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critical to allow commuters and others to travel regularly to Scotlands economic core. This would place the region on a par
11 Nov 2008 : Column 746 with other areas of Scotland actively promoting this sort of long distance connectivity as a means to retain key workers in local communities.
In non-binding advice to UK Ministers in October 2006 as part of the west coast main line franchising process, Scottish Ministersthen part of a Labour-Liberal Democrat Administrationrecognised the importance of Lockerbie as a regional railhead for south-west Scotland, and stated their desire that the Lockerbie service should permit a journey to both Glasgow and Edinburgh, arriving no later than 08.40 and departing between 17.00 and 18.00.
Although Scottish Ministers are unable to intervene in the detail of the current franchise arrangements between the DfT and First TransPennine Express, we can see the economic benefits of enhancing the cross border connection by providing an additional early morning, direct service to Lockerbie. This addition would provide significant benefits such as increased frequency and would in turn open up the route as a commutable journey that would improve the economic growth of both Lockerbie and the surrounding areas and for Edinburgh itself.
Those views seem to have found favour, and at a meeting of the Lockerbie rail liaison group held in the town on 19 November 2007 at which I was present, presentations were given by both Virgin Trains and First TransPennine Express, with the impression being created that those early morning services would finally be provided with the support of the Department for Transport. That impression was reinforced in discussions I had with the then Minister, the hon. Member for Glasgow, South, earlier this year, and it seemed at the time that there would be a Lockerbie service arriving in Edinburgh at 08.32 from this December.
Out of the blue, in the early summer, that proposal was pulled. The reason given to me was that the proposed First TransPennine Express 09.11 Edinburgh to Manchester airport service, which was to be formed from the new 08.32 arrival, could not be pathed through the border by Network Rail because of various long-standing and time-sensitive freight commitments. First TransPennine Express was unwilling to keep its train in Edinburgh until a 09.56 departure slot was available, and so, once again, the interests of Lockerbie station users were compromised. They have come at the bottom of the pecking order, marginalised to suit other interests, whether freight or TransPennines own agenda.
As I have said, I do not have any criticism of the services that TransPennine Express provides from Lockerbie, but let us have no more pretence that it is doing so for the convenience of Lockerbie station users or to provide the station with a balanced and logical pattern of services. Similarly, a DFT proposal for a morning Lockerbie to Glasgow service, arriving in Glasgow at 08.42, albeit with a change at Carstairs, has been dropped. The earliest that Lockerbie passengers, after the introduction of the new timetable, will arrive in Glasgow is 09.0911 minutes later than at present. It is no wonder my constituents feel let down and simply ignored by the DFT. Their views have been ignored and their interests marginalised, and I am calling on the Minister to undertake to right those wrongs and to deliver those desperately needed, direct early morning services as soon as is practicable, and for once to put the interests of Lockerbie
11 Nov 2008 : Column 747 station users and the economy of the south of Scotland before the agendas and interests of bureaucrats, train operating companies and the wider rail industry.
The strength of feeling about the failure to deliver the early morning services is exacerbated by the effective butchering of the existing timetable throughout the day. At present, some 15 northbound services stop at Lockerbie, eight for Glasgow and seven for Edinburgh. After the new timetable is introduced in December, it is proposed that only nine northbound services will stop at Lockerbie, four for Glasgow and five for Edinburgh. A 40 per cent. cut in services hardly represents an attempt to achieve the modal shift to rail, which is one of the Governments buzz phrases.
Let us look at some specific examples. From the afternoon to the evening, there is an eight-hour gap between the 12.30 service to Glasgow and the proposed 20.44 service to Glasgow. From the morning to the afternoon, there is a four-and-a-half hour gap between the proposed 09.56 service to Edinburgh and the 14.30 service to Edinburgh. The 18.47 direct service to London Euston has also been removed, and the last services from Glasgow and Edinburgh are around 20.10, which makes it impossible for people to attend evening eventsthe theatre or other cultural activitiesin Glasgow and Edinburgh and return to Lockerbie.
What I and my constituents find particularly difficult to understand is that several services that have been cut still pass through Lockerbie, such as the 07.19, 08.20, 10.20, 11.20 and 12.20 services from Birmingham and the 12.52 from Edinburgh. They are all examples of services that, although cut from the Lockerbie timetable, still pass through the station, and I look forward to receiving the Ministers explanation. I cannot think of one. Indeed, plenty of other trains pass through Lockerbie station, and they would allow for the creation of a coherent and bespoke timetable if the will was there to do so. Again, let us hear from the Minister why such a measure seems to be impossible.
It seems to me that Lockerbie is being discriminated against because it is on the west coast main line. Everyone welcomes the west coast main line upgrades, the faster trains and the shorter journey times, but the Department seems to have become obsessed with the importance of cutting journey times between major cities, and it looks to do so by cutting out intermediate stations rather than solely through track upgrades. That approach is to the detriment of all who live in communities such as Lockerbie, which are served by small stations, and I am sure that it is done partly to achieve competitiveness against London to Glasgow domestic flights. However, in trying to do so, the Government sacrifice the needs of areas such as Lockerbie, where people do not have the choice of local domestic flightsthat is, unless Carlisle airport is reopened. And for any Department for Transport officials who are listening, I fully support its reopening.
Lockerbie station users are not making excessive demands on the Department. As the South West of Scotland Transport Partnership says in its regional transport strategy, there ought to be a balanced stopping pattern, and as the Scottish Government have said, it should accommodate early morning direct services to Glasgow and Edinburgh. I am sure that the Minister and his colleagues receive many complaints about train delays
11 Nov 2008 : Column 748 and cancellations, but I am also sure that he will agree that for Lockerbie station users to have to wait 10 years for early morning direct services to Edinburgh and Glasgow, and to have 40 per cent. of their daytime services cancelled permanently, is totally unacceptable. Tonight, I hope that he will take the opportunity to put that right. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Paul Clark): I congratulate the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) on securing this debate and providing an opportunity to debate rail services at Lockerbie. I genuinely understand his comments on behalf of his constituents, yet in many of those comments are implied the competing demands of meeting the needs of the travelling public from all parts of the United Kingdom and of meeting economic demands, whether in Scotland or elsewhere. In the short time available, I hope to address some of the issues that the hon. Gentleman has raised.
The performance of todays railways, which have improved significantly in recent years, represents a strong success story. The focus on the punctuality and reliability of Network Rail and train operators has sharpened. Investment is at record levels and after years of managing decline, the industry is having to deal with unprecedented growth in demand for rail travel. The Government are giving high priority to providing additional capacity, through the provision of additional carriages and new infrastructure.
The hon. Gentleman referred to the £8.8 billion that has been going into the west coast route modernisation project, which is now drawing to a close. The project has renewed and upgraded the key main rail line and it links some of the key population areas of the country. It must accommodate not only many long-distance passenger trains, but numerous local and regional passenger services. The west coast main line also handles 40 per cent. of the nations rail freight. The work of rebuilding has taken place on a live railway, but it has been and is a success story. It has been a team project in that it brought together Network Rail, the train operators and those who carried out the work.
The £8.8 billion of public money was to provide a railway that is safe, allows trains to operate reliably and has headroom for growth in both passenger and freight traffic. Capacity is being provided for 80 per cent. more long-distance passenger trains and a 60 per cent. increase in freight traffic. Those are the parameters for meeting the demand for services. One important feature of west coast route modernisation is to secure the best return for taxpayers on the investment; another is to ensure that rail contributes the maximum possible to the overall transport network of the country. The issue is rightly about getting passengers to use rail in preference to other modes of transport, and experience to date indicates that that is being achieved.
However, difficult choices have to be made and they include allocating resources where they can deliver the best possible service. It should also be noted that the Government have required the drafting in of 19 additional tilting 125-mph diesel Voyager trains, the use of five new trans-Pennine diesel trains and the delivery of 30 additional 100-mph electric trains, on top of the new
11 Nov 2008 : Column 749 Pendolino fleet. Much of the new timetable planned for December 2008 is focused on the optimal use of those resources, the efficient deployment of which is vital to deliver additional seats for the rapid growth in train use. The longer-distance services will be able to run much faster, and much effort is going into ensuring that the weekend services will, at long last, be similar to those of weekdays.
Passenger transport on the west coast main line continues to grow, and has done since the introduction of the revised timetables in September 2004. Overall, there has been an increase well exceeding 50 per cent. and in some cases the growth has been almost 80 per cent. Our predictions are that that will treble over the next period to 2012, with the route generating more than £1 billion in annual revenue. Additional business has been generated at many stations along the west coast route, including Lockerbie. However, it is not a station where business is likely to grow significantly when compared to the other locations on the line.
Let me pick up on some of the points that the hon. Gentleman made about the number of services. There are currently 15 northbound and 11 southbound services across the day, which are provided by Virgin West Coast and First TransPennine Express. Of the southbound trains, two are for London, four for Birmingham and four for Manchester Airport, with a First Scotrail service terminating at Carlisle. Typical journey times outside the peak are more than four hours to London, more than three hours to Birmingham and two and three quarter hours to Manchester Airport. Northbound services are split evenly between Glasgow and Edinburgh and travel times are between one hour and one hour and 15 minutes.
