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Are you not sure if you are actually doing math”? Are your math activities an afterthought in your childcare program? Bring math to the forefront with these spinner and dice game ideas that are easy-to-make, educational and just plain fun for the children! We will take a look at why game playing is so effective for math learning and then use this information for practical application. Learn about perennial” games you can implement in your programs tomorrow and the day after!
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Successful Woodworking Projects For Beginners
If you are searching for a side organization, woodworking tasks can be a rewarding side hustle. Making points with your own two hands is among one of the most prominent pastimes right now, however not everybody has the moment to discover all the technical skills needed to do so. With numerous people trying to find unique presents for their loved ones, this pastime could be the best means to generate income. People appreciate one-of-a-kind presents and will certainly be happy to pay you for them.
Beginner woodworking projects
There are numerous novices woodworking jobs to pick from. Even though woodworking can be difficult, these tasks do not require specialist devices. These projects can be anything, from sculpt racks to pet beds. Even if you've never carved a solitary piece of wood, you can master it and move on to harder woodworking projects in time. Additionally, novices will acquire self-confidence and also experience via these woodworking jobs and also will certainly be able to tackle harder jobs in the future.
There are a lot of means to use scrap wood. A simple, functional beer caddy can be developed making use of pallet wood. Newbie woodworking projects might also involve furnishings. For instance, a basic side table can be made from a 4×4 cut to size. This simple job can also work as a place to save precious jewelry. You can also use it to show a lovely vase. It is an exceptional interior design task as well as doesn't require a lot of wood glue or devices.
Easy DIY woodworking jobs
If you're a newbie woodworker, you can begin by making something as basic as a wall shelf. This will certainly aid you practice social distancing while you work. As you get better at woodworking, you can increase the variety of projects you make, as well as your series of abilities will certainly expand. Ensure to always function securely! Check Out the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Tips for Machine Shop Work and also take extra like follow their standards.
Before you start your task, consider how much earnings it can bring. Developing larger products will certainly generate a higher earnings, however they will also take longer to make as well as call for even more skills. A deck swing will certainly call for even more knowledge than a image structure, for instance. You ought to decide on the size and sort of wood you'll make use of for your job after thinking about the earnings possibility. This will certainly help you decide whether your task will certainly be a money-maker or a enjoyable pastime.
Lucrative woodworking jobs
You might have heard that making wood playthings is a successful woodworking job. It is true! Timber playthings always offer, and you can conveniently value them for a profit as soon as you have actually invested time making them. Nonetheless, some playthings may need more initiative than others. They could additionally require more layout work, yet all of them can be rewarding woodworking tasks Listed below are some suggestions for wood toys. Rewarding woodworking jobs for beginners.
Among the easiest and also most prominent woodworking jobs is making rustic layer shelfs. These are great for the holidays, and also are relatively affordable to make. All you need is beefy timber, nails, and also functioned iron wall mounts. When you've developed your racks, you can market them for a tidy revenue. Various other successful woodworking jobs consist of making fruit bowls. Fruit bowls are both practical and also attractive. If you make them out of wood, they'll look even more impressive. Making them is a wonderful means to consume your scrap timber, while making a sale at the same time.
Creative woodworking jobs.
If you're a fan of craft beer, you can build a wood table or chair that can be made use of as a storage area. This ingenious project uses a hacksaw to sculpt a item of timber into each section. As soon as reduced, the piece can be reversed to appear like a blended tape. It's likewise excellent for celebrations! Below are a few even more concepts for creative woodworking projects. The opportunities are unlimited.
Craft beer is preferred now more than ever, so you can quickly target this expanding group. Beer container pet crates are excellent since they attract the vintage-chic group. They are additionally straightforward as well as quick to make, with a high return on investment. To make the job much more enticing, you can repaint it with chalk paint, distress it, or leave it as is. This DIY task is additionally a terrific means to make added cash.
Easy Woodworking Ideas For Beginners
If you're looking for some easy woodworking projects, look no more! The jobs listed below are great for newbies and also can consist of every little thing from youngsters' plaything box furniture to wardrobe coordinators and also wine racks. Keep reading to figure out more! You can also make something for your very own enjoyment by customizing existing home things. You can also find out new woodworking methods with these suggestions. You can additionally create something one-of-a-kind for your residence to flaunt your skills as well as skill.
Easy woodworking tasks
If you're a beginner, among the most convenient woodworking tasks for you to deal with is constructing a planter box. You'll need a tablesaw, some scrap lumber, as well as a basic collection of directions to make this helpful product. However, if you're simply finding out the ropes, this task can also serve as an outstanding understanding tool. Newbie tasks can additionally function as motivation for more intricate jobs that you may wish to tackle.
Baby furniture is among the easiest woodworking projects. A lot of parents spend a lot of cash on infant items. You can create a cute wooden crib plaything or a wood swing for your child. You can likewise make a cute little wooden image frame for your kid's space out of scraps. Just make certain to smooth the wood before you start constructing it. After that you can transform the style to stand for anything you desire.
Easy woodworking projects for kids
Whether you're searching for a means to get your youngsters associated with a meaningful activity or merely want to reveal them that you care, there are numerous very easy woodworking jobs for children to think about. Woodworking projects are enjoyable and engaging for youngsters, and also they can create skills that will certainly last them a lifetime. Not just do they aid kids establish their creativity, however they likewise make terrific family members tasks, also! To make your kid's next job, beginning by figuring out what you desire them to construct.
You can choose straightforward woodworking jobs for children, such as playing tables and also plaything cars and trucks. As they age, you can proceed to more intricate as well as difficult jobs. Woodworking tasks are among the most effective gifts you can offer a kid. Your kid will discover important skills as well as be delighted concerning woodworking, and also they'll take pleasure in helping you create the things they'll desire. So get going today! You'll be glad you did!
Easy woodworking projects for wardrobes
If you are a novice or a do-it-yourselfer, you can create your own storage room shelving with easy devices. To create a customized storage room, acquisition 3/4-inch birch plywood as well as develop a custom-sized top as well as side rack for your bedroom closet. For a advanced DIY project, you can even construct a custom-sized storage room coordinator. You can find the instructions for making these coordinators at lots of woodworking publications and also website.
If you are a newbie, you can construct a simple mail organizer or a huge wardrobe utilizing a do it yourself kit. To make this job, you require basic tools and also an periodic power device. For faster work, a power saw and Kreg Jig are needed. A do it yourself Mail coordinator is a terrific task for the starting woodworker. You can also construct other styles by using various other woods and also making use of the exact same tools.
Easy woodworking projects for wine cellar
If you're looking for a enjoyable woodworking task to complete this weekend, consider developing your very own wine rack! This easy woodworking task entails developing two wine racks from pallets. Among them will certainly serve as a book rack while the various other is an entrance item. Pallets are excellent for diy tasks because they're made from natural timber. You can develop your own pallet wine cellar with a jigsaw or scroll saw, yet I advise utilizing a scroll saw instead.
One more low-cost wine cellar you can make yourself is a wall placed wine rack. This sort of rack is very easy to make as well as can be placed on the wall surface. You'll require a jigsaw to cut the grooves and toenail the boards with each other. You can make use of the wood in its all-natural color, or discolor as well as paint it to match your space's decoration. A wall surface mounted wine cellar is the best size for a white wine bar location, as well as it's cost-effective to construct.
Sorts Of Woodworking Tools and also Methods
The numerous sorts of woodworking tools can be categorized right into 5 basic categories: Building, Furnishings, Boats, Forehead, as well as Marquetry. Discover just how to use your devices and also begin building today. As soon as you feel confident with your abilities, attempt developing a tiny version. You can likewise make your very own furnishings by complying with very easy woodworking projects. These plans will certainly aid you construct your very first project. Read on for more information. Also, have a look at my overview to woodworking tools as well as strategies.
There are several kinds of woodworking, and also a woodworking task can be categorized as either tough or soft relying on the type of material. Wood is any kind of tree with a large fallen leave bearing structure, such as oak or maple. Softwood is any type of tree that does not generate a fallen leave bearing structure, such as want or cedar. Woodworking building and construction normally entails structure structures that are planned to hold weight, such as tables as well as furniture. There are also specialized tasks within woodworking, such as framing.
If you have actually ever desired for designing and also making your very own furniture, after that woodworking may be the right option for you. This handbook will educate you how to build stunning pieces of furniture, whether you're producing a bed for a viewers or an classy workbench. It includes a range of strategies as well as ideas from specialist developers. And you'll find out all about the many advantages of woodworking. So, start today!
The initial step in making a wooden boat is to choose a style and a strategy. Many individuals choose to design their boat from the ground up, however this requires time and also effort. Besides, it can be unsafe. You may wish to utilize a schematic or a plan to aid you build a wooden boat, especially if you're unfamiliar with ship style. If you would love to build your own boat, you can also acquire a set, which has the devices you require.
If you enjoy restoring antique items for your house, you may intend to consider making Plows for woodworking. This traditional tool looks like the old fashioned plow that is pulled by horses. You can position it in a blossom bed or even in your yard. You can acquire a complete size pattern for it. It determines 31″ high and also 63″ long. The pattern additionally consists of instructions for redecorating and also assembling it.
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...Nevirapine should not be administered to patients with moderate or severe (Child Pugh Class B or C, respectively) hepatic impairment...
...A patient experiencing a mild to moderate rash without constitutional symptoms during the 14-day lead-in period of 200 mg/day (150 mg/m2/day in pediatric patients) should not have their Viramune dose increased until the rash has resolved. The total duration of the once daily lead-in dosing period should not exceed 28 days at which point an alternative regimen should be sought...
Concomitant use of St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) or St. John's wort containing products and Viramune is not recommended. Co-administration of St. John’s wort with non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), including Viramune, is expected to substantially decrease NNRTI concentrations and may result in sub-optimal levels of Viramune and lead to loss of virologic response and possible resistance to Viramune or to the class of NNRTIs.
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Committee to study how to better protect gig workers
The advisory committee on platform workers will study how to strengthen protection of delivery workers, private-hire car drivers and cabbies, said Senior Minister of State for Manpower Koh Poh Koon yesterday.
It will also look into "ensuring a more balanced relationship" between them and the companies they work with, as well as compensation and better protection from workplace injuries, he said.
Several MPs had asked about protections for gig workers.
In his National Day Rally speech on Aug 29, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) would study how to better support such workers.
He noted that workers for delivery platforms such as foodpanda, Grab and Deliveroo have no employment contracts and lack basic job protections such as workplace injury compensation, union representation and employer Central Provident Fund contributions.
Yesterday, Dr Koh said that about 79,000 people worked with matching platforms for their main source of income last year.
Of these, about half were private-hire car drivers and one-third were taxi drivers. The rest were mostly car and light goods vehicle drivers using delivery service platforms to obtain delivery work.
From 2018 to last year, the median monthly income of full-time employed residents in these three occupations ranged between $1,500 and $2,000, Dr Koh said.
Mr Melvin Yong (Radin Mas) asked about injuries and fatalities among food and goods delivery riders, and whether these could be related to riders rushing to meet daily incentive targets.
Dr Koh said there were two deaths of such workers each year in 2019 and last year. There were no such deaths in 2018 - the first year these figures were tracked.
There is no data on traffic-related injuries for such riders, he added.
Dr Tan Wu Meng (Jurong GRC) asked if the compensation and support provided to the families of gig workers who had lost their lives were comparable to that provided in cases of similar accidents in delivery firms.
Dr Koh said he did not have the information, but as gig workers are not treated as employees, the amount of compensation, if any, "would not be commensurate with what employees would probably get under the Employment Act".
The issue of compensation is something the advisory committee would look into, Dr Koh said.
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Since he started teaching at Johns Hopkins University in 2005, Professor Peter Fröhlich has maintained a grading curve in which each class’s highest grade on the final counts as an A, with all other scores adjusted accordingly. So if a midterm is worth 40 points, and the highest actual score is 36 points, "that person gets 100 percent and everybody else gets a percentage relative to it,” said Fröhlich.
This approach, Fröhlich said, is the "most predictable and consistent way" of comparing students' work to their peers', and it worked well.
At least it did until the end of the fall term at Hopkins, that is.
As the semester ended in December, students in Fröhlich’s "Intermediate Programming", "Computer System Fundamentals," and "Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers" classes decided to test the limits of the policy, and collectively planned to boycott the final. Because they all did, a zero was the highest score in each of the three classes, which, by the rules of Fröhlich’s curve, meant every student received an A.
“The students refused to come into the room and take the exam, so we sat there for a while: me on the inside, they on the outside,” Fröhlich said. “After about 20-30 minutes I would give up.... Then we all left.” The students waited outside the rooms to make sure that others honored the boycott, and were poised to go in if someone had. No one did, though.
Andrew Kelly, a student in Fröhlich’s Introduction to Programming class who was one of the boycott’s key organizers, explained the logic of the students' decision via e-mail: "Handing out 0's to your classmates will not improve your performance in this course," Kelly said.
"So if you can walk in with 100 percent confidence of answering every question correctly, then your payoff would be the same for either decision. Just consider the impact on your other exam performances if you studied for [the final] at the level required to guarantee yourself 100. Otherwise, it's best to work with your colleagues to ensure a 100 for all and a very pleasant start to the holidays."
Kelly said the boycott was made possible through a variety of technological and social media tools. Students used a spreadsheet on Google Drive to keep track of who had agreed to the boycott, for instance. And social networks were key to "get 100 percent confidence that you have 100 percent of the people on board" in a big class.
Fröhlich took a surprisingly philosophical view of his students' machinations, crediting their collaborative spirit. "The students learned that by coming together, they can achieve something that individually they could never have done," he said via e-mail. “At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for competitiveness I didn't expect that reaching such an agreement was possible.”
Although Fröhlich conceded that he did not include such a “loophole” in the policy “with the goal of students exploiting it,” he decided to honor it after the boycott.
Despite awarding As to all the students who participated in the boycott, the experience has led Fröhlich to alter his long-held grading policy.
“I have changed my grading scheme to include ‘everybody has 0 points means that everybody gets 0 percent,’ ” Fröhlich said, “and I also added a clause stating that I reserve the right to give everybody 0 percent if I get the impression that the students are trying to ‘game’ the system again.” Fröhlich added that going forward, he will give students a choice between a final exam and a final project, and that his class for the spring 2013 semester has voted for the latter.
An article about Fröhlich's courses appeared last month in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter.
Alexandra Tilsley contributed to this article.
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What's really in a name? In some countries it's more than you think. Selecting your little one's moniker is never easy, but doing so when there are government-imposed guidelines can make it an even more daunting task. A city in Mexico released a list of 61 banned names this week, which included Facebook and Hitler, and New Zealand made news when it released a list of banned baby names not too long ago.
While some parents use their religion as a guide, others use places they love or movies to narrow the field. But unique names aren't welcome in all corners of the world. Some are to be expected (Lucifer and Martian), others may be a bit of a surprise, so take this quiz to see which countries have banned certain names.
Illegal Baby Names From Around the World
In which country is it illegal to name your child Monkey?
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The first of Israel’s new Sa’ar 6-class warships, the INS Magen, is making its way from Germany to Israel, due to arrive at Haifa naval base at the start of December.
Its arrival signifies a new stage in the evolution of the Israeli Navy both in its ability to defend critical national infrastructure and in its attack capabilities.
Israel is due to receive four state-of-the-art Sa’ar 6 ships by November 2021, with each platform costing $400 million. The German government is footing one-third of the cost per ship.
The INS Magen held its Commissioning and Flag Raising Ceremony on Nov. 11, during which the German flag gave way to the Israeli flag. Vice Admiral Eliyahu Sharvit, commander of the Israeli Navy, led the ceremony, with other senior defense officials attending.
The corvettes are a product German shipyard Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, which has worked closely with the Israeli Navy in terms of ship design.
“The INS Magen—the first of four [new] corvettes of the Israeli Navy—will deal with future challenges of the naval theater in the most optimal way. The INS Magen, as well as the other three warships, is a great, optimal and versatile tool to defend Israel’s strategic assets in our economic waters,” Sharvit said at the ceremony at Kiel, Germany.
“This is exactly the reason that we are here today, happy to hoist the Israeli flag to the top of the INS Magen’s mast, the symbol of an independent, sovereign, confident and prosperous country. The INS Magen will have the best offensive and defensive systems with the most sophisticated technological military combat systems, the majority of them made in Israel.”
‘Basically an arms race’
Their arrival reflects a deep change that is occurring regarding the role of the sea in Israel’s national security.
The ships represent a major change in the navy’s combat doctrine. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the navy fought a historic battle with Syrian vessels at the Battle of Latakia, representing the first time in naval warfare that missiles were used.
Back then, the navy’s doctrine was to use small, rapid vessels that carried short-range missiles and guns. The doctrine called for moving these towards enemy ships at full speed and getting into missile range before firing and sinking the targets.
Yet Israel’s enemies had longer-range missiles onboard—a fact that forced the Israeli Navy to employ Electronic Warfare and chaff to protect its ships. Still, the Latakia battle ended up being a decisive victory for the Israel Navy, and the doctrine proved itself.
That event shaped the navy’s philosophy on how to build up naval force for the next 30 years. “We invested in ships that have defense as well as attack capabilities. But they were built for blue water (open sea) ship-to-ship combat,” a naval official stated in recent weeks.
In the 2006 Second Lebanon War, a Hezbollah land-to-sea missile hit an Israeli Naval
Sa’ar 5-class missile ship, the INS Hanit, and the navy realized that it was time for a new doctrine.
“What has changed is basically an arms race,” said the navy source. “We understood that Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations have achieved precision-guided missile or rocket capabilities in order to hit targets in Israel on land as well as at sea.” The evolution of surface-to-surface missiles meant that land-to-sea missiles had also become more deadly.
Hamas in the Gaza Strip has built naval commando cells to raid the Israeli coastline and is digging naval tunnels to give them covert access to the sea.
“Our enemies are building a sophisticated array of land-to-sea missiles,” said the source.
According to media reports, Hezbollah is in possession of the supersonic Yakhont anti-ship cruise missile, which is likely the fastest and most advanced available today, and has a range of 300 kilometers.
‘It’s like building an iron wall’
Meanwhile, the presence of great powers at sea has only grown in the region.
Alongside these trends, Israel’s maritime energy resources have grown paramount in recent years. Three offshore natural gas rigs—Leviathan, Karish and Tanin—represent critical infrastructure.
The result, explained the official, is the creation of a new naval doctrine called “brown water warfare,” meaning the capability of fighting very near to the shore, and “having the capabilities to defeat our enemies on land.”
The value of these capabilities receives an added significance considering Israel’s position as a virtual island nation. Almost all of the goods Israel imports, arrive via sea lanes. Some 50 percent of Israel’s freshwater comes from desalinated seawater.
Some 90 percent of wheat arrive via ships, and cargo ships bring 300,000 new vehicles to Israel every year. The list of raw materials that arrives via ports is lengthy.
And 70 percent of Israel’s electricity consumption today depends on the liquified natural gas that arrives at Israel’s power plants from the offshore rigs.
“We understood the only way to achieve protection of gas rigs is by using ships,” said the naval source.
That’s where the Sa’ar 6 ships come in. The ships will receive advanced air-defense systems. Each one will have Rafael’s C-Dome naval Iron Dome, a version of the famous land-based Iron Dome system, as well as Israel Aerospace Industries Barak 8 air- and missile-defense system.
IAI-Elta’s Adir (“mighty) is a powerful radar. Adir will control all of the onboard combat systems. It is able to detect and track a whole range of airborne threats.
“The problem with gas rigs is that it only takes one hit to get the potential damage that you want to achieve. We as a navy cannot allow any missiles, ballistic threats, cruise missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to get through and strike any gas rig,” said the official. “It’s like building an iron wall.”
Electronic Warfare systems on board the ships will also act to disrupt enemy missiles.
Meanwhile, the ships will also connect to a national air situation picture, meaning that they can share target data with the air force.
Altogether, the source said, these capabilities will enable the navy to defend Israel’s economic waters, secure Israeli sea routes and conduct other assignments.
The close cooperation between the Israel Navy and the Thyssenkrupp German ship makers was a key element in designing the ships, according to the official. “That collaboration is very good. We received a vessel that is tailor-made to our needs,” he said. This includes a stealthy design that lets the ships evade radar detection.
Ultimately, the navy believes that flexibility is key to managing a changing environment with new threats. “This boat should handle the threats, and it should do that for the next 40 years,” said another official. “What we know now won’t be relevant in five years.”
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If A, B, C, D, E, and F are 6 distinct points on the circumference of a circle, how many different chords can be drawn using any 2 of the points?
The answer is 15. My book says the following: "Each point is connected to five other points to make 5 chords per unit. But this counts every chord twice--AB is indistinguishable from BA--so after you multiply 6 by 5, you have to divide by 2."
I don't get where the 6 comes from or why you multiply. I originally got 9. 5 for the first and 4 for the next. What am I missing?
I think I misunderstood the question. I took two of the 6 points--say points A and B--and I drew chords from each of those points.. So I guess that's not what it's asking to do.
I thought it was obvious that a chord would be 2 points.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book – it is a plaything. TL Peacock: Crochet Castle The paradigm presented in this book is proposed as an agent programming language. The book charts the evolution of the language from Prolog to intelligent agents. To a large extent, intelligent agents rose to prominence in the mid-1990s because of the World Wide Web and an ill-structured network of multimedia information. Age- oriented programming was a natural progression from object-oriented programming which C++ and more recently Java popularized. Another strand of influence came from a revival of interest in robotics [Brooks, 1991a; 1991b]. The quintessence of an agent is an intelligent, willing slave. Speculation in the area of artificial slaves is far more ancient than twentieth century science fiction. One documented example is found in Aristotle’s Politics written in the fourth century BC. Aristotle classifies the slave as “an animate article of property”. He suggests that slaves or subordinates might not be necessary if “each instrument could do its own work at command or by anticipation like the statues of Daedalus and the tripods of Hephaestus”. Reference to the legendary robots devised by these mythological technocrats, the former an artificer who made wings for Icarus and the latter a blacksmith god, testify that the concept of robot, if not the name, was ancient even in Aristotle’s time.
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- ISBN: 9781101620823 (electronic bk)
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- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2012.
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Energy giant Shell is reassessing its recent decision to abandoned plans to develop the Cambo oilfield, in the UK North Sea, reported the BBC.
The move also followed campaigns against the project by climate activists over its non-compliance with the country’s environmental goals.
The review of the decision by Shell comes amid surging global oil prices. When the decision was first made, crude oil prices were below $70 a barrel. Prices have now surged to more than $100 per barrel, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Shell owns a 30% stake in the Cambo field, which is expected to have an operational life of 25 years. Siccar Point holds the remaining stake of 70%.
Sources familiar with development told the BBC that Shell’s official stance on the project remains unchanged.
In response to the reports, climate activists warned that Shell’s move would further affect emissions reductions targets, reported The Guardian.
Criticising the possible reopening of the project, Greenpeace UK oil and gas transition campaigner Philip Evans said: “The type of oil that can be extracted from Cambo is not usable in the UK, so this project will do nothing to tackle high bills or shore up energy security.”
Last week, Shell resubmitted an application for developing the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea, according to BBC.
It follows the rejection of previous applications by environmental regulators in October 2021.
To address regulatory concerns, the company said it altered the chemical processes to be used in the extraction of the gas.
Commenting on Shell’s move on the two projects, Friends of the Earth Scotland climate and energy campaigner Caroline Rance said: “Opening new oil fields like Cambo and Jackdaw would further lock us into a broken fossil fuel energy system that is already unaffordable for millions of households in the UK, and is worsening the climate emergency”.
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Dilemmas are a part of our lives. Be it choosing between a wide array of evening snacks, a favorite sportsperson, or a favorite band to listen to — we tend to get confused now and then. While it is okay to get confused in simple life choices, it can be bothersome if you get confused between your investment options.
To make sure that you stay out of confusion and make a sound decision regarding your investment choice, we will explore the difference between United Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs) and Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs). It will help you to figure out which of the two might fare better for your investment needs.
However, before we get to the difference between ULIPs and SIPs, let’s figure out what they are.
What are ULIPs?
A ULIP is a plan which is unique, as it offers the benefit of both investment and life insurance. With a ULIP, you have a share of your premium going toward your insurance premium. The other share is invested in several market-linked instruments such as bonds and stocks so that you get maximized returns upon the maturity of the policy.
A ULIP can help protect the financial interests of your family in case of any unforeseen circumstances while ensuring that it constantly generates money in itself through the means of a smart investment.
What are SIPs?
SIPs a term that is primarily associated with mutual funds. It is a sort of systematic — planned — investment option where you invest a certain amount of money based on monthly, quarterly, or yearly instalments. It helps you build up a decent amount of money by the time you retire, or till the time you choose the policy to last.
ULIPs or SIPs?
There are several differences between ULIPs and SIPs since they are targeted towards individual goals. To help you make an informed decision, let us look at the differences in detail.
The fact that ULIPs offer you the benefit of both insurance and investments cannot be ignored. SIPs, on the other hand, are purely a wealth-building investment option with no life cover, whatsoever.
The Risk Factor
When it comes to choosing an investment plan, one of the most important factors to consider is the level of risk involved in it. Since mutual funds are purely an investment product, they are bound to involve slightly more risk then ULIPs
Fund management charges
The fund management charges that are associated with mutual funds are quite high — often at 2.5% or more. ULIPs, on the other hand, come with much lower fund management charges, standing at around 1.35 percent.
We all want a little extra something in life. Same is true for our investments as well, so we have created a Unit Linked Insurance Plan just for that. With us, you can now dream much more.
Presenting the Future Generali Big Dreams Plan , a comprehensive Unit Linked Insurance Plan, that lets you create wealth while enjoying the benefits of an insurance plan at the same time
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Leaproach or roachhopper?
Either way, it could be your worst dream come true.
Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new form of cockroach -- they named it Saltoblattella montistabularis -- that differs from all other species of the scuttling pests in one key way: It can jump.
In the shrublands of the Silvermine Nature Reserve in Table Mountain National Park in South Africa, the critters jumping and hopping accounted for 71 per cent of its movements, explained Mike Picker and Jonathan Colville from the zoology department of the University of Cape Town and Malcolm Burrows from the University of Cambridge in an article just published in the journal Biology Letters.
"Jumps are powered by rapid and synchronous extension of the hind legs that are twice the length of the other legs and make up 10 percent of the body weight," the researchers wrote. But it gets worse: Not only can the leaproach jump, it can jump incredibly fast over impressive distances.
"In high-speed images of the best jumps the body was accelerated in 10 ms to a take-off velocity of 2.1 m s−1 … leaping a forward distance of 48 times its body length" -- a distance equal to about 50 body lengths.
Such speeds and velocities rival those of grasshoppers, with whom they share their habitat, the scientists noted. Indeed, this jumping ability bests locusts, Picker told the New York Times, which can only manage 20 times their own body lengths.
Your nightmares may just get worse before they get better: Picker believes there may be other species of roachhopper out there just waiting to leap -- if not into your arms, at least into your dreams.
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Mama by Jeanette Winter is another sweet story, told basically through illustrations only, except for the words "mama and baby". On the last page of the book is a brief synopsis of what really occurred when a baby hippo became separated from his mother when the great waves hit following the tsunami. After struggling alone for several days, the baby hippo was rescued by Kenyan wildlife officers and brought to live in an animal refuge. There, the baby hippo adopted a new "mama", a 130-year-old giant male tortoise. And they've been inseparable ever since.
