax in your script. In this situation, a sentence such as
might be the most efficient way of succinctly explaining the story. As with "accused," forms of "alleged" should be used only once in a given script.
Finally, remember the mistake of Peter Jennings and ensure that you place the word "alleged" in front of what is actually being alleged. Rewriting the previous script example to read
significantly changes the meaning of the sentence. Now the question is not whether the deputy chief made comments, but rather whether the particular words he used were racist. If, however, it has not yet been determined what, if anything, the deputy chief may have said, the allegations concern the making of the comment and not the sense of the comments themselves. The earlier version of the sentence is then the correct one.
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Ironwood (Olneya tesota) pollen is tricolporate with "roughened"
(approaching reticulate) sculpturing. The pollen grain (ca. 37 (P) x 28 (E) µm) is rectangular in equatorial
view and round in polar view. The furrows are narrow and straight, and the polar area
is small. The furrows are flanked by broad sculptureless "margos."
The large endopores are not visible in SEM micrographs, but are visible with
careful LO analysis under transmitted light.
Ironwood (Palofierro) trees are common in the Sonoran Desert. The plants are frost sensitive and
occur (above the limit of cold air drainage) in the upper bajadas of desert basins in Arizona and
eastern California at the northern limits of the plant's distribution.
They bark of young branches is light,
but mature stems are dark and furrowed. The leaves are pinnately compound, and the
flowers are light purple. The wood is used for "ironwood carvings" - originally by the
Seri Indians of western coastal Sonora, but now by commercial enterprises chiefly in
the city of Hermosillo, Sonora.
Pollen light micrograph:
The rectangular outline and short straight furrows are distinctive, but LO analysis is often
needed to distinguish the large endopore. This furrow in the thin area over the pore may
be pinched, and the pore membrane may protrude. The "margo" is not obvious in
light microscopy. Olneya grains area readily distinguished from Prosopis
pollen (pollen-of-the-month Feb. 02)
Mesquite's pollen is less rectangular; it has a larger polar area; it's furrows are broader,
and it's endopore is smaller, surrounded by a annulus, and included within the edges of the furrow.
Pollen scanning electron micrograph (SEM)
The endopore is sometimes faintly visible.
Production and Dispersal:
Insect-pollinated ironwood has low production and poor dispersal, but the flowers are
occasionally very abundant, and pollen abundances pf over 15% may be found in modern
This branch of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) is thought to have originated
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Do you want to have your own signature when you comment on pages, blog posts, or the forum? This page will tell you how to make your very own signature.
Step 1: Go to 'My Preferences'
Step 2: Find the 'Signature' section. Check the box that says "I want to use wikitext in my signature". This will allow you to have a personalized and colorful signature!Step 3: Paste your signature code in this box:
Step 4: You will use the signature by typing in ~~~~ for a signature and timestamp (Person, 11:00), or ~~~ for just a signature (Person)
And this is how it is made:
[[File:CommandSword150.png|25px]] '''[[User:Ex name|<font color="#FFFFFF">Ex</font><font color="#FFFFFF"> Title ex </font>]]''' <sup>[[Message_Wall:User|<font color="#FFFFFF">(message me)</font>]]</sup>
Now to create your very own signature:
There are several steps to making a unique and personalized signature.
First, you'll need your username. This lets people know exactly who is signing that post! In the example, Ex was Ex's username. User:Campinator might have Campinator. Second, you can add a nickname, such as Title ex . This can be your Minecraft in-game-name, a name from a different game, or just a title you like. For example, User:Campinator might use Lord of CodeThese should have a link to your userpage, done like so:
Obviously, replace the YourUserName with your username before using.Third, you should let your friends have a way to contact you on your message wall. You can have a clever saying, or stick with an easy-to-understand phrase. The example used (message me). Other users have made phrases such as Send me your head! or Ask me anything The code for this is
Now, all of this may sound exciting, but it really needs some color to spice things up! There are several cool coding effects you can do, but I will go over a few right now. Lets say you want your signature to be red. To do so, you would type in
<font color="#FF0000">Your Text</font>. That
<font ....>is called a HTML tag, and it modifies how the text is read by a computer. You can use any color code for the area that says #FF0000, it will change what color the text appears.
To create your very own signature, put all these steps together:-Your Username:
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<font color="------">Nickname</font>-A way to your message wall:
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If you have any questions, just ask around! Many of the users on here are pretty knowledgeable about coding, and can answer questions you have. Campinator is always willing to help with anything.
Feel free to copy this and edit your own hexadecimal, names titles and pictures in. You can find some hexadecimal values for colours here: HTML Colour Codes. If you want an even fancier signature, check the page on Wiki Coding for more advice.
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The Story So Far
In 1969/70 it was learned that the Theatre Royal was to be demolished. The City Council suggested that the St James Players and the Stage Door Theatre should put on a joint play to mark its end. So they got together and staged Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park”.
Around about this time, with two other theatre groups, Townsville Theatrical Society and Townsville Genesians, all looking for directors and casts, and with the new Civic Theatre in the offing and TV beginning, the situation began to get rather desperate. So a meeting was called of the three groups and it was agreed to amalgamate The St James Players, The Genesians and The Theatrical Society and to call themselves Townsville Little Theatre.
Our first productions were put on in the Methodist Centre Hall, Garbutt. Our first productions as Townsville Little Theatre were two one-act plays La Musica and A Zoo Story, entered in the North Queensland Drama Festival. The Waltz of the Toreadors was our first full-length production.
The group increased its scope by producing Music Hall programs in the Civic Theatre and other plays. Children’s theatre was also produced in each Christmas holiday in the Arts Centre Theatre.
A place to call ‘home’. Initially in those early days, the newly formed Townsville Little Theatre performed in the old Theatre Royal. Many Townsvillians trod the boards of the Theatre Royal in such plays as: Bonaventure; Johnny Belinda and The Deep Blue Sea. Some of the Townsville Little Theatre productions mounted there include: Lola Montez and Tom Jones (with 100 in the cast!).
When the Theatre Royal was pulled down to make way for the Townsville International Hotel (now the Holiday Inn), the City Council granted the new group the use of the cellar and top floor of the Arts Centre in Stanley Street, to be converted into an intimate theatre much loved by theatre patrons for many, many years and, aptly named The Upstairs Theatre.
Our first productions in The Upstairs Theatre were The Loves of Cass Maguire by Brian Friel, the Irish playwright; followed by The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter in 1972.
For 22 years the Upstairs Theatre was the home of Townsville Little Theatre. However, in October 1994, with the renovations well under way at The Arts Centre, Townsville Little Theatre undertook a further move – back to the home of the former St James Players, the Synod Hall behind St James Cathedral, which became affectionately known as the Hilltop Playhouse.
Again, with renovations underway, TLT, in December 1998, moved into St Margaret Mary’s Theatrette. The generosity of the College meant that TLT could continue to uphold its reputation for producing theatre of a very high standard. However, with a need for greater storage space, TLT undertook a further move.
Our current home is Castle Hill PCYC. However, most TLT performances are held at various locations around Townsville including: the Pimlico High School Performing Arts Complex (PIMPAC) and St Margaret Mary’s Theatrette.
However, Townsville Little Theatre continues to strive towards having a home of it’s own once again. A permanent home for TLT would provide a valuable community resource. A venue where both rehearsals and performances could be undertaken and space for storage, would enable TLT to properly utilise the precious resources of members.
Travelling show! One of the objects of TLT is to promote live theatre in North Queensland. Therefore TLT has hit the road on many occasions.
Only an Orphan Girl was presented by Townsville Little Theatre in collaboration with the Queen’s Hotel in 1976 (before it was sold to Channel 7). The show was a great success and was taken to Ravenswood where it was enthusiastically received.
Ravenswood also invited Townsville Little Theatre to provide entertainment for their 1977 Festival. A grand old Music Hall was produced for this purpose. This production was later presented at the Upstairs Theatre as Castle Hill Capers during the Pacific Festival. This show was also invited to perform at the RAAF Officer’s Mess.
When the Civic Theatre opened in 1978 Townsville Little Theatre was invited to produce a show for part of the grand opening celebrations. A Music Hall was chosen and the show was sold out for both nights of its performance. Another great success’
Another Music Hall, in 1987, was taken to the theatre at Thuringowa High School. In 1990, The Jury was performed in the Synod Hall. As was This Country’s Good in 1992.
Townsville Little Theatre presented many shows at the Civic Theatre, including: Tonight at 8.30 by Noel Coward, Fresh Fields by Ivor Norvello, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf and A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde; Table Manners by Alan Ackyboume; Media (an adaptation) and A Man for All Seasons.
The last show performed on the big stage in the Civic was Alan Hopgood’s And the Big Men Fly in 1985.
Award Winners… Townsville Little Theatre regularly took part in the North Queensland Drama Festival, established by the former St James Players. This festival ran annually from the 1960’s for approximately ten years. It attracted participants from as far as Mt Isa, Rockhampton, Calms and the Atherton Tablelands.
This Festival was recommenced in 1993 as the Festival of One Act Plays (FOOAP). Townsville Little Theatre member Stan Newman played a large part in this revival.
Townsville Little Theatre has consistently entered this Festival, and won many prestigious awards. Townsville Little Theatre members have also been the recipients of the Townsville City Council Arts, Cultural and Entertainment Awards, for services to the Arts.
Over the years, Townsville Little Theatre has tackled a wide range of repertoire including: Music Halls, musicals, melodramas, Greek tragedy, Children’ pantomimes, contemporary plays, Australian plays and locally written plays. Secrets was a group-devised project for the Youth Arts Festival held in Townsville in 1991. Directed by Jack Aranda, Secrets was performed at Strand Park in the Festival, and later at the Upstairs Theatre.
Wine, Cheese and Shakespeare was Townsville Little Theatre’s major fundraising event in 1991. Performed at the Perc Tucker Gallery, less well-known excerpts from the Bard’s comedies, histories and tragedies were performed by Malcolm Berry, Kirsty Veron, Ann Valmadre and Bernie Lanigan They were accompanied on Renaissance Lute by Peter Symes (now Gore). The fundraiser was a sell out success. A further two performances were held at the Civic Theatre Basement Studio.
Moving Frames, was a RADF and Arts Council funded project aimed at young women in Townsville. Directed by Daphne Cazalets, Moving Frames was performed ‘stage on stage’ at the Civic Theatre in 1994. An artistic success, the show was invited to perform at the Cowshed as part of the Young Writers Festival (now known as Interplay). Froggie by Steven J Spiers, billed as ‘a fairytale for grown-ups’ was performed at the Railway Estate Community Hall. The play dealt with perceptions of disability. Thus the use of the hall, as a participant in the production was physically disabled. Directed by Jack Aranda, Froggie was an outstanding, celebration of black comedy. On the final night audiences paid for ‘standing room only”.
Our reputation is that of an amateur group which produces theatre of a very high standard (professional is the word often used).
And the lows …
In 1986 Townsville Little Theatre hit a low period. You could count the members on both hands and the fortunes of the group reached such an all time low that they contemplated relinquishing the Upstairs Theatre. However, the group was able to revitalise itself, assisted by then President Stuart Jardine. Townsville Little Theatre continues to be a vital part of the community, providing members with the opportunity for recreation and artistic expression. It has been said that theatre is an outlet for passionate people who think!
Local talent …
Elizabeth Perkins, local playwright, wrote The Dark Behind the Stage and Death of a Poet directed by Scott Gooding in 1991 in the Upstairs Theatre. Elizabeth also wrote A Nice Walk in the Mall which was performed by TLT at the 1990 Pacific Festival. The Chapter on Frankenstein was written by local identity Colin Campbell. It was performed in 1995 at FOOAP, where it won ‘Best Original Script”; and later at the Hilltop Playhouse. In 1997, TLT performed James Euclid’s Silicon Madonna. Directed by Roslyn Johnson, this was yet another locally written play and outstanding artistic success. Eleven and Twelve, a fun look at romance, holidays and marriage, written by Norah Nayr and directed by Rachel O’Dwyer was performed by TLT in 2002.
Townsville Little Theatre continues to be supportive of local playwrights and welcomes the opportunity to advance local talent and skills.
A member for life …
The late Pat Wallace and the late Barbara Chandler were for many years our only life members. Pat reached a very high level of artistic competence with all the productions she directed, or assisted to direct for the 12 years she was associated with Townsville Little Theatre. Barbara was a theatre personality before TLT was formed. She gave strength and direction to the theatre until she moved to Southern Queensland in the early 1980’s. The late June Aylward was awarded life membership in 1997. June, whose belief in what little theatre has to offer has never wavered. Her determination that this aspect of the Arts should retain its place in the community has upheld the group when membership and enthusiasm have been down. Pam Lythgo who has been an active supporter of TLT for many years both as an actor and director and the late June Martin whose support in the designing, making and repairing of costumes for many years, were both awarded Life membership in early 2000.
What’s in a name …
For a short period, beginning in 1987, Townsville Little Theatre became The Townsville Theatre Group. In 1988, with a greater awareness for history the group become known again as the Townsville Little Theatre. With incorporation completed in 1994, we became Townsville Little Theatre Group Inc! This is our full and correct title.
Our mighty elephant …
Our wonderful irreverent logo, the mighty TLT elephant was designed by Townsville Little Theatre member Joy Hinckley. Joy was involved in the Townsville Theatre scene for many years, before moving to Brisbane. She was a member of both the Banana Troupe and Townsville Little Theatre. Joy designed our logo in approx 1993/4. The elephant was chosen as the antithesis of our name. Townsville LITTLE Theatre – what could be more opposite to ‘little’ than an elephant! The elephant also never forgets, has enormous strength and endurance and is a creature of great beauty… what could be more fitting! And she’s got a cheeky glint in her eye as well.
In 2001, our favourite mascot was finally named Edna -following a suggestion by TLT member Rachel O’Dwyer.
And the future…
TLT exists through the support, dedication and enthusiasm of its members. This means your support, your enthusiasm and your dedication – without it Townsville Little Theatre can’t and won’t survive. Being a involved as a member of the cast or crew of a Townsville Little Theatre production is an experience not to be missed – many great friendships have began this way!
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After my mother died in 2015, I moved the 76 years of accumulated memories she’d somehow fit in her small apartment to my house in Brooklyn. Since I lack her organizational skills, her stuff quickly took possession of a space far larger than its former home. I emptied a bureau to make room for hundreds of photos and the 40 years’ worth of greeting cards she’d exchanged with my father, including one for every month of their first year of marriage. I stashed her teenage diaries next to my own. (“I had a date with that boy Phil,” she wrote on a spring day in 1956. “I think he may be the One.”). Odd items like the receipt from Carson C. Peck Memorial Hospital (when she gave birth to me) and her Howdy Doody Club and Lincoln H.S. Senior buttons are in a box under my bed.
All these years later I still can’t seem to throw anything out, and I don’t feel at all bad about that. This is my family history. If I part with the evidence, what will become of the stories behind it?
I was thinking about family stories and the role they play in our lives when I was reading this week’s Torah portion, Va-et’chanan (meaning “I pleaded”), the second parsha in the book of Deuteronomy. This parsha continues Moses’ first-person speeches to the Israelites and includes the second recitation of the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments. (The first recitation is in Yitro in Exodus.) The Commandments deal not with the nuts and bolts of governance but with family dynamics: Honor your father and mother. Don’t steal. Don’t murder. Remember the God who brought you out of Egypt (and who won’t hesitate to punish you for the sins of your parents). These are hopeful instructions designed to engender a civilized and respectful community. They are at the core of who we are as people seeking to live harmoniously with other people. The Ten Commandments guide us on how to be human.
There were practical reasons for re-stating the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy; their precepts encourage the Israelites to sustain the family unit and uphold the law. Additionally, the Israelites hearing these words in Va-et’chanan had a different relationship with God than the generations that preceded them. They weren’t present at Sinai. They experienced neither the intense wrath of God nor the awe-inspiring moments that their forbears did. Their daily existence is focused on the mechanics of becoming a free people.
The oral history that this generation of Israelites is receiving from Moses throughout the entire book of Deuteronomy is brand-new to them, and they’re hearing it at exactly the point when they will benefit from it the most. Certainly, they face some challenging and frightening times ahead. Although they’ve been assured that they have God’s support, they are also well aware that the generations that perished in the desert was habitually disobedient and often unappreciative of its God-given blessings. This generation knows that they must do better if they’re going to succeed in governing themselves.
It’s during perilous times like these when we most need our family stories to give us stability and a sense of control over our circumstances. For the Israelites, and for us, our family stories remind us that we’re part of something greater than we are. We’re reminded of our interconnectedness and the strength that comes with being interconnected. There’s a real sense of comfort in knowing there’s a roadmap to guide us, especially when things get treacherous.
As the carriers of our family stories, we’re responsible to those who came before us. We’re the ones entrusted to carry the stories forward and add our own stories to the mix. Depending on the audience, we may choose to reinterpret the stories we tell, just as Moses tweaked the narrative that he gave the younger generation of Israelites. We may want to teach a lesson by telling a story, so that means shifting a perspective. We may want to edit out a behavior that we feel doesn’t need to be part of our family’s legacy.
Memory is notably imperfect. We all forget things. A few years ago, I watched a wonderful documentary called Obit, about the people who write obituaries for The New York Times. (For those who don’t read obituaries regularly, they contain some beautiful storytelling.) One of the obit writers spoke about the importance of double- and triple-checking the information that family members provide about a loved one. Someone’s son, for instance, will tell you that his father was a football hero in college — and you’ll find out that the father never left the bench. Stories tend to be embellished. Often we want to make events more interesting or make people seem more accomplished or heroic than they were.
Sometimes we also reinterpret our family stories to mitigate old hurts and eliminate painful episodes. Other times there may be hurts that can’t be mitigated — or we choose not to mitigate them — in our stories. This, too, serves a purpose. Just as Moses wanted the Israelites to stay on the right path as they made the leap to freedom, we don’t want the generations that follow us to repeat our mistakes. We want them to learn from our missteps. We want them to use what came before them as a foundation and build a life that is uniquely their own.