The new timetables that are being introduced next month take advantage of completion of the west coast route modernisation project. They are also designed around the constraints governing rolling stock availability and getting the most out of the new infrastructure. In particular, the services will, for the first time, start to become competitive with air travel services for London and Birmingham to Glasgow and Birmingham to Edinburgh. Compared with pre-upgrade services, Anglo-Scottish journey times will be reduced by some 80 minutes.
According to the December 2008 timetable, Lockerbie will be served on a broadly two-hourly pattern, with nine northbound and 10 southbound trainsone of the requirements for Lockerbie put forward by Scottish Ministers in terms of their aspirations for a broadly two-hourly pattern of services at off-peak times. That is an improvement on the pre-project situation in 2003-04, when nine northbound and seven southbound trains were offered. The London train will be re-timed to call early in the morning with two return evening services, allowing business travellers to make a day trip.
The hon. Gentleman referred to arrivals at Glasgow and Edinburgh before 9 oclock. First TransPennine Express had intended that the 06.58 departure from Carlisle would stop at Lockerbie at 07.17 and reach Edinburgh by 08.32. However, following the discovery that the service could not be accommodated at Edinburgh Waverley station, resources had to be redirected to form the 06.03 Manchester to Edinburgh train, which calls at Lockerbie at 08.15 and arrives in Edinburgh at 09.17.
Mr. Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway) (Lab): I congratulate the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) on securing this debate. My hon. Friend the Minister talks about the difficulties in readjusting timetables. Heading north, the station before Lockerbie is Carlisle. The change in the timetable next month creates difficulties whereby people getting off at Carlisle to change trains to head into south-west Scotland on the Glasgow and south-west line will miss trains by two minutes or have to wait more than 40 minutes for a connection. This has been badly judged by Virgin Trains. People travelling north to Stranraer, at the furthest point in my constituency, will more often than not miss a five-minute change and be left stranded in Carlisle. Paul Clark: I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I know that he campaigns hard on behalf of his constituents. I say, as I said to the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, that this is about managing the timetable to get the best possible fit for connections and for the delivery of fast services, which is one of the things that is highlighted by the travelling public in virtually every survey and consultation that we undertake on reliability, punctuality and the speeds between fixed points.
We believe that the new timetable will settle down fairly quickly. It was developed based on extensive consultation with many of the key stakeholders in the areas that the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries and Galloway (Mr. Brown) represent, and many others. Journey times will be considerably quicker, with the fastest journey time taking three hours and 24 minutes, compared with well over four hours at the moment. That represents a fall of more than 40 minutes.
I am aware that there is local disappointment about the services on offer, but the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale referred to the services to Manchester and Manchester airport as being a success and well en route to meeting some of the requirements of his good constituents in Lockerbie. There has been a genuine consultation and discussion about how best to utilise the vast investment that has gone into the west coast main line in order to meet the requirements of high-speed services and the requirements of a significant number of communities that are on that line. As the hon. Gentleman rightly said, a number of those trains still go through Lockerbie, but they are fast services and have been able to reduce some of the journey times by more than 40 minutes only because they are not stopping. It has been necessary to balance those requirements.
In conclusion, I recognise the need to balance the demands of reliability, punctuality and speed. The hon. Gentlemans comments will have been taken on board. We will watch the implementation of the new timetable closely. I believe that it will settle down, but there are always options open for discussion at other times.
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As our kids begin their second consecutive pandemic-impacted school year, the Delta Variant is threatening the chances of a “normal” school experience, parenting can feel more stressful than ever.
With all this uncertainty, it’s important that we continue to foster meaningful conversations with our kids to help them feel secure, grounded and connected, despite feelings of fear, anxiety and confusion. One topic families may be reluctant to discuss? Money. According to a recent survey by T. Rowe Price, 69% of parents are reluctant to talk with their kids about money, and only 23% of kids reported talking with their parents about money on a regular basis. It may seem like a strange time to talk about money with everything happening in the world, but this conversation can be an important part of daily interactions with your child to help build a strong foundation during times of uncertainty.
Demystifying money, by making it a regular topic of discussion, is crucial to helping your kids develop smart money habits later in life. And its not just talking about money, but giving kids exposure to money decisions: what to buy, what not to buy and how to make those tradeoffs is an important muscle for them to start flexing while still at home. Without a solid financial foundation, based on conversations and experience, kids will be unprepared to function as successful economic actors when they leave the nest.
The first step for empowering kids to be smarter spenders is collaboration. Encourage your kids to ask questions by including them in spending decisions. Shopping, whether for back to school supplies or for a hobby, is a great opportunity to give your kids a budget and allow them to buy items that will directly impact their daily experience.
The next step: Make a plan around spending. Sit down with your kids and break down their expenses into different buckets: wants vs. needs, fixed vs. variable expenses. This is a great way to help kids visualize money and gain a firmer understanding of their financial situations. After making a plan, the final steps are to set goals and prioritize. Ask your kids what short and long term purchases they want to make and use the plan from earlier to evaluate how close they are to achieving their spending and saving goals. For example, do your kids want to save up for a new gaming console? If so, they might want to take fewer trips to the ice cream shop.
While these steps are a great way to get kids thinking about smart money habits, tools like Till give kids hands-on spending experience by putting the power in their hands. Till is an app and debit card combo designed to encourage collaboration between parents and kids. Unlike other apps that focus on saving or investing, Till’s #1 priority is teaching kids to be smarter spenders. The reality is that we are living in a spending economy, and without developing the ability to spend effectively, kids will have a very difficult transition once they leave the nest.
On average, each kid in the US influences family purchases of $6,000 a year. That equates to a lot of opportunities to teach them about how to spend wisely. Imagine if instead of putting some of those expenses on a credit card auto-pay, you use the opportunity to talk with your kid on a monthly basis about if it’s a worthwhile expense, and better yet, give them the exposure and the opportunity to pay the bill themselves (even if you subsidize it). Paying bills is a very real part of life that kids should have exposure to before they’re out on their own and potentially caught off guard.
We all want our kids to grow up to be strong, educated financial actors. Taking the time to teach your kids smart money habits will benefit them for the rest of their lives. No one knows what this next year will bring, but one thing you can control is planting the seeds for your kids’ long-term financial success. | 3,975 | 1,900 | 2.092105 |
warc | 202143 | THE FULL SECRET TO “STICKING TO YOUR GOALS”
Sticking to your goals can be a big deal, especially in trying times like this. A lot of bad things are happening in the world presently. A lot of countries are in deep chaos. Families are grieving over the unexpected and painful loss of their loved ones. Businesses are trying to recover their capital and a few other assets that have been lost to the happening crisis.
Everyone is trying to offset one liability or the other; financial, emotional, and material.
One way or the other, we all seem broken or affected by the struggles and troubles humanity happens to be passing through at the moment.
I can go on and on talking about loss, pain, liability, troubles, struggles, chaos, crisis and many other negativities that we might be struggling with as individuals. But the truth somehow is that we are lost in these things. We are lost in the flood of emotions resulting from the pain we have incurred in this while, that reaching our goals is now a stretched fairytale. You wonder if indeed there is a secret you can borrow to help you stick to your goals no matter what.
Most importantly now that the thought of chasing or sticking to a goal is far impossible. The earth seems to have taken a different shift and your goals have been thrown to the back seat by forces bigger than you. Or so you think.
This sounds more practical to virtually everyone than fictional. You might be feeling it is totally unfair to still be talking about sticking to goals with the way things are at the moment. Or you might decide to sacrifice your goal until another season so that you can fully pay attention to the situation at hand… sounds logical but what sense does it make to pause your life to deal with something that is already seemingly bigger than you and life.
Something overwhelming that you can’t possibly tackle, all by yourself. Is laying down your goals worth the sacrifice? Is it really unfair that you choose to move on with your life despite what is happening?
There are so many questions I will like to ask you to help you think through because I am not just trying to expose a secret to you, but a mindset that can trap your progress and hinder you from pursuing that life goal that will change your life. Well, we have to admit that it is not only the bad stuff that can distract us from sticking to our goals. Some persons get more distracted when all things seem smooth, clean and rosy. Maybe even perfect. Then, unconsciously you begin to ask yourself if putting that step forward is necessary. Being extremely comfortable can actually cause you to take a rethink on your goals or even choose to slip by it. It is just like you were journeying to a green land on foot and half the way, you find yourself in a place with green grasses or beautiful flowers. At that point, the closest thought is that of relishing the place, having a little fun, taking some break, or a final stop.
A more practical example is when you win an award, a prize, or international recognition in the process of climbing the ladder of your
career success. Mini achievements can also contribute to slowing you down on your journey of progress and the pursuit of your goal. Indeed, having small wins is very encouraging, a good incentive to keep moving towards the bigger one. But you will have to decide that for yourself. You will have to decide to take it as an incentive and not the end. Small wins and achievements have the ability to make you feel relaxed and unduly uncomfortable. I used the phrase unduly comfortable here because, as much as comfortability is good, you need a little pressure or discomfort to move forward. The achievements can come as a cold water of refreshment after long periods of intense labor. It should be treated as such. It is a total error to sit down after taking a refreshment and refuse to take any further move.