The author's illustrations demonstrate the fear and loneliness experienced by the hippo as he searched for his mama. Simplistic, yes, however, it is a very effective way to tell this story to young children.
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Indian advocate asks court to either regulate or prohibit Bitcoin
Criminal organizations, drug merchants and extortionists use Bitcoin in their shady activities, reminds Bivas Chatterjee in his public interest litigation sent to the Calcutta High Court. He is the member of the government responsible for the regulation and prevention of criminal activities in the cyberspace, as noted by the local news reports.
This complaint will be reviewed and the hearings will begin on February 2. One might assume the Calcutta High Court is not going to defend Bitcoin, as the authorities of India repeatedly made it clear they are not thrilled with cryptocurrency activities in their country.
As the latest example, Indian banks started to sabotage such activities by using payment transaction restrictions and they also hamper withdrawals. Local cryptocurrency exchanges even started to notify their client base about this, and lawyers who defend the interests of the said exchanges report that banks even use informal methods of persuasion to suppress the market.
Throughout the past year, there were reports on multiple attempts by the Indian government to restrict Bitcoin trading. For example, in July 2017, the local Ministry of Finance recommended that the sale of Bitcoin be prohibited.
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King’s College Chapel
When to the music of Byrd or Tallis,
The ruffed boys singing in the blackened stalls,
The candles lighting the small bones on their faces,
The Tudors stiff in marble on the walls.
There comes to evensong Elizabeth or Henry,
Rich with brocade, pearl, golden lilies, at the altar,
The scarlet lions leaping on their bosoms,
Pale royal hands fingering the crackling Psalter,
Henry is thinking of his lute and of backgammon,
Elizabeth follows the waving song, the mystery.
Proud in her red wig and green jewelled favours;
They sit in their white lawn sleeves, as cool as history.
I usually go on to tell my captive audience about particular challenges the world has thrown up that they will need to face as they prepare to be adult citizens, and what they can do in school to prepare.
I’d decided that I needed to explain what proroguing parliament meant, but ‘twixt writing the slides on Friday and doing the deed on Wednesday I was properly out of date and had to add deselection and the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. However, the message about being kind, polite and respectful didn’t need any adjustment, and I only had to ask one 13-year old to sit up. Who apologised, unlike some.
After that, off to class. Life’s full-on at Tallis so by break they’d already had one lesson and the littlest set off at the charge to get to our inexplicably-numbered rooms. I say ‘floor, block, room’ 20 times. It is a bit of a test.
Everyone seems pleased to see each other apart from a few international-standard grudge-bearers who are taken away to be reset. There is much jumping up and down and hugging, squeaky or semi-manly. It would be unfair to say that it was the same when the staff assembled on Monday. We are generally calmer and cooler and we thought about our future carefully and busily, looking at this year’s plan and working out where the priorities lie (simple enough – maintain post-16 excellence, improve GCSE progress). Expectations, effort, engagement.
Speaking of GCSEs there was an interesting press piece in the holidays about the fee-paying sector’s use of iGCSEs. The ‘i’ stands for ‘international’. This is nothing new, they’ve used them for years. Many state schools used to use them too, if the course suited children better: more coursework, for example, which helps some. I wasn’t too keen, not just because I’m a simple soul but because I think a nation’s children should be educated as one. If we say we’re doing GCSEs then that’s what people expect, not some fancy alternative.
So we’re now in a position where the children of the 7% use different qualifications from the 93% which is troubling. If schools share and transmit knowledge on behalf of society and if shared knowledge is fundamental to democracy and allows children to become useful citizens, shouldn’t they all have the same learning at school? Might that help breach the unbearable divides in our public life?
Directing zippy 11-year olds to their next berth is one thing, but teaching and modelling the values of good citizenship is another. We try very hard to tell children that the key to a successful life is hard work and kindness, but it doesn’t help when political leadership on both sides of the pond is characterised by inherited privilege, bluster and bullying.
I’m re-reading and re-watching Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet, a real treat. In the first book he describes the British in India after the fall of Singapore hoping for ‘time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown’. Perhaps that’s the government’s problem.
Tallis succeeded through creativity, endeavour and endurance despite the mixed behaviour of the kings and queens he served. As we prepare our children to understand the world and change it for the better let’s hope that we can also give them the skills to recognise the good and reject the rest.
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Learn about the Tasmanian Devil
Long ago, some people were afraid of Tasmanian devils. Maybe it’s because they made weird noises at night, especially while they were eating.The early European settlers in Tasmania called them devils, so that’s why they are still known as Tasmanian devils (or Tassie devils) today.
In reality, the Tasmanian devil is not scary. It’s no bigger than a small dog, and young devils can be very cute. On the other hand, devils have sharp teeth and powerful jaws, and they can bite – hard. So, if you ever meet a devil, be careful and keep your distance.
This website will tell you more about the Tasmanian devil – where it stays, what it eats and how it behaves. There are also some video clips to watch and activities you can try.
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Hot on the trail of virus writers
Computer viruses can range from annoying to devastating.
While thousands of researchers toil to thwart the creations of virus writers,
very little has been done to investigate who these shadowy figures are and why
they do what they do. Much of it is the work of Sarah Gordon, who has studied
virus writers since 1992. Gordon, "40-ish," was working in a youth crisis
center doing counseling on the day in 1990 when she got her first computer virus.
Her fascination with what had happened led her to the University of Iowa to
study ethics and technology. After writing several influential papers, she ended
up at IBM's T.J. Watson lab in New Jersey, where important virus work was being
done. She moved to software maker Symantec in October and studies virus writers
and cyber-terrorism. In an interview with USA TODAY's Elizabeth Weise,
Gordon profiles the people behind the tech plagues:
Q: Who writes viruses?
A: There really isn't a generic virus writer. There
are pre-adolescents, teenagers, college students, grown-ups working in corporate
environments. They are mostly male, although female participation is increasing.
It's difficult to say how "intelligent" a group of people is when they are so
varied and "intelligence" can be defined many different ways, can't it?
As for socioeconomic status, it's pretty much across the board as well. If I
had to pull out characteristics, I'd say predominantly male. .. generally 13
to 26. .. (with) normal relationships with peers.. .. I must stress that stereotypes
much beyond this could stifle solving the problem.
Q: What motivates them?
A: Virus writers are motivated by a number of factors.
Among them (are) the desire for recognition, a perceived technical challenge,
peer pressure and desire to fit in, revenge, social-political causes, a desire
to demonstrate weakness in the technologies, curiosity, etc.
Q: What deters them?
A: When some kids somewhere are arrested or their
houses raided and it's reported in the media we find a decrease
in viruses in the wild. But there has to be a fairly fast and immediate impact
of consequence and punishment. That's how young people learn. For example, in
the David Smith case (the creator of the Melissa virus), it's been a long time
since he was arrested and found guilty (December 1999), but he still hasn't
Q: Does that mean we should have stronger laws against
A: No. At DefCon (an annual hacker conference),
we asked people if it became illegal to write viruses, would it make them more
or less likely to write them. Even the people who didn't think it was cool to
mess with viruses said if someone told them they couldn't do it, they'd be more
likely to do it. Legislation isn't the answer.
Q: Then what is?
A: One of the big things that will really help turn
the problem around will be for it to become lame and uncool to write viruses.
It still has a certain coolness factor. We also need to start educating kids
at a very young age, even in kindergarten, and we need ethics as part of the
computer science curriculum. We also need to factor in accountability for parents.
You don't just send your child into their room to play on the computer; computers
are not babysitters. I know some parents of virus writers who know what their
kids are doing and don't think there's any problem with it.
Q: Are virus writers trying to hurt people?
A: It's an interesting phenomenon. They often feel
they don't have any real-world impact. Young people who put viruses up on the
World Wide Web don't perceive them as their responsibility. If they label them
"for research purposes only," they feel they're absolving themselves of responsibility.
Q: Why is there that "it's not my fault" attitude?
A: I think in many ways the technology lends itself
to that: You've got a lot of anonymity, and you don't have people establishing
limits. You see kids saying things they'd never say in person the computer
changes the interaction. I've met these kids in person, I've been out to dinner
with them and they don't act at all the way they do on screen.
Q: Are virus writers hackers?
A: No. The virus writers are the bottom of the food
chain. Real hackers have a systems skill set. Once you write a virus, it goes
on without you. Hackers don't think that's cool; the whole thing with hacking
is manipulating and controlling systems.
Q: Some virus writers claim they're actually helping
the problem by doing cutting-edge research as they study how to write the programs.
Is that true?
A: They think their work is new and high-end, but
it's not. These programs really are simple. I can understand how they would
believe that this is stretching the limits of research, but the reality is,
they're reinventing the wheel. Virus writing doesn't require a very high level
of skill. I think the media made it a little more acceptable to write viruses
for a while, because they portrayed virus writers as really skilled.
Q: Do they ever admit they were wrong?
A: Generally, they're older, around 24 to 25, when
they realize they shouldn't have done it. It used to happen at 20 to 22; it's
getting older. Why, I don't know.
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|Article Title||Technology in neurology : main topic|
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Neurophysiology can conveniently be divided into two broad groups: <br>Electrical signal sampling and measurement (spontaneous or evoked) such as in EMG (NEE) in the periphery, or EEG, EPs and basal ganglia centrally <br> Stimulation and evoking techniques such as in NCS, EPs, and a variety of treatment types. <br>Often the two are combined as in NCS and EPs or EEG mapping for epilepsy surgery. <br>Both areas have improved and been applied to very specific targets, with good clinical success in highly specialised centres. <br>Neurophysiology has advanced in specific areas: <br> video EEG monitoring as in epilepsy surgery and pseudoseizures <br> stimulation of various parts of the nervous system, such as the vagal nerve and basal ganglia. <br>Some conditions are now better recognised, e.g. chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculo-neuropathy and mixed motor neuropathy. <br>The skill and experience of the operators / clinicians determines the quality of the work.
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Libertarianism is a political philosophy that is fiscally conservative, but socially liberal—except when it concerns social issues that involve money or property. Stereotypically, libertarianism is self-consistent only in a toy universe abstracted away from the messiness and social inequalities of the real world.
Several years ago, a libertarian introduced to me a flash video that was intended to promote libertarianism. I was amazed to find that the unrealistic abstraction and idealism that is stereotypical of libertarianism was manifested even in the video’s visuals. An unintentional visual self-parody, the video—The Philosophy of Liberty—illustrates libertarianism with abstract stick figures representing people devoid of race, gender, and historical context.
One of the recurrent problems in this video is the confusion between the ideal and the actual. Specifically, the video confuses normative statements with descriptive statements. A normative statement is a statement about how things should be, while a descriptive statement is a statement about how things are. For example, many people, usually white, may claim “Race doesn’t matter”, when race actually matters in the real world. The truth is that race shouldn’t matter for things like employment and housing, not that it doesn’t. Doctors should be motivated by pure altruism and not money, some may argue, but people’s normative statements have no effect on descriptive facts about reality.
The Philosophy of Liberty video makes normative claims about the nature of property, but presents them as descriptive claims. The intent is to convince the viewer that people have a natural right to their property, and to reduce or eliminate taxation and other types of wealth redistribution by the government. Here is an example of a normative claim about property presented as a descriptive claim through the use of “is” instead of “should be”:
This is absolutely false as a descriptive statement. In the real world, people acquired property through genocide, invasion, murder, assault, and theft. The United States invaded, colonized, and committed genocide against the indigenous people of North America. It enslaved people from Africa to quickly build up its nation with little overhead. Most of the valuable “property” recognized in American law belongs to white Americans, but it was acquired by violating the rights of Native Americans and African Americans.
At the same time, of course, the use of force is contrary to libertarian ideals:
If The Philosophy of Liberty is self-consistent, then property that was acquired from stealing land from Native Americans and from enslaving African Americans is illegitimate. However, most (white) libertarians are against paying reparations to African Americans and are against returning the land to Native Americans.
Clearly, American libertarians, who are mostly white, use libertarianism to rationalize their class privilege and white privilege. Libertarianism is an inconsistent philosophy in the context of the real world, and the only consistency among most libertarians is that they are against being taxed. For most American libertarians, if the government taxes rich white Americans, it is theft, but if rich white Americans stole African American labor, time, energy, and talent, it happened a long time ago and accounts should be cleared.
Obviously, the people who currently have the most wealth, class privilege, and white privilege want to support a system that minimizes or eliminates wealth redistribution. If these same people were reduced to poverty through force—such as from a Mexican reconquista or Chinese invasion—they too would demand reparations. From the perspective of those who do not benefit from libertarian politics or are less selfish, libertarian propaganda like this video is a thinly-veiled attempt to help rich people stay rich, based on internally inconsistent rationalizations. When people happen to be on top of the wheel of fate, they search for philosophies that confirm the rightfulness of their place, holding on to them desperately at the expense of self-consistency.
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A reported two-month gap in emails from Hillary Clinton's private account during 2012 coincides with a period of escalating violence in Libya and the obtaining of a special exemption by her top aide, Huma Abedin, to work for both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.
The Daily Beast reported late Tuesday that no emails between Clinton and her State Department staff for the months of May and June 2012 are among the estimated 2,000 messages that have been released from the Democratic presidential frontrunner's account.
A State Department spokesman told The Daily Beast that only emails related to the security of U.S. diplomats in Libya or the consulate in Benghazi were turned over to the House select committee investigating the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack. If true, that means neither Clinton nor her staff communicated via e-mail during a period that saw three attacks on international outposts in Benghazi, including one on the consulate itself.
That attack, on June 6, 2012, involved the detonation of an improvised explosive device outside of the consulate, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli to warn Americans about the "fluid security situation in Libya." Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed along with three others in the Sept. 11 attack, warned his superiors that "Islamic extremism appears to be on the rise in eastern Libya."
Two weeks earlier, on May 22, the International Red Cross office was hit by rocket-propelled grenades. Five days after the consulate bombing, a convoy carrying Britain's ambassador to Libya was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, injuring two bodyguards.
The State Department plans to release Clinton's emails on a regular, monthly basis through January 2016 to comply with an order by a federal judge. The next release is tentatively scheduled for Friday. Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill released a statement saying "More emails are slated to be released by the State Department next week, and we hope that release is as inclusive as possible
The Daily Beast reports that the Benghazi committee has only received one e-mail dating from the two-month period. The message in question was sent in June 2012 by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal and dealt mainly with his business interests in Libya. Security threats to the U.S. diplomatic presence were not mentioned.
Another issue raised by the e-mail gap is the status of Abedin, a longtime aide to Clinton and the wife of former New York congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. The Daily Beast reports that on June 3, Abedin was granted "special government employee" status, allowing her to remain employed by the State Department, the Clinton Foundation, a consulting firm founded by a Clinton ally, and by Hillary herself. The "special government employee" designation prevented Abedin from being subject to some ethics rules.
On Tuesday, the Daily Beast reported that State Department lawyers identified 68 pages of "potentially responsive" documents in response to a 2013 Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated Press for details about how Abedin obtained her special employee status. That was the first time the department acknowledged having any documentation about Abedin's arrangement.
Meanwhile Tuesday, Republicans on the House Benghazi committee insisted there was no agreement with Clinton over her possible appearance before the panel, despite an announcement by her campaign that she would testify Oct. 22. Federal investigators said last week they have alerted the Justice Department to a potential compromise of classified information arising from Clinton's private email server.
A memo signed by the inspector general of the intelligence community said the IG's office had identified "potentially hundreds of classified emails" among the 30,000 that Clinton had provided to the State Department and that are now being processed for public release. None of the emails was marked as classified at the time they were sent or received, but some should have been handled as such and sent on a secure computer network, according to a letter to congressional oversight committees from I. Charles McCullough III, the inspector general for a collection of executive branch agencies that work on intelligence.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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List of search usability guidelines
- The default search is intuitive to configure (no Boolean operators).
- The search results page shows the user what was searched for and it is easy to edit and resubmit the search.
- Search results are clear, useful and ranked by relevance.
- The search results page makes it clear how many results were retrieved, and the number of results per page can be configured by the user.
- If no results are returned, the system offers ideas or options for improving the query based on identifiable problems with the user's input.
- The search engine handles empty queries gracefully.
- The most common queries (as reflected in the site log) produce useful results.
- The search engine includes templates, examples or hints on how to use it effectively.
- The site includes a more powerful search interface available to help users refine their searches (preferably named "revise search" or "refine search", not "advanced search").
- The search results page does not show duplicate results (either perceived duplicates or actual duplicates).
- The search box is long enough to handle common query lengths.
- Searches cover the entire web site, not a portion of it.
- If the site allows users to set up a complex search, these searches can be saved and executed on a regular basis (so users can keep up-to-date with dynamic content).
- The search interface is located where users will expect to find it (top right of page).
- The search box and its controls are clearly labeled (multiple search boxes can be confusing).
- The site supports people who want to browse and people who want to search.
- The scope of the search is made explicit on the search results page and users can restrict the scope (if relevant to the task).
- The search results page displays useful meta-information, such as the size of the document, the date that the document was created and the file type (Word, pdf etc.).
- The search engine provides automatic spell checking and looks for plurals and synonyms.
- The search engine provides an option for similarity search ("more like this").
You can also download translated versions of this checklist.
How to use these guidelines
Work through each of the items in the list and mark your site as either conforming or not conforming to the guideline.
Remember that all guidelines are context specific. If you feel that a guideline does not apply to your site, it's OK to ignore it.
These guidelines are purposefully expressed as positive statements, so that when you feed the results back to the design team you can identify some strengths of the design before you launch into the problems.
About the author
Dr. David Travis (@userfocus on Twitter) is a User Experience Strategist. He has worked in the fields of human factors, usability and user experience since 1989 and has published two books on usability. David helps both large firms and start ups connect with their customers and bring business ideas to market. If you like his articles, why not join the thousands of other people taking his free online user experience course?
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May also be called: Funnel Chest; Sunken Chest
Pectus excavatum (PEK-tus eks-kuh-VAY-tum) is a deformity of the chest wall that causes several ribs and the breastbone (sternum) to grow abnormally, giving the chest a concave, or caved-in, appearance.
More to Know
The chest wall is made up of bones, as well as muscle and other tissue. It surrounds and protects the heart and lungs. The ribs and sternum usually go outward at the front of the chest. With pectus excavatum, the tissue, ribs, and sternum grows abnormally, causing the sternum to go inward to form a depression in the chest.
Pectus excavatum is a genetic disorder. Although kids are born with it, it may not be apparent for the first few years or sometimes even until the teenage years. Mild cases might be barely noticeable.
Severe cases can cause a deep hollow in the chest and could affect the heart and lungs. The visual appearance of pectus excavatum might cause self-esteem issues for some kids.
Keep in Mind
Pectus excavatum can be completely harmless if it's not affecting how the lungs or heart work. Surgery often can correct the condition and treat any heart or lung issues. Physical therapy and exercises to strengthen muscles are also helpful.
All A to Z dictionary entries are regularly reviewed by KidsHealth medical experts.
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What is SRS?
The Solids Recovery System, manufactured and designed by our Partner Sati, is an equipment that is installed with the aim of recovering all the by-products that are generated during the extruding, screening, drying and cooling processes; recovers both the highly unstable product due to its high humidity that is generated at the start of the extruders, as well as all the fines that are generated in the subsequent stages. According to studies carried out, between 1.5 and 3% of by-products are generated, in some cases reaching values of up to 5%.
The main advantages of the SRS are:
1- Save costs and re-process times
2- Optimize the manufacturing process
3- Recovers wet and dry products
4- Improve traceability
5- Achieve homogeneity
As can be seen in the image below, the equipment has two stainless steel tanks (which comply with FDA and EHEDG standards), one of which is where the homogenization process of the by-products is carried out and the other is where the mixture is kept in motion and then injected into the extruder's pre-conditioner.
An important and necessary aspect that we must clarify is that the solids recovery process is fast, so it does not lead to the decomposition of the material (mainly when it comes to wet extruder starts and stops).
The Solids Recovery System is a 'Proven Solution' and the best way to reuse in a Safe and Controlled way all the by-products of the Extrusion process in the Manufacture of Pet Food as well as in the process of Aqua Feed and Animal Feed.
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Alexius I Comnenusplay
Definition of Alexius I Comnenus
1048–1118 Byzantine emperor (1081–1118)
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Translate this site into your preferred language, look for our Google translator in our home page: diningwithjesus.net
Traduce este sitio en tu idioma preferido, busca nuestro traductor de Google en nuestra página de inicio ve a: diningwithjesus.net
Pastor Chris White says to all of you: HELLO MY FRIENDS. May the Lord bless you today.
HOLA MIS AMIGOS. Que el Señor los bendiga.
One of the most widespread arguments against Christians is that they are “judgmental” or “always imposing their views on others.” Often, this criticism comes in response to Christians who speak out against behaviors and lifestyles that God judges as “sin” and has declared to be an outrage to Him (see Proverbs 16:1). We live in a society where “everyone [does] what [is] right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25)—where people insist that there are no moral absolutes, that each man should decide for himself what is right or wrong, and that we should “tolerate” (which in their minds essentially means “celebrate”) sinful activities. Those who take seriously the biblical warnings against sin and dare speak out against evil are written off as religious fanatics, and all Christians are, ironically, judged as being “judgmental.”
The Scripture that is used the most to support the idea that Christians should not judge is Matthew 7:1, where Jesus says to His disciples, “Judge not, that you be not judged.” It’s one verse that many unbelievers can quote. Another popular saying, taken from John 8:7, is “He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone.” But when we read these verses in their immediate contexts, it becomes obvious that Jesus is not warning against every kind of judging but against hypocritical, self-righteous judging (see Matthew 7:1&ndahs;5; John 8:1–11). In other words, judgmental people must remember that they will be judged by the same standard they apply to others: “In the same way you judge others, you will be judged” (Matthew 7:2). There is no place for spiritual hypocrisy or pride. Christians can and must take a stand against sin, but, even then, our dealings with others should be marked by grace, mercy, and humility.
However, hypocritical judging is the only kind of judging the Bible says that Christians should avoid. The Christian must “judge” or discern between good and evil (Hebrews 5:14)! We must make spiritual evaluations of the words and behavior of others, not to find fault, but to effectively guard our hearts against error and sin (1 Corinthians 2:14-15; Proverbs 4:23). In fact, immediately after Jesus warned His disciples against hypocritical judgment, He says, “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs” (Matthew 7:6). How is the Christian supposed to know who the “dogs” and the “pigs” are unless he or she exercises discernment? Furthermore, Jesus warns His disciples just a few verses later, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15-16). This admonition is given not only with regard to “false prophets” but also concerning anyone who comes in the name of Christ but who, by his actions, denies Christ (Titus 1:16; cf. Matthew 3:8).
According to Jesus, this kind of judgment is considered “right judgment” (John 7:24) and is strongly encouraged. We are to be “as wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16), and wisdom demands that we be discerning (Proverbs 10:13). And when we have discerned rightly, we are to speak the truth, with love being the motivating factor (Ephesians 4:15). Love requires that we gently confront those in error with the truth about their sin with the hope of bringing them to repentance and faith (Galatians 6:1). “Whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death” (James 5:20). The true Christian speaks the truth—not merely what he believes to be the truth, but the truth as plainly revealed in God’s Word. The truth, especially the truth about good and evil, exists independently from what we feel or think (Isaiah 5:20-21).
Those who reject or are offended by the truth simply prove the power of God’s Word to convict the heart of man; for “the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).
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Devout Porsche enthusiasts are well-versed in the marque’s heroes. They can cite chapter and verse about Ferdinand and his son, Ferry. The roles Dr. Anton Piëch, Ferdinand’s son-in-law, and his descendants played founding and nurturing this brand are well documented. In the modern era, Hans Mezger’s brilliant engine contributions are core to the Porsche legend. But any mention of Adolf Rosenberger draws blank stares from the Zuffenhausen faithful. Here, we set the record straight on his place in the Porsche lore.
Rosenberger was born in Pforzheim, Germany, in 1900. Success in cinema and real-estate businesses made his family wealthy, providing the young Rosenberger the means to pursue his passion for motorsports—first on motorcycles, then racing the fastest sports cars available in Germany. The Benz RH (Rennwagen Heckmotor, or rear-engine racer), more commonly called the Tropfenwagen, left an indelible impression on Rosenberger. In 1924 and ’25, he won the Solitude road race held near Stuttgart driving this radically ahead of its time, teardrop-shaped, mid-engine sports car.
In 1926, Rosenberger and Rudolf Caracciola both drove front-engined Mercedes SSs designed by the firm’s technical director Ferdinand Porsche at the first German Grand Prix held at AVUS. Rosenberger was quicker on the wet track but was overcome by fumes leaking from an onboard ether tank used to start the supercharged six-cylinder engine. He passed out and crashed into a timing hut, killing three course marshals.
By the time Rosenberger and Caracciola faced off for the 1927 Eifelrennen, the first major sports car race held at the Nürburgring, Rosenberger had 40 victories under his belt. He and his archrival both drove Mercedes SSKs in the over 5000 cc class. Rosenberger finished a close second to Caracciola, who went on to earn three European Grand Prix Championships for the three-pointed star in the 1930s.
Mercedes and Benz joined forces in 1926, by which time Rosenberger was well acquainted with Ferdinand Porsche. When Porsche’s ideas fell out of favor at Daimler-Benz, he returned to his Austrian homeland to work briefly at Steyr before establishing his independent design office in Stuttgart.
The doors at Kronenstraße 24 opened late in 1930 for an enterprise called Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche GmbH, Konstruktionsbüro für Motoren- und Fahrzeugbau (design office for engine and motor vehicle construction) with a total of nine designers, including his son, Ferry. Rosenberger served as the managing director. The elder Porsche supplied 80 percent of the seed money while Rosenberger and Dr. Piëch each contributed 10 percent, or 3000 RM to the cause (approximately $700 in 1930, about $17,000 today). While the enterprise was successful from the start, when customers were slow to pay, engineers took home partial salaries. On one occasion, Rosenberger provided an additional 80,000 RM (nearly $280,000 today) to sustain operations.
The money man also supplied inspiration. In 1932, Dr. Porsche resorted to his favorite endeavor, designing race cars, with an eye toward the 750-kg (maximum weight) grand prix formula scheduled for implementation in 1934. In an interview with author Griffith Borgeson, Rosenberger recalled vivid memories of the Benz RH: “I happen to have been the first person to drive those cars to success in racing and had a good idea of their good and bad points. They had only 65 horsepower but in one of the Solitude races we beat one of the 125 horsepower blown Mercedes. It was my experience driving that baby that led us to design a rear-engine car.” In other words, Rosenberger was instrumental in convincing the Porsche design team—Dr. Porsche, chief engineer Karl Rabe, and engine expert Josef Kales—that locating the engine behind the driver in Porsche’s speculative grand prix racer was the way to go.
The initial configuration for what would become Auto Union’s Type A racer specified a mid-mounted supercharged 4.4-liter V-16 producing 290 horsepower and a 182-mph top speed. The mid-engine configuration provided several advantages over conventional rivals: a greater load on the drive wheels, a larger engine due to the tidy powerplant/transaxle integration, and minimal change in balance as the fuel was consumed. Rosenberger’s friendship with Auto Union board chairman Baron Klaus-Detlof von Oertzen was instrumental in selling the speculative design to the Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer combine.