In this week’s Torah portion, Moses tells the Israelites the following:
“See, I have imparted to you laws and rules, as my God has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
“Observe them faithfully, for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will say, “Surely, that great nation is a wise and discerning people.
“For what great nation is there that has a god so close at hand as is our God whenever we call? Or what great nation has laws and rules as perfect as all this teaching that I set before you this day.
“But take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously, so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do not fade from your mind as long as you live. And make them known to your children — and to your children’s children…”
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The Saskatchewan Trails Association (STA) has announced that the first-ever Saskatchewan Trails Day will take place on Saturday, June 7, 2008. The day will celebrate the beauty and the benefits of the Trans Canada Trail and the numerous other recreational trails in the province, with a focus on tourism, healthy lifestyles, and the conservation of Saskatchewan’s environment.
“There are many reasons to take pride in Saskatchewan’s trails. They provide an open, safe space for recreation and physical activity, from walking and running, to cycling, horseback riding, and snowmobiling. In addition, the trails are a tourist attraction and a place where the Saskatchewan landscape is preserved,” says Curt Schroeder, President of STA. “During Saskatchewan Trails Day, trail users throughout the province are encouraged to enjoy over 40 recreational trails in Saskatchewan, which include sections of the Trans Canada Trail.”
Honourable Christine Tell, Minister of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport, officially proclaimed Saskatchewan Trails Day at a media conference on June 6. The conference included Lucy Buller, CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Saskatchewan; Candace Phelps, Vice President and Director of Marketing with Tourism Saskatchewan; Bill Shurniak, Saskatchewan representative on the national Trans Canada Trail committee; and Garry Michael, Program Manager of Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association.
Following the announcement, the Wascana Wanderers and the Whitmore Walkers were the first trail users to begin the Saskatchewan Trails Day celebration. Members of the two Regina-based walking groups, as well as the conference speakers, participated in a stroll along the Regina Trans Canada Trail.
The STA is a non-profit organization that was established in July 2004 to maintain and increase the Trans Canada Trail and recreational trails in Saskatchewan. The STA is also responsible for promoting Saskatchewan’s trails and increasing the number of individuals that utilize our trails every year.
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This year, I tried something different with my After Twenty Years lesson plans. I began with the following essential question: What makes someone a good friend? After asking this question, the discussion in the class took off, as you can imagine with all of the drama surrounding middle school friendships.
Next, I asked the students to read only the first paragraph of the story and then stop. I wanted to see if they were reading close enough to get a picture in their heads of what was happening. To make sure, I gave them a close read guidance worksheet, one that asks the questions that the students should be be asking in their own heads. It includes questions like, what does “depeopled the streets” mean and what does it mean that the officer walked “impressively”? Adding this close read activity into my After Twenty Years lesson plans has made a huge difference. It seems that they actually realize what they are missing if they simply read the paragraph without stopping to figure things out.
Once we have a discussion to make sure students understand what is happening in the first paragraph, I let the students read the rest of the story independently, encouraging them to do a close read by underlining and annotating by writing in the margins, etc. When students finish, I ask them to simply write down what happens in the end in one or two sentences and then turn it in. This allows me to see which ones “got it”.
The next step in my After Twenty Years lesson plans is to allow students to read the story readers’ theater style in groups. I actually typed up the story with different parts: narrator, Jimmy, Bob, etc. In groups, students assign parts and read the skit. They love this! It does not take a lot of time, as the story is pretty short. Once they are done, they discuss what happened.
Finally, I allow students to rewrite the skit, modernizing it. For example, Jimmy could send his old friend a text. Once skits are complete, I allow them to perform them for each other. We discuss O.Henry’s style of having a surprise ending, and then I follow up by letting students read “Hearts and Hands” by. O. Henry.
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|FORMAL AND INFORMAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS|
Communication networks may also be categorized as formal or informal. Communicating with the president of your university probably requires that you go through specified channels. You probably cannot just dial the president’s number and reach him or her directly. At the very least, you will have to talk first with the administrative staff, who will probably follow particular guidelines to decide whether and how to relay your message. Most organizations have such hierarchical (layered) formal communication networks and channels. For instance, it might be standard practice for the executive director to convey a policy change via memo to the supervisors, who convey it via phone call to the shift leads, who share it with the line staff at a weekly meeting.
Not all groups have formal communications networks, but all groups have informal communication networks. Early in the life of the group, an informal communication structure tends to form based on participation rates, with one or a few members sending and receiving a majority of communications (Davies, 1996). This structure tends to mirror status and attraction patterns in the group (Forsyth, 1999; Shaw, 1964). In other words, higher-status members tend to be more central in the communication structure, sending and receiving more messages, and the patterns of communication in the group usually reflect members’ liking for one another in that members who like one another communicate more frequently.
GRAPEVINES AND GOSSIP
Informal communication networks often arise to make up for shortcomings in the formal network. Such is the case with grapevines-the name for the channels through which gossip, rumors, and other unofficial information travels through the group. Grapevines are often a source of information for those who are left out of the formal communication loop because of their lower status. The clerical staff at my university has a well-functioning grapevine. I am often amazed by what clerical staffpeople know from the staff grapevine. Sometimes they have information well before it makes its way through the formal communication channels. My neighborhoods, in a new housing tract built by a developer, also has a grapevine. The male neighbors have bonded through sharing of information passed along the grapevine. They talk over the fence in their backyards, at the community mail box, and when taking out the trash. They talk about who has what problem with their house, how the developer is dealing with resident complaints and various strategies used to get the developer to act. Information is passed from one person to another until all group members are updated.
Gossip and rumors also travel through the group via the grapevine. Gossip can be defined as news about the affairs of another or as any hearsay of a personal nature, be it positive or negative, spoken or in print (Rosnow & Fine, 1976). Although gossip and rumor are often treated as the same, they can be distinguished in that the basis of rumor is always unsubstantiated, whereas gossip may or may not be based on a known fact (Rosnow & Fine, 1976). Gossip and rumor are frequently considered forms of female communication, and males are rarely said to gossip. However, recent research indicatesthat although we may be less likely to label what males do as gossip, they in fact gossip about as much as females (Harrington & Bielby, 1995; Johnson, 1994; Nevo & Nevo, 1993). For instance, the men in my neighborhood talk about the personal qualities of the developer’s employees and why particular employees have left. They also share information about the people they have seen looking at the houses for sale and what they know about who is moving in. I have never heard what they do call gossip, but I think that if women engaged in the same conversations, their communication would almost certainly be labeled gossip.
Gossip has the potential to both create and destroy social bonds in the group. To be trusted with gossip builds member bonds because it “indicates who is trustworthy and who is not” (Merry, 1984, p. 291). We can feel closer to another member who trusts us enough to share secret information. However, we all know that gossip and rumor can be damaging to a group and to individual members. For instance, mistakenly treating a rumor as fact can lead the group to make a poor decision. Gossiping about other group members may cause damage to their reputations and to member relationships if there is the perception that confidences were violated or that the gossiper’s intention was to harm. This can contribute to conflict and to member dropout.
Despite these problems, gossip is common, and many find it hard to resist. This is because it serves a number of different functions. For instance, we often seek information about others via gossip for purpose of social comparison (for instance, employees may gossip about salaries), and hearing others’ woes can make us feel better about our own situation (Festinger, 1954; Suls, 1977). There is also a certain thrill obtained from gossip because of its forbidden nature. Producers of gossip gain power and status from being able to “manage the news,” while consumers of gossip receive personal pleasure from being “privileged insiders” (Rosnow & Fine, 1976, p. 88). Embedded in gossip we often find information about group norms and values. In other words, hearing some members’ gossip about the behaviour of other members, we learn what is acceptable and unacceptable in the group.
Sharing gossip and secrets about other group members can even enhance the stability of relationships by discharging tension and enlisting the listener’s help in dealing with the other person (McGoldrick, 1998). Gossip may also provide information about other group members that is relevant to group functioning but preserves member dignity. For instance, you may know that one member is dealing with his partner’s cancer diagnosis. When other members gossip about his declining performance, you share your insider information and the complaining members understand and “cut him slack”. Gossip may also fulfill social needs, bringing members together for social interaction and giving diverse members something in common to talk about. In my experience, groups often use gossip to alleviate boredom. In sum, gossip is not all bad. Sometimes we need to talk about other group members, and doing so can contribute to group cohesion, create stonger group identification, and clarify group boundaries (Gluckman, 1963; Nevo & Nevo, 1993).
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Among every people and in every language there are found stories, superstitions, traditions, phrases, which are not to be explained by the thoughts or ideas or beliefs of people now living; and the same stories, superstitions, phrases, are found among people as far apart as those of Norway and Australia.
The people of to-day tell these stories or remember the superstitions or use the phrases without understanding where they came from or what they meant when first used. As the ground in some sections is full of arrow heads that have been buried no one knows how many centuries, so the poetry we read, the music we hear, the stories told us when we are children, have come down from a time in the history of man so early that there are in many cases no other records or remains of it.
These stories vary greatly in details; they fit every climate and wear the peculiar dress of every country; but it is easy to see that they are made up of the same materials, and that they describe the same persons or ideas or things whether they are told in Greece or India or Norway or Brittany.
Wherever they are found they make it certain that they come from a very remote time and grew out of ideas or feelings and ways of looking at the world which a great many men shared in common in many places.
A selection of the classic myths of all times for young people.
Myths that Every Child Should Know is created to instruct while they entertain children.
While it consists of Pre-Christianity Mythological Figures and their stories, they give children good, wholesome entertainment and teach values as well.
The Three Golden Apples
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The Golden Touch
The Gorgon’s Head
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There are thousands of regulations on the city, state and federal levels that a small business owner must meet in order to start a business.
Is it too much?
Lately, the issue of “red tape” regulation clogging up Michigan’s small business engine has been on the minds of state legislators, Grand Rapids city administrators and local small business owners.
For starters, just last month the SEC Small Business Advocate Act was introduced in Washington, D.C., by U.S. senators Gary Peters, D-Michigan; Heidi Heitkamp, D-North Dakota; and Dean Heller, R-Nevada. The act is seeking to establish better lines of communication between small businesses and the federal government, a move that could help small business owners advocate for regulations that will support the growth of small businesses and get rid of those that essentially won’t.
There’s also been chatter about the federal government’s involvement in small businesses after a new overtime pay ruling from the Department of Labor was announced May 17.
“Every week, millions of Americans work more than 40 hours a week but do not receive the overtime pay they have earned. (On May 18), the Department of Labor will be finalizing a rule to fix that by updating overtime protections for workers. In total, the new rule is expected to extend overtime protections to 4.2 million more Americans who are not currently eligible under federal law, and it is expected to boost wages for workers by $12 billion over the next 10 years,” said a statement from the White House.
The statement continues: “That’s why tomorrow, the Department of Labor is finalizing a rule to update overtime protections so they can help millions more Americans. The final rule, which takes effect on Dec. 1, 2016, doubles the salary threshold — from $23,660 to $47,476 per year — under which most salaried workers are guaranteed overtime (hourly workers are generally guaranteed overtime pay regardless of their earnings level). Additionally, this new level will be automatically updated every three years to ensure that workers continue to earn the pay they deserve.”
The ruling is one of the main concerns the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce has been hearing from its members, said Janet Wyllie, GRACC’s vice president of business growth initiatives.
The numbers Wyllie found are slightly different than the ones offered by the Obama Administration. But either way, small businesses are going to have to react quickly to this ruling, as will nonprofits. It could hurt small businesses, especially when it comes to finding talent, she said.
“(According to) the Fair Labor Standards Act, currently salaried workers are compensated if they work over 40 hours and make $450 per week or less — that would equal out to $23,660 annually — so right now, that’s the way it’s stated. … The proposed increase would take it from $450 to $970 per week, so the annual salary would be $50,440,” she said.
“This has the potential to have a significant impact on small business, especially low- to mid-level salaried employees. This could also impact the workplace flexibility that people are trying to incorporate as people are spending more time telecommuting. This could really damage salaried employees.”
Another concern GRACC members have when it comes to federal regulations is the cost of health care, namely the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.
“When we did our annual survey, that was the top concern (in terms of cost),” Wyllie said. “Our members said if costs were contained, 57 percent reported they would increase wages, and 34 percent reported they would hire more employees. It’s definitely the cost of the health care.”
Recently, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs rescinded 1,200 unnecessary or irrelevant rules and regulations that apply to businesses in the state, and is looking for more to cut, said Andy Johnston, GRACC vice president of government and corporate affairs.
Although regulations tend to balance free markets, that’s a sign Michigan might have too many, he said. Trimming the regulatory fat will make Michigan more competitive for business.
“We hear a lot about the piling on of regulations. It’s not that they’re bad, but there’s so many on all different levels. We do a member survey once a year to touch base with folks on a policy perspective. We asked about regulatory burden; it’s one of our top five issues we’re hearing about from members,” he said.
“I think these regulations tend to get built up over time and they need to have a review process to keep them up to this day and age. The chamber is all-ears about hearing from folks about what is burdening their business, and we’re here to improve or get rid of it, if that’s the case, and we need to fundamentally figure out how to make it easy to do business in the state.”
Part of the issue is many small businesses aren’t availing themselves of available resources, Johnston said. In West Michigan, one group trying to help is the Michigan Small Business Development Center, headquartered at Grand Valley State University’s Seidman College of Business. Keith Brophy, state director of the MSBDC, said things are getting better, but the regulatory streamlining process still needs to be more clear and easier to use for small businesses, especially since more businesses rely on technology than ever before.
“It really does take diplomacy skills for the person with a small business to work with regulations. When they hit the first patch of frustration, if they don’t treat it like a diplomat, they can run into more problems,” said Brophy.
“Oftentimes, with technology outpacing regulation, it provides a real window of opportunity for this business to move rapidly, although sometimes the lack of regulation on technology can also provide a paralyzing effect as everybody waits to see where the regulation will land.”
Usually there is kernel of common sense at the heart of each regulation, but “then they outgrow it and more regulations are added on,” Brophy said. What that allows room for is quite a bit of gray area even if the original regulation is clear. To get ahead of it definitely favors a small business that is proactive, that does its homework and works collaboratively with its licensing agency.
It’s also troubling when legislation shifts and various bodies on state and local levels forget to take a clarifying and streamlining approach to helping citizens navigate it better, he said.
“The more prepared you are, the more understanding you have of the process, the more the red tape seems to go away,” said Dante Villarreal, the center’s regional director.
“That’s where we come in, where we can help you get it, and we can coach you on how to do this, even down to the level of what kind of attitude style do you want to have when you go to get your regulation work done. I guarantee you’ll get angry at some point. How do you keep your cool when working with another person on the other side of the counter? That can go a long way.”
Villarreal said sometimes the regulations cause gray areas because it’s not clear which regulation might take precedence over another if they seem to conflict. He’s also seen businesses get shut down because of a misunderstanding about regulations, particularly in the food industry.
When asked if complicated regulations created a system ripe for legislative corruption, Brophy answered that the multiple facets of the business regulatory system, as they stand today, reflect the complex nature of “our various governing bodies,” and that often they operate in a “vacuum” or “silo” without necessarily the whole perspective of all small business circumstances.
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The technology could lead to "smart pills" that send a collection of the containers to the site of an injury or illness. The microcontainers could someday incorporate electronic components that would let the cubes act as biosensors or release medication in response to a remote RF signal.
Techniques used to build microchips produce a flat pattern of six squares resembling a cross. Each copper or nickel square has etched into it small openings which eventually let medicine or therapeutic cells pass through. Metallic solder forms hinges along the edges between adjoining squares. Briefly heating the squares melts the metallic hinges. High surface tension in the liquified solder pulls each pair of adjoining squares together to form a perforated cube. Upon cooling, the solder solidifies and the containers remain cube shaped. A thin layer of gold then coats the cubes to help prevent toxicity problems in the body.
Next, micropipettes insert into the cubes a suspension containing microbeads that are commonly used in cell therapy. Agitating the cubes releases the beads. The researchers also inserted human cells similar to those used in cell therapy. A positive stain test verified the cells remained vital in the microcontainers and could easily be released. Researchers also used MRI to locate and track the metallic cubes as they moved through a sealed microscopic S-shaped fluid channel, simulating movement in the body. Some of the cubes are magnetic so it should be possible to guide them directly to a site of interest. | <urn:uuid:afb1e16c-9471-438d-86bb-a13fceb33969> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://machinedesign.com/print/news/smart-pills | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00120-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926951 | 292 | 3.46875 | 3 |
(NewsUSA) – Mental illness often goes unrecognized in young children, and especially in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is important to recognize signs that children are struggling. Distinguishing between normal childhood behaviors and behaviors that indicates a problem can be difficult, and parents should tune in to nonverbal cues and behaviors.
“Unlike adults who are able to verbalize their feelings, based on their stage of development, children may not be able to communicate how they are feeling; instead, they often do so through behaviors,” explains Kamilah Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., a medical director at AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, a national leader in Medicaid managed care.
Ohio officials report that the COVID-19 pandemic in particular has impacted the mental health of the state’s children.
In November 2021, officials at Dayton Children’s Hospital said they had seen an approximate 30 to 40 percent increase in mental health symptoms in children since the beginning of the pandemic, which has closed schools, separated children from their friends, and cost many children their parents’ jobs and even their parents’ or caregivers’ lives.
Children who experience significant stressful life events on top of social barriers, such as unstable housing, financial insecurity, and unsafe neighborhoods, can be at additional risk for mental health problems.
In fact, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that more than one in five children living below the federal poverty level had a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder.
“It’s crucial to understand that mental illness in children is as important to attend to as a physical illness and must be treated,” says Dr. Jackson.
“A first step is to recognize the warning signs.”