A bigger error is to fold your hands below your chest and say, there will always be a next time or try to slow down yourself. Part achievement of your goals can also be a stopper. You get lost when you are thrilled in the moment or extremely delighted.
Well, before you celebrate that you are not in the category of people who are in any of the above positions. You also need to confirm that you are not one of the cold-shouldered types. I am talking about the category of people that get cold all of a sudden, probably got bored in the pursuit of goals, or just lost the vibes to continue chasing your goals. Don’t feel sad if you are in this category. This is something that is bound to happen, to just anyone. Especially if you don’t watch it. It is possible to lose the passion backing the pursuit of your goal. Like, you just lose it. No bad thing occurred, no good thing occurred, but you are not just tuned in. This can be the most frustrating of all situations. Let us assume for illustration sake that Mr. A intended to finish twenty books before the end of the year. He read ten books from January to July and lost interest all of a sudden. He doesn’t feel like reading anymore no matter how much he pushes himself. He picks up his books and drops them the next minute for no particular reason than lack of interest. Obviously, he is now confused and worried as to what could have led him into such passionless pit and how to move away from it. We have so many people like Mr. A today, you might even be one. Successfully, we have been able to identify THREE scenarios that can make you stop striving for your goals. First is, negative/tragic occurrences. Second is extremely positive/ mini achievements. The third is lack of passion. None is easier to deal with than the other, but below are a few tips in relation to each scenario to help you get back on track.
The Secret To Sticking To Your Goals No Matter What
1. Educate your mind:
this is a key point for all three scenarios. Many times our minds tend to give up before we actually do. Before we get overwhelmed or burdened or passionless, our minds first gave in the ball.
A great man once said, winning or losing starts from the mind. If you can educate your mind to be a fighter through whatever season, it will take extra pressure before any situation pauses your strive. Teach your mind to continually pursue and get stayed on one thing.
2. Obsess yourself with your goals:
if you can make a paper note of your goals and paste them in a very visible place, a place where you are sure to pass and take a glance or two more often, that will be magical. Or if it is possible you make a soft note on your desktop or mobile phone and place it on your screensaver, you will surely be serving the same purpose. What is important is that you are in a position where you are constantly reminded of your goals and the why. The more you see it, the more your head gets occupied with thoughts of achieving it, the more passion your spirit feels, the more you strive.
3. Get an accountability partner:
this has been a secret for ages that many persons ignore. Having someone who is informed on what you are pursuing, why or how, can get you to sit up in many ways than you can imagine. You need someone who can share progress reports with you, push you when you are falling cold, motivate you when you are down, and add just the right pressure to your pursuit.
4. Add pressure:
I bet you can see how the lines are joining, seems interesting to me. Now, what do I mean by add pressure? Being too comfortable, as we have said can hinder your progress. You need an amount of pressure to be able to run well. to get this pressure, you might need to engage in challenges. Using our previous example of Mr. A, if he could join himself to a book challenge somewhere, he is sure to reach his goal. Almost sure. adding more pressure is one secret To Sticking To Your Goals…
5. Get a team:
wondering what is the need of a team when you have an accountability partner? You need to know that an accountability partner could be just anybody you trust and resonate well with, he/she serves a totally different purpose from a team.
A team must be based on the area of your goal. If you have the goal to become a
badass writer, you should join a team of writers, whether they are intimate or distant. They kind of render you some sort of challenge and encouragement when you see people pursuing what you are pursuing. 6. Work on your emotions:
steadiness is an emotional state most great people occupy. You have to be in charge of your emotions no matter what is happening. You can start training yourself right away. You don’t have to wait until something happens. Get a grip on your emotions such that coldness, negatives or achievement won’t distract you off the goal track.
Train yourself to accept what you cannot change and move on Striving to achieve a goal is like being on a track and racing towards an end or an obvious prize. You can’t just lose focus. You need all the strength you can get to arrive at the right timing. Distraction, discouragement, relaxation is in no way allowed. You have to keep pushing until you are at the very end. With the above tips I have provided you, I am very sure that you will have a beautiful and near perfect push to the end. Ps: it is already the end of the year. You might want to start working on the tips listed above before you set your goal for next year. It is not enough to set the goal, you need to have what it takes to chase it no matter what. ALSO, READ 22 ways on how to build self-belief
How To Speak With Confidence (Experts Advice)
As a person, regardless of your family background or career path, you must know how to speak with confidence. This is how you express yourself to others around you.
To survive in today’s world you must learn to sell yourself. You should be able to tell others your value and how you bring it to the table and why you must be given a chance.
Being a confident communicator is not something you can compromise whether you are in the corporate world or in the entrepreneurship line. You may be doing something really amazing but if you can’t confidently tell me what you do, then people are likely not to buy your idea.
Leaving career aside, let’s talk about family. If you are not a confident communicator, how do you talk to your family members? How do you table your quarries? Just how efficient will your communication be without confidence?
When you speak with confidence, people tend to listen and accept your opinions better than when you are fidgeting when talking. When you show signs of anxiety when speaking, it shows a lack of confidence.
So, if you don’t act like you have faith in what you are doing, why should I? If you don’t believe in yourself how do I?
It is important to note that no one was born an efficient communicator. Even those who show some level of it as innate abilities, still have to improve and develop on it. This means knowing how to speak confidently can be learned or developed.
There is never a downside to confidence. It makes people want to listen to you, it also speaks brilliancy. If you truly desire to be better at your career or even social life, speaking with confidence is a must-have. And yes! You can learn it and begin to build on it.
To begin this journey of
self-development, you must overcome some obstacles called FEARS. When you overcome them, your communication becomes more effective and healthy.
Don’t allow the lack of confidence to steal the limelight from you, you are valued and you definitely have something to say.
These tools and tips that you need to develop this skill in here in this article so read and be ready to take action.
How can I talk confidently? (10 Sure Ways) 1. Always Prepare Beforehand
The very first thing you should do is to be prepared. You should intentionally sit down, and do research on the subject topic. And generally, you should take time to learn a bit of everything.
So that whenever a topic is raised in any important or casual conversation or meeting you could confidently say a word or two.
When you are somewhere and totally clueless or don’t have something to contribute, your confidence is shaken and this puts you on an edge. Then anxiety comes in probably because you know you may indulge or ask yourself a question personally to say something. And there, is where the problem lies.
It’s always safe to know a little about a lot than knowing a lot about a little. So you at least know something about most topics you will come across. However, when going for a speech. Prepare well. Do a lot of research and get a deep understanding of that topic.
2. Try To Imagine It Ahead Of Time
After doing your research, the next step is to visualize it. Imagine yourself talking confidently with zero anxiety. See yourself doing it and that will form a type of self-motivation. Have winner and an overcomer’s mindset.
As mentioned earlier, you must overcome your fears and share your value with the world. Imagine yourself doing that perfect presentation, see yourself giving that top-notch speech. If you can see yourself do it, regardless of what any other person says, you will pull through.
3. Let Your Posture Speak Confidence
Now, you must let your audience know that you are confident using your body language. Your body posture, your walking step, even your smile must ooze confidence.
When walking ensure you stand tall and don’t cower, make sure your shoulders are straight beck don’t be caught slouching. Keep your head held up high and eyes up maintaining eye contact. When sitting, let your posture scream these three things
ENGAGED, FOCUSED, and AUTHORITY.
Knowing these things is easier said than done. it makes end up being difficult. Even so, pretend like you own the moment. Because it only what you let on that people will know. So give them a good show.
4. Don’t Be In A Rush
Don’t forget that you own that moment so rule it. Don’t rush your sentences no matter much anxiety you feel. Rather, take a deep breath and take it slow.
Talking too fast in a speech is actually a really common
sign of nervousness. And you do not want your audience to know you are nervous so at that moment what you need to do is take a deep breath.
Next is to take control of the situation before it goes out of control. Do this by just imagining you are talking to someone you are really comfortable with. If you are with a larger audience, then assume you are just speaking with your friends and start speaking with less urgency.
That way you are able to think of what you are about to say and align it properly. Practice speaking in a
‘not rushed manner often in your comfortable space. 5. Don’t Divert From Current Topics
During your speech, you may want to give examples using scenarios and at that point, there is a tendency to divert. Try to focus on the topic at hand and don’t go too deep into explaining examples.
When you do this, not only does it speak confidence; it also speaks intelligence. It shows you have full control of your speech. Also, don’t be too focused on what to say next, instead digress on the current point very well. This will ensure a smooth transition.
6. Use Silence Between Sentences Wisely
This doesn’t involve you saying something and keeping quiet for a long time it will only get your audience disconnected. Actually, what this involves is you saying a key point and letting the audience process it for seconds.
On many occasions, you may have said all you have to say at that point and your audience was supposed to respond yet you got none.
And it leads to a very awkward silence; leave it be. Don’t try to fill the silence with nervous chatters.
Standing on what you have said and not trying to fill in meaningless chatter shows you are confident about the subject matter and that earns you respect.