Unfortunately, a black cloud hung over Rosenberger. When the other Adolf became Germany’s chancellor in January 1933, it became clear to Rosenberger that his Jewish heritage was a distinct liability. He resigned from Porsche and transferred his ownership share and management responsibilities to a close friend, Baron Hans Veyder-Malberg. In spite of the fact that his speed in the experimental Auto Union racer during Nürburgring tests nearly matched Hans Stuck’s lap times, Rosenberger’s competition license was denied by Nazi officials. Since the purpose of the state-backed Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz racing programs was to demonstrate Aryan superiority, Jewish drivers were prohibited.
Rosenberger wisely departed Germany to represent Porsche interests first in France, then in Switzerland. Upon his return in the summer of 1935, he was arrested by the Gestapo and dispatched to a concentration camp for “racial disgrace”—defined as relations with an Aryan woman.
Thanks to the intervention of his ally Veyder-Malberg, Rosenberger was released after but four days of internment; the Reich billed him 953 RM (about $230) to cover the cost of his “protective custody” and legal fees. Taking the beatings he suffered during confinement seriously, Rosenberger relocated to France and changed his first name to Alfred. Then in 1938, he moved to America, settling first in New York before seeking employment in Detroit.
With World War II raging, the U.S. government considered Rosenberger an enemy alien and restricted his movements. Because of that status, no car company would have him, so he moved to Los Angeles, changed his name again to Alan Arthur Robert, and opened a gas station. When that venture didn’t pan out, he worked as a day laborer, selling plastic products on the side. He finally obtained U.S. citizenship in 1944.
Robert’s fortunes improved in 1950 after he married Anne Metzger, formerly a secretary at the Porsche design office. The couple founded Roberts of California, which produced and sold high-end home decorations. They purchased a comfortable residence in Beverly Hills and helped Robert’s mother and sister immigrate to America. The intrepid car enthusiast also opened a shop called Coach Craft that specialized in custom bodywork and exhaust systems.
Rosenberger’s attempts to maintain a dialogue with Porsche and to obtain redress for his investments were fruitless during and immediately after World War II. While his salary continued when he represented Porsche in France, once he departed for America in 1938, payments and communications ceased under Nazi orders. The Reich seized his real-estate holdings in Pforzheim.
Following the hostilities, Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche and Anton Piëch were arrested in France for Nazi collaboration. Upon their release, economic conditions in Germany were so harsh that letters were dispatched to Rosenberger requesting cash, chocolate, and coffee care packages. That desperation was short-lived. The Volkswagen plant was soon up and running, yielding 46,000 cars in 1949 and a $1.25 per car royalty to Porsche for designing the Beetle. Company assets quickly rebounded to more than a million DM ($240,000 then, $3.5 million today), and production of Porsche 356s began.
Rosenberger sued Porsche for 200,000 DM (about $480,000 today) through the German retribution tribunal. When the dust finally settled in 1950, his award was one-fourth that amount plus his choice of a new Beetle or a 356. While the historical record doesn’t show why Rosenberger chose the Volkswagen, it should be assumed that what he sought was respect, the one thing no one at Porsche seemed willing or able to provide.
Don Sherman has been an automotive journalist for decades, contributing to numerous publications, including Car and Driver, Road & Track, Hagerty, and more.
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Turkey updated its policy on unlicensed renewable energy production in early October, making it possible for owners of small solar PV systems to sell their surplus to the government.
The new regulation states that unlicensed systems producing up to 1-megawatt (mw) of energy and plugged into the national grid are eligible for payments of US$0.133 per kilowatt-hour.
The amended law makes the production of renewable energy much more profitable and presents new opportunities for solar energy within the Turkish market. It also shows that the Turkish government is serious about pushing away from mass imports of fossil fuels-which create a critical imbalance in the local economy- and incorporating renewables into its energy mix.
The decision is an example of Turkey implementing new “prosumer” models, said Dr. Aygün Keser, a senior advisor and country representative for Turkey at Apricum and a speaker at the Solar Now Turkey conference, which will be held in Istanbul on 25-27 November 2013.
“In the past, Turkey had a lot of problems to get a strategy for solar PV into its energy mix,” Keser said. He estimated that the there are already 10-15 unlicensed solar PV projects running in Turkey, all of which have the opportunity to take advantage of the new regulation.
He noted that the possibilities for solar energy are very good in Turkey because of its Mediterranean location and high degree of sun radiation. He added that Turkey itself has a growing energy demand that is increasing by about 5 to 6% every year.
“In order to supply their own population with steady electricity Turkey needs to free up this segment and help the investors, the producers, and consumers to invest in this field,” Keser said.
Burak Sefer, general manager for Reengen and also a speaker at Solar Now Turkey, recently completed a 376kw solar rooftop project at Özyeğin University, which is located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. The large system spans four buildings, consisting of 21kw, 95kw, 135kw, and 125kw modules.
“This project is a good example in Turkey,” Sefer said.
While the campus is expected to use most of the energy itself, any extra energy will be sold on to the national grid.
Sefer said that while Turkey is slowly increasing its focus on renewables some challenges remain. He highlighted that small unlicensed projects are easier to begin than licensed projects. Approval from the government can be gained within about three to six months. A licensed project can take one to two years for approval.
Also, while there is great enthusiasm among Turkish companies for renewable energy projects, most of the materials must be imported from abroad. Cables and galvanized steel can be sourced locally. But solar cells, sockets, and inverters must be bought from abroad for now.
“All the projects that were successful up until now used European or Asian brands,” Sefer said.
Despite this, the Turkish government already offers incentives for the use of locally produced materials. Unlicensed solar projects now have an additional boost with the new policy, he said. The law is expected to encourage the proliferation of such systems.
Keser agreed. “If you don’t invest now in the non-license segment, within the coming two to three months you will really have a lot of problems getting access to the national grid,” he said. “Already there are at least 500 applications on the way for non-licensed generation.”
The new law is expected to contribute to economic growth in Turkey, offer opportunities for investors, and also help companies reduce costs, Keser said.
“This makes a lot of sense for companies. They can be independent, make their own energy, and sell the energy not consumed.”
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Even as a kid I was appalled that someone would throw their trash on the ground! Why would they do that? There was at least one garbage can in every shop and on every street corner, often next to a recycle bin. As long as a person dedicated literally one minute to properly disposing their garbage, the streets stayed clean and the people were happy. The inability to throw trash on the ground has stuck with me to this day.
Kendra and I, for the first days in Sherpur, held onto every piece of trash that we accumulated. It began on the bus. We drank our bottle of water, but had no place to throw it away. We were fine with lugging it around until we found a trash can. After arriving at the Palace (a building rented by PEP to house workers), we looked around for a trash can. Seeing none, we dedicated a plastic bag to hold our garbage. By the end of that week, the bag was bursting with little bits of trash, and still we had found no place to throw away the bag. Ultimately we left the bag in the room, fairly certain that it ended up with all of the other trash, on the streets.
I was shocked the first time I saw our direct superior nonchalantly throwing an ice cream wrapper onto the ground outside the ice cream shop. I was even more shocked when I saw a man on the bus instruct his three-year-old son to throw their plastic water bottle out of the window. Kendra and I began to notice piles of trash flanking each highway and village road. Gutters were flowing with rancid filth. Dogs and goats would scavenge through these piles, finding food to eat. Soon I was overwhelmed. I could not believe that the people and the government would let the waste escalate, unchecked, to this scale.
This is not to say that people living in the cities and villages do not make an effort to reduce the problems deriving from this waste. Shop owners in Dhaka will sweep garbage away from their shop and into concise piles. Residents of a village will unclog the sewers once they begin to overflow onto the streets. These efforts, however, are a short-term fix. Just as the PEP employee was not concerned with the ice cream wrapper after he tossed it away, these individuals are not concerned with the piles that they create. I began to wonder, “Where does the trash go now?” I asked our translator if there was a formal collection system for trash in Bangladesh. He did not know. I then asked another PEP employee and he did not know.
Finally, after asking our boss, I was able to get an answer: There is no formal collection system throughout Bangladesh. Some groups and villages collectively burn their trash. Other private organizations dump trash into informal and improperly managed holes in the ground. I was appalled. I had learned to excuse the littering because I assumed that at some point the trash would find its way to a sanitary landfill or other environmentally friendly disposal site. I had never expected to ride on a motorcycle through a plume of smoke billowing from a pyre of plastic.
An article that I read in a national newspaper showed me that Bangladesh was committed to reduce waste and pollution, however the policies and the population were not achieving these aims. This article explained that the Bangladeshi parliament recently passed a law restricting pollution in the brick industry. The legislation claimed that brick furnaces throughout Bangladesh would be allowed to burn between September and December only if they had a scrubber or other emission-cleaning component. The brick furnaces, which dot expansive “brick fields” like smokestacks erupting from the ground, employ an enormous population of Bangladesh. The policy took a bold step at reducing the pollution of Bangladesh despite reducing national production of brick. I was absolutely shocked to find out that this policy had not already been in place. In reality, this policy allows these furnaces to emit filthy emissions for eight months out of the year. The article illustrated that the government and the populations are trying to reduce this problem, however, it also showed me that many steps are needed to produce the results they desire.
In our first meeting with PEP workers Kendra and I asked, “What are some of the largest poverty traps for Bangladesh?” The workers unanimously explained that environmental change was one of the largest traps. Kendra and I were surprised not to hear a dissenting voice claim that environmental change was not occurring, or that the problems would fix themselves. The workers of PEP showed us that they had a strong sense of the interconnectedness between development and environmental forces. Yet these workers have disconnected their actions from the grandiose environmental change that they spoke about.
Bangladesh has many forces impeding its ability to reduce its environmental damages. Low levels of job creation, poverty, and poor infrastructure have proved themselves to be a few of the many obstacles that impede a smooth transition to environmental sustainability in Bangladesh. However, the population of Bangladesh, I believe, is the primary obstacle. The population feels the harmful effects of environmental damages arguably harder than anywhere else in the world. However, the disconnectedness, lack of accountability, and disillusionment throughout the population are obstacles to the popular initiative for increasing environmental sustainability. Without the popular support, government policies and private garbage collection have proven to be insubstantial for realizing the gains that Bangladesh desires.
- Ryan Gibson
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Mozilla's in-development mobile OS, "Boot to Gecko," could end up challenging Microsoft's own plans in the mobile space.
Mozilla is planning a Web-based mobile operating system, known as "Boot to Gecko" (or B2G), that could challenge other upstarts in the browser space such as Google's Chrome operating system.
Specifically, Mozilla will market Boot to Gecko toward smartphones and tablets, and incorporate both Android and Mozilla's Gecko browser layout engine as part of its foundation. The emphasis is on crafting an open-source environment, and B2G source code will be released in real time. (Considering the intellectual-property lawsuits currently filed against Android, Mozilla's pledge to use as little of Android as possible could become a serious headache-saver.)
"Mozilla believes that the Web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development," Mozilla engineer Andreas Gal wrote in a July 25 blog posting. "To make open Web technologies a better basis for future applications on mobile and desktop alike, we need to keep pushing the envelope of the Web to include-and in places exceed-the capabilities of the competing stacks in question."
Should Mozilla achieve its aims with B2G, it would open yet another competitive front in the mobile device space, which isn't exactly lacking for bitter rivalries or fierce market-share battles. And as businesses more wholeheartedly embrace the mobile paradigm as a way to make their workers more productive, the inevitable question arises about how this could affect Mozilla's uptake among the enterprise and SMBs.
In the business environment, Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to hold a dominant position despite a steady crumbling in market share over the past several quarters.
"Here on the IE team, we highly value our corporate customers," Roger Capriotti, director of Internet Explorer's marketing, wrote in a July 27 posting on The Windows Blog
. "Our commitment to these commercial customers is evident in the features that Internet Explorer has to help IT departments plan, deploy, and manage a browser across the enterprise."
Microsoft also plans to make Internet Explorer a substantial component in its mobile strategy, with IE9 due to find its way into the company's upcoming Windows Phone "Mango" software update. Presumably, a future version of IE will serve as a core element within the Windows 8 tablets reportedly due to hit the market sometime in late 2012. As demonstrated by Mango, Microsoft perceives Internet Explorer as less a browser and more a deeply baked element within the user interface, something that (along with its Bing search engine) acts as a sort of gateway to a wide variety of functionality.
Even before Mozilla's B2G announcement, the organization and Microsoft were already butting heads over the business audience. Mozilla is renewing its enterprise focus after some controversy in June, when its release of Firefox 5 worried companies still figuring out how to adopt Firefox 4, released a mere three months before.
"Enterprise has never been (and I'll argue, shouldn't be) a focus of ours," Asa Dotzler, community coordinator for various Mozilla projects, wrote in the comments section of Firefox developer Michael Kaply's personal blog. "Until we run out of people who don't have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can't imagine why we'd focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about."
Enterprise IT pros reacted badly to that, which in turn forced other Mozilla executives to assert that, yes, they did care about business needs.
"We are re-establishing a Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group as a place for enterprise developers, IT staff and Firefox developers to discuss the challenges, ideas and best practices for deploying Firefox in the enterprise," read a July 19 blog post on The Mozilla Blog
. "The group will have conversations on the discussion list and during in-person meetings as well as during monthly phone meetings."
Analytics firm Net Applications currently estimates Firefox's overall share of the browser market at 21.71 percent, trailing the Internet Explorer franchise at 54.27 percent but ahead of Google Chrome at 12.52 percent and Safari at 7.28 percent. Moreover, Firefox's share has stagnated in recent months, with its last high of 22.97 percent in September 2010, while upstart rivals have made more significant gains.
Hence the need for Mozilla to look to other avenues, such as the in-development B2G, as a way to assert its brand within a highly competitive space-a move seemingly tailored to challenge Google, but which nonetheless could exacerbate competition with Microsoft. All these companies want the biggest piece possible of the mobile space, and it's becoming clear they'll devote massive amounts of resources to get it.
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Semiconductor industry is the major components of Taiwan economy and also plays a decisive role in global semiconductor supply chain. The "TIP Taiwan Semiconductor Total Market Index" is designed to measure the performance of semiconductor stocks. The Index comprises stocks in the TIP Total Market Index that are classified in the semiconductor sub-industry by TWSE and TPEx and weight by free-float adjusted market capitalization.
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Defining and executing the correct path for future US Aerial Firefighting operations
25-26 May 2011
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
This highly successful event for the Aerial Firefighting community is traveling to the USA at the end of May and will be the seventh in the series. The event will review the current trends in controlling wildland fires from the air and how this is likely to influence the future make up of the next generation of aerial firefighting assets and funding that will be required.
There has been a considerable increase in the size and frequency of wildland fires in the past decade resulting in many acres burned, large numbers of homes lost and other critical structures destroyed. At least seven US states have recently had the worst wildfires in their history. The Station Fire Enquiry has further intensified the debate on how should the US better prepare itself to tackle Mega fires.
This Aerial Firefighting event will address the current challenges the US faces in dealing with the increasing problem of combating these fires and debate how we define and execute the correct path in going forward.
How do we calculate and what are the real costs in tackling wildland fires in the USA?
Should there be a new Federal lead agency in prioritising and resolving wildland fire assets, resources and funding?
Is there a need for more research and development activities in finding better solutions for combating Mega wildland fires?
Which aircraft are in development that could be used to combat these fires?
Would the use of Military technologies enable for a more direct and responsive approach to combating fires, including night time operations?
Technical advances and solutions in development
What is the correct mix of aerial assets in combating fires and should there be a centralised aerial firefighting squadron?
What is the best approach in training aerial firefighting teams in new tactics and technologies?
Confirmed Speakers include
Tom Harbour – Director of USDA Forest Service Fire & Aviation Management
Norman Christensen, Professor of Ecology, Duke University, North Carolina: Fire Management- Past, Present & Future
William Derr, Special Agent in Charge of California Region, US Forest Service (Retd): The Elements of Success & Measurement in Aerial Fire Fighting
Robert L Cavage, President, Wildfire Research Network, USA: Can we stop Megafires?
Brent Keith, Western Forestry Leadership Coalition: The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S
Flame Act Panel Session: Cohesive Strategy for Wildland Fire Management
To Sponsor or Exhibit at this World-leading event, or for further information, please contact: Contact
Business Development Executive
Fax: +44-1628 660 622
Washington D.C. Conference Report
The Washington conference report is available and published ex post on this announcement web page:
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a walking beam的用法和样例：
- Based on a walking beam reheating furnace, mathematical models of slab and hot skid were built in this paper.
- The heat flux to slab surface of a walking beam reheating furnace along length of the furnace is computed, and total heat exchange factor is also calculated.
- A mathematical model for numerically simulating the temperature distribution of steel slab in a walking beam type reheating furnace is established by using the finite difference method.
- The poor old man was just a walking corpse.
- She's a walking textbook of medicine.
- She is, as it were, a walking dictionary.
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Almost as old as the first written language, the love note historically has been one of the most romantic ways to tell that special person how you feel about them. However, with the fast pace of our modern day lives, the art of writing love notes and exchanging them with one’s sweetheart is slowly dying. Love Note Day aims to change this and is held on September 26th.
A love letter or note is a way to pen down one’s deepest feeling about another person. It does not have to be romantic or sappy. It can convey a vast selection of emotions, from adoration to anger, from joy to sadness, and from admiration to disappointment. This day can be at its most effective when the recipient of the message isn’t aware that Love Note Day even exists. Consequently, a loving message will come as a pleasant surprise, and just be what they need to hear.
So walk away from your computer screen, bring out the scented paper, the fanciest pen you have, and find yourself an inspiring place to sit and get cracking on that love note. Give it to your sweetheart, perhaps during a nice meal or while on a walk in the park. If you don’t have time to hand write your love note, maybe you could sent your love a nice email that says how much you love and appreciate them. Leave some love notes around your home for your loved one to find. Hide them in their lunch or their gym bag, stick the note to the bathroom mirror, so that’s the first thing they see in the morning, or quietly slip it into their pockets before they leave home. It doesn’t have to me someone special. Who says a love note can only be for a romantic partner? Send a note to a friend or a family member to tell them how much you love them. Read love notes and letter written by famous people – maybe they will inspire you to write one of your own.
Did You Know…
The oldest surviving Valentine’s Day love letter in the English language dates back to 1477? Called the Valentine’s Day Love Letter, the note was written by Margery Brew to her fiancé John Pasto.
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As Masters Athletes we are all too aware that recovery is key to maintain our performance over the years, but ensuring this is achieved is often neglected. And as I refuse to stop training hard, I need to up my recovery game and searching around I came across a great article on the 100 point recovery strategy, and I have tweaked and placed into my own programme now. And I hope you can see the benefit too.
It has long been recognised that without adequate recovery, an athlete will not achieve his or her full performance potential due to the accumulation of progressive fatigue, often termed over-training syndrome. Therefore, optimising recovery is an essential component of the overall training plan. Recovery techniques including methods such as compression therapy, nutrition and hydration, hydrotherapy, massage and myofascial release, athlete self-monitoring, and lifestyle factors have all been recommended. The purpose of this report is to recommend a method of implementation a 100-point weekly recovery checklist. Something I myself have used over the years and more so now.
100-Point Weekly Recovery Checklist
The 100-point weekly recovery checklist was developed for the beijing games and specifically for the Indonesian Olympic Team to use. The general training ideas and plans that were employed by the national team coaches was of high volume, which was consistent among the coaches the 16 sports (archery, swimming, diving, taekwondo, boxing, weightlifting, cycling, shooting, indoor volley, beach volley, canoeing, rowing, sailing, tennis, badminton, and athletics). Little emphasis was placed on optimising athlete recovery and regeneration, due to a lack of knowledge, available facilities, and adequate equipment. The main goal was to develop a “practical approach to recovery and regeneration” that could easily be implemented and used. A weekly recovery checklist was developed that gave a numerical recovery goal per week (i.e., 100 points) to motivate the athletes to engage in self-initiated, proactive recovery strategies. Proactive recovery has been defined as athlete initiated recovery strategies that are a planned and systematic part of the training program. Following review with sports medicine clinicians, 4 proactive recovery focus areas were included from the work of Jeffreys and implemented (Table 1).
Numerical Recovery Point Value
The numerical recovery point value for each recovery modality is presented in Table 2. Determination of a points value was based on (a) the effectiveness of the recovery technique being implemented (research evidence supporting its use) and (b) the level of athlete engagement required for its implementation, it needed to be easy (self-initiated, proactive recovery). As such, the numerical recovery point value represents a combination of evidence for technique effectiveness and the athlete engagement in implementation.
The elite athletes were encouraged to achieve 100 points on the weekly recovery checklist. The athletes were instructed to select two or more of the daily recovery strategies (Table 2), with each strategies recovery focus area used at some point during the week. Check- list instructions are outlined in Table 3. An example of how you as an athlete could implement proactive recovery strategies to achieve 100 weekly recovery points is presented in Table 4.
Optimising performance requires a fine balance between stress/fatigue and recovery (recovery is all to often neglected), which is best achieved when the athlete is proactively engaged and sees the benefit within the recovery process. The 100-point checklist provides a useful tool to educate athletes about the importance of post-training and post-competition recovery methods, and to promote self-initiated, proactive recovery strategies for the improvement of maximum performance.
Use this Checklist to make sure you are getting the best out of your training by getting the best out of your recovery
If you’re looking to get some recovery items want to lean more check out my articles:
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- Kentta G, Hassmen P. Overtraining and recovery. A conceptual model.Sports Med. 1998;26:1-16.
- Jeffreys I. A multidimensional approach to enhancing recovery.Strength Cond J. 2005;27:78-85.
- Gill ND, Beaven CM, Cook C. Effectiveness of post-match recovery strategies in rugby players. Br J Sports Med. 2006;40:260-3.
- Barnett A. Using recovery modalities between training sessions in elite athletes: does it help? Sports Med. 2006;36:781-96.
- Reilly T, Ekblom B. The use of recovery methods post-exercise. J Sports Sci. 2005;23:619-27.
- Budgett R. Fatigue and underperformance in athletes: the overtraining syndrome. Br J Sports Med. 1998;32:107-10.
- Duffield R, Edge J, Merrells R, et al. The effects of compression gar- ments on intermittent exercise performance and recovery on consecu- tive days. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2008;3:454-68.
- Ali A, Caine MP, Snow BG. Graduated compression stockings: physi- ological and perceptual responses during and after exercise. J Sports Sci. 2007;25:413-9.
- Kraemer WJ, Bush JA, Wickham RB, et al. Influence of compression therapy on symptoms following soft tissue injury from maximal eccentric exercise. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2001;31:282-90.
- Shirreffs SM, Armstrong LE, Cheuvront SN. Fluid and electrolyte needs for preparation and recovery from training and competition. J Sports Sci. 2004;22:57-63.
- Burke LM, Loucks AB, Broad N. Energy and carbohydrate for training and recovery. J Sports Sci. 2006;24:675-85.
- Wagner DR. Eating on the road: Practical nutrition strategies for the traveling athlete. Athl Ther Today. 2009;14:1-4.
- Vaile J, Halson S, Gill N, Dawson B. Effect of hydrotherapy on recovery from fatigue. Int J Sports Med. 2008;29:539-44.
- Wilcock IM, Cronin JB, Hing WA. Physiological response to water immersion: a method for sport recovery? Sports Med. 2006;36:747-65.
- Ingram J, Dawson B, Goodman C, Wallman K, Beilby J. Effect of water immersion methods on post-exercise recovery from simulated team sport exercise. J Sci Med Sport. 2009;12:417-21.
- Weerapong P, Hume PA, Kolt GS. The mechanisms of massage and effects on performance, muscle recovery and injury prevention. Sports Med. 2005;35:235-56.
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- Jeffreys I. A system for monitoring training stress and recovery in high school athletes. Strength Cond J. 2004;26:28-33.
- Robson-Ansley PJ, Gleeson M, Ansley L. Fatigue management in the preparation of Olympic athletes. J Sports Sci. 2009;1-12.
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- Jeffreys I. Post game recovery strategies for rugby. NSCA Perf Train J. 2007;6:13-6.
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Despite concerns about global warming and a large increase in the number of reported storms and droughts, the world’s death rate from extreme weather events was lower from 2000 to 2010 than it has been in any decade since 1900, according to a new Reason Foundation study.
The Reason Foundation report chronicles the number of worldwide deaths caused by extreme weather events between 1900 and 2010 and finds global deaths caused by extreme weather events peaked in the decade running from 1920 to 1929, when there were 241 deaths a year per million people in the world. From 1930 to 1939 there were 208 deaths a year per million people. But from 2000 to 2010 there were just 5.4 deaths a year per million people in the world. That’s a 98 percent decline in the weather-related death rate since the 1920s. Extreme weather events were responsible for just .07% of the world’s deaths between 2000 and 2010.
The extreme weather categories studied in the Reason Foundation report include droughts, floods, wildfires, storms (hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, typhoons, etc.) and extreme temperatures, both hot and cold.
Droughts were the most deadly extreme weather category between 1900 and 2010, responsible for over 60 percent of extreme weather deaths during that time. The worldwide death rate from droughts peaked in the 1920s when there were 235 deaths a year per million people. Since then, the death rate has fallen by 99.9 percent. The study finds that global food production advancements, such as new crops, improved fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides, along with society’s better ability to move food and medical supplies, were responsible for reducing the number of deaths in times of severe drought.
Floods were to blame for 30 percent of the deaths during the timeframe studied, making them the second most deadly extreme weather category. The death rate for floods topped out in the 1930s at 204 deaths a year per million people. Deaths from floods have fallen by over 98 percent since then and there was an average of approximately one flood death per year per million people from 2000 to 2010.
Deaths from storms spiked as recently as the 1970s, when there were 10 deaths a year per million people. But the death rate has dropped by 75 percent since then, with storms being blamed for two deaths a year per million people from 2000 to 2010.
The average number of extreme weather events recorded increased from 2.5 per year in the 1920s to 8.5 in the 1940s to 350 per year for the period 2000-2010. The study notes technological and telecommunication advances made it significantly easier to learn of and respond to weather events. Broader news coverage and an increased tendency by authorities to declare natural disaster emergencies have also contributed to the large uptick in the number of storms recorded.
“Overall mortality around the world is increasing, while mortality from weather events is decreasing,” said Dr. Indur Goklany, the author of the Reason Foundation study. “Despite the intense media coverage of storms and climate change’s prominent role in political debates, humanity is coping far better with extreme weather events than it is with other much more important health and safety problems.”
“The number of reported extreme weather events is increasing, but the number of deaths and the risk of dying from those events have decreased,” said Julian Morris, the study’s project director and vice president of research at Reason Foundation. “Economic development and technological improvements have enabled society to protect against these events and to cope better with them when they do occur.”
Full Report Online
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Social Concerns / Themes / Characters
Although virtually devoid of political concerns, Gilchrist's characters are extremely class-conscious. If poor, they are acutely aware of that fact. If wealthy, their money often not only fails to insure happiness, but deepens their unhappiness. Life at the country club or in the Southern mansion is rarely an untroubled one. As these women try to break out of the roles that society and the past have crafted for them, they take all sorts of risks in order to define themselves. Some of their actions, such as Rhoda's doffing her formal attire at a wedding reception to usurp her brothers' pole vault, are symbolic of their yearning to break out of the constraints of their past, their sex, or their social standing.