The National Institute of Mental Health identifies the following behaviors as prompts to further evaluation in children:
Constant movement and difficulty sitting quietly (except when watching videos or playing videogames)Frequent tantrums or extreme irritabilityComplaints of stomach or headaches with no known medical causeDifficulty making friends or disinterested in playing with other childrenSleeps too much or too little, complaints of frequent nightmares or seeming sleepy during the day
“Should parents see these warning signs, they should speak with their pediatrician, see a mental health specialist and consider joining a support group or otherwise connecting with other families,” adds Dr. Jackson.
“It’s also a good idea to work closely with your child’s school to learn what programs can help them.”
AmeriHealth Caritas is among the nation’s leaders in health care solutions for those most in need, and currently operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia.
AmeriHealth Caritas will expand to offer one of Ohio’s new Medicaid health plans, AmeriHealth Caritas Ohio, beginning in July 2022. AmeriHealth Caritas Ohio will help Ohioans get care, stay well and build healthy communities by addressing the acute and broader social factors that drive health outcomes. It will also partner with Ohio Medicaid’s new OhioRISE (Resilience through Integrated Systems and Excellence) program, which will serve children and youth with the most complex behavioral health needs.
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Every Vote Counts: Wisconsin
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Originally Aired: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
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After cities and states across the U.S. entered lockdown this spring to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Wisconsin proceeded with in-person voting for its April 7th primary despite guidance by the C.D.C. against gatherings of 50 or more people. The move was widely criticized and images of people waiting in long lines for hours to vote dominated news coverage. A record number of voters did request absentee ballots but thousands weren’t received or were sent back too late.
Five months later, The Takeaway‘s Amy Walter sits down with Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe to discuss what the state is doing to prepare for a safe and secure general election. Craig Gilbert from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin Public Radio’s State Capitol Reporter Laurel White will be there to analyze this moment as well.
Are there specific things you don’t understand about the vote by mail process in Wisconsin? Do you have questions about what to expect from in-person voting this fall?
Grab your phone and record a video of you asking your question for Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe. Try to keep it under 1 minute and send to firstname.lastname@example.org, Your question might be asked on air.
Join The Takeaway’s Amy Walter as she sits down with top election officials in several swing states to discuss how they’re working to ensure a safe and secure election during this unprecedented time. COVID-19 has had an immeasurable effect on politics, not just in terms of policy, but in ways that go tot he core of how our Democracy functions: voting. Since March, we’ce watched as election officials across the country have struggled to meet this moment. Social distancing has led to a surge of mail-in ballots and in-person voting has seen a shortage of poll workers, leading to shuttered polling locations, long lines, and confusion.
Now, state election officials are working to implement solutions to shore up the voting process for the general election. THey’re working to prepare the American people for a slower vote count which means we might not know the results on election night. All while President Trump continues to stoke conspiracy theories and baseless claims that mail-in voting is rampant with fraud.
Credit: Photo Courtesy of Guest.
Meagan Wolfe serves as Wisconsin’s chief election official and manages a staff that administers and enforces Wisconsin laws related to elections and voting. She also serves on the boards of several national election organizations where she advocates for the needs of Wisconsin’s 1,922 local election officials and voters.
Prior to her appointment as Administrator, Wolfe also headed the Commission’s elections security planning efforts, developing and implementing voter outreach communications and resources. She also developed resources used by local election officials and organizations to educate voters, and led the multi-year effort to assess the usability and accessibility of the MyVote Wisconsin website.
Laurel White has been Wisconsin Public Radio’s State Capitol Reporter since 2016. In addition to reporting for WPR News and serving as a state politics expert on WPR’s Ideas Network talk shows and PBS Wisconsin, Laurel has reported for the national broadcasts of “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” and on NPR’s “UpFirst” podcast. She has received honors for her reporting from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and Milwaukee Press Club. Laurel received her master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Credit: Photo provided by guest
Craig Gilbert is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Washington Bureau Chief and longtime political writer. Gilbert has covered every presidential campaign since 1988 and chronicled Wisconsin’s role as a swing state at the epicenter of the nation’s red-blue divide. He has written widely about political polarization, voter engagement and the urban-rural divide.
Gilbert has served as a writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Lubar Fellow at the Marquette Law School, and a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he studied public opinion, survey research, voting behavior and statistics. He previously worked for the Miami Herald, the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman and was a speechwriter for New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Gilbert has a B.A. in History from Yale University.
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The V-I characteristic of an IGBT shows the plot of collector current IC versus collector emitter voltage VCE for various values of gate emitter voltage.
It is similar to the shape of the output characteristic of BJT, in forward direction. The IGBT is a voltage controlled device so here the controlling parameter is gate emitter voltage VGE.
The transfer characteristic of an IGBT is a plot of collector current IC versus gate emitter voltage VGE as shown in figure2.
IGBT is in the OFF state, when VGE is less than the threshold voltage VGET. Junction J2 blocks the forward voltage and junction J1 blocks the reverse voltage appears across collector and emitter, when the device is OFF. | <urn:uuid:0a965a5e-c129-4c9a-9beb-0e8477ead59e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.semiconductorforu.com/vi-characteristics-igbt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.869572 | 149 | 2.671875 | 3 |
|PHILIP BARRETTE, July 1st 1889|
This photo of Philip Barrette was found at an antique show in West Palm Beach, Florida. The photo bears a studio stamp which says "Simas, Placerville, Cal."
The handwritten name on the back also includes a first name initial which is either an "S" or an "L", but the gentleman must have gone by the name "Philip" more often than whatever his first name was.
Internet research shows a BARRETTE family living near Placerville in this time period, in a community called Shingle Springs. The patriarch of the family, Guillaume Barrette (1825-1882), was French-Canadian and settled in Shingle Springs in the mid-1800's. He and his New Hampshire-born wife, Abby Smith, had two sons Ernest G. Barrette (1863-1931) and Louis Philip Barrette (1867-1929). The family were farmers, living along French Creek, and were prominent citizens of the community. The younger brother was elected "Justice of the Peace" in 1890. In all newspaper accounts, he is referred to as "Philip" and not as "Louis."
The Barrette brothers married sisters (respectively Philipina Meder and Mary Emma Meder.) Philip and Mary Emma had three sons; Floyd, Louis and Lester.
It is not known in what year these two photos were taken, but the one of Philip shows him with his wife Mary Emma at his side. He was married in 1891, according to California Marriage Records, so the photo is at least two years older than the photo I found, above.
I am struck by the similarity of hairline in the photo of Ernest, comparing it with the found photo, and I am open to the possibility that the found photo may actually be mis-labeled with the wrong brother's name, and could actually be Ernest. However, it also appears that Ernest has a more slender face than either Philip or the fellow in the found photo. | <urn:uuid:d82a931a-b3e1-4533-a163-48b53d9a7ed5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://oldphotosfound.blogspot.com/2014/02/philip-barrette.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00575-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982101 | 424 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The business of legal search, a.k.a. “headhunting,” is the most misunderstood area of job hunting insofar as attorneys are concerned. The confusion the term elicits causes more time wasted by job-seeking lawyers than any other element of the job-search process. This blog post intends to clear up any confusion about headhunters and their utility to you.
What is “Headhunting?”
A typical headhunting operation follows several prescribed steps:
An intermediary–a legal search firm is given a “job order” by a client (usually a major law firm) and asked to find an attorney to fit the client’s specified criteria. The relationship between client and headhunter is usually spelled out in a written contingent agreement covering such points as–
- the fee to be paid to the headhunter if a successful placement is made (typically 20-30 percent of the first year’s salary or overall compensation);
- what constitutes a successful placement (usually that the attorney remains with the employer for at least one year);
- the headhunter’s obligations in the event the attorney does not “work out” (i.e., left of his or her own volition; was fired or terminated for other reasons; etc.). Headhunters traditionally were obligated to find a replacement for the attorney who did not work out, at no additional fee to the employer.
The headhunter then proceeds to research the pool of candidates who fit the client’s criteria and generates a list of names.
The headhunter contacts the attorneys on the list and asks if they might be interested in the opportunity.
After coming up with several suitable and interested candidates, the headhunter submits their resumes to the client.
If the client wishes, the headhunter conducts initial interviews and reports on the results to the client.
The headhunter might conduct resume verification and reference checks and provide written reports to the client.
The headhunter often acts as an intermediary in scheduling the interviews, and prepares the attorney for the interview.
The headhunter receives feedback from the client concerning the interview, assists in scheduling any subsequent interviews, and tries to resolve any issues or questions that may have arisen.
If the client hires one of the headhunter’s candidates, the fee is paid to the headhunter.
Note. A minority of headhunters operate on a “retained-search” basis, where they get paid, up-front, by the client, and keep the money regardless of the search results. In contrast to the “contingent” search described above, a headhunter operating under a retainer is given exclusivity regarding the search.
Who is the Headhunter’s Client?
The law firm, corporation, or other organization giving the headhunter the job order—and paying the legal search fee—is the client. the employer makes the rules governing the serach criteria. Don’t make the mistake of believing that you are the client. Unfortunately, some attorneys who are under this delusion come on so strong in their initial contact with a headhunter that they ruin whatever opportunities might have come their way via the headhunter, assuming s/he deemed them “placeable” candidates at all.
The relationship among the three parties to a legal search is analogous to a real estate transaction: The seller (i.e., the employer) “hires” the realtor (i.e., the headhunter) to find a buyer (i.e., the attorney candidate). The realtor’s client is the seller, not the buyer.
What Constitutes a “Placeable” Candidate?
A placeable candidate is one who fits the rigorous criteria imposed by the hiring organization. These criteria are usually very strict. It is a very rare candidate who meets these stringent qualifications…which is why a hefty fee is paid to the search firm that finds this perfect candidate.
What Are the Typical Qualification Criteria?
The following yardsticks govern almost all headhunter legal searches:
Graduation from a top law school (universally recognized as such);
Law review (preferably via grades/class rank as opposed to a writing competition), or some other exceptional law school honor, such as Order of the Coif;
Class rank in the top 20-25 percent of the law school class (with some occasional variances, e.g., a lower class rank if you went to a top-10 law school; higher class rank the lower your law school’s ranking)[see “Exceptions,” below];
At least one year of experience, preferably two years; and
Experience with a major law firm.
Significant, provable portable business. Law firms who take assertions of portable business on faith are often burned. Savvy firms seek detailed written verification before taking a chance on a lateral partner.
The regional exception to the top law school “rule.” Employers sometimes include the pre-eminent regional law school(s) along with the top schools in the country as a suitable source of attorney candidates. For example, law firms in Georgia may consider candidates from the top schools as well as Emory Law School.
The “arguable”-top-10-law-school exception. There is always debate about which schools are included in any top-10 list. Opinions vary once you get beyond the “consensus” schools like Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia, for example. There are about 15-20 schools that often appear on someone’s top-10 list.
The hot-practice-area exception. Certain practice areas in great demand sometimes compel employers to relax their otherwise strict criteria. During recessions, for example, commercial bankruptcy attorneys with good experience, but without stellar academic or professional credentials, are sometimes courted and successfully placed by headhunters. Certain intellectual property lawyers, for example, do not have to be academic superstars happily ensconced in a prestigious law firm to attract headhunter interest.
The very-top-of-the-class exception. Although the Pennsyltucky Night School of Law may not be among the top 100 in the U.S., it is likely that the handful of graduates at the very top of the class at Pennsyltucky will interest certain headhunters.
Where Do Headhunters Find Candidates Who Match These Criteria?
As the moniker “headhunter” implies, they hunt for them. They customarily come to the candidate; not the other way around. The ideal candidate is one who is currently employed in a major law firm and not actively seeking new employment. The headhunter uses all of his or her persuasive abilities to convince the happy attorney that the grass is truly greener elsewhere.
Rarely, superb resumes will come to the headhunter unsolicited. Most placements result from the headhunter’s initiative, not the candidate’s.
Are Headhunters Ever Interested in Third-Year Law Students or Recent Law School Graduates?
No. Don’t waste your time. This is a milieu where experience really counts.
What are the Economics of the Typical Legal Search Transaction?
Finding the “right” candidate is very important to employers. Consequently, they are willing to pay top dollar both to the candidate and for the candidate. Employers are willing to pay high fees only in return for being presented with candidates who meet the exacting criteria outlined above.
If the placed candidate does not “work out” (during the first 6-12 months or whatever other time period is agreed upon by the parties), the headhunter is usually obligated to replace the candidate with a new one satisfactory to the law firm, at no additional charge.
What Percentage of Attorneys Change Jobs Through Headhunting?
There are no precise statistics available. However, a reasonable, educated guess might be in the 5-percent range. The other 95 percent of job-changing lawyers transition from one position to another without the intermediation of a headhunter.
How Should You Approach a Headhunter If You Think You Are a Placeable Candidate?
Send the headhunter your resume. There is no need to call beforehand or follow-up. It is very much in the headhunter’s interests to contact you, determine your professional goals, and present your credentials to prospective employers. Headhunters do not like–and do not need–to be barraged with phone calls. Remember, you are not the client.
Of course, if you fall into the small percentage of truly placeable candidates, it is highly likely that you receive headhunting calls all the time. If you do not, that may be an important indicator that you should be seeking other paths to make a job change.
Do I Need To Worry About Having My Interest in Leaving My Current Job Revealed?
No. A legitimate headhunter (and it is very much in each headhunter’s interest to be legitimate, or s/he will soon be out of business) will not present your credentials to a client without your prior approval.
Where Can I Get a List of Headhunters in a Specific Geographic Area?
The National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC) maintains a searchable directory of its members. Here you can also identify headhunters who specialize in certain practice areas or certain employment sectors. NALSC members pledge to adhere to a code of ethics.
Do Corporations Ever Use Headhunters?
Yes, but not often for recruiting attorneys. Their HR and general counsel offices are typically inundated with resumes from qualified major law firm lawyers seeking greener grass in-house.
What about an Employment Agency?
In contrast to headhunters, employment agencies charge the job-seeker a fee. They do not earn fees for placing candidates.
There are no legitimate employment agencies that assist attorneys. If an organization tells you that it is able to (1) get you interviews; (2) get your resume to interested human resources offices; or (3) get you a job, take your money and run the other way. If you cannot obtain detailed evidence of the veracity of such claims (and it is highly likely that you cannot, since it does not exist), don’t throw your money away.
How Much Does Legal Search Cost?
Nothing. Not a cent. Search firms are compensated…totally, completely…by the client on whose behalf the search is being conducted.
Can I Work With More Than One Legal Search Firm at the Same Time?
Yes. You can work simultaneously with as many search firms as you like. However, since you will be responsible for giving specific approval concerning each law firm or corporation to which your resume is presented, you should keep a careful record of the names of these law firms or corporations so other (competing) search firms do not overlap efforts. This is one reason why law firms “date-stamp” each attorney’s resume they receive from a legal search firm. More than one search firm has lost search fees because a competitor was able to get an earlier “date-stamp” on the attorney-candidate’s resume.
Must Attorneys Work With Only Legal Search Firms?
No. The idea of attorneys interesting non-legal headhunters, such as insurance industry, employee benefits, compliance or economic development search firms is becoming quite interesting as the broader economy becomes more aware of attorney capabilities and fungibility. As more and more attorneys prove their worth in law-related professional environments, headhunter interest grows.
Some Final Words
The headhunter option is not for every attorney. In fact, it is limited to a very few.
Regardless of the quality of your academics and legal work experience, you should never rely exclusively on headhunting to find your next position. The primary reason for this final bit of advice is this: You are making a decision that will have long-term career implications. A headhunter, notwithstanding the most high-minded of motives, has a strong interest in filling a “job order” and placing you in an job as quickly as possible. Determining “fit” is something that you should never permit a third party to do without your own research. | <urn:uuid:ba6bc89d-377f-4bf2-9cbb-267118361330> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://legalcareerview.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-headhunters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.941365 | 2,568 | 1.546875 | 2 |
|Author (Corporate)||European Union|
|Series Title||Official Journal of the European Union|
|Series Details||L 271|
The Lisbon Agreement of 1958 for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration is a treaty administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Its contracting parties are obliged to protect on their territories the appellations of origin of products of the other contracting parties recognized and protected as such in the country of origin and registered at the WIPO International Bureau.
The Geneva Act expands the scope of the Lisbon Agreement beyond appellations of origin to all geographical indications. It is compatible with the WTO TRIPS Agreement and with relevant Union legislation on protection of geographical indications for agricultural products, and allows international organizations (such as the European Union) to become Contracting Parties.
In order for the Union to properly exercise its exclusive competence for the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement and its functions in the context of its exhaustive protection systems for agricultural geographical indications, the EU should become a contracting party.
In July 2018 the European Commission presented a proposal for a Decision authorising the EU's accession to the Geneva Act. This was approved on 7 October 2019 by Council Decision (EU) 2019/1754. On 23 October the European Parliament and the Council published Regulation (EU) 2019/1753 setting out the actions to be taken by the Union following its accession.
|Subject Tags||Agriculture, External Trade | Trade Agreements|
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Uplifting Our Economy
Addie is committed to working for everyone. She will fight to retain higher earners while addressing the needs of lower income households so we can maintain a healthy and balanced economy.
Working for Small Businesses
By reducing taxes and regulation, we can create incentives for businesses to grow and create economic opportunities while preserving historic industries. This includes non-profits, agriculture, and small manufacturers.
Increasing Access to Healthcare
Everyone deserves access to quality, affordable healthcare. From preventive care for brain disease to addressing the needs in our more rural areas, Addie will lean on her experience to ensure our district is both healthy and thriving.
Protecting Our Communities
Addie knows the safety of our families will always be our first priority. By making real, systematic efforts to reduce crime, we can ensure our neighborhoods are safe and provide our families with real peace of mind. | <urn:uuid:f49e656b-c20f-478a-93fb-c6f5722e4907> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://addieeckardt.com/priorities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.940931 | 190 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The fifth printable in my 5 Essential Printables For 1st Grade Math is my two page Liquid Measurements printable.
Use the first page as a reference chart that be put into a student’s binder or posted on the wall.
Print the file double sided on cardstock, laminate, cut, punch and clip for a reusable reference book that will last years. Perfect for introducing the units of measure and later learning to do conversions.
I hope you have fun using this free printable!
This printable is part of a hopscotch series of 5 Essential Printables for 1st Grade Math. Be sure to check out the other days to download all the essential 1st grade math printables I made!
If you want more hopscotch fun, click on the iHomeschoolNetwork image at the bottom of this page.
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As we all continue to try and recover at least to some degree from the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took 28 lives, 20 of them 6 and 7 year-old children, just last Friday, December 14, 2012, a family member and FBI agent sent me some important information to share.
To the parents of those children who survived this tragedy, I would just say that when we love our children unconditionally, it will help them turn away from the need to seek revenge.
Thank you, Stephen.
Given what I do for a living, some of my college friends were asking me for advice on active shooter situations like the recent school shooting in Connecticut. This is what I told them:
If you can’t run, HIDE.
If you can’t hide, then FIGHT.
RUN means get the hell out of there NOW. If you have to climb out of a third story window, you do it. That is what we learned from Virginia Tech. The classroom that was the scene of major carnage was the one where the teacher (and former Holocaust survivor) stayed behind with the remainder of his students who were too afraid to jump from a window. He blocked the door to buy time for the rest of the kids to jump but they wouldn’t go. Those who jumped survived.
HIDE means finding a real hiding place and not following the orders of some librarian who tells you to duck under your desk and cover your head. That is what we learned from Columbine. The librarian who ordered the library full of kids to get down and cover their heads survived because she hid in a closed book cabinet. The students she told to get under the desks were murdered.
FIGHT means using everything around you and on you. As an example, in every office building and school there are fire extinguishers. You can blow someone’s eyeballs out with a close blast to the face. You can shut down their respiratory system with a blast in the mouth or nose. You then use the metal extinguisher as a weapon and keep smashing until you win or die trying. Think Flight 93.
Above all, if someone in an alleged position of authority is telling you to do something that is stupid, don’t do it. Actions like turning off the lights, locking a door, and huddling in a dark corner don’t make you invisible or bulletproof if a shooter knows you are there. The bad guy walking down the hall of that office building in the middle of the day, who came there to kill people, knows there are people behind that door. If you can get out of a window or a side door to the outside and escape, do it, regardless of the “stay together” pack mentality. The shooter is looking for a large group to target. Don’t be in that group. I tell my kids: “You have my official permission, in fact you are ordered, to try to escape.”
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I could spend a day on San Francisco’s cable cars.
For six bucks, this unique mode of public transporation offers so much. Grab an outside seat or hang on one of the poles to tour some of San Francisco’s historic neighborhoods. Or hop on to get from one place to another as you would any public transportation. But stare down one of Fog City’s steep hills and you might feel like you should prepare yourself for a roller coaster ride — but relax; there won’t be any hair-raising rides today.
The San Francisco Cable Car offers an adventure, a tour bus, a ride through history, a San Francisco icon from its bell to its distinctive shape.
The cable car’s routes are limited. There are only three of the original routes still in operation. Two run along Powell Street — but you have to pay attention to the names on the top of the car. The Powell-Mason goes to Fisherman’s Wharf while the Powell-Hyde ends up near Ghirardelli Square. The California line goes more east-west.
I had figured they were mostly a tourist thing but when I hopped aboard during the morning rush, plenty of my fellow passengers were clutching briefcases and wearing work clothes. So much nicer than my slog through Beltway traffic, don’t you think?
My hat is off to the driver, officially known as the gripman. I talked to one gripman who said some 95 percent of aspiring drivers wash out.
Keeping these historic old cars is unlike any driving most of us will ever do. Instead of steering wheel, gas pedal and brake, the gripman controls the cable car with a lever that
grips onto a wire wrapped rope cable a few inches under the street level. He’s got a brake, too, but watching the gripman keep the cable car on schedule with the grip lever was like watching ballet performed by a powerful dancer.
How does it really work? Even though I’ve watched the gripman work his magic, I still can’t tell. But I love the performance every time I see it.
It takes a team to keep these machines in operation. I counted three people on board: the gripman, the conductor and a third man on the back of the car.
But to keep these historic beauties going seven days a week, round trip up and down the hills, you gotta turn ’em around. Like Ghirardelli Square, the sea lions at Fisherman’s Wharf or the Golden Gate Bridge, this is a true San Francisco treat. (Sorry, I had to.) It takes a team of strong people to get the cable car on the wooden turntable, turn it around and get it back on its way….
Thanks for the ride. It’s always fun.
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Caroline of Brunswick was the cousin of George, Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and they were married in 1795 without having met until she arrived from Germany in England for the wedding in 1795. The match was a disaster, as they hated each other from the start. When he first saw his intended wife, he announced he was not well and asked for a glass of brandy, while she told her attendants that he did not look nearly as handsome as his portrait had suggested. Although he spent the first night of the honeymoon lying in the fireplace in a drunken stupor, they stayed together long enough for Caroline to conceive and give birth to a daughter, Charlotte, the following year.
Charlotte had an unhappy life, torn between two parents who were separated, hated each other. Her father tried to poison the child's mind against her mother, and the latter did likewise. Thanks largely to her sympathetic uncles, she grew up into a determined and level-headed princess, although her marriage to Prince Leopold of Coburg, happy as it was, would sadly prove all too short.
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Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War Paperback
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Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement.
The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it.
The book argues that, when Neville Chamberlain came to power, appeasement was part of a broad consensus in British society to avoid a second world war.
It provides an interpretation of Chamberlain's conduct by showing how he used and abused the mood of the age to justify a selfish and ambitious policy which was idealogically prejudiced.
Yet, when Hitler entered Prague in March 1939, the public mood changed, and Chamberlain found himself a prisoner of a new mood which forced him to make a tactical and half-hearted attempt to stand up to Hitler for which he had no enthusiasm.
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- Publication Date: 08/01/1998
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A volume in the ABDO series "Issues in Sports" (part of a larger collection known as SportsZone) this volume tackles the issue of violence in sports from various angles, from the local to the professional level, violence on the playing field to the spectators, as well as a take on the issues from an international level.3/5.
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Sports leagues, teams, and individual athletes have to address the societal issue of violence against partners in an effort to start to shift the tide on our societal issue. More importantly, victims have to start to speak out even though it can be incredibly difficult and frightening because of the fear of exposing the perpetrator.
"The sheer number of questions and topics raised in the course of this reimagining of the field as well as the plethora of sources used will make Sports, Violence and Society an important source for Violence in Sports book of violence interested in broadening the horizons of the study of violence." - Sam Bieler, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May "[The book's] international aspect, Cited by: Violence has been a part of ice hockey since at least the early s.
According to the book Hockey: A People's History, in alone, four players were killed during hockey games from the frequent brawls and violent stickwork. Fighting in ice hockey is an established tradition of the sport in North America, with Violence in Sports book long history involving many levels of amateur and professional play.
Get this from a library. Violence and sports. [Gilda Berger] -- An examination of the causes and effects of the violence that occurs in sports both among athletes and fans.
* Features an international perspective with examples of sport violence from throughout the world * Offers a historical view on the evolution of violence in sport.
Sport and Violence takes a critical look at the culture of ‘sports rage’ and aggression in the sporting industry, covering ethical, historical and sociological causes and impacts.
Violence in sports is not an integral part of the game, and the punishment should be much greater than what it currently is. In the book Media, Sports, & Society, author Lawrence A. Wenner discusses how violence in sports is acceptable because sports spectators love aggression and that it improves audiences and television ratings.
Wenner states. Another proposed act, the Sports Violence Arbitration Act offailed to create a sports court for excessive violence. Id at p. Internal League Controls. Violence in sports has become so prevalent that professional sports leagues and other governing bodies have had to police such activity themselves and provide punishment (i.e., penalties).
But other observers say today's sports actually are contributing to violent behavior. ``I think the violence goes both ways,'' says Myriam Miedzian, author of the book, ``Boys Will Be Boys.
ISBN: OCLC Number: Notes: Previously published as: Blood & guts: violence in sports.
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We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Contents. Sports Violence in Time and Space. Gender Class and Age as Determinants of Sports Violence. Interpersonal Determinants of Violence in Sports. The book explores organized and spontaneous violence, both on the field and off, and calls for a much broader definition of 'sports-related violence', to include issues as diverse as criminal behaviour by players, abuse within sport and exploitatory labor practices.
Sports Violence is perhaps the first collection of scholarly theory and research to examine in detail aggression within and surrounding sports. As such, it seeks to present the broadest possible range of interpretations and perspectives.
The book is, therefore, both interdisciplinary and international in scope. Loyden retired from soccer in in order to devote herself to raising her nephew, Britton's son, but has continued to speak out about domestic violence in sports, including urging the league to Author: Emma Cueto.
Domestic violence perpetrated by male athletes upon their intimate partners or family members is one of the most common off-field crimes that affects sports administration.
There is an ongoing struggle among sporting leagues, governments, and viewers to address the increasing number of domestic violence incidents committed by athletes that come. Fan violence is further magnified by strong identification with the team, underlying racial and ethnic tensions, social alienation, alcohol consumption, and predominance of young men in the crowd.
information, now published in this report. ‘Protecting Children from Violence in Sport: A review with a focus on industrialized countries’ defines the many aspects of the issue, provides examples of both good and poor practice, and makes suggestions for sport organizations to assist them in their violence prevention work.
Violence in sports refers to the physical acts committed in contact sports such as soccer, hockey, football and basketball.
These acts of violence can include intentional attempts or threats to physically harm another player by the athletes and coaches engaged in spectator sports. recommended strategies for reducing or preventing violence in high school sports.
Four (4) states (Arkansas, Delaware, North Carolina, and Oklahoma) have legislation that considers the first incident of violence toward a sports official a misdemeanor, and Montana has legislation that considers violence toward a sports official a felony.
The authors hold that this sort of data--numerous studies are cited revealing the same trend--exposes the inherent flaws in traditional male sports culture. Sports, they say, breed intolerant males more prone to violence, domestic abuse, and homophobia and less likely to sustain a long-term relationship with a by: Violence in sports.
results. Sort by. The NRL has failed Jack de Belin because it did not provide him with an education program about violence against women, the. Violence in sports consists of overly aggressive physical acts that occur in all types of contact sports and go beyond normal play, placing the welfare and safety of players at risk.
High levels of testosterone in athletes and the animal behavior to establish. The Triad of Violence in Men’s Sports of male athletes committing acts of off-the-field violence, whether sex-ual or otherwise. Far from being an aberration perpetrated by some this book, the research points to the conclusion that the athletes most likely to engage in sexual and other violent assaults off the field are thoseFile Size: 1MB.
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A sports spectator is implicated in the violence of the games he watches, if only because the games wouldn’t be played without him. The NFL’s enormous television audience—now 45 percent female—creates the incentive structure that induces players to take risks with their health.
Violence exists in nowadays sport. In the past aggression was considered by the demand of playing to win, but over the last years violence in sports has become a social problem. There are numerous examples of violence among athletes and fans of hockey, soccer, football, baseball, boxing, and basketball games.
USA TODAY Sports spoke with a dozen FBS head coaches about how they educate players about issues of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Some call on outside speakers, such as police officers, to. See the lengthy bibliography in R. HORROW, SPORTS VIOLENCE: The interaction between private law making and the criminal law() (hereinafter cited as HORROW); Torts in Sports, supra note 1. Spectator violence has long been associated with professional football in Europe.
This article examines the issue of spectator violence from a North American perspective. We begin by noting that there is little systematic research into the scope of spectator disorder in North America. Perhaps for this reason there is little consensus about the true scale of the problem Cited by: This extensively researched book addresses sports fan violence sociologically, using both theoretical models and empirical data.
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Lewis draws from the theoretical approaches based on the collective behavior models of Neil J. Smelser and Clark McPhail in order to show how to study fan violence using the intensive case history method.
This method is then applied to an in-depth 4/5(1).This paper is the latest in a series of articles published in The Sport Psychologist in recent years on aggression and violence in sport (Kerr,; Tenenbaum, Sacks, Miller, Golden, & Doolin, ; Tenenbaum, Stewart, Singer, & Duda, ).While these respective articles have presented dissenting views on the nature and prevention of aggression and violence in sport, Cited by:
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Watching the Video
Before You Watch
Respond to the following questions.
- What is culture? How do you define culture?
- How do you make abstract cultural concepts more concrete for children?
- What role could the arts play in a unit about a past culture?
- How do the arts affect a culture? How does culture affect the arts?
Watch the Program
As you watch note how the arts are used to help students understand an abstract concept like culture. Write down what you find interesting, surprising, or especially important about the teaching and learning you see in this unit.
Reflect on the Program
- How did each art form serve to deepen students understanding of culture?
- What kinds of preparation do you think preceded the lessons seen in the video to make these activities successful for students?
- How do the culture and resources of this particular school help support the type of instruction shown?
- Which components of the study – social studies, visual art, theatre, or music – would be most challenging for you and your colleagues to incorporate in an integrated unit?
- What evidence, if any, did you see of the ways students benefited from this unit of study?
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A city frozen in place by ash and lava, Pompeii is one of history’s strangest tales. Learn more about the city’s geography, ancient Rome and the explosion’s legacy with five Pompeii stats.
79: the year Mt. Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii and nearby towns Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplontis. The eruption was the most noteworthy event of the year 79; elsewhere in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasium died and was succeeded by his son Titus, Roman troops invaded Caledonia (modern-day Scotland) and the famous Roman Colosseum was dedicated.
20,000: the population of Pompeii at the time of the eruption. The city’s population was booming in the years leading up to the disaster as Pompeii profited from its region’s fertile lands, ideal for agriculture.
150: miles Pompeii was located from Rome. The city sat five miles away from the base of Mt. Vesuvius. At the time of the eruption, the volcano spewed ash and gas over 20 miles into the air, blanketing the area before the lava arrived.
1: Number of eyewitness accounts on record for the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Pliny the Younger, a lawyer and magistrate in Rome, was stationed across the Bay of Naples from Mt. Vesuvius at the time of the eruption, and published two letters recounting his experience 25 years after. His uncle Pliny the Older, a Roman author, scholar and military commander, perished in Pompeii while attempting to rescue friends from the eruption.
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Self-individualization has been interpreted as the process in which the all-embracing Self unfolds into an infinite variety of different individ uals, plants, animals and men. A comparison of the different ways in which the Self manifests itself in the biological and psychological devel opmental processes, or in a visionary image of the undivided Self, reveals the same basic structure of expression. The Self, the one, is represented by a circular domain, and comprises a basic inner duality, the two, creating a paradox of conflicting opposites. In the undivided Self the two give rise to a trinity in which, however, a quatemity is hidden. The latter expresses itself in this world as the four basic forces, the four Elements or the four main archetypes, specifying the possibilities or development in space and time. Self-individualization starts with the first appearance of a primary structure of an individual sub-Self. This is the fifth basic force, the fifth Element. Further development is character ized by four generative principles: 1st, the principle of wholeness: connection and integration (being oriented to remaining whole or restoring wholeness); 2nd, the principle of complementarity and com pensation (a periodic shift between opposing influences); 3rd, the enstructuring principle (causing the relative stability of the spatial appear ance of the manifest structure), and 4th, the principle of gesture (resulting in a gradual stepwise development of that structure into a full-grown individual). | <urn:uuid:2738a3c2-bb1b-42df-b830-08c697a78f36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-017-2604-7?error=cookies_not_supported&code=7ee50086-db40-40ba-b79b-c0ce4fe4fea5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.92031 | 315 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The horse meat scandal grows bigger by the hour. As the number of products and retailers caught up grows wider and deeper, who really is to blame? Did Tesco and Aldi not check their suppliers well enough? Did the FSA fail to conduct their regulatory functions? Did someone somewhere fraudulently put horse meat into the beef food chain? Only time will answer these questions. However, there is a more fundamental issue at stake – is our food culture to blame?
The nature of the food we buy, how we buy it and the extended supply chains involved are in my view highly culpable. Most failures of this nature are not isolated blips, but are the logic result of a complex sequence of events. The different pressures and forces that apply create the motivations, incentives and possibilities for such failings to occur.
A generation ago food was produced and sold locally by independent butchers, bakers and greengrocers. The local high street was full of independent retailers. The rise of the supermarket simply blew them all away. The selling of locally sourced produce stopped, to be replaced by a range goods flown, shipped and driven in from every corner of the globe. The carbon footprint of your green beans and bananas is huge.
Maintaining food safety over such a long supply chain is near to impossible. The food affected so far has included lasagna sold in the UK, made in France and based on Romanian meat. Tesco had issues with burgers produced in Yorkshire from Irish meat. While various codes of conduct and certification schemes exist, they cannot guarantee everything is as it should be. Documentation stating what frozen meat is delivered to the burger factory is wide open to corruption and abuse.
The rise of supermarket has led to the pooling of buying power. Big supermarkets screw suppliers to floor on price, while being really demanding. This pressure creates a motivation to break the rules. If a company is only making a few pence per burger profit, taking shortcuts on raw materials becomes tempting. The whole buyer/seller relationship is grossly biased in favour of the supermarket. Just ask a dairy farmer about milk prices.
Modern lives have shaped the way we buy food. People are busy and want speed and convenience. This means that driving into a free car park and filling your trolley with convenience meals you can heat up in five minutes is popular. The habit of actually cooking food from fresh ingredients is missing from the lives of many people.
We have also become very distant from food production. Little cellophane packets with portions of meat sliced up bear no relation to the rearing and slaughtering of animals. Bags of weighed and washed carrots of a nice even size are a long way from the varied, crooked and muddy vegetables that are pulled out the ground.
Here is my plan to improve our food culture:
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- Introduce lessons on cooking and where food comes from at school
- Encourage and celebrate seasonal, locally produced food
- Encourage co-operative food groups to work in poorer areas, where diets are often worse and good fresh food is less available
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Distribution center managers have long had a conflicted relationship with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. Like a hotshot high school player drafted by the big leagues only to fade into relative obscurity, the technology has never quite lived up to its glittering promise.