7. Have Breath Control.
Control your breath during conversations slow and steadily. Try to maintain the same tone from start to finish and let your speech hold a steady and confident pace.
It is an unwritten rule that the person who is confident will speak in the same tone in a gentle way. If possible, do a breathing exercise before your speech.
And when you find yourself speaking too fast or losing control of your tone during a speech, pause, take 2-3 deep breaths before you continue. Do this stylishly in such a way that your audience will not know what you are doing.
ALSO, READ How to stop being shy ( 8 sure ways) 8. Talk In Low Volume And Project Your Voice.
When you are talking, try not to talk loudly but project your voice so your audience can hear you. Talking loudly affects the quality of your voice making it look like you are shouting.
It also makes you get tired easily during conversation or speech that requires a long time of talking like two hours and above. Aside from that, talking loudly shows a sign of disrespect towards your audience especially the elderly, and no one really wants to listen to a voice like that.
So, regardless of how valuable the information you are trying to pass is, no one will listen if you are screaming.
9. Speak Clearly
When talking, let your speech be clear. Don’t fidget when presenting your idea because that just shows a lack of confidence.
Try not to use words like uhmm, erhhh, and other sloppy words. When you speak in public, ask someone to record your speech this is to do a self-evaluation.
The best way to discipline yourself is to know which soppy words or phrases you repeat and try to avoid them by practicing in private
10. Smile While Speaking
Being warm to people is a hack that can never go wrong. Smiling to a crowd or audience before you speak is a good way to grab their attention.
It’s very welcoming. Speaking with a smile on your face helps maintain a warm ambiance. It really shows a lot of courage if you are saying something serious with a smile.
A shy smile is not what we are talking about here but the type that captures every stare that comes its way. Smiling while talking can also help the quality of your voice with a touch of friendliness and composure. You know it’s not actually about what you say but how you say it.
Wrapping Up
In conclusion, learning to talk confidently takes Practice. It is the one thing that can aid your improvement over time.
Even when you know these skills in communication if you don’t apply them consistently you may not get the desired result. So you have to regularly practice these things to imbibe them.
As you practice, make time for self-evaluation. As you do this over time you become more confident. Also, practice without a timetable. Practice at every opportunity you get and you will become a better and more efficient communicator.
How To Be a Gentleman: 99 Things That Make You A Gentle man
When it comes to how to be a gentleman it has absolutely nothing to do with suits, ties, polished and etc… oftentimes when some of us hear “gentleman” those are what comes to our minds but it goes way beyond all that.
It’s not in any way attached to appearance as a definition. Although, appearance is major of a factor in being gentlemanly. It has everything to do with who you are your charisma, attitude, and more of how you carry yourself.
So now let’s examine some of the things that make a gentleman based on research
Define who you are. Gentlemen know themselves, they do not have identity confusion and they always project their identity to anyone they meet. Maintain proper hygiene. Be mature in dealings. Grow up. Gentlemen don’t sulk or throw tantrums. Mind your language. Never be caught using the f-word or swearing. Always network with people. Be more open to sensible conversation and connect well with people. Know a bit of a lot so that you can contribute to most conversations.
Find your passion and pursue it. Know what you want in all scenarios or situations. Keep to time. Learn to be punctual. Keep your word. A gentleman is a man of his word. When you promise something or someone, fulfill it. Hold the door open. This is one of the most common traits of a gentleman. Don’t owe favors. Always return it!. Keep your space neat. Clean up after yourself. Never kiss and tell. It ruins your image in front of others. Tell a good story without hiccups. You should look like a natural to those listening.
Learn to give an exceptional toast. Be you. Be able to distinguish between confidence, boldness, and arrogance. Be open-minded but still maintain your morals and beliefs. Don’t judge. Know how to make a good meal. Remove greed from your dealings. Fight it. In most cases that require payment and you are with 2 or more persons, offer to pay.
Know when to keep quiet or talk. Know the right time to clap and the right amount of claps. Offer to help your guest with their luggage. Learn to dance at least one classical. Filter your social media and remove irrelevant and childish information from before. ALSO, READ HOW TO KEEP A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Always let your partner knows you care. Be sure to tell her daily. Before proposing to your partner, seek her family’s blessings. before helping a lady with her coat, ask for her permission first. learn and exhibit table manners. Be diligent and pay attention to details. Being a gentleman is also a matter of character so you must respect your elders.
Chivalry should be your focus. Maintain a positive attitude. Always make reservations for the restaurant if you eating out with a friend. Guard your reputation and name In a society very jealously. Be mindful of your choice of words in any form of communication. Walk confidently with a bold demure. Strive to be better daily by learning, observing, and studying but avoid idolizing
When having a conversation, maintain eye contact but don’t not stare. Always be willing to offer help to those who need it. Learn humor. Mind your liquor and know your gauge. Be mindful of what you listen to. Since most times we tend to reproduce what we hear Keep good company Quickly admit when you are wrong and apologies. Apologizing doesn’t make you weak. It’s actually a strength Learn to say the magic words “please” ”excuse me” ”sorry ”” thank you” “pardon me” Wish the success of others Don’t pick unnecessary fights Learn to do things for others without expecting anything in return Be flexible and open to change Take alone times Easily forgive others. To err is human and to forgive is divine Make breakfast in bed oftentimes Don’t ever send more than two texts in a row to some person Don’t call more than twice in a row. Instead, just leave a message Never pick your nose in public Always smell nice, use a deodorant Make your handshakes firm Don’t pretend inability. If you can’t do something, don’t say you can Don’t wear dusty shoes. Always clean your shoes. When going on a date be very polite Be quick to offer your jacket if a lady looks cold Be a good guy even behind the scenes Always show up at an event like birthdays, weddings, baby showers, etc. with a gift Share your ideas with those around you except for a good reason Don’t wear wrinkled or rumpled shirts Be gracious Be humble Offer your seat to ladies especially the pregnant In every aspect of your life strive for excellence When intending to go for an event, if you can make it let them know beforehand. Lead by example Have high standards and values Always keep your and don’t pick on little issues Be authentic and genuine Respect peoples space Don’t be polygamous in a relationship. Keep to one lady at a time Don’t intentionally hurt people’s feelings Encourage people especially your partner to pursue their goals and dreams in life Be a good listener No one or two sports and be good at them When going out on a date, put everything into thought Encourage people to be better Send flowers and chocolates to your significant other often Pull out the chair for a lady Compliment your lady when she is looking nice Stand when a lady approaches or is about to leave a table Always keep your room tidy Take responsibilities Learn to prioritize things and keep the ones important to you Be reliable Always look sharp Check up on a friend after they leave your place to ensure they got home safe Embrace loyalty Open the cab door for people regardless of their gender Wrapping Up
Interesting ways to deal with DUI depression in 2021
Driving Under the Influence (DUI) refers to driving while under alcohol or any other substance. DUI is also known as DWI in several areas in the United States. Driving is unlawful in most states in America if your blood alcohol content (BAC) exceeds the 0.08 percent threshold, and your BAC is usually measured by a blood or urine test. Driving while intoxicated is considered misbehavior a violation of the law, while repeat offenders may face criminal charges.
Depression is one of the unexpected and rarely acknowledged consequences of a DUI. Many people, especially those who have had their first DUI, express symptoms of depression following the arrest, such as intense grief followed by rage and melancholy again. These folks wonder how to deal with DUI depression. Instead of therapy and, mental health treatment through
full-spectrum CBD, they frequently waste a lot of time wallowing in their folly and feeling like losers, and this depression and grief may last from a few weeks to a year. As a result of this, self-esteem is severely affected, and people begin to despise themselves. Aside from mental health issues and despair, it has a significant negative impact on their financial, social, and professional lives. First Time DUI Charges :
According to statistics, most DUI accusations are filed by first-time offenders who have never been in problems with the law before. For the first time in their lives, they will be punished. Without adequate treatment and therapy, this depression can turn into suicide: often these are the people who think they have lost their self-respect and reputation. They are ashamed of their detention and unable to cope with family and friend’s pressure and only see one way to get out of this situation by killing themselves. Most first-time offenders see the consequences of a DUI on their mental and emotional health almost immediately.
Understanding how to deal with DUI depression for first-time offenders is essential as they are more prone to panic attacks. They face colossal family, social, and employment challenges ranging from having a suitable job to providing a home for their family.
DUI Instantaneous Consequence:
He will be sentenced to prison shortly after being arrested on DUI charges and his driving license will be canceled as well. He will employ a lawyer to help him prepare for the court hearings over the coming two weeks. His DUI counselor will attempt to finish the necessary paperwork for his client’s release. A competent attorney will quickly get his client out of jail while an inexperienced one will make the problem worse.
Then there are those who, after being arrested for DUI, instantly go into denial and refuse to recognize the allegations, as if everything would magically disappear. Consequently, they will be unprepared for the DUI hearing and will be unable to defend themselves in court due to a lack of adequate paperwork and study. This is certainly a failed strategy and there are more chances of severe penalties.