Although not a militant feminist, Gilchrist depicts women whose search for freedom leads them to rebellions ranging from the symbolic to the violent.
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Human trafficking in India has become a rampant affair. Children and young girls from a rural background are the worst victims of human trafficking. They are bought to urban areas or to other states to work as domestic helpers in households or in small-scale industries. They adolescents are coerced to beg or sell knick-knacks on the streets of cities. The most vulnerable section, i.e. women and children are often sold into the commercial sex trade market, illegal organ trade racket etc. Many times people are lured to work abroad with lucrative job offers.
Trafficking Laws under IPC
Sections 370 and 371 aim at the suppression of slavery.Section 370 punishes importing, exporting, buying, selling or disposing of a person as a slave.The offence is non-cognizable, bailable, non-compoundable and triable by a Magistrate of the first class. It is punishable with imprisonment that may extend to imprisonment up to 7 years and fine. “The ingredients laid down u/s 370 are as follows:-
a. The accused imported, exported, bought, sold or disposed of any person as a slave;
b. The accused accepted, received or detained such person as a slave.”
Section 371 seeks to punish a habitual dealer in slaves. A person who steals a child in order to sell him as a slave is punishable under this section. The offence is non-cognizable, non-bailable, non-compoundable and triable by the Court of Session. Punishment may extend to 10 years of imprisonment and fine.
Section 372 and 373 punish the trade of selling and buying minors for purposes of prostitution. These sections are in consonance with article 23 of the Constitution which prohibits traffic in human beings and sanctions punishment for practising such acts. The former section punishes the sale of minor girls below the age of 18 years for the purpose of prostitution, illicit intercourse or for any other unlawful and immoral purposes.The offence consists of the intentional or conscious exposure of a minor girl to the danger of degradation.The buying or hiring of minor girls must be from a third person. The offence is cognizable, bailable and triable by the Court of Sessions. Punishment may extend to 10 years of imprisonment and fine. Section 373 punishes buyers or hirers of minor girls for the prostitution, illicit intercourse or for any other unlawful and immoral purposes.
Another form of modern slavery, wherein labour services are given due to the use of force, fraud, violence, threats or coercion by the traffickers against their will.Common types of labour trafficking include people forced to work in homes as domestic servants, farmworkers coerced through violence as they harvest crops or factory workers held in inhumane conditions with little to no pay.
Sex trafficking is another form of human trafficking. Forced prostitution is another term for sex trafficking. It is a plague for humanity. Use of force or coercion is the driving force behind sex trafficking.
Other Laws on Trafficking
There are some other laws on the subject matter which include The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, and Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994.
- Article 23(1) of the Indian Constitution prohibits ‘begar’ and other similar forms of forced labour. It also provides that any contravention of the said prohibition shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. Article 35(a)(ii) confers power on the Parliament to provide punishment for the contravention of the prohibition and exclusively takes away the power State Legislature.
- Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976– The Act has been passed to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the people and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Section 4 provides for the abolition of bonded labour system and section 5 declares an agreement, custom etc. to be void to that extent. Chapter III (sections 6-9) deal with the liabilities to repay bonded debt shall stand extinguished upon the commencement of the Act.
- Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986– There are a number of enactments which prohibit the employment of children below 14 and 15 years in specified employment. Prior to the Act, there was no law specifying the hazardous employments and no regulations for the working conditions of children. Part II (sections 3-5) of the Act sheds light on the prohibition of employment of children in certain occupations and processes. Regulations regarding conditions of work of children are contained in Part III (sections 6-13).
- Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 – It is a sui generis legislation on the subject matter. It regulates the removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human organs.
Comparative Analysis of Human Trafficking in other Countries
Position in United States
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 2000 can be said to be the first comprehensive federal law addressing trafficking in persons which got further amended in 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2013. The law has threefold objectives namely, prevention, protection, and prosecution. Some other legislation on the subject matter includes Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014.
Position in United Kingdom
The law at the UK prohibits all forms of trafficking. In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, human trafficking offences are governed by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, the Sexual Offenses Act 2003, and the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004, which prescribe penalties of a maximum of 10, 14, and 14 years’ imprisonment, respectively.
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 was enacted in March 2015 integrating a variety of criminal offences used to prosecute traffickers into one act and it prescribed penalties ranging from fines to life imprisonment for trafficking offences, which are sufficiently stringent and commensurate with those prescribed for other serious crimes.
In Scotland, the Criminal Justice Act 2003, the Criminal Justice and Licensing Act 2010, and provisions of the UK’s Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 prohibit trafficking. Northern Ireland enacted the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act in January 2015; the act unifies existing anti-trafficking statutes and provides support for victims of human trafficking on a statutory basis.
Position in Russia
Russia has become a major hub of human trafficking. After the collapse of Soviet Union in the 1990s, the problem became pressing as thousands of women and minors trafficked out of Russia into prostitution, particularly to Europe, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Scandinavia, China and North America. In December 2003, the Criminal Code of Russian Federation was amended to insert article 127.1 was inserted thereby penalizing human trafficking. Article 127.2 was later added to combat slavery.
Position in Pakistan
The Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act, 2018 and The Prevention of Smuggling of Migrants Acts, 2018 has been passed to safeguard the rights of victims of human trafficking and smuggled migrants, on the one hand, and empower the law enforcement agencies of Pakistan to effectively prosecute the organized gangs perpetuating and benefitting from these crimes, on the other.
Position in Thailand
The Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act, 1996, replaced the Suppression of Prostitution Act, 1960. It criminalizes prostitution with imprisonment and/or a fine.
X, a 17-year-old girl was sold for Rs. 10,000/- under the pretext of being married to a 40-year old man. Her father had expired. The mother was financially handicapped to run the family. When her land was being taken over by the villagers, she went to the police station to lodge a complaint. The police criminally assaulted her. She was given Rs. 1000 by the police stating that he would help her. She was then introduced to people who pulled her into the racket of child trafficking. She was sent to various places.
A, who was a 32-year-old woman is the sole bread earner of her family. She is a mother of five children. Her husband is unwell and cannot work. She befriended a woman who sympathized with her financial condition and promised her a job in a hospital as an attendant at her workplace. She followed her but little did she know where she was to land herself. She was beaten with a ladle for refusing to work as a prostitute. The lady there said that she had paid for her. That’s why she can’t refuse to work.
Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehendi and his brother were sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Patiala Court. The complainants alleged that the brothers had taken ‘passage money’ from them to help them migrate to the United States illegally, but failed to do so.
Illustration 4: Crown v Roda
Where the accused bought a girl aged nine and gave her in marriage to his brother, it was held that he was not guilty of the offence of disposing of the girl as a slave.
Illustration 5: Chirag (1929) 30 Cr LJ 376 (Lah)
Where the accused, a brothel manager, obtained possession of a girl below 18 years of age, the presumption was that she would be used for prostitution.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Why human trafficking is illegal?
Human trafficking has grown to become one of the largest international crime industries in the world. It is a heinous offence and a grave violation of human rights. “Human rights most relevant to trafficking are as follows:-
- Prohibition of discrimination of all kinds
- Right to life
- Right to liberty and security
- Right not to be submitted to slavery, servitude, forced labour or bonded labour
- Right not to be subjected to torture and/or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment
- Right to be free from gendered violence
- Right to freedom of association
- Right to freedom of movement
- Right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Right to just and favourable conditions of work
- Right to an adequate standard of living
- Right to social security
- The right of children to special protection”
2. Where human trafficking is most common?
Globally, human trafficking is most common in Algeria, Venezuela, Sudan and South Sudan, Belarus, Russia, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia. In India, it is most popular in West Bengal, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Bihar, Punjab, Nagaland, Orissa, Kerala, Jharkhand, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu, Andaman and Nicobar islands etc.
3. Are human trafficking and slavery the same thing?
Although human trafficking can be termed as ‘modern-day slavery’ however the two are different. There are various reasons for which people are trafficked. Some of these include forced prostitution, forced labour, forced begging, forced criminality, domestic servitude, forced marriage, and forced organ removal. Slavery can be one of the reasons for human trafficking.
4. What’s human trafficking?
UNODC, as guardian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto, assists States in their efforts to implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (Trafficking in Persons Protocol). Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.
5. Who to report human trafficking?
In India, human trafficking can be reported by calling on the national helpline Childline in 1098. “One can inform the following authorities:-
- Airport police
- Railway authorities
- Police stations
- State Human Rights Commission
- District Collectorate officials.”
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K.D.Gaur, Textbook on Indian Penal Code, (5th edition, Universal Law Publication, 2015) at pg- 679.
Venku v Mahalinga, 1888ILR 1 Mad 393.
Supra note 1 at pg-681.
P.P. v MaddilaMutayalu, (1918) 19 Cr LJ 965.
Labour Trafficking, Retrieved on 13/08/18 from https://humantraffickinghotline.org/type-trafficking/labor-trafficking.
Human Trafficking, Ministry of External Affairs. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from http://www.mea.gov.in/human-trafficking.htm.
S.N. MISRA, Labour& Industrial Laws (28th ed., Central Law Publications, Allahabad, 2016) at pg- 1120.
Office To Monitor And Combat Trafficking In Persons, 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, U. S. Department of State. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2015/243558.htm.
Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants laws 2018. Retrieved on 03/08/18 from https://www.unodc.org/pakistan/en/trafficking-in-persons-and-smuggling-of-migrants-laws-2018.html.
Cristina Liebolt, The Thai Government’s Response to Human Trafficking: Areas of Strength and Suggestions for Improvement (Part1),17, Thailand Journal of Law and Policy. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from http://thailawforum.com/articles/thailand-human-trafficking.html.
Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi sentenced to two years in jail, released on bail, The Hindu, March, 16th, 2018. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/daler-mehndi-convicted-in-human-trafficking-case/article23271467.ece.
1867 PRC (Cr) 19 (38).
Human Rights and Human Trafficking, United Nations Human Rights Fact Sheet No. 26. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FS36_en.pdf.
Data and Statistics, Human Trafficking in India. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/human-trafficking/research-links/data-and-statistics.
Human Trafficking. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html.
Ramya Kannan, Do you know: How to help trafficking victims, The Hindu, March, 23rd, 2015. Retrieved on 04/08/18 from https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/do-you-know-how-to-help-trafficking-victims/article7021062.ece.
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An improved computational analysis is presented for the detailed prediction of heat transfer, phase change, and fluid flow during welding with a moving heat source. The governing equations are formulated in a reference frame attached to the heat source. A special feature in the formulation is that the primary unknown velocity is the convective velocity of the fluid with the motion of the heat source, resulting in additional source terms in the equations. The equations are solved using a control-volume-based computational method. The temperature and velocity fields and the time-temperature data are presented for two welding velocities to demonstrate the results using the new technique.
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- Numerical Analysis
- Condensed Matter Physics
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Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that "nobody knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and return? Do studio executives really earn their huge paychecks?
These and many other questions are answered in Hollywood Economics. The book uses powerful analytical models to uncover the wild uncertainty that shapes the industry. The centerpiece of the analysis is the unpredictable and often chaotic dynamic behaviour of motion picture audiences.
This unique and important book will be of interest to students and researchers involved in the economics of movies, industrial economics and business studies. The book will also be a real eye-opener for film writers, movie executives, finance and risk management professionals as well as more general movie fans.
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Harvard Business School, Finance Working Paper No. 09-060
The subprime mortgage meltdown has managed to wipe out industry-leading firms in the banking and insurance sectors, but the underlying causes are still not widely understood. The authors of this paper explain how structured finance, or the ability to create large pools of highly rated securities from underlying pools of assets (e.g., mortgages) contributed to the meltdown. They discuss the complexity and riskiness of the specific mortgage-backed securities (known as collateralized debt obligations) that caused the problems, and show how the credit rating agencies came to mistakenly rate these securities as largely free of risk. The authors also highlight how a lack of historical information on default and delinquency rates in the subprime mortgage market led investors to overestimate the value of their investments. Finally, they question the future of structured finance and suggest ways the rating agencies should improve.
Collateralized debt obligations, once considered safe investments, turned out to be both widely misunderstood and incredibly risky when the underlying assets consisted largely of subprime mortgage-backed securities.
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This is how I would do it, tho there may be other ways as well. I would
duplicate the layer, do my color correction. Add a layer mask and paint the
mask such that the areas that I did not want to be corrected showed through,
feathering the mask appropriately where necessary. Perhaps kinda tedious if
you have a lot of images, but it would work.
--- On Sat, 8/2/08, Milan Knížek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Milan Knížek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Gimp-user] Colour correction affecting only particular colours
> To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
> Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008, 6:18 PM
> Hi all!
> I have been struggling to correct skin tones in GIMP
> without affecting
> other colours of the image. The problem is that whatever
> method I use
> (channel mixer, colour mapping, hue/saturation on
> particular colour
> channels), some other hues are also affected (green, blue).
> I tried also Select by colour and modify just the
> selection, however, I
> have not succeeded to correctly select just the skin tones.
> Pictures are better then words, so here is an example
> (screenshot of
> Picture Window Pro's Colour Correction). Image on the
> right is being
> corrected to get closer to the image on the left, preview
> of the change
> is on the top. Note that other hues (tree branches,
> clothes) on the
> preview are the same as on the source image.
> Is there a way how to do this in GIMP?
> Milan Knizek
> knizek (dot) confy (at) volny (dot) cz
> http://www.milan-knizek.net - about linux and photography
> Gimp-user mailing list
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What Are Your Fingernails Trying to Tell You?
What are your fingernails trying to tell you about your health? Believe it or not, how your nails look can be clues into your body function, and how healthy you are. Everyone has nail irregularities from time to time, but there are some nail irregularities that shouldn’t be ignored. Here is what your nails may be trying to tell you.
You may notice a pair of horizontal white lines running parallel to the nail base. These are called Muehrcke’s Nails and they may be caused by chemotherapy but are also associated with liver disease and kidney disease.
This does not mean your nails like to go out and dance their cares away. Nails normally have a curve at a slight upward angle from the nail bed. If your nails curve downward this could be a sign of lung disease, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease or HIV infection.
These are called Beau’s lines, and they can be from an injury to the nail bed as the result of a high fever, and are seen in people being treated with chemotherapy. They can also be a sign of peripheral vascular disease, diabetes or a zinc deficiency.
These nails appear abnormally thin and flat, or even concave enough to hold a drop of water. If you have spoon nails this could be an indication of anemia, severe iron deficiency, exposure to chemicals or trauma to the nail.
White Nail Plates
With this nails will be white with a dark band at the tip. You will see this on all of your fingers and it is common in people with liver disease. They can be a part of normal aging too, however, or a sign of congestive heart failure, diabetes or HIV infection.
Rippled or Pitted Nails
This is characterized by tiny indentations or the nail my look rippled rather than smooth. This could be an indication of psoriasis, a common skin disease. It may also be the sign of a connective tissue disease.
If your nails are prone to breaking, splitting or cracking easily this could be a sign of a thyroid disease. Both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism can be characterized by brittle nails.
So make sure to pay special attention to your nails in order to catch any unusual signs. Often, the nails will show signs in the early stages of a disorder, so catching it early are the first line in defense of making sure you stay healthy!
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For a group of students at Dauphin County Technical
School, it was a glimpse into their professional future.
It was a chance to not only plan and design landscape
ideas, but present them, just as they will when they enter the business world
after graduation. They presented landscape plans to be used in conjunction with
the 250th anniversary of Linglestown in 2015.
“In our sketch we decided not to go with many plants
because it could be a maintenance expense,” explained masonry student
Sofia Tadych, while presenting her group's plans to members of the anniversary
committee and the Colonial Park Rotary Club.
The project centers around a new town clock to be
installed at Linglestown Square. Students from the school's masonry and
ornamental horticulture classes submitted three plans involving a patio of
commemorative bricks at the base of the clock and surrounding landscape.
Earlier in the fall, the students visited the site, taking pictures and
measurements for their designs. With every plan presented, there was a sense of
community pride among the students.
“People will look back on it someday and I'll be
able to say 'I did that!' I was part of this,” beamed ornamental
horticulture student Michael Beers. In the process of planning and presenting
their plans, the students say they learned from each other.
“We all kind of worked together as a team and we
just put all of our ideas into one,” said Tadych. “So, one would do
this and another would do that.”
The anniversary committee and the sponsoring Colonial
Park Rotary were impressed with what they saw and heard.
“Particularly, we like the fact that they were able
to take all the ideas that had been presented and bring them together in a way
that is not going to be just a clock stuck in the square,” said Rotary
member Lowman Henry.
From here, the committee
will choose a plan and move the project forward to reality.
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Report on Mahawu (Indonesia) — April 1987
Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, vol. 12, no. 4 (April 1987)
Managing Editor: Lindsay McClelland.
Mahawu (Indonesia) Tectonic earthquakes, plume, elevated lake temperature
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 1987. Report on Mahawu (Indonesia) (McClelland, L., ed.). Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, 12:4. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.SEAN198704-266110
1.352°N, 124.865°E; summit elev. 1299 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
Beginning on 17 April, a white plume was observed ~100 m above Mahawu crater. The plume persisted into early May. Between 1 and 22 April, tectonic earthquakes occurred at a rate of 1/day, with no shallow volcanic earthquakes. During the last week of April, tectonic earthquakes occurred at a rate of ~9/day and shallow volcanic events at ~5/day.
Mahawu contains a crater lake with a volume of ~40,000 m3 of greenish-yellow water. On 21 April the temperature of the lake water was 45°C, compared to a normal 20°C measured in September 1986. A strong odor of H2S was also noted by the VSI observer during his 21 April visit. VSI recommended that a circular area extending ~3.5 km from the crater be temporarily closed to public access. In January 1978, the temperature of the lake water reached 70°C without an eruption [but see 12:7 & 8].
Geological Summary. The elongated Mahawu volcano immediately east of Lokon-Empung volcano is the northernmost of a series of young volcanoes along a SSW-NNE line near the margin of the Quaternary Tondano caldera. Mahawu is capped by a 180-m-wide, 140-m-deep crater that sometimes contains a small crater lake, and has two pyroclastic cones on its N flank. Historical activity has been restricted to occasional small explosive eruptions recorded since 1789. In 1994 fumaroles, mudpots, and small geysers were observed along the shores of a greenish-colored crater lake.
Information Contacts: T. Casadevall, USGS & VSI.
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WelcomeOriginally Posted by Unregistered
I've been there, too. Making friends in a foreign country takes time, and, like everything else in life, you have to work at it, so don't give up! Have patience, and be yourself. Everything will fall into place. You'll see. Remind yourself of the people you know back home who are not from India, say visiting unversity students. Don't they, too, face a similar situation? It's not them, nor is it you, nor is it 'native speakers'. It's about not having that circle of support we have at home. That support system is so much a part of us and who are that when it's not there, we begin to question why it is we can't seem to strike up friendships. It's easy to make friends at home because we have contacts; friendships are made of and based on trust. Back home, I wouldn't approach a total stranger and try to form a long lasting friendship--that person would probably call the police! . In a foreign country, we have to allow people enough time to get to know us, enough time to build trust, and that takes time.
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How to Connect To 5GHz WiFi
Disclosure: As a member of the Amazon Associates program, we earn from qualifying purchases. Some links in this guide are affiliate links. We may get paid if you buy something or take an action after clicking one of these links, at no additional cost to you. It’s how we fund the work that it takes for us to create and maintain these guides.
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If you’ve purchased a dual-band or tri-band router like one of the ones we reviewed, chances are you have at least one 5GHz band. If you got a tri-band router, you have two 5GHz bands. But what’s the point of having a 5GHz band if you’re not using it?
The 5GHz band has a good deal of advantages over the 2.4GHz band. To begin with, it experiences much less traffic and is thus less crowded. Traffic congestion can slow your connection and cause you to experience lag. Another issue with the 2.4GHz band is that lots of devices that don’t even use the internet use the 2.4GHz band, which means that it’s quite prone to interference. This isn’t the case with the 5GHz band, however, so when you’re connected to it, you won’t experience issues due to interference.
In a nutshell, the 5GHz band is the ideal choice for real-time, lag-free gaming, heavy-duty downloading, as well as seamless streaming. But how can you connect your device to 5GHz WiFi? Well, that’s what we’re here for. We’ll go over two easy ways you can connect your devices to the 5GHz band. The first method will go over how you can adjust the settings on your laptop to make it connect to 5GHz WiFi. The second method covers how you can redirect your router to the 5GHz band by editing the settings through your router user account.
Check If Your Router Supports the 5GHz Band
The first thing you need to check is if your network adapter supports the 5GHz band in the first place.
One way you can do this is by going to Control Panel > Device Manager > Network Adapters. From the drop-down menu, select your network adapter.
Double-click on your Network Adapter to check the options
In some cases, you’ll be able to see the wireless standard your router supports from the drop-down menu. In the case of this image, you only see it’s WiFi 802.11, but you don’t see which standard it is. Generally, if your router supports the 802.11a/g/n or 802.11ac wireless standards, there’s a good chance you have a 5GHz band. However, if it’s 802.11 b/g/n, there’s a slim chance it supports the 5GHz band.
If you can’t tell from the initial screen what wireless standard is supported (like in the image above), double-click on the network adapter option and go to advanced. Here, you’ll be able to see the exact wireless standards supported by your router.
Another way to go about doing this is simply looking at your router and finding out the name and number of the model. Then, you can go to the router’s company website and see which bands your model supports. Once you’ve confirmed that you can connect to the 5GHz band, proceed with one of the following methods.
The first method we’ll go over is how you can connect to 5GHz WiFi through your Network Adapter (Device Manager) settings on Windows 10. The second method we’ll look at is how you can enable 5GHz WiFi from your router’s company account.
Method No. 1: Connect to 5GHz WiFi From Your Network Adapter (Windows 10)
To connect to 5GHz WiFi on Windows 10, you can manually enable it from the Network Adapter settings. Here’s a step-by-step guide:
- Open Device Manager. Device Manager is located in your Control Panel. You can reach it through your Control Panel, or simply type in Device Manager into the Windows search bar by pressing on the Windows button.
- Select your WiFi adapter from the drop-down menu. Once you click on Network adapters from the Device Manager screen, a drop-down menu will appear. Find your WiFi adapter and double-click on it.
- Go to Advanced and change the settings. From the ensuing window, click on the Advanced tab. There will be two drop-down menus: one will say property, and the other value. From the Property tab, click on the Wireless Mode option, that should be something like 802.11n/ac Wireless Mode. Then, go to the Value tab and select either 802.11n or 802.11ac, then click on OK to save changes.
- Restart your computer. For the changes to take place, you’ll need to restart your computer. Once you’ve done this, check if it worked and you can connect to the 5GHz band for a smooth, lag-free connection!
Method No. 2: Connect to 5GHz WiFi From Your Client Account
When you purchase a router, you also get an account with the manufacturing company. So the second method you can try to connect to the 5GHz band is by logging into your client account and changing the wireless settings from there.
Here’s how to do this:
- Log into your user account. Look at the back or bottom of your browser and find the manufacturer’s default IP address. Alternatively, you can find it in the user manual. Once you’ve found it, enter it into your browser’s URL bar. Then, enter your username and password to log into your user account. Here, you can find your router settings.
- Go to wireless settings. Unless the login page takes you directly to your wireless settings, find the wireless tab, and click on it. From here, you’ll be able to edit your WiFi settings. Click on Basic.
- Connect to 5GHz WiFi. In the Basic menu, you’ll see a number of wireless settings with editable values. Find the 802.11 band option, and click on the value next to it, which probably shows 2.4GHz. From the drop-down menu, click on the 5GHz band instead.
- Click on Appy/Save Changes. Once you’ve selected the 5GHz band for your wireless connection, click on Apply or Save Changes to, well, save the changes. Then you can log out of your user account, and wait for a bit for the changes to go into effect.
The 5GHz Band: Why and When To Use It
The 5GHz band has quite a few advantages over the 2.4GHz frequency, like lack of interference and less traffic congestion, to name a few. Let’s take a look at some advantages the 5GHz frequency has over 2.4GHz, and where it will fall short. We’ll also cover when you should use the 5GHz frequency, and when to surrender to 2.4GHz.
5GHz Band Has Less Interference
There are a couple of reasons why the 5GHz frequency experiences less interference. First of all, a lot more devices use the 2.4GHz band. Most smartphones, for instance, use the 2.4GHz band. Generally, this frequency is quite sufficient for browsing and light online work or light streaming (less than 4K and 8K, for instance).
However, when you want to stream in high quality, play video games without lag, or do some heavy-duty online work, the influx of traffic and interference from other devices will make the 2.4GHz frustrating to use. And it’s not just that devices like smartphones use the 2.4GHz frequency – a lot of household devices that don’t even use the internet operate on the 2.4GHz frequency. Bluetooth gadgets, baby monitors, microwaves, and garage door openers are only a few examples that use the 2.4GHz frequency. This means that even if a whole lot of devices aren’t technically connected to the router, these gadgets will interfere with your connection simply because they run on the same frequency.
Luckily, this won’t happen on 5GHz WiFi. The 5GHz band runs on 23 non-overlapping channels, which means less congestion, less traffic, and significantly lower chances of interference. Plus, a lot of newer router models that feature 5GHz also come with beamforming functions. Beamforming focuses the wireless signal directly to connected devices rather than broadcasting it in all directions, which could dilute the signal and be prone to more interference.
5GHz Band Offers Faster Internet Speeds
5GHz WiFi offers overall superior performance to the 2.4GHz band when it comes to internet speed, as well. In addition to having a smooth connection due to the lack of interference, you’ll also have a faster internet connection.
Let’s look at a dual-band router as an example. Say your router’s maximum data transfer speed of a dual-band router is 1900Mbps. This value is divided between the two bands. You’ll find that a much higher maximum speed is allocated to the 5GHz band. So in the case of a 1900Mbps total, you’re looking at a maximum speed of 600Mbps for the 2.4GHz band, and a maximum of 1300Mbps for the 5GHz band.
This is yet another reason why 5GHz WiFi is a much better choice for smooth, seamless, lag-free gaming and streaming in HD, 4K, and 8K.
The one area where 2.4GHz has the upper hand is range. The 2.4GHz band has a much broader range than the 5GHz band and can actually penetrate solid objects such as walls and ceilings. This is why in a large home, if you’re hoping to get wireless from a room distant to the router, 2.4GHz is a better choice than 5GHz.
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Minsitry of Women (Dominican Republic)
Ministerio de la Mujer (República Dominicana)
Last modified: 2015-12-05 by randy young
Keywords: dominican republic | ministry of women | ministerio de la mujer | dove | female sign | state secretariat for women | secretaría de estado de la mujer | sem |
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The flag of the Ministry of Women features the Ministry's logo centered on a white field. The logo itself features a stylized female symbol (♀) in light purple with a sweeping light purple arc above it. Surrounding the female symbol below and to the sides is the green outline of a dove, with the female symbol and sweeping arc taking the place of its wings. The dove's chest morphs into a green capital "M", with the word "MUJER" spelled out in light purple capital letters next to it. Below, the name of the Ministry in light purple capital letters: "MINISTERIO DE LA MUJER." Photos of the flag can be found online here and here.
Randy Young, 16 May 2015
Not sure about this flag. In my first impression (2011 published in Flag Report april 2012) I pictured the flag as white. But later I see several photos and I believe now that the flag has a light violet background.