RFID burst onto the scene in 2003, swaggering into the stadium when Wal-Mart named the technology its starting pitcher in a bold effort to track items throughout its distribution network. But the technology failed to live up to its promise, largely because the high cost of RFID tags and readers put it out of reach of all but the biggest corporations.
Demoted to the minors, RFID has been clawing its way back into the supply chain big leagues ever since, finding success in specialty applications such as tracking high-priced fashion apparel, electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Despite those wins, RFID continues to be dogged by the perception that tags and readers will remain too expensive for widespread use until they reach mass production.
"That was the challenge when we first got into the industry almost 25 years ago, and it still exists today," said Ken Ehrman, CEO of I.D. Systems, a supplier of asset tracking solutions. "Tags are very expensive compared to bar codes, so there's a 'chicken and egg' problem; if the costs were lower, the volume would be there, but without the volume, you can't drive down the cost."
Some say a solution to this existential dilemma has been under users' noses the whole time. Instead of waiting around for prices to drop to the point where the technology is cheap enough for item-level inventory tagging—a task at which bar codes already excel—warehouse and DC managers could use RFID to track much more valuable stuff—the supply chain assets (think lift trucks, tractor chassis, and handheld computers) that make a distribution center tick.TRACKING CRITICAL ASSETS
In asset management, RFID may have finally found its niche where supply chain operations are concerned. Rather than simply tracking inventory, it can be put to higher uses, like serving as the enabling technology for sophisticated data collection initiatives.
As for what types of assets DCs are tagging, that varies all over the map. While some operations tag assets like returnable containers that are routinely sent off site, others track items that are intended to remain inside a facility, like manufacturing tools or IT equipment. "One of the biggest problems is [warehouse workers] losing handhelds; they put it on a pallet and lose it when the pallet gets loaded and moves," said Tom O'Boyle, director of RFID at Barcoding Inc., a Baltimore-based company that specializes in software and hardware for bar coding, RFID, and wireless systems.
As a case in point, O'Boyle cites the example of a customer that was losing 20 percent of its handheld bar-code scanners every year, running up a hefty replacement tab for the units, which cost $1,500 to $2,000 apiece. "And more important than the replacement cost is the ability to outfit the next shift," said O'Boyle. "They need the handhelds for picking, packing, and putaway." Balanced against those two costs, the customer easily justified its investment in RFID tags to track its assets.
Another of Barcoding's customers turned to RFID to help it keep tabs on the tractors used to move heavy rolls of paper around a facility. "These are big pieces of equipment, but [the client] often couldn't find them in the 3 million-square-foot facility because certain workers would hide the vehicle by parking it behind other equipment," O'Boyle said. "That way, when [the driver] came back for his next shift, no one would have adjusted his seat, moved his mirrors, or changed his radio station."NEXT-GEN RFID
Until recently, companies looking to track supply chain assets had just two choices when it came to RFID tags. The first option was the passive RFID tag, which is a relatively inexpensive item costing a dollar or two. The tag cost is only part of the story, however, since users also need an infrastructure of readers and software to gather the information encoded in the tags. That's because passive tags lack an internal power source and cannot transmit a signal. In order to collect the tags' data, users must scan them with a handheld reader within a 10-foot range or pass them through a fixed-read zone like a tollbooth pOréal.
Option two was the active RFID tag, which costs anywhere from $25 to $150. Active tags, which contain their own power supply, are capable of transmitting signals that can be read from as far as 50 to 100 feet away. Those signals can be detected by stationary readers with overlapping coverage areas, then triangulated to pin down the tag's location.
Now, a third option is emerging that combines some of the best features of active and passive tags. Known as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), the technology was originally developed for smartphones, so the signal can be read by consumer devices that run on the iOS and Android operating systems.
The standard was first deployed for "location-aware services," such as retail applications in which tags affixed to store shelves beam discount offers to the smartphones of passing shoppers. But BLE tags have since been ruggedized to meet industrial standards for shock, temperature, vibration, and battery life. And since they communicate on the common wireless standard used in consumer mobile devices, they require far less infrastructure investment than other tracking technologies do.
BLE tags can communicate limited information, but their falling price will soon open up new opportunities in supply chain asset tracking, such as keeping track of specialized tools or even keys to equipment. "We're at the leading edge of that technology now, so they cost $15 or $20 or $25 each, but they are at the highest point," O'Boyle said. "My guess is that in three to five years, they will be under $10."E-COMMERCE DRIVES NEED FOR ASSET TRACKING
Interest in RFID and BLE is particularly strong among retail industry distribution operations that are struggling to fill e-commerce orders within ever-tighter time windows. "Fulfillment centers were designed with an order turnaround time of X, and now they want to drive that to half of X," said Mark Wheeler, director of supply chain services at Zebra Technologies Corp., a supplier of tracking technology.
For these types of facilities, asset tracking is mainly a matter of ensuring that workers can lay their hands on the warehouse tools and equipment they need in their daily operations—items that can be easily misplaced when a DC is running at full steam. A shortage of even the most basic totes, carts, or pallets can throw a wrench in the works of a fast-paced e-commerce fulfillment operation. With its low tag costs, passive RFID offers users a way to improve the tracking of those basic assets.
"Asset management is one of the key applications," said Wheeler. "Users want to control their assets, keep track of where they are, and reduce shrink of assets and the inventory they're associated with."
In contrast, active RFID is a better match for a facility that's looking to track moving assets both inside the facility and out in the yard. "This is great for classic warehouse applications where real-time location is a step up from the level of visibility you have with warehouse management systems (WMS), which only know the last location you scanned," Wheeler said. "When we really know the location of lift trucks and people, it can lead to improved safety, productivity, and workflow."SENSORS MAKE TAGS SMARTER
In response to the growing interest in RFID-enabled asset tracking, some vendors are shifting their focus from ways of making tags cheaper to ways of making tags smarter. That is, they're manufacturing tags that are capable of determining much more about each asset than just its location. As part of that effort, RFID suppliers have begun outfitting their tags with sensors, software, microprocessors, and batteries.
Loaded with extras, such an RFID tag could be the size of a TV remote and cost anywhere from $250 to more than $1,000, said I.D. Systems' Ehrman. But the tag's enhanced capabilities would more than offset the extra cost, he argues. "If a Wal-Mart truck is sitting there with a loaded trailer and the door is opened, we will notice," Ehrman said. "Or if it's been sitting at the DC for more than two hours, we could send a message to the manager that it is outside its operating parameters."
Typically deployed on large assets like lift trucks, intermodal containers, trailers, chassis, and rental cars, these tags can bypass handheld readers, beaming data directly back to a central network via Wi-Fi, cellular network, or satellite signal. In line with the growing popularity of the Internet of Things, this method tracks asset data through a tag-to-system model instead of the standard tag-to-reader approach.
Among other data, these long-range tags can collect information on odometer mileage, fleet usage, dwell time, and transit time for moving assets such as forklifts and chassis. By graphing the results and comparing the statistics with industry benchmarks, users can analyze the data with an eye toward eliminating extraneous vehicles, scheduling needed maintenance, and identifying savings opportunities.
"The bottom line is, these [trucks and other assets] are carrying the inventory," Ehrman said. "And ultimately, the cost of tracking these assets will continue to go down, so we will go from tracking the highest of the high-value assets to lower- and lower-value assets." | <urn:uuid:414da0bf-a6c1-48eb-8ee2-dd322200f3c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/28241-rfid-earns-mvp-honors-for-asset-tracking | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.960573 | 2,024 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The beautiful Cliff House in Gig Harbor, Washington
The Cliff House located in Gig Harbor. Washington was designed by Scott Allen, a renowned architect currently based on Bainbride Island in Washington. This incredible residence is one good example of one man with a team of engineers and state-of-the-art constructors can manage in the USA.
The statement of the architects simply says everything about this estate: “Tucked against the wall of a natural cliff and right on the water’s edge in Gig Harbor, Washington, this project answered the unique challenges of its site.” The basis of the current building used to consist of an old guest house and a boathouse, limited in size by an agreement related to a regulatory process.
Furthermore, as a touch of greenness, the roof is some sort of extension of the upland lawn, being also a design solution, while a glass-enclosed elevator is the access point to the two levels below. On the southern side, the house and the new boathouse comprise an outdoor living place between them.
The water below is reachable via stairs, incorporated into a series of terraces, bridges and decks that also generate entertainment and living spaces. In terms of outdoor dining, there’s an outdoor fireplace and a wood-burning pizza oven – yummy, huh?
The interior of the main residence actually feels like a vessel cabin, decorated with trims, walls and warm Douglas fir ceilings. The level of lightness exchange is extremely high, thanks to the large windows and doors that pleasurably greet every beam of light inside, the warm season’s feeling being gorgeously amplified.
The materials outside were chosen in such a way to withstand the natural conditions and the marine environment, metal window cladding, cedar, concrete and copper being used. Sustainability was a major purpose, thus the green roof, the complete envelope integrity and sunscreens were also included.
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- LDAP Load Balancing
- LDAP Authentication Server
- LDAP Policy Expression
- Gateway Authentication Feedback and Global Licenses
- Multiple Active Directory Domains – UPN Method
- Multiple Active Directory Domains – AAA Groups Method
LDAP Load Balancing
Before you create an LDAP authentication policy, load balance the Domain Controllers. If you don’t load balance your Domain Controllers, then when users enter an incorrect password, the user account will be prematurely locked out.
If you have multiple domains, create different Load Balancing Virtual Servers for each domain. These multiple Load Balancing Virtual Servers can share the same VIP if their port numbers are different. Or you can use a different VIP for each domain.
LDAP Authentication Server
To create the LDAP Authentication Server, do the following:
- On the left, expand Authentication and click Dashboard.
- On the right, click Add.
- In the Choose Server Type drop-down, select LDAP.
- Enter LDAP-Corp as the name. If you have multiple domains, you’ll need a separate LDAP Server per domain so make sure you include the domain name.
- Change the selection to Server IP. Enter the VIP of the load balancing vServer for LDAP.
- Change the Security Type to SSL.
- Enter 636 as the Port. Scroll down.
- In the Connection Settings section, in the Base DN field, enter your Active Directory DNS domain name in LDAP format.
- In the Administrator Bind DN field, enter the credentials of the LDAP bind account in userPrincipalName format. Domain\Username also works.
- Enter the Administrator password.
- Click Test Connection. NetScaler will attempt to login to the LDAP IP. Scroll down.
- In the Other Settings section, use the drop-down next to Server Logon Name Attribute, Group Attribute, and Sub Attribute Name to select the default fields for Active Directory.
- On the right, check the box next to Allow Password Change.
- Note: there is a checkbox for Validate LDAP Server Certificate. If you want to do this, see Citrix Discussions for instructions for loading the root certificate to /nsconfig/truststore.
- If you want to restrict access to only members of a specific group, in the Search Filter field, enter memberOf=<GroupDN>. See the example below:
memberOf=CN=CitrixRemote,OU=Citrix,DC=corp,DC=localYou can add :1.2.840.113522.214.171.1241: to the query so it searches through nested groups. Without this users will need to be direct members of the filtered group.
Citrix CTX132802 How to Use the ldapsearch Utility on the NetScaler Gateway Enterprise Edition Appliance to Validate a Search Filter
- An easy way to get the full distinguished name of the group is through Active Directory Administrative Center. Double-click the group object and switch to the Extensions page. On the right, switch to the Attribute Editor tab.
- Or in Active Directory Users & Computers, enable Advanced view, browse to the object (don’t use Find), double-click the object, and switch to the Attribute Editor tab.
- Scroll down to distinguishedName, double-click it and then copy it to the clipboard.
- Back on the NetScaler, in the Search Filter field, type in memberOf= and then paste the Distinguished Name right after the equals sign. Don’t worry about spaces.
- Scroll down and click More.
- For Nested Group Extraction, if desired, change the selection to Enabled.
- Set Group Name Identifier to samAccountName.
- Set Group Search Attribute to memberOf. Select << New >> first.
- Set Group Search Sub-Attribute to CN. Select << New >> first.
- For the Group Search Filter field, see CTX123795 Example of LDAP Nested Group Search Filter Syntax.
- Scroll down and click Create.
add authentication ldapAction Corp-Gateway -serverIP 10.2.2.210 -serverPort 636 -ldapBase "dc=corp,dc=local" -ldapBindDn "corp\\ctxsvc" -ldapBindDnPassword Passw0rd -ldapLoginName samaccountname -searchFilter "memberOf=CN=Citrix Remote,CN=Users,DC=corp,DC=local" -groupAttrName memberOf -subAttributeName CN -secType SSL -passwdChange ENABLED
- The status of the LDAP Server should be Up.
LDAP Policy Expression
The Authentication Dashboard doesn’t allow you to create the LDAP Policy so you must create it elsewhere.
You can create the LDAP policy now. Or you can wait and create it later when you bind the LDAP Server to the NetScaler Gateway vServer.
To create it now:
- Go to NetScaler Gateway > Policies > Authentication > LDAP.
- On the right, in the Policies tab, click Add.
- Change the Server drop-down to the LDAP Server you created earlier.
- Give the LDAP Policy a name (one for each domain).
- In the Expression box, enter ns_true.
- Click Create.
add authentication ldapPolicy LDAP-Corp ns_true LDAP-Corp
Gateway Authentication Feedback and Licenses
- On the left, under NetScaler Gateway, click Global Settings.
- On the right, in the right column, click Change authentication AAA settings.
- If you are using Gateway features that require Gateway Universal licenses, then change the Maximum Number of Users to the number of Gateway Universal licenses you have installed on this appliance. This field has a default value of 5, and administrators frequently forget to change it, thus only allowing 5 users to connect.
- If desired, check the box for Enable Enhanced Authentication Feedback. This feature provides a message to users if authentication fails. The message users receive include password errors, account disabled or locked, or the user is not found, to name a few. Click OK.
set aaa parameter -enableEnhancedAuthFeedback YES -maxAAAUsers 200
- For two-factor, configure RADIUS Authentication
- Otherwise, Configure NetScaler Gateway Session Policies
Multiple Domains – UPN Method
To support multiple Active Directory domains on a NetScaler Gateway, you create multiple LDAP authentication policies, one for each Active Directory domain, and bind all of the LDAP policies to the NetScaler Gateway Virtual Server. When the user logs into NetScaler Gateway, only the username and password are entered. The NetScaler will then loop through each of the LDAP policies in priority order until it finds one that contains the entered username/password.
What if the same username is present in multiple domains? As NetScaler loops through the LDAP policies, as soon as it finds one with the specified username, it will try to authenticate with that particular LDAP policy. If the password doesn’t match the user account for the attempted domain then a failed logon attempt will be logged in that domain and NetScaler will try the next domain.
Unfortunately, the only way to enter a realm/domain name during user authentication is to require users to login using userPrincipalNames. To use userPrincipalName, set the LDAP Policy/Server with the Server Logon Name Attribute set to userPrincipalName.
You can even do a combination of policies: some with samAccountName and some with userPrincipalName. The samAccountName policies would be searched in priority order and the userPrincipalName policies can be used to override the search order. Bind the userPrincipalName policies higher (lower priority number) than the samAccountName policies.
NetScaler 11.1 supports adding a domain name drop-down list to the logon page. Then use Cookie expressions in the auth policies and session policies. However, this probably doesn’t work for Receivers. See CTX203873 How to Add Drop-Down Menu with Domain Names on Logon Page for NetScaler Gateway 11.0 64.x and later releases for details.
Another option for a domain drop-down is nFactor Authentication for Gateway. This also doesn’t work with Receiver Self-service.
After authentication is complete, a Session Policy will be applied that has the StoreFront URL. The NetScaler Gateway will attempt to log into StoreFront using Single Sign-on so the user doesn’t have to login again. When logging into NetScaler Gateway, only two fields are required: username and password. However, when logging in to StoreFront, a third field is required: domain name. So how does NetScaler specify the domain name while logging in to StoreFront?
There are two methods of specifying the domain:
- AAA Group – Configure multiple session policies with unique Single Sign-on Domains. Inside the Session Policy is a field called Single Sign-on Domain for specifying the domain name. If there is only one Active Directory domain, then you can use the same Session Policy for all users. However, if there are multiple domains, then you would need multiple Session Policies, one for each Active Directory domain. But as the NetScaler loops through the LDAP policies during authentication, once a successful LDAP policy is found, you need a method of linking an LDAP policy with a Session Policy that has the corresponding SSO Domain. This is typically done using AAA groups. To use this method, see Multiple Domains – AAA Group Method.
- userPrincipalName – Alternatively, configure the LDAP policy/server to extract the user’s UPN, and then authenticate to StoreFront using UPN. This is the easiest method but some domains don’t have userPrincipalNames configured correctly.
The userPrincipalName method is detailed below:
- In each of your NetScaler LDAP policies/servers, in the Other Settings section, in the SSO Name Attribute field, enter userPrincipalName (select –<< New >>– first). Make sure there are no spaces after this attribute name. NetScaler will use this pull this attribute from AD, and use it to Single Sign-on the user to StoreFront.
- In StoreFront Console, right-click the Store, and click Manage Authentication Methods.
- On the right, click the gear icon, and then click Configure Trusted Domains.
- In the Trusted domains box, select Any domain.
- Or add your domains in DNS format. The advantage of entering domain names is that you can select a default domain if internal users forget to enter a domain name during login. The DNS format is required for UPN logins (e.g. SSO from NetScaler Gateway).
- On the NetScaler Gateway Virtual Server, bind LDAP authentication polices in priority order. It will search them in order until it finds a match.
- In your Session Policies/Profiles, in the Published Applications tab, make sure Single Sign-on Domain is not configured. Since NetScaler is using the userPrincipalName there’s no need to specify a domain. If Single Sign-on Domain is configured then Single Sign-on authentication will fail.
Multiple Domains – AAA Groups Method
Another method of specifying the domain name when performing Single Sign-on to StoreFront is to use a unique session policy/profile for each domain. Use AAA Groups to distinguish one domain from another.
- Go to NetScaler Gateway > Policies > Authentication > LDAP.
- On the right, switch to the Servers tab. Make sure all domains are in the list. Edit one of the domains.
- Scroll down to the Other Settings section,
- In the Default Authentication Group field, enter a new, unique group name. Each domain has a different group name. Click OK.
- Edit another domain and specify a new unique group name. Each domain has a different group name.
- Go to NetScaler Gateway > User Administration > AAA Groups.
- On the right, click Add.
- Name the group so it exactly matches the group name you specified in the LDAP server. Click OK.
- On the right, in the Advanced Policies section, add the Policies section.
- On the left, in the Policies section, click the Plus icon.
- Select Session, and click Continue.
- Click the plus icon to create a new policy.
- Give it a name that indicates the domain. You will have a separate policy for each domain.
- Click the plus icon to create a new profile.
- Give the Profile a name that indicates the domain. You will have a separate profile for each domain.
- Switch to the Published Applications tab.
- Check the Override Global box next to Single Sign-on Domain. Enter the domain name that StoreFront is expecting. Click Create.
- Give the policy a ns_true expression, and click Create.
- In the Priority field, give it a number that is lower than any other Session Policy that has Single Sign-on Domain configured. Click OK.
- Click Done.
- Create another AAA Group.
- Give it a name for the next domain.
- Create another Session Policy for the next domain.
- Create another profile for the next domain. On the Published Applications tab, specify the domain name of the next domain.
- Bind the new policy with a low Priority number.
- When a user logs in, NetScaler loops through LDAP policies until one of them works. NetScaler adds the user to the Default Authentication Group specified in the LDAP Server. NetScaler finds a matching AAA Group and applies the Session Policy that has SSON Domain configured. Since the policy is bound with a low priority number, it overrides any other policy that also has SSON Domain configured. | <urn:uuid:c54f4e0e-0a3d-4239-bbd8-c644d7e8efd1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.carlstalhood.com/netscaler-gateway-11-1-ldap-authentication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.71419 | 2,961 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
1An order of predatory flying insects that includes the lacewings, alderflies, snake flies, and ant lions. They have four finely veined membranous wings.
- ‘On the other hand, there was diverse evolution within the surviving orders, the Neuroptera, Mecoptera, and Diptera, and Coleoptera being notable examples.’
- ‘This pattern of late trait development appears to occur in all of the basal holometabolous orders of insects (e.g., Megaloptera, Neuroptera, and Mecoptera), and in the more basal families of the Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera.’
- 1.1 Insects of the order Neuroptera:‘the larvae of certain neuroptera’
- ‘Vibrational communication among group members might also be expected in taxa such as many lepidopterans, some aphids, Neuroptera, tingid bugs, and ant-attended cicadellids and fulgoroids.’
- ‘Cardboard bands have been used to monitor a variety of overwintering predatory arthropods, including Neuroptera, spiders, and Heteroptera, all taxa that were monitored in the present study.’
- ‘Several countries, states, and provinces list species of neuroptera that are considered rare or possibly threatened with extinction.’
Modern Latin (plural), from neuro- in the sense ‘veined’ + Greek pteron wing.
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
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Bass Guitar Strings
Bassists have always been in demand. Sure, it seems like everyone plays guitar, but the bass is really what holds your songs together. So it's important to be ready when the band comes calling, be it for a recording session or a gig. With an extra set of quality bass strings you'll be tuned up and ready to go in no time. The first thing to look for when you're picking up a set of bass strings is the number of strings included in the pack. If you have a 5 string bass, a pack of four isn't going to get the job done. Different strings are designed for different basses and it's important that you have the ones that best complement your sound. It's also important to have a look at the different gauges of the strings. Obviously, different gauges can cause a change in your sound. Lighter gauge strings, such as the D'Addario EXL170-5 XL Nickel Round Wound 5-String Long Bass Strings, have less tension, making them easier to play (especially for beginners). Basically as the gauge gets bigger, so does the tone, but larger gauges can also be difficult to play and bend. It's important that you strike the right balance between tone and ease of play when you're choosing your strings. The material used in constructing the strings can also play a major role in your overall sound. For example, a nylon string like the D'Addario ETB92-5 Medium Black Nylon Tapewound has a captivating and deep sound, which will sound drastically different from Electric 5-String Nickel Plated Steel Bass Strings from Musician's Gear. On the other hand, nylon strings are probably not as well suited slap bass as steel strings, due to their loose tension. Finding the right material can really bring your playing to the next level. Like all things musical, there is no universal solution, only the solution that best suits your needs. Your bass strings will help you keep the rhythm with ease, whether you're on stage, in the studio, or just jamming at home with some friends. Always make sure you're set to play with extra bass strings in your gig bag.
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(And How It’s Being Cleaned Up)
By Tiffany Rider - Assistant Editor
August 27, 2013 - Studies have shown that air pollution is one of the greatest environmental concerns affecting human health and climate change, specifically in Southern California. A significant contributor to air pollution is a group of highly reactive gasses known as nitrogen oxides (NOx), which include nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitrous acid and nitric acid. Sources contributing nitrous oxide production surround Long Beach and are woven into the fabric of various industries that keep the regional economy moving forward.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses NO2, which forms from emissions from vehicles, equipment and industrial facilities, as the indicator for its National Ambient Air Quality Standard. This toxic gas, according to the EPA, reacts with moisture in the air and other compounds to form particles that penetrate the lungs, aggravating new and existing respiratory issues and existing heart disease. It also contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone, a colorless gas that can be harmful to breathe and that triggers various health problems.
NO2 forms quickly from emissions from off-road equipment, trucks, cars, ships, boats, power plants and other sources. The amount of N2O emitted from these sources depends on the type of fuel and vehicle technology, maintenance and operating practices.
The EPA suggests the concentration of NO2 in the air will decrease as more emissions regulations come online. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), which manages air quality programs and regulations in Orange County and the majority of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, estimated the top categories for NOx emissions for 2014 as part of its 2012 Air Quality Management Plan.
“One of our major offices is our tech advancement office,” Sam Atwood, spokesperson for the Diamond Bar-based AQMD, told the Business Journal. “Its main mission is to develop advanced clean air vehicle technologies, everything from passenger to heavy duty vehicles. They sponsor research and development, and deployment contracts in collaboration with other entities.”
In addition, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has a variety of programs in place to control NOx. “We control emissions that create smog, toxics and climate change,” ARB spokesperson Melanie Turner said in an e-mail. “Since NOx is half of the smog-forming equation, any program that deals with reducing pollution from a combustion source helps to reduce NOx. There are NOx controls on everything from the smallest portable engine up to the largest industrial boiler or power plant, and everything in between. Please note, however, that we have a limited ability to regulate certain combustion sources, such as locomotives, oceangoing vessels and aircraft.”
1. Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks
Heavy-duty diesel trucks include big rigs, school buses and other large diesel-fueled vehicles on the road.
2. Off-Road Equipment
Off-road equipment includes construction equipment such as bulldozers, graders, loaders, excavators, cherry pickers, backhoes, forklift trucks, dirt haulers and tractors.
3. Ships & Commercial Boats
Ships include cargo and break bulk carriers, tankers, cruise vessels and ocean liners. Examples of commercial boats include tugboats, fishing vessels, rescue boats and platform barges.
4. Passenger Cars
Passenger cars are everyday vehicles on roads and highways with at least two seats. These include coupes, sedans, convertibles, hatchbacks, wagons and some small sport utility vehicles.
5. Light-Duty Trucks
Light-duty trucks are commercial vehicles with a capacity of less than 4,000 pounds. Turner provided the following list of vehicles classified as light-duty trucks: Audi Q5, BMW X3, Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet’s S10 pickup and Equinox, Dodge Journey, GMC Terrain, Jeep’s Compass and Patriot, Mercedes-Benz GLK 3504Matic, Nissan pickup, Toyota pickup and SAAB 9-4X.
The AQMD launched a new program on August 26 to help truck fleets replace older heavy-duty diesel trucks with cleaner, low-emission models using $90 million in Proposition 1B funding. Applications are being accepted now through October 10. Port trucks are not eligible for this funding opportunity.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) regulates drayage trucks that transport marine containers, as part of its ongoing effort to reduce NOx and particulate matter. The ARB regulations support the Clean Air Action Plan, approved in 2006 by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Shore power efforts allow ships calling to the ports to retain power and reduce engine output. This effort is part of the roadmap for putting into place zero-emission equipment throughout the port complex. These plug-in and hybrid off-road equipment models, once operational, would further assist emission reduction efforts at the ports. The ports also have a speed reduction program that requires ships slow down before entering the San Pedro Bay, which helps taper the ships’ emissions.
The Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, as managed by the ARB, provides grant funding for projects that clean up emissions from trucks, ships, passenger vehicles and off-road equipment. Going into its 15th year, the Carl Moyer Program has provided funding to clean up more than 4,400 vehicles.
The ARB also regulates passenger vehicle emissions through rules that are increasingly stringent. Year after year, manufacturers must offer vehicles to Californians that are closer to zero emissions. Education on passenger vehicle emissions, a growing case for environmental stewardship and the need for better fuel economy all factor into why the top selling vehicle in California in 2012 was the Toyota Prius, a plug-in hybrid vehicle.
“We have helped pioneer technologies for electric and electric plug-in hybrid vehicles,” Atwood said. “Now that everyone knows what a Prius is, you are seeing the next generation of these types of vehicles. We’ve been doing that for 20 years. Fuel cell technologies haven’t been commercialized to the same extent, but we believe that has the role in the future. Hydrogen has a renewable source like wind or solar.” | <urn:uuid:5e1804bd-e441-495e-b473-efe6be795992> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lbbusinessjournal.com/lof-scroller/1754-top-5-sources-of-air-pollution-in-the-region-.html | 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 | 0.933875 | 1,305 | 3.234375 | 3 |
A young writer recently wrote a web piece titled “If You Have Savings in Your 20’s, You’re Doing Something Wrong.” The article contained the following gems:
- People who are saving in their 20s are people who don’t set their sights high. They’ve already dropped out of the game and settled for the minor leagues.
- Your 20s are not the time to save; they’re the time to gamble. $200 a month isn’t going to make the dent that a $60,000 pay raise will after spending all those nights out networking.
- We don’t have kids. We’ll be renting for the foreseeable future, and we have no problem eating McDonald’s when we’re skint.
Several quick points:
2. I am not sure I know anyone who received a $60K annual raise but she seems to think they are plentiful.
3. The value of the monthly $200 expenditure she mocks is $1 million after 45 years.
4. If she continues to spend what she makes, she will rent forever, not just the foreseeable future.
5. The writer and the 2 million plus people who liked her article on Facebook are likely constituents of Bernie Sanders because they are counting on others to provide for their retirement. | <urn:uuid:1ab881e9-8b57-412b-ab14-96c537d9c125> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jaybrinker.com/tag/saving-in-your-20s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.96341 | 280 | 1.953125 | 2 |
By Alanna Radle Rodriguez and Judge Rodriguez
Thank you for joining us this month as we start our new series about first responders in our great state.
First allow us to say: we wish to pay our respects to the brave men and women of our military, and let them know our thoughts and prayers are with them, particularly those currently on deployment outside our country and away from their families.
However, we also wish to add our gratitude to those that serve outside of our military forces as well. Also called the Thin Blue Line, this group of dedicated public servants serve to keep us, our families, and our property safe. Our hats are off to you, and our gratitude for all you do, and to your families.
After the different land runs, there was a distinct need for peacekeepers. Until the territory had been opened up for white settlement, “keeping the natives at bay” was handled by the U.S. Army, in particular, the Cavalry. Now that the settlers had been able to form their own towns/cities, it was incumbent on them to create their own force of peacekeepers. The United States Marshall’s service had representatives throughout the territory, but were few and far between.
The different newly formed townships had their own force to keep law and order. However, until control was taken over by the State of Oklahoma in 1915, there was another force that assisted with military control as well. That group was the regional Militia. When the state took over control, it turned in to the Oklahoma Army National Guard.
I mention this group because, in 1911 when the Oklahoma Department of Transportation was created, they needed a group to be able to base the law enforcement training on. Starting with the first class of graduates in 1937, The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has been tasked with keeping law and order on the state and federal highways of Oklahoma.
The uniform of the Highway Patrol is partly based on that of the Regional Militia, with brown trousers, and a tan stripe going down the side, and with (originally) cavalry boots. This is much in the style of the traditional uniform for the US Cavalry and their blue trousers with the yellow stripe.
In the first nine months of operation, the troopers issued over a quarter of a million warnings and had over five thousand arrests. In the last eighty years, however, the role for the Highway Patrol has migrated into other arenas.
Today, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has been tasked with Public Information Services, Capitol Patrol / Capitol Security, Marine Enforcement (in particular, they handle water safety on the rivers and lakes in the state), Training, Bomb Squad, SWAT, Motorcycle safety (the “flying squadron” or “mobile cavalry squadron”), Aircraft Safety, Special Operations (formerly Criminal Interdiction, whose team members , and Audits on fraudulent drivers licenses.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is currently under the Department of Public safety. With 800 Troopers statewide, OHP is considered one of the top law enforcement groups in the country, with some of the most up to date equipment, and personnel training.
We hope you join us in paying respect to the fine men and women that put their lives on the line every day to ensure that the highways and byways of this great state are kept as safe as possible. Please join us next month as we start discovering the other part of the Thin Blue Line: Oklahoma Police Departments.
Born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma, Alanna Radle Rodriguez is the great-great granddaughter of one of the first pioneers to settle in Indian Territory. Alanna loves the history of the state and relishes in volunteering at the 1889 Territorial Schoolhouse in Edmond. Her first published story, part of a collaborative novella titled Legacy Letters, came out September 2016. Alanna lives with her husband and parents in the Edmond area. She is currently working on a historical fiction series that takes place in pre-statehood Waterloo, Oklahoma. | <urn:uuid:d1d80c84-ff58-4ec1-9b39-18769ceeec64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hhhistory.com/2018/08/the-thin-blue-line-tan-and-brown.html?showComment=1534768515036 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.972771 | 842 | 2.234375 | 2 |
If you liked confocal microscopy, you're going to love multi-photon systems, now available from Bio-Rad Instruments. Taking the principle of confocal microscopy one giant step further, multi-photon microscopes use rapidly oscillating, low energy laser light to illuminate a small sample area--as small as 0.1 femtoliter. Working cooperatively, the energy from two (or three in some cases) photons can excite fluorochromes that ordinarily require high energy excitation. What does this get you? Deeper sample penetration, photobleaching that is restricted to the small area of excitation, and less phototoxicity, allowing for real-time and continuous sampling of live specimens.
Comparison of confocal and multi-photon imaging depth penetration. XZ profiles through an acid fuchsin stained, monkey kidney pathology sample imaged through a depth of 140 µm with confocal (left) and multi-photon microscopy. Scale bar = 20 µm. (Courtesy of Victoria Centonze Frohlich, University of Wisconsin, Madison). | <urn:uuid:1b09b6e2-ab82-4cf9-aaff-72816b06d373> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.the-scientist.com/technology/every-photon-is-sacred-56943 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.887511 | 225 | 2.515625 | 3 |
One day just wasn’t adequate to mark the 20-year anniversary of the Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition (in Butler County). A celebration was held October 9-10 to highlight the remarkable work by the many dedicated individuals who have worked to address water quality issues impacting Slippery Rock Creek and its tributaries.
Because of these efforts, over 15 miles of streams have been greatly improved due to the environmentally-friendly treatment of billions of gallons of degraded water from abandoned coal mines.
On Friday October 9, the individuals and organizations most involved in restoring the watershed were thanked. SRWC participant Cliff Denholm of Stream Restoration Incorporated gave a “State of the Watershed” address, sharing water quality data from the 1990s to today, which showed a remarkable improvement in the quality of streams, thanks to the continuous operation of the passive treatment systems.
Co-founder Margaret Dunn was reduced to tears as she recounted and publicly thanked many of the people who have supported the SRWC, most notably through significant public-private partnerships.
Others who spoke at Friday’s celebration included Wil Taylor, Manager, and Dave Johnson, former Manager, Jennings Environmental Education Center; Robert C. Dolence, former DEP Deputy Secretary; Tim Gillen, DEP; Tim Danehy, BioMost, Inc.; Dr. Dean DiNicola, Biologist, Slippery Rock University; Dr. Helen Boylan, Chemistry, Westminster College; Dr. Fred Brenner, Biologist, Grove City College; and Dr. Valentine Kefeli, Biologist, Robert Morris University.
A delicious lunch was provided and several poster displays were set up for folks to learn more about the latest efforts of the SRWC and Clean Creek Products.
After lunch, the group boarded a bus to tour the passive treatment systems at SR114, which has been continuously operational for over 20 years and at Erico Bridge (photo), which was recently rehabilitated after more than a decade of operation.
Saturday October 10 marked Day 2 of the Celebration, as Jennings Environmental Education Center opened its doors to the general public for anyone and everyone interested in joining the festivities.
Dozens of people came to Jenings on a gorgeous autumn day to enjoy hands-on family activities, stream “stomps,” wetland hikes and more.
Beautiful blue skies and all the colors of Fall were a breathtaking site for those who took part in the passive treatment system bus tours and walks around the Center.
A tour of the erico Bridge and McIntire systems were provided, as visitors were given explanations of the history of these sites and all the basics of passive treatment for acide mine drainage.
Cliff Denholm served as the designated tour guide providing educational explanations on the design, construction, monitoring and maintenance of the passive treatment systems.
Stephanie Taylor and Shaun Busler, SRWC, led individuals on a fun kayak sojourn, paddling portions of Slippery Rock Creek. Shaun shared information on stream bank restoration, data loggers and other projects as they floated by each respective location.
The Watershed Science Lab in the Jennings classroom was opened throughout the day and hosted kids and adults who enjoyed the chance to perform some fun experiments and participate in hands-on learning activities. Cookies, cake, cheese trays and other goodies were provided to all visitors.
Thanks to all who came out to share in the festivities of our 20th Anniversary.
Thank you to our sponsors the Foundation for PA Watersheds, an anonymous donor and Campbell Bus Company.
A special thanks to the Jennings staff, without whom, the event would not have been possible.
The Slippery Rock Creek watershed is located North of Pittsburgh and is 410-square miles encompassing portions of Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Beaver counties.
For more information on initiative, special events and how you can help, visit the Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition website.
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Law and Culture: 'Urf as a Substance of Islam Nusantara as Reflected in Indonesian Religious Court Decisions
- https://doi.org/10.2991/icclas-17.2018.37How to use a DOI?
- Urf; Islam Nusantara; religious court; local fiqh
The aim of this study is to show the continuity of interaction between sharia and local living norms and culture as reflected in the Religious Court Decisions on Islamic Personal Law cases. From the beginning of its formative years, sharia and culture are interrelated closely. The specific terminology of amal ahl al-mad nah indicates that not all Islamic norms are derived directly from the scripture. But it is linked to the local practice and living norms, customs, and usage. The research is qualitative, using documents as source of data. The documents are consisting of some Indonesian Religious Court Decisions. The Court Decision (year 2000 onward) of Jember, Binjai, Kudus, Bandung, Watansoppeng, and Jakarta are analyzed. The result of the research shows the legal ideas of interpreting sharia must refer to the living norms embedded in the local wisdom and tradition. By doing such a method of reference, the decision is practical and fulfil the feeling of people justice. Thus, sharia, as indicated in the decisions is "local fiqh".
- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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The business has announced that it’s launching a new Self Provider Fix software, which is able to deliver repair service pieces appropriate to the doorstep. Apple could have more than two hundred tools and areas accessible to fix your apple iphone or iPad. Prospects can even return applied components for recycling and acquire keep credits for potential purchases. Nonetheless, Apple endorses that clients seek Skilled help for apple iphone repairs. Here’s how The brand new plan is effective. It will probably be obtainable early subsequent calendar year during the U.S., and extra international locations might be extra in the course of 2022.
The brand new program will be restricted to iPhones and iPads, and will at first be accessible to US consumers only, While other countries will be able to access it as well. At launch, the program will only enable folks to repair service the iPhone 12 or 13 by next precise Directions. The brand new software will also help M1-primarily based Macs, but the corporation hasn’t specified value information. Eventually, it is best to Adhere to the instructions carefully in order to avoid any possible hurt or voiding your warranty.
The brand new method will likely be out there in US early next yr, and may initially present repair services to the iPhone 12 and thirteen collection. Self-support mend will likely be obtainable for Mac desktops with M1 chips. As This system expands, it will be offered in other nations, including Canada. The service is also available to Apple Authorized Services Companies and Impartial Repair Vendors. The self-services fix support will likely give buyers with a list of Formal elements.
A critical question is if Apple will differentiate the Self-Services Maintenance software within the IRP system. If that is so, how will that have an affect on shoppers? While some customers might gain from self-support repair, a few end users could be turned off by The reasoning. Self-services repair will only supply usefulness, but will the method enable it to be more challenging for DIYers to prepare ahead? This selection will likely be produced by the corporate alone, but it surely has a terrific impact on the market and on buyers.
The self-provider repair application will to begin with center on the parts most often serviced. A lot more varieties of repairs will become offered afterward in the year. It truly is planned that Apple silicon Macs Along with the M1 chip will grow to be another to affix the plan. Besides the new self-service fix system, the company is launching a web-based store to facilitate the process. The online keep will supply over two hundred pieces and applications that consumers can use to fix their gadgets.
Although Many of us will leap at the prospect to restore their very own phones, not all might be so enthusiastic. Apple has long been recognized for not accommodating unbiased restore retailers, so many purchasers are hesitant to do it on their own. Having said that, with Apple Self Assistance Repair, any one might get the elements they have to repair their telephones in your own home. They can obtain the sections they will need from Apple’s on line retail store, and can get credit for bringing the used parts back again to Apple for recycling.
While Apple want us to believe that this choice was designed By itself, it was greatly associated with regulatory efforts on a few continents, dozens of Trader proposals, and A huge number of proposed costs. Now, it really is saying programs to produce areas and restore manuals accessible to the general public. These designs are mainly intended to aid individuals mend their own iPhones, Nonetheless they might have more makes use of than that.
Whilst Apple has typically restricted access to sections and mend manuals, customers have turned to impartial fix companies and YouTube to learn the way to fix their gadgets. Throughout the earlier yr, advocates for suitable-to-fix have received a handful of small victories. A recent executive get because of the Biden administration provides mend protections. Also, the FTC is signalling that it may go after action versus fix monopolies.
This new software is expected to start during the US early upcoming 12 months. It can in the beginning deal with the apple iphone 12 and iPhone 13 lineup, but is going to be rolled out in other nations around the world all through 2022. Even though Apple is intending to provide iPhone elements to the general public, they are going to at first reserve the supply of spare components to five,000 authorized assistance companies and restore outlets all over the world. If effective, Apple will increase the Self Company Maintenance plan to include Mac desktops with M1 chips, in addition to iPhones.
For a buyer, there’s a chance you’re thinking no matter whether Apple’s policy on 3rd-celebration repairs relates to your product. Whilst the Biden administration has indicated a center on shopper legal rights, it has also directed the FTC to reevaluate regulations from unfair anticompetitive constraints on maintenance expert services. The FTC unanimously voted to enhance enforcement of repair service restrictions. Apple’s Independent Mend System is one of these policies. Unlike the Apple Licensed Company Vendors (AAPL), mend shops can enter the certification approach and deal with Apple for repairs. In Trade, they’re able to get usage of Apple equipment and sections.
Generally, the coverage of Apple’s Impartial Fix Company application allows customers to get their products fixed outside the organization’s storefronts. In such a situation, Apple may possibly supply components and labor together with direct consumers to fix their very own units. Alternatively, Apple could use refurbished merchandise or areas similar to new performance. In possibly circumstance, Apple retains ownership in the changed aspect and could exchange it for value. The company may cost for transport of the replaced item.
Considering that Apple sells iPhones and iPads, it has historically only available maintenance pieces to approved provider suppliers and unbiased mend shops. Customers have long argued this coverage is anti-competitive, and advocates of fix reform have pushed lawmakers to employ it. In the past, Apple has lobbied towards this plan, citing safety concerns about 3rd-bash repairs. Apple’s coverage on third-get together repairs is probably not fantastic, but it is a lot better than practically nothing.
Third-social gathering iPhone monitor repairs used to void Apple’s guarantee. Nevertheless, this coverage was transformed by the corporate early very last year. Apple retail workers were educated that if their clients experienced a display fixed by a third party, their guarantee would not be voided. This new coverage won’t use to all repairs, so it is advisable to Call an Apple Licensed Assistance Supplier (AASP) instead.
Apple has not too long ago announced a brand new self-services mend program. It is going to give customers with fix guides and parts and allow buyers to recycle their unique utilised sections. The program won’t be ideal, nonetheless it could make Apple more competitive with shoppers and impartial mend retailers. When the policy is quite restrictive, it could allow for enthusiastic consumers to economize on apple iphone repairs and manage their own associations with Apple. It could also let some independent maintenance outlets to remain in small business.
A variety of Added benefits include getting an Apple Approved Support Service provider (AASP). Don’t just will it permit you to supply in-warranty restore expert services to prospects, but Furthermore, it ensures that the work is finished to the best common. Apple supports AASPs with methods to help them maintain the very best expectations in customer service and satisfaction. Apple also promotes its approved provider companies which has a Quality Company Supplier (PSP) status soon after some time.
When Apple presents onsite repairs for organization shoppers, it hasn’t but presented these solutions to people. Nevertheless, Go Tech Solutions has entered the marketplace with this feature. These businesses are comparable to Greatest Obtain and Cell Kangaroo. They can even repair a cracked Show or battery within your iPhone. Their Web-site won’t include information on service fees. While Apple claims that onsite repairs are free of charge, Go Tech Solutions will not offer same-working day appointments, only Monday appointments.
Aside from doorstep repairs, Apple also has an “on-line fix guide” portal that may guide consumers. This portal offers repair service guides for iPhones, iPads, and Macbooks. The GSX portal has diagnostic tools and can offer people with their warranty standing, discover my iphone status, and country of acquire. This portal also gives the assistance supplier with crucial information about Each individual customer’s product, including warranty position.
Apple has also recently released a Self Provider Mend application to provide parts and tools for patrons to repair service their own individual products. This service will also give buyers a chance to repair service themselves in your own home, and Apple will publish maintenance manuals and equipment on the web so that they can execute the perform them selves. The program is part of Apple’s ongoing efforts to broaden The provision of repair solutions. Moreover, it coincides that has a growing variety of states introducing Proper to Restore laws. These guidelines aim to generate the fix course of action more available and effortless for shoppers.
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Breastfeeding moms protest at Target stores, but US public is real mark
Lingering discomfort over public breastfeeding is responsible, in part, for curtailing moms' enthusiasm and driving down breastfeeding rates, research shows. Nurse-ins Wednesday at Target stores drew attention to the cause.
Atlanta — For hundreds of moms who gathered in some 250 Target stores across the US on Wednesday, their decision to collectively breastfeed their babies in public was an act of solidarity, a reaffirmation of a natural right.
One of the largest such nurse-ins ever, the protests produced a few dirty glares, protesters reported. But overall, the largely convivial nurse-ins raised few eyebrows, as many women used blankets to cover their bare breasts and their nursing babies' heads.
Forty-five states protect mothers' rights to breastfeed in public, but the practice still stirs enough discomfort to dramatically curb breastfeeding rates, research shows.
In the United States, only 14 percent of moms are exclusively breastfeeding by the time their babies are six months old (though that's up from 10 percent in 2008), according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Breastfeeding Report Card 2011. Part of the reason, sociologists say, is that the nature of breastfeeding – lower fat content in mother's milk equals more frequent feedings – means that women who feel uncomfortable breastfeeding in public are less likely to sustain the practice over time.
With health officials increasingly emphasizing the importance of breastfeeding to children's well-being, resistance to it in public is becoming a public health concern, say many breastfeeding proponents.
That clash of attitudes sparked Wednesday's protest, a Facebook campaign started after a Target employee repeatedly asked a Houston mom, Michelle Hickman, to retire to a dressing room instead of breastfeeding in an aisle.
Target's official policy is to allow breastfeeding in public areas of the store. But the message from corporate headquarters to Hickman's complaint about the Nov. 29 incident apparently had a different nuance. “Just because it’s a woman’s legal right to nurse a baby in public doesn’t mean she should walk around the store flaunting it,” Ms. Hickman says she was told.
Attitudes about public breastfeeding vary widely across the globe. In America, breasts have at least as much sexual significance as they do practical significance as a means to nourish babies.
Moreover, US attitudes toward breastfeeding vary by region: In Western, Midwestern, and New England states, 70 to 80 percent of babies have been breastfed at some time in their lives, while the rate is lower for babies in most Southern states. The highest rate is in Oregon, where 91 percent of babies have been breastfed. The lowest is Louisiana, where 48 percent of babies have ever received mother's milk.
“We are all affected by our culture's sexual emphasis on breasts and our consequent discomfort with breastfeeding in public,” Ohio University Prof. Jacqueline Wolf wrote in a 2008 editorial in the International Breastfeeding Journal. “While people from other cultures often find this controversy inexplicable, the reasons for the controversy are obvious to Americans – even those of us who fully support breastfeeding in public. We understand that many equate public breastfeeding with lewd behavior.”
On Tuesday, a day before the protest, NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne summed up that unease in a Twitter post. “Just walking through supermarket. See a mom breast feeding a little kid. Took second look because obviously I was seeing things. I wasn't!” he tweeted. He later apologized for his reaction.
It's not just men who are squeamish about public breastfeeding. After the magazine BabyTalk featured a cover of a mom breastfeeding in 2006, one mom wrote to the magazine to say, “Gross, I am sick of seeing a baby attached to a boob.” A subsequent survey found that one-quarter of the publication's readers found the cover distasteful. "There's a huge Puritanical streak in Americans," BabyTalk editor Susan Kane concluded at the time.
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Internet of Things (IoT) Education: Implications for Students with Disabilities
Scott Hollier, Leanne McRae, Katie Ellis and Mike Kent
A 6-month research project was undertaken at Curtin University to determine the significance of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a tertiary education context. The research consisted of both an analysis of the current literature — focussing on consumer-based IoT, the IoT and disability, and the IoT and education — and interviews conducted to determine the perspectives of IoT of five students with disabilities.
While the deployment of this technology in higher education, particularly in relation to students with disabilities, is still in its infancy, recent developments — such as the ubiquitous availability of smartphones, improvements in consumer-based IoT engagement such as standalone digital assistants, greater affordability, as well as the ease of collecting real-time data — provide significant opportunity for IoT innovations and solutions. The potential to seamlessly link students to their learning environment — in traditional classrooms or remotely — has great promise. In addition, students access the IoT via their own devices, thereby enabling their preferred assistive technologies (AT) and their individualised settings. Nevertheless, it is also critical that issues relating to privacy, security and interoperability are also addressed within the IoT context.
While IoT in higher education is still an emerging technology, particularly in relation to access for people with disabilities, universities need to seize the opportunities presented and develop plans to both engage with, and develop, these technologies in a learning and teaching environment. They also need to ensure that these technologies are interoperable with student’s own technology, particularly AT and to address the challenges to the privacy and security for both students and staff presented by IoT technologies.
In addition, this report recommends:
- The implementation of IoT solutions should focus on the use of personal smartphones as the primary IoT interface device for students with disabilities.
- The IoT equipment associated with learning such as a digital whiteboard should have the ability to provide its output to students via an LMS or app. This would ensure that students with disabilities can process the data with their preferred AT.
- The use of IoT to observe students and the lecturer to enhance the effectiveness of learning materials and facilitate the implementation of improvements.
- All IoT-related implementations will need to consider privacy, security and interoperability as highlighted by the ongoing World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web of Things (WoT) research.
- Any IoT solution must be accompanied by training to ensure that all staff and students are able to use it effectively.
- Trials of standalone digital assistants such as Google Home and related devices such as Google Chromecast should be provided to students with disabilities to assess their long-term effectiveness in improving educational outcomes.
- The applicability of using a digital assistant as a real-time captioning device warrants further research.
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- 1 NOTE: Monoclonal antibody therapies are free of charge, though there may be a fee from the healthcare provider for administering the dose.
- 2 What are monoclonal antibodies?
- 3 How does monoclonal antibody therapy work?
- 4 What monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19 are available?
- 5 Find public locations where COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatments are available. Visit the COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator.
- 6 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Chart
- 7 Is monoclonal antibody therapy effective against the Omicron variant?
- 8 Who should get monoclonal antibody therapy?
- 9 Who is at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19?
- 10 What COVID-19 treatment is available for people diagnosed with COVID-19?
- 10.1 When are monoclonal antibodies used for people diagnosed with COVID-19?
- 10.2 How can I get monoclonal antibody infusion therapy if I have COVID-19?
- 10.3 How is monoclonal antibody infusion therapy given?
- 10.4 Where can I get monoclonal antibody treatment?
- 10.5 Are people still contagious receiving treatment with monoclonal antibodies?
- 11 When are monoclonal antibodies used for people exposed to COVID-19 to prevent getting COVID?
- 12 When are monoclonal antibodies used to prevent COVID-19?
- 13 What are the side effects of monoclonal antibody therapy?
- 14 What are signs of an allergic reaction to monoclonal antibody therapy?
- 15 What treatments can be used for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients?
- 15.1 I’ve tested positive for Covid-19, now what?
- 15.2 What are the available Covid-19 treatment options?
- 15.3 Monoclonal antibodies for high-risk Covid-19 positive patients
- 15.4 How do I know if I’m high risk, and what do I do next?
- 15.5 FAQs about monoclonal antibodies for consumers
- 15.6 What do I do if my loved one tests positive for Covid-19
- 16 Frequently Asked Patient Questions About COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Treatments
- 17 Coverage of Monoclonal Antibody Products to Treat COVID-19
Learn about the latest guidance for the use of monoclonal antibody therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. This post is updated regularly. Last updated: March 1, 2022.
As of January 2022, FDA has paused two monoclonal antibody infusion therapies (casirivimab plus imdevimab / etesevimab plus bamlanivimab) that do not work against the dominant Omicron variant. In addition, some states have advised providers to stop prescribing monoclonal antibodies that do not work against Omicron.
There are also guidelines for some states on prescribing sotrovimab due to supply issues.
It is important to remember that the virus is still relatively new. It was first identified in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. It was declared a global pandemic in March of 2020. With new diseases it takes time for scientists to study them and develop treatments.
The good news is that there are some promising treatments being used to combat the virus. One of them is monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.
NOTE: Monoclonal antibody therapies are free of charge, though there may be a fee from the healthcare provider for administering the dose.
What are monoclonal antibodies?
Antibodies are naturally produced by your body to fight off infections. When your body is introduced to a new virus such as COVID-19, it does not have the antibodies to fight it off. That is where monoclonal antibodies come in. Monoclonal antibodies are created in a laboratory. They can target a particular virus or infection such as COVID-19.
How does monoclonal antibody therapy work?
Monoclonal antibodies are given by IV or a single-dose injection to people diagnosed with COVID-19. This therapy uses COVID-19 antibodies to help a person’s body fight off the infection. The injection is a lower dosage than the infusion therapy.
Research suggests these antibodies lower the amount of virus — the “viral load” — in a person’s body. People with lower viral loads have more mild symptoms. Reducing the viral load may help prevent hospitalization and death.
What monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19 are available?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved emergency use authorization for four antibody infusion therapies:
- A combination of tixagevimab and cilgavimab
Sotrovimab and Bebtelovimab are outpatient treatments for mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and children 12 years of older and weighing at least 88 pounds. These patients are at high risk for severe COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.
Tocilizumab is an in-patient treatment for hospitalized adults and children 2 years of age and older who are receiving systemic corticosteroids and require supplemental oxygen or ventilation.
The combination tixagevimab and cilgavimab (called EVUSHELD) is for prevention of COVID-19 in certain adults and children 12 years of age or older and weighing at least 88 pounds. These patients may be immunocompromised due to a medical condition or due to taking immunosuppressive medications or treatments; or cannot take the COVID-19 vaccine due to a history of severe allergic reactions to components of the vaccine.
In January 2022, FDA removed emergency use authorization for the combinations of casirivimab plus imdevimab and etesevimab plus bamlanivimab. Studies showed these monoclonal antibody therapies were not effective in treating the Omicron variant.
Find public locations where COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatments are available.
Visit the COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator.
Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Chart
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|Tixagevimab and cilgavimab (Evusheld)||X||Yes||Yes|
Looking at this chart on a mobile phone? Scroll with your finger to see all the treatment options.
Is monoclonal antibody therapy effective against the Omicron variant?
Medical researchers have identified subvariants of the Omicron variant. Omicron BA.1 was the dominant COVID-19 variant in late 2021. Omicron BA.2 emerged in early 2022.
Some monoclonal antibody treatments are effective against one subvariant, while others are effective against both.
The monoclonal antibody treatment Sotrovimab is effective against Omicron BA.1 but not Omicron BA.2.
Bebtelovimab is the only monoclonal antibody treatment effective against both Omicron subvariants.
In addition, the combination of rixagevimab and cilgavimab (Evusheld) is effective against both subvariants of Omicron, but it is authorized only for prevention and not treatment.
The new COVID pills that recently received emergency use authorization are also effective in treating the Omicron variant.
Who should get monoclonal antibody therapy?
Monoclonal antibody treatment is now available for three specific uses:
➤ As an outpatient treatment at home who have symptoms of COVID-19 and who are at high risk for severe illness.
➤ As an outpatient preventive treatment at home to those at high risk for severe illness who have been exposed to COVID-19 but show no symptoms.
➤ As an outpatient preventive treatment at home for those at risk for severe illness to prevent developing COVID. This is known as pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Who is at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19?
While anybody can get very sick or even die from COVID-19, those most at risk include:
- People 65 years of age or older
- People 55 years or older with 1 or more of the following:>
- Heart disease
- High blood pressure
- Chronic respiratory disease, including moderate to severe asthma
- People 12 years of age or older with 1 or more of the following:
- A weakened immune system
- Taking medicine that weakens your immune system.
- Diabetes (type 1 or type 2)
- Chronic kidney disease.
- Children and adolescents 12-17 years of age and weighing more than 88 pounds with 1 or more of the following:
- Asthma/chronic respiratory problems requiring daily medication
- Often uses medical technology such as a ventilator or feeding tube
- Has a developmental condition like cerebral palsy
- Sickle cell disease
- Congenital or acquired heart disease.
Outpatient Treatment at Home
What COVID-19 treatment is available for people diagnosed with COVID-19?
If you are diagnosed with COVID-19 but aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized, you may think there isn’t much you can do. It is important to:
- get rest
- stay hydrated
- take fever-reducing medicine, if needed
In addition, there are now two treatments available for those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19:
- Monoclonal antibodies
- COVID-19 pills
These are both currently available to people considered at high risk for severe COVID-19 as outpatient treatment. Talk with your doctor about treatment whether monoclonal antibody therapy or COVID pills are right for you. There is evidence it is effective in preventing severe illness.
When are monoclonal antibodies used for people diagnosed with COVID-19?
Monoclonal antibodies are used for people with a positive COVID-19 test and symptoms for 10 days or less. The therapy for COVID-19 works best when given early in the COVID-19 illness. This is only recommended for those considered high risk for severe illness. It is important to seek treatment early as you can only receive monoclonal antibodies if you have symptoms for less than 10 days.
How can I get monoclonal antibody infusion therapy if I have COVID-19?
Monoclonal antibodies are prescribed by a healthcare professional. Monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 are given by IV infusion at an infusion center. For those at high risk or already diagnosed with COVID-19, discuss treatment options with your doctor.
How is monoclonal antibody infusion therapy given?
Monoclonal antibodies are administered by at an infusion center, some pharmacies, or even administered at home.
After the treatment is complete, the staff will monitor you for an hour. This is to watch for any signs of an allergic reaction. The whole process takes about 2-3 hours.
Where can I get monoclonal antibody treatment?
To locate monoclonal antibody treatments, you can check these websites:
Are people still contagious receiving treatment with monoclonal antibodies?
Antibody infusion therapy does not “cure” COVID-19. Even after receiving treatment, a person is still considered contagious. It is important to continue self-isolation until:
- 10 or more days have passed since you developed symptoms of COVID-19.
- You are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medicine such as ibuprofen.
- Your COVID-19 symptoms are improving.
Outpatient Home Preventive Treatment
When are monoclonal antibodies used for people exposed to COVID-19 to prevent getting COVID?
Some people who are at high risk for severe illness may also be eligible for monoclonal antibody therapy if they are exposed to COVID-19. This is called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Antibody therapy is given by an injection or IV when it is used to prevent COVID-19. People eligible to receive antibody therapy to prevent COVID-19 include those who:
- are not fully vaccinated;
- are at high risk of exposure to an infected individual if they live in places such as nursing homes or prisons;
- have medical conditions that may not give them full protection from the COVID-19 vaccine. This includes people who are:
- on chemotherapy or kidney dialysis
- have organ transplants
- on certain medications
For those at risk of ongoing exposure to COVID-19 or whose immune systems don’t respond to the vaccine, the therapy can be given every four weeks.
If you or a loved one meet any of these criteria, discuss with your doctor if the treatment is right for you.
When are monoclonal antibodies used to prevent COVID-19?
There is some exciting news about preventing COVID-19 infection in certain high-risk groups. AstraZeneca’s monoclonal antibody therapy, EVUSHELD (combination of tixagevimab and cilgavimab) is the only authorized therapy for prevention of COVID-19. This is sometimes also referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). EVUSHELD also appears to provide protection from the Omicron variant. Evushield is given by an injection when it is used to prevent COVID-19.
Who may benefit from monoclonal antibody therapy for COVID-19 prevention?
COVID-19 vaccines have been a game changer for preventing infection and/or serious illness. However, certain groups of people don’t develop an immune response to vaccines. This includes certain cancer patients, people on dialysis, and people on immunosuppressant medications post-transplant. These patients do not develop an adequate immune response and are at high risk for serious illness. There are also certain groups of people for whom vaccination is contraindicated. So EVUSHELD is welcome news for these groups of people.
EVUSHELD has been found to be 83% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. It may provide up to 6 months of protection.
What are the side effects of monoclonal antibody therapy?
People who receive monoclonal antibody treatment may experience pain at the injection or infusion site, including:
- Skin bruising
- Possible infection
More serious side effects include:
- Interferes with your body’s ability to fight off a future COVID-19 infection
- Reduces your body’s immune response to a COVID-19 vaccine
After undergoing infusion therapy, you must wait 90 days before getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
What are signs of an allergic reaction to monoclonal antibody therapy?
People can have an allergic reaction to monoclonal antibody infusion therapy. Therefore, you must be monitored by staff after treatment.
Signs of an allergic reaction to report to a healthcare professional:
- Nausea or vomiting
- Shortness of breath
- Low blood pressure
- Swelling of your lips, face, or throat
- Rash, including hives.
- Muscle aches
What treatments can be used for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients?
Doctors have developed effective treatments for hospitalized patients but none of these are monoclonal antibody treatments.
- Dexamethasone (Decadron) is a corticosteroid (like prednisone). In patients who need extra oxygen or are on a ventilator, dexamethasone can reduce risk of death.
- Remdesivir is an antiviral drug. It can be used in people over the age of 12 weighing 88 pounds or more. It can help speed up the recovery time for people with COVID-19.
- Baricitinib in combination with remdesivir is available for use in patients over the age of 2 who need respiratory support.
- Blood thinners in low doses are frequently used to prevent blood clots. Many people with COVID-19 develop them. Doctors may prescribe higher doses of blood thinners in people who are at high risk for developing blood clots.
Scientists continue to study COVID-19. They update guidance on treatments as new evidenced-based research becomes available.
Purvi Parikh, MD, FACAAI is an adult and pediatric allergist and immunologist at Allergy and Asthma Associates of Murray Hill in New York City. She is on faculty as Clinical Assistant Professor in both departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine.
I’ve tested positive for Covid-19, now what?
There’s no way to know how you or anyone else will react to a SARS-CoV-2 infection or the COVID-19 disease. People at high risk for developing severe symptoms of COVID-19 include older adults and people with underlying conditions such as cancer, heart and lung conditions, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, kidney disease, obesity, sickle cell, or compromised (weakened) immune systems.
Recovering from COVID-19 can take time and patience. In one study, more than half of the patients surveyed were still feeling fatigued (very tired) 60 days after their first COVID-19 symptoms appeared, four in 10 patients still had labored breathing, and more than a quarter still had joint pain.
For full information on what to do now that you have a Covid-19 positive result, see I have Covid-19 by Combat Covid.
What are the available Covid-19 treatment options?
If you or a loved one test positive for COVID-19, you may now have treatment options. COVID-19 treatment options are available for patients with mild to moderate symptoms and for hospitalized patients. Mild symptoms may include fever, cough, sore throat, malaise (feeling unwell), headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and loss of taste and smell. Moderate symptoms may also include shortness of breath.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized treatments for emergency use. See Combat Covid for more in depth information on Covid-19 treatment options.
Monoclonal antibodies for high-risk Covid-19 positive patients
If you’ve tested positive for COVID-19, one of the first questions you may have is, What can I do to reduce the risk of getting sicker? The good news is, there are treatments that may reduce that risk. Depending on your age, health history, and how long you’ve had symptoms of COVID-19, you may qualify for a promising form of treatment for the disease. It’s called monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment.
How do I know if I’m high risk, and what do I do next?
You or your loved one may be eligible for mAb treatment if you meet the following criteria:
- Are an adult or pediatric (≥ 12 years of age and weighing at least ≤ 40 kg) patient
- Have tested positive for COVID-19
- Are experiencing mild or moderate symptoms of COVID-19
- Experienced your first symptoms of COVID-19 in the last 10 days
- Are at high risk for having more serious symptoms of COVID-19 and/or going into the hospital
The information on How Do I Know if I’m High Risk by Combat Covid can help you decide if you or a loved one may qualify for monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment and, if you do qualify, how you can get mAb treatment.
FAQs about monoclonal antibodies for consumers
Combat Covid answers to questions like, what are monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs), how soon does a person need to get treatment, are the treatments safe, what is being offered, and other vital information on monoclonal antibodies can be found on Combat Covid’s FAQ page.
What do I do if my loved one tests positive for Covid-19
If your loved one has tested positive for COVID-19, it can be an anxious and uncertain time for them and for you. You’ll probably have many questions. One of them may be, Are there any options to treat the disease?
The answer is yes. Depending on your loved one’s health history, how long they’ve had symptoms of COVID-19, and whether or not they’ve been hospitalized with the disease, they may be eligible for a variety of treatment options.
Frequently Asked Patient Questions About COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Treatments
What is monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19?
What is the difference between a monoclonal antibody treatment and a vaccine?
Why is monoclonal antibody treatment being recommended for me?
What is the benefit of taking monoclonal antibody treatment?
How is a monoclonal antibody treatment given?
What do I need to do after I receive monoclonal antibody treatment?
What are the possible side effects of a monoclonal antibody treatment?
Should I get monoclonal antibody treatment as soon as possible? Or should I wait to see if my symptoms get worse?
Are monoclonal antibody treatments effective against viral variants?
1. DHHS. Combat COVID. Accessed May 5, 2021. https://combatcovid.hhs.gov/.
2. Taylor PC, et al. Nat Rev Immunol. 2021. doi:10.1038/s41577-021-00542-x. Online ahead of print.
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4. CDC. COVID-19. Accessed January 27, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html.
5. National Institute of Health (NIH). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) treatment guidelines. Accessed May 7, 2021. https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/.
6. Weinreich DM et al. N Engl J Med. 2020. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2035002.
7. Copin R, et al. bioRxiv. 2021. [preprint] doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.10.434834.
Coverage of Monoclonal Antibody Products to Treat COVID-19
Monoclonal antibody products to treat Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) help the body fight the virus or slow the virus’s growth. Medicare beneficiaries have coverage without beneficiary cost sharing for these products when used as authorized or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Expected Payment to Providers: Key Facts
Medicare payment for monoclonal antibody products to treat COVID-19 is similar across sites of care, with some small differences.
Medicare pays for the administration of monoclonal antibody products to treat COVID-19. For example, Medicare will pay a national average of approximately $310 for the administration of certain monoclonal antibody products.4
CMS will exercise enforcement discretion to allow Medicare-enrolled immunizers working within their scope of practice and subject to applicable state law to bill directly and receive direct reimbursement from the Medicare program for administering monoclonal antibody treatments to Medicare Part A Skilled Nursing Facility residents.
Medicare will pay the provider for these monoclonal antibody products when they are purchased by the provider. Medicare won’t pay if the product is given to the provider for free by, for example, a government entity.
When purchased by the provider, Medicare payment is typically at reasonable cost or at 95% of the Average Wholesale Price (an amount determined by the manufacturer). These payment amounts vary depending on which type of provider is supplying the product. Original Medicare will pay for these products for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage.
For more specific information about Medicare payments to providers for these monoclonal antibody products, please see these Frequently Asked Questions.
2. Under the Hospital Without Walls initiative, hospitals can provide hospital services in other healthcare facilities and sites that would not otherwise be considered to be part of a healthcare facility; or can set up temporary expansion sites to help address the urgent need to increase capacity to care for patients.
3. Cost-sharing may apply to Medicare beneficiaries when they receive care from a provider that doesn’t participate in Medicare.
4. Certain monoclonal antibody products to treat COVID-19 have been authorized under Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorizations since November 10, 2020. More information including the level II HCPCS codes for the administration/ infusion and post administration monitoring of these products can be found online in the Program Instruction.
Medicaid / CHIP
State Plan Amendment (SPA) Required: Potentially, depending on what services the state currently covers. Additionally, payment SPAs may be required if the state wants to pay a different rate for administration than they pay for other types of drug administration. States should seek technical assistance from CMS regarding SPAs that might be necessary.
1. Under section 6008 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), state and territorial Medicaid programs may receive a temporary 6.2 percentage point increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). This temporary FMAP increase is available through the end of the quarter in which the COVID-19 PHE ends, if the state claims the increase in that quarter. To receive the temporary FMAP increase, a state or territory must cover COVID-19 testing services and treatments, including vaccines and their administration, specialized equipment, and therapies for most Medicaid enrollees without cost sharing. This includes therapeutics approved under Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorizations and their administration.
CHIP Coverage: Therapeutics will generally be covered under an existing benefit (drugs and biologicals or other therapeutic benefits as determined under the State Plan).
SPA Required: No, if covered under an existing benefit
Plans subject to ACA market reforms
Coverage for COVID-19 therapeutics varies among plans subject to ACA market reforms.
Most individual and small group market insurance must cover essential health benefits. Essential health benefits generally include coverage for items and services related to the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19.
The exact coverage details for individual services may vary by plan, and some plans may require prior authorization or other medical management before these services are covered. Cost sharing amounts, such as a deductible, coinsurance, or copay, for individual services may also vary by plan.
If a plan does not provide coverage of a specific prescription drug on its formulary, individuals may request coverage through the plan’s drug exceptions process.
If a plan denies coverage for a COVID-19 therapeutic, for example, for being experimental, an individual can appeal the decision.
Some state laws require issuers to waive cost sharing for certain COVID-19 treatment. Other issuers have voluntarily opted to do so.
Some plans are not required to offer essential health benefits.
General Public Resources:
- Infusion site locators to help people find sites of care
- US Department of Health and Human Services Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics Distribution Location
- National Infusion Centers Association Infusion Site Locator
- U.S. Department of Health And Human Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Monoclonal Antibodies for High-Risk COVID-19 Positive Patients Infographic, “Therapeutics Coverage Infographic”
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services COMBATCOVID
- National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
- Healthcare Ready | Strengthen. Safeguard. Respond.
Clinical Provider Resources developed by Regeneron:
Patient Resource developed by Regeneron:
- Exposed to COVID-19? What you do next is critical.
- Information About COVID-19: A Treatment Option (Patients-English)
- Information About COVID-19: A Treatment Option (Patients-Spanish)
- Frequently Asked Patient Questions about COVID-19 Antibody Treatments
- Two Ways to Fight COVID-19 Vaccines and Monoclonal Antibodies
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Long Beach, California, hosts the 221st meeting of the American Astronomical Society. // photo by Wikipedia/Geographer
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) holds two meetings each year, and the January one is the largest. This year, Long Beach, California, plays host to the society’s 221st meeting from January 6 through 10, where some 2,800 astronomers, educators, students, and journalists are expected to attend. The meeting includes 10 press conferences, and more than 1,900 science talks and poster presentations, plus a few “town hall” meetings that touch on the future of astronomy.
It’ll be a busy and exciting week between the discovery announcements, mission updates, seeking for article ideas, and catching up with magazine contributors. Throughout the conference I’ll keep you posted about the big announcements. Make sure to follow the Local Group blog and Twitter for updates from the 221st AAS meeting. | <urn:uuid:eeb81855-d35d-4091-8aec-595aa621f3e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/astronomy/archive/2013/01/07/american-astronomical-society-january-2013-meeting-preview.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935812 | 194 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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