Apart from the immediate outcomes of arrest, a DUI charged individual face several short and long-term impacts. He has to deal with enormous pressure from society, family, and friends, ranging from unemployment to poor self-esteem to mental health problems. In situations like these, one must hold himself and hope for the better. Therefore it is critical to understand how to deal with DUI depression. Full-spectrum CBD products are one of the solutions for reducing depression, as many specialists feel that CBD provides better anxiety assistance. Everyone passes through difficult periods throughout their lives, but there is always hope at the end of the tunnel.
Dui emotional stress :
Emotional stress and severe mental disease are two of the most serious consequences of DUI accusations. Many first-time offenders experience a year-long phase of sorrow and melancholy. In most cases, People’s failure to grasp how to deal with DUI depression is one of the primary causes of sadness. DUI-charged individuals are sometimes being bullied among their social circle. Resultantly they even try to kill themselves to ease the agony of being bullied.
This seriously affects an individual’s self-esteem and he starts hating himself. These difficulties may drive an individual to withdraw from friends and family and he begins to shun social situations. It might be tough to move on after being subjected to public scrutiny or criticism. Therefore, one must seek help from the therapist or any psychologist to cope with the situation.
Dealing With Financial Stress : Family Issues and Unemployment Problems :
Another disastrous outcome of DUI charges includes housing and unemployment problems. DUI charged individual may lose his job as a result of taking too many days off to prepare for their hearings, or he may be fired for illegal conduct as a result of the DUI accusation. Those who are permitted to keep their employment may be ostracized by their coworkers, making team tasks impossible to execute. Many people are turned over for promotions, which limits their earning potential. This results in severe family issues and anxiety problems. A DUI conviction might exclude someone from leadership roles in voluntary and community groups outside of work. Others may no longer see the person as a role model, and friends and neighbors may cease to visit. Other people may even forbid their children from socializing with the children of the DUI offender at school or in extracurricular activities. Therefore, understanding how to deal with DUI depression is critical for these DUI convicts since they are more susceptible to panic attacks.
ALSO, READ HOW TO CULTIVATE A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE Basic Freedom Right :
Unfortunately, public transit is neither as efficient nor as handy as owning a car. Having your driver’s license suspended is a problem that affects your freedom of movement. It might start to drag you down if you don’t feel like you have the flexibility to go to work or do ordinary errands on your own. A DUI conviction may hurt your mental health since it might make a person feel trapped in a situation he can’t get out of
. Best way to deal with a DUI :
The best approach to deal with DUI charges is to look at it as a chance, especially for the first time. You must consider it a red flag and a wake-up call, warning you about the implications of your choices. As a result, you’ll be more cautious about your activities in the future. Furthermore, this may reveal an alcohol issue you previously refused to acknowledge. It gives you the option to undo all of your prior wrongdoings and start again.
Counseling may be one of the best options as it aids the individuals in the development of coping skills, and helps them to better deal with the psychological effects of a DUI conviction. It helps you in developing a coping mechanism to deal with anxiety and depression.
Moving on from DUI / Conclusion :
Although there are severe impacts of DUI, yet there are methods to cope with its impacts. Here are some suggestions on how to deal with DUI depression :
First and foremost, it’s vital not to beat yourself up and criticize yourself over a DUI arrest. While it may seem like you’ll be suffering from a DUI for the rest of your life, you’ll ultimately get over it. The court may order that you complete a drug and alcohol education program and undergo an alcohol examination. It also includes advice on how to avoid driving while intoxicated as well as a review of your drinking habits. Take these lessons carefully so you don’t make the same mistake again and learn how to deal with DUI depression. Don’t drive your support system away and let your friends and family assist you. Seek professional help from therapists; he may suggest full-spectrum CBD products for mental well-being. Concentrate on your physical well-being; exercise and a healthy diet can help you battle depression. Keep yourself informed and do your homework. Gaining a better knowledge of your DUI charges is key to understand how to deal with DUI depression.
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warc | 202143 | The Dangers of Vaping – What You Should Know About the Effects of E-Cigarettes
There is a lot still unknown concerning the dangers of vaporizing but some tips about what we do know: Vaporizing liquid often contains dangerous nicotine. Whether you inhale tobacco smoke from a regular cigar or an electronic cigarette, the addictive substance is very addictive. Although youth rates of smoking were declining, more young people are receiving hooked to nicotine because of vaporizing. They may feel a buzz like they would from a drag, but it’s not like you’re going Puff Bar for a hit of cocaine. Nicotine is also highly addictive.
Teenagers prefer to mimic things they see their parents and friends doing. Sometimes this consists of using cigarettes and vaporizing them. It seems as though it’s OK to verify the products but in reality it’s very dangerous. Smoking has many dangers and something of them is being carcinogenic. It could cause cancer and other health problems once you overindulge.
Another one of the dangers of vapes is lung injury. The tar and toxic chemicals that are in cigarettes make their lungs and throat sore after a few times. But if you use an electric device, you put yourself at an increased risk for getting lung injury from the tar and toxic chemicals. When you breathe in those fumes, you will definitely get lung damage. You will possibly not feel sick right away nonetheless it will eventually come. And you won’t be able to quit because nicotine can be an addictive drug.
Nicotine can be linked to poor brain development in children. Young adults who smoked weed during their teens were more likely to have poor test scores and less college success than those who never smoked. This has been proven by the Surgeon General. He has also stated that teenagers who smoke are more likely to have drug abuse problems as adults. The dangers of nicotine are extremely harmful to young adults.
There are other dangers of E-Cigarettes, but none of them are as scary because the ones listed so far. But even if they do scare some people, there are still tons of benefits from E-Cigarette smoking. Electronic cigarettes offer a totally different sort of experience from smoking a traditional cigarette. Many smokers concur that they just don’t taste as effective as utilizing an electronic cigarette.
The only real true threat of E-Cigarettes is linked to the chemicals and toxins that are in the liquid. Nicotine liquid contains more tar and chemical than any other type of liquid out there. So, if you’re attempting to quit smoking cigarettes, you should definitely consider switching to the smokes. Electric cigarettes contain vitamin E along with other healthy vitamins. But if you’re not careful, it is simple to overdose on vitamins along with other substances within the Cigarettes. The bad news is that it’s an easy task to do.
The dangers of vaping aren’t completely dependent on the liquid, however the addiction is still there. It’s a vicious cycle when you put off quitting cigarettes because you want to continue steadily to use e Cigarettes. But once you finally do decide to quit, you have to cope with the outward symptoms of withdrawal that go with it. You have cravings, anxiety, headaches, dizziness, irritability, and several other common symptoms of withdrawal from cigarettes. And everybody knows these things are no fun.
Therefore the important thing is this: the dangers of E-Cigarette smoking is more health threats than the health advantages. Smoking tobacco doesn’t seem so bad compared to using e-Cigarettes. We all know that there are many health risks associated with tobacco, but E-Cigarettes are simply much less dangerous as tobacco. And we all know there are some incredible health risks associated with tobacco too. So why can you want to use a thing that is just as harmful to your system as tobacco? We think the answer is obvious you mustn’t. | 3,980 | 1,803 | 2.207432 |
warc | 202143 | Rockies Venture Club
December 11th, 2018 | 4:00-8:00 PM
Available via Livestream
Event Schedule:
4:00 - 4:30pm -- Cocktail Reception and Networking. Wine/Beer/Soft Drinks and hot appetizers.
4:30 – 4:45pm -- Program Kick-off
4:45 - 5:30pm -- Keynote Presentation
5:35- 6:15pm -- 4 Pitches from Impact Companies:
6:20 - 7:15pm -- Impact Investing Panel
Impact Investing is becoming a trillion dollar market and yet there seems to be a significant disagreement about exactly what Impact Investing really is. Like the fable of the five blind men who all described an elephant differently based on what part they were touching, we all tend to describe the part of Impact that we ourselves are touching. That can lead to confusion and disenchantment with this important space.
RVC’s Sixth Annual Impact Investing event digs deep into describing the Impact Investing Landscape and demystifies the differences between concessionary and non-concessionary strategies, between primary and secondary impact, public and private impact investments, Sustainable Development Goals, gender, geography, race, sectors and how we measure impact when there are so many different ideas of what it is.
This event includes a keynote presentation on the Impact Investing Landscape, a panel with experts from different areas of Impact Investing describing their perspectives, and a number of great Impact companies pitching live for venture capital to investors in the audience. The Conference is open to the public and there will be plenty of time for networking to get to know the who’s-who of Impact Investing.
Impact Panel:
Impact Investing as a sector has been booming over the past decade. $35.5B was invested in impact deals during 2017 with this number expected to increase by up to 8% by the end 2018 (according to the Global Impact Investing Network). Our panelists will discuss the different areas of Impact Investing and their perspectives as the industry continues to grow.
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warc | 202143 | Courtesy Way Finder
Way Finders enforced the COVID-19 pandemic to complete its new headquarters and residential center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The 32,000-square-foot building houses the company’s many services, including homeless prevention, home buyer education, and rental assistance. Way Finders, the largest nonprofit provider of affordable housing in western Massachusetts, also develops affordable housing and manages over 5,000 housing units in Section 8.
In 2019, more than 19,500 services were provided, affecting more than 52,000 men, women and children.
“We call it the Housing Center because anyone who comes through the front door of Way Finders will offer services, whether it be information and recommendations, help finding an apartment or guidance on one of our programs,” says Laureen Borgatti. COO. “We’ll help people when they walk through the door.”
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Way Finders had outgrown its previous space, so with the new Housing Center the company can better support its customers by providing access to computers and nine new barrier-free meeting rooms.
“We offer so many different services that we need a building in which we can provide these different services to the community.”
The organization finished construction on the building when COVID-19 hit and then moved to the Housing Center during the pandemic. Way Finders had seen customers by appointment but was able to open the doors for regular business hours last week.
Funding for the $ 16.8 million center included a $ 4.2 million investment in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), of which $ 2.43 million was funded by Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp. (MHIC), $ 1.44 million from Vermont Rural Ventures and $ 312,000 from Capital One.
“The project needed new markets in order to be realized,” says Borgatti. “It was really important to the project and where we started.”
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Managed by the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, the NMTC program helps economically disadvantaged communities attract capital by providing investors with a federal tax credit. Over the years the NMTC has supported a number of businesses including manufacturing, retail, technology, and housing. In the most recent round of NMTC allocations, more than $ 3.5 billion was awarded to 76 community development agencies.
“Way Finders’ new Housing Center enables them to meet the diverse needs of their customers. It offers meeting rooms for advice, support, training and referral under one roof, enhancing their ability to address the root causes of poverty in Springfield,” says he Kathy McGilvray, Director of Investment at MHIC: “New market tax credits were essential to fill a $ 4 million funding gap for the center’s development.”
Additional funding included tax-exempt bonds, government funding and significant fundraising from Way Finders.
In addition to being a new home for nonprofits, the Housing Center is important to the larger Springfield community as it helps revitalize the inner city. The new building, designed by Kuhn Riddle Architects, replaces the city’s former bus station.
The new Union Station is across the street, making it convenient for customers who rely on the buses that run through the terminal.
Looking ahead, way finders will play an even bigger role. She is working with the city to help residents avoid homelessness amid rising unemployment due to the COVID-19 crisis.
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warc | 202143 | On September 1, Laundrie returned in Petito’s van to the couple’s North Port, Florida, home from a cross-country road trip the couple embarked on earlier in the summer, police have said. Petito’s remains were later found in Wyoming’s Teton County.
Dozens of officers from agencies including the FBI, the North Port Police Department, Florida Wildlife Commission, several sheriff’s offices and K9 search and rescue teams have been searching the reserve since Laundrie’s parents first talked to police on September 17.
CNN asked survival experts if it’s possible Laundrie is alive if he has been in the reserve since mid-September. Here’s what they said.
It depends on his supplies and experience
In an ABC interview that aired last week, Laundrie’s sister, Cassie Laundrie, said he had previously taken trips for up to five days on the Appalachian Trail. She said her brother is a “mediocre survivalist.”
Robert Urban, founder and chief instructor of the Urban Survival Academy, said he believes it’s highly unlikely that someone who is not professionally trained in survival tactics would be able to survive in the reserve for this long.
“Florida’s climate is very, very difficult,” Urban told CNN. “I’m an expert with plenty of experience, and it would be everything that I could do to survive for (more) than three weeks. Someone with no experience, you cannot be lucky and survive in that sort of climate.”
“When you’re tired, you’re not as defensive, you’re not as vigilant as you should be,” Urban said.
Jason Marsteiner, founder and president of The Survival University, said when he sends trainees of his program in the wilderness — for just about a week after they’ve gone through a 50-day course — they struggle.
“Twenty-five days in that area is extremely tough. I wouldn’t want to do it and I’ve got jungle training, I’ve got mountain training,” he said. “He’s not sleeping well, and when you don’t sleep you slowly drive yourself insane, so he would be making bad decisions, bad choices and I think that would cause him to be found or get injured or perish.”
He would need shelter, water, food
But Laundrie would likely have to process and cook the food he gathers, Canterbury added, and if his water filtration system failed, he would have to find another way to disinfect the water. Both of those things would likely require him starting a fire. But North Port police spokesperson Josh Taylor told CNN’s Randi Kaye on Friday authorities have not found any physical evidence of Laundrie in the reserve. Police also disputed that a recently used campsite was found — information that was given to CNN from a source close to the Laundrie family.
“Starting fire is going to be a big no-no for (Laundrie) if he doesn’t want to get found or seen, so I think it’s going to be very difficult for him to stay out there for a very long period of time,” Canterbury said. But he added that Laundrie could have had enough in his backpack to survive up to this point.
Alan McEwen, a cattle rancher and outdoorsman who lives near the reserve, said the area feels like “muck,” with parts of the reserve reaching knee- and waist-deep water levels — making camping in that wilderness extremely difficult.
“The palmettos out there alone are enough to trip you up, when you’re walking through them, when you you stumble through them,” McEwen told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday night. “The mosquitos will carry you off, anybody out there more than a day without mosquito spray, you’d go insane with the bugs getting you and everything else.”
“There’s just no possible way for anybody to survive out there like that,” he added. “Nobody.”
The way Byron Kerns, founder of the Itchatad Outdoors Survival School, sees it, Laundrie’s most immediate need would be water, and if he had a water filtration pump with him, that could last him for gallons. But after three weeks, Laundrie would need to get food, and if he’s not trained and doesn’t have the right tools, knowing what to eat and how to get it can be tricky.
“Bugs can also be a source of protein in the wilderness, but does he know that?” said Kerns.
Experts think he’s either not alive or not in there
Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino told CNN in response to a question he is “hopeful” that Laundrie is still alive. Taylor, the North Port police spokesperson, told CNN it is “certainly possible” that Laundrie is alive.
“Nothing to suggest one way or another,” Taylor said in an email.
The survival experts CNN spoke to seem to agree that Laundrie is either no longer alive or not in the reserve.
“(Authorities) probably have some of their best people in the nation out there looking for him and they haven’t found no sign of him,” Marsteiner said. “The 25,000 acres, it sounds big, but when you’ve got that many people scouring the area it’s really not.”
It’s highly unlikely he could be camping out and continuing to evade the search teams that have been looking for him, Urban added.
“Some non-trained guy just used to walking on trails is not going to evade a team of experts like that, just by hiding,” Urban said, adding that he also believes Laundrie is either not in the reserve or not alive in there.
If Laundrie is in the reserve but no longer alive, finding him becomes harder as more days go by, Urban added, with the movement of water and sand, as well as the animals that go by. But there have been no indications that Laundrie has died either.
“When you have something dead out there, you’re going to have buzzards flying everywhere,” McEwen told Cuomo on Friday. “You can’t see any buzzards flying anywhere, and no buzzards have been flying in any direction of this place.” | 6,089 | 2,677 | 2.274561 |
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FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF:
In 2001 (669,644) children (under 18) were reported missing
In 2002 that number climbed to (797,500) children (under 18) that were reported missing
Thats an average of (2,185) children reported missing EACH DAY! Source: US Department of Justice
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Reports that a child goes missing every (40 secs) in the US.
In 2009 and previous years there were in excess of (800,000) children (under 18) reported missing each year.
Its estimated that another (500,000) go missing without being reported. (Non-custodial parents).
HOME INVASIONS
Over 2 MILLION US homes are broken into every year.
Property crimes are estimated to be more then $ 15.9 BILLION
The average dollar loss is $ 1,562 Source: The FBI.
Do you really have the money to replace your laptop, computer, gaming systems, furniture, clothing, iPod, DvD player, Blu Ray player, TV, stereo, jewelry, appliances, etc.?
Considering all of the dangers in the world it would be impossible to protect yourself and your family from all of them. That does not mean that you can not protect yourself and loved ones at all.
We go to sleep at night and just assume all will be OK and that we will wake up in the morning with everything normal. Maybe that has worked for you up to this point but for how long?
Imagine waking up in the morning and seeing very important items missing from your home or even worse, wake up to have a stranger standing over your bed.
Lets take a look at a few things that you have control over when it comes to your house and your protection.
Options
Get a gun – This makes some people feel safe and if you know how to use one it could be effective. The down side of having a gun in the home to protect yourself from break-ins can be many.
First of all, for a gun to be effective you would have to HEAR someone coming into your home. If someone is coming in to just steal your valuables they will make sure they are quiet in order not to wake anyone. If you do happen to hear them, you would have to go out and face them and get close enough for them to see you holding a gun.
What if they have a gun as well and the site of you holding one spooks them into using their heads. If you fire a warning shot all your really doing is causing damage to your own home and scaring your own family as well.
If someone was coming into your home to harm you or your family and got into your room before you heard them, how fast could you get to your gun with them in the room standing over you? If your gun is locked up like it should be then there's no chance of that.
This article is not anti gun, but as far as a gun being your main source of protection from invaders, it's not the best choice. What about the times your kids are home alone? What good is a gun going to do them?
Get a dog- Dogs are great pets and can really add to your family. There are so many benefits to having a dog around and scaring off people can be one of them. The problem with this is not all dogs make good watch dogs. They can be tricked or even lured outside.
Install motion lights- This is a great way to scare people who might be roaming the neighborhood. Motion detector lights should be installed outside your home but lights alone are not enough. People tend to become immune to lights going off and on, as they can be triggered from outside animals. Once someone learns where the lights are they can avoid them or disable them.
Install a Home Security System- This is the best way to protect yourself and your family. The benefits to having an alarm system are many. You can protect every single entry way into your home. Nobody is going to step foot into your place without you knowing. Not only will you know, but so will the whole neighborhood. This is great because nobody is going to stick around when it draws that much attention.
With home security systems you can install monitors so that you can look in on your house when your not there. Keep an eye on your pets or even your kids when they get home before you. You can also have messages sent to your phone letting you know when the alarm has been turned off and who turned it off.
If you are looking to get a home security that you can afford but still offers the best in protection then you want to take a serious look at a wireless security system. With A wireless system you can save all the money you would dish out for install fees. With a wired security systems you will have to pay a lot of money to have holes drilled and wires piled all through your house.
This is not ideal for saving money not to mention if you are renting a house or an apartment you might not want to be drilling holes through the walls.
With wireless there is no mess or money wasted on expensive installs. Sensors can be place at all entry ways with ease and little time. If you ever move just pack up your system and take it with you. To check out more about the best wireless home security systems that will not break your bank follow the links below. | 5,121 | 2,387 | 2.145371 |
warc | 202143 | The laboratory of Dr. Lalita Shevde-Samant Research Mission
The Shevde-Samant lab investigates molecular signaling mechanisms that present as fundamental aberrations in tumor cells or in their immune microenvironment with the overall goal to apply this knowledge to complement and improve current clinical protocols with new therapeutic strategies.
Research overview
The efforts of our research program are aligned with the goal of developing an enhanced understanding of the process of metastasis and deepening our understanding of why cancer treatments fail and resistance develops.
Our research findings continue to provide important and innovative insights into how aberrant activation of signaling events converge upon enabling breast cancer progression and metastasis. We have a well-documented record of accomplishments, particularly using
in vivo model systems. These discoveries have been enabled with intramural support and extramural funding from the NCI and the Department of Defense. The Hedgehog Pathway in programming tumor-infiltrating immune cells The Hedgehog Pathway in programming tumor-infiltrating immune cells
Our investigations of the
oncogenic Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway focus on deciphering molecular mechanisms that regulate Hh activity and determining its mechanistic role in regulating malignant attributes of breast cancer cells. Our discoveries have pivotally contributed to decoding the molecular crosstalk that enables breast cancer cells to re-program their microenvironment and facilitates metastatic progression. By crafting novel methodology and adapting state-of-the-art technologies, we have demonstrated that by virtue of activated Hh, breast cancer cells manipulate vasculature at the primary site and also exploit the metastatic site of bone. Our recent work has identified that by activating Hh signaling breast cancer cells orchestrate the composition of the tumor immune microenvironment to be tumor-permissive; inhibition of Hh re-positioned the immune portfolio to be inflammatory and tumor-eradicating – characterized by a remarkable shift in the nature of tumor-infiltrating macrophages and T cells. The Hedgehog Pathway in DNA repair The Hedgehog Pathway in DNA repair
Our prior work demonstrated a role for Hh activity in facilitating base excision repair and nucleotide excision repair. However, the mechanisms by which Hh regulates cancer cell response to DNA insults are poorly understood. In order to develop a broader, unbiased perspective on Hh signaling in DNA repair, we undertook investigations to identify cistronic changes in the Hh transcription factor, GLI1, that may be induced by double-strand breaks (DSBs). Our work revealed that in response to ionizing radiation, occupancy of the Hh transcription factor GLI1 is markedly enriched at rDNA loci and that GLI1 is required for timely repair of rDNA DSBs. | 2,890 | 1,346 | 2.147103 |
warc | 202143 | A 2016 study released by the Melbourne Institute revealed that workers over the age of 40 had significantly higher productivity when their work week was reduced to three days. The research involved 3,500 women and 3,000 men. The University of Melbourne’s Institute for Applied Economics and Social Research observed the work habits of the group for analysis by using cognitive testing. Some of the exercises in the tests involved matching letters and numbers, reading a passage of text out loud and repeating lists backwards.
Additional considerations in the study were employment, family structure and overall quality of life and economic condition. On average, those who worked for 25 hours per week had the best performance. Cognition continued to improve until the 25-hour mark was reached, and then it began to go down because of increased levels of stress and tiredness.
The research also showed that increasing the number of hours worked had a positive impact on cognition until a certain number was reached, after which cognitive ability declined. This was true for both genders. As the working hours continued to go up, a negative affect was observed. An important point of the study was determining the exact threshold at which the cognitive changes took place. Cognition was measured by using the span of memory and cerebral dysfunction. Researchers observed that the cognition for women was optimal at 22 to 27 hours of weekly work. For men, it was 25 to 30 hours per week. When both genders worked beyond those thresholds, cognitive function was adversely affected.
Colin McKenzie, economics professor at Keio University, was a participant in the study and said that many countries are increasing the age of retirement in order to defer the eligibility for benefits and pensions. This will result in a larger number of people who will be forced to work well into their later years. While this will present opportunities for continued intellectual stimulation, the impact will greatly depend on the number of hours being worked. Engaging in work for longer hours presents both advantages and disadvantages. Work causes brain stimulation, but working for extended hours and doing specific kinds of tasks can result in increased stress levels and fatigue, both of which cause cognition to decrease.
McKenzie said there is an important difference between middle-aged workers and those who are elderly. Middle-aged people who work part time hours can maintain their current level of cognition, while older workers do better with fewer hours that are less tiring.
Geraint Johnes, Management School of Lancaster economics professor, said that cognition of workers was maintained or improved when they worked 25 hours per week. After that point, there was a decline. While the initial decline was not very significant, even at 35 hours per week, it became rapid and noticeable at the 40-hour point. This is why people should exercise caution in regard to the number of hours they work and the tasks they are doing. Both can cause adverse affects to both the body and the brain.
When a person works long hours and does not pay attention to their body, the following problems can occur:
-Fatigue and an inability to sleep. Being tired affects productivity, but a lack of sleep has an even larger impact on work performance and cognition.
-Anxiety and depression. Not meeting goals along with being overworked is stressful to mental health.
-Using alcohol and drugs. Turning to addictive substances in order to relax or sleep is common with people who are overworked. Both affect cognitive ability.
-Reduced productivity. This can occur even if working for longer hours.
-Burning eyes and physical pain. These are signals that a person is in need of rest.
-Deterioration of personal relationships. Connections to family and friends may become distant and damaged.
Scientific studies have proven time and again that people need a good balance between their work life and personal life to stay physically and mentally happy. Many companies and businesses have responded to this data by making modifications in the working hours of their employees based on age and gender. France made it illegal for employers to contact workers by email after work hours to help with this balance. In the end, people must be in tune with their bodies and cognition, and make the necessary adjustments. | 4,404 | 2,042 | 2.156709 |
warc | 202143 | The perfect tagline – the one that endures, engages and encourages – could be considered marketing nirvana. However, when you delve deep into the study of taglines there is discrepancy on its benefits.
For some companies, the tagline becomes the core representation of the brand but for other just as successful companies, the tagline is nonexistent (just think about Google). There is also inconsistency with the science behind what should make up a tagline. Some are short, concise statements while others are complete sentences.
Let’s pause for a minute. Step away from the computer and write down with a pen and paper 5 company taglines that you pull strictly from memory.
Here’s my list…
Think Different. Just Do It. Because You’re Worth It. What would you do for Klondike bar? There’s Some Things Money Can’t Buy. For Everything Else There’s Mastercard.
These prevalent taglines range from 2 to 11 words. There is clearly no equation to what a tagline should be or if a company needs a tagline at all. Can you name 10 taglines? Or, how about any taglines for companies that are relevant to your daily life?
There’s also some debate as to whether taglines have any meaning to the consumer. According this 2015 AdAge article, what’s missing in most taglines is motivation – they seldom provide a reason for buying the brand.
However, some research does support the use of a tagline. One study suggests that taglines not only have an impact on brand perception but they also help to create key brand associations with the customer (using Kit Kat as an example).
At the end of the day, we must think beyond taglines and instead reveal the right marketing mix for the company and use repetition with those key tools in a way that reaches the heart of the customer. Perhaps it’s the culture (Starbucks), perhaps it’s the campaign (Chick-fil-A), maybe it’s a logo (McDonalds) or it could be a tagline (Nike). But most important, it is the product or service that makes a company. Everything else is a value add. | 2,095 | 1,096 | 1.911496 |
warc | 202143 | Marriage is a celebration of love and a signaling to others the pretense of committing yourself to someone emotionally for a significant period of time both before and after the actual ceremony.
Western marriage is no longer seen as a political economic and social contract binding two families. (Although choosing a partner for economic and cultural capital remains pertinent).
So often a seemingly innocent flirtation proceeds without encouragement. Until the scenario changes. The mood darkens. Communication ceases. And one suddenly faces unwelcome abuse.
I have never been a victim of any type of sexual violence. Many of my friends are actually subjected to street harassment on a daily basis. This type of aggression has almost been trivialized and it is unbearable.
Plenty of girls have not taken legal and/or public action concerning sexual aggression or abuse they encountered in France. They are hesitant because we treat those whole experiences quite badly.
I never personally had to seek justice but have heard from friends about violence to which they were exposed. Some got harassed, grabbed without consent or in the worst cases, raped.
I think how lucky I am to be a college student with only those responsibilities to think of. There are front line hospital workers and essentials businesses risking their lives every day. | 1,348 | 755 | 1.78543 |
warc | 202143 | Your home can be the right place to care for your baby and still the most dangerous place to have them around.
Ideally, most traumatic injuries and child deaths happen right inside the home. There are many items you should always keep far away from your child if you want them to be safe. It’s called baby-proofing your home for the child.
You can decide to take online tutoring in Australia to create some more time for your child. In this article, we look at some five ways you can child-proof your home to make it safe having your toddler around.
1. Observe bath safety rules
Most young children meet their untimely death through drowning. This is one of the most prevalent causes of child deaths.
If you want to make your child safe at home, you must ensure you are more cautious when bathing her. Simple rule: do not step out of the bathtub and leave your child unattended. It can result in serious repercussions.
2. Install physical barriers around pools
If you are lucky to have a fish pond or a swimming pool at home, the least you can do is make it accessible for your kids. Most kids drown in swimming pools when they go swimming without someone watching them. Some slip into pools while wandering around the home playing.
If your swimming pool is a bit close to your doorstep, you should fence it or have some barrier installed there to prevent your children from accessing it when you are not around. The more barriers you have, the better because it’s almost impossible to keep your kids under a 24/7 radar.
3. Make sleeping place safe
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a common risk factor if you have your child sleeping in a different room as you. It is vital to have your child sleeping in the same room as you until they are six months old.
To ensure your child is sleeping safely, you must remove anything that can pose a suffocation hazard. Remove all the pillows, blankets, and toys that can suffocate your child when they are asleep. Create enough sleeping space for the child and ensure the room is well ventilated to allow some clean air.
4. Keep your guns safe
Kids like to explore and discover new things out of curiosity. If you have a loaded gun somewhere in the closet, don’t be surprised when you find them playing with it one day. Keep your firearm away from your kid. You can unload the gun and keep it in a locked safe.
5. Lock up anything poisonous
If your baby is below two years, you must be watchful. Sometimes what could be missing in your kitchen is a safe place to store cleaning supplies. Items such as vitamins, cosmetics, medicine, and alcohol should be kept away from children.
Another tip: always have the poison control number somewhere in your phonebook, you never know when your child will ingest something toxic.
Final thoughts
Child-proofing your home is the most effective way to protect your child at home. Apply these five tips and keep your child safe at home. | 2,954 | 1,433 | 2.06141 |
warc | 202143 | Portland State University researcher Nirupama Bulusu wants to prevent counterfeit pharmaceuticals from flooding the market. Bulusu recently published a blockchain protocol that could do just that.
Bulusu, professor of computer science at the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, worked with PSU computer science doctoral student Naif Alzahrani to publish "A new product anti-counterfeiting blockchain using a truly decentralized dynamic consensus protocol" in the journal
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
Their approach relies on blockchain to record transactions in a new, more secure, way that would help curb fake pharmaceuticals by product checking and decentralization.
Blockchain stores transactional records each step of the way, creating a chain of information. Only users with a specific key can add or modify the stored information. The PSU protocol allows sellers to track and verify products without relying on centralized systems vulnerable to attack.
Bulusu said she wanted to create the protocol because the counterfeit pharmaceutical crisis harms the most vulnerable international populations.
"We wanted to come up with something that's foolproof," she said.
They've coupled the protocol with digital product tags that include the product's serial number, expiration date and name.
Most anti-counterfeit systems at the moment are centralized, which makes it easier for humans and machines to pass off fake goods.
"This protocol could potentially disrupt and disable illicit supply networks," Bulusu said.
Their protocol could in theory be applied to any supply chain—big or small.
Niche companies worried about trademark violations, for example, could benefit from the protocol. Bulusu said business owners could even verify their product history and track items step by step on their cell phone.
That's one benefit of blockchain, she added is that the information is harder to fake and modify, making it easier to verify authenticity.
More information: Naif Alzahrani et al, A new product anti-counterfeiting blockchain using a truly decentralized dynamic consensus protocol, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2019). DOI: 10.1002/cpe.5232
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warc | 202143 | Wearing a face mask has even more advantageous effects than helping curb the spread of Covid-19 (which is already quite impressive). According to a recent study, sporting the PPE has actually been found to increase one’s attractiveness, which researchers at Hokkaido University have coined the “the sanitary-mask effect.”
“Because the impact of Covid-19 is so strong, we wondered if the mask-wearing that became an ordinary behavior would alter our perception of attractiveness,” study author Jun Kawahara, a professor at Hokkaido University, told PsyPost. “We thought it would be interesting if we compare the present data with the one that we measured before COVID-19.”
And that they did. Kawahara and the Hokkaido team examined the findings of a 2016 study on facial attractiveness whilst mask-wearing, which asked 202 Japanese women and 84 Japanese men whether they perceived sanity masks as improving or impairing individual’s attractiveness. The same team then queried 153 men and 133 women on the same topic after the COVID-19 outbreak, surveying participants from June to December 2020.
In the initial, pre-pandemic experiment, only 44 percent of participants said that wearing a mask made the wearer more attractive. However that number skyrocketed post-Covid, with a a whopping 70 percent of people stating that masks improved the wearer’s appearance when queried in 2020.
The Hokkaido researchers then conducted a series of web-based experiments in 2020 and 2021, during which they requested participants to rate the attractiveness of 66 young female faces. Half of the faces wore masks, while half did not.
Based on the participants’ responses, the researchers concluded that “the modulation of attractiveness by mask-wearing is related to the occlusion of critical features.” Essentially: Masks have the ability to “hide” negative features of less conventionally attractive faces, but at the same time, diminish positive features on conventionally beautiful ones. When it came to “average” female faces, however, mask wearing had “no significant impact.”
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Either way, Kawahara asserts that wearing a mask is more important than what you look like. “People don’t have to worry about how they are seen by others,” he told PsyPost. “The data suggests that the average person may not be seen more attractive or less attractive. Just wear masks if not vaccinated.” | 2,541 | 1,253 | 2.027933 |
warc | 202143 | Bamboo flowers and statehood are not terms that usually belong in the same sentence. But, when discussing Mizoram, they do. The sprouting of bamboo flowers happens only once every 50 years, yet, it sparks an intriguing chain of events—rats consume the flowers, increase in numbers, and then move on to feast upon the majority of standing crops in the region, creating a devastating food shortage. Locally known as
mautam, some of these infamous periodic famines have been reported to take up to 15,000 Mizo lives. In 1959, a mautam occurred in Lushai Hills, which was then a district in undivided Assam. The events that transpired after it not only make Mizoram’s history, they also reveal the reasons behind the violent clashes on the Assam-Mizoram border in July of 2021.
To demand relief from the Centre during the extreme food shortage in 1959, the Mizo Cultural Society—who renamed themselves as the Mizo National Famine Front—came to the fore in 1960. They quickly became popular: members of the Front busied themselves in transporting rice and other essentials to the interior villages of the Lushai Hills. The very next year, the Front underwent a radical transformation—‘Famine’ was dropped from their name, and with this omission, their goals changed. The newly christened Mizo National Front demanded sovereignty over ‘Mizo’ territory and independence from Assam. In the decade that followed, the Front claimed responsibility for numerous violent activities across the region, and by 1979, they were outlawed by the Centre. But by then, the seeds of demanding an independent state of Mizoram had been sowed in the minds of the public. In 1972, Mizoram became a Union Territory, and fifteen years later in 1987, a state.
Like Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh were also carved out of Assam. But, after the Centre demarcated their independent territories, the four states were left dissatisfied with losing their ‘rightful’ areas to Assam. Since their inception, this resentment has led to instances of violence between the four states and Assam—the most recent being this year’s episode in July, when firing broke out between Mizoram and Assam’s police forces stationed on the Assam-Mizoram border. Seven people died and 60 were injured. In fact, between 1972 and 2021, such clashes between Assam and the states portioned out of it have killed 157 people, injured 360, and displaced over 65,000.
Honble @ZoramthangaCM ji , Kolasib ( Mizoram) SP is asking us to withdraw from our post until then their civilians won’t listen nor stop violence. How can we run government in such circumstances? Hope you will intervene at earliest @AmitShah @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/72CWWiJGf3
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) July 26, 2021
As contested as these borders are, at the heart of the clashes lie the lucrative resources that fall within the states’ borders, whose extraction are shaped by colonial history in Northeast India. In the case of the Mizo-Assam clash, the major bone of contention was a crucial resource—the Inner Line Reserve Forest, the largest of its kind in Assam.
A Forest of Contention
Bordering Mizoram on the south and east, the Inner Line Reserved Forest (IRLF) today sprawls over 1,318 square kilometres (sq km), of which almost 750 sq km fall in Assam’s Cachar district. Both Mