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Role models of greatness.
Here you will discover the back stories of kings, titans of industry, stellar athletes, giants of the entertainment field, scientists, politicians, artists and heroes – all of them gay or bisexual men. If their lives can serve as role models to young men who have been bullied or taught to think less of themselves for their sexual orientation, all the better. The sexual orientation of those featured here did not stand in the way of their achievements.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Photo by Larry Morris
When the great French composer, conductor and pianist Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) died at the age of 90 at his home in Baden Baden last month, there was much Internet chatter about his sexual orientation. Obituaries in major newspapers and journals mentioned that Boulez was “tightly guarded” about his personal life, but music critic Norman Lebrecht, who knew him for decades, stated that Mr. Boulez was gay. Boulez was extremely closeted, often introducing Hans Messner, his German lover of more than fifty years, as his “valet.” That Boulez (the “z” is not silent) was homosexual was one of the music world’s worst kept secrets.
Mr. Boulez enjoyed a first tier international career, holding conducting positions in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England and the United States, and his numerous recordings earned him twenty-six Grammy Awards. Boulez did not use a baton, using only his hands to conduct, in the fashion of Dimitri Mitropoulos, Leopold Stokowski and fellow Frenchman Georges Prêtre.
As an opera conductor, Pierre Boulez was most famously associated with Bayreuth, conducting Parsifal and the Ring Cycle. In Paris he founded the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) at the Centre Pompidou and the Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC). In the United States he was conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic and was composer-in-residence at Carnegie Hall (1999-2003).
As a composer, he was a champion of the avant-garde, writing atonal, electronic and serial music, although in later years composition took a back seat to conducting. He championed twentieth century composers, programming major works by Berg, Mahler, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Webern and Varèse.
After a 2012 eye operation left him with impaired vision, he cancelled conducting engagements, and a shoulder injury from a fall kept him from attending the many 90th birthday celebrations held throughout the world in 2015. Both Columbia Records and Deutsche Grammophon issued limited edition box sets (67 CDs and 44 CDs, respectively) of his recordings in honor of his 90th birthday. Last month BBC Four broadcast an hour-long documentary, “Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick.” | <urn:uuid:fb398b31-9c43-414d-8f6e-bc9b349274b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gayinfluence.blogspot.com/2016/02/pierre-boulez.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965988 | 628 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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Newly released X-Files from the United Kingdom's National Archives reveal the role of that country's Ministry of Defense UFO Desk officers, what they actually thought about possible alien visits to Earth and their ideas on harnessing alien technology as a weapon.
There are 25 files, comprising more than 6,700 pages, that include UFO policy, parliamentary questions, media issues, public correspondence and, of course, UFO sighting reports. Overall, more than 10,000 UFO reports came through the special Ministry of Defense unit from 1950 to 2009.
"These are probably the most fascinating and bizarre government files ever made available to the public," said Nick Pope, who was the UFO Desk officer from 1991 to 1994.
Nick Pope explains some of the new U.K. X-Files.
"There's massive public interest in UFOs, and at one point, the MoD was getting more Freedom of Information Act requests about UFOs than any other subject," Pope told The Huffington Post in an email. "The files contain the usual mixture of policy documents, sighting reports, photos, sketches and papers discussing how best to handle the subject with Parliament, the media and the public."
File DEFE 24/2080/1 is a collection of MoD UFO information from 1972 to 1995 that includes intelligence papers that were declassified from "secret."
On page 157 of this file is a briefing prepared for the MoD before a 1979 House of Lords debate in which an intelligence officer asks why aliens would want to visit "an insignificant planet (the Earth) of an uninteresting star (the sun)." He wrote that this sort of visit "would probably not occur more than once in 1,000 years or so, even if one assumes that every intelligent community made 10 launches a year." The officer concluded that "claims of thousands of visits in the last decade or so are far too large to be credible."
Pages 38 to 43 of the file contain a 1995 briefing by a UFO Desk officer, calling for a full study of UFOs, since national security implications had never been assessed. The writer suggested that, "If the sightings are not of this Earth, then their purpose needs to be established as a matter of priority."
In that same briefing, an intelligence officer indicates the need to capture UFO technology for U.K. use. "If the reports are taken at face value, then devices exist that do not use conventional reaction propulsion systems; they have a very wide range of speeds and are stealthy. I suggest we could use this technology, if it exists."
File DEFE 24/2090/1 references a U.K. study of what were called Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, or UAP. Page 47 of this file reports that some UFOs/UAP might be rare atmospheric plasmas or ball lightning that could be harnessed or used by the military as "novel weapon technology."
A recent Huffington Post story included statements from former undercover CIA officer Chase Brandon, who said that in the 1990s, he found a box labeled "Roswell" at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Brandon said there was information in that box that was related to the alleged 1947 UFO crash outside of Roswell, N.M.
File DEFE 24/1985/1 brings up the subject of the Roswell incident in a Jan. 3, 1997, response to a question raised on whether or not the MoD had ever been briefed by the CIA about Roswell. The response by a Defense Intelligence official states, "We have no data on the alleged 'Roswell incident' or any 'crashed UFO incidents in the UK.' In short, DI 55 has no records of any UAP/UFO 'crashes' in either the UK or US and have never, as far as we can tell from existing files, received any briefs from any US agencies, including the CIA."
"The question of whether or not we're alone in the universe is one of the biggest and most profound questions we can ask," said Pope. "People are fascinated with the idea that we might have been visited, and these files chart MoD's attempts to grapple with the subject."
There is much more to be revealed about the U.K. files, including how Prime Minister Tony Blair was briefed on UFO sightings in 1998, and how the efforts of David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University were instrumental in getting the MoD to release the UFO files to the public.
National Archives consultant David Clarke introduces the new U.K. UFO files.
The UFO files are available to be viewed by the public for free for one month.
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Measuring PAR to ensure proper light levels for underwater photosynthesis
lighting is vital for growing healthy coral and other photosynthetic
organisms in an aquarium. The two critical components of adequate
lighting are intensity and spectrum. Light (or photons) in the
wavelengths of 400 to 700 nanometers (nm) is the energy source for
photosynthesis and is called Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
or Quantum, and is usually expressed in Photosynthetic Photon Flux
(PPF). Measuring the PAR output of lighting is superior
to measuring LUX or footcandles, which are weighted measurements that
approximate the human eye response, and thus overweight wavelengths
between 550 and 600 nm and underweight wavelengths below 500 nm and
above 650 nm.
The Quantum Meter manufactured by Apogee Instruments (model MQ-200) measures PAR in PPF units (μmol m-2 s-1)
and features both sunlight and electric lighting modes. This meter has
become very popular with advanced aquarists because it is ideally suited
for use underwater. The separate sensor head is potted solid and is
completely sealed with no hollow cavities for water to penetrate and
cause measurement errors. The blue diffuser improves the spectral
response to more accurately measure all wavelengths of light and has
minimal error due to the immersion effect. The meter also features
advanced logging capabilities such as automatically monitoring light
levels on a half hour basis for up to 99 measurements and storing the
daily total for over three months.
If data logging capabilites are not important to you, you can
also make PAR readings using one of our stand-alone Quantum sensor
heads by hooking it up to a high-quality voltmeter. The SQ-100
series sensors are considered to be self-powered and have been
calibrated to 5.0 umol m-2 s-1 per mV. Use a voltmeter with a mV setting
to attain the best resolution. Connect the positive lead of the
voltmeter to the red wire of the SQ and the negative lead of the
voltmeter to the black wire of the SQ. Once you are reading the mV
output from the sensor, simply multiply this reading by 5.0. This will
give you the μmol m-2 s-11 output from the sensor.
Apogee Quantum sensors have
become indispensable tools for those wanting to ensure adequate PAR
outputs while saving thousands of dollars over higher-priced
spectroradiometers that provide far more accuracy than is needed for
this application. Measuring PAR output can help you adjust your lighting
configuration, rearrange your tank, alert you to lighting malfunctions,
and let you know when it is time to replace your bulbs. Some bulbs
decline in PAR output long before they burn out.
PAR Intensity Requirements for Coral
When growing a reef in a artificial environment, the PAR requirements
of various types of coral will vary greatly due to the different depths
and water conditions in which they existed naturally. Each tank setup
requires a unique type, intensity, and duration of lighting. Many good
resources exist in print and online that can help determine the PAR
requirements you'll need to provide for optimum specimen health, such as
this article by Sanjay Joshi. You can also get great information by asking a professional aquarist or by becoming involved in a local reef club.
Correcting for the Spectral Errors of Common Electric Lights
of the increased popularity of the reefkeeping hobby, the reef
tank lighting market has recently grown exponentially with hundreds of
lighting options now available. Unfortunately, all types of electric
lights have a unique spectrum, and therefore also yield a unique set of
spectral errors when measured by any commercially available PAR meter.
These errors are generally minimal and shouldn't be a concern for most
aquarists. However, when high precision is required, the following
information, and a little bit of math, can help.
In response to emerging electric lighting technologies, Apogee has
done extensive research to help customers make accurate PAR readings.
Spectral errors for different commercially available lights were
determined via the method proposed by Federer and Tanner (1966). These
results are found in the table below.
The spectral errors of common lights such as CWF, CF, MH, and HPS are
fairly straight forward. To make a high precision PAR reading for these
types of lights, simply recalculate the PAR reading given by the meter
with the corresponding percent error from the table below to yield a
more precise PAR measurement
In recent years, LEDs have gained popularity in the
marketplace due to their low power consumption and minimal heat output.
This is great for cost savings, but due to the unique spectral output of
the various colors (for example, very narrow wavelength ranges), LEDs
present a challenge when attempting to make accurate PAR measurements.
With commercially available PAR meters, certain colors of LED tend to
read high, while others read low. The best device for accurate PAR
measurement is a spectroradiometer, which provides intensity readings at
each wavelength. However, these are often not well suited for
underwater measurements and can range in price from several thousand to
tens of thousands of dollars.
When used properly, the MQ-200 offers
a very reliable and economical solution for precisely measuring the PAR
output of LEDs. To achieve the highest level of accuracy, simply
recalculate the PAR reading given by the meter with the corresponding
spectral error percentage from the table below.
Federer, C.A. and C.B. Tanner, 1966. Sensors for measuring light available for photosynthesis. Ecology 47:654-657.
Light Intensity Measurements for Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Customers often contact Apogee Instruments to inquire about whether
quantum sensors and meters can be used to measure the radiation
intensity from light emitting diodes (LEDs), as LEDs are becoming
increasingly common as light sources for plant growth in controlled
environments and coral growth in aquariums. Another article provided
some qualitative information regarding the use of a broadband device
(i.e. quantum/PAR sensors or meters) to measure a narrowband radiation
source (i.e. many LEDs currently on the market), where it was stated
that a spectroradiometer is the best instrument to accurately measure
light intensity of LEDs (see the October 5, 2011 post titled 'Comparisons in Quantum Sensor Output for Different Light Sources').
While this is true, quantum meters can be used to measure LED intensity,
and many customers use them for this application. As a result, an
estimate of Apogee quantum meter accuracy for measuring LEDs is very
A quantum sensor/meter is designed to measure the total number of
photons between 400 nm and 700 nm, the photosynthetically active
radiation (PAR) range. The error associated with a quantum meter (or
sensor) measurement of light from a source that has a different spectrum
than the source used to calibrate the meter is called spectral error.
Spectral error arises because no quantum meters perfectly match the
defined quantum response, meaning they do not respond to all wavelengths
of light equally between 400 nm and 700 nm. Apogee quantum meters are
sensitive to wavelengths between approximately 370 nm and 665 nm, with a
relatively flat response between 450 nm and 650 nm due to the blue
pigment used in the diffuser (Figure 1). However, they are not equally
sensitive to the wavelengths within the photosynthetically active range
(Figure 1). In order to determine spectral error, the spectral responses
of the quantum meter, calibration light source, and light source to be
measured are required, along with some spectra-dependent calculations
(for details, see Federer and Tanner, 1966; Ross and Sulev, 2000).
Apogee quantum sensors and meters for electric lighting are
calibrated in a custom chamber filled with T5 cool white fluorescent
lamps. LEDs have a very different spectral output than T5 lamps (Figures
2, 3, and 4), thus some degree of spectral error is expected. For the
narrowband, broadband, and mixed LEDs shown below, spectral errors are 8
% or less. Apogee quantum sensors and meters are less sensitive to blue
wavelengths (near 400 nm) compared to longer wavelengths, and thus read
low under blue LEDs. Conversely, Apogee quantum sensors and meters are
more sensitive to green and red wavelengths (above 500 nm) compared to
blue wavelengths, and thus read high under green and red LEDs. The
broadband white LEDs output a small proportion of radiation beyond the
upper end of the Apogee quantum sensor/meter sensitivity range (665 nm),
and thus yield low measurements for the white LEDs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: LEDs that output a large proportion of radiation
above approximately 660 nm will read very low and should not be measured
with an Apogee quantum sensor/meter.
Apogee Instruments recently presented a comparison of spectral errors
under LEDs for multiple quantum sensors at the 2012 International
Meeting on Controlled Environment Agriculture. See the PDF of the poster here.
All Quantum/PAR sensors on the market experience a certain level of
errors under different electric light sources. The following data can be
used to adjust the PAR readings of Apogee Quantum sensors to achieve
highly accurate readings. Please note that these errors apply only to
quantum sensors that are pre-calibrated for electric lights, and for the
Quantum Meter when it is set to "electric light" mode.
Table 1: Theoretical Spectral Errors for Apogee Quantum Meter Measurements of Multiple LED Sources
Electric Calibration Error [%]
Blue (448 nm peak, 10 nm FWHM)
Green (524 nm peak, 15 nm FWHM)
Red (635 nm peak, 10 nm FWHM)
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There’s no slacking off once you become a patient. Appointments bombard the calendar. There are phone calls to make and pills to take — and lots of them as the health problems multiply. So now there are trips to the pharmacy. Maybe there are lab tests or therapy sessions.
“All the work accumulates,” says Victor Montori, MD, an endocrinologist and shared decision-making expert at the Mayo Clinic. “It has to be implemented and it competes with the other things the patient needs to do.”
Victor Montori, MD, an expert on shared decision making at the Mayo Clinic, drums up support for minimally disruptive medicine.
And let’s not forget that the people doing this work are dealing with an illness, so they are probably also dealing with a draining combination of fatigue, pain, gastrointestinal distress, and assorted other woes. It’s a lot to ask. So Montori and others have proposed a new way of approaching health care that they’ve dubbed minimally disruptive medicine.
The concept, first proposed in a 2009 BMJ opinion piece, is for providers to work at striking a balance between the increasingly complex burden of treatment people assume when they are ill, and the capacity they have for handling treatment-related tasks and demands.
In some cases, minimally disruptive medicine might mean cutting back or simplifying treatments. In others, it might mean “capacity building” so people are better able to shoulder their treatment burden. Those capacity-building efforts could range from treating depression to arranging transportation to appointments to updating a prescription for corrective lenses so a patient could see better.
Montori says overwhelmed patients stumble into noncompliance: “They are not choosing to be noncompliant; they just don’t have the capacity to comply.” So, by his reasoning, minimally disruptive medicine would improve compliance, which presumably cascades nicely into better outcomes, lower hospitalization rates, and reduced costs.
The target population for the approach is people with several chronic diseases, but anyone with a complicated health situation would stand to benefit, Montori figures.
Carl May, a prominent British medical sociologist, wrote the BMJ article with Montori and Frances Mair, a British expert on primary care. May is known for his normalization process theories that offer explanations for how and why new technology gets adopted. Minimally invasive medicine reflects the flip side, in medical context: how and why people do not adopt new treatments.
You can also see traces of motivational interviewing in Montori’s formulation because of the emphasis on patient preference and tapping into intrinsic motivations. And, naturally, there’s a hefty dose of shared decision making, given his background, although shared decision making has tended to focus on major medical events such as surgeries rather than on sifting through the day-in, day-out tasks of keeping a chronic disease in check.
Maureen Bisognano, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Mass., — the organization that gave us the “triple aim” — is enthusiastic.
“I think it is the next horizon in health care,” she says. “It is this wonderful way to say ‘I am the professional. I will take on the burden of redesigning health care so you can focus on your health.’ That is what I love about minimally disruptive medicine.”
…but hard to make happen
Sounds pretty good. But are there any takers? Montori concedes that adoption of minimally disruptive medicine “has been an extremely frustrating ride.”
Roadblocks loom for even minor adjustments that would reduce treatment burden just by making health care more convenient, he has found. For example, at Mayo, the system for scheduling appointments can’t synchronize the appointments of two people. As a result, if a couple wanted to save time and money by having their appointments on the same day at the clinic, it would be difficult to arrange. Another example: timing medication refills so that they occur on the same day, which would save multiple trips to the pharmacy. Pharmacy and payer rules and procedures stand in the way of that commonsensical bit of rescheduling.
The current zeal for performance measurement is another problem, says Montori. “When the patient is overwhelmed and you want to pull back a bit and let things play out, you don’t have a lot of flexibility in that environment,” he says. “You don’t want to look to your colleagues like you are a bad provider because your patients’ blood sugar or blood pressure levels are high because you are focused on the burden of treatment.”
So in the near term, he says, building up patient capacity is the more feasible strategy for putting minimally disruptive medicine into action. What that would mean would vary, but Montori mentions some now-familiar approaches — health coaches, for example — as well as some that aren’t so usual, such as mindful meditation. But isn’t this adding more treatment to treatment-besieged patients? As Montori points out, investing time and effort into solving one or two health problems can often make the rest of them easier to handle.
A quiet cultural change
Montori has been busy drumming up support for his ideas. In addition to articles in peer-reviewed medical journals such as BMJ, he gives talks and has a Web site, www.minimallydisruptivemedicine.org. In medicine, if it can’t be measured, it doesn’t exist, so he has also been working with colleagues on ways to measure the burden of illness.
But shared decision making has been around a lot longer than minimally disruptive medicine, and getting shared decision making incorporated into medical practice has been slow going, says Jack Fowler, senior scientific adviser at the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation in Boston, a major promoter of shared decision making. “The rate at which it is practiced in routine medical care is not high — and that is what we are trying to change.”
“The contents are sound,” says Jack Fowler, PhD, of the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, in regard to minimally disruptive medicine.
Despite Montori’s misgivings about slavish attention to performance measures, the right kind might provide the leverage needed to bring about the kind of change he is looking for. Increasingly, provider compensation is being tied to patient survey results, and today’s surveys are digging much deeper than the bland patient satisfaction surveys of yore.
Bisognano sees fertile soil for Montori’s ideas in today’s renewed efforts to manage health care costs and quality with value-based contracts and payment schemes like shared savings and episode-based payment. She notes that as many as half of all prescriptions go unfilled. Shift to a minimally disruptive medicine mindset and adherence would improve, she believes, because providers would be focused on removing the obstacles that people face in getting and taking those medications. Cost savings will follow if the medical management of chronic health conditions is improved
Bisognano also sees an opening for Montori’s ideas because being more sensitive to patient preferences and values should bear cost-savings fruit: “When patients describe what matters to them, in most cases, what they want is less, not more, and that is where the savings come in.” Payment that rewards providers for time spent engaging patients, not just prescribing to them, will also help, she says.
Ultimately, though, Montori says that American medicine needs an overhaul, a culture change. The goal should be to view health care as a means to an end. “We need to recognize people are living, not to be good patients, but to be good parents, good siblings, good spouses, good teachers, good coaches,” says Montori. “We need to get as much health back into their lives as possible. And then we need to get out of their way.” | <urn:uuid:dc31f0b7-9dad-4ecb-9324-470d70ae5005> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2013/8/it-aint-easy-being-patient | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961784 | 1,682 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Constituent Update - February 7, 2014
Webinars Available: Scenario-Based Exercise Tool
FSIS has developed a new tool for use by the FSIS-regulated industry known as the Food Defense and Recall Preparedness: A Scenario-Based Exercise Tool. This scenario-based tool highlights the importance of having a voluntary functional food-defense plan and written recall procedures. The tool identifies key components of a food-defense plan and recall procedures that are relevant to an organizations’ business. The exercise is designed to be completed within an hour’s time.
FSIS is hosting webinars for industry to explain the purpose of the tool and to demonstrate how to use it. The planned dates for the webinars are as follows:
- Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, 10 a.m. ET
- Friday, March 14, 2014, 11 a.m. ET
The tool is available for free download at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-defense-defense-and-emergency-response. It is also located in FSIS’ Guidance Documents at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-defense-and-emergency-response/preparation-and-prevention/guidance-documents.
Webinar Scheduled: Final Rule on New Generic Labeling
Effective Jan. 6, 2014, FSIS expanded the circumstances in which labels may be considered “generically approved.” This new rule will allow establishments to label a broader range of products without first submitting the label to the agency for approval. Companies will still need to submit labels bearing certain claims, such as organic, natural or animal-raising, as well as labels for temporary approval; products produced under religious exemption; and export-only that bear labeling deviations. FSIS will continue to verify that labels are accurate, not misleading and in compliance with all labeling features.
FSIS will host webinar on this subject on Feb. 11, 2014, all at 2 p.m. ET. To access the webinar, go to https://connect16.uc.att.com/usda/meet/?ExEventID=85277207 and follow the on-screen instructions. Please be sure to log on as a participant. For registration questions, contact Kristin Goodwin at (301) 504-0878 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Export Requirement Updates
The Library of Export Requirements has been updated to reflect changes in export requirements for the following countries:
- United Arab Emirates
Complete information can be found at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/international-affairs/exporting-products.
Egg Products Industry Survey
FSIS is conducting a survey of the egg products industry to add to FSIS’ understanding of the processing practices and technologies used to control pathogens and promote food safety. In addition, FSIS will use the survey to compare the results to a similar survey that FSIS conducted in 2003-2004 to assess food safety and technology adoption trends over time. The survey will be sent to eligible egg products plants starting in March, and the survey will close at the end of May.
FSIS has contracted with RTI International to develop and conduct this nationwide survey. As it has done with other surveys that it has conducted for Federal agencies, RTI International will report individual responses to this survey to FSIS, but it will use data masking techniques so that individual plants cannot be identified. The results of the survey will be reported to the public only in summary form so that individual responses or respondents cannot be identified. Those who respond to the survey will receive a summary report of the survey results.
If you have questions about the survey, please do not hesitate to contact Gary Noyes at 301-504-3672 or at Gary.Noyes@fsis.usda.gov.
NACMCF Subcommittees to Meet on Norovirus, Microbiological Criteria
The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) subcommittees will hold public meetings at the Patriot’s Plaza 3, 1st Floor Auditorium, 355 E. St., SW, Washington, DC 20024 on the following dates:
- March 18-20, 2014: A subcommittee on Control Strategies for Reducing Foodborne Norovirus Infections will meet on Tuesday - Thursday, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Subcommittee will continue discussions on improving control of the foodborne transmission of Human Noroviruses (HuNoV). The subcommittee will also assess the current state of knowledge on HuNoV.
- March 25-27, 2014: A subcommittee on the Study of Microbiological Criteria as Indicators of Process Control or Insanitary Conditions will meet on Tuesday - Thursday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to develop guidance to assist the Department of Defense (DOD) in refining its microbiological criteria for evaluation of process control and insanitary conditions at the point of production using both pathogens and indicator organisms. Updated standards will assist DOD in their evaluation of whether product produced under certain circumstances destined for U.S. military personnel is safe and wholesome. The information obtained from this project will assist all U.S. food safety agencies.
If you would like to attend these meetings, please contact Advisory Committee Specialist Karen Thomas at 202-690-6620 or via e-mail at email@example.com.
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Allow me to introduce to you the new Jesus. This isn’t the Jesus Christ known to us from the pages of the Holy Bible. This Jesus is a new version cast into the arena of international politics and global change – it’s a new messiah for a new millennium.
Wondering what I’m talking about?
In the fall of 1999, I received a little book titled The Night Jesus Christ Returned To Earth, authored by Captain Tom A. Hudgens. In the late 1990’s, while attending a conference on world federalism, I had the opportunity to hear Mr. Hudgens’ present his views on “world order” and global citizenship. At that time Mr. Hudgens was President and CEO of the Association to Unite the Democracies, an organization dedicated to the advancement of world government by politically unifying the leading democratic nations. So his talk carried a decidedly internationalist flavor. Not surprisingly, so too does the Jesus character of his book.
In his Foreword, Hudgens writes; “In this book I have intentionally put words into Jesus’ mouth. Whether the words came directly to me from Him or that the words are my own invention is debatable” .
Then Hudgens draws out a challenge; “If what I have Jesus say in this book does not agree with what you think He would say, I challenge you to write down what you think He would endorse today” .
As a work of fiction, the author portrays Jesus Christ as returning to Earth during the Millennium Celebrations at Times Square in New York City. The year, 1999, is only seconds away from closing.
“At the very moment that the white ball should start its descent, a loud explosion scatters the ball into a million pieces of confetti. In its place is Jesus Christ, descending and arriving at the bottom for his triumphal return to Earth, not as described in the Book of Revelation, but as He Himself had decided to make His entrance” .
At this point in the book, Jesus explains why he appeared first in the United States, and New York City more specifically:
A. America has the most Christians,
B. The United Nations is headquartered in New York, and…
C. The US is the “freest of all nations and the guarantor of freedom and human rights” .
Jesus then asks “all citizens of the world to elect ten disciples for me…” This new messiah is obviously very democratic minded. .
All of this is rather novel, especially given the fact that the Jesus of the Bible always invited His disciples to follow Him; it was not a decision made by the mob, but of invitation and personal calling.
Hudgens then goes on to describe what his version of Jesus “would endorse today.”
1. A stabilization of the United Nations and a call to global democracy .
2. A uniting of all democratic countries into a limited federal republic; ie, a world government. In fact, this “Millennium Messiah” [my phrase] makes numerous direct references to the Association to Unite the Democracies – Hudgens’ world government lobbying organization – along with it’s agendas and ideas, and its importance in striving for a political, economic, and military unification of like-minded nations .
3. That the European Union should become the core group used to unite the leading democracies, and that other existing international arrangements (such as NATO) be brought into the fold .
4. That “total gun control” is necessary. In this regard, the National Rifle Association is mentioned as a negative factor in America’s political system .
5. A calling to “sap the strength of the multinational corporations which are ruling the world.” Hudgens’ Jesus explained that these multinational corporations are “ruling the world” to the detriment of the poor . Note: Multinational corporations do wield an enormous degree of power, but often the critical view that’s presented is a form of dialectic; if only we can bring down corporations, then the poor will be elevated. In reality, the poor or oppressed are seldom raised up in such a scenario.
6. A calling for population control and the necessity of abortion to ensure the safety of the Earth’s environment. Hudgens’ Jesus even tells us when life begins; “when the umbilical cord is severed.” Moreover, Jesus puts his foot down: “I plan to speak with the Pope about this matter” .
7. Lastly, Jesus brings religion into the picture by declaring; “Over time I believe we can show that Christianity is compatible with all other religions. My coming will help to solidify the religions” .
I understand that Mr. Hudgens’ name and organization are relatively obscure. Few people outside of World Federalist circles and global citizenship lobby groups will have heard of either the individual or his association. And it’s not that his book The Night Jesus Christ Returned To Earth has been a top-seller. Odds are, those who have the book are few and far-between.
So why bring all of this up? Simply because these concepts represent a line of thinking found within certain elements of the international community. Of this we need to be aware.
Former United Nations high-official, Robert Muller [not the FBI Robert Muller], readily preached a new global order and an internationalist, New Age Jesus. In his 1982 book, New Genesis: Shaping a Global Spirituality, Muller writes, “If Christ came back to earth, his first visit would be to the United Nations to see if his dream of human oneness and brotherhood had come true” .
In a section of New Genesis titled “The Reappearance of Christ,” Muller spells out a lengthy yet revealing vision of “Christ” within a new world paradigm.
“So everywhere I look – and I am not a theologian or a philosopher, I am just a United Nations official trying to make a little sense out of all this – everywhere I see the Christ’s luminous messages. They are all still among us, they are coming again to the fore ever more potently. In the present global world they have to express themselves in the ecumenism of religions. The world’s major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet. World-wide spiritual ecumenism, expressed in new forms of religious cooperation and institutions, would probably be closest to the heart of the resurrected Christ. I would wholeheartedly support the creation of an institutional arrangement in the UN or in UNESCO for a dialogue and cooperation between religions. There is a famous painting and poster which shows Christ knocking at the tall United Nations building, wanting to enter it. I often visualize in my mind another even more accurate painting: that of a United Nations which would be the body of Christ” .
Muller’s vision didn’t emerge from his own sense of spiritual understanding, it is the result of other peoples work, including the mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Muller devotes a chapter to Chardin in New Genesis) , and Alice Bailey, whose Theosophical writings heavily influenced the Robert Muller School program .
Chardin, a highly controversial Catholic theologian, advocated the complete unification of mankind, including,
1. The development of a common humanity-wide consciousness .
3. A complete economic, political, and social planetary structure based on group thinking,
“…everything suggests that at the present time we are entering a peculiarly critical phase of super-humanisation. This is what I hope to persuade you of by drawing your attention to an altogether extraordinary and highly suggestive condition of the world round us, one which we all see and are subject to, but without paying attention to it, or at lease without understanding it: I mean the increasingly rapid growth in the human world of the forces of collectivisation.
The phenomenon calls for no detailed description. It takes the form of the all- encompassing ascent of the masses; the constant tightening of economic bonds; the spread of financial and intellectual associations; the totalisation of political regimes; the closer physical contact of individuals as well as nations; the increasing impossibility of being or acting or thinking alone…”
4. Global unification through supernatural powers; “Whether we wish it or not, Mankind is becoming collectivised, totalised under the influence of psychic and spiritual forces on a planetary scale” .
5. And an endorsement and longing for the United Nations to flourish, even though it is still imperfect and will remain so until complete social collectivism is achieved .
Placing the capstone on all of this is the ongoing and incomplete work of the New Age Christ,
“And since Christ was born, and ceased to grow, and died, everything has continued in motion because he has not yet attained the fullness of his form. He has not gathered about Him the last folds of the garment of flesh and love woven for him by his faithful. The mystical Christ has not reached the peak of his growth… and it is the continuation of this engendering that there lies the ultimate driving force behind all created activity… Christ is the term of even the natural evolution of living beings.”
Similar to Chardin, Alice Bailey – a leader in the early Theosophical movement and founder of Lucifer Publishing Company, which later morphed into Lucis Trust and has since spurred on a whole series of New Age subsidiaries – taught that a transformed world was close at hand. And like Chardin’s “new spirit for a new order,” Bailey writes in The Rays and The Initiations, “Some day the minds of men – illuminated by the light of the soul – will formulate the one universal religion, recognizable by all” .
Expanding this spiritual collective philosophy further, Bailey reveals that the new world Christ will manifest himself physically, directing his will into the arena of world politics, economics, and religion . Even now, Bailey explains, the apparent contradiction of national and international conflict is geared towards this singular purpose – a “climax” and a “point of tension” that “will eventually prove to be the agent that will bring about a point of emergence” .
Muller, Chardin, Bailey…each of these visionaries, and scores more, call out for a restructured international political sand economic system, and a social transformation of the globe – all brought about by a New Age Messiah. Which brings us full circle, coming face-to-face with Hudgens’ Millennium Jesus and Hudgens’ challenge: what would Jesus endorse today?
Actually, this isn’t too hard to figure out. Hebrews 13:8 tell us that; “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Knowing this, it’s fairly easy to discern what Jesus Christ would endorse today; it’s the same thing He endorsed 2000 years ago – an exclusive way to the Father (John 14:6) and that man is in need of a Savior because man is a sinful creature (John 3:16-21).
But none of this bodes well in today’s climate of global tolerance and planetary correctness. Instead, a New Age Messiah is desired and anticipated, one that is willing to embrace all religions and unite all nations. —
Carl Teichrib is editor of Forcing Change, a monthly publication documenting the worldview challenges now facing the Western world.
1 Captain Tom A. Hudgens, The Night Jesus Christ Returned To Earth (Denver, CO: BILR Corporation, 1999, ISBN 0-937177-01-6), Forward..
2. Ibid., Forward.
3. Ibid., p.35.
4. Ibid., p.36.
5. Ibid., p.37.
6. Ibid., p.40.
7. Ibid., pp.41-43.
8. Ibid., p.44.
9. Ibid., p.47.
10. Ibid., p.51.
11. Ibid., pp.52, 87.
12. Ibid., p.85.
13. Robert Muller, New Genesis: Shaping A Global Spirituality (Anacortes, WA: World Happiness and Cooperation, 1993/1982, ISBN 1-880455-04-8), p.19.
14. Ibid., pp.126-127.
15. Ibid., pp.159-168.
16. See Gary Kah’s book, The New World Religion (Noblesville, IN: Hope International Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-9670098-0-4), pp.162-184.
17. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1959/1964), p.56.
18. Ibid., p.62.
19. Ibid., p.79.
20. Ibid., pp.117-118.
21. Ibid., p.201.
22. Ibid., pp.267-268.
23. Ibid., 320.
24. Alice Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations (New York, NY: Lucis Publishing Company, 1960), p.594.
25. Ibid., see Section Two, pp.556-661.
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Seismic Analysis and Design of Retaining Walls, Buried Structures, Slopes, and Embankments
Transportation Research Board, Jan 1, 2008 - 137 pages
This report explores analytical and design methods for the seismic design of retaining walls, buried structures, slopes, and embankments. The Final Report is organized into two volumes. NCHRP Report 611 is Volume 1 of this study. Volume 2, which is only available online, presents the proposed specifications, commentaries, and example problems for the retaining walls, slopes and embankments, and buried structures.
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Breast cancer facts
Medical statistics indicate that one in eight women will get breast cancer during her life. This means 12.5% of all women will have to fight the battle with breast cancer! My maternal grandma was one of them. It was breast cancer that gave her the name “Aua Oma” because she was always in pain. “Aua” is the German word for ouch, “Oma” means granny. At that time in the mid 60s, breast cancer patients had no support whatsoever. On the contrary, they were invisible, in hide.
Even when breast cancer hasn’t hit “home front”, i.e. you or a family member, everyone knows several women who are breast cancer survivors. As long as we don’t have a mean that protects women from getting breast cancer, it is important to be aware of the risk, pay attention to screening, support breast cancer research, treatment and survivors. The latter three become especially important in times of low funding for research, treatment and general support.
Wendy Mignot’s pink Tata necklace benefits Breast Cancer survivors
Jewelry designer Wendy Mignot is a very active supporter of breast cancer survivors. This year, she is donating 100% of the profits of her new Pink TaTa’s Freshwater Pearl Necklace to benefit Breast Cancer survivors and she invites you to join the cause! The handcrafted necklace features a double freshwater pearl drop with champagne pearl accent on natural hand-rolled leather. The necklace is available in 16″, 18″, and 20″ (41 cm, 46 cm, 51 cm) length, and retails for $100.
Starting October 1st, all profits from the sale of her brand new Pink TaTa’s Necklace will go directly to benefit Seymour Pink, a national charitable organization started by Wendy Mignot’s high school teacher from her hometown, Seymour, CT. This means you can get easily involved in supporting breast cancer survivors by purchasing one of the TaTa necklaces. Tweet about this. At the same time, you show your support for breast cancer survivors and raise breast cancer awareness in a stylish way whenever you wear the necklace.
Support can be stylish
The combination of leather and pearls has a little edge and hence is a classic with a very modern twist. The pearls have a great luster. The design makes the pink TaTa necklace very versatile, and the necklace works with all kinds of style. It dresses up a pair of jeans and a T-shirt from casual to posh for the weekend. It is a great addition to a Bohemian dress and works as a statement necklace at the office with a sheath dress or over a sweater. The short version is perfect with a blouse when keeping the upper two buttons open. The longest version of the necklace is a perfect styling touch with a sweater dress or with leggings and a long sweater for the weekend.
Other ways to support Wendy’s campaign
The ageless design makes the necklace also a great gift for your bff, daughter(s) or teenage grand daughters. The Wendy Mignot necklace comes in a nice gift box and with certificate of authenticity. Since this handmade beauty is a limited edition, the value may increase with time.
How would you style the pink TaTa necklace? Let me know, I am curious.
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View Full Version : Okay to feed strawberries?
1st April 2009, 06:33 PM
I have been giving the dogs strawberries lately and they love them! Just wanted to make sure they're okay.
2nd April 2009, 03:32 AM
I've never heard anything bad about strawberries for dogs.
Love my Cavaliers
2nd April 2009, 03:55 AM
All four of mine LOVE strawberries. It would be a sad day around here if they are off limits. Luckily, we've never had a problem with them. Unfortunately for the dogs, all the humans in this house also love strawberries so they don't get too many.
2nd April 2009, 04:43 AM
Strawberries, banana, blueberries...all favorites around here!
2nd April 2009, 06:28 AM
Mine love apples and melons. :)
2nd April 2009, 06:40 AM
my vet tells me that a general rule of thumb for dogs and humans is no berries as pups/youngin's. Teddy, bless his soul, loved his berries. We have a strawberry bush that he loved to raid over the summer for a snack...
2nd April 2009, 06:55 AM
The following foods may be dangerous to your pet:
(Humane Society of US website)
Avocados—toxic to birds, mice, rabbits, horses, cattle and dairy goats
Candy (particularly chocolate, which is toxic to dogs, cats and ferrets, and any candy containing the sweetener Xylitol)
Coffee (grounds, beans, chocolate covered espresso beans)
Hops (used in home beer brewing)
Onions and onion powder
Potato leaves and stems (green parts)
Tomato leaves and stems (green parts)
No strawberries listed! I have heard that it can cause loose stools, or upset stomach! Never given them to my animals. Guess if they enjoy them, in moderation its fine!!!:thmbsup:
3rd April 2009, 04:52 AM
Guess if they enjoy them, in moderation its fine!!!
That's the key.....I'd never give them a whole pint....yuck!! But a strawberry here and there and a few blueberries...no problem.
3rd April 2009, 04:34 PM
Winston is on antibiotics for his infected anal glands and they're in a capsule form and can be placed perfectly inside a strawberry since they're rather soft and I can just push the pill right into the middle of one. That's how this all started. So they're his pill pockets, so to speak!
3rd April 2009, 09:54 PM
aww i hope winston gets better soon poor lad it must be so painful, it makes you wince just thinking about it! Thanks Mellie for that list, ive something similar in my vets book but im sure theres new ones on your list. in my book it says coffee grounds but sometimes Ruby gets stuck into my coffee mug-especially if its frothy coffee!! i only ever have decaff in both tea & coffee & on a cold day i make her her own cup of tea. is this really bad? she's always been fine but now im wondering..
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Employees' drug purchases before and after organizational downsizing: a natural experiment on the Norwegian working population (2004-2012)
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Original versionScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. 2017, 43 (4), 307-315. 10.5271/sjweh.3637
Objectives This study investigated the association between organizational downsizing and purchases of prescribed drugs by private sector employees in Norway. Methods A natural experiment was constructed using individual-level employer and employee data linked to the national prescription database for the period 2004–2012. The study population comprised 144 089 employees who had been exposed to major downsizing in the same period. Random effects logistic regression models were used to investigate relative changes in drug purchases (antidepressants, hypnotics/sedatives, anxiolytics, and anti-psychotics, as well as anti-obesity, anti-diabetic, cardiovascular, and thyroid drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids, and analgesics/antipyretics) in the five-year-period before and after exposure to downsizing. Results Compared with the situation three years before exposure, the odds ratios (OR) of purchasing psychotropic drugs one year after exposure increased for antidepressants (OR 1.44, 95% CI 1.34–1.55), hypnotics/sedatives (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.29–1.49), anxiolytics (OR 1.32, 95% CI 1.22–1.43), and antipsychotics (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.19–1.52). Similar associations were found for cardiovascular, anti-diabetic, and thyroid drugs. Stratified analyses showed that the odds of purchasing psychotropic, anti-diabetic, and cardiovascular drugs in the years around downsizing was more pronounced in men compared with women. Elevated odds were also found for employees in the oldest age group and those with less than tertiary education. Conclusions Exposure to organizational downsizing increased the odds of purchasing prescribed psychotropic, cardiovascular, anti-diabetic, and thyroid drugs. The clinical implications of these results might be systematic involvement from medical personnel and occupational health services in workforce reduction processes. | <urn:uuid:ac53b3c0-371b-4f3e-a503-ab8551782c33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sintef.brage.unit.no/sintef-xmlui/handle/11250/2588009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.922121 | 475 | 1.609375 | 2 |
By Robin Culverwell
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Changing a flat tire could soon be a thing of the past, as car makers are starting to phase out spare tires in an effort to increase gas mileage.
It never happens at a convenient time, but the days of having to change a flat when you’re all dressed up with somewhere to go could be numbered.
“They’re trying to reduce the weight of newer cars, so that they can get better miles per gallon. And what they’re doing in essence is eliminating the spare tire and some of the equipment that goes along with it, like the jack,” says Sue Madden with AAA Mid-Atlantic.
She says that spare and related tools can add 40 pounds to the weight of a car and that cuts fuel efficiency.
Madden says drivers need to be prepared. “What they need to do, is find out from their owner’s manual if their car has a spare tire, where it is, and if not, have a plan B. Have the sealant with you at all times if you have a flat tire.”
The life of sealant isn’t forever; it’ll last about five years. Another option is the “runflat” tire which inflates itself and the car’s computer lets you know when a tire’s been punctured and needs service.
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Blogs are often referred to as online journals, and so many people tend to blog a lot about themselves. Is it a good or a bad thing? Before you start blogging, I think it is important to decide what your target audience will be. Do you plan to blog for your family and friends? If that is the case they will probably appreciate the fact that you write a lot about yourself, and might even expect you to do so. But what if you plan that your blog will be interesting to visitors from all over the world? First of all, since they do not know you really well they might not be interested that much in your personal life. Many bloggers make a mistake blogging about themselves too much, because they assume that everyone is interested in them. Very often that is not the case. Visitors are often more interested in the content of the site, rather then the author. I suggest deciding what your target audience is and blogging accordingly. Generally, if you want to blog to a larger audience, you may wish to write less about yourself, but more about the topic of your blog. Naturally, celebrities are in a different situation. | <urn:uuid:669b4ee7-5f5d-4456-ad4d-3b9cee0b0141> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prealasrecife.com/2016/08/12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.977114 | 229 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Not even the roar of 200 motorcycles could drown out the sounds of the dry leaves rustling in the wind when Grandmother Renee said quietly, “The children are here.”
The setting was the Woodland Cultural Centre — formerly the Mohawk Institute Residential School, in Brantford — in late August. Grandmother Renee is Renee Thomas-Hill, Bear Clan, Cayuga Nation, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and co-founder of Grandmother’s Voice, instructor and elder.
The Residential School Children’s Ride for Justice saw more than 200 bikers roll through the roads and highways between Brantford and Niagara-on-the-Lake on a mission to raise awareness — and funds.
The single-day ride brought in $11,500.
The Aug. 28 event culminated this week with a $5,750 donation to the Niagara Regional Native Centre and another to the Woodland Cultural Centre for the same amount, to preserve the former school in Brantford. Funds provided to the NOTL centre will go toward children’s programs, including support for the cultural aspects of their lives.
Planning for the ride began in June, spearheaded by Rita Meier Pupo, who formed a committee to make it happen: Chris Gill, Justin Bearelle (Redrum MC member from Six Nations), Tony Steadman, Michael Parker, and acting as adviser to the committee was Matt Thorpe.
Meier Pupo was born in Germany and her education included studying the Holocaust, the need for reparation, and the painful reality of racism.
She said it was disheartening to find the ugly truth about residential schools in Canada got scarcely a mention in its history texts and that many Canadians were shocked to learn about the unmarked graves of now thousands of Indigenous children who died at those schools.
“I’m sorry Canada isn’t the country you thought it was,” she said.
Doing something to raise awareness became a mission of sorts. Preserving the history through the Save the Evidence campaign was among the goals.
“Many of the schools have been torn down — people don’t want reminders.” said Meier Pupo. “It is important to preserve the building so people remember what happened there.”
The Mohawk residential school operated from 1831 to June 1970. Following its closure in 1970, the Woodland Cultural Centre opened on the site in 1972 as an organization focused on research, history, and later the arts. The building is in poor condition.
In 1903, the original building was destroyed by fire. Two more fires took place later that year, all attributed to the students of the school, who were being kept from their families.
Following the 2021 discovery of previously unknown burials at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Six Nations of the Grand River Chief Mark Hill called on the federal government to support a search for missing children who could have been buried on the Mohawk Institute's grounds.
There was a ceremony in Brantford just before the start of the ride.
When Grandmother Renee took the mic to speak, she went right to the heart of the matter.
“The Creator gave us tears for healing. Let your tears flow as the children’s tears flowed,” she told the crowd gathered at the Woodland Cultural Centre. As she spoke of the crying children, the wind suddenly whipped through the trees, rattling the dried leaves.
“The children are here,” said the elder, addressing the crowd.
“We look for justice for the land and the air and the water — and the children. The ancestors are proud of you as you walk in the truth.”
Singing, drumming and the words of Grandmother Renee were joined by the voices of those who survived their years at the centre when it was a residential school.
Geronimo said his name was replaced by a number, an act meant to dehumanize the children and integrate them into society and away from their culture.
“I almost forgot my name. ‘Hey 48, do this, 48 do that.’ I have a right to be freakin’ mad.”
He entered the school at age six, then spent the next 11 years unlearning who he was.
The goal of the residential school system was to ensure the children “lost everything Native but their blood.”
“We were always hungry. We could smell the bacon and eggs served to the staff. We were on a farm, there was lots of food — just not for us,” Geronimo told the crowd.
The poor quality of the food led to the children calling the Mohawk institute the “mush hole,” a nickname that survives today.
“They tried to assimilate us, they took my language, they took my culture. They tried, but they didn’t succeed,” said Geronimo.
Each rider was given a tiny pouch, a tobacco tie, to carry with them to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Tobacco, together with sage, cedar and sweetgrass, are referred to as the four sacred medicines in Indigenous culture.
Joe Shawana, cultural resource coordinator at the NOTL centre, was the fire keeper that day.
The bikers, he said, were carrying with them the spirits of the children to be released in the sacred fire that night.
“It was very emotional for me,” said Shawana. “My family was affected by the residential school system.”
The burning of the tobacco ties brought a poignant ending to the day.
“Bikers were not the first thing I thought of when I think of reconciliation, but it was a powerful symbol of unity in the community,” said Karl Dockstader, executive director of the Niagara Regional Native Centre.
Niagara Regional Native Centre
“Our issues are not just our issues.”
Native centres were formed after Indigenous peoples were finally able to leave reservations legally. A grassroots movement led to hubs where urban Indigenous families could find support. Plans for a Niagara centre began in the early 1970s.
Those centres — working to build a bridge between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people — offer support and resources to people of all ages.
They offer the following programs: Healing and Wellness, Health Outreach, Youth services, Community Action for Children, Prenatal Nutrition, Employment Counselling, Lifelong Care, Indigenous Community Justice, Healthy Babies-Healthy Children, Literacy and others.
The philosophical base of our culture teaches us that all change occurs in cycles and the vision connected with that change must come from within. In keeping with the inherent intent of this philosophy, the main priority for the Niagara Regional Native Centre has been to work with the winds of change to determine our own destiny. | <urn:uuid:86b6c019-fdab-4fc6-8945-fc96c2f1d511> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara-region/2021/09/17/riders-raise-money-awareness-for-residential-school-survivors.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.975993 | 1,439 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Fire Prevention Division
The Fire Prevention Division of Kentfield Fire Protection District is here to help! If you have questions about fire codes, fire permits, defensible space requirements, evacuation planning, or emergency power systems and equipmnet, please do not hesitate to contact our office or send us an email at email@example.com.
Fire Prevention efforts are the most effective means for community risk reduction an loss of life and property due to fire. Our mission is to assist in the preservation of life and property by advocating, promoting, and providing leadership in the prevention and mitigation of fire and other related hazardous conditions.
At the heart of any code enforcement program is an adopted fire code and related standards. It is the adopted fire code and the adopted standards that the Fire Prevention Division derives its authority. Codes and standards establish minimum requirements, but should not prevent or discourage someone from exceeding the minimum requirement.
Fire Prevention efforts play an important part in the fire district activities. Over the years, the public has developed certain expectations of the Fire District to identify and abate fire hazards in the community. We appreciate the input from our citizens including their concerns about possible fire hazards in their neighborhood and our community.
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Updated on August 4th 2022
The Genius of Titian in Brescia
The Polyptych of the Resurrection in SS Nazzaro e Celso in Brescia by Titian is considered an artistic tour de force. It was commissioned by Altobello Averoldi, papal legate at the time to Venice, in 1518/19. The construction of five panels is an old-fashioned design of the polyptych format (most likely insisted upon by Averoldi), the actual painting of the panels by Titian is far from being old-fashioned. The powerful and dynamic figures of Christ and St Sebastian, predicting the triumph of both, is a prelude to the expressive excesses of the Baroque and places Titian well ahead of his time in his vision for and unique approach to art.
We can see how Titian openly competes with sculpture in the two main figures, taking inspiration from the recently discovered Hellenistic statue of Laocoön (in Rome) and - in the case of Sebastian - one of the slaves from Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II.
Titian's desire to capture bold movements of the body is not easily accommodated within the traditional structure of a polyptych, which necessitated depicting different pictorial elements on a number of panels. It is certain that this antiquated form was used at the request of his client Altobello Averoldi (who was bishop of Pula from 1497 and a most successful papal legate to Venice was also a native of Brescia. He knew Michelangelo and was a friend and patron of Titian. His third governorship of Bologna lasted from 1530 until his death the following year). He is depicted (bottom left panel) with the patron saints of the church, St Nazaro and St Celso, to whom he dedicated the altar to.
New Mannerist tendencies are also apparent in this work, perhaps influenced by the keen study by Titian of the painting of Pordenone who he admired. It’s these influences that contribute to the dramatic intensity of this work. The landscape painting of the background is of the very highest quality, with recognizable views of Brescia, remind us that Titian was a great landscape painter.
Brescia is an historical surprise package well worth visiting. It’s an elegant and affluent town with a rich history. A visit to Civici Musei d'Arte (Museum of Art and History) is a must.
So is the “Luigi Marzoli” Arms and Armor Museum. Armor from Brescia for centuries was considered the best in the world.
The “simple” kitchen of Brescia is misleading. The food is delicious as are the local wines and eating in this town will be a travel highlight.
This story was originally published on August 4th 2022
Peter Kilby is an artist, writer, story-teller, journalist and avid traveller who lived and worked in Italy from 1987 to 2018. He created Perfect Traveller to bring the world of art and history closer to you and in a way that is entertaining and informative; together with great travel tips. Getting off the beaten track in Italy is always an adventure and he invites you to join him in discovering an Italy that will surprise and amaze you. | <urn:uuid:83f8329f-e8dc-4acd-814a-c7f811c86caa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://perfectraveller.com/story/the-genius-of-titian-in-brescia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.966086 | 693 | 2.390625 | 2 |
I was born with Chronic Rheumatoid Arthritis and have been on various treatments to treat it from home remedies to doctor prescribed medications, such as Ibuprohen, Nsaid etc., nothing seemed to work. I just lived with the daily pain and inflammation flare-ups and joint swellings as a way of life. The type of RA that I have is called spondyloarthipathy, it affects my joints, spine and vertabrae. My Rheumatologist started me on this new medication, that is a biologic treatment and administrated through a needle placed in the a vein (IV or intravenous infusion) in your arm. It takes about 2 hours. My treatment is actually 3 hours and I don't need to have another treatment for another 8 weeks.
My first treatment was given every 2 weeks, starting in May of 2008 to April, 2008, and then to four weeks, and now to every eight weeks. Remicade is a prescription medication used along with the medicine methotrexate for the treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis. I am also given Benedryl and 3 Tylenol tablets before infusion. The Benedryl knocks me out for the 3 hour drip and I don't feel any pain or itchiness. I'm good to go for another 8 weeks and my quality of life is greatly improved. I can finally go for the walks I like so much and have community interaction. I just have to remember to take it easy and set a limit to my daily activities. This medication is prepared and administered to me by a health care professional at the clinic and I am monitored during the infusion and for a period of time afterward for any side effects, so far, so good. I haven't experienced any side effects at this time:) The rule-of-thumb, so to speak, is to have only a health care professional administer this medication with the direct doctor's orders.
Remicade is a medicine that affects the immune system. It can lower the ability of your immune system to fight infections. It is recommended that your doctor test you for TB before starting Remicade. Remicade is a prescription medication that is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. I'm not sure of the exact date that the medication was approved by the FDA, but, it was approximately around 1998.
The most common side effects of Remicade are: respiratory infections, such as sinus and sore throat, headache, rash, coughing, stomach pain. Do not use Remicade for a condition for which it was not prescribed, consult with your doctor.
Ingredients: The active ingredient is Infliximab. The inactive ingredients include: sucrose, polysorbate 80, sodium phosphate monohydrate, and dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate. No preservatives are present. For more information go to www.remicade.com or call 1-800-457-6399.
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Parvati The Elephant’s Very Important Day
- Author: Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Tanaya Vyas
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- ISBN: 9789394407190
Parvati the elephant has an important role to play in the temple, and she's very excited about doing it. But sometimes, unexpected things can get in the way of a crucial task.
Will Parvati be able to complete the job that she has set out to do?
Parvati the Elephant's Very Important Day shares a universal story about duty, responsibility, and success. Structured as a rhyming picture book, Parvati showcases Kerala temple traditions by narrating a day in the life of a temple elephant.
Elephants, despite their magnificent girth and size, are gentle, and highly intelligent animals who balance the ecosystem. These pachyderms have been preyed on for years and are in danger of extinction.
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Cal State Document
In 1989, the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1580, which directed the Resources Agency to improve interagency coordination related to wildlife and forestland management and develop a better understanding of wildlife and forest habitat relationships. This report represents the conclusions of the Resources Agency's subsequent efforts.
California Timberland Task Force, "The Report of the California Timberland Task Force" (1993). California Agencies. 175. | <urn:uuid:dd54430e-4f55-46b5-a74a-0cf22e339ae6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_agencies/175/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.78066 | 84 | 1.546875 | 2 |
As a vehicle for learning OrCAD, I built a custom embedded Linux board using NXP’s i.MX6ULL processor. The board is called CATFOOD (I was more excited to get started than I was to come up with a name). It has the i.MX6, DDR3, NAND flash, an Ethernet PHY, and an SD card. It presents a serial console over the USB-C connector, which also supplies power.
This was my first embedded Linux design, as well as my first design incorporating DDR or Ethernet. The design is heavily based on NXP’s reference implementation. I also used Seeed Studio’s i.MX6 module as a reference (it is itself a stripped-down version of the NXP design).
I had the 4-layer board and a stencil manufactured using a low-cost PCB prototyping service and assembled it at home.
There was at first an issue booting. I traced this down to a problem with the DDR by interrogating the device over the built-in USB bootloader. See https://github.com/boundarydevices/imx_usb_loader as well as NXP’s DDR calibration tool. After checking the DDR voltage reference and a few clock termination passives I reflowed the memory chip, which solved the issue. If I had to guess (and I do, because I don’t have an X-ray machine), I didn’t get enough heat on that part the first time I reflowed it.
There were a few driver problems with the Ethernet. This particular part (LAN8700) was my most significant deviation from the reference schematic so it’s no surprise that the board init and device tree needed some modifications.
- I needed to have u-boot reset the PHY (using the reset GPIO) early in the board initialization. I also set up the ENET clock (provided by the i.MX6 to the LAN8700) in the board init.
- The reference device tree has two ENET modules, with the (shared) MDIO bus configured in the second. This is usually fine even when only one is used, but the part I used has the second ENET module disabled via fuse1.
- I removed the tempmon node in the device tree. It doesn’t exist in my part and so Linux kept attempting to do deferred probes of this device. I’m still not clear on why, but the first attempted tempmon probe after Linux initializes the PHY would cause a hang.
Finally, I generated a valid (unicast, locally-administered) MAC address and burned it into the fuses using u-boot:
# This programs ENET1 MAC address: F6:07:37:F1:EC:7a fuse prog 4 3 0xf607 fuse prog 4 2 0x37f1ec7a
I’m happy with the way this came out. It incorporated a lot of new elements for me and they all ended up working. Some disorganized thoughts:
- I’m stressing the limits of my usual paste stencil alignment method (scrap boards and masking tape). Next time I’m going to try putting some alignment holes in the board and stencil.
- The reference design includes a large number of pull-up/down resistors for configuring bootstrap pins. I kept these on my board, knowing they were unnecessary but maybe useful. After learning a bit about the platform I shouldn’t need to include them again. All that’s needed is access to a couple of the BOOT_MODE pins, combined with the default behavior and the built-in USB loader.
- There’s some other elements of NXP’s design, mostly around power and reset, that I think I understand well enough now to simplify or drop.
- This was the first time I did stencil paste application / hot air reflow on both sides of the board, and I was worried about either having components fall off or not preheating the board/ground planes enough and having tombstoning. I set my preheater to “100C” and didn’t have any issues.
- When placing small passives I should give them a little tap (into the paste) and use a wide nozzle from relatively far to prevent parts from blowing away.
- I designed a 3d-printed enclosure, which I don’t typically do. I need to pay more attention to connector stickout past the board edge.
Both ENET modules have instances of the MDIO registers, and it normally doesn’t matter which ENET is used to access the bus. But with ENET2 fused, accessing the MDIO registers from that module hung the device.↩ | <urn:uuid:a2a2710d-58a8-4484-8f62-fdd992a75aa9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iank.org/posts/catfood-custom-imx6ull-board/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.946846 | 1,011 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Jets and mannequin heads: Just another day at Dyson's campus
We visited the English countryside to see how Dyson products go from concept to reality.
Super-fast magnetic motor keeps tiny satellites on track
It doesn't use fuel, and should never wear out.
Honda unveils first hybrid motor without heavy rare earth metals
The new motor will be used in the Freed minivan that goes on sale in Asia this fall.
Tour de France will use thermal cameras to spot hidden motors
Officials will conduct between 3,000 and 4,000 tests for "technological doping."
Watch a GPS-assisted boat motor keep ships steady
You don't need to be a boating veteran to use Mercury Marine's GPS-boosted motors.
World's smallest nanomotor can pump drugs into cells at 18,000 RPM
Scientists at the Cockrell School of Engineering in Texas have created a nanomotor less than one m...
MIT 'microthrusters' are the size of a penny, could reposition tiny satellites
Bus-sized satellites require massive engines for even the slightest movements, but as far smaller...
Dyson's engineers head off to the races, create dragsters using spare parts, DC-16 motors (video)
Dyson engineers certainly know a thing or two about creating innovative vacuums and fans Air Multip...
Teagueduino used to create analog shoebox video game
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If your adult learner would like to work on poetry but needs some inspiration, click here. On the left they will see a list of poems; help them choose one and follow the directions, adding words when and where instructed. Click on “Create my ___ poem,” and voila, they'll have an instant poem! This site also gives you an example so you can see what yours will look like. Try it out; it’s a lot of fun! | <urn:uuid:c682a6ca-051d-44ba-9be3-5ea86bf3d272> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.tulsalibrary.org/blog/instant-poetry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00168-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956553 | 98 | 1.953125 | 2 |
I had promised to do a post on the owls of the Lowveld. I’m not going to. I’m going to do a few. And today, I’m going to do a very short one indeed. I’ve been called away on an emergency. I have to go the bush for a night. There I will be forced to spend an afternoon driving around looking at elephants and rhinos while sipping an ice-cold beer before being forced to endure yet another African sunset, while the meat sizzles over the fire and I force down a glass of chilled white wine.
Still, I have just enough time to deal with an owl. Or rather an owlet. If you look out over a patch of the Lowveld, this is what you see.
It doesn’t look like much. But it supports a staggering amount of life. There are the sprawling herds of big game; the elephants and the buffalos, the teeming masses of buck, and the lions and the hyenas that feed on them. But there is other life here, too. Life you don’t spot as easily. The undergrowth crawls with rats and mice, mongooses and snakes, hares and lizards. Masses of them. And they, in turn, are food for owls.
Most places support one or two types of owl. The Lowveld has ten. Some, like the Pel’s Fishing Owl, are very seldom seen, but most pop up every now and then. They come in all shapes and sizes. This guy is the biggest;
He’s a Verreaux’s Eagle owl, and he’s huge. He stands over two feet tall and weighs three kilograms; the third heaviest owl in the world. But we’re not going to talk about him. We’re going to talk about a leprechaun with eyes in the back of his head.
This is a Pearl Spotted Owl. Or rather a Pearl Spotted Owlet. They changed the name to annoy me.
Noble looking beast, isn’t he. He’s a rather typical looking owl; large, dome shaped head, rounded shoulders, viciously sharp beak, large, piercing eyes, talons like meat hooks. Except for one thing. Here’s a shot of one that might give you a better perspective;
He’s tiny. He weighs in at less than 100g. But he makes up for it in attitude. He’s a very engaging little fellow indeed. Despite his diminutive size, he’s actually quite easy to find. For a start, Pearl Spotted Owls are far more active during the day than other owls. He also has a very characteristic flight pattern, making him easier to spot on the wing than most birds. And you can often tell when he’s in the area, because he does this;
Which is kind of distinctive. Unsurprisingly, for a bird that size, most of his diet is made up of insects. But don’t be fooled for a second. He hasn’t forgotten he’s an owl. He will cheerfully pounce on small rodents and lizards, and can take out birds the size of turtle-doves, which are nearly twice his size.
And that is just about that for the Pearl Spotted Owl. Owlet. Whatever. I have to pack for my ordeal.
Oh, I almost forgot. He really does have eyes on the back of his head. And no, I don’t mean he can turn his head right round. All owls can do that. Look at these;
They are there for a very good reason. He’s an owl. I said earlier that he hadn’t forgotten that. But neither have the other birds. If owls, or certainly Lowveld owls, are spotted during the day, they are mobbed mercilessly by large, mixed gangs of birds. Which must be quite annoying if you’re a Verreaux’s Eagle owl. It doesn’t happen often, though, because owls hide themselves away in deep cover during the day.
Pearl spotted owls don’t hide away though. And they do get mobbed. Which must seem a little more threatening to them than it does for the Eagle Owls, because they are smaller than most of the birds doing the mobbing. The eyes are there to fool the mobbers into thinking that he’s watching them. And he’s a fierce little bugger. It would be a very foolish songbird that tried to tackle him head on. The eye spots don’t exactly chase the mobbers away, but they do stop them from sneaking up behind him and knocking him off his perch.
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Hopper for Firebird is a standalone tool to debug database stored code, like Stored Procedures and Triggers. These routines normally run at the server, inside your database and cannot be debugged with your normal development tool.
Stored Procedures, Functions, and Triggers are often used during database development. Firebird don't provide a way to debug stored code in the database running at the server nor provide a programmers API to create one.
Hopper fills this gap by emulating the server side code at the client computer allowing you to step through your code statement by statement. This gives you the much needed insight in your code during development and bug fixing.
What's new in this version:
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The thought of arete may bring varying images or meanings to mind, whether it is a sharp ridge of a mountain or the act of living up to your highest human potential; It is the essence of pure excellence one may strive for in this life time. When you strive to live a life arete, you are living on the edge, on this edge you are unafraid to fall, knowing that you will only be brought up higher. It is not a life of mediocrity nor is it a life of mindless living. It is about being brave in the face of adversity. In Homeric times it was neither masculine nor feminine. It was the true essence of you beyond what this physical world can see. In society we define ones potential based on their physical form, segregating those who are thought to be unworthy or weak. Men from women; Rich from poor. Forgetting that inside, we are all one.
Whether you are an Olympic athlete, stay at home mom, doctor, or janitor; you all have the opportunity to live a life arete. You must take a hold of this life that you were given, good or bad, rich or poor, fat or skinny, and embrace the challenges, conditions, and each opportunity as though it was your last.
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Ian Fleming spent part of every year at "Goldeneye", his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. He loved Jamaica and used to regret that there was no book on it which he considered worthy. His friend Morris Cargill, the distinguished Jamaican journalist and broadcaster, urged him to write one himself. Ian Fleming had no time, but he offered to plan one with Morris Cargill, and to contribute to it: a book after his own heart, saying all that he wished to say about this lovely place in which he was so happy. After many conversations at "Goldeneye" a 'team' was collected: Ian Fleming to open the book, of course, with an account of his own relationship with Jamaica and a general picture of the pleasures of living there; Morris Cargill and the novelist John Hearne to fill in the background, historical and human; and ten other writers, either Jamaican or long-term residents in the island, chosen because of their special knowledge of and enthusiasm for various aspects of it. This team has produced a book which covers many things:the island's history, its people, its politics, its religions and dialects, its natural history, its birds, its painters and writers, its archives, its stamps, and the delights of skin-diving in its waters and eating its food. There are also appendices containing practical information for the visitor and the prospective resident. A particularly fine feature of the book is the way it is illustrated:25 pages and a frntis of specially taken photographs which give a seductive all-round impression of Jamaica's beauty and of the life lived against this dazzling background.It is tragic that Ian Fleming did not live to see the completion of this book, having died in August 1964. We believe that it fulfils his wish, and is indeed worthy of the island to which he gave, and from which he received, so much affection. Fleming provides 11pp intro.
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What is Ready Mixed Concrete?
Ready Mixed Concrete is a tailor-made concrete that is manufactured within a batching plant based on the standard required specifications. The prepared concrete mix is then taken to the work site in transit mixers that are mounted over a truck.
Ask for more detail on products that can increase the durability of your concrete, like adding hardners or fibres to your mix. All of our materials conform to C.S.A. standards and annual testing is conducted to ensure the highest level of quality. We offer:
Advantages of Ready-Mix Concrete
Some advantages of ready-mix concrete are:
· Quality controlled: Ready mix concrete is made to specification and adheres to strict regulations within a mixing plant. You can rest assured that the concrete you are supplied with is consistent and high-quality.
· Environment-friendly: Due to more efficient mixing methods, cement and waste production are kept to a minimum. Ready-mix concrete also reduces dust pollution, as bulk cement is used rather than bagged.
· Versatile: Each order of ready-mix concrete is different and specifically tailored to suit each client’s individual requirements.
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Background. Results of previous research examining long-term residual effects of marijuana use on cognition are conflicting. A major methodological limitation of prior studies is the inability to determine whether differences between users and non-users are due to differences in genetic vulnerability preceding drug use or due to the effects of the drug.
Method. Fifty-four monozygotic male twin pairs, discordant for regular marijuana use in which neither twin used any other illicit drug regularly, were recruited from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry. A minimum of 1 year had passed since the marijuana-using twins had last used the drug, and a mean of almost 20 years had passed since the last time marijuana had been used regularly. Twins were administered a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery to assess general intelligence, executive functioning, attention, memory and motor skills. Differences in performance between marijuana-using twins and their non-using co-twins were compared using a multivariate analysis of specific cognitive domains and univariate analyses of individual test scores. Dose–response relationships were explored within the marijuana-using group.
Results. Marijuana-using twins significantly differed from their non-using co-twins on the general intelligence domain; however, within that domain only the performance of the block design subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Revised reached a level of statistical significance.
Conclusions. Out of the numerous measures that were administered, only one significant difference was noted between marijuana-using twins and their non-using co-twins on cognitive functioning. The results indicate an absence of marked long-term residual effects of marijuana use on cognitive abilities.
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Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council is one step closer to becoming the first local government to build a utility-scale solar farm, after lodging a development application to transform 24 hectares of a former sugar plantation near Coolum into a 15MW solar farm.
As reported here in July last year, the proposed Valdora Solar Farm would be one of Australia’s largest, generating enough power to meet at least half the council’s electricity needs for the next 30 years, and slashing its energy costs.
In a statement after this week’s lodgement of the Material Change of Use (MCU) development application, Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson said every Sunshine Coast ratepayer would benefit from the certainty the project provided.
“This project will see us proactively take control of our electricity supply while reducing our carbon emissions from electricity consumption to zero, contributing to Council’s goal to become carbon neutral by 2020,” he said.
“We will be the first council to build a solar farm at utility scale in Australia and our residents can be very proud of the impact this will have as we strive to become Australia’s most sustainable region.”
The solar farm is part of the Sunshine Coast Council’s Energy Transition Plan, which specifies the facilitation of large-scale clean energy production and solar power stations as a key action.
In July this year, the Council made a submission to the Renewable Energy Target Review, arguing that removing the RET would likely threaten early large-scale solar projects, such as its own, that would ultimately deliver savings to councils and communities without the need for assistance.
“By maintaining the RET and remaining committed to the program, scope exists for a significant roll out of utility-scale solar by local governments across Australia,” the Sunshine Coast Council’s submission said.
“By doing so, we expect to reach a point where the solar efficiencies delivered allow for projects that are viable in the commercial arena, allowing the more widespread deployment of solar commercially at a cost lower than the current electricity price and without the need for external assistance.
“This scenario would see renewables deliver a real cost saving to all Australians as this would naturally reduce electricity pricing.”
Sunshine Coast residents are already onto this idea, having installed a combined total of 95MW of PV on domestic and commercial rooftops – 15MW of which was installed over the past 12 months alone.
The Valdora land earmarked for the solar farm is already zoned for a renewable energy facility, but the current MCU takes into account significant changes in the solar industry and includes much greater detail.
Mayor Jamieson said the new development application benefited from a body of work completed since 2013, including business case reviews by an investment bank and business advisory firm; an Energex feasibility study which indicated grid connection could occur and that the facility’s generating capacity could be increased to 15MW; and significant additional information about the project’s financial and logistical feasibility.
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We offer to youth different entrepreneurship programs to lead social change in their communities.
Kickstart Bootcamp is an opportunity to introduce participants to Entrepreneurship and design and guide them to create innovative ideas to solve social problems in their communities.
During 3 days full of insights and creativity, we guide the participants step-by-step in a practical creative process that takes them from identifying the causes of social problems to creating wild and innovative ideas to building their first prototypes and sharing them with the world deploying their public speaking skills. Furthermore, the Kickstart Bootcamp helps the participants acquire a strong personality by practicing and improving various of soft skills.
Key learnings: Teamwork, Self-confidence, Self-esteem, Public speaking
Youth Hub Club
Youth Hub Club offers the tools and the guidness to participants to take their ideas to the next level and pass the ultimate test: The real market test!
Youth Hub Club is 32-session program that aims to support participants in their quest to lead social change in their communities by deepening their knowledge about social entrepreneurship and mentoring them to test their ideas with their potential target. Also, Youth Hub Club assists the participants in the development of a wide range of soft skills helping them in reinforcing their personalities.
Key Learnings: Problem solving, Critical thinking, Research, Key concepts in entrepreneurship, Project management, Emotional intelligence, Leadership
Field Trips immerse the participants en the entrepreneurship world because learning about it and how to change the world in our workspace is never enough.
Field Trips presents great learning experiences for our participants: It allows them to visit the most promising startups and incubators, meet amazing entrepreneurs and have fun with their peers while learning from others’ experiences.
Key Learnings: Networking, Critical thinking, Key concepts in entrepreneurship, Leadership.
Youth Hub programs go far beyond teaching kids entrepreneurship and design and take an effective role in developing their abilities, capacities and skills. This is not just an assumption or a fairy tale story but it is backed with quantitive and qualitative data that demonstrate our impact on kids’ personalities and performances.
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Anxiety is such a big issue and our generation is suffering more than any before. Some of us are experiencing anxiety every now and then, others are experiencing it every day.
I am lucky enough to be able to say that anxiety is not a part of my daily routine. In fact, I hadn’t had a real panic attack for a while. My panic attacks started when I was 19 or 20, and lasted about 1,5 years. I thought I’d gotten rid of them. I changed my life, added a lot of happiness, felt way better about everything, and didn’t have that crippling anxiety anymore.
Until I was 25. I let my life slip out of my hands, and the negativity started piling up. This led to me crying for 4 days, having 3 panic attacks in 2 days and being inexplicably exhausted for the last week. I felt terrible and decided it was time for a change. I want to share my tips on how to manage your anxiety like I did mine.
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Tips to manage your anxiety
To me, music is always a good idea. Music is my therapy and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Figure out how music can be most beneficial to you.
Maybe you like to turn it up real loud and get all of your frustration out. Maybe you need to listen to one sad song to feel better. Maybe an instrumental or acoustic song calms you down. Maybe it helps to pick a song and follow one single instrument throughout the whole song.
When you’re calm, make sure you listen to happy, positive songs.
Have you been nourishing your body? My new mantra is; Is this helping or hurting me?
Think about what you’ve eaten in the past 24 hours. Have you already eaten anything today? And were these things helpful or hurtful to your body?
Try to get some food with sugar and vitamins. Fruit is always a good idea. The sugar helps your energy level, and the vitamins are just there cause you need them.
You also know it’s important to drink water, but it’s so easy to forget. Are you properly hydrated? Take a look at the past day and see if there is anything that could be improved immediately.
Take a shower. Get into a hot bath. Brush your teeth. Wash your face. Drown yourself in body lotion/butter/oil. Pamper yourself. Do your nails. Wax your legs.
Basically, take care of your body.
You can also check my suggestions for the perfect self-care day here.
4. Get moving
To continue on the body-trail, get your body moving! Break a sweat, go for a walk, get your blood flowing and get distracted.
A run might be the perfect way to throw off any frustration, anger or even sadness.
A good workout can make you feel stronger and empowered.
Anatomically, it gets more oxygen to your brain which can help you think, but it will also stimulate endorphin production, and legally blonde taught us all that endorphins make us happy.
A good work-out can definitely be one of the most instant fixes to manage your anxiety!
5. Get outside
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t feel better after a little outing in nature.
Whether this is the beach, a big field of grass, a flower garden or a forest, nature is good for the mind.
The quiet of nature can counterbalance the busyness and stress of our everyday lives, lead to a lower risk of depression and stress-related illnesses.
Spending time in nature can also increase our satisfaction with life, and make us happier in general.
6. Focus on one thing
Manage your anxiety by focusing on one thing, and one thing exclusively.
As an exception, you can allow yourself to have some instrumental music playing softly in the background, but ideally, you’d focus on one thing.
This is about being mindful, present, and giving your brain a break.
For me, this always used to be painting my nails. Whenever I’d be restless, annoyed, frustrated and didn’t know what to do with myself, I’d paint my nails.
The precision needed made my brain focus on that small task, and without fail made me feel calmer afterwards.
Find your activity, or activities, and focus on them.
7. Write it down
When your brain feels like a contained tornado, grab a pen and paper and write it all down. You can write it as a story, a to-do list or anything else, but write it down.
Often this calms our brain because it realizes that all the worries are recorded somewhere and will not be forgotten.
It can also be therapeutic when you realize you have something that you have to work through.
Write about it, explore the topic and possible worries in your mind and see if this helps.
8. Talk to someone
Whether it is your mom, your partner or a friend, talking to others can really help manage your anxiety.
They don’t need to come with a solution, however tempted they may be to make you feel better, it’s often more about having someone that listens to you.
You can share your thoughts, your worries, sadness and frustration and they will listen and let you speak.
Find your person.
9. Take a digital break
As I said before, some of our generation’s anxiety is our own fault. We get so caught up in the social pressure of having to look perfect for instagram, and everyone sharing their perfect lives online.
One step is to realize these are only the highlights of their lives, and they too have bad days.
Second is to realize that whatever they have, means it is also open to you. Instead of jealousy, use it as motivation.
Third is to just turn it off for a day or two. Focus on your life instead of theirs and see how you feel.
You can read more on how less social media makes you a happier person right here.
Wow, those are quite a lot of tips on how to manage your anxiety, right?
Mental health is still so underestimated and overlooked.
Never think your mental health is not important or you don’t deserve to feel happy.
If you feel down, go through the list or reach out to someone.
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(Phoenix, AZ) Attorney General Terry Goddard today advised Arizona residents to beware of a variety of cyber scams called "phishing" and "pharming."
"ID thieves are becoming more sophisticated in their schemes," Goddard said. "It is important for Arizonans to understand these scams and protect themselves when using the Internet."
Phishing - What is it and how does it work?
"Phishing" refers to the practice of sending unsolicited e-mails to individuals for the purpose of identity theft.
"Phishing" utilizes an official-looking e-mail, pretending to be from a bank, financial institution, or other commercial business, warning that your account was either "compromised," that existing account information needs to be "updated," or that you password has been changed.
The email will have a tone of urgency for a response and the consumer will be told to:
- Reply directly with personal information (such as name, credit card numbers, passwords or PIN numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers);
- Click onto an Internet link that opens a look-alike website that asks you to type in the information and hit enter; or
- Call a bogus phone number that uses a recording or a live "customer representative" to dupe you into handing over your information.
Until recently, phishing e-mails have largely targeted individual consumers. New methods are now targeting businesses and their employees as well. Scammers will obtain an employee's e-mail address and send the employee an e-mail pretending to be from the company's computer network administrator or human resources department. The employee is asked to reply with personnel information or user logins and passwords, or is directed to click a link into a look-alike phony Internet website.
How can I protect myself?
- Be suspicious! Remember that no legitimate business will ever ask you to relay your personal information in such a manner.
- Never reply or click on provided links, and don't use any contact phone numbers provided in the e-mail. Never log in or enter private information in a pop-up window.
- Do not use the unsubscribe feature of an email because scammers use this feature to verify your email address is valid, active, and that the person reading it may be unaware that it is actually an attempt at identity theft.
- File a complaint with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center). The complaint can be registered at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx.
If you have any questions or concerns over the status of your real financial account or employment personnel information, call the company directly by using a telephone number from a reliable source (phone book or directory assistance, monthly statement, etc.).
Pharming - What is it and how does it work?
"Pharming" involves technology that redirects an Internet user unknowingly to a counterfeit website, and is rarely used because it requires planting software in the user's own computer or on a server that directs traffic to the Internet. This technique works one of two ways:
- By downloading a file on an individual's personal computer that modifies the Internet browser's address bar, leading a unknowing user to type in what is desired as a "valid" address ("URL"), when in fact they are being redirected to the criminals' Web sites;
- By covertly modifying a DNS server (a system that translates domain names into IP addresses) in such a way that everyone who uses that server and types in what seems like a valid URL will instead be taken to the criminal's website site.
"Pharming" is all about access. In order for this to work, a scammer needs to have actual or remote access to a target personal computer or server in order to install their program. This can also be accomplished if a victim inadvertently opens an e-mail attachment that contains a virus known as a "Trojan Horse."
How can I protect myself?
- Be suspicious!
- Never open an unsolicited or unexpected e-mail attachment from someone that you don't know. Even if it comes from someone you know and trust, make sure that the sender actually meant to send it to you. Even then, scan it with up-to-date anti-virus software before opening it.
- Install, use and update effective anti-virus software. Know how to use it and its limitations.
Some software companies offer free anti-virus software. Research the company and the software offered to ensure it will work on your computer.
- Check with your operating system company (Microsoft, MacIntosh/Apple) to determine if they offer free anti-virus and firewall protection.
- Apply system updates and security-related patches to your PC from a trusted source as they become available. If you use Microsoft products, you can find more information at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/default.aspx.
- For Apple and Mac download products, you can go to http://www.apple.com/downloads/.
- Don't leave your computer unattended for any period of time without logging off. Someone who is alone with your computer can run programs in such a way that software protections on your computer will not be able to prevent it.
Preserve your privacy:
- Never use the "unsubscribe" feature in spam emails or reply to any spam e-mails. All you do is confirm the validity of your email address.
- Keep your login and password information secret. Also, never select any option on web browsers to store or automatically remember your user names, passwords, or other sensitive information.
- Never disclose your personal, financial, or credit card information on any public or multiple-use computer.
If you believe that you may have been a victim of any Internet fraud, you may post a complaint with the anti-phishing group called Digital PhishNet, a joint enforcement effort between private industry and law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The complaint can be registered at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx.
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Abdominal Pain In The Lower Part And Enlarged?
, my lower abdomen aches and enlarges. And I have stopped for 13 months with my age being 36 years old. And when I sleep, my whole body feels like pins and needles. What is that?
Hello Rina, thank you for asking at HealthReplies.com.
Reading your complaint, the complaint can be caused by several possible conditions such as:
Increased body fat Ovarian cysts Myoma Tumors in the abdominal cavity Urinary tract infections Urinary tract stones Because your complaint is felt to be long enough, it is recommended to check the complaint further to the doctor, but this interim examination is only recommended if complaints of pain are felt to be very severe or appear other complaints such as fever, vaginal discharge is quite a lot, urinating disorders or bowel obstruction.
While this is at home, there are a number of things you can try to do to reduce complaints such as:
Exercise regularly for at least 30 minutes a day Increase your intake of vegetables and fruit, and keep your daily food intake nutritionally adequate and balanced Limit your consumption of foods high in fat or salt Maintain your ideal body weight Avoid stress Stress Get adequate rest Keep your intake of drinks at least 2 liters a day Avoiding urinary retention habits Improving the cleanliness of the female area You can also try taking pain relievers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen and vitamins that are sold freely according to the dosage of complaints only if complaints of pain are felt to be sufficiently disturbing your activity or rest May help. | <urn:uuid:d5eb0a0c-cfb1-4634-bfbc-dd6fc7afcffa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthreplies.com/question/abdominal-pain-in-the-lower-part-and-enlarged/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.937184 | 332 | 1.625 | 2 |
User transfers from wheelchair to floor (video)
The user sits forward in the wheelchair to move past the side guard. He places his feet on the floor in front of the foot bar. He moves one hand down along the frame tube and supports himself with a fist on the floor. With the other hand he supports himself on the wheelchair cushion next to his hip. He then carefully lifts himself down to the floor. | <urn:uuid:39329054-bbb4-4e21-abfd-91ed401ecb58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spinalistips.se/en/tip-transfer-from-wheelchair-to-floor-687 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.98187 | 83 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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Publication Date: 1990
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Business/Marketing Education. Business Analysis/Business Computer Applications.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Occupational Education Programs.
This document contains 12 modules: 4 on business analysis and 8 on business computer applications. The business analysis modules are as follows: (1) the framework of business; (2) universal activities of business; (3) selected business subsystems; and (4) your place in business. Computer applications modules are on the following topics: (1) business operations overview; (2) computer systems and applications; (3) business word processing applications; (4) business database applications; (5) business spreadsheet applications; (6) business graphics applications; (7) interrelated applications; and (8) the computer, society, and the individual. Each module includes the number of weeks and hours required, key concepts, content outline, performance objectives/supporting competencies, and suggested instructional strategies. A glossary is also provided. (NLA)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
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Gay couples legally married in other states and countries will be recognized in New Mexico, the state’s attorney general said in a legal opinion issued Tuesday.
"A comprehensive legal analysis by my office concludes that valid same-sex marriages in other states would likely be valid in New Mexico," Attorney General Gary King (pictured) said.
Despite his opinion, King said he cannot predict “how a New Mexico court would rule on this issue.”
A spokesperson for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez issued a statement saying, "Gov. Martinez made it clear during the campaign that she opposes same-sex marriage. It's important to note that no New Mexico court has ruled on this issue."
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Lesson 4 of 14
Objective: SWBAT use fundamental trigonometric identities to prove other identities.
Here are the slides for today's lesson. If you use SMART notebook, I have attached the notebook file as well.
As students enter I put the 3 homework problems on the board (Slide 1). Once we settle I have different students share their solutions with the class.
I ask the following questions:
- Do you have any questions about the process?
- Can you explain the second, third, etc. step to me?
- Did anyone do the problem a different way?
As we look at the work students begin seeing different ways to do the problems. Page 2 and 3 of the student work show other ways the students worked the first problem. For the students, having classmates demonstrate different methods will help them increase their understanding. If one method is confusing another one may be more clear to them.
We have looked at several identities that I consider fundamental or basic identities. The students have been using these to simplify expressions. I now ask the class "Wouldn't it be nice to know what you want the answer to look like when you simplify?"
Students are usually thrilled to know the answer. I usually make a comment like If you know the beginning and the end of a problem what do you think you will need to do? Students are generally quick to say, "fill in the middle."
Now, I give the students an identity to solve. I ask, "Which side looks more complicated?" I will then tell the class to start with the complicated side (in this case the left side) and try to make it become the other side. Try not to do anything with the right side in this case. That is the traditional method of verifying an identity.
I give the students a minute to discuss what we might do with this problem with the students in their group. After the quick discussion I will ask students questions like these:
- Why did you use sin x/tan x instead of 1/cot x?
- Why did you decide to work with that side first?
On the third slide a student decided to use the inverse property for tangent. The student became stuck. I had the student show his work and I then ask the class to explain what he could do to finish. In this case the student got to cos x/cot x. The students told him to use the identity that cot x=cos x/sin x. We put the remainder of the problem on the board for everyone to see.
This video shows a student demonstrating his reasoning for the example.
I give the student another example. Students work with their groups to try and verify the identity.
This time I have the students try the problem in their groups. As the students work I move around the room and answer questions or quiz students on errors. I may ask why did you put that statement down. Where did you get this step. After a 2-3 minutes I have a student share their process. If students have done this in different ways we will put the different processes up and discuss whether the processes work.
On the first slide a student got stuck so the class worked to help the student. Some students immediately knew that 1-cos^2 x=sin^2 x. The student that volunteered decided to replace 1 then combine like terms. For students that have recognized how to rearrange the Pythagorean identities this method is what they will do. We discuss how it is the same as just finishing by replacing 1=cos^2 x with sin ^2 x.
I wanted to show students how they can also solve this by adding fractions. Slide 2 gives students this process. As you can see I had to remind students how to add fractions with numbers because the trigonometric functions confused them. I reminded students that we will be doing a lot of algebraic methods during this unit.
For this day we only did 3 examples. I had more ready but the students spent a lot of time analyzing work and asking questions about students reasoning.
With a few minutes left in class give the students three problems from Larson's Precalculus with Limits (page 385, problems 10,11,12). I allow students a few minutes to discuss the work with others. I have chosen problems that I expect all students can do on their own. These three problems do not require many algebra techniques, which is where most students struggle. As we continue adding new identities we will move to more complex identities to verify. | <urn:uuid:c8d65973-74e0-4fd9-80fb-3a91ac72da70> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://betterlesson.com/lesson/resource/2719512/bell-work-identities-213-pdf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00107-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962689 | 925 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Kardium announced that it received CE Mark approval in Europe for its Globe mapping and ablation system for treating atrial fibrillation (AF).
Vancouver, B.C.-based Kardium’s spherical Globe catheter is comprised of 122 electrodes to provide electrophysiologists with single-shot pulmonary vein isolation, high-definition mapping and atrial ablation, according to a news release.
Approval in Europe came off the back of positive results from the company’s Global-AF multi-center study that demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of the Globe system.
“This is an important milestone both for Kardium and the global AF community,” Kardium CEO Kevin Chaplin said in the release. “The Globe system can now be used by electrophysiologists (EPs) across Europe to safely and effectively treat patients with AF. We have a sales and support team in place and are now launching the Globe system for clinical use in Europe.”
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1. Yes, they are. Cf. National Socialism.
2. The United States is not trying to defeat the Islamic State, or the global jihad in general, with “a more attractive and more compelling vision.” Instead, we supervised the installations of constitutions that enshrined Sharia as the highest law of the land in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Imposing Sharia is the goal of all jihad groups, including the Islamic State. The United States has never stood in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else, for the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, equality of rights for women, etc. — all of which are denied in Sharia. In other words, we didn’t counter their ideas with a more attractive and compelling vision. We didn’t counter them at all, and still aren’t doing so, because to do so would be considered “Islamophobic.”
And how is he going to counter their ideology when he won’t even acknowledge what it is?
3. “Our efforts to counter violent extremism must not target any one community because of their faith or background.” If he is referring to attacks on innocent Muslims, of course, no innocent Muslims should suffer any harm or injustice. He seems to be saying more than that. The idea that it is wrong to fight Islamic jihad by paying attention to Muslim communities more than Baptist or Jewish or Hindu or Amish communities is absurd. Islamic jihad is committed by Muslims. Obama won’t even call it Islamic jihad or admit that it is a specifically Muslim phenomenon, and insofar as he diverts any resources to tracking “right-wing extremism” on the basis of bogus studies, he makes us all less safe.
“Obama’s War Speech: ‘Ideologies Are Not Defeated With Guns,’” by Charlie Spiering, Breitbart, July 6, 2015:
At the Pentagon, President Obama delivered an update on his war against Islamic State terrorism, saying that the operation would take time to defeat the terrorist organization.
“This will not be quick, this is a long-term campaign,” he asserted, describing ISIS as “nimble” and infiltrated with civilians across the Middle East.
Obama did not announce any major shifts in his strategy, but reminded reporters that the fight was “not simply a military effort.”
“Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas, a more attractive and more compelling vision,” he said.
Obama warned Americans of the increasing threat of individual acts of terror by lone wolf terrorists, but warned against targeting the region of Islam.
“Our efforts to counter violent extremism must not target any one community because of their faith or background – including patriotic Muslim Americans who are keeping our country safe,” he said.
But he admitted that ISIL was targeting Muslims.
“We also have to acknowledge that ISIL has been particularly effective at reaching out to and recruiting vulnerable people around the world including here in the United States and they are targeting Muslim communities around the world,” he said.
When asked by reporters if he was considering the use of American ground troops to defeat ISIS, he insisted that it was not under consideration.
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With 1 in 10 American men over 50 having symptoms of Peyronie’s disease there has never been a better time to understand the early risks. If you are concerned that you may have this issue it is best to check immediately.
In fact researchers now estimate this number is growing and the chance of developing Peyronie’s disease increases with age.1 Current research suggests that 75 men out of every 100 men suffering from Peyronie’s disease are depressed and stressed so getting on top of this early is strongly recommended.
What Is Peyronie’s Disease?
Peyronie’s disease is a disorder that affects the male sex organ. Its a disorder in which scar tissue, called plaque, forms under the skin of the penis causing pain or bending when erect. The plaque can develop anywhere along the penis and if not treated early in the acute phase it can last up to 18 months.
When Are The Symptoms And When Do They Show?
Peyronie’s Disease is divided into two phases, the acute and chronic phase.
Acute Phase: This is when the plague begins to form and can last up to 18 months according to research. In this phase people report problems like:
– Inflammation may occur on the genitals
– Your penis starts to curve
– Erections may cause pain or discomfort
– Erections may become painful when scars develop
– Difficulties during intercourse
Chronic Phase: After the plaque has formed and solidified the chronic phase begins 12 to 18 months after first symptoms appear. During this phase reported problems include:
– Erectile disfunction may develop
– Pain may lessen
– Plaque forming and curvature may settle and not get worse
The Major Cause Of PD
The major cause of this disease is injuries caused to the genitals, perhaps during intercourse or exercise. The tunica albuginea may be injured, which leads to the formation of scar tissues in the cells, often referred to as fibroids. The fibroids form the plaques responsible for the Peyronie’s disease.
Who Is Likely To Have Peyronie’s Disease?
If you have any of the following you may be at higher risk of this condition:
– Engage in sexual or non sexual activities that cause micro-injuries to the penis
– Have connective tissue or auto immune disorders
– Have a family history of this condition or plague forming conditions
– Aged over 50
– Have Diabetes
– Have Erectile Disfunction Issues
– Have history of prostate cancer or prior treatment for this condition
In fact men with diabetes associated ED have a 4 to 5 times higher chance of developing Peyronie’s disease compared with the general population.2
Diagnosing This Condition
Referrals to a urologist can help to diagnose this condition and a basis from your medical, family and physical examination can be drawn. Imaging or scanning tests are not usually required unless the urologist expects internal damage by the plaque. Some questions you may encounter with your specialist include:
– When did you start feeling symptoms?
– Do you just feel pain during an erection or other times?
– Do you have Erectile disfunction?
– Is there family history of this condition?
– Are you taking any medications?
– Are there any other health conditions I should be aware of?
Peyronie’s Disease and Viagra
A startling warning has been issued towards those using this medication and Peyronies disease. The number of men with Peyronie’s who also have ED (Erectile Disfunction) is quite high, with nearly 80% of men with PD, also reporting some degree of ED. It can be painful and dangerous for men with this condition to take Viagra. The problem is Viagra increases blood flow to the genitals, but it cannot do anything to lessen the scar tissue causing Peyronie’s which can lead to further scarring and pain.
Treating Peyronie’s Disease
It’s very important to understand treating this condition in the acute phase is much easier then the chronic phase. Nonsurgical treatments include injections, oral medicines, and medical therapies. They may be used when Peyronie’s disease is in the acute phase. If natural alternatives is favored Vitamin E can be possibly used under doctors supervision. Various clinical studies have reported some improvements with oral vitamin E as prescribed by a doctor.
If the condition is furthered to the chronic phase surgery is possibly required if the pain is of high discomfort and earlier medications described don’t work. The patient must have been pain-free for a period of 9-12 months for surgery to be done.
Don’t Ignore The Early Warning Signs Act Today
If you expect any of the symptoms of Peyronie’s Disease or have family history of this disorder its important to act early. Catching this condition in the acute phase will make it much easier for medical consultants to treat and correct. Leaving this condition unchecked and developing to the chronic stage can cause pain and curvature that will require surgery. Men over 50 are recommended to check the warning signs today! | <urn:uuid:1de5461e-b023-455d-ade0-2bbe667ce1dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://haveuheard.io/why-men-cant-ignore-the-early-warning-signs-of-peyronies-disease/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.929516 | 1,181 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Some believe that they may be forced to move their plants out of the UK.
This was the warning from Simon Stannard, EU & International Affairs Director of the Wine & Spirits Trade Association, speaking to the Commons International Trade Select Committee recently.
Some 850 million litres of wine are imported into the UK each year worth some £11 billion, where bottling wine in bulk and re-exporting it is a huge undertaking.
Wine is currently the UK’s fastest-growing export having risen in value by 177% in the last four years according to figures from the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department of International Trade.
Much of the imported wine is reshipped back to the EU and markets further afield, particularly to the Far East – countries like China, Singapore and Hong Kong.
The UK houses a number of bulk wine bottling operations including Europe’s largest wine warehouse and distribution centre in Europe at Accolade Park which has the capacity to bottle one million bottles a day and which employs 500.
Figures from the UK’s Food and Drink Federation show a 10.2% increase to £456.1 million in the value of the UK’s wine ‘exports’ from January to October 2018 and they show a 21.9% increase in volume and a 10.2% increase in value in Q3 compared with Q3 in 2017.
How Brexit will affect this business continues to exercise the minds of all involved.
“If we move to a post-Brexit situation, if we have to cross a customs border, it’s more the bureaucracy – the cost of actually administering the scheme,“ Simon Stannard told the Committee.
Whether or not the wine suppliers may feel forced to move their bottling plants from the UK remains to be seen, he told MPs.
Bulk wine bottled in the UK is then shipped back out to Europe, Norway, the Ukraine and Russia.
Such bottling operations make a ”significant contribution” to UK jobs and its economy.
A no-deal Brexit would make this more complicated, he stated, primarily as a result of the added bureaucracy and tariffs in exporting wine back into the EU, once the UK was no longer a member.
“At the moment there’s a tariff on bulk wine coming into the EU that’s lower than bottled wine but once it’s in the EU, it can freely circulate,” he pointed out, but post parting the EU, tariffs would revert to those imposed by the World Trade Organisation. | <urn:uuid:f5e01380-68b2-48d1-a22d-5e5938fc76e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drinksindustryireland.ie/uk-might-lose-wine-hub-status-post-brexit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.940736 | 537 | 2.125 | 2 |
Oral Implications of Cigarettes and Cigar Use/Abuse
Black Hairy Tongue: Elongated; black, brown, yellow or white papillae form in response to the solid and gaseous wastes of tobacco being trapped on the tongue’s surface. Slowed cell sloughing adds to this syndrome. Food and bacteria may be trapped in the papillae and cause halitosis.
Stain & Calculus: While saliva flow is generally reduced in chronic smokers, the act of smoking stimulates serous saliva flow. This can increase calculus production. Stain is generally present. The combination of stain and calculus may compromise the periodontal health of most smokers.
Gingival and Periodontal Diseases: Conditions such as necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (NUG) is prevalent in smokers. Scientific evidence clearly shows smokers have more severe periodontal diseases than do non-smokers. Continued smoking is likely to compromise the success of periodontal therapy. More refractory periodontal patients are smokers (90%) when compared to the general population (25%).
In 2017, the American Academy of Periodontology introduced their new staging and grading system to guide comprehensive treatment planning and allow for a personalized approach to patient care (Figure 3). The grading system takes into consideration the smoking status and number of cigarette’s the patient utilizes daily.
Figure 3. Staging and Grading Periodontitis.
Additional Oral Changes: Smokers may also experience candidiasis, nicotine stomatitis, smoker’s keratosis, pigmentation changes, and xerostomia (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Nicotine Stomatitis.
Image source: doctorspiller.com
Root Canals: 28-year study showed cigarette smokers are 70% more likely to need root canal therapy than non-smokers. Smoking impairs the body's response to infection, exacerbates bone loss throughout the skeleton, induces a chronic systemic inflammatory response, and causes vascular problems. Any of these pathways can potentially affect the health of the tooth pulp and surrounding bone tissue.25
Sinusitis: The incidence of acute or chronic inflammation of the nasal lining of both the maxillary and frontal sinuses occurs 75% more often among smokers than non-smokers. This is attributed to the chemical compounds in the tobacco.
Ability to Heal: Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor and reduces blood flow to the tissues, causing delayed wound healing, especially in the mouth where smoke lingers. Dry sockets are four times more prevalent among smokers. Typically, dry sockets occur when the addicted smoker returns to their habit too soon after an oral surgery, disrupting the delicate clot in a postoperative extraction socket.
Leukoplakia: A precancerous lesion of the oral soft tissue that consists of a white patch or plaque that cannot be scraped off (Figure 5). It is often associated with tobacco use. It can persist in an area with no pain or irritation. These areas can develop into more serious lesions and should be examined carefully during a meticulous oral evaluation. Some leukoplakia will regress if tobacco use is discontinued.
Figure 5. Leukoplakia Under Tongue.
Image source: doctorspiller.com
Squamous Cell Carcinoma: This is the most common oral cancer linked to cigarette smokers and can occur anywhere in the mouth. It is most commonly found on the lateral borders of the tongue, the ventral surface of the tongue or floor of the mouth. Squamous cell carcinoma has a favorable prognosis if it is detected within two years of onset. If not detected early, approximately 50% will die as a direct result of the cancer or complications (Figure 6).
Figure 6. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Tongue.
Image source: www.brown.edu
Other Cancers: Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ in the body. It has been conclusively linked to cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, lung, stomach, pancreas, cervix, kidney, and bladder, as well as acute myeloid leukemia. Tobacco-related cancers account for about one-third of all cancer deaths. The overall rates of death from cancer are twice as high among smokers as non-smokers, with heavy smokers having rates that are four times greater than those of non-smokers. Foremost among the cancers caused by tobacco use is lung cancer. Cigarette smoking has been linked to about 90% of all cases of lung cancer, the number one cause of cancer deaths among both men and women. | <urn:uuid:60588a82-1b55-41ce-9387-19026c1f1b0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dentalcare.com/en-us/ce-courses/ce545/oral-implications-of-cigarettes-and-cigar-use-abuse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.905821 | 951 | 2.9375 | 3 |
“Convert your iPhone to a rugged helmet camera.” We’ve heard this before. But this week, announced at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, G-Form has unveiled a product that’s different.
The company touts its G90 case will “truly allow smartphones to replace sports action cameras” like the GoPro.
This is accomplished with a special lens that allows smartphones or the iPod touch to take images at a 90-degree angle. The lens changes the way you can mount an iPhone or similar device so that it can now sit flat on the side of a helmet, bike handlebars, a kayak hull, or anywhere else.
The hard plastic case is waterproof and has a “skeletal back” to protect a phone inside.
“Low-profile, aerodynamic and sleek” are words the company uses to describe the case. It changes the lens direction and also widens the field of view to capture 140 degrees of a scene.
Said an R&D director from the brand, “Many people have tried to use smartphones or iPods as sports cameras with cases and mounting systems, and it just doesn’t work due to the awkward, non-aerodynamic shape of the devices in normal video orientation and the narrow field of view.”
He continued, “The G90 case literally transforms a smartphone or iPod into a true sports action camera.”
The case will be available in June for a variety of devices, including the Samsung S4, Apple iPhone 5, iPod touch, and more. Price is $TBA. | <urn:uuid:8eb465d0-ff46-464f-945d-1f68898ff9c7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://gearjunkie.com/g-form-iphone-camera-case | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00542-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909202 | 336 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Police in UK, and Scotland, mainly want to know, who shot the Policewoman, near the Libyan Embassy in late Eighties of last Century, that, this crime took place thirty two years ago and over. Another crime, the bombing of the American passenger's plane over Lockerby in Scotland, that caused the death of 270, innocent people most of them Americans, and that, took place almost thirty two years as well.
Countries that, respect their people and protect them, and the people that, respect their country and its LAW, does not make any difference, of how much time passed about the crimes that took place, against these people, because the Law and JUSTICE do not fade away by time, like in our Dictators Methods.
There is NOWAY OUT, for those committed crimes to their own people or Innocents, any where in the world. The only way is IN, to Justice, and NEVER OUT. | <urn:uuid:6391b5d7-4a4b-4089-8a95-dda2775ec521> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://khaled-stormydemocracy.blogspot.com/2011/04/the-truth-does-not-fade-away-by-time.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983467 | 194 | 1.53125 | 2 |
April 19, 1805
Friday April 19th 1805.
The wind blew So hard this morning from N. W. that we dared not to venture our canoes on the river.— Observed considerable quantities of dwarf Juniper on the hillsides (see specimen No. 4) it seldom rises higher then 3 feet.— the wind detained us through the couse of this day, tho we were fortunate in having placed ourselves in a safe harbour. the party killed one Elk and a beaver today. The beaver of this part of the Missouri are larger, fatter, more abundant and better clad with fur than those of any other part of the country that I have yet seen; I have remarked also that their fur is much darker.