Jaume Ollé, 21 May 2015
According to Google's translation of the Ministry's website, the Ministry of Women grew from the Directorate for the Promotion of Women that was established on 17 August 1982. The Directorate operated as a subordinate office of the Presidency. The Directorate was updated to the State Secretariat for Women in August 1999, and was then renamed the Ministry of Women with Decree 56-10 on 26 January 2010, when the state secretariats were renamed as ministries. The Ministry's mission statement is to "Define and lead the implementation of public policies, plans, and programs that contribute to equality and gender equity, and the full exercise of citizenship for women."
Randy Young, 16 May 2015
image by Randy Young, 29 November 2015
A couple months ago, Zachary Harden forwarded me off-list the Corporate Identity Manual for the Dominican Republic's State Secretariat for Women, the 1999-2010 predecessor to the current Ministry of Women. On page 23, the flag is described in the following terms:
"The official flag of the Secretaría de Estado de la Mujer (State Secretariat for Women, SEM) is a white rectangle which has at its center the logo.
"It will be placed in front of headquarters to the right of the National Flag, in all offices, and in meeting rooms.
"It can never be on the ground or in deteriorating conditions.
"It may be used in official ceremonies, including funerals. It should be hoisted at the same time as the National Flag."
Zachary Harden, 5 September 2015, and Randy Young, 29 November 2015
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Micron’s sites in Italy launched multiple initiatives with Micron Foundation support to sustain educational and charitable programs for children and disadvantaged people. Along with the setup support of a rehabilitation center near Catania for children affected by deep deafness, two projects in Catania and Arzano were launched with social services to organize afterschool services and donate school books to poor and deprived families to help prevent student dropouts. Additionally, approximately 260 computers were donated to more than 10 schools and charitable associations around Agrate.
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While swallowing a tooth might be upsetting to your child it is not harmful. Keep them calm. If the tooth was a baby tooth you have nothing to worry about. However, you may have to get creative with the Tooth Fairy since there’s no tooth to put under the pillow.
What happens if you accidentally swallow a tooth?
Are teeth digestible? Generally, a tooth is digestible. If an object like a tooth can pass from the narrowest part of the digestive tract, it will most likely pass with no problem. However, in case your child swallows a tooth, monitor him or her for signs of problems, and seek your doctor’s advice.
Can a swallowed tooth cause injury?
The National Health Service (NHS) reports that, “nearly all swallowed objects will pass through the digestive system without causing any harm, including those with sharp edges.” If an object can pass from the narrowest part of the digestive tract, from where the esophagus joins the stomach, it will most likely pass …
What happens if a child swallows?
If your kid swallows more than one, they can be drawn to each other inside their body and damage their stomach or intestines. Blood poisoning is another possible and serious problem. If you think your child has ingested a magnet, call 911 right away.
Will stomach acid dissolve a tooth?
Stomach acid has a pH of 2.0. It is very acidic and will slowly dissolve your teeth as dental enamel begins to dissolve at 5.5. As your teeth begin to dissolve, you’ll notice that your teeth have an increased sensitivity to cold and hot foods.
Can you leave a dead tooth in your mouth?
A dead or dying tooth left in the mouth may not do a whole lot of immediate damage right off the bat, but leaving it in for too long can cause other teeth to rot and even cause problems and unwanted issues with your jaw.
How long does it take to poop something you swallowed?
It takes about 36 hours for food to move through the entire colon. All in all, the whole process — from the time you swallow food to the time it leaves your body as feces — takes about two to five days, depending on the individual.
Can you choke on a tooth while sleeping?
Losing the tooth is pretty common as it can fall out overnight while the child is sleeping. We know that swallowing a baby tooth is not part of the plan, but you shouldn’t be concerned. A swallowed tooth is harmless and will naturally pass.
What happens if you swallow a penny?
Button batteries can burn a hole in the lining of the stomach within hours. And pennies issued after 1982 contain corrosive zinc that can damage the esophagus. If your child has swallowed either of these, take them to the ER immediately. If your little penny popper is acting fine, they’ll probably be fine.
How long does it take a baby to pass an object?
Infants, toddlers, and even adults can swallow foreign objects. In most cases, the digestive system will process the item naturally and the body will pass the item within seven days without causing damage.
What if a child swallows a Lego?
Second, call your pediatrician. While the LEGO will most likely pass through their system, it could cause internal damage. And that requires a call—and probably a trip—to the doctor’s office or local hospital.
Can a child swallow a AAA battery?
Lithium and alkaline batteries
Regular, alkaline batteries are also extremely dangerous if swallowed, but that’s less likely because of their larger size. If your child swallows any type of battery, this is considered an emergency and you should immediately take your child to a hospital emergency department.
What happens if you don’t brush your teeth?
Lack of proper oral care can cause tooth loss. Individuals not brushing their teeth regularly will not remove plaque and bacteria that cause gum disease; this, in turn, can lead to cavities and loss of teeth.
Is it bad to swallow your own blood?
This may cause blood to run down the back of your throat, and you may swallow it. Swallowed blood can irritate your stomach and cause vomiting. And vomiting may make the bleeding worse or cause it to start again. Spit out any blood that gathers in your mouth and throat rather than swallowing it.
What does tooth resorption feel like?
The condition often starts on the outside of a tooth and moves inwards. In addition to a loss of part or parts of a tooth, you may notice swelling in your gums, as well as pink or dark spots on your teeth. However, the symptoms of resorption aren’t always easy to notice.
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The misconception after the last slide was that this article was over. Well, in addition to those eight big misconceptions, I wanted to include two fun ones for the fans.
The Terrible Towel is Just a Yellow Dishrag Craze Gone Awry
Myron Cope encouraged fans to bring yellow dish towels to the stadium before a 1975 playoff game, which began the tradition of the Terrible Towel, a fad now copied by virtually every sports team in America.
The belief by opposing fans and players is that the towel is nothing more than a craze that's lasted in a town that's long been sweet on it's football team.
But mysterious misfortune seems to follow anyone who defaces the sacred object of Steelers fans everywhere.
Carson Palmer's knee injury in 2005, the sudden fade of the Tennessee Titans in 2008, the end of the New York Jets Super Bowl hopes in 2010 and the disappearance of previously promising runner LenDale White all have come in the wake of someone, somewhere doing harm to a Terrible Towel.
Coincidence? You decide.
The Steelers Aren't America's Team
It became fashionable at some point to call the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team." I don't even want to do the research on why this awful and inexplicable fad began, but I'll debunk it without finding out where it came from.
The Steelers are America's team. Why? Think about it.
Who travels better than any other professional sports franchise? No other team enjoys the "road field advantage" of Pittsburgh, where Terrible Towels crop up in force in every stadium, every season.
What team, with the possible exception of the New York Yankees, has a more recognizable logo?
The Steelers helped revive a city in the 1970s, when Pittsburgh was falling to pieces in the wake of steel mills shutting down.
Today, there are Steelers bars in almost every NFL town and in hundreds of other places around the nation and even around the world.
Word is, there's a Steelers bar in Italy somewhere. Word also is that there isn't a Cowboys bar in Europe.
America's Team? That title belongs to the team with the most Super Bowl trophies and the most fans all over the country. That title clearly belongs in Pittsburgh.
(To be perfectly honest, no single team should ever be America's Team. That title is just a little too lofty for any team to live up to for a long period of time.)
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Clawbacks: Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation
The countless scandals and crises of our financial system have revealed several flaws in our compensatory system for top executives that leave many wondering how is it possible for top leaders of a company to make hasty, essentially unethical decisions and dishonestly walk away with millions. A paradigm to support our case is the obvious Enron scandal of 2001, particularly notable are the top executives at Enron who made “fundamentally flawed” decisions that ultimately led to the collapse of the company, once ranked as the nation’s seventh-largest corporation. In 2001, the top executives at Enron strolled away with roughly $1.1 billion in the three previous years. More specifically, Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling of Enron, cashed out nearly $160 million in stocks, while unwitting investors lost virtually $6 trillion overall.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act expands on the compensation “clawback” concept introduced in § 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which required that in the event of any restatement of earnings based on executive misconduct, public companies must recoup incentives to the company’s CEO and CFO that were paid out within 12 months preceding the restatement. Many public companies have incorporated similar clawback provisions into their bylaws—which may be one reason §304 is used less frequently.
The new Dodd-Frank Act, has bolstered the section to encompass all executives and cover a three-year period as oppose to just the 12-month period. §954 (b) Recovery of funds: requires all listed companies to adopt and implement their own internal “clawback” policies covering incentive-based compensation, placing the burden on the individual corporations because it understands the need for tailor-made clauses.
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Anyone Can Help Prevent Suicide
The risk of suicide among young people ages 10 to 24 rose 56 percent over a ten-year period, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Among Latinos in Washington State, while suicide risk remains low compared with non-Latinos, the risk of suicide among Hispanics increased 50 percent.
For Hispanic children, teens and young adults, the rate of suicide rose from 5 per 100,000 people in 2007 to 7.5 in 2017, the most recent year with data available.
Among black children, teens and young adults nationally, the rate of suicide rose from 4.3 per 100,000 people in 2007 to 7.35 in 2017, the most recent year with data available.
Experts say the reason for this increase is unclear, but research has identified ways families can help protect loved ones who might be considering suicide.
Suicide-prevention researcher Christopher DeCou, a former core member at UW Medicine’s Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, says the thought process that leads to suicide attempts can be understood in a way that promotes prevention.
“Suicide is an inherently complex and fearsome behavior. A suicide attempt is typically preceded by many decisions and actions, and involves tremendous physical and psychological pain and discomfort. Suicide risk is a process that unfolds over time. The good news is that there are opportunities to intervene and change the trajectory of suicide risk,” he said.
Warning signs that someone might be thinking about suicide include: talking about or researching ways to die; feeling hopeless, trapped, or burdensome; exhibiting changes in personality and sleep; showing rage; or withdrawing from friends and activities.
The University of Washington’s Forefront Suicide Prevention program teaches the following steps:
DeCou, who is also a researcher at Forefront, said it’s especially important to ask directly about suicide, and then remove or lock up potentially dangerous objects that could be used in a suicide attempt, such as firearms or medication.
“If you are concerned someone is thinking about suicide, it’s OK to ask them directly. Research has found that direct questions about suicide don’t harm the individual. Your question may be the first time they have permission to share the secret they haven’t been able to tell anyone in their life,” DeCou said. “If they say yes, you should also ask specific questions: Do you have a plan? What can I remove to prevent that plan?”
DeCou noted that research has found that individuals considering suicide tend to focus on a specific method. If they cannot access the method they have focused on, they will rarely substitute a different one.
“Above all, preventing suicide is about ensuring that people at risk receive the best possible care, rather than focusing on predicting the future,” he said. “Imagine if we tried to prevent house fires by predicting which homes were likely to burn down – and parked fire trucks in front of those homes. That would be a poor strategy for reducing house fires.
“In the same way, focusing on efforts to predict someone’s ultimate risk of death by suicide may distract all of us from offering care and concern, safer environments, and suicide-specific care that can reduce anyone’s risk of hurting or killing themselves.”
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-888-628-9454. In King County, you can also call Crisis Connections at 211. More information is available from Forefront and from the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center.
For more a complete toolkit including suicide prevention resources, visit UW Forefront Suicide Prevention.
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One of the most well-known facts about normal and aberrant human vision-that the ability to recognize our own color is a fleeting thing-is now called into question.
Just how do people recognize their own type?
Researchers have long studied this phenomenon-the ability to recognize our own types-but it isnt easy for scientists to study whether humans are aware of the differences between ones thought to be normal and those that turn out not-beyond reading.
In a recent study published in Perception Durham NC eye experts Tor Wager and Gregory Williamson Saudi spotted a double standard in humans when it comes to their ability to distinguish the meanings of words below the level of letters.
The two studies involved participants rating on a scale of zero (are typically human vision is just) to first perceptions the letters above the normal size of letters.
Early investigation points five feet apart.
Observation reports back five years from Questioned identify a benchmark: Its not as easy for human beings to determine the size of letters Wager explained. Intuitively they would basically call what they were looking at normally.
The continuous shades of grey.
The solid-line methodology was used. The fact that either the letters or letters will change over time was introduced explained Wager. When asked about the oblique letter he said Wes sort of looking into the eye; we know how the eye works.
The researchers are asking participants to do the four-letter word test again and see where there was a 50 or 75 difference. When asked about the maximum number of letters they could recognize in each test participants gave the same answer during the initial performance.
How to tell if someone told you an oxymoron.
The scale for natural language proficiency with upper upper lower and lower Brisy could be higher or lower than expected with about 100 percent probability.
But beyond that conventional wisdom was as we expected: upper Brisy did better than expected indicating that they were able to differentiate between an adjective the way theyd expect an oxydan to.
In comparison lower Brisy on the other hand did not significantly improve (as per what attendees described as a misconception that the word had been evolved over time) indicating they didnt have to process as many phonemes.
These results are an important first step among a new field of study called linguistic neuroscience where weve been trying to make sense of and further understand the cognitive complexity of words the word-meaning process.
Its becoming a field where weve got to treat language as a computer program said Williamson. Whereas roughly 15 of people produce 80 or 90 correct responses as a computer the rest are not content.
This review marks the first time weve looked at the bottom line of figuring out the way people know what the word means. In other words the utility of being able to reliably one to often get the word right.
Are red green and blue eyes our best sensors for signs of meaning?
In the bridging study participants were asked to write in the color of images of shades of blue green and red-and found that this was associated with lower numbers of confused words.
We were surprised that propensity to miss 140 letters with no single color was so strong explained Wager. That boldness on a red background had a significant effect. He added that the trend was similar to recognizing a single color as sensory and emotional cues for the colors typically take on different meaning for different people and individuals.
Thats why it can be hard to know who is smart enough to identify a mythical color. Wager said You really dont want to think any one color means more than another (because it might mean different things to you).
His findings appeared online in the journal Perception.
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Our modern, architecturally innovative buildings are purpose-built homes for our boys and girls in Years 7 to 9. Tintern Grammar’s Parallel Learning Program provides our Middle School students with an unrivalled opportunity to learn, grow and develop.
The philosophy of our Girls’ Middle School focuses on assisting students to effectively manage change and individual challenges. Our outstanding staff create innovative and engaging lessons that are ideal for girls. Our small class sizes offer a collaborative environment where students are encouraged to question freely and receive individual attention. Evidence based research clearly supports a single-gender middle school that provides a tailored learning environment that builds confidence, provides access to genuine leadership opportunities and helps them to develop a healthy self-worth. Throughout our Girls’ Middle School our students are encouraged to seek to be courageous young women who do not get lost in the negative pursuit of perfection but rather seek opportunities and take measured risks. We encourage a high level of self-reflection in order to help students strive towards the adults that they are seeking to be. Establishment of key character traits such as responsibility, compassion and integrity are essential as we support our students to navigate these complex years of adolescence. Self-expression at Tintern Grammar is celebrated, and girls are encouraged to explore broadly to establish their own passions and interests. We seek to establish a positive and optimistic disposition where students strive for excellence. The Middle School provides dedicated pastoral care and support both individually and through our extensive pastoral care program encompassing the renowned The Resilience Project. The pastoral team works with students to foster self-discipline, independence and a sense of community through social justice activities and seeks
to build resilience in each student in preparation for the next stage of their learning.
In Mathematics, we ensure students are streamed to classes most appropriate for their level of ability. Our girls are actively encouraged to pursue ‘gender atypical’ areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) throughout their schooling at Tintern. Language options offered at Tintern Grammar are French and Mandarin; our French students have the opportunity to participate in an exchange program. In addition to core subjects, Middle School presents students with exciting learning choices including Performing Arts, Physical Ed, Music, Agriculture, Commerce, Home Economics, IT, and Visual Arts. Our on-campus farm is the site for hands-on learning in relevant projects, including science. Girls are also able to take part in a range of sports. Inter-school events and matches are scheduled during the week, so weekends can be kept free. We work closely with our Boys’ Middle School so that our students have opportunities to develop skills to have respectful and effective interactions with their peers that will be essential professionally in years to come. We have an extensive culture trips and tours program to develop independence and engagement our broader community. Through our teaching staff we provide terrific role models who delight in the opportunity to work alongside students inside and outside the classroom. Tintern has been helping girls to become strong, successful women for over 140 years. We are proud today’s Middle School girls continue to uphold this tradition.
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Similarly, the range of elective subjects available at Middle School are not just stimulating, but relevant to interest and possible future career paths. These include: building a PC, 3D printing, as well as designing and building Apps and Games. Language options offered at Tintern Grammar are French and Mandarin; our language students have the opportunity to participate in an exchange program. Our outdoor education programs feature exciting activities too. Our sequential camp program allow boys to challenge themselves and extend their boundaries in supportive, supervised surroundings. Tinternwood, our on-campus farm is the site for hands-on learning in relevant projects including science and agriculture. For some students, their involvement with the farm can lead to further studies and career opportunities. In addition to core subjects, boys are offered and encouraged to participate in a broad range of activities including Performing Arts, Physical Education, Agriculture, Commerce, IT, and Visual Arts. A wide range of sports is available, with inter-school events and matches scheduled during weekdays, to allow boys to keep their weekends free. Our values-based learning program together with solid, exciting learning opportunities offers boys positive direction, as they mature and move towards manhood. Tintern has been educating children since 1877 and we are proud that Tintern’s Middle School Boys continue to uphold this tradition.
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This Romania photo tour will take you on a voyage of discovery through the “forgotten world” of Maramures, Bucovina, and Transylvania. We will travel through some of the most famous regions in Romania, but we will spend more of our time in remote, rural villages where tourists are rarely seen.
You will have the opportunity to photograph local people including, Gypsies and Romanians dressed in beautiful, traditional costumes. You’ll see and photograph beautifully painted churches in picture-perfect settings, you’ll admire stunning sunrises and have the chance to capture the real beauty of nature in all of its glory.
Day 1: (Aug 15) Welcome to Romania! We will start the tour in the city of Cluj-Napoca which is the largest city in Transylvania, the central region of Romania.
Our hotel for the night is situated in the very heart of the city – perfect for evening and morning walks on your own if arriving early.
In the evening we will have a first group dinner, an opportunity to get to know each other and be introduced to the Romanian cuisine. Overnight in Cluj-Napoca.
Day 2: (Aug 16) Today we will make our way to Maramures region, a place where you can still witness the old way of life of the people.
Our first stop will be at a potter and his fascinating workshop. He is famous for his meticulous clay artifacts inspired by Dacian roots. You will have the chance to photograph him while he gives shape to the clay.
Maramures is particularly known for the wooden churches which were built several centuries ago, at a time when local Romanian Orthodox people were not allowed to build churches of stone. In order to stay true to the law, churches were built out of wood. These churches stand to this very day. Many have been designated UNESCO World Heritage sites, and we will also stop by the tallest wooden church in the world, located in Surdesti.
In the afternoon we will have a walk in a traditional village to photograph the daily lives of the locals and the interesting wooden architecture. We might witness farmers doing traditional activities associated with the season of harvest. We may also be invited for a taste of the local apple, pear and/or blueberry brandy, called horinca, at a traditional brandy distillery. Overnight in Maramures region.
Day 3: (Aug 17) In the morning we will visit the Sapanta Merry Cemetery. It is one of the most interesting cemeteries in the world as the funerary crosses are painted in bright colors while the poems written on them tell about the life of the deceased, sometimes in a funny way. After photographing the cemetery, we will meet the man who makes the crosses and see him at work in his workshop. He is the apprentice of the one who carved the first oak cross of the cemetery.
August is also the wedding season so we will try our luck and see if we can catch one of those traditional weddings.
As we return to the Maramures region we will more deeply get to know the tradition of making hay. It is a lengthy process that stretches over many days, involving cutting, turning the hay to dry, making small piles, building large haystacks and ultimately transporting it by horse-carts to the barn. Many of these stages are still done by hand and usually involve 2-3 people, or even entire families. We will stop in different locations to witness people working so we can photograph each of the steps and the people working on it. Overnight in Maramures region.
Day 4: (Aug 18) In the morning you’ll get the chance to capture once again the daily life of the people, this time during a photo walk at the local market in Sighet.
Next, we will visit the Sighet Memorial of Communism Museum, a former prison where communists detained their political opponents.
We will spend the rest of the day getting to know more of the local culture and history of Maramures, visiting a wooden church (UNESCO site) and exploring the countryside. Overnight in Maramures region.
Day 5: (Aug 19) Today we will have the opportunity to shoot Mocanita, the only fully-functional narrow-gauge steam train, as it goes through the deciduous forests of the Vaser Valley. You can marvel at the vividly colored hardwood forests, mingled with the deep green of the coniferous forests.
We will then depart Maramures and head to Bucovina, also called the “land of painted monasteries.” The road to Bucovina passes by beautiful mountain passes and we will make sure that we will stop and photograph the scenery of the Carpathian Mountains.
As we arrive in Bucovina we will stop to visit a woman who paints eggs, a popular craft in this area. Overnight in Vama, Bucovina region.
Day 6: (Aug 20) Today we will discover the painted monasteries of Bucovina. First we will visit the painted monastery in Sucevita (pronounced: SU-che-vit-za), a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is the most impressive painted church in Bucovina, surrounded by a massive wall and towers. We’ll visit the interior grounds of the monastery and those who are interested can walk up the nearby hill for an interesting perspective of the settlement.
Next we will visit Molodvita monastery, one of the tallest in the region, featuring beautiful paintings and frescoes in predominately gold and deep blue colors.
As we return from Moldovita, we will stop at a mountain pass, an interesting place to photograph as the mountains slopes are covered with small wooden storage buildings for hay. This region has some notable differences in how hay is harvested compared to the Maramures region. We will pass by locals working in the fields and photograph the different ways they work with hay.
For golden hour, we will travel to the Rarau Mountains, where nature and the beautiful mountains form a mighty natural landscape to capture. Overnight in Vama, Bucovina region.
Day 7: (Aug 21) Today we will leave Bucovina behind and head towards Transylvania. We will cross Tihuta Pass, where you can find one of the most beautiful mountain scenes in the Carpathians, with picturesque traditional villages located in valleys and on hillsides.
We’ll also stop at a local winery, where we’ll have lunch (with wine-tasting included). It will be the day with longest drive, but we will make sure to make stops along the way as we will for sure see interesting things to photograph.
In afternoon we will arrive in the area where there was German Saxon fortification from Transylvania. The German-Saxons inhabited Transylvania alongside Romanians and Hungarians for almost eight centuries. They left a unique and lasting heritage evident in medieval towns like Sighisoara, Sibiu (si-BEE-u) and Brasov (bra-SHOV). The many villages built by them have a very distinctive architecture as well as each having a fortified church, which was then surrounded by a wall to shelter the community in case of assault. This is also the case of Viscri and Biertan, two picturesque village dominated by majestic fortified churches located on hilltops in the middle of the village. Overnight in Viscri.
Day 8: (Aug 22) We will wake up early today in order to catch the morning buzz that takes place in Viscri as cows and goats gather on the streets of the village and are driven by the herdsman to the pasture. The locals are also often seeing carrying fresh milk in small carts, contributing to the bustle. The atmosphere created in early morning as the village wakes up, and the traditional colorful houses in the background, offer great opportunities for cultural and people photography.
In and nearby Viscri there are several things that we may be able to visit (dependent on availability): a blacksmith, charcoal makers, and a traditional bakery and a sheepfold. We will have time to explore some of them.
The blacksmith is still an important figure in rural Romania, as the demand for steel objects and horseshoeing makes it possible for this old craft to be preserved and practiced even today, due to people working the land by hand and with the help of animals.
Charcoal making is a fading craft and it will require a longer trip to get to see this craft in practice.
The sheepfold is located further away from the village and we will take a horse cart to get there and learn about the life of the shepherds, how they milk and tend the sheep and how they make the cheese.
The local bakery is special, using a technique to make big loafs of bread that they char on the outside so the bread is baked even more deeply inside. Once baked, they have to beat the breads to clean the char.
We will spend the evening and night in a typical rural Transylvanian setting. Overnight in Viscri.
Day 9: (Aug 23) We will have a relaxing morning in Viscri, visiting the bakery (if we didn’t get to visit the day before) and even the 13th century fortified church.
In the afternoon we’ll drive to visit the infamous Bran castle, the one often associated with Dracula. In reality, it’s a fine-looking 14th century fortress most recently decorated by the Romanian queen Mary during the 1920s. Here we’ll learn the real story in the highly misunderstood legend of Dracula. We’ll then visit the castle itself, which offers more photo opportunities of the interior and surrounding area. Then we’ll make our way to a nearby spot to have a shoot from the outside this formidable castle, a former customs point, standing grand on a cliff in a narrow gorge surrounded by mountains.
Bran can be quite crowded in late August and as an alternative we can drive on the Transfagarasan Road (the northern side), one of the most scenic roads in Romania and perfect for capturing the explosion of the fall colors. The first part of the road takes you through dense forests and offers magnificent views of the tall peaks of the mountains in the distance, while during the second part you’ll drive on a winding road until you reach the clouds.
In the evening we will arrive in another charming Transylvanian village where we will spend the night. Overnight in Biertan.
Day 10: (Aug 24) In the early morning we will go to a nearby hill and photograph Biertan fortified church and the surrounding village in the warm light of the sunrise, hopefully surrounded by mist.
Our next stop will be at the home of a local gypsy family where we will learn about their origins and way of life. The man, the head of the family, is a coppersmith just like many of his predecessors and he makes alembic and other copper objects. You will see him at work and photograph the stages of making the copper objects. He lives together with his wife, children and also with his parents and they are all very welcoming and love interacting with visitors and being photographed.
In the afternoon we will have a guided walk in Sibiu, considered by many to be the most beautiful town in Romania. Its charming old town, with narrow cobbled streets, rich culture, and buildings even from the 15th century made it the designated European Cultural Capital in 2007 and European Region of Gastronomy in 2019. We will stroll around the old town and photograph the beautiful squares and historic buildings during the blue hour. Overnight in Sibiu.
Day 11: (Aug 25) In the morning we will travel to Hunedoara, where we will visit the most imposing castle in Transylvania, the Corvin castle. It has a true fairytale appearance, as the tall defensive walls and towers are surrounded by a river and can be reached only by crossing a huge bridge. As you cross the entrance of the castle you will be introduced to the medieval times with its knights and legends.
Next, we will travel to the town of Alba-Iulia, one of the most important places for Romanians – it was here where 100 years ago Transylvania united with other two major regions and formed what we call today the country of Romania. Alba-Iulia is also home to a large and well-preserved Vauban fortress, so it is a good opportunity to enjoy a pleasant walk within the walls filled with history and photograph the majestic baroque entrance gates and other highlights of the citadel.
Once we’re back in Cluj we will have more time to explore the city, discuss the pictures taken during the trip and have one last group dinner. Overnight in Cluj-Napoca.
Day 12: (Aug 26) We hope you’ve enjoyed this quite intense photo tour of Romania and that you will carry with you wonderful memories and great pictures to tell the story. You will be transferred to the airport in Cluj-Napoca from where you will take the flight back home.
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The splendor of totality
You cannot completely prepare yourself for the sight of a total solar eclipse. When totality arrives, you will experience primal emotions and wonderment at the unspeakable beauty of the corona and the panoply of colors and light as you've never seen before. You will involuntarily scream, gasp, or perhaps cry at this astounding vision.
You will be looking straight down a billiard shot of the Earth, Moon, and Sun lined up perfectly. By celestial coincidence, the Sun and Moon's apparent disks in the sky are nearly the same. This serendipitous fact allows the Sun to be completely covered during eclipse yet also allows us to see the Sun's atmosphere, its corona. The corona is hidden from us all our lives except for the very special moments during the total solar eclipse.
When you look at the eclipse, you will perceive the blackest black imaginable surrounded by the Sun's ever-changing atmosphere, the corona. The quality of light is stupendous with an amazing light show of iridescence, scintillation, and delicate colors.
Another realization that may hit you during totality is that you are watching the solar system in motion. In real-time, you can perceive the relative motions of the Moon around Earth and the Earth around the Sun.
Even for those who have seen it before, a total solar eclipse is an intensely emotional experience. You will feel ecstasy, wonder, and regret when it is over. You will immediately discuss plans to see the next one.
A piece of wisdom that all experienced eclipse observers tell those new to totality: do not attempt photography during the precious two minutes of the Sun in total eclipse. Instead, capture the moment with your senses and savor each second of the precious two minutes of totality. What you see will be seared in your mind's eye for the rest of your life. No camera can capture the full range of light, darkness, and colors of the corona and sky. Besides, you will be so mesmerized by the spectacle that you may not be able to operate your camera.
Experienced astrophotographers will make their photographs available on the web soon after the event. You will appreciate these photographs but with a knowing smile that these images, no matter how good, are a pale reflection of what you saw with your very own eyes.
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MS Coding 1a
Learn all about the technology you use in your day-to-day life and explore how the internet functions through this introduction to coding. Build your knowledge of algorithms, programming constructs, and program design to create your own code. Discover how to solve problems with code while dabbling with Tynker and Python to begin your journey into this exciting field!
By the end of the course, students will be able to
- Create algorithms to solve word games and puzzles
- Identify the components of a computer system
- Define the term algorithm and explain how it applies to computers
- Distinguish between problems that are better suited for humans to solve than computers and vice versa
- Define the term “software” and explain how software helps businesses perform tasks
- Understand why file types are necessary and describe the content contained in different file types
- Compare and contrast types of software and recommend the software that’s best suited for a task
- Improve keyboarding skills by typing frequently using symbols in code
- Explain the purpose of a database and perform common database operations
- Understand how block-based programming can be used to code
- Understand and use for loops to repeat a block of code a specific number of times
- Understand and use while loops to repeat a block of code until a condition is satisfied
- Create simple programs in Tynker
- Define and apply the three main programming constructs—sequence, selection, and iteration
- Learn how to debug a program
- Describe how and why computers use binary
- Convert between binary and decimal number systems
- List and discuss the four components of programming languages
- Identify and use two common approaches for program design
- Comfortably use an online IDE to write code
- Understand the difference between the Editor and the Interpreter screens
- Use variables containing different data types and correctly type cast
- Receive and process user input
- Write a program that takes user input and applies a mathematical formula to it
- Regulate the flow of a program by using if statements
- Increment a variable to keep count
- LMS Access
- Device that can record video or audio
- Standard laptop or desktop computers with Windows or Mac OS
- High-speed internet connection (Cable, DSL)
- Word processing software
- Google Docs
- Unit 1: Crack the Code!
- Unit 2: There’s Nothing “Soft” about Software!
- Unit 3: Let’s Play!
- Midterm Review and Test
- Unit 4: It’s All Greek to Me!
- Unit 5: Snake Charmer
- Unit 6: Flexing Our Python Muscles!
- Final Review and Test
Laurel Springs meets the highest standard of academic excellence. We are fully Accredited by the Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC) and Cognia. We offer a broad catalog of courses approved by the NCAA Division I & II and the University of California A-G.
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What do students need to be successful in online courses?To prepare for each course and learn effectively online, students will need to leverage technology, required course materials, and a can-do attitude, with support from our Laurel Springs Admissions Team. It helps to have a family strategy for scheduling time to study and a backup plan in case something comes up. Students must also have access to a computer with a reliable internet connection. For some tasks, students may use a mobile device.
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Laurel Springs is a top-tier online private school with a stellar reputation for providing quality education. We pride ourselves on our 30+ year history of educating Olympic athletes, accelerated learners, performing artists, and everyone in between.
We offer 230+ college-prep courses, 65 world language courses, 58 honors and AP courses, 168 NCAA-approved courses and 292 UC a-g-approved courses.
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Premature births 'are increasing'
Premature babies are at a high risk of disability
There has been a dramatic rise in the number of babies being born prematurely in England, a charity has warned.
Tommy's baby's charity highlights NHS figures showing 8.6% of babies were born early in 2006/7, after remaining around 7% for the previous 15 years.
It said the increase equated to an extra 10,554 premature births. Babies born early are at increased risk of dying or developing serious problems.
Experts said the rise was partly due to more older - and younger - mothers.
But the NHS Information Centre, which published the latest statistics, said there had been changes to the way data had been collected which might have affected the rise.
Being born prematurely - before 37 weeks - is responsible for 75% of neonatal deaths in the first month of life, and the majority of intensive care admissions.
Babies are also at an increased risk of disability and illness extend throughout childhood and later life.
This is a worrying increase and it highlights the need for more research in this area
Dr Rebecca Jones, Tommy's
Tommy's says there are a number of risk factors which may lead to premature birth including maternal smoking, infections in the womb, twin or triplet pregnancies.
Being a teenage or older mother is also linked to increased risk, as is being underweight.
Babies can also be delivered prematurely if doctors decide the health of the mother or baby is at risk, perhaps because the mother has developed pre-eclampsia or if the baby is abnormally small.
Dr Rebecca Jones, from Tommy's Manchester Research Centre at St Mary's General Hospital, said: "It is hard to tell from the figures whether the increase is due to spontaneous births, when the woman goes into labour early, or whether it is due to medically-induced premature delivery.
"Potential reasons for the increase may be more mothers having babies at a young or late age, more multiple pregnancies because of IVF, changes in smoking rates, or changes in the general health of the population."
But she added: "This is a worrying increase and it highlights the need for more research in this area, to understand the reasons for premature birth and develop new treatments."
Ronald Lamont, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said there had been disparities in how different hospitals recorded premature births, and it was possible this had changed.
"If a baby is born at 36 weeks and six days, some will round that up to 37 weeks, when they should round it down to 36."
He added: "Another reason is that now neonatal doctors can keep more babies born very early alive, so obstetricians like me can deliver them.
"And if there is a problem with the pregnancy, doctors do have the option to deliver babies safely."
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The alternative livelihood component of the UNDP/GEF Coastal Resilience Project recently engaged local communities on a massive mangrove regeneration exercise along the south bank of the River Gambia.
The project, “enhancing resilience of vulnerable coastal areas and communities to climate change”, is a four-year project devised to enhance resilience of vulnerable coastal areas and communities to climate change and to reduce the country’s vulnerability to sea level rise.
The activity sought to restore the open and dieback areas in the mangrove ecosystem to help in the development of agricultural activities especially the gardens and rice fields which salinity is highly claiming. As breading areas for fishes, oysters and clams, the restoration of mangroves in these areas it is hope would enhance the living conditions of communities and contribute to enrich the environment. It will also serve as a home for biodiversity.
Speaking at the sites, Hatab Camara, the UNDP/GEF Mangrove Restoration Field Assistant said the project sought to assist local communities who are on the coastal zone of The Gambia. He noted that communities that reside in coastal zones have lose greater part of their lands around the coastal area, therefore, making them vulnerable and impossible to attain sustainable food security for livelihoods.
“Approximately a land of 100% now 85% is been annexed by sand intrusion and is all due to deforestation and it is causing erosion from the upland area to the river site. Studies have indicated that for a mangrove to survive it need a warm temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and when the temperature is above that it dies. This erosion of sand into our river bands continues to kill a lot of mangroves gradually,” he added.
He explained that if the river dip continues to swallow then the sea rise increases, noting that it is these two combinations of erosion and sea level rise that is causing high modality among the mangroves. He added that this is the reason the project was developed to support vulnerable communities like Kiang, West Coast Region and Tanbi Wetland.
According to Camara studies have indicated that these three places are the most affected areas in terms of mangrove mortality. He disclosed that last year alone the project planted about 1.7 million propagules and 85 percent was able to survive; this year the project is targeting 3.4 million with 2.4 million already planted.
Camara disclosed that the restoration exercise in all intervention sites was done successfully, noting that the community participation in the villages was very impressive.
The elders of all the concern villages and there Alkalolu were very happy and expressed their appreciation about the activity.
by Samba Jawo
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Genetic differences in sensitivity to ethanol's aversive effects may play an important role in the development of alcohol-seeking behavior and alcoholism. The present study examined the development of ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion in 20 BXD/Ty recombinant inbred strains of mice and their progenitor inbred strains, C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2). Adult male mice were given 1-hr access to a saccharin-flavored solution every 48 hr for 12 days. After all but the first and last saccharin access periods, they received ethanol injections (0, 2, or 4 g/kg, ip). Separate groups of unpaired control mice received 4 g/kg of ethanol 1 hr after water access. Saline control mice were also used for examining preference across a wide range of saccharin concentrations (0.019 to 4.864% w/v). As expected, saccharin consumption during taste conditioning declined over conditioning trials in a dose-dependent manner, indicating development of ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion. Correlational analyses using strain means from recently published papers indicated no significant genetic correlation between taste conditioning and two phenotypes thought to reflect ethanol reinforcement or reward (ethanol drinking, conditioned place preference). However, there were significant genetic correlations between taste conditioning at the high dose and sensitivity to ethanol-induced hypothermia, rotarod ataxia, and acute withdrawal. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses of strain means indicated that taste aversion was associated (p 0.01) with genetic markers on nine chromosomes (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9,11, and 17). These QTLs were located near several candidate genes, including genes encoding several different acetylcholine receptor subunits, the 6 opioid receptor, and two serotonin receptors (lB and 1D). QTLs for saccharin preference were located on several of the same chromosomes (2,3,4,6, and 11). Two of these saccharin QTLs overlap candidate genes influencing sensitivity to sweet or bitter taste stimuli. In general, these findings support the conclusion that multiple genes influence ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion. Some of these genes appear to influence taste sensitivity, whereas others appear to mediate sensitivity to aversive pharmacological effects of ethanol.
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Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) refers to tax avoidance strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in tax rules to artificially shift profits or erode taxable base to low or no-tax locations. The BEPS package provides 15 Actions that equip governments with the domestic and international instruments needed to tackle such tax avoidances. This book on BEPS has been specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview of all the 15 Action Plans and the measures suggested by OECD/G20 through the final reports released last year in October 2015 including the impact of BEPS on Indian Economy and the measures adopted by India to address BEPS.
- Provides an overview of global developments that have an impact on corporate tax matters
- Identifies the key principles that underlie the taxation of cross-border activities, as well as the BEPS opportunities these principles may create
- Probes into the issues that leads to BEPS and recommends the best option to address the BEPS
- Accentuates the options as suggested in these reports & provide appropriate guidance on how these measures can be implemented to address the BEPS
- Elucidates the Actions from Indian prospective and identifies how Indian government is transitioning these measures into domestic tax laws
- Highlights the new Minimum Standards as provided in these reports
- Pragmatic approach through illustrations for easy understanding of the issues & their impact
About the Author
CA Akshay Kenkre is Founder, Director and Head of TransPrice, an entity focused on providing advisory, compliance and representation services in the transfer pricing domain. He is a Chartered Accountant with over ten years of practical experience in the field of auditing, finance, taxation and transfer pricing. During his career, he was associated with PwC and E&Y and has also served a host of clients in various sectors like iron and steel, pharmaceuticals, information technology, media and entertainment, travel. A regular contributor to articles on issues and cases in transfer pricing, he has also provided training on accounting and tax matters at various forums.
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by Kara Rowland
April 29, 2010 (Washington Times) – President Obama is struggling to fulfill campaign promises to pass energy and immigration measures, but he’s poised to notch another victory for a stump-speech vow: to make sure veterans’ funding isn’t held hostage to the government’s bad finances.
While watchdogs caution there’s still a long list of problems for veterans, all sides agree the President Obama has made big strides on promises he made in 2008 when competing for military votes against Republican nominee and Vietnam veteran Sen. John McCain – to fully fund the Veterans Administration, expand access to care in rural areas and improve treatment for mental health conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
“The accessibility with this administration has been outstanding. They listen, they reach out to the veterans’ service organizations, they see the value in communicating,” Peter Gaytan, executive director of the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans’ organization, with 2.5 million members.
Even amid competing priorities and a deepening recession, Mr. Obama last year managed to secure the biggest increase in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs in 30 years. And as Congress begins writing spending bills for 2011, despite a spending freeze on some other domestic spending, he’s looking for more aid for veterans.
Mr. Obama’s proposed VA budget for fiscal 2011 asks for $125 billion – a 10 percent jump from what Congress enacted for 2010, which was itself more than 16 percent more than 2009. The discretionary portion of next year’s budget request – the part the administration and Congress have the most direct control over – is up nearly 20 percent since 2009, to total $60.3 billion.
In the area of mental health, Mr. Obama’s budget for next year directs $5.2 billion in specialized funds for treatment of PTSD as well as for traumatic brain injury and other related conditions. It also asks for $2.5 billion to construct new VA centers and improve existing facilities.
“Across the board, the president has kept his promises to our veterans and will continue to uphold our obligations to all who have served,” White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said, noting that Mr. Obama “has a deep respect and appreciation for our service members and veterans.”
Perhaps one of the reasons Mr. Obama’s veterans policies have flown under the radar – relative to his hard-fought victory on the health care overhaul – is they draw bipartisan support at a time when the nation is still fighting two wars. In addition to approving double-digit budget increases, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle came together last year on a bill that put the portion of the VA’s budget that deals with medical care on a two-year track to insulate it from legislative delays.
They also signed off on the post-9/11 GI bill, which provides Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with money for tuition and housing while in school.
More recently, the Senate last week approved a bipartisan bill that expands benefits for the caregivers of wounded veterans and tries to accommodate those in rural areas by expanding the VA’s telemedicine program and travel reimbursements. The bill, authored by Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, now awaits the president’s signature.
“I would think there’s more agreement than disagreement” on veterans’ issues, said Brooks Tucker, deputy staff director for Republicans on the committee.
But there are still bones of contention.
While veterans groups roundly praised the leadership of VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, a retired U.S. Army general, the agency lacks a permanent undersecretary for benefits. The previous administrator stepped down in January, leaving the Veterans Benefits Administration – which one advocate described as the “Achilles heel” of the VA – without a leader who’s earned Senate backing to tackle the troubled claims process.
“We realize that President Obama and Secretary Shinseki inherited this catastrophe, but they really need to fix it now,” said Paul Sullivan , executive director of Veterans for Common Sense. Mr. Sullivan’s group has called for an overhaul of the VBA, which determines eligibility for federal benefits.
While veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have free health care for five years, veterans from other wars and those whose time has expired must fill out a 23-page claim form to be eligible for care. To make matters worse, Mr. Sullivan said, VBA employees are sparsely located – there is only one VBA office in Virginia and one in Maryland, for example. And the backlog is astonishing: About half a million veterans are waiting on average six months for an answer to a new disability claim, while an additional 200,000 are waiting for an answer on an appealed claim, according to Mr. Sullivan.
“That’s too many veterans, and they’re waiting too long,” he said.
Posted by GPD on April 30, 2010, With 1528 Reads Filed under Veterans Affairs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
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Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes Staff
I cover sports business with rare dip in education & local economies
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Kimberly White/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Unemployment has averaged 14.3% the past three years, which is third worst in the country among the 200 largest metro areas. The housing market collapsed as well, with home prices down 58% over the same time. All the California cities on the list are struggling with the inherent problems the state is facing, including high sales and income taxes and service cuts to help close massive budget shortfalls.
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First 5 Children and Families Commissions are dedicated to the healthy development and well-being of young children in California. Voters created First 5 in 1998 by passing Proposition 10, adding a 50-cent tax on tobacco products to create a guaranteed revenue stream for children. By voter mandate we are committed to improving children’s health, school readiness and family functioning.
First 5 includes a state commission in Sacramento, independent commissions providing locally-approved programs in each of California’s 58 counties, and an association providing cooperative services to support the local county commissions.
First 5 Letter to the Mariposa Gazette (pdf)
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Composites are combinations of materials that produce properties inaccessible in any one material. A classic example of a composite is fiberglass – plastic fibers woven with glass to add strength to hockey sticks or the hull of a boat. Unlike the well-established techniques for producing fiberglass and other macroscale composites, however, there aren’t general schemes available for making nanoscale composites.
Now, researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, in collaboration with researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown how nanocomposites with desired properties can be designed and fabricated by first assembling nanocrystals and nanorods coated with short organic molecules, called ligands. These ligands are then replaced with clusters of metal chalcogenides, such as copper sulfide. As a result, the clusters link to the nanocrystal or nanorod building blocks and help create a stable nanocomposite. The team has applied this scheme to more than 20 different combinations of materials, including close-packed nanocrystal spheres for thermoelectric materials and vertically aligned nanorods for solar cells.
“We’re just starting to understand how combining materials on the nanoscale can open up new possibilities for electronic properties and efficient energy technologies,” said Delia Milliron, Director of the Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry. “This new process for fabricating inorganic nanocomposites gives us unprecedented ability to tune composition and control morphology.”
The researchers anticipate demand from users seeking this latest addition to the Foundry’s arsenal of materials synthesis capabilities, as this mix-and-match approach to nanocomposites could be used in an infinite list of applications, including materials for such popular uses as battery electrodes, photovoltaics and electronic data storage.
“The beauty of our method is not just the flexibility of compositions that can be achieved, but the ease with which this can be done. No specialized equipment is required, a variety of substrates can be used and the process is scalable,” said Ravisubhash Tangirala, a Foundry post-doctoral researcher working with Milliron.
A paper reporting this researcher titled, “Modular inorganic nanocomposites by conversion of nanocrystal superlattices,” appears in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition and is available in Angewandte Chemie International Edition online. Co-authoring the paper with Milliron and Tangirala were Jessy Baker and Paul Alivisatos.
Portions of this work at the Molecular Foundry were supported by DOE’s Office of Science.
The Molecular Foundry is one of the five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs), premier national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale. Together the NSRCs comprise a suite of complementary facilities that provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate, process, characterize and model nanoscale materials, and constitute the largest infrastructure investment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The NSRCs are located at DOE’s Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more information about the DOE NSRCs, please visit http://nano.energy.gov.
Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California. Visit our website at http://www.lbl.gov.
For more about Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry visit the Website at http://foundry.lbl.gov/
For more about the research of Delia Milliron, visit the Website at http://www.lbl.gov/msd/investigators/investigators_all/milliron_investigator.html
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Leea is a plant genus of the Leeaceae family which includes 70 types of plants. The genus, which is named after the Scottish horticulturist James Lee, can be found in the mild climate regions of Asia, Oceania and Africa. Two species of this genus, Leea coccinea and Leea guineensis, are popular as evergreen garden plants.
The coccinea variety, which is commonly known as Rubra or Red Leea, generally grows to be around five feet (1.5 m) to eight feet (2.4 m) tall. It has glossy burgundy leaves and sharp spines. The plant produces tiny pink, white, or near-white flowers in the spring. The flowers are pollinated by bees, wasps, and other insects, and purple berries are produced in the fall.
The Rubra plant can be grown in partial shade as well as in full sun. The plant should be watered daily, and during hot weather spells it is necessary to ensure that the top soil remains moist or at least does not dry out completely. The plant will do well if it is fertilized once or twice a month.
Leea is often kept as a houseplant, but must treated with particular caution. The plant is poisonous if ingested, the toxic plant leaves and the berries can cause skin irritations, and the sharp spines can cause injury. It is advisable to wear gloves when handling this plant, and to keep it in an area not easily accessed by pets and young children.
Leea guineensis can attain heights of 17 feet (5.1816 m) or more. It has a dark green foliage, with new leaves being of a paler green shade; the contrast between the green shades can look very attractive. The plant may need to be pruned to promote a thicker growth of the foliage, or to keep it at a manageable height, and also requires frequent watering and twice a month fertilizing. This plant can generally flower throughout the year, and the types of flowers produced occur in branched cymes; a cyme is a flower arrangement that consists of several small blossom-carrying stalks that arise from a single main stalk.
The Leea plants can be propagated by seed or by stem cuttings. New seedlings from fallen seeds can regularly crop up around the tree, and, unless new plants are desired, it will be best to remove seeds before they germinate. Both the coccinea and guineensis plant varieties are generally hardy, but may need to be sprayed with soapy water from time to time to ward off attacks from bugs, mites and other pests.
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Delivering a memorial lecture for Sister Aidan Quinlan on the 60th anniversary of her death at the East London City Hall on Friday, Ndebele called on people to rise above party politics and not be used by politicians who wanted to remain in power at the communities' expense.
"Have we turned into instruments of other people? There is a danger of putting ourselves in their hands.
"It is national suicide. We kill ourselves out of blind loyalty," Ndebele said.
He said agreeing to be used by politicians was similar to what was done by people who participated in the killing of Sister Quinlan in that they knew what they were doing was wrong but did not want to be seen as being against it.
The Irish nun and medical doctor who was a pillar of the St Peter Claver Convent Catholic Church, was burned to death in her car after being attacked by an angry mob in Duncan Village in 1952.
Some rogue elements in the community turned on her during anti-apartheid unrest.
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We often hear the phrase in Early Years, ‘The Environment is the Third Teacher’ (or practitioner). This has been taken from Reggio Emilia’s philosophy regarding children’s ability to thrive when they are in a space which encourages exploration, experimentation, allows them to develop their own ideas and sense of the world around them. So, how do we ensure that we are regularly evaluating and auditing our environment to check that it meets the developing needs of our children, is an engaging space, and allows for effective and holistic learning to take place?
Auditing your environment may seem like another ‘to-do’ item on your list but it really is crucial to ensure that every single resource in your environment is: accessible, used and levelled.
Are the resources and displays within the environment at the children’s height? This is something that we sometimes overlook when we are sticking letters close to the ceiling! Children need to be able to reach, and use, all of the resources within provision and the best way to test this is by getting down to their eye level and make sure that what’s on offer is within touching range. Otherwise, we can end up with things in our environment that become wallpaper; adding to an over cluttered and over stimulating place which is not conducive to effective learning.
Any time that you organise resources or move furniture you must ask yourself, “Can children access everything?” Can they reach the resources on the top of the shelving unit? Is a table pushed against the wall meaning they can’t quite reach that masking tape that is essential for their creation of a mega rocket? Is the book shelf stacked to the brim with books so that each time they want to take one it feels like they’re playing a risky game of Jenga?
Used – are the children engaged in that area?
When is the best time to evaluate if the children are using all areas of the provision? Probably not at the end of the day when you’re frazzled and can’t remember if you actually ate lunch. You need to be doing this whilst the children are in the continuous provision. So, take some time to stand back (encourage all the team to do this too and don`t feel guilty for doing so) then scan the room.
Ask yourself :
- Which areas are the children visiting?
- Which areas are they not?
- What are the children doing in the areas?
- Are they learning?
By observing what children are doing in each area (you might not be able to audit every area in one session) reflect upon if this is what you had expected that children would have been doing. Then ask yourself:
- What resources are they exploring?
- What resources are they not exploring?
- How is this supporting their development?
- What could you add/remove to enhance their learning further?
This is a vital part of your teaching; ensuring that children are using the environment to further their learning. As a team, you can then chat at the end of the day over a cup of tea about what they observed and if any adaptations to provision, or your planning, are needed for the next day to ensure that all areas of learning are used effectively.
Levelled to support and challenge all learners
For this one, we’ll look at an example area of provision and what this might look like. Let’s think about your maths area. If, based on your assessments, the skill you want to encourage children to practise is counting, then how can the environment support this in multiple ways?
How might you encourage linking the numeral to the value of the quantity?
Display numerals within the area that children can manipulate and match. This could also be dot quantities or tens frame arrangements.
How might you encourage children to predict the amount before counting?
A suggestion would be to put them in different sized containers and have them say how many before they count. This gives them a purpose for counting.
How might you encourage comparing quantities by counting?
Have a wide selection of counting objects and counting frames – this could simply be a muffin tin and buttons but would encourage a discussion around which is more and how do you know?
How might you link story books and rhymes to counting?
As an enhancement to provision, include high-quality books that involve counting such as Mike Brownlow’s collection of ‘Ten Little…’ or you could add in props for a counting rhyme such as Ten in the Bed using wooden peg people.
Within each area of provision, you then need to consider how are my emergent learners being supported? How are my more advanced children being stretched? Do I have a range of levelled resources that can meet their needs?
In the example above, you will undoubtedly have a range of children who can already count an amount and find the matching numeral and those who cannot. So, how do you support those that cannot? And, extend those that can?
Thinking about the continuum of outcomes, at the start of the scale – where you are still supporting counting and recognising numerals – we want to ensure that there are:
- A range of resources that can be counted
- Numerals that children can hold and manipulate
- Stories and songs which feature numerals and counting (as this will help to build those links)
- Application of skills into all areas of play: counting the building blocks, number of bikes outdoors and numerals on the phone in the role play area.
For these children we need to make sure they are seeing, hearing and feeling numbers and numerals in all areas of provision to make the learning stick.
For those who can count confidently and recognise numerals, we want to stretch and challenge these children to deepen and apply their knowledge into other areas of learning.
- Are they ready to record their understanding of how numerals match to quantities? Can they represent a number in different ways? E.g. the written numeral, with dots or using tens frames.
- Are they able to take counting into small world play and exploring ideas such as how many legs are there on the farm? How do you know?
Within all these areas, we need to ensure there are resources for children to record their mathematical ideas so plentiful writing materials and tools will allow them to express their growing mathematical thinking.
Why is it important?
Einstein, said, “Play is the highest form of research.” But why did he say this? When we get the environment right in Early Years wonderful things can happen through play. We provoke awe and wonder with the range of high-quality resources provided. We encourage collaborative play where children can explore their thoughts and beliefs and learn from one another. We build those learning pathways by interconnecting our areas of learning, children then feel confident and secure in taking risks with their own learning. We create, in our children, a lifelong passion for curiosity, creativity, exploration, independence and a love of learning.
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Woodside 2011 Pluto LNG Estimate Cut 19% By JPMorgan on Threat of Strikes
Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia’s second-largest oil and gas producer, had an estimate of liquefied natural gas production at its Pluto venture cut 19 percent by JPMorgan Chase & Co., due to strikes at the project.
The A$13 billion ($11 billion) Pluto project in Western Australia state is expected to start in the second quarter of 2011 and may produce 2.5 million metric tons of LNG that year, Benjamin Wilson, an analyst at JPMorgan in Sydney, said in a report. His earlier forecast was for 3.1 million tons.
Woodside has asked Fair Work Australia, the country’s labor tribunal, to stop a strike that threatens to delay the Pluto venture, the Perth-based company said yesterday. The 12 crane drivers and forklift operators, employees of Dutch contractor Mammoet, began striking on April 28 seeking pay raises, it said.
The striking workers, paid about A$180,000 a year, may “create a significant bottleneck” for other contractors, JPMorgan’s Wilson said in the report dated yesterday.
Woodside reiterated yesterday that it is set to start LNG exports in early 2011, even though labor disputes have disrupted construction at the site in Karratha, about 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) north of Perth. While Pluto’s first exports are expected by the end of March, further strikes could affect the timeline and increase costs, the company said.
In February, Woodside said it implemented a “risk mitigation” plan to fulfill commitments to customers should strikes delay the venture, one of more than a dozen in Australia aimed at tapping rising Asian demand for cleaner-burning fuel. Woodside in November said Pluto costs would increase by as much as A$1.1 billion, partly because of higher labor expenses.
Pluto will be capable of producing 4.3 million tons of LNG a year once it ramps up output, according to Woodside’s website.
Woodside should be able to resolve the strike so that Pluto can begin in the second quarter of 2011, according to JPMorgan’s Wilson. The production schedule may be delayed further if Woodside’s application to Fair Work Australia fails, or if the company cannot settle the dispute, he wrote.
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Trimble's Indoor GPS Timing Solution Provides Precise Time and Frequency for Samsung's Femtocell to Extend Mobile Phone Coverage in the Home
The Samsung Ubicell leverages Access Point Base Station technology, known as a femtocell, to improve mobile coverage in the home. Slightly larger than a WiFi access point, the Ubicell works by connecting to the mobile carrier's network using the user's home broadband connection (xDSL/cable modem), creating a mini-cell in the user's home. It enlarges CDMA service coverage to homes in shadow areas and maximizes the frequency utility to provide customers with high-quality voice capabilities inside and outside the home.
The Samsung Ubicell is easy to install and adapts to its environment with automatic configuration, remote operation and maintenance. The plug-and-play system only requires a broadband (xDSL or Cable Modem) connection and household power. After installation, the Ubicell will automatically locate and register with the management server to configure and begin service in a matter of minutes. A mobile handset does not require any special technology to use the system. For security, up to four devices can be authorized to connect to the cell and all others will be denied access.
"We are extremely pleased to extend our relationship with Samsung by providing our indoor GPS timing solution for the Ubicell system," said Karen Guldan, director of Trimble's Timing products. "Femtocell access points offer wireless network operators the opportunity to address the fixed mobile convergence (FMC) market with a highly attractive and efficient solution. They provide savings on infrastructure costs for operators and can improve in-home coverage for consumers by utilizing a broadband Internet connection."
GPS clocks and timing boards provide superior performance for precise timing applications such as maintaining Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) holdover specifications, Enhanced 911 (E911) location positioning using Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), maximizing bandwidth for Wireless Local Loops (WLL), WiMax (wireless broadband connectivity) and broadcasting (DAB, DVB and VSAT).
About Trimble GPS Timing
With the expansion of data and communications networks, Trimble GPS provides the pulse and frequency for some of the world's largest communications and computer networking companies. Trimble has deployed tens of thousands of GPS clocks and timing boards into the field over the last decade. Trimble offers precise time and frequency products for CDMA, TDMA, GSM, Broadband Wireless, TCP/IP and 3G applications. More than 28 years of experience allow Trimble to take GPS receivers and disciplined clocks to higher levels of integration and performance, providing a cost benefit to customers.
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location-including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Trimble has a worldwide presence with more than 3,400 employees in over 18 countries.
For more information Trimble's Web site at http://www.trimble.com.
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What does COPY mean in DOS Commands?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand COPY in the Computing field in general and in the DOS Commands terminology in particular.
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What does COPY mean?
- transcript, copy(noun)
- a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)
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Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Variant: "Where there is music there can be no harm". From: Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part II (1615), Chapter 34
Picture Source: Wikimedia CommonsMiguel de Cervantes
Born: September 29, 1547
Died: April 22, 1616 (aged 68)
Occupation: Novelist, poet, playwright, soldier
Bio: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes.
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Value Capture Case Studies is an ongoing series highlighting ways in which cities and regions across the country are using value capture mechanisms to fund transportation plans. These case studies present novel learnings for the Chicago region as it grapples with how to pay for necessary transportation improvements. Each post will focus on real-life examples of value capture mechanisms at work.
To learn more about the basics of value capture read: Value capture case studies: What is value capture
Value capture mechanisms referenced in this post:
- Tax Allocation District (similar to Tax Increment Financing)
Atlanta is widely known for its traffic gridlock and suburban sprawl. Over the last few decades, growth in region’s low-density suburbs has extended greater metropolitan Atlanta’s reach nearly to Chattanooga, Tenn. The average commuter in Atlanta spends 127 minutes on the road every day or more than 10.5 hours each week. This pattern of growth has resulted in unbalanced development and congested roads, and has strained the region’s economy and quality of life. Absent a plan to manage future growth, traffic gridlock will only get worse as the region is expected to gain 3 million people and 1.6 million jobs by 2040.
Affordable housing constructed along the BeltLine.
Recognizing that Atlanta’s economic future was dependent on counteracting sprawl and reducing congestion, in 2005 the Atlanta City Council, Fulton County Board of Commissioners, and Atlanta Public School Board of Education approved the Atlanta BeltLine Redevelopment Plan, a comprehensive redevelopment and mobility project that will build a network of public parks, multi-use trails, workforce housing and transit. The BeltLine will increase the overall health and livability of the entire region over the next several decades, by targeting growth to infill areas in the south and west near transit and open space. The $2.8 billion BeltLine is the most ambitious public works project in the city’s history and one of the largest and most comprehensive urban redevelopment efforts underway in the United States. It will connect people with place – specifically, Atlanta’s urban core.
The $2.8 billion budget will build:
- Transit: A 22-mile loop of rail transit, using mostly abandoned former rail lines, through 45 neighborhoods surrounding Atlanta’s urban core, with anticipated daily ridership of 73,000 people;
- Trails: A 33-mile network of multi-use trails;
- Parks: Nearly 1,300 acres of new parks and green space that will increase Atlanta’s total green by nearly 40 percent; and
- Affordable workforce housing: More than 5,600 new units of affordable workforce housing.
In total, the 6,545 acres of redevelopment (approximately seven percent of the city’s land area) will create more than 29,000 new housing units, 30,000 new permanent jobs, 48,000 temporary construction jobs, 5.3 million sq. ft. of office space, over 1.3 million sq. ft. of retail space, and 5.2 million sq. ft. of industrial space.
BeltLine before and after.
The project is funded through philanthropic, and local, state, and federal public funds, including $1.7 billion in Tax Allocation District (TAD) dollars. Created in 2005 as part of the redevelopment plan, the 6,500 acre BeltLine TAD is the primary local source of funding for the project and operates the same way as a tax increment finance (TIF) district.
Atlanta BeltLine Inc., in partnership with the City of Atlanta, is the entity tasked with managing, securing funding and implementing the Atlanta BeltLine. Spending of BeltLine TAD bonds is approved by the Atlanta City Council, who approved the Atlanta BeltLine Redevelopment Plan with extensive community engagement and input. The redevelopment plan outlines the 25-year vision for the project. In July 2006, Atlanta City Council approved the BeltLine Five-Year Work Plan, including priorities, goals, organizational structure, and a $427 million budget for the project’s first five years.
As part of the Community Engagement Framework authorized by the BeltLine legislation, the Tax Allocation District Advisory Committee (TADAC) was created to advise on how TAD funds are used. This committee is comprised of technical experts and community leaders and is managed through Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. The TADAC makes recommendations to the Atlanta Development Authority and the City on the issuance, allocation and distribution of tax allocation proceeds within the BeltLine Development Area; monitors the effective and equitable distribution of the BeltLine Redevelopment Plan; and measures the impact of the BeltLine.
How the Atlanta BeltLine’s TAD works
TIF financing (TAD and TIF are used interchangeably in Atlanta) is a useful value capture funding mechanism for promoting community development without raising taxes. A TIF district is created early in the development period, when the area is still considered “blighted” or economically depressed. The tax base is frozen at the predevelopment level, with the assumption redevelopment would not occur in the area without public investment or intervention. Property owners continue to pay taxes, but the “tax increment” – tax revenues derived from increases in assessed values that result from new development – is either funneled into a special fund created to retire bonds issued to finance the development, or is used to leverage continued community revitalization by attracting additional private investment.
As new development occurs on the BeltLine, spurred by the public investment in transit, open space, and affordable housing, land values will increase generating additional property tax revenue. Beginning in 2005, all of the incremental property tax revenue from that new development will go into the BeltLine TAD fund. It will be used to pay off the principal and interest on the bonds issued to fund the capital investments in the BeltLine over the 25-year project period.
Property taxes in the City of Atlanta are split between the City, Fulton County, and Atlanta Public Schools, who all approved the TAD. They also agreed to continue to receive the same 2005 level of property tax revenue within the BeltLine TAD for the next 25 years, at which point the TAD will expire.
It’s a win for the three government entities: Land in the BeltLine TAD was comprised of parcels of underutilized or abandoned industrial properties that did not generate considerable property tax revenues (the TAD boundaries were created to avoid the inclusion of existing single-family homes). When the TAD expires after 25 years, they will receive the entire tax revenue generated by properties within the BeltLine TAD, but at a tax base projected to be approximately $20 billion higher than in 2005, as a result of the redevelopment associated with the BeltLine.
How will TAD funds be spent?
The Atlanta BeltLine Redevelopment Plan guides spending of BeltLine TAD bonds. The money will be used to invest in land acquisition, trails, green space, brownfield cleanup, transit, and transportation improvements. The Atlanta City Council requires that 15 percent of TAD bond proceeds are set-aside to capitalize a housing trust fund that will build 5,600 affordable workforce housing units in the corridor. The new affordable housing units are intended to ensure working families can afford to live near the BeltLine; the units will be marketed to service sector workers, including firefighters, police officers, teachers and nurses. To keep housing costs within reach for middle-class families, the Atlanta Land Trust Collaborative (ALTC) is working to establish community land trustsin the project
area. These trusts will keep homes prices attainable by separating the price of homes from the price of the land that are built upon. The trusts buy and hold land permanently, while allowing the homes themselves to be bought and sold by residents with limited incomes.
Schools in the Atlanta BeltLine TAD also will benefit directly by the project, with $10 million in funding for construction of recreational facilities or athletic fields at school sites, subsidized or free transit rides for APS students, and $150 million for educational programming paid in $7.5 million installments in years six through 25 of the life of the TAD.
Historic Fourth Ward Park
Photo: HDR, Inc
To date, several trails and parks have opened to the public, which will serve to attract new development that will provide the necessary density to support transit. TAD bond proceeds provided $8.8 million in capital to seed the BeltLine Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Right of way acquisition and transit design and engineering is underway. The first leg of transit is projected to start running by 2015.
To better understand the health impacts of the BeltLine, a Health Impact Assessment was conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development. An HIA is an emerging practice that aims to bring a greater understanding of human health consequences to public policy and decision-making. For example, Atlanta’s HIA indicates that the Atlanta BeltLine’s 1,300 acres of parks, 33 miles of trails, $45 million in streetscape and intersection improvements, and 22-mile transit extension will create greater opportunities for people to become physically active. The redevelopment will give 11,000 residents direct access for the first time to a park, and it will connect an additional 127,000 people to transit. As a result, it will improve access to employment opportunities, services, healthy foods, and recreational facilities and potentially increase daily physical activity, such as walking or biking to work or transit.
The Atlanta BeltLine project is another great example of how value capture mechanisms can be used to fund a significant development through innovative financing. The BeltLine will change the face of Atlanta, spurring economic growth and creating a more vibrant and livable Atlanta region.
BeltLine transit will be built along abandoned former rail lines.
Photo via Flikr user beltlinegroup
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UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle write about hopes for European integration for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Twenty years ago this month, the brutal conflict that accompanied the collapse of the former Yugoslavia spread to Bosnia and Herzegovina. What followed were over three years of the worst violence seen in Europe since the Second World War, with an appalling human cost.
In the years since the Dayton Agreement was signed, Bosnia and Herzegovina has in many ways made remarkable progress. It is celebrating its twentieth anniversary as an internationally-recognised, sovereign state at peace, and with greatly improved relations with its Balkan neighbours.
As a European country, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s future lies within the European Union, as a full member alongside her neighbours in the Western Balkans. This is a goal shared by the Bosnian people, by all Bosnian political parties and by all EU member states.
But making a reality of that shared goal remains a big challenge. In the last few years, Bosnia and Herzegovina has fallen well behind its neighbours on its journey towards EU membership. That affects all Bosnian citizens, in all parts of the country, who are being denied the benefits of progress towards EU membership.
We remain steadfast in our belief that Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state enjoying full territorial integrity should have a future in the European Union. Despite the many other serious challenges we face at home and around the world, it remains a high priority for us to see all countries of the Western Balkans safely anchored within the European Union. Our recent actions have underlined this. At the December European Council, we signed the Treaty confirming Croatia’s imminent accession. And the March European Council has just granted candidate status to Serbia. Kosovo has recently made progress on its path to Europe as well. For these countries, achieving this progress has come only as a result of a long period of hard work and a clear determination by political leaders to take the difficult decisions that are required for progress. The same applies to Bosnia.
Bosnia needs to start making up for lost time. Now is the time to put words into actions. The country has a new State-level Government, whose Chairman Mr Bevanda has declared that 2012 should be the year of the EU. He and his colleagues have made it a high priority to secure the entry into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU. They also hope to lodge a formal application for membership of the EU at some point this year. Both these things are achievable, if the criteria are met. They will take hard work and commitment.
We warmly welcome this level of ambition; and the strong commitment to a common goal for Bosnia and Herzegovina that it represents. 2012 can be the year when Bosnia and Herzegovina makes decisive strides towards both membership of the EU and NATO. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s political leaders have created a moment of opportunity and we urge them to seize it. We will do all we can to support them.
Our commitment to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s European future was underlined last autumn with the arrival in Sarajevo of a new EU Special Representative, Peter Sorensen, and the significant enhancement of the EU’s local presence.
The strategy we agreed at the March 2011 European Council is now starting to pay dividends. As well as approving the new State Government, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Parliament has passed State Aid and Census Laws. This means that the only remaining task to be completed before the Stabilisation Agreement can be brought into force is the credible effort we called for last March to resolve the incompatibility of the country’s constitution with the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. We also welcome recent agreement to a process which should resolve the issue of defence property, one of the key obstacles to progress towards NATO.
So this year, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a real opportunity to put the engine of European integration firmly back into gear. There is no time to lose. Croatia’s membership of the EU is potentially a huge opportunity for Bosnia and Herzegovina. But it also presents a big short-term challenge. In a little over a year, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 1000 kilometre-long border with Croatia will become the external border of the EU. This border should be a new connection, not a new wall between Bosnia and the EU.
So when, for example, all exports to or via Croatia of meat, eggs, milk and other dairy products are expected to meet EU food safety and phytosanitary standards this should be seen as an opportunity not a problem. At present Bosnia and Herzegovina lacks both the domestic certification systems and the customs infrastructure on her borders to meet these new requirements. Without urgent practical action this significant trade, vital to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s rural economy, will grind to a halt next year.
On this, the ball is in the Bosnian politicians’ court. Much of the reason this problem has not yet been addressed lies in familiar domestic political disputes. Arguments about which level of government should have responsibility for these issues have been given higher priority than the needs of ordinary people and their livelihoods. With every day that passes without action, the threat to farmers across the country, from Siroki Brijeg to Travnik to Banja Luka, increases.
This is a good illustration of the need for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s leaders to move past stale arguments about constitutional arrangements and to focus on the needs of ordinary people and businesses. At a time when the whole of Europe is struggling to create jobs and economic growth, it would be unforgivable to allow constitutional arguments to destroy badly-needed jobs and incomes.
Finally, building credibility as a prospective EU member starts at home. So we hope to see political leadership that rapidly puts the country’s finances back on a sound footing, ending the long and damaging period of temporary state financing and enabling international lending to resume. A Government which can do this will deserve and will get our full support, as it works to makes a reality of our shared goal of a secure European future for Bosnia and Herzegovina.’
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Did you know that Americans eat 10 times more sugar than all other food additives—except for salt? Sugar is a pervasive ingredient, so it shows up even outside of desserts. Excessive sugar consumption doesn’t just make your waistline wider; it is also associated with developing type 2 diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, cancer and depression. The good news is: we can break this cycle. Learn five simple steps you can take to break up with the standard American diet’s chronic obsession with sugar. Click the play button above to hear step three in our Spring Into Ultimate Wellness series.
This week’s resources:
Wonder why so many people are struggling with weight? This film makes it clear.
Check out the 115 ways sugar can show up in packaged food ingredients.
See why the food industry perpetuates high sugar foods in Sugar, Salt, Fat, by Michael Moss.
How not to die from diabetes via NutritionFacts.org.
Don’t forget to drop by the forum. We look forward to seeing you!
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Health Department Reminds Wasatch Back Residents To Test For Radon
Local health departments are encouraging Wasatch Back residents to test their homes for an element that the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.
Testing for Radon is a relatively simple process, that could decrease health risks for households in the Wasatch Back. Summit County Health Department Environmental Health Scientist Kelly Gallo explains that Radon is a radioactive gas that is naturally occurring.
"It’s colorless, odorless, tasteless, and the only way that you're going to know whether it is in your home is through testing,” Gallo explained. “It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. 21,000 deaths per year, but if you're a nonsmoker this is the leading cause of lung cancer.”
Summit County provides free testing kits to households with new children and low-income families. Others can purchase tests for $10 at all Summit County and Wasatch County Health Department locations. Tests can also be purchased at hardware stores.
“It's very easy to do,” Gallo said. “It's just a charcoal packet then you hang up for about three to seven days and mail it back in again.”
Gallo says testing doesn’t necessarily need to be done every year but it’s good to check every few years.
“Particularly if you've had any shifting in your home which would allow for more cracks and more opportunity for Radon to come into your home,” Gallo continued. “Wintertime is the best time to test. Your house is all closed up and the pressure changes from heating your home could be adding more Radon to your home in the wintertime as well.”
Although Radon is an issue nationwide it is especially prevalent in Utah.
“In the United States one in 15 homes has high levels of Radon, here in Utah, one in three homes,” Gallo explained. “Now the EPA recommends that the action limit is four picocuries per liter and here in Summit County the average test is 5.2 picocuries. That's an average of the testing that's happened here in Summit County, so we've had tests that have been over 300 picocuries per liter, and then we have lots of tests come back negligible with almost no Radon detectable.”
If your short-term Radon test reveals your home might be at risk, Gallo says they recommend a long-term test and then mitigating the impacts of the Radon through a certified company. The Department of Environmental Quality has a website list of certified mitigators. The mitigation process includes a ventilation system that removed the gas from a home, mitigation can cost somewhere between $1,500 and $3,000. You can learn about Radon here.
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While the number of screens and touchscreens invading our homes may seem jarring and frightening to us adults, a new study suggests that children are quite capable of adapting to our high tech lifestyle. Researchers at the University of Brostol and Loughborough University (via ScienceDaily) have been examining the effect multiple electronic viewing devices has on children and how they interact with multiple devices at a time. The results are promising, depending on your point of view.
After questioning 10-11 year olds, scientists found that the kids enjoyed viewing multiple screened devices simultaneously–like using an iPad while watching television. The kids tended to use the device during breaks in their entertainment, talking or texting friends during commercials or if they’re watching something they don’t want to watch. The TV almost became background entertainment at times, with smartphones and other devices taking precedence.
The number of devices popping up also means that it is now harder for parents to disconnect their children from the digital world for any period of time. Dr. Jago from teh University of Brostol explains: “Health campaigns recommend reducing the amount of time children spend watching TV. However the children in this study often had access to at least five different devices at any one time, and many of these devices were portable. This meant that children were able to move the equipment between their bedrooms and family rooms, depending on whether they wanted privacy or company. So simply removing the TV from a child’s room may not be enough to address the health concerns and we need to work with families to develop strategies to limit the overall time spent multi-screen viewing wherever it occurs within the home.”
Of course, what this study doesn’t seem to go into is what the long term effects of such extensive multitasking might have on children. We already live in the age of ADHD. Will the next generation of kids be able to focus on anything for more than a few minutes? Will they need to?
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Biogen Hemophilia A Therapy Helps in Fewer Injections
Biogen Idec Inc. (BIIB) and partner Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (SOBI) said their hemophilia A therapy controlled bleeding with fewer injections in a late-stage study. The companies plan to apply for U.S. approval early next year.
The therapy, long-lasting recombinant Factor VIII Fc fusion protein, or rFVIIIFc, yielded annual rates of 1.6 bleeds in a preventive treatment study arm in which patients received the drug about once every three and a half days. That compared with 3.6 bleeds for patients treated once a week, and 33.6 for patients that received the medicine as needed, the companies said in a statement today.
None of the patients in the study developed inhibitors, antibodies that stop the drug from working, and the treatment was generally well tolerated, the companies said. They plan to apply for Food and Drug Administration approval in the first half of 2013, they said.
The drug “has the potential to enhance the care of people living with hemophilia A by offering protection from bleeding with reduced treatment burden,” Glenn Pierce, chief medical officer for Biogen’s hemophilia therapeutic area, said in the statement.
Swedish Orphan rose 11 percent to 37.50 kronor at 5:30 p.m. in Stockholm, the biggest advance since Sept. 26. Biogen declined 3.3 percent to $138.21 at 4 p.m. New York time. The shares have gained 26 percent this year.
Hemophilia is an inherited blood disorder caused by a low levels or absence of a protein essential for blood-clotting. In the first study arm, which treated patients on an individualized basis to prevent bleeds, 30 percent of people began being treated about once every five days in the last three months, from once every three and a half previously, Biogen said.
“This is perhaps a bit below our expectations of about 40 percent to 70 percent plus that earlier data had predicted,” Mark Schoenebaum, an analyst with ISI Group in New York, wrote in a note to clients today. “The annualized bleeding rate in this arm was stellar at 1.6 (well below historical averages). In addition, the weekly dosing data look very good.”
The half-life of Biogen and Swedish Orphan’s drug was 19 hours, compared with 12.4 hours for Baxter International Inc. (BAX)’s Advate, a therapy that leads the $5 billion market for hemophilia A recombinant treatments, according to research from Barclays Capital.
“We would expect Biogen to pound the message that ‘whatever Baxter can do, we can do 1.5x better,’” Schoenebaum wrote.
Biogen and Swedish Orphan’s drug may draw $306 million in annual revenue by 2016, according to Brian Abrahams, an analyst with Wells Fargo.
The companies reported data last month on their therapy for hemophilia B, a bleeding disorder that affects a smaller number of patients. The hemophilia A market is about four times the size of that for hemophilia B, according to Eric Schmidt, an analyst with Cowen & Co.
Those data showed Biogen and Swedish Orphan’s drug was well-tolerated and enabled patients to be treated less frequently.
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Methacillin Resistant Staph Aureus is a specific strain of the bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus that is resistant to the antibiotics created for its treatment. This makes it both very difficult to treat and impossible to eradicate. The infection has also been known to be deadly.
This organism is contracted and spread through an opening in the skin and can be transferred from an object that was recently touched by an individual who is infected.
There are also individuals who are carriers of the organism, that are without symptoms and unaware that they are even infected. Thereby, it is very important that we educate those at high risk of how to prevent the spread of this disease. […]
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The director of the National Security Agency told the Atlantic Council last week arguing over encryption seems like “a waste of time to me” and doesn’t resolve the ongoing divide between privacy and security.
Encryption is “foundational to our future… Given that foundation, what is the best way for us to deal with it? And how do me meet those very legitimate concerns,” Adm. Michael Rogers — who also heads U.S. Cyber Command — said at the Washington, D.C. think tank.
“There are people out there who exploit that vulnerability… some with good reason, some without.”
The FBI is one agency, among other, advocating severe limits on encryption that would block law enforcement from investigation potential terrorist threats. Several states are considering legislation to limit encryption on smart-phones.
“Big data analytics are now available at such a level that suddenly now data becomes attractive to a whole larger group of actors out there. So what you saw at OPM [likely Chinese accessing records of millions of current and former federal employees in April], my comment would be you’re going to see a whole lot more,” he said.
Rogers said that this debate is taking place when the government is less trusted, particularly over protecting citizens’ privacy. “We’ve got to meet these two concerns. …That is not an insignificant challenge for us.”
Addressing NSA’s altered role in data collection, he said, “The law changed; we comply with the law” over what data can be collected and stored. Rogers said that standard applies from the lowest ranking agency employee to the top. “We’re accountable to the citizens we serve” and that includes admitting mistakes.
Twice, Rogers said in answer to a question, “We obey the rule of law.”
In addition to working more closely with other governmental agencies and private industry in the United States, he said the command is building partnerships with allies in a number of areas. The revelation that NSA had records of telephone conversations of foreign heads of government has complicated building these new relationships.
Rogers said the government and the tech sector even today do not often talk about partnerships because of the different cultures they bring to their missions and businesses. In answer to a question, he added, government has “got to make it easier for private sector to deal” with the various federal agencies dealing with cyber as a means of building partnerships.
But one area where there appears to be agreement and the willingness to partner is over combating recruiting young people into terrorist organizations, such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL), by sophisticated uses of social media.
“We have decided … as a society that the exploitation of youths [in the cyber domain] is unacceptable.’ The question becomes: “Is there a social pact that we can come up with that says, ‘hey, look this is unacceptable to us.”‘
Rogers said that “troublesome development” has to be addressed beyond “a U.S. only approach.”
“This is a challenge that will require us to work together in collaborative ways.”
As he said often in his presentation, practicing “cyber hygiene,” such as not opening an attachment from an unknown sender, can take “away 80 percent of the challenges” in defending networks, systems and platforms — not just in the Defense Department, the federal government but private sector. As with a rifle, “you make sure it is used responsibly” and you “do exactly the same thing in cyber.”
Rogers said he did not look at the challenges NSA and the command face as solely preventing “a digital Pearl Harbor,” but one that also keeps a focus on the danger. “We are becoming increasingly vulnerable” to attacks like the one on Sony Entertainment and the Office of Personnel Management.
While these attacks have been “an inconvenience to date,” he added, “It’s going to get worse before it gets better” because they can be attacked by nation states sometimes working together with outside hackers that mask who launched the strike or individual actors.
“Actors change; we have to change” with them.
Rogers said other governmental agencies and businesses need to consider authorizing an individual “to take that system down” if the intent of the hack rises to the level of a serious attack. He has that authority in the Defense Department.
Rogers point to the sophisticated systems and software in today’s automobiles as example of how vulnerabilities are increasing. “Many of these software programs are communicating with the outside world.”
On the personnel side, he said the retention rates is 96.3 percent in the overall workforce and about 90 percent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics field. He also said in NSA and the five-year-old command the idea is build teams mixing veteran employees with newcomers.
That high retention rate is something of a mixed blessing. It would take 30 years to recapitalize the work force, Rogers said. He called for agreements with the private sector sending some of their employees to the government for a specified time and the government likewise sending employees to the private sector to broaden their horizons.
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Working a shorter week would likely make most people feel happier and even more productive, experts say. But research suggests it may also help boost employment rates. Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim — the second-richest person in the world after Bill Gates — recently advocated a shorter workweek for the world’s corporate clockwatchers. “With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax, for quality of life,” Slim told a business conference in Asuncion, Paraguay, in remarks reported Monday by the Financial Times. Having four days off would also be a business opportunity for some, in that it would generate new leisure activities, he said.
But don’t go slacking just yet. Slim says people should work 10 or 11 hours a day in those three days. He also says retirement ages should rise to 70 or 75. Still, Slim may be on to something with his idea, according to some experts. In fact, he’s just the latest to make headlines in a long-running debate on the length of the ideal work week.
“Burnout is huge predictor of loss of productivity,” says Rana Florida, CEO of consulting and research company Creative Class Group and author of “Upgrade: Taking Your Life and Work from Ordinary to Extraordinary.” The 40-hour workweek in the U.S. is not some “magical number” for productivity, she says. “You don’t have to chain people to their desk.” Shorter working hours make sense in particular for people in highly stressful jobs like emergency first responders, and those in creative fields, Florida says.
Most other countries have shorter work weeks than the U.S., according to recent analysis from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And workplace productivity doesn’t increase with hours worked, the OECD concluded. Workers in Greece clock 2,034 hours a year versus 1,397 in Germany, for example, but the latter’s productivity is 70 percent higher.
“Quality of life, stress reduction, and engagement in our work increase with shorter workweeks,” says Steve Langerud, a workplace consultant based in Grinnell, Iowa. That said, if income dropped with hours worked, shorter workweeks could create problems. The average household disposable income in Germany is also a lot higher ($30,721 a year) than Greece ($19,095).
Countries with the largest reduction in work hours had the largest increase in employment rates since the Great Recession, says Dean Baker, co-director of the left-of-center Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. “Countries like Germany stand out,” he says. “It’s been remarkably successful.” The unemployment rate in Germany (5.2 percent) is down more than 4 percentage points since before the 2008 recession, while the U.S. unemployment rate (6.1 percent) is still more than 1.5 percentage points higher than it was before the recession.
Cutting the work week roughly in half could help to address overwork, unemployment, over consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to simply to enjoy life, according to a report from the London-based, left-of-center think tank New Economics Foundation. “The deputy mayor of Gothenburg [in Sweden] is trialing a 30-hour week for some of his staff because he thinks that’s about the limit for productive time,” says Anna Coote, head of social policy at NEF.
A shorter workweek doesn’t necessarily lead to happier employees, however. Long working hours might not be as negatively related to worker well-being as predicted by other studies, according to a study called “Work Shorter, Be Happier?” published last year in the Journal of Happiness Studies. While people welcomed the reduction in working hours, those reductions had no impact on job and life satisfaction, researcher Robert Rudolf, assistant professor in the Division of International Studies at Korea University, found.
Five-day workweeks may lead to exhaustion on Mondays and coasting on Fridays, but that’s more likely if you don’t like your job or feel engaged with your work, or if you don’t believe that it has some higher purpose, says Rusty Rueff, career and workplace expert at career site Glassdoor. “We’ve all been in places where we’ve pulled all-nighters and we’re going back to the pizza box for the second time and the pizza’s cold,” he says. “You sort of hate that you’re there, but at the same time there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.”
Quentin Fottrell is a personal finance reporter for MarketWatch based in New York. You can follow him on Twitter @quantanamo. This article originally appeared on MarketWatch.com and is reprinted by permission from Marketwatch.com, ©2014 Dow Jones & Co. Inc. All rights reserved.
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June 21, 2013 03:43:42
Geneva, June 20 Xinhua (Reporter Liu Meichen Wu Chen) According to the World Health Organization report released on the 20th, more than a third of women worldwide by physical violence or sexual violence.
The report, entitled "Violence against women a global and regional assessment: partner violence, sexual violence and non-partner status and health effects" by the WHO and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Medical Research Council of South Africa completed in cooperation, is the study of the public health problem of global report. Report for the first systematic study of women suffer partner violence and sexual violence by non-partners of global data, and details of violence on women health impacts.
The report shows that about 35% of women worldwide have experienced partner to its implementation of physical or sexual violence, or non-partner sexual violence. The report finds that women suffer partner violence is the most common form of violence, and its impact on women's health, including causing their death and injury, depression, alcoholism, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies and abortion.
Although the collection of data on non-partner sexual violence experienced by women worry about reputation issues implicit rather than newspaper and other obstacles, the report still found to suffer from forms of violence that women prone to alcoholism, suffering from depression or anxiety, and other issues.
Reports said that Africa and the Americas are women aged 15 and above suffer partner violence and sexual violence by non-partners is most serious. Partner violence were the most serious areas in Southeast Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean region and Africa.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said in a written statement, said: "These findings strongly show that violence against women is a common health problem worldwide and we also see that the world's health systems can and must be female victims do more things. "
WHO released the same day with the report a problem against violence against women a new clinical and policy guidelines to help countries strengthen health departments to deal with violence against women capabilities.
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Pittsburgh Technology Council2007-01-12 06:11:21 by luvtheburgh
We found the PTC when my husband was job hunting last year. He got several interviews and one offer for jobs we found there. Real jobs, local companies, most are direct post (not recruiting firms though there are some of those too). They have lots of IT postings, but some creative and even medical ones too. You can also research local companies and management on the website.
Just Google Pittsburgh Technology Council to find the website and good luck!
Wakefield 'dishonest and irresponsible'2010-01-31 07:47:18 by cheaande
In MMR research
Andrew Wakefield, the pseudoscientific doctor who's almost single-handedly responsible for the anti-vaccination movement, was found to have seriously abused his trust as a medical practitioner by a U.K. ethics panel. According to the ruling, Wakefield ordered unnecessary and invasive tests on autistic children (including spinal taps and colonoscopies), without securing proper ethical approval, in the paper that claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism
MedicoLegal Investigations Ltd2010-02-11 11:01:30 by 56andfixed
".. a United Kingdom private company limited by sharesý which works with pharmaceutical companies to investigate alleged fraud and misconduct in medical research."
"MLI, which touts itself as an "independent external whistleblower service", has headquarters in Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England."
"MLI was established in July, 1996, by Frank Wells, a physician, and Peter Jay, a former detective."
"MLI asserts that it has investigated over eighty research studies in conjunction with the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries, leading to disciplinary proceedings against 27 doctors at the General Medical Council (GMC), all but one of whom were found guilty of serious professional misconduct
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The author notes a large business, medical and research district in the municipality of 28,000, which makes the area feel like a larger community.
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What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on U.S. soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping? That a drone aircraft had come across the Canadian border in the middle of the night and carried out the latest of many attacks? What if it was claimed that many of the victims harbored anti-Chinese sentiments, but most of the dead were innocent women and children? And what if the Chinese administration, in an effort to improve its public image in the U.S., had approved an aid package to send funds to help with American roads and schools and promote Chinese values here?
Most Americans would not stand for it. Yet the above hypothetical events are similar to what our government is doing in Pakistan. Last week, Congress did approve an aid package for Pakistan for the stated purposes of improving our image and promoting democracy. I again made the point on the floor of the House that still no one seems to hear: What if this happened on U.S. soil? What if innocent Americans were being killed in repeated drone attacks carried out by some foreign force who was trying to fix our problems for us? Would sending money help their image? If another nation committed this type of violence and destruction on our homeland, would we be at all interested in adopting their values?
Sadly, one thing that has entirely escaped modern American foreign policy is empathy. Without much humility or regard for human life, our foreign policy has been reduced to alternately bribing and bombing other nations, all with the stated goal of "promoting democracy." But if a country democratically elects a leader who is not sufficiently pro-American, our government will refuse to recognize them, will impose sanctions on them, and will possibly even support covert efforts to remove them. Democracy is obviously not what we are interested in. It is more likely that our government is interested in imposing its will on other governments. This policy of endless intervention in the affairs of others is very damaging to American liberty and security.
If we were really interested in democracy, peace, prosperity, and safety, we would pursue more free trade with other countries. Free and abundant trade is much more conducive to peace because it is generally bad business to kill your customers. When one’s livelihood is on the line, and the business agreements are mutually beneficial, it is in everyone’s best interests to maintain cooperative and friendly relations and not kill each other. But instead, to force other countries to bend to our will, we impose trade barriers and sanctions. If our government really wanted to promote freedom, Americans would be free to travel and trade with whoever they wished. And if we would simply look at our own policies around the world through the eyes of others, we would understand how these actions make us more targeted and therefore less safe from terrorism. The only answer is get back to free trade with all and entangling alliances with none. It is our bombs and sanctions and condescending aid packages that isolate us.
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Quality Control for GMP Manufacturing
Quality Control (QC) is required in many critical steps of the GMP Manufacturing process. Raw materials used in the manufacturing of bio/pharmaceuticals must undergo QC prior to inclusion in the process. The entire production process requires a QC standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure the possibility of contamination is neutralized as much as possible. Lastly, the final product must undergo QC to ensure it meets specifications and quality standards of the original drug manufacturer.
API / Excipient Powder Granule Sizing
Formulations include APIs, excipients (non-active ingredients), such as diluents (an active filler to achieve a reasonable final pill size), and disintegrating agents to regulate the tablet’s dissolution time after administration. These materials need to be sized for consistency.
Bioprocessing / Cell Culture
Within bioprocessing there are two QC processes. One is Production QC where technicians ensure the cells are growing and their media fits within specified ranges for cell growth. The other is Product Efficacy QC, where assays are run to test the efficacy of the drug prior to distribution.
Clean in Place (CIP) Processes
Keeping the bioreactor environment clean is critical so regulators insist that, where possible, bioreactors need to be cleaned in place (CIP) after production.
Good Manufacturing Procedure (GMP) mandates the air quality conditions for biopharmaceutical production in cleanrooms
Small Molecule Insulin Formulation
The bioavailability of insulin analogs is strongly dependent on not only the primary structure of the analog but also the formulation. Here, AUC can be leveraged as a potential tool to analyze the higher-order structure of insulin under typical formulation conditions.
Water Release Testing for GMP Manufacturing
The quality of the water used in manufacturing is defined by the global Pharmacopoeias who have harmonized the parameters and requirements for Purified Water (PW) and Water for Injection (WFI).
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This article describes how, using the DiscUtils library from CodePlex, you can serve up customized ISO files from a website.
I've been working on the DiscUtils library for a couple of months, and I thought it would be a good idea to show how it can be used in practice. CodeProject seemed like the ideal place to expose some of the capabilities of the DiscUtils library.
DiscUtils itself provides an Open Source library for creating, reading, and modifying various disk image formats, including .ISOs. The DiscUtils library is implemented in pure C# (no P/Invoke or COM Interop), and doesn't load the entire disk image into memory, so has a relatively small memory footprint. This makes it perfect for use in websites. This article describes one such use of the library, to create .ISO images on request using ASP.NET. Specifically, the code injects a mock license file into the ISOs - but any kind of image customization is possible.
Using the Code
The code is a very simple ASP.NET website, created in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. I've re-arranged the project files slightly, so they exist in a single directory hierarchy.
The interesting code is in CreateISO.ashx. There is a
using statement to pull in the
DiscUtils.Iso9660 namespace (the DLL itself is placed in the Bin folder of the solution). The
ProcessRequest method creates the ISO file; first, the CD Builder is initialized:
CDBuilder builder = new CDBuilder();
builder.UseJoliet = true;
builder.VolumeIdentifier = "GENERATED_CD";
Enabling Joliet is recommended (permits long file names), and the Volume Identifier can be set to any string (subject to constraints of the ISO 9660 specification).
Next, the contents of the CD need to be specified. In this case, we include all files from the ~/App_Data/CDRoot folder:
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(context.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/CDRoot"));
PopulateFromFolder(builder, di, di.FullName);
PopulateFromFolder method is defined later in the file - it simply recurses through the directory structure, adding any files found to the ISO image:
public static void PopulateFromFolder(CDBuilder builder,
DirectoryInfo di, string basePath)
foreach (FileInfo file in di.GetFiles())
foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in di.GetDirectories())
PopulateFromFolder(builder, dir, basePath);
After populating the ISO image with all of the 'normal' files from the disk, it's time to customize the image. Here, we're simply creating a new file 'LICENSE.LIC' that contains some dummy licensing information. You could customize the ISO image in any way you choose.
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(ms, Encoding.ASCII);
writer.WriteLine("Issued By: Acme, Inc.");
writer.WriteLine("Issued On: " + DateTime.UtcNow);
Next, the HTTP headers are set. Since there is no registered Internet Media Type for ISO images, application/octet-stream is used. The Content-Disposition header instructs Internet Explorer to offer a 'Save As...' dialog box, and also provides the default file name for the ISO file.
context.Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
Finally, the ISO image is finalized using
Build(), and we simply pump the data from the resulting stream to the HTTP response stream.
Stream cdStream = builder.Build();
byte buffer = new byte[64 * 1024];
int numBytes = cdStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
while (numBytes != 0)
context.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, numBytes);
numBytes = cdStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
Points of Interest
This article illustrates that you can create ISO images using the DiscUtils library either from existing files, or by providing a byte array. You can also supply a
The DiscUtils library doesn't currently support El Torito format, so it isn't suitable for projects where you need to provide a bootable CD.
If you find any bugs or problems with the code in this article, please post comments below. If the problem is with the DiscUtils library, please post an Issue on the CodePlex project.
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I'm sure most readers are aware of the massive fire that caused the complete evacuation of the Canadian city of Fort McMurray a couple of weeks ago. There's a very sobering article by a resident about his family's lack of preparation for such an emergency, and how it's caused him to re-evaluate many things. Here's an excerpt.
I don’t know if you’re religious or not, but if you believe in some version of hell my family just drove through it. A few hours ago my family and I escaped the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta which as you may have seen on the news is burning.
We drove through the fire, avoiding dangling electrical wires. We are alive, we have found shelter for tonight in a motel. But like so many others we were unprepared to evacuate when we were told we needed to.
I am going to ask you to do what my family did not do, but wish we did: have an emergency kit ready.
Forest fires are not uncommon in Northern Alberta. Each year many fires occur in the vast Boreal forest that covers the Northern Region of the province, but most of them stay contained, or burn a safe distance from inhabited communities.
Living in Fort McMurray for the past three years (past two years for my wife Amanda and son Odin) we have been witness to these yearly events. Each time, my wife and I will say to each other “We should really think about having an Emergency Preparedness Kit”. We talk about it. We say what a good and practical idea it is. Then, like so many others, it gets put to the wayside and forgotten. We’ll get to it, we say, just like how we’ll get to all the other things in life we say we’ll get to eventually.
Today that forgetfulness put us in danger.
There's more at the link.
Another resident of Fort McMurray recorded a series of video clips of the evacuation. They make for stunning (and very scary) viewing. Here's the third in the series. Just look at the numbers of cars all trying to funnel onto already clogged streets, surrounded by flames, to make their getaway . . . frightening indeed! Watch in full-screen mode for best results.
The other videos, in sequence, are:
Sobering viewing indeed. Are you ready for such a disaster? Can anyone ever really be prepared for something that monumental?
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From Pensapedia, the Pensacola encyclopedia
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THE TWO BOMBARDMENTS OF FORT PICKENS.-SKETCHED BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST.
From Harper's Weekly, February 8, 1862.
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Written on the back of this painting are the words: ‘My Harvest Home Vandiemens Land the Picture begun March 19th. 1835 the day the harvest was all got in’.
Only three years before, John Glover had established Patterdale Farm at Deddington in northern Tasmania after receiving a land grant of 2560 acres from the Tasmanian Government. My Harvest Home celebrates the farm’s success, representing a bountiful harvest, the possession of fertile land, and hence the artist’s newfound status as a gentleman farmer. The red-waistcoated figures in the foreground are convict labourers (a total of 12 convicts were assigned to the Glovers) whose free labour profited colonists until late into the 1800s.
Glover painted many scenes from his Deddington farm and although not all were as personal as this work, many presented a similarly joyful and dream-like perspective of Van Diemen’s Land. In 1836 My Harvest Home was sent to Britain on consignment with a number of other works which suggests that the artist intended to spread a positive message about life in the colony. While painting sales in England provided income for Glover, this particular painting did not sell and remained in England with his daughter and son-in-law until Glover’s death.
John Glover arrived in Hobart from England in 1831, aged 63. He is considered to be one of the finest Australian landscape painters of the early colonial period and is recognised as the first artist to faithfully capture the ‘new’ Australian landscape. In My Harvest Home, his keen observational skills are seen in the detail of distant eucalypts, the intense light of the setting sun, and the atmospheric effects created by the detailed cloud forms.
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Distance Learning, the Internet, and the World
Wide Web. ERIC Digest.
by Kerka, Sandra
In the beginning was the word--the printed word. In its earliest form,
distance education meant study by correspondence, or what is now called
"snail mail." As new technologies developed, distance instruction was delivered
through such media as audiotape, videotape, radio and television broadcasting,
and satellite transmission. Microcomputers, the Internet, and the World
Wide Web are shaping the current generation of distance learning, and virtual
reality, artificial intelligence, and knowledge systems may be next. Some
define distance education as the use of print or electronic communications
media to deliver instruction when teachers and learners are separated in
place and/or time (Eastmond 1995). However, others emphasize distance learning
over education, defining it as "getting people--and often video images
of people--into the same electronic space so they can help one another
learn" (Filipczak 1995, p. 111), or "a system and process that connects
learners with distributed resources" (ibid., p. 113). These two definitions
imply learner centeredness and control.
Typical audiences for earlier generations of distance education were
adults often seeking advanced education and training at home, on the job,
or in the military whose multiple responsibilities or physical circumstances
prevented attendance at a traditional institution (Bates 1995). Now anyone
is potentially a distance learner, a concept that has implications for
the organization of educational institutions and for teaching. This Digest
focuses on some of the newest methods of distance learning (DL) using the
Internet and the Web. It highlights some of the issues that could profoundly
change the delivery of adult, career, and vocational education.
DISTANCE LEARNING IN CYBERSPACE
Perhaps more than any other distance media, the Internet and the Web
help overcome the barriers of time and space in teaching and learning.
Educational uses of the Internet are burgeoning. The University of Wisconsin-Extension's
Distance Education Clearinghouse lists numerous institutions offering online
instruction <http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html> and corporate training
is featured on AT&T's Center for Excellence in Distance Learning website
<http://www.att.com/cedl/>. INTERNET WORLD's October 1995 issue gives
examples of "The Internet in Education," including online degree programs
offered by traditional institutions such as Penn State and Indiana University
as well as nontraditional entities such as University Online and the Global
Network Academy. DL on the Internet usually takes one of the following
forms (Wulf 1996): (1) electronic mail (delivery of course materials, sending
in assignments, getting/giving feedback, using a course listserv, i.e.,
electronic discussion group); (2) bulletin boards/newsgroups for discussion
of special topics; (3) downloading of course materials or tutorials; (4)
interactive tutorials on the Web; (5) real-time, interactive conferencing
using MOO (Multiuser Object Oriented) systems or Internet Relay Chat; (6)
"intranets," corporate websites protected from outside access that distribute
training for employees; and (7) informatics, the use of online databases,
library catalogs, and gopher and websites to acquire information and pursue
research related to study.
Examples of the use of these modes include the following. High school
students with disabilities in Project DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities,
Internetworking, Technology) connect with the University of Washington
(UW) to receive instruction via e-mail, join worldwide discussion groups,
and access online resources (Burgstahler 1995). Also at UW, rehabilitation
therapists learn about adaptive computer technology through videotapes
and an Internet class discussion group (ibid.). The Distant Mentor project
pairs workplace experts with school-to-work "apprentices" online; they
can also simulate work environments through desktop software with an audio
channel connected through the Internet (Dede 1996). At Carnegie-Mellon
University, the Virtual Corporation simulates a work setting for business
students (ibid.). A career counselor offers group and individual online
conferences, a listserv, and a database of resumes and resources for clients
(Sherman 1994). CUSeeMe software enables technology teacher education supervisors
to observe student teachers using a desktop videoconference through the
Internet ("Agricultural Education" 1996).
Advantages of delivering distance learning on the Internet include the
following (Bates 1995; Eastmond 1995; Wulf 1996): (1) time and place flexibility;
(2) potential to reach a global audience; (3) no concern about compatibility
of computer equipment and operating systems; (4) quick development time,
compared to videos and CD-ROMs; (5) easy updating of content, as well as
archival capabilities; and (6) usually lower development and operating
costs, compared to satellite broadcasting, for example. Carefully designed
Internet courses can enhance interactivity between instructors and learners
and among learners, which is a serious limitation of some DL formats. Equity
is often mentioned as a benefit of online learning; the relative anonymity
of computer communication has the potential to give voice to those reluctant
to speak in face-to-face situations and to allow learner contributions
to be judged on their own merit, unaffected by "any obvious visual cultural
markers'" (Bates 1995, p. 209). The medium also supports self-directed
learning--computer conferencing requires learner motivation, self-discipline,
As with any medium, there are disadvantages. At present, limited bandwidth
(the capacity of the communications links) and slow modems hamper the delivery
of sound, video, and graphics, although the technology is improving all
the time. Reliance on learner initiative can be a drawback for those who
prefer more structure. Learner success also depends on technical skills
in computer operation and Internet navigation, as well as the ability to
cope with technical difficulties. Information overload is also an issue;
the volume of e-mail messages to read, reflect on, and respond to can be
overwhelming, and the proliferation of databases and websites demands information
management skills. Access to the Internet is still a problem for some rural
areas and people with disabilities. Social isolation can be a drawback,
and the lack of nonverbal cues can hinder communication. Although the Internet
can promote active learning, some contend that, like television, it can
breed passivity (Filipczak 1995). The next section takes a closer look
at distance learning processes.
DISTANCE LEARNING PROCESSES
Multimedia/hypermedia contexts such as the Web support constructivist
approaches to learning, which are based on the belief that individuals
construct their own understanding of the world as they acquire knowledge
and reflect on experiences. Dede (1996) describes how carefully designed
online learning can assist the construction of knowledge by showing learners
the links among pieces of information and supporting individual learning
When Wiesenberg and Hutton (1995) conducted a continuing education program
using computer conferencing, they found it necessitated two to three times
more delivery time. Learners appreciated the convenience of asynchronous
communication, but many were anxious about putting their written words
"out there." The course was more democratic but less interactive than expected,
and the instructors recommended giving learners a better orientation to
the online learning environment, providing technical support, and fostering
self-directed learning and learning-to-learn skills.
Eastmond (1995) highlights the ways that computer discussion both requires
and facilitates learning-how-to-learn skills, such as locating and accessing
information resources, organizing information, conducting self-assessment,
and collaborating. Adult learners in his study found the following strategies
critical to success in electronic learning: becoming comfortable with the
technology, determining how often to go online, dealing with textual ambiguity,
processing information on or off line, seeking and giving feedback, and
using one's learning style to personalize the course.
THE SOCIAL NATURE OF DISTANCE LEARNING
A common stereotype is "the loneliness of the long distance learner"
(Eastmond 1995, p. 46). Learning at a distance can be both isolating and
highly interactive, and electronic connectedness is a different kind of
interaction than what takes place in traditional classrooms; some learners
are not comfortable with it. Lack of nonverbal cues can create misunderstanding,
but communications protocols can be established and relationships among
learners developed. Because humans are involved, social norms do develop
in cyberspace, but they require new communications competencies (ibid.).
Online courses often feature consensus building and group projects, through
which learners can develop skills in collaborating with distant colleagues
and cooperating with diverse individuals. Such skills are increasingly
needed in the global workplace (Dede 1996).
Answering charges that computer learning environments cannot duplicate
the community of the classroom, Cook (1995) argues that the assumption
of a sense of community in traditional classrooms may be false. If community
is defined as shared interests, not geographic space, electronic communities
are possible. Wiesenberg and Hutton (1995) conclude that building a learning
community is of critical importance to the creation of a successful virtual
classroom. Dede (1996) agrees that "to succeed, distributed learning must
balance virtual and direct interaction in sustaining communion among people"
STRATEGIES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING
Filipczak (1996) notes that DL on the Internet can be cheaper, faster,
and usually more efficient than other learning modes, but not necessarily
more effective. As Dede (1996) puts it, "access to data does not automatically
expand students' knowledge; the availability of information does not intrinsically
create an internal framework of ideas" (p. 199). To help learners make
effective use of distance learning methods, skilled facilitation is essential.
Rohfeld and Hiemstra (1995) suggest ways to overcome the challenges of
the electronic classroom: (1) establish the tone early in the course; (2)
to overcome the text-based nature of online discussion and to build group
rapport and cohesion, introduce participants to each other, match them
with partners, and assign group projects; (3) offer training and guidelines
to help learners acquire technical competence and manage discussions; (4)
provide a variety of activities, such as debates, polling, reflection,
and critique; and (5) use learning contracts to establish goals for participation.
The following strategies are intended to make distance learning more effective
(Bates 1995; Dede 1996; Eastmond 1995; Filipczak 1995):
--Understand the technology's strengths and weaknesses
--Provide technical training and orientation
--Plan for technical failures and ensure access to technical support
--Foster learning-to-learn, self-directed learning, and critical reflection
--Develop information management skills to assist learners in selection
and critical assessment
--Mix modes--e.g., combine e-mail discussion with audio/video methods
to enhance the social aspect
--Structure learner-centered activities for both independent and group
work that foster interaction
In the end, the word is still with us. The way it is transmitted and
received is changing. Educators can play a role in the development of a
"vital form of literacy" (Dede 1996, p. 200): the transformation of information
into knowledge. The choices they make can also help determine which of
these possibilities come to pass: (1) distance technologies as an add-on
to existing institutions; (2) "knowledge in a box," impersonal, individualized,
and socially isolating; or (3) a networked learning society that keeps
human relationships at the center of learning (Bates 1995).
"Agricultural Education and Distance Education." AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
MAGAZINE 68, no. 11 (May 1996): 3-18, 21-23.
Bates, A. W. TECHNOLOGY, OPEN LEARNING AND DISTANCE EDUCATION. London:
Burgstahler, S. E. "Distance Learning and the Information Highway."
JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION 19, no. 4 (November 1995): 271-276.
Caudron, S. "Wake Up to New Learning Technologies." TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
50, no. 5 (May 1996): 30-35.
Cook, D. L. "Community and Computer-Generated Learning Environments."
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION no. 67 (Fall 1995): 33-39.
Dede, C. "Emerging Technologies in Distance Education for Business."
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION FOR BUSINESS 71, no. 4 (March-April 1996): 197-204.
Eastmond, D. V. ALONE BUT TOGETHER: ADULT DISTANCE STUDY THROUGH COMPUTER
CONFERENCING. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995.
Filipczak, B. "Putting the Learning into Distance Learning." TRAINING
32, no. 10 (October 1995): 111-118. (EJ 511 253)
Rohfeld, R. W., and Hiemstra, R. "Moderating Discussions in the Electronic
Classroom." In COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND THE ONLINE CLASSROOM.
vol. 3, edited by Z. L. Berge and M. P. Collins, pp. 91-104. Cresskill,
NJ: Hampton Press, 1995.
Sherman, D. "Career Counseling in Cyberspace." JOURNAL OF CAREER PLANNING
AND EMPLOYMENT 55, no. 1 (November 1994): 29-32, 62-63. (EJ 497 318)
"The Internet in Education." INTERNET WORLD, October 1995, pp. 38-85.
Wiesenberg, F., and Hutton, S. "Teaching a Graduate Program Using Computer
Mediated Conferencing Software." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Kansas
City, MO, November 1995.
Wulf, K. "Training via the Internet: Where Are We?" TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
50, no. 5 (May 1996): 50-55.
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