19th of April Friday 1805
a blustering windey day the wind So hard from the N, W. that we were fearfull of ventering our Canoes in the river, lay by all day on the S. Side in a good harber, the Praries appear to green, the cotton trees bigin to leave, Saw some plumb bushes in full bloom, those were the plumb bushes which I have Seen for Some time. Killed an Elk an a Beaver to day— The beaver of this river is much larger than usial, Great deal of Sign of the large Bear, | <urn:uuid:2bd1d666-2398-4d74-988d-3cf92fefba92> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/lewis-clark-journal/day341.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970737 | 275 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Would you need surgery for a sprained ankle?
Ankle sprains range from mild to severe and in most cases do not require surgery. Sprains of the midfoot — called a Lisfranc injury — can often be treated successfully with non-surgical techniques as well. But in more serious cases, ligament repair surgery may be recommended.
Do Grade 3 ankle sprains need surgery?
A Grade 3 sprain can be associated with permanent instability. Surgery is rarely needed. A short leg cast or a cast-brace may be used for two weeks to three weeks. Rehabilitation is used to help to decrease pain and swelling and to prevent chronic ankle problems.
Is it OK to walk on a sprained ankle?
Do not walk on a sprained ankle. The inflamed tissue needs time to heal, and walking on it too soon may cause more damage. Ankle sprains are common musculoskeletal injuries that can occur from playing sports or from everyday activities.
How long should you stay off a sprained ankle?
Mild sprains typically begin to feel better in a few days to a week and heal by six weeks. More severe ankle sprains could take more than a few weeks or months to fully recover. Severe sprains may cause excruciating pain, crutches may be needed. A return to regular activities may be delayed for weeks or months.
What will a doctor do for a sprained ankle?
Depending on the severity of the sprain, your doctor may recommend an elastic bandage, sports tape or an ankle support brace to stabilize the ankle. In the case of a severe sprain, a cast or walking boot may be necessary to immobilize the ankle while it heals.
What happens if a sprain is left untreated?
If they’re left untreated, sprains will often cause the ankle to become unstable, which can lead to chronic pain, swelling, instability and, ultimately, arthritis. Don’t delay treatment. Sprains should be immobilized quickly, with the ankle ligaments in a stable position.
Can you walk on a Grade 2 ankle sprain?
Since the ankle is still stable, patients can walk soon after injury. Grade 2: A grade 2 sprain is a moderate sprain. With limited movement and ankle instability, there is often a longer rest period before clearance to walk. Patients suffering from a grade 2 strain often have minor ligament tears. | <urn:uuid:5b4a2163-fbef-453b-b738-a96be9620ea9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roboticsurgerytoday.com/our-body/best-answer-when-does-a-sprain-need-surgery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.938662 | 500 | 2.421875 | 2 |
If an optional number is given, then only that AMAL routine will be activated. Similarly, AMAL OFF stops all AMAL programs from executing, by erasing them from memory. They can only be re-activated by using the AMAL command again. By specifying an individual AMAL program number, only that program is stopped.
instruction: suspend AMAL programs
Amal Freeze number
Use this command to temporarily freeze one or all AMAL programs from running. These programs may be started again at any time with an AMAL ON command. Please note that AMAL FREEZE should be used to suspend AMAL before a command such as DIR is executed, otherwise timing problems may happen.
reserved variable: give value of AMAL register
The AMREG function allows you to gain access to the contents of internal and external AMAL registers, from inside your AMOS Professional program. An AMAL register number must be specified, ranging from 0 to 25, with zero representing external register RA, up to 25 representing register RZ. An optional channel parameter can be given, where a specified number from 0 to 9 is used to represent the AMAL internal registers from RU to R9.
The following example demonstrates how the position of an AMAL Sprite can be returned:
E> Load "AMOSPro_Tutorial:Objects/Sprites.abk" : Get Sprite Palette Channel 1 To Sprite 8 : Sprite 8,100,100,1 A$="Loop : Let RX=X+1 Let X=RX ; Pause ; Jump Loop" Amal 1,A$ : Amal On : Curs Off Do Locate 0,0 Z=Asc("X")-65 Print Amreg(Asc("X")-65) : Rem Use Asc to get register number Loop
instruction: control animation produced by PLay
Amplay speed, direction
Amplay speed,direction start To end
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Where did the Cebuano language come from?
Cebuano originates from the island of Cebu. The language “has spread from its base in Cebu” to nearby islands and also Bohol, eastern Negros, western and southern parts of Leyte and most parts of Mindanao, especially the northern, southern, and eastern parts of the large island.
What is Cebuano known for?
Now commonly known as Bisaya, Cebuano is the lingua franca of the Visayas and Mindanao. While other languages and dialects are also spoken, Cebuano is mutually intelligible and understood by the majority in these areas. Cebuanos are famous for their guitars, baskets, hats, and mats of all types.
Is Bisaya a native language?
Over 30 languages constitute the Bisayan language family. The Bisayan language with the most speakers is Cebuano, spoken by 20 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, parts of Eastern Visayas, and most of Mindanao.
Is Bisaya the first language in the Philippines?
It is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian group of languages within the Austronesian language family. It is estimated that there are 15.8 million people in the Philippines who speak Cebuano as their first language. (Ethnologue). It is the second most spoken language in the Philippines after Tagalog.
Is Waray a Bisaya?
The Waray people (or the Waray-Waray people) are a subgroup of the larger ethnolingustic group Bisaya people, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the country.
Is Bicolano a Bisaya?
Bisakol (portmanteau of Bisaya and Bikol) is an informal term for the three Bisayan languages spoken in the Bicol Region. It retains Bicolano influence from its inclusion in the Bicol Region, both politically and geographically. …
Is Waray and Bisaya the same?
The Philippines is one country blessed with diverse people, different cultures and consequently, numerous distinct languages. Among these languages are the Bisaya (Cebuano) and the Waray (Leyte-Samar), two of the prominent languages in the isles of the Visayas.
Are Cebuanos friendly?
1. Cebuanos are the friendliest, smilingest most fun-loving people in the Philippines. Wherever you go, you won’t see a glum face among the denizens of the island. Cebuanos are inherently musical, which is why the guitar-making industry in Mactan is famous.
What are the three 3 major Visayan languages?
The densely populated Visayan island group constitutes an ethnolinguistic region defined by the dominance of the three major Visayan languages: Cebuano (which is the mother tongue of about one-fifth of the Philippines’ population), Hiligaynon, and Waray-Waray.
What is I love you in Waray?
I love you: Hinihigugma ko ikaw or Ginhihigugma ko ikaw or Pina-ura ta ikaw.
What is beautiful in Waray?
I dont speak Waray but Mahusay is the Waray term for beautiful/pretty.
Is Sorsogon a Bisaya?
Despite its name, Masbate Sorsogon is closer to Waray than to Masbatenyo, but this coast of Sorsogon Bay where Masbate Sorsogon is spoken has had a lot of contact with Masbate Island….References.
What does the name Cebuano mean?
Cebuano is the lingua franca of the Central Visayas, western parts of Eastern Visayas, some western parts of Palawan and most parts of Mindanao. The name Cebuano is derived from the island of Cebu, which is the original locus of the language.
What are the beliefs of Cebuano?
One of the commonly known superstitious beliefs among Cebuanos is the association of butterflies to the spirit of the dead. It is believed that if a butterfly lingers around you, the spirit of a family member or relative is visiting you – or a relative has just died.
What is this in Cebuano?
Cebuano, also known as Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan, is the major language of Visayan islands ( Negros Oriental, Cebu, Bohol), and parts of Mindanao in the Philippines. The name comes from the name of the Philippine island of Cebu + the Spanish suffix – ano meaning ‘native of’ . | <urn:uuid:26ec73b9-31a7-441d-9fa9-0d5c67d7c284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://diaridelsestudiants.com/where-did-the-cebuano-language-come-from/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.903781 | 1,054 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Use the following procedure when a user forgets her password.
Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Start the Solaris Management Console.
# /usr/sadm/bin/smc &
For more information on starting the Solaris Management Console, see How to Start the Console as Superuser or as a Role or How to Start the Solaris Management Console in a Name Service Environment.
Click the This Computer icon under the Management Tools icon in the Navigation pane.
A list of categories is displayed.
(Optional) Select the appropriate toolbox for your name service environment.
Click the System Configuration icon.
Click the User icon.
Provide the superuser password or the role password.
Click the User Accounts icon, then double–click the user who needs a new password.
For example, select scutter1.
Select the Password tab, then select the User Must Use This Password at Next Login option.
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Carbon-Free EnergyJul 18th, 2008 | By Jonathan Golob | Category: Energy, Featured Articles, Lead Article
Former Vice President Al Gore, seeking to shake up an energy debate that is focused mostly on drilling, challenged the United States to shift its entire electricity sector to carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power within 10 years, and use that power to fuel a new fleet of electric vehicles.
Can it be done?
To answer that, let’s get to know our fossil fuels by rewinding to the Carboniferous era. Pangaea has just come together, with the fusing of the Northern and Southern super continents. Dropping sea levels have generated many new swampland real estate opportunities. Enter lignin, a chemical compound that has made wood hard for 350 million years.
These swamps were filled with plants held together by this funny, new substance—a substance too new to be eaten by microbes. Rather than degrade, the remains of lignin-baring plants soon filled swamps (much like how we’ve filled the oceans with plastic grocery bags).
Lignin, like most things in life, is made up of long chains of carbon atoms. All of this carbon-containing waste built up, becoming buried over hundreds of millions of years before bacteria evolved to eat lignin. And free oxygen didn’t reach this material, either, so those untouched hydrocarbon chains entombed deep in rock became coal. Similarly, algae buried under the ocean floor, without oxygen, eventually becomes oil and natural gas.
Convert that story to hard numbers: All of the fossil fuel consumed in 1997 represented over 400 years of the total plant and animal growth on the ancient planet Earth.
Almost all living systems eventually come back to energy from the sun. But that fact has its own astounding ratio: It took a half-millennium of solar energy capture by all of the living things to generate the energy we typically consume in a single year.
Those ratios are alarming, but they also make fossil fuels’ case. The upsides are so attractive: density (huge amounts of energy in small volumes/masses), stability (won’t lose much energy during storage or transport), and usability (fossil-fueled machines are far less complex than virtually any other power source).
All of the alternatives available to humanity are, in some way or another (complexity, initial investments, geography, distribution), inferior to fossil fuels. So when we consider ending our use of fossil fuels, the combination of alternatives we settle upon must match or exceed these properties–or we must adjust our lifestyles to reflect the inherent inferiority of the non-carbon fuel sources.
Now, in the twilight of fossil fuels, we have a shot at building such a combination. We can take the last remaining supplies of carbon fuels and build the networks of solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear power plants neccesary. Or we can accept that in the future–the near future–our lives will be far less rich than they are now.
So starts a new series here on Dear Science, where I’ll be reviewing some of the science behind wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy. I’ve already covered nuclear power, the unwelcome (by some) member of the carbon-free energy club. | <urn:uuid:5187b4ae-3e4b-4ab2-9792-dc8478ad42b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dearscience.org/2008/07/18/carbon-free-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00521-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932396 | 692 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Washington, May 11 (ANI): A tiny gene mutation in human liver cells might help indicate proper dosage for half of all drugs, suggests a new American study.
The study has been published online in The Pharmacogenomics Journal.
Researchers at Ohio State University and colleagues have identified this mutation, and have shown that it alters the level of a protein in the liver responsible for processing between 45 per cent and 60 per cent of medications used to treat a wide range of conditions.
Each gene contains two alternative forms - called alleles - that are identical in most people.
However, in this case, the researchers found that the activity level, or expression, of one allele differs from its partner allele in a single gene.
That small difference is called a single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNP.
This SNP affects the gene's protein-producing process, in turn lowering the level of an enzyme known as CYP3A4.
The faster a drug is processed, or metabolized, by this enzyme in the liver, the more quickly it is eliminated from that tissue and the body as a whole.
When this enzyme level is lowered by the presence of this SNP, people are likely to require smaller doses of medicines that the enzyme metabolizes.
But this also means that higher doses of these same drugs can be dangerous to people with the mutation if those levels become toxic.
The study further showed that people with the mutation who take a certain class of cholesterol-lowering drugs do indeed require lower doses of these medications to achieve the same effect that higher doses produce in people without the SNP.
The researchers suggest that this mutation could serve as a molecular biomarker to aid doctors in clinical practice, affecting dosing requirements, patients' response to medications and toxicity levels of numerous drugs, especially anti-cancer medications.
Lead author Danxin Wang, a research scientist and adjunct assistant professor of pharmacology at Ohio State, said: "With some cancer drugs, there is a very narrow therapeutic index, meaning that if doctors give patients a slightly higher dose, it will cause toxicity. We believe this same biomarker could be used to predict that toxicity threshold in cancer patients."
Wang noted that using this SNP as a biomarker could reduce the guesswork associated with prescribing drugs.
Wang said: "Right now, because there are no biomarkers available to predict CYP3A4 activity, trial and error determines whether cholesterol goes down with the prescribed dose.
"You never know who has what enzyme level, so you never really know what dose to give an individual if you don't have a biomarker." (ANI) | <urn:uuid:e9381cc7-b115-44d4-b089-b7dec8903978> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oneindia.com/2010/05/11/genemutation-in-liver-cells-to-help-with-drugprescriptions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948293 | 533 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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With the Circular letter n. 315 (downloadable for free at the end of the news), the National Council of Engineers has transmitted the focus on safety in the supply of concrete on site. In summary, the focus highlights the fact that to ensure adequate levels of security, coordination between the various parties operating on construction sites is necessary. Coordination is required by the legislator of the Consolidated Text on Safety in the case of mere supply of concrete on site: the supply of materials does not include the obligation of drafting the POS (Safety Operational Plan), but “ mutual information and mutual coordination between contractor and supplier company ” , pursuant to article 26, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Legislative Decree no. 81/2008.
Participation in the installation, the distinctions in the explanatory circulars
To clarify the two distinct operations, mere supply and installation of concrete, the Ministry of Labor has issued several explanatory circulars. The distinction lies precisely in the concept that it is a mere supply of concrete in the case in which the worker does not hold and does not maneuver the rubber terminal of the pump or the bucket, the nerd and the chute in the case of unloading from a truck mixer. The discriminating factor, therefore, is not the use of the pump or the truck mixer, but rather the participation in the installation which is expressed, in fact, in the performance by the worker of the company supplying operations that compete with the workers of the executing company. Despite the clarifications of the Ministry, a sentence of March 2017, n. 11739 of the Criminal Court of Cassation, again raised the question of the POS request for the delivery of concrete by pumping. The ruling stated that, in the case of pumping, the performance by the concrete supplier of personnel handling the pump arm would represent an execution of the work and, therefore, in the situation object of the sentence the company would have had to deliver a POS.
In the focus, the procedure issued by the Ministry is recalled. In dealing with the pumping phase, which is the subject of the aforementioned sentence, the procedure identifies this operation as the use of the pump arm, as the movement of the arm is considered in all respects a method of delivery, in the same way as the movement of the crane arm with which various components are unloaded on site, and not a participation in the installation. The procedure contains two models with which the concrete supplier and the company communicate information and details for the purpose of preventing the risks of the workers involved. | <urn:uuid:8d72055c-baaa-4c0a-b192-a2558aac4a50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://balletfolcloricoudg.com/category/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.95182 | 520 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The organisers of a Sydney Opera House festival who dumped a talk on ''honour killings'' should have had more backbone and stuck to their program, the Islamic activist scheduled to give the speech says.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic group calling for a transnational Islamic state governed by Sharia law, held a press conference in Sydney on Wednesday after its session entitled ''Honour killings are morally justified'' was cancelled less than two days after the Festival of Dangerous Ideas released its August conference program.
Its spokesman, Uthman Badar, was expected to give the talk, but outrage on social media prompted organisers to cancel the session.
Mr Badar may yet give a speech at the festival, co-organised by the St James Ethics Centre, but a new topic was still to be agreed, he said.
On Wednesday, Mr Badar would not tell reporters whether he believed ''honour killings'' - the murder of women deemed to have brought shame or dishonour on their family - were justified.
He also declined to outline the contents of his cancelled talk, but said he was disappointed the festival had bowed to public pressure.
''I would hope they had more courage, more backbone,'' he said. ''This issue has nothing to do with honour killings. Islam does not condone any form of abuse or violence towards women.''
In a speech to reporters that sometimes sounded like a sermon, Mr Badar said the ''hysterical'' response to the talk's title was a clear example of Islamophobia. If honour killings were defended by a ''white man'', the response would have been much more muted, he said. Mr Badar hinted at the issues he would have covered in the talk by saying the Western world wanted a ''monopoly on violence'' through wars, invasions and puppet governments it justified with its own ideology.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas co-curator Ann Mossop did not return Fairfax's calls on Wednesday.
Wassim Doureihi, a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir who attended the press conference, called for proportionate outrage by Westerners in response to the deaths of tens of thousands in the wars waged by the West.
Hizb ut-Tahrir released a statement on Monday defending the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - also known as ISIS - in Iraq, where extremist militants have seized large areas of the country. ''ISIS is being portrayed, in fantastical Hollywood style, as evil incarnate on Earth, having seemingly taken over from al-Qaeda who previously fulfilled this bogeyman role,'' the statement said.
''An uprising against the systematically oppressive US-installed and backed Maliki regime is being painted as a takeover by 'terrorists' to justify political, and if needed military intervention whereby the interests of Western powers will be protected and furthered.''
This is not the first time Mr Badar and Hizb ut-Tahrir have been the subject of uproar.
In 2007, there were calls for the organisation to be banned ahead of its first major conference in Australia, and in 2011 a report from the group caused controversy when it called the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan state terrorist attacks and said: ''The real terrorists are Western governments.''
Mr Badar has always claimed his group is non-violent, and said there was no justification for the killing of innocent people. | <urn:uuid:daf235b3-c432-4557-8bf3-9e0f3d69c102> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/hizb-uttahri-honour-killings-speaker-hits-at-ban-by-festival-organisers-20140625-3atnu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00572-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976861 | 697 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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We aim to show our Christian faith by helping the sustainable transformation of communities worldwide. We do this by helping to nurture strong relationships at all levels, promoting peace and reconciliation locally, nationally and globally.
We aim to:
- encourage parents in their role to develop the faith of their children
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Present in 84 countries, our members are not all mothers, or even all women. They are single, married, parents, grandparents, or young adults just beginning to express their social conscience.
Mothers' Union provides a network through which they can serve Christ in their own community. This is done through prayer, financial support and actively working at the grassroots level in programmes that meet local needs. | <urn:uuid:c62da8be-af8b-4aa0-95d4-54b147bce62f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mothersunion.org/our-vision | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.946675 | 241 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Any Z80 assembler can produce code suitable for the Next. However the raw blocks of Z80 code may be not as convenient to use with Next or emulators, so a Next specific tools may be useful for creating one of the supported File Formats.
Cross-platform tools (running on PC)
- Provides a complete Z80 IDE and Macro assembler, scripted disassember plus an integrated Z80 emulator for a range of machines including partial Next support
- Supports the Next opcodes directly
- Supports remote debugging on the Next using ParaSys across a serial link
- Supports MMU paging in the integrated emulator
- Supports sprites (core versions prior to 2.00.26) in the integrated emulator
- A long established Z80 assembler, but has been out of development for a long time
- Supports all currently known Next extension opcodes through this modified Pasmo from Russ McNulty and Tony Thompson and also now supports outputting .sna files to use with CSpect, thanks to Russ McNulty
Included with the #CSpect emulator
- Full macro assembler
- Full bank control via Segment management
- Supports the Next extension opcodes directly
- Generates full 24bit map files for use in CSpect
Part of Z88dk
- Supports the Next extension opcodes directly, linking assembler with large z80 library, targets any memory configuration
- Supports all (core2.00.28) Next extension opcodes, ZXN memory model (8 memory slots with 8ki pages and 1.75MiB virtual device memory), SAVENEX to build NEX files directly from ASM source (NEX version V1.2 (and experimental extension "V1.3")), MAP files for #CSpect emulator, SLD tracing files for DeZog and NDS-NextDevSystem and it is under active development (feedback is welcome).
- Open source project ("BSD-3-Clause" license), windows executables available at releases, mac and linux users are expected to simply build from source (both make and CMake are supported).
- Documentation, latest stable release v1.20.0 2022-06-13
FantASM is a two pass non optimising assembler for the Z80 processor by Guy 'CatpainBlack' Black.
It supports all undocumented op-codes and the extended instruction set of the ZX Next and additional pseudo opcodes used by the CSpect emulator to control debugging.
Native tools (running on Next)
Work-in-progress Next-specific assembler written by Matt Davies, used also in video tutorials presented by Jim Bagley, the best way to acquire the binary is to join the official ZX Next discord server and check channel
#odin - pinned messages, where you can also discuss any issues and get how-to hints.
- supports most of the undocumented opcodes, all official Z80 and Next-extended instructions
- supports nested includes and binary includes
- source is stored in tokenised form (smaller file), up to 48kiB of source in single file
- assembling can produce 32kiB of machine code (enough to produce simpler dot command)
- includes also editor and console modules (debugger is planned)
Classic ZEUS native assembler by Simon Brattel, extended and included directly in the ZX Next distro.
Classic SPED assembler by César Hernández Bañó, included directly in the ZX Next distro, see README. | <urn:uuid:8601a4d7-63a4-4b5f-aac7-96087e062399> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.specnext.dev/index.php?title=Assemblers&oldid=11757 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.87925 | 750 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The government has announced a 43-million euro plan to transform Athens’ 2004 Olympic Stadium into an “Olympic Park”, which will provide training facilities for athletes as well as serve as a recreational outlet for local residents.
Announcing the plans at a special event in the stadium on Tuesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said every visitor to the stadium Greeks should feel pride and nostalgia in remembering the 2004 Games.
However, the Games were followed by “disappointment that very important facilities were abandoned”, he added.
He said the 43-million euro budget to overhaul the complex would come from the EU-backed 2021-2026 Recovery and Resilience Facility.
“Our aim is to balance the budget in three years and for revenue to start coming in by the fifth year,” the premier noted.
The initial stages of the revamp will see the central stadium made more energy efficient and repairs made to the central roof. Also in line for renovation are the indoor gym, the velodrome, the tennis courts and stadium’s landscaping.
The new Olympic Park of Athens is expected to attract more of the 20,000 people that currently visit it weekends, Mitsotakis said.
The project, he added, is one of the 10 large-scale plans included in the government’s recovery plan, Greece 2.0. | <urn:uuid:d097ba19-8878-4941-aaba-1a1c666cf19f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1164870/43-million-euro-renovation-plan-announced-for-2004-olympic-stadium/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965907 | 295 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Basically these articles describes about the cross examination teaches that what question should be ask and what should not to be asked while cross examination to protect the self respect and dignity of the witness as the witness is providing of the evidence of the incident claiming in the court and if that witness should be pressurised or harass so witness would never be ready a witness basically helps the court procedure so these articles protect the rights liable on the witness and some questions are banned basically cross is been done when the witness has been given examination chief any statement for what he is a witness and cross is been done to prove his statement wrong and to satisfy the court that the witness statement is wrong so all questions are allowed in the court but qanon e shad-at restrict some questions so a witness should not be harassed.
Article 139 evidence in writing it means a witness provides his statement in writing form evidence of terms of contract or deed which is an written form an documentary evidence which excludes oral document if the documentary evidence is present so oral document would be excluded as the court firstly admits an documentary evidence for example if ali contract ahmed for 500 shoes but ahmed didn’t give so ali firstly will produce the document of contract made by ali and ahmed article 139 is the application of article 103 and 103 of qanon e shad-at.
Article 140 cross examination as to previous statement in writing this concept is cross is been done to prove the statement wrong of the witness and tell the court that this witness is not admissible as he is not truthful article 140 can ask the previous statement of the witness for example if legal heirs don’t want the share of the land of there father and then in other case legal heirs claims for the share so the previous statement is been called.
Article 141 Question lawful in cross examination as the object of cross examination is not to harass the witness that an advocate has no right to harass the witness that the witness should change his statement that witness should not be terrified and should never degrade of witness respect to shake check veracity of witness and to check that who is and shake his credit by injuring his character for example if a person had a criminal record so he could not be a witness as he has a bad record .
Article 142 Incriminating question means a question which converts a witness into criminal as a witness comes to give a statement but a question which is asked that if he has done crime so a privilege is given to the witness when the witness object the question and if the witness not object but gives answer so a criminal charges can apply on him.
Article 143 discretion of court allows any question the court has the power to choose and decide that what question can be asked and what can not be as court has the power to stop or allow the question if any advocate ask question during cross examination comes in the way of qazaf that a most inappropriate question for example zina so that advocate have to prove what he claims on the witness so remote question is strictly prohibited.
Article 144 reasonable ground an advocate can not ask without some reasonable ground if a person is a not a murderer but advocate ask him are you a murderer without any reasonable grounds and without reasonable grounds that question can not be ask as its court responsibility to take notice.
Article 145 is as the procedure of court question without reasonable grounds
Article 146 indecent or scandalous question totally court will reject or deny as any question asked which can scandalous the witness so this type of question can not be asked.
Article147 Defamations procedure that the accused has given a defamatory statement so till that statement is not prove the witness can not be asked any question which can defame the witness. So can defame someone else if he is living or dead .
Article 148 Questions intended to insult that question can not be asked that totally annoyed or insult witness.
Article 149 Evidence contradict veracity if there is a witness and he is been crossed if a question asked to spoil the character of the witness is that the witness is dismiss from his services but the witness says no so we have to provide the dismissal order to prove that witness is false saying so this evidence is not admissible. | <urn:uuid:91f6d8d0-ed8a-4876-8811-fccaa9009d85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawyersofpakistan.com/what-should-be-ask-in-cross-examination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.96559 | 838 | 2.96875 | 3 |
January 24, 2014
As the saying goes, ‘desperate times call for desperate measures.’
The phrase is bandied about so frequently, it’s generally accepted truth. But I have to tell you that I fundamentally disagree with the premise.
Desperate times, in fact, call for a complete reset in the way people think. Desperate times call for the most intelligent, effective, least destructive measures. But these sayings aren’t as catchy.
This old adage has become a crutch– a way for policymakers to rationalize the idiotic measures they’ve put in place:
But hey… desperate times call for desperate measures. I guess we’re all just supposed to be OK with that.
One of those desperate measures that’s been coming up a lot lately is the re-re-re-introduction of capital controls.
It started in late 2012, when both the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund seperately endorsed the use of capital controls.
For the IMF, it was a staunch reversal of its previous position, and Paul Krugman lauded the agency’s “surprising intellectual flexibility” a few days later.
The IMF then followed up in 2013 with another little ditty proposing a global wealth tax. The good idea factory is clearly working ’round the clock over there.
Lately, two more leading economists– Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff– have joined the debate.
In a speech to the American Economic Association earlier this month, the pair suggested that rich economies may need to resort to the tactics generally reserved for emerging markets.
This is code for financial repression and capital controls.
The idea behind capital controls is simple: create barriers to restrict the free flow of capital. And if you’re on the receiving end, capital controls can be enormously destructive.
But for politicians, capital controls are hugely beneficial; once they trap funds within their borders, the money can be easily taxed, confiscated, or inflated.
Historically, capital controls have been used in ‘desperate times’. Too much debt. Too much deficit spending. Wars. Huge trade deficit. Intentional currency devaluation. Etc.
Does any of this sound familiar? It’s no surprise that policymakers have once again turned to this ‘desperate measure’. They’re already here.
Iceland has capital controls, over five years after its spectacular meltdown. We can also see capital controls in Cyprus, India, Argentina, etc.
I’ve been writing for years that capital controls are a foregone conclusion. This is no longer theory or conjecture. It’s happening. And every bit of objective evidence suggests that the march towards capital controls will quicken.
This is a HUGE reason to consider holding a portion of your savings overseas in a strong, stable foreign bank where your home government won’t as easily be able to trap your savings.
Other options including storing physical gold (even anonymously) at an overseas depository. Or if you’re inclined and tech savvy, you can also own digital currency.
But perhaps the best way to move some capital abroad is to own foreign real estate, especially productive land.
Foreign real estate is not reportable. It’s a great store of value. It generates both financial profits and personal resilience. It’s a LOT harder to forcibly repatriate. And it ensures that you always have a place to go in case you need to get out of Dodge.
Even if nothing ‘bad’ ever happens, you won’t be worse off for owning productive land in a thriving economy.
Like I said– desperate times don’t call for desperate measures. More than ever, it’s time for a complete reset in the way we look at the most effective solutions. These options are certainly among them.
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The assumption that vocational and educational programs have positive impacts on offender recidivism. Do vocational and educational programs have an impact on offender recidivism rate?
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According to Mears, Lawrence, Solomon and Waul (2002) only half of all inmates are high school graduates, 70 percent unemployed, 80 percent with substance abuse and more than 15 percent have serious physical or mental disorders, while approximately 11 percent are learning disabled. (Mears, et al, 2002; Eskridge 2004) Because of non-support, both financial and ideological, vocational and educational programs have fallen behind and unless we want to face the consequences, these programs are direly needed.
It is almost impossible to measure the success of these programs if based only on the rate of recidivism. Successes can also be measured by reduction of criminal behavior after release or the ability to become employed and/or avoid drug use. Mears, et al (2002; Eskridge 2004) maintain that even if the main goal is to prevent recidivism, first steps would be to provide educational and vocational programs. Through vocational training, for example, an inmate might learn a skill, ...
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With the Meredith Roping and several other similar events coming up, those not familiar with the rodeo sport are asking, “What is a No. 9 roper? How is a No. 8 roper different from a No. 4?” And, in team roping, “What does pick or draw mean?”
The number classifications of almost 127,000 team ropers from across North America are doled out and maintained by the United States Team Roping Championships (USTRC).
The number system handicaps member ropers on a TRIAD system. In it, USTRC officials assign all ropers a competition number based on rodeo performance profiles and online balloting in which ropers have the opportunity to rate their fellow competitors from within their own area.
Factors the USTRC takes in assigning numbers are money won, how often a roper competes, consistency, who a roper ropes with, how fast they rope and what others think.
Then through a complex system of weights and standards, those factors are analyzed and the roper’s ability is assigned a number classification.
In entering an event, the roper competes in an assigned division against others with his or her same ability.
USTRC officials say the TRIAD system provides everyone, regardless of age or ability, the fair and equal opportunity to compete.
As for “draw or pick,” it simply means in some ropings competitors can either draw their partner from a pool of contestants or pick a personal choice.
For the Seventh Annual Ted Meredith Memorial Roping, Saturday events will include:
No. 8, Pick 1, Draw 2
No. 10, Pick 1, Draw 2
No. 12, Pick 1, Draw 2
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Sniffing out any whiff of biology on Mars has become a scientific battle of the bands — spectral bands, that is.
The purported detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere by Mars Express, the European Space Agency probe now orbiting the Red Planet, has sparked measurable debate.
ESA announced late last March that the Mars Express Planetary Fourier Spectrometer had observed methane. That instrument is built to detect the presence of particular molecules by analyzing their "spectral fingerprints" — the specific way each molecule absorbs the sunlight it receives.
While the amount of methane seen by the spectrometer is very small — about 10 parts in a billion — the implications of the detection are large. Perhaps Mars isn’t a planet waiting to exhale, but one that is a thriving world of panting microbes?
According to ESA experts, methane, unless it is continuously produced by a source, only survives in the Martian atmosphere for a few hundred years because it quickly oxidizes to form water and carbon dioxide — both present in the Martian atmosphere.
So what’s refilling the atmosphere with methane?
On the one hand, methane production could be linked to volcanic or hydrothermal activity on Mars, although no volcanic activity has been detected on the planet to date.
"The first thing to understand is how exactly the methane is distributed in the Martian atmosphere," says Vittorio Formisano, principal investigator for the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer at the Istituto Fisica Spazio Interplanetario in Rome.
"Since the methane presence is so small, we need to take more measurements. Only then will we have enough data to make a statistical analysis and understand whether there are regions of the atmosphere where methane is more concentrated," Formisano explained in an ESA press statement.
Adding to the Mars Express methane saga are reports from scientists using ground-based telescopes that, indeed, traces of the gas have been spotted.
One independent U.S. team, led by Michael Mumma of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has also weighed in on the question of methane on Mars.
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Mumma reported last year at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences that methane had been detected using super-sensitive infrared spectrometers mounted on the Gemini South telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile and at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
The bottom line, Mumma said, is that sorting out the signature of methane is not an easy task.
"I've looked at some of the PFS spectra in the methane region, and am skeptical," Mumma said. "I think they have not yet convinced the community they are detecting CH4 (methane)."
More work is needed to model and strip out the spectra from known constituents within the Martian atmosphere, and then compare the residuals with synthesized CH4 spectra, Mumma said. At this point in time, "the community has reserved judgment on the PFS results," he concluded.
Near the limits of detection
There’s no doubt that detecting methane in the Martian atmosphere would be extremely important if true.
The implication, if it turns out to be really there, is that the methane can only be produced by some active process that churns out new methane — such as volcanic activity or certain types of living organisms known as methanogens. A methanogen is a microorganism that produces methane from the reaction of hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
"In either case, we would have discovered that Mars is an active planet today," said Benton Clark, a Mars Exploration Rover team scientist from Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in Denver. "Localizing the source would be of great interest and would point to future exploration."
However, measurements taken to date from Earth and by the Mars Express can be challenged because they are near the limits of detection, Clark told Space.com.
Taking to the air
Clark said that the proposed NASA Mars Volcanic Emission and Life Scout mission, known by the acronym MARVEL, would detect methane with 100 to 1,000 times better sensitivity from orbit, and also be able to localize it on the Red Planet.
In addition, taking to the air — by flying an airplane over the Martian surface — is another way to spot methane.
"I think too much has been written about these [Mars Express] observations in the press in the absence of formal scientific review," said Mark Allen, an Earth and planetary atmospheres Research scientist in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Allen is the principal investigator for the proposed MARVEL Scout.
Without peer-reviewed assessments of the Mars Express findings, Allen said, any comment on the observations would be premature.
"At best these observations are tantalizing, since the experiment seems to be operating at the limit of its sensitivity. However, the implications for extant habitability and inhabitance of Mars are tremendous," Allen said. "I would hope that NASA is interested in pursuing this subject and might find a mission with much more sensitivity and capability for locating surface point sources — such as MARVEL — highly attractive for selection next time," he suggested.
Proceed with caution
Also in the still-to-be-convinced category in regards to the Mars Express methane finding is James Garvin, NASA chief scientist for Mars and the moon, in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
"Most of what we have seen from the Mars Express PFS does not yet suggest that it is wholly reproducible and even localizable," Garvin suggested. His advice, as a NASA scientist steeped in ever-growing volumes of new Mars data: Proceed with caution, examine multiple lines of detection and then the basic chemistry of the processes — before leaping to conclusions.
Mars' greatest hitsGarvin noted that the instrument on Mars Express is an outstanding Fourier spectrometer which could, under appropriate circumstances, detect methane at levels of tens of parts per billion — but across a large control volume of the Martian atmosphere which is relatively well-mixed.
There is far more evidence, Garvin continued, for the possibility of recent, highly localized volcanism — such as fumaroles or local hydrothermal vents — than for anything to do with subsurface microbial systems.
"If you were to ask me, any methane we may be seeing must be volcanogenic on the basis of what scant real scientific evidence we have ... or it could even be some sort of ‘oddball’ result of asteroidal impact that we have not fully understood," Garvin speculated.
Looking to the future, Garvin pointed to the launchings of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2005, the Phoenix lander in 2007, and the wheeled Mars Science Laboratory in 2009.
Each will help puzzle out further the Red Planet’s past history and present-day condition. And each will, at least in part, address the existence of disequilibrium trace gases — such as methane — using new approaches, including on-the-spot mass spectrometry, he said.
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Subspecies in India
(1) Abisara bifasciata bifasciata Moore, 1877 – Andaman Double-banded Judy
(2) Abisara bifasciata suffusa Moore, 1882 – Suffused Double-banded Judy
(3) Abisara bifasciata angulata Moore, – Angled Double-banded Judy
The Indian subspecies under this species were listed by Evans (1932) under Abisara echerius (Stoll, ) – the Plum Judy and Abisara kausambi C. & R. Felder, 1860 – the Straight (Plum) Judy, an arrangement that some recent authors have erroneously followed. Bennett (1950) showed echerius, bifasciata and kausambi to be specifically distinct based on differences in their male genitalia, and we are following his arrangement of subspecies under species on this website. Contrary to popular belief, A. echerius is found in India only in the southern Western Ghats (ssp. prunosa) and the Naga, Manipur and Mizo Hills (ssp. paionea), whereas A. b. suffusa is widely distributed from the Western Ghats to the Vindhya and Satpuda Hills, the Eastern Ghats, Himalaya and NE India up to the Garo and Khasi Hills. Subspecies angulata is found in the Naga Hills, whereas bifasciata is endemic to the Andaman and Nicaobar Islands. KK has personally confirmed these species- and subspecies-level distributional ranges by checking the Abisara specimens deposited in the British Museum of Natural History, London [taxonomic note added in 2013].
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Bennett, N. H. 1950. A revision of the echerius group of the genus Abisara Felder (Rhop. Riodinidae). The Entomologist, 83:1-9, 34-42.
Evans, W. H. 1932. The Identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd ed. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Kunte, K., K. Saji, and H. Ogale 2022. Abisara bifasciata Moore, 1877 – Double-banded Judy. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.06. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/abisara-bifasciata, accessed 2022/08/19. | <urn:uuid:1eee9c23-6b5d-4475-89a9-3795e1ebe926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/Abisara-bifasciata | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.672535 | 1,155 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The annual Shifts in U.S. Merchandise Trade report (Trade Shifts) examines trends in merchandise exports and imports using data for more than 250 major industry sectors and subsectors identified by the U.S. International Trade Commission (the USITC or Commission). The report contains analysis by international trade analysts in the Commission's Office of Industries, who routinely monitor trade developments in all natural resource, agricultural, and manufacturing industries.
Unlike previous Trade Shifts reports, this year's edition is exclusively available online in both an HTML format and a PDF. The HTML version provides charts that link directly to summary tables, which reveal the important shifts in U.S. bilateral trade, highlight leading changes in industry sectors for each of the trading partners discussed, and identify the shifts in various subsectors that influenced overall sector trade in 2012. The PDF version of this section provides the summary tables as part of the text, along with the charts. The report is divided into four parts:
Part I: U.S. Merchandise Trade and Overall Economic Performance analyzes the overall economic performance of nine U.S. merchandise trade sectors from 2011 to 2012. The discussions of the individual merchandise sectors include data showing changes in U.S. exports, imports, and trade balances broken down by sectors, industry groups (and in some cases subsectors), and U.S. trading partners.
Part II: Bilateral Trade examines the shifts in U.S. trade with five significant U.S. trade partners—China, the European Union 27 (EU), Japan, Mexico, and Russia. Countries were included based on the volume of bilateral trade conducted with the United States and/or the relative magnitude of bilateral trade shifts in 2012. Russia, which is not a leading U.S. trading partner, was selected for this study because of the large increase in its trade with the United States during 2012. In addition to being leading trading partners of the United States, Japan and the EU both registered relatively significant trade shifts in the U.S. merchandise trade balance in 2012. Russia, which is not a leading U.S. trading partner, was selected for this study because of the large increase in its trade with the United States during 2012.
Part III: Commodities Trade surveys nine merchandise sectors, pointing out significant shifts in trade within each sector, and lists the absolute and percentage changes in bilateral trade revealed by a year-on-year comparison of 2011 and 2012. The sectors addressed in this report are agricultural products; chemicals and related products; electronic products; energy-related products; forest products; machinery; minerals and metals; textiles, apparel, and footwear; and transportation equipment.
Part IV: Special Topics Chapter examines U.S. import shifts during 2008–12 under various trade preference programs, including the African Growth and Opportunity Act, Andean Trade Preference Act, Caribbean Basin Initiative, and the Generalized System of Preferences. Specifically, it considers fluctuations in the share of imports from eligible countries receiving preferential treatment; shifts in the composition of merchandise imported under the provisions; and changes in eligibility and other factors affecting the use of the programs.
Part II: Country Shifts
This part of the report analyzes shifts in trade between the United States and five significant trading partners (based on total trade, significant shifts in trade during 2011-12, or both) -- China, the EU, Japan, Mexico, and Russia.
Part III: Sector Shifts
This part of the report examines shifts in trade for nine merchandise sectors: agriculture; chemicals and related products; electronic products; energy-related products; forest products; machinery; minerals and metals; textiles, apparel, and footwear; and transportation equipment.
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The use of "Beyond 4G" by Rogers to describe its newest high-speed wireless network is being criticized as misleading by a consumer advocacy group.
"It's a truth in advertising problem," John Lawford, a lawyer with the Ottawa-based Public Interest Advocacy Group, told CBC News in an interview Friday.
In a blog post on the Open Media website earlier in the day, Lawford took issue with how Rogers markets its new network, based on LTE technology, as "Beyond 4G," even though "their LTE network is incapable of reaching speeds 'beyond' the upper limits of what can be considered to be 4G."
Rogers launched Canada's first network based on LTE technology in Ottawa in July, with plans to roll out in other Canadian cities in the fall. The company lists the network's typical speed as 12 to 25 megabits per second, significantly faster than the seven to 14 megabits per second listed as average by Telus for its 4G network, which uses a technology called HSPA.
However, it is on the lower end of the theoretical download range of up to 150 megabits per second for LTE technology, leading some critics to call Rogers's LTE network 3.9G.
While the term 4G had originally been reserved for LTE, the UN-mandated group that sets international telecommunications standards loosened its definition in December 2010, prompting Canadian telecommunications providers to tag the label to their existing HSPA networks.
Rogers stands by label
Rogers maintains that its LTE network deserves the label because of how it compares with the HSPA networks of Rogers and its competitors that were labelled 4G.
"To confirm, LTE is beyond 4G," said Rogers spokeswoman Carly Suppa in an email. "LTE provides a significantly different experience from 4G HSPA+."
She cited its faster speeds, fewer delays in transmitting or receiving data (latency), and ability to provide more usage capacity so that more people can access the network at top speeds without affecting overall network performance.
A Rogers spokesperson had earlier told PIAC on Twitter that the company is using "Beyond 4G" "only… to differentiate themselves from other HSPA+ networks in Canada. We're the first and only with LTE."
Lawford's post argued that Rogers had other options, such as calling its LTE network "real" or "true" 4G.
He said that Rogers's claim isn't truthful, but it doesn't necessarily violate Canadian advertising laws under the Competition Act, which allows for "sales puffery."
He added that Rogers has mostly restricted the claim to online advertising: "That's all part of the attitude that the web is a little bit looser in what you can say or not."
Lawford also acknowledged that it may not make consumers more confused than they already are about the meanings of various wireless acronyms.
Minimum guaranteed speeds
He suggested it would be far more useful for companies to post minimum guaranteed speeds for their wireless and broadband networks, along with the speeds required to perform different activities such as internet voice calls or downloading a movie in a given length of time.
PIAC is currently conducting research on that possibility.
In the meantime, he did credit Rogers for at least including a range of typical download speeds for its LTE network, rather than the theoretical maximums that it advertised for his HSPA+ devices.
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Approx. Isolation: 276.2 km, 171.62 mi
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500 years since the Reformation
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Although there is no historical proof of this happening, it was an event that changed the world – and this great anniversary in 2017 will be marked in fitting style, not just in Wittenberg and Eisleben but across the country. Germany is paying tribute to one of its greatest sons with an entire decade devoted to Martin Luther: monk, professor and church reformer.
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Elastohydrodynamic theory and measurements of particle impacts on an inclined glass plane in water are used to investigate the mechanics of interparticle collisions in sediment-transporting flows. A collision Stokes number is proposed as a measure of the momentum of an interparticle collision versus the viscous pressure force in the interstitial gap between colliding particles. The viscous pressure force opposes motion of the particles on approach and rebound. A Stokes number of between 39 and 105 is estimated as the critical range below which particle impacts are completely viscously damped and above which impacts are partially elastic. The critical Stokes number is shown to roughly coincide with the Bagnold number transition between macroviscous and grain inertial debris flows and the transition between damped and partially elastic bed load transport saltation impacts. The nonspherical nature of natural particles significantly alters the motion of the center of mass after a partially elastic collision. The normal to the point of contact between the particles does not necessarily go through the center of mass. Thus normal rebound of the center of mass may not occur. A model of particle motion after rebound for particles of arbitrary shape, conserving both linear and angular momentum, is proposed.
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The police can stop your vehicle to check its roadworthiness at the road side. It's called a TWIRL (tyres, windscreen, indicators, rust and lights). If a police officer suspects that the vehicle you are driving might not be roadworthy they will pull you over and conduct a short test, plus check your driver licence and possibly do a breath screening test. They might also conduct the test if you've been pulled over for a traffic offence such as speeding or driving inconsiderately.
It's not a Warrant of Fitness test. For minor infringements police will usually be lenient and offer 'traffic compliance' if you are polite and compliant, for example if your Warrant has only just expired. They will help advise you how to get the item fixed and why.
The seven main areas they will check are tyres - looking for the tread depth and general condition plus inflation level. If your vehicle is modified and has extra camber, then your tyres can wear on the inside more quickly. Indicator blocks in the tread will show where the tread depth is less than 1.5mm.
They will check the lights work and aren't obscured, e.g. not covered by tape. Indicator, park, brake and headlights must work.
Obvious rust patches in structural areas could be cause for concern, and could mean the vehicle isn't roadworthy. There must not be any loose or damaged parts.
The windscreen should not have any cracks and damage in the critical vision area.
Your wipers must work.
Mirrors should be present and not damaged. Vehicles made after 2000 must have both wing mirrors and a rear-view mirror. Vehicles made before 2000 must have either a rear view mirror or a wing mirror on the driver's side.
Safety belts must not be damaged or overly faded and the buckles must work correctly.
Correct child restraints must be in the vehicle for any children under 8 years old.
The exhaust system is checked for leaks and smoke. There should be no cracks in the exhaust. The exhaust must not be overly noisy.
Suspension system. There should be clearance between the tyres and bodywork and no components should be touching the ground.
If you have a modified car it might need a certification from LVVTA.
Traffic compliance may be offered for minor defects such as worn tyres or smoky vehicles. The defects must be repaired
If the defects are major, it might be green-stickered. Conditions for driving the vehicle will be given. A new WoF isn't required if it's a simple fix, but the police may require you to prove you've fixed it. Otherwise, a new Warrant of Fitness will be required.
If the defects are serious, the vehicle is unsafe and will be pink-stickered. It must not be driven, and must be fixed immediately. A new WoF will be issued.
If you have already been pulled over for a specific issue, or you have significant problems then police might fine you. Just remember: be courteous and polite and offer solutions to the officer rather than making life difficult for them. This way you will stay on the officer's good side and have more of a chance of driving away from the inspection with the ability to fix your car without getting a fine. | <urn:uuid:78e231c6-851c-43d8-ba15-d3832b400326> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.drivingtests.co.nz/roadcode-questions/motorbike/theory/who-can-legally-stop-you-and-perform-a-r/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00559-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952404 | 701 | 2.15625 | 2 |
25 Jul – Dr. Mercola says that the best strategy for achieving health is avoiding a visit to your doctor in the first place. Why? Because in many cases you will simply leave the office with a prescription or two, which will rarely solve your health problem. Most doctor visits result in “solutions” that only suppress your symptoms that often cause other side effects and problems.
Rather than advise patients about the true underlying conditions and real solutions that lead to health, they are left putting toxic Band-Aids on gaping wounds. As shown in the slideshow above, and as I detail in depth below, there are actually many reasons why avoiding your doctor may be in the best interest of your health… (Dr. Mercola’s TEN REASONS ARE POSTED HERE.) | <urn:uuid:ace84965-febd-4cdb-b5a9-7b784dd90e4c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.omsj.org/blogs/top-ten-reasons-to-avoid-your-doctor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00301-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943009 | 161 | 1.617188 | 2 |
OVOTRANSFERRIN: The nutraceutical protein with antimicrobial, antioxidant and immunomodulatory properties
OVOTRANSFERRIN (also known as CONALBUMIN) is a significant component of the avian egg’s innate antimicrobial defense system1,2, protecting the developing chick from invading pathogens. This property arises primarily through its iron (Fe3+) binding capacity by locking away a key biochemical component necessary for micro-organismal survival. Bacteria starved of iron are rendered incapable of moving, making OVOTRANSFERRIN a potent bacteriostatic3. OVOTRANSFERRIN is also bactericidal independently of its iron-binding properties; its cationic (positively charged) nature ruptures bacteria by driving attachment directly to the bacterial surface4-6. Antifungal7, and antiviral8 properties have also been identified, making OVOTRANSFERRIN a safe and natural protein with applications across a range of industries.
It is not only the intact OVOTRANSFERRIN protein that possesses industrially exploitable properties. Hydrolysed peptides generated by gastrointestinal digestion, food processing, and by direct hydrolysis exhibit potent antimicrobial9, anti-hypertensive10-13, anti-osteoporotic14-16, and antioxidant properties17,18. Beyond this, toxicity to cancer cells19, and immunomodulatory20,21 functionalities have also been identified.
Bioseutica® is the largest manufacturer and supplier of OVOTRANSFERRIN globally. Our advanced SOLVENT-FREE extraction and purification processes result in a highly pure, high quality protein that our customers have relied on since the 1970s.
Functional foods: antimicrobial, edible films, and emulsions
A potent antibacterial possessing both bacteriostatic and bactericidal capabilities, OVOTRANSFERRIN has broad appeal for the food industry. OVOTRANSFERRIN has found effective use as a component of edible protective films, increasing the shelf-life of fresh meats and in Asian cuisine22. OVOTRANSFERRIN may also be used as an edible, surfactant-free emulsifying component, preventing fat-water separation in foods including UHT milk, mayonnaise, ice cream, margarine, and batter 23. Its similarity to lactoferrin holds promise for OVOTRANSFERRIN’s use in supplemented infant formula, milk, yogurts, and nutritional supplements.
Feed industries: decrease poultry mortality and antibiotic use
Aerosolised OVOTRANSFERRIN has been used as an antibacterial in large-scale turkey farming reducing mortality and preventing respiratory disease, decreasing the requirement for antibiotic use24.
Lactoferrin Alternative: food, cosmetic, and oral care
As a member of the transferrin family, OVOTRANSFERRIN is functionally and structurally analogous to mammalian lactoferrin25. A recent study has shown superior performance of OVOTRANSFERRIN when compared to lactoferrin in its capability to deliver iron without accumulation or inducing gastric irritability26.
OVOTRANSFERRIN represents an excellent substitute for lactoferrin, which is widely used in the food, cosmetic, and oral care industries27. Products making use of its antimicrobial, antioxidant, iron absorption and hygiene-promoting properties include infant formula, dietary supplements, pet food, lotions, face wash, mouth wash, toothpaste, and chewing gum.
Pharmaceuticals, medical, and wellness industries
Research into the pharmaceutical and medical applications of OVOTRANSFERRIN, and its derived peptides has revealed exciting potential functions. Studies have identified dual anti-osteoporotic properties of OVOTRANSFERIN, both reducing bone resorption and promoting bone formation14. Beyond this, OVOTRANSFERRIN shows promise as a drug carrier with potential applications in cancer treatment19. Indeed, OVOTRANSFERRIN alone is toxic to cancer cells in-vitro. Its antioxidant17,18 and anti-inflammatory properties may also make OVOTRANSFERRIN a viable treatment for cardiovascular diseases10-13.
Exciting recent work has identified OVOTRANSFERRIN as an excellent potential iron carrier for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemias (IDA)26. OVOTRANSFERRIN showed superior physiological iron delivery over lactoferrin in a gastric barrier model. This data holds much promise for OVOTRANSFERRIN’s use in food supplements, with dual functionality as both antimicrobial and iron delivery mechanism.
OVOTRANSFERRIN, an underexploited yet potent natural protein with broad industrial applications. Contact us today to discuss how you can incorporate OVOTRANSFERRIN into your products.
- Potent antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties
- Effective against gram-negative & gram-positive bacteria
- Binds free iron with high affinity, comparably to that of lactoferrin
- Industrially attractive bioactive properties of both native protein and derived peptides
- Iron carrier in physiological functional food supplements
- Antimicrobial component of edible protective films
- Prevention of fat-water separation in surfactant-free edible emulsions
- Reduction of mortality and antibiotic use in large-scale turkey farming operations
Regulations may vary according to the country. Always check the local legislation regarding the usage and claims of this product.
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- Valenti, P et al.: 1983. Importance of the presence of metals in the antibacterial activity of ovotransferrin. Ann. Ist. Super. Sanità 1983
- Ibrahim HR: Isolation and characterization of the bactericidal domain of ovotransferrin. Nippon Nogeikagaku Kaishi 1997
- Garibaldi JA: Role of microbial iron transport compounds in bacterial spoilage of eggs. Appl Microbiol. 1970 | Publisher Site
- Aguilera O et al.: Transferrins selectively cause ion efflux through bacterial and artificial membranes. FEBS Lett. 2003 | Publisher Site
- Valenti P et al.: Studies of the antimicrobial activity of ovotransferrin. Int. J. Tissue React. 1987 | Publisher Site
- Valenti P et al.: Antifungal activity of ovotransferrin towards genus Candida. Mycopathologia 1985. | Publisher Site
- Giansanti F et al.: Antiviral activity of ovotransferrin derived peptides. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005 | Publisher Site
- Ibrahim HR et al.: Ovotransferrin antimicrobial peptide (OTAP-92) kills bacteria through a membrane damage mechanism. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2000 | Publisher Site
- Lee N et al.: One peptide derived from hen ovotransferrin as pro-drug to inhibit angiotensin converting enzyme. Journal of Food and Drug Analysis. 2006 | Publisher Site
- Majumder L & Wu.: Purification and characterisation of angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides derived from enzymatic hydrolysate of ovotransferrin, Food Chem. 2011 | Publisher Site
- Son M. et al.: Egg white ovotransferrin-derived ACE inhibitory peptide ameliorates angiotensin II-Stimulated insulin resistance in skeletal muscle cells, Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 2018 | Publisher Site
- Chen et al.: The utility of Ovotransferrin and Ovotransferrin-derived Peptides as Possible Candidates in the Clinical Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2017 | Publisher Site
- Shang N & Wu J: Egg White Ovotransferrin Shows Osteogenic Activity in Osteoblast Cells. J Agric Food Chem. 2018 | Publisher Site
- Shang N & Wu J: Egg White Ovotransferrin Attenuates RANKL-Induced Osteoclastogenesis and Bone Resorption. Nutrients. 2019 | Publisher Site
- Shang N et al.: Ovotransferrin Exhibits Osteogenic Activity Partially via Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein 1 (LRP1) Activation in MC3T3-E1 Cells. J Agric Food Chem. 2020 | Publisher Site
- Ibrahim HR et al.: Ovotransferrin possesses SOD-like superoxide anion scavenging activity that is promoted by copper and manganese binding. Int J Biol Macromol. 2007 | Publisher Site
- Benedé S & Molina E: Chicken Egg Proteins and Derived Peptides with Antioxidant Properties. Foods 2020 | Publisher Site
- Ibrahim HR & Kiyono T: Novel anticancer activity of the autocleaved ovotransferrin against human colon and breast cancer cells. J Agric Food Chem. 2009 | Publisher Site
- Xie H et al.: Effects of ovotransferrin on chicken macrophages and heterophil-granulocytes. Dev Comp Immunol. 2002 | Publisher Site
- Ru Z et al.: Ovotransferrin exerts bidirectional immunomodulatory activities via TLR4-mediated signal transduction pathways in RAW264.7 cells. Food Science & Nutrition. 2021 | Publisher Site
- Seol KH et al.: Antimicrobial effect of κ-carrageenan-based edible film containing ovotransferrin in fresh chicken breast stored at 5°C Meat Sci. 2009 | Publisher Site
- Wei Z & Huang Q: Edible Pickering emulsions stabilized by ovotransferrin–gum arabic particles. Food Hydrocolloids. 2019 | Publisher Site
- Van Droogenbroeck C & Vanrompay D: Use of ovotransferrin on a turkey farm to reduce respiratory disease. Vet Rec. 2013 | Publisher Site
- Giansanti F et al.: The Nutraceutical Properties of Ovotransferrin and Its Potential Utilization as a Functional Food. Nutrients. 2015 | Publisher Site
- Galla R et al. Ovotransferrin Supplementation Improves the Iron Absorption: An In Vitro Gastro-Intestinal Model. Biomedicines. 2021 | Publisher Site
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June 3, 2017
Since 2005, implementation of an organized system of stroke care delivery in Ontario was associated with both improved patient outcomes after stroke and as well as improved processes of care1. With organized stroke care, the following changes were seen: increased rates of care received at stroke centers and on stroke units, decreased rates of discharge to long-term care and decreased 30-day mortality for patients with stroke. The implementation of the Ontario Stroke System was also associated with an increased proportion of patients who received thrombolytic therapy, the “clot busting” acute stroke treatment.
In Northwestern Ontario, regional stroke care is organized to include many partners and programs, including the Regional Stroke Centre in Thunder Bay, the Telestroke Program using the Ontario Telemedicine Network, the Regional Stroke Rehabilitation Program in Thunder Bay and Community Stroke Prevention Clinics in Kenora, Sioux Lookout, Fort Frances, Marathon.
In Northwestern Ontario, regional stroke care is organized to include many partners and programs.
The Regional Stroke Centre for Northwestern Ontario is located at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC). The Regional Stroke Centre has implemented a “Code Stroke” process that immediately activates a large clinical team to assess and deliver acute stroke treatments to eligible patients.
TBRHSC hosts the following regional stroke services:
The Northwestern Ontario Regional Stroke Network is part of the Ontario Stroke System and one of 11 regional stroke networks in the province. The Network’s vision for Northwestern Ontario is “Fewer strokes. Better outcomes.” and its mission is “To continuously improve stroke prevention, care, recovery and re-integration”.
The 12-bed Regional Stroke Unit, located on 2C, has a team of doctors, nurses and therapists specialized in the assessment and management of acute stroke that provide care for people with stroke and their families.
The Secondary Stroke Prevention Clinic addresses stroke prevention in a coordinated and interprofessional manner. The team consists of neurologists, a nurse practitioner and a dietitian who focus on determining the possible causes of TIA or stroke. In addition, the team educates patients regarding lifestyle changes to help modify their risk factors for stroke.
The Telestroke program provides patients with stroke living in more remote areas of the region access to 24/7 life-saving emergency care. Emergency Physicians use the Ontario Telemedicine Network to connect with Ontario stroke neurologists to obtain urgent diagnosis and treatment advice, including the administration of the time-sensitive “clot busting” drug tPA. Telestroke services are available at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, Dryden Regional Health Center in Dryden and Meno Ya Win Health Centre in Sioux Lookout.
The Regional Stroke Rehabilitation inpatient and outpatient services are located at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Thunder Bay. Inpatient stroke care is delivered on the Special Rehabilitation Service (3 North) by a team of doctors, nurses and therapists Both inpatient and outpatient programs provide specialized stroke rehabilitation and deliver client-centered care for people with stroke and their families. St. Joseph Care Group also extends stroke rehabilitation services out to regional communities using confidential videoconferencing technology. The Moving on After Stroke Program is a 9-week self-management, exercise and support program that uses this technology, as well as the Regional Speech Program which can deliver speech and language therapy to clients in their homes over their computer or tablet.
The Community Stroke Prevention Clinics staffed by Registered Nurses, see patients with stroke and TIA to monitor risk factors and assist with lifestyle strategies to prevent reoccurrence. The Clinics are located at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, Wilson Memorial General Hospital in Marathon and Meno Ya Win Health Centre in Sioux Lookout.
Stay tuned for future articles coming this month to highlight other regional stroke care initiatives that support people experiencing a stroke to recognize, react, respond and recover.
For more information, visit our website at www.nwostroke.ca or contact Meaghan Sharp, Director, Cardiovascular and Stroke Program, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre at 807-684-6796 or email@example.com.
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A company’s organizational alignment to its strategy depends largely on management’s ability to access information to make decisions and take action. Clearly, without access to the right information, the organization cannot operate well. Thus, bringing key information up to points of decision-making benefits managers directly by improving the odds of choosing the right course of action for the unit. But given the large amount of information available inside and outside the organization, the task can be overwhelming. To cut to the chase, managers can focus on three types of information flow that confer organizational alignment.
Three types of information flow are essential for an organization to perform effectively. They are vertical flow, horizontal flow, and frontline flow.
Three Types of Information Flow
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What the Heck is a “Ding in the Universe”
I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker.
I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations.
I started thinking “ding in the universe” when Gary said, “It’s easy to feel hopeless.” Maybe you’ve fallen into the abyss of “It won’t matter.”
Thinking it won’t matter, matters. Thoughts always matter.
Gary elegantly restated my question by asking, “What does it take for you to make a bigger contribution than you expect?
Gary explained that disproportionate impact happens when you, “Tackle problems above your pay grade that defy easy answers; problems bigger than you.”
Light bulb – that’s a way we make dings.
You may not be a V.P. in a fortune 500 company. How can average Joe’s follow Gary’s ding-path?
Solve big problems in small contexts.
Don’t wait for the perfect ding-moment. Work on today’s persistent nagging problem – the one others hate but accept because they think it won’t change.
- Get pissed off. Problems hang around because we aren’t pissed off enough. “Big problems,” Gary said, “require contrarian spirits.”
- Move through anger. Foolish leaders get stuck in anger; wise leaders work through it. Anger is reactive. Solutions are proactive.
- Solve big problems informally. Don’t waste your time in meetings. Bring them up over coffee or lunch. Everyone’s too busy to solve the problem that’s been hanging around for ages. Meetings come later.
- Connect problems with outcomes that everyone believes in.
- Implement small solutions. Useful anger drives you to try things.
There’s much more to tackling big problems. What strategies that help people make a ding in the universe can you add?
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Being conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as IVF, may provide some advantages in quality of life in adulthood, according to the results of a new study.
The results of the study, published in Human Fertility, offer reassuring news for people who have been conceived with ART — and those who need to use the technology to conceive.
“Our findings suggest that being ART-conceived can provide some advantages on quality of life in adulthood, independent of other psychosocial factors,” said lead author Karin Hammarberg of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. “Together with previous evidence that adults conceived by ART have similar physical health to those who were naturally conceived, this is reassuring for people who were conceived with ART — and those who need ART to conceive.”
In the more than four decades since the first birth following in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 1978, more than 8 million children have been born as a result of ART. In that time, many studies have evaluated the physical health, development and psychosocial well-being of ART-conceived children compared with those naturally conceived (NC). But currently, there is less known about the health and quality of life of adults who were conceived by ART.
This study involved 193 young adults who were conceived through ART and 86 through NC in the state of Victoria, Australia. These participants completed questionnaires, which included a standardised quality of life measure (World Health Organisation Quality of Life — Brief Assessment (WHOQoL-BREF)), when aged 18-28 years (T1) and again when aged 22-35 years (T2). The WHOQoL-BREF assesses four domains of quality of life: 1) physical 2) psychosocial 3) social relationships and 4) environment.
The researchers looked at the associations between factors present at T1 (mode of conception, the mother’s age when the participant was born, sexual orientation, family financial situation in secondary school, perceptions of own weight, number of close friends, frequency of vigorous exercise and quality of relationships with parents) and the scores on the four domains of WHOQoL-BREF at T2.
After making statistical adjustments to account for other psychosocial factors present in young adulthood, the results showed that being ART-conceived was strongly linked with higher scores (better quality of life) on both the social relationships and environment WHOQoL-BREF domains at T2. In addition, having less psychological distress, a more positive relationship with parents, a better financial situation, and perceptions of being about the right weight at T1 were associated with higher scores on one or more WHOQoL-BREF domains at T2.
“Children conceived via ART are nowadays a substantial part of the population — and it’s important to continue to evaluate the long-term effects of ART on their physical health and well-being as they progress through adolescence into adulthood,” said Hammarberg. “When accounting for other factors present in young adulthood, being ART-conceived appears to confer some advantages in quality of life. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we also found that, independently of how the person was conceived, having a better relationship with parents, less psychological distress, and a better family financial situation in young adulthood contributed to a better adult quality of life.”
This is the first study to explore the contributions of being conceived with ART and psychosocial factors present in young adulthood to the quality of life of adults. While the findings are reassuring, they should be be interpreted with caution because many of those who took part in the first study did not take part in the follow-up study. | <urn:uuid:c0cf057b-ac62-4e70-84cb-a79d3257df88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dagoldinfo.com.ng/first-study-to-explore-prosocial-development-of-adults-conceived-with-assisted-reproductive-technology-show-positive-results-sciencedaily/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.971547 | 760 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-specific disease that accounts for significant morbidity and 50-76,000 maternal deaths annually worldwide. Fifteen percent of all US preterm births result from PE, accounting for significant neonatal morbidity and mortality. The immediate US health care costs attributable to PE are estimated at $7 billion per year. PE pathogenesis is thought to begin in the first half of pregnancy with impaired interstitial and endovascular invasion of cytotrophoblasts (CTBs) into the maternal tissue. We recently examined the gene expression profile of the placental basal plate, the region of CTB invasion, in pregnancies complicated by PE, identifying 55 genes that are differentially expressed in PE compared to controls including over 40 novel targets. Our long-range goal is to determine whether these differentially expressed genes play key roles in CTB biology, specifically their role in interstitial and endovascular invasion and their contribution to the early stages of PE. For this proposal, we focus the roles of on two of the differentially expressed genes- leptin and Siglec-6 (sialic acid binding Ig like lectin 6) - in trophoblast invasion. Siglec-6 was originally cloned as a leptin binding protein (OB-BP1) with an intracellular tail containing a conserved immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM) and an ITIM-like motif, suggesting that Siglec-6 has signaling potential. While the B lymphocytes of all studied primates express Siglec-6, only human placenta expresses Siglec-6, which is intriguing given PE is a human-specific disease dependent upon the placenta. Interestingly, the canonical leptin receptors (ObR) were not differentially expressed in our PE microarray data suggesting that Siglec-6 may serve as the critical leptin receptor in PE. Additionally, we have established that leptin can promote human CTB invasion in vitro and that Siglec-6 expression can abrogate this effect in CTB cell lines. These observations lead to our overall hypothesis that overexpression of Siglec-6 plays a role in PE pathogenesis by functioning as an inhibitory leptin receptor to impair CTB invasion. In this proposal we will test the hypothesis that Siglec-6 overexpression inhibits leptin promotion of CTB differentiation and invasion by altering ObR signaling by answering the following questions:
Aim 1. Does Siglec-6 inhibit leptin promotion of human CTB invasion? Aim 2: Are the ObR signaling pathways critical for human CTB invasion modified by Siglec-6 expression? Aim 3: What downstream targets of ObR signaling are altered by Siglec-6 expression during CTB differentiation and invasion? Discovering how the PE-associated molecules leptin and Siglec-6 regulate CTB invasion will determine their potential role in early PE pathogenesis. Ultimately, understanding the complex pathways that regulate trophoblast invasion will provide the insights needed to develop novel preventative, diagnostic and/or treatment strategies geared at the cause rather than the consequences of this serious pregnancy disease, thereby improving the health of the 8 million woman-infant pairs annually afflicted by PE.
Preeclampsia is a disorder that affects four to eight percent of pregnancies and is a leading cause of death among pregnant women worldwide. Women with preeclampsia (PE) experience swelling and high blood pressure in the second half of pregnancy that can progress to stroke, heart attack, liver dysfunction, or seizure. For the baby, PE can cause growth failure or stillbirth. Those babies that do survive have an increased risk of disorders as adults including diabetes and heart disease.
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Supporting people with autism to make friends, have fun and share their unique brilliance.
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Making Friends is the inspiring story of how having access to a youth club or social group has changed the lives of many people with autism, from one of social isolation, exclusion, anxiety and depression to one of inclusion, friendships and fun!
It is a must read for anyone on the spectrum or with associated conditions who is feeling isolated and alone!
I am a qualified teacher, youth and community worker and equine facilitated learning practitioner with over 20 years experience of working with young people. For the past seven years I have been running youth clubs for young people on the autism spectrum and am dedicated to supporting all young people in reaching their potential, developing meaningful relationships and increasing their emotional resilience. I am also a trustee for Autism Jersey, Jersey Community Relations Trust and the founder of the charity EASD - Equine Assisted Self Development. (registered charity number 376 Association of Jersey Charities) | <urn:uuid:1245a832-c127-4ac5-8d80-1afd3c3a2aff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://la.blurb.com/b/3515342-making-friends | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950706 | 207 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Crisis often opens the floodgates for new perceptions to appear in ways that cannot happen when people are locked into their habitual cycles. What new perceptions have been turning up in your life due to the Corona event? Has it altered in some way your view of life? Or, your view of the future?
Now before we continue. We would all rather the Corona event will have not happened in consideration of the untold suffering of its casualties and courageous, unselfish sacrifice of those that are there, day and night, to save lives. This, next to the devastating for many emotional, domestic and economic stress caused by the lockdown. But it has happened, so next to the suffering, at the other side of the crisis, there exists a rare window of opportunity that if properly harnessed, can make the world a better place to live in for us and future generations.
Here are three perspectives to contemplate.
Let’s start with clean, fresh air. New Delhi’s normal air pollution levels are around twenty times higher than the top limit set by the World Health Organization. Some children do not know what a clear blue sky looks like. Which they are all experiencing today. Fresh, clean air and blue skies. A virus put a (short-term) end to the climate change debate regarding CO2 levels and the like. It did not have to wait for 2050 for it to happen. If, a few months ago, you would have told anyone that global air quality will vastly improve in a matter of weeks they would have said… what..?
Let’s move on to another perspective, which is that of gaining a decidedly clearer view regarding the difference between the important and the unimportant. What is your experience? Do you find yourself being able to draw nearer to what is important in ways that eluded you before the Corona standstill? As though a ‘what is important catalyst’ has been thrown into the system.
And now to the most significant perspective, which is that of new forces accessing people’s mentation in unprecedented ways. Did you notice that in breaking life-long habits, a space for something else is created; a ‘something else’ that is waiting in the wings to access human mentation but cannot due to the fact of the over-crowdedness of the human mind?
Now, what is that ‘something else?’ Might it be bits of a fantastic new future that is waiting to happen, while it observes the world celebrating all sorts of deviant futures, such as the future of AI, the future of vaccinations, the future of all sorts of unnecessary technologies… Because the real future is about human development and evolution – the quality of process happening in people and the development of human cognizance and capacity to live the kind of life that ‘echoes in eternity’.
It is a whole new delicious unknown to explore and discover oneself therein.
They don’t teach this in schools and universities, but they really should. (They are beginning to, though, in some)
And it is also very good for the future of business. Some are already picking up on this fact, realizing that what is happening is catalyzing people’s creative instincts in new, wondrous ways.
The new normal is one with a space for a new future in the making. And you may want a little embassy of it present in your life.
With very best wishes to you and yours,
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You can use aluminium soda or beer cans in all kinds of craft projects. The pop tabs on soda cans can be strung on cord or linked into chains. Ordinary pliers and strong scissors are sufficient to cut and shape cans, although tin snips will make things easier. Other useful equipment includes masking tape, a ruler, a pencil and steel wool for smoothing cut edges. These edges may be sharp, so handle them carefully.
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You can make pendants out of sections cut from a soda or beer can, modelling clay and paint. The results resemble enamel jewellery. Air-drying clay works well. Choose a can with a pretty and colourful design, then cut pieces out of it using scissors or tin snips. Roll out the clay to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut it into oblong shapes and press the cut pieces face up in each oblong. Leave a 1/4- inch margin around the pieces and fold it to act as a "frame." Decorate the frames by sculpting the edges with a toothpick or skewer. Punch holes in the top of the frames and thread embroidery floss or ribbon through them. Allow the clay to harden. Use acrylic paint to colour the frames.
Turn cans into lanterns. One method is to cut the top off the can and punch holes in its side. Fill the can with water and then freeze it solid. The ice will hold the can in shape while you punch holes in it with a nail. Alternatively, cut slits all the way around an ice-filled can, leaving the top and bottom attached. Gently bend the strips of metal outwards to form a lantern shape. Place a tea-light inside the can.
Remove the top and wash and dry a soda or beer can. Roll out a flat sheet of coloured polymer clay approximately the same height as the can and 1/2 inch longer that the circumference. Make letters and shapes from contrasting colours of clay and place them on the flat sheet. Roll again, flattening the design elements into the clay. Wrap the decorated clay around the can, face out. Press the overlapping ends together. Trim any excess from the top and bottom. Make a thin rope of clay and cover the edge of the can. Dry the clay according to the manufacturer's instructions.
You'll need jump rings for this project. You can make your own by wrapping loops of wire around a small pencil and cutting them or use ready-made jump rings. Use pliers to open the jump rings. Connect the tabs together in a chain by fixing jump rings through the holes in the tabs. You can connect them vertically or side by side using two jump rings at a time. Alternatively, you can string the tabs on a ribbon or thong.
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The recent events that occurred in the United States show that history is not just a matter of the past.
On June 1, 2020, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian defined racial discrimination in the United States as a social
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China and the US are contending their respective technological supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) – in turn,
The Chinese zodiac entered into the Year of the Pig on February 5, 2019. Feng Shui masters predicted disorder and
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This is a retired product. There is an updated version available: KIT-13197
Description: Replacement:RTL-11445. The new version of this kit has the latest revision of the XBee Shield and replaces the discontinued chip antenna XBee modules with the new trace antenna modules. This page is for reference only.
This is the same product as the XBee Shield with a multitude of extra parts including 2 XBee modules, the popular XBee Explorer, and headers for the shield. All these parts comes in fancy clamshell packaging meant for our distributors that need it. Regular customers are welcome to order, but we want to limit the amount of extra packaging finding its way into the trash heap.
Our entire goal for the XBee Kit was to make wireless communication simple. Connect one XBee to the shield and your Arduino, connect the other XBee to the Explorer board and your computer, and you’ll be able to seamlessly pass serial data to and from your Arduino wirelessly! Using this connection, you can transmit remote sensor data, or send data from your computer to update a scoreboard, or drive a robot from your keyboard!
The XBee Shield mates directly with an Arduino Pro or USB board, and equips it with wireless communication capabilities using the popular XBee module. This is SparkFun’s own design and is a distant relative to the official XBee Shield from Arduino.
The serial pins (DIN and DOUT) of the XBee are connected through an SPDT switch, which allows you to select a connection to either the UART pins (D0, D1) or any digital pins on the Arduino (D2 and D3 default). Power is taken from the 5V pin of the Arduino and regulated on-board to 3.3VDC before being supplied to the XBee. The shield also takes care of level shifting on the DIN pin of the XBee.
The board also includes LEDs to indicate power and activity on DIN, DOUT, RSSI, and DIO5 pins of the XBee. The Arduino’s reset button is brought out on the shield, and a 12x11 grid of 0.1" holes are available for prototyping.
Note: This kit does not include a USB to Mini-B cable. We seem to magically grow two of these a week with all the electronic gadgets we have around. So if you don’t have one already, pick one up.
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As experts in the conference industry, we’ve come across some weird and wonderful conference room names. For us, the best conference room names have one thing in common: they follow a set theme. Large companies often choose themes that connect people to the company, while making them feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves. In addition to this, some organisations choose to follow themes that relate directly to their business. For example, Twitter’s conference rooms are named after birds, while Elon Musk’s space travel company SpaceX, has named their conference rooms after famous astronauts and scientists.
Landmarks are an awesome idea for conference room themes because they are likely to resonate with at least a few conference attendees. If you’re thinking global, some options include the Statue of Liberty, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramid of Giza.
This is one of our favourite themes for large companies that have multiple meeting rooms. People often go for local craft beers but we also love the idea of using summer cocktails as inspiration.
For those looking to go a little more old-school, we’d like to present you with the “Best Composers of All Time” theme. I mean, who wouldn’t want to walk into a conference room named after Mozart or Beethoven?
Imagine kick-starting attendees’ motivation by leading them through the doors of a conference room named after their favourite Tech Leader. Think of Musk… Gates… Zuckerberg… Bezos… the list goes on.
There are numerous scientific studies that prove that having plants in a workspace can have a multitude of positive effects on the workforce. These benefits include increasing productivity, reducing stress and boosting creativity to name a few. Some people have taken these studies so seriously that they’ve even named their conference rooms after their favourite flora, and we love it! | <urn:uuid:ad3eebe1-5a27-4bdb-a8ad-a446f3d4f7d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://congressrental.co.za/whats-in-a-name-our-favourite-conference-room-themes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.959912 | 389 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Bupleurum, also called Chinese Thoroughwax, is one of the more important herbs used in Oriental medicine. It has a reputation for its ability to relieve liver tension and digestive disturbances, and because it is detoxifying and antimicrobial. Bupleurum has the ability, when combined with other herbs to clear stagnation virtually anywhere in the body. It can be used to relieve spasms, muscle tension, lumps, bleeding due to heat and menstrual irregularity. The essential oil in Bupleurum is responsible for its ability to relieve surface heat.
The active ingredients in bupleurum root include saponins and plant sterols, which have been shown to lower fevers and reduce inflammation in animal studies. It is used for a variety of conditions, including inflammatory conditions, angina, nausea, vomiting, and fever. It also strengthens the stomach and intestines and promotes blood circulation to the liver.
In traditional Chinese medicine, bupleurum is not usually used alone, but rather as part of various herbal remedies. Bupleurum is the primary herb in dozens of classical formulations which serve a wide variety of harmonizing activities, and all of which regulate body energy, allowing it to flow freely and in a balanced manner, and for relieving blockages in the body and then discharging the toxin safely out of the system. Bupleurum formulas are extremely useful at the early stages of tonic use in helping to establish radiant health. They serve the purposes of relieving blocks, imbalances and tension while eliminating toxins. As time goes by, these formulas become less and less necessary until they are only used occasionally, if at all.
The amount of Bupleurum to be taken depends in large part on the condition being treated. For general use, many practitioners recommend 1.5-6gm of dried root in a decoction, or 3-12ml of a 1:2 extract.
Although safe in normal doses, large amounts of bupleurum may cause dizziness or diarrhea. It should not be taken by patients with high blood pressure or by women who are pregnant or nursing.
Chinese Thoroughwax (Bupleurum falcatum) can help with the following
Bupleurum can be considered when fevers of unexplained origin are occurring.
A series of 10 cases comprised 5 males and 5 females were treated with Minor Decoction of Bupleurum for a low platelet count. The duration of the condition was 4-72 days, averaging 30 days. All cases manifested purpura in the skin and mucosa, with nose bleed in 7 cases, gingival hemorrhage in 4 cases and uterine bleeding in 2 cases.
The classical Minor Decoction of Bupleurum consists of Radix Bupleuri, Radix Ginseng, Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Radix Scutellariae, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, and Fructus Ziziphi Jujubae. The authors modified the prescription by eliminating Rhizoma Pinelliae and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and adding Herba Equiseti Hiemalis 15gm, Herba Verbenae 15gm, and Radix Rehmanniae 15gr. For patients with severe hemorrhage, the mixture was administered once daily by intravenous drip. The mixture consisted on 5% glucose solution, 250-300 ml, dicynone 2.0 gm, adrenobazone 20 mg, vitamin K 8-12 mg, vitamin C 500 mg, and p-aminomehyl benzoic acid .3 gm. For cases with dripping uterine bleeding, pituitrin 5-10 IU was added. The intravenous medication was terminated when hemorrhage was alleviated. For anemia due to blood loss, ferreous agents were administered.
The duration of treatment was 14-44 days, averaging 28 days. Skin and mucosa hemorrhages stopped in all cases and the blood platelet count rose averaging 121. The therapeutic results were deemed markedly effective in 6 cases and fairly effective in one; the remaining 3 cases dropped out of follow-up.
Bupleurum has a unique reputation for deeply cleansing an overburdened liver.
Contains steroid-like substances that reduce liver inflammation.
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Herbs may be used as dried extracts (capsules, powders, teas), glycerites (glycerine extracts), or tinctures (alcohol extracts). Unless otherwise indicated, teas should be made with one teaspoon herb per cup of hot water. Steep covered 5 to 10 minutes for leaf or flowers, and 10 to 20 minutes for roots. Tinctures may be used singly or in combination as noted. The high doses of single herbs suggested may be best taken as dried extracts (in capsules), although tinctures (60 drops four times per day) and teas (4 to 6 cups per day) may also be used.
Tending to destroy microbes, hinder their multiplication or growth.
Volatile terpene derivative responsible for the odor or taste of a plant.
Any of various mostly toxic glucosides that occur in plants (as soapwort or soapbark) and are characterized by the property of producing a soapy lather.
A large subgroup of steroids.
Angina pectoris. Severe, restricting chest pain with sensations of suffocation caused by temporary reduction of oxygen to the heart muscle through narrowed diseased coronary arteries.
Symptoms resulting from an inclination to vomit.
A hollow, muscular, J-shaped pouch located in the upper part of the abdomen to the left of the midline. The upper end (fundus) is large and dome-shaped; the area just below the fundus is called the body of the stomach. The fundus and the body are often referred to as the cardiac portion of the stomach. The lower (pyloric) portion curves downward and to the right and includes the antrum and the pylorus. The function of the stomach is to begin digestion by physically breaking down food received from the esophagus. The tissues of the stomach wall are composed of three types of muscle fibers: circular, longitudinal and oblique. These fibers create structural elasticity and contractibility, both of which are needed for digestion. The stomach mucosa contains cells which secrete hydrochloric acid and this in turn activates the other gastric enzymes pepsin and rennin. To protect itself from being destroyed by its own enzymes, the stomach’s mucous lining must constantly regenerate itself.
(gm): A metric unit of weight, there being approximately 28 grams in one ounce.
Liquid prepared by boiling plant material in water for a period of time.
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A systematic groundwater quality-monitoring program was conducted, and a total of 201 groundwater samples were collected. Multivariate and geostatistical techniques were employed to investigate major contamination types and its spatial characteristics in the study area. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reveals that salinity (Factor 1) and nutrient (Factor 2) are very predominant contaminants in the shallow coastal aquifer. The factor (F1 and F2) scores of each well during three seasons were indicated a spatial correlation of salinity factor (F1) up to 10 km and no spatial correlation were found for nutrient factor (F2).
Keywords: coastal aquifers, groundwater, PCA, principal component analysis, geostatistics, nitrate pollution, India, water pollution, water quality, quality monitoring, water monitoring, salinity | <urn:uuid:535b157c-a0ac-4f0b-b53d-b2d851c9bb5c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/evaluation-of-regional-groundwater-quality-using-pca-and-geostatistics-in-the-urban-coastal-aquifer--83277 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948989 | 166 | 2.25 | 2 |
Relationships of overstory trees and shrubs with forage species portray ecosystem service interactions in smallholder fallows
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Sircely, J. and Naeem, S. 2013. Relationships of overstory trees and shrubs with forage species portray ecosystem service interactions in smallholder fallows. Agroforestry Systems 87:451-464
Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/34475
Interactions among ecosystem services are increasingly perceived as important to ecosystem service delivery. Synergies and trade-offs among ecosystem services arise through direct ecological interactions or indirectly through correlated responses to other factors. To investigate whether and how interactions of overstory trees and shrubs with livestock forage species growing beneath generate ecosystem service interactions, overstory and forage species were examined in smallholder fallows in western Kenya. In 18 grazed and 21 improved fallows, we estimated biomass and quantified soil properties. We assessed whether the overstory reduces forage biomass and quality through competition, and whether overstory niche complementarity ameliorates competition or enhances facilitation. In improved fallows, forage biomass declined with overstory biomass, indicating competition and a wood-forage trade-off. In grazed fallows, biomass of higher quality forage species increased with overstory biomass, indicating a synergy, likely indirect. Niche complementarity, quantified as taxonomic and functional diversity, did not appear influential. Forage quality was not associated with overstory characteristics, but declined with grazing intensity. The contrasting relationships between overstory and forage species among fallow types appear ultimately attributable to the presence and intensity of grazing and the dense overstory in improved fallows.
Investors/sponsorsBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Pim van Boxsel was a Dutch illustrator and fine artist. He was born in Singapore as the son of an administrator with the Dutch Royal Packet Navigation Company. He has spent his childhood in Sumatra, East-Borneo, Batavia and Bandung. He was emprisoned in internment camps by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945, a period he spent making caricatures and portraits.
He settled in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1946 where he attended art school. He worked for the Pätz advertising agency and in 1950 he became an illustrator for De Geïllustreerde Pers, the publisher of magazines like Margriet and Revue. He also made drawings for Vrij Nederland, Week in Beeld and Het Parool. He did cartoons and designs for Mandril, as well as many drawings for advertisements.
During the 1960s Van Boxsel made illustrations for Vara-gids and the 'Biggles' books by Het Spectrum, while publishing his surrealistic drawings in Taboe. He made the comic strip 'Cartouche' for Romance in 1961, and served as political cartoonist for De Nieuwe Linie from 1966.
His picture story 'De wonderlijke avonturen van Philomene' was published as a promotional gift in the series Kwadraatbladen by the Hilversum-based printing firm De Jong & Co in 1966. He ended his assocation with De Geïllustreerde Pers in 1967 and was hired as a drawing teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem. He made book illustrations and exhibited his fine art throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He passed away from heart failure in Amsterdam in 1995. | <urn:uuid:3586b45b-87e5-4a00-8d83-400171d6ffeb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/boxsel_pim_van.htm?lan=dutch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00425-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968993 | 357 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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The Government of Goa had came up various schemes, programmes, yojana for the people of the state under the respective State Departments and implementing with the coordination of Government Ministries of India in the sectors such as Education, Entrepreneur, Women and Child etc. This section gives the detailed information about the Goa Government schemes. These schemes include various aspects as Eligibility Criteria (Who can apply?), Benefits (What can you get?), How to apply (Whom and where to Contact?), Beneficiaries, and detailed scheme etc.
Schemes Sectors are listed below
Detailed information of Goa Government schemes, scholarships, fellowships and programmes of Education. This helps as per the type of students (viz.Category Students, Students with Disabilities & Minority Students ) etc.
Goa Government Offers a number of schemes for women and child. This helps the women and child belonging to Scheduled Caste(SC) and Scheduled Tribe(ST), Other Backward Classes(OBC), Socially and Educationally Backward Classes(SEBC), Minority Category, below poverty line(BPL) and also for General Category
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Born in 1849 in Indiana, William Merritt Chase showed artistic talent as a young boy. His family arranged for him to begin formal training in art at the age of eighteen with a local portrait painter in Indianapolis. In 1869 Chase went to New York, where for two years he was a student at the National Academy of Design. He moved briefly to St. Louis, as his family had relocated there, and in 1872, sponsored by contributions from a group of St. Louis art patrons, Chase went to Munich to attend the Royal Academy, something that had been his dream for years. In Munich he studied with Karl von Piloty, who helped him to perfect a quick, bold brushstroke and taught him the dramatic Munich “dark manner.” A few years later Chase abandoned this somber palette in favor of the lighter tones of French impressionism. He returned to New York in 1878 to teach at the Art Students League, a position he held until 1896, when he opened his own art school in the city. Suited to teaching by intellect and personality, he began a long and successful career. He traveled abroad continually, looking at new art and old—the paintings of Velázquez, Whistler, Sargent, as well as Japanese prints—eventually incorporating travel into his teaching career by taking his students abroad.
By 1874 Chase was established in his Tenth Street studio, located in a building that was a center for artists. His works often contain views of his studio, an aesthetic setting extravagantly furnished with art and decorative objects he had collected. In his studio, Chase painted, taught, and entertained other artists, students, and patrons. His early portraits and figural compositions show backgrounds that are loosely brushed, with abstract geometric arrangements of paintings, mirrors, and textiles as a foil for the figure, creating a lively counterpoint of straight and curving forms.
In 1886 Chase married Alice Gerson, who had been his model. Not only did he depict his wife frequently in his paintings, but also their many children. The family spent their summers in a large house in Shinnecock, Long Island, N.Y., and the fresh and sparkling outdoor scenes he painted there established Chase’s reputation as a superb landscape painter. Between 1891 and 1902 Chase directed a summer school in Shinnecock Hills, which became the most important outdoor art school in America.
He was elected president of the Society of American Artists in 1885, a position he held for the next ten years, and in 1890 he was elected academician in the National Academy of Design. Chase was a well-known and prolific artist. His paintings were admired in the United States and abroad for their luminous color, virtuoso brushstroke, and assured composition, and his work was exhibited widely, often winning prestigious awards. He was an influential teacher whose students included many of America’s noted modernist painters—Sheeler, O’Keeffe, Hartley, and Demuth among them. Besides founding the Chase School in New York, he traveled regularly to Philadelphia to teach at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and in his later years, taught summer classes in England, Spain, Holland, and Italy. | <urn:uuid:7931481f-7f00-4f9e-b0ec-ec0132fad1f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/chase-bio.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00277-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990592 | 660 | 2.609375 | 3 |
As the world’s most youthful country, Uganda is replete with the energy, innovation and ambition that comes with each new generation.
And yet with one of the highest levels of youth unemployment in Africa, and a population expected to double by 2040, the country is in urgent need of ways in which to channel and benefit from this enormous asset – the youth dividend.
Farming continues to be a major source of income in Uganda, employing around 65% of the working population and accounting for a quarter of the gross domestic product, yet only half of 18 to 30-year-olds find quality work in agriculture.
However, the sector has been severely hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. The disruption to global supply chains has limited access to inputs, and farmers markets due to travel and transport restrictions.
Government estimates shows poverty could increase to between 1.8 to 7.3 percentage points, up from 25.3 %. This would add between 0.5 to 2.07 million poor to rural population (which stood at 7.2 million in 2016/17). In addition to the locust swarms, this could result in a further decline of crop production, depressing farmer incomes.
Uganda’s tech-savvy youth population could help address some of the challenges facing the sector. Born into an entirely digital world, Uganda’s Generation Z is at the forefront of a new era of disruptive, digital technologies. This small but emerging start-up scene is responding to major challenges across Uganda, including agriculture.
With this in mind, the World Bank in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) organized a Disruptive Agricultural Technology (DAT) Challenge in Kampala last year, bringing together young entrepreneurs in agricultural technology who could work with the Agriculture Cluster Development Project (ACDP), a flagship project working to increase farm productivity.
The World Bank has committed more than $150 million in project financing to this project, but this event showcased some of the cutting edge solutions emerging in the field that will yield results for this generation and those that follow.
From m-Omulimisa’s IT platform that equips village extension agents, to mobile banking technologies by Akello Banker, digital financial services from M-Cash and the analytics company, Data Care, the range of innovative applications inspired hope not only for Uganda’s young entrepreneurs but for its smallholders as well. These four enterprises that were selected from hundreds of competitors not only demonstrate the entrepreneurship of young Ugandans but also their potential to solve key development challenges to achieve transformation.
And these developments are long overdue. In almost direct parallel to the rest of the country, the average age of a Ugandan farmer is 54; the sector is aging and urgently needs both the labour and the innovation of young Ugandans.
But what can the agriculture sector offer young people?
With the increasing penetration of mobile phones and internet connectivity in many report parts of Uganda agriculture is an untapped market and offers young people exciting new ways of working on or for farms, away from the traditional back-breaking manual labour of ploughing, seeding and harvesting.
Second, the professionalization of agriculture, thanks to rising levels of digitalisation, means more young people can find work – from software design to value chain development – in rural areas, and not have to migrate to towns and cities to compete for jobs.
And lastly, with the help of new technologies, agriculture can also become more productive and therefore, lucrative, offering a sustainable and profitable career option for more people.
The DAT Challenge may have selected just four winning entrepreneurs to create solutions for the ACDP project, but the opportunities for young people in agriculture are many and varied, and especially in a post COVID-19 environment
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Welcome To Lalibela Trust
Lalibela Trust is a UK registered charity founded in 2012 by Dr. Hugh and Catherine Sharp. The charity works to improve health, education, and drinking water through the construction of health posts, classrooms, and clean water projects in Amhara Region, Northern Ethiopia.
Our Top Priorities
- Work Closely at the Grassroots Level – we always respect the views of local governments and communities in the areas where we work. They have huge experience over many years.
- Stay Local – For 19 years we have remained small and localised. Our Ethiopian team knows the area and local leaders extremely well. This is a huge advantage in garnering respect and local support and in minimising the corruption risk.
- Local Community Participation – our agreements for the construction of projects are all similar.
- We first discuss priorities with the Woreda Departments of Health, Water, and Education. (A woreda is an administrative unit (similar to an English county) comprising around 20 kebeles, population 100,000 – 200,000.)
- In Health and Education, the Woreda must agree to provide and pay health workers and teachers – we will not proceed without this agreement.
- Community participation – We visit the local project site with the Department representatives to meet local leaders. They agree to collect sand, gravel (often by hand-breaking rock) and provide unskilled labour, all free of charge. We provide the cement, corrugated iron, pipes, etc., and the local Ethiopian builder to manage the community workforce.
- On completion, we hand over the building to the community. They must form a committee to maintain it.
- We make unannounced spot-checks to a proportion of the completed projects during our four-monthly visits.
The communities love an Opening Ceremony and this is a chance for local government Heads in Health and Education to promote the use of the new facility. In turn, we say thank you for their manual labour. We then hand the facility over to the community.
4. Report to Donors – We produce a Progress Report on our projects, normally every 4 months. This full report is circulated to our donors and supporters. A summary is included on our NEWS page HERE
5. Zero Administration Costs – All donated money goes to the projects. The Trustees and Principles pay all their own travel, administration, and accommodation expenses. They also fund the Ethiopian Project Manager, Finance Manager, and the 4WD vehicle, from their own pockets.
The communities love an Opening Ceremony. This enables government Heads in Health and Education to promote the use of the new facility and for us to thank the community for their manual labour. We then hand the facility over to the community.
The principles under which Lalibela Trust works have evolved since the first visit to Ethiopia of Dr. Hugh Sharp, now Chairman of Lalibela Trust, and Catherine Sharp, in 2003. During that trip, they stayed in the small historic town of Lalibela, in one of the poorest areas of northern Ethiopia. They were shocked at the poverty in the whole area and especially at the conditions in the small hospital in the town. They resolved to take action. At subsequent visits, they and their supporters funded a wide range of projects.
Hugh and Catherine lived in Glastonbury, Somerset and they promoted in 2007 the twinning of Glastonbury with Lalibela. They also secured funding for Lalibela Trust from two major Somerset donors – J.A. Clark Charitable Trust and Festival Medical Services, particularly for a new Maternity Unit in Lalibela Hospital, opened in 2020. In addition, Hugh and Catherine developed a relationship with Millfield School, in which students still contribute annually substantial sums for projects in Lalibela High School.
In 2010 they met Norman Coward and Carole Andrews, who had been building Health, Water, and School projects around Lalibela since 2002. The relationship between Norman and Carole and Lalibela Trust has grown and developed to today’s wide range of Lalibela Trust programmes. They visit Lalibela 3-4 times per year and employ a small team there, at their own expense. | <urn:uuid:3a2578d5-d172-4365-9d30-15f00b499cde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lalibela.org.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.945668 | 879 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Effects of exercise training on in vivo insulin action in individual tissues of the rat
It has previously been suggested that exercise training leads to increased whole body insulin sensitivity. However, the specific tissues and metabolic pathways involved have not been examined in vivo. By combining the euglycemic clamp with administration of glucose tracers, [3H]2-deoxyglucose (2DG), [14C]glucose, and [3H]glucose, in vivo insulin action at the whole body level and within individual tissues has been assessed in exercise-trained (ET, running 1 h/d for 7 wk) and sedentary control rats at four insulin doses. Whole body insulin sensitivity was significantly increased in ET. In addition, the skeletal muscles, soleus, red and white gastrocnemius, extensor digitorum longus (EDL), and diaphragm all showed increased sensitivity of insulin-stimulated 2DG uptake with training. With the exception of EDL, no significant difference in insulin-mediated glycogen synthesis between control and ET could be found. Therefore, the increased insulin-induced 2DG uptake observed in muscle following training is apparently directed towards glucose oxidation. In ET animals, adipose tissue exhibited a significant increase in insulin-mediated 2DG uptake and [14C]glucose incorporation into free fatty acids but there was no difference from control in any parameters measured in lung or liver. EDL and white gastrocnemius, which are not primarily involved during exercise of this type, also demonstrated increased insulin sensitivity following training. In conclusion, exercise training results in a marked increase in whole body insulin sensitivity related mainly to increased glucose oxidation in skeletal muscle. This effect may be mediated by systemic as well as local factors and is likely to be of therapeutic value in pathological conditions exhibiting insulin resistance.
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NetChoice and CCIA sue a second state in the wake of Florida’s enjoined Law, SB 7072
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 22, 2021): Today, NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) sued the State of Texas to enjoin and invalidate HB 20, citing the First Amendment and other constitutional violations. This lawsuit follows the signing of HB 20 by Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday, September 9, 2021.
In May, NetChoice and CCIA sued the state of Florida to challenge similar legislation, SB 7072, on multiple constitutional grounds in order to protect American internet users, consumers, small businesses, and free speech. NetChoice and CCIA were granted an injunction against state enforcement of the law.
Today, NetChoice and CCIA took action to defend the First Amendment and protect the freedoms and safety of those online by filing suit in Texas against HB 20.
The lawsuit explains that:
- Internet platforms have a First Amendment right to curate content and decide whether to host specific kinds of speech.
- The Act empowers the State of Texas to police and control speech online, violating the First Amendment rights of online businesses.
- The Act tramples the First Amendment by allowing the government to force private businesses to host speech they’d otherwise remove or restrict.
- The Act targets and punishes specific politically disfavored speakers for exercising their First Amendment rights.
- The Act will fail under any level of First Amendment analysis.
“Allowing HB 20 to take effect will inflict significant harm on Texans by threatening the safety of users, creators, and businesses that use these websites to reach audiences in a family-friendly way,” said Steve DelBianco, President and CEO of NetChoice. “No American should ever be forced to navigate through harmful and offensive images, videos and posts.”
“Given that Florida’s similar law has been enjoined because of constitutional violations, Texas should repeal this flawed attempt to force private businesses to host political speech against their will,” continued DelBianco.
The NetChoice/CCIA lawsuit describes how HB 20 blatantly defies the First Amendment. Not only does it compel private online businesses to host content they would otherwise remove or restrict, it applies “viewpoint-based restrictions” to all users and specifically prevents websites from deciding based on the “viewpoint” expressed in the post. In fact, it is for this reason HB 20 is even more unconstitutional than Florida’s law and cannot withstand First Amendment scrutiny.
The Constitution prohibits federal and state governments, not private actors, from restricting Americans’ right to free expression. Because America’s technology companies are not government actors, Texas cannot justify HB 20’s restrictions by stating the law protects Texans’ First Amendment rights. HB 20 intrudes on technology companies’ editorial decisions and will not survive under either strict or intermediate scrutiny.
“This unconstitutional Texas law threatens all our First Amendment freedoms and will be struck down by the courts the same way the Florida version was. Americans should oppose lawmakers stampeding over the First Amendment rights of private individuals and private online businesses, especially when the aftershocks will ripple beyond just Texas alone,” said Carl Szabo, Vice President and General Counsel of NetChoice.
“Texas HB 20 is an example of lawmakers saying this law protects free expression and free enterprise when it actually moves us closer to state-run media and state-run internet,” continued Szabo. “This is exactly why our Founders created the First Amendment—to protect us from the government telling us what we can and cannot say.”
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So, you will finally spend your so dreamed about summer in Italy! Being the knowledgeable people we are, we feel the duty of letting you in on facts that will help enjoy your cherished holidays while avoiding the cons (because, as with everything else in life, there are, and you may easily skip those by bearing with us and pay attention to these tips).
Summer is getting closer and Italy may well be your next holiday destination, so why don’t you learn some basic Italian hotel phrases to help you interact with the locals? Learning a few Italian words and phrases will be very useful during your journey.
In Italy, most of the people who work in hotels, b&bs, restaurants, etc. speak English, but their English level is sometimes limited. For this reason, we recommend that you learn a bit of Italian in order to reduce the risk of misunderstandings.
So, have a look at our list of basic Italian hotel phrases below Continue reading
You may go to Italy one day and need some basic Italian phrases to interact with the locals, so let’s learn some Italian phrases to use in a restaurant. So, you have decided to learn Italian and Parlando Italiano can certainly help you! Remember that learning new vocabulary is very important when you study a foreign language.
The following Italian phrases will help you during your stay in Italy. If you want to discover more useful Italian words and phrases, have a look at our list of Italian phrases for travellers. Here are some Italian phrases to use in a restaurant. | <urn:uuid:88bd1531-b39c-48af-ad9a-85fa911aad35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myitalianlessons.co.uk/tag/italian-for-travellers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.963375 | 312 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Domestic water payment schemes are often a product of their time, place and what is perceived to be customary. Aspects that payment schemes can take into account include resource conservation, equity, maintainability, and profitability. In contemporary Sweden profitable environmentally sustainable solutions are promoted, such as the introduction of volumetric billing of water in rental apartments. This paper describes the detailed consequences of this change in the payment structure for domestic water in terms of reduced resource consumption, direct impact on household economies and perceptions of the system's change process. By combining high-resolution quantitative data on water usage and socio-economic household characteristics with qualitative data from semi-standardized interviews with residents, it is possible to identify the different impacts of the system's change and how the process was experienced. It was shown that while water usage decreased by 30%, 63% of the households had increased monthly costs, and unemployed residents were further disadvantaged and closer to social exclusion. Focusing on making environmental sustainability profitable, as posited in ecological modernization theory, may shadow negative impacts on social sustainability. | <urn:uuid:f8dd2964-2ca6-4286-bd5c-4501aac5361f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/the-transformative-effect-of-the-introduction-of-water-volumetric-billing-in-a-disadvantaged-housing-449573 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962577 | 210 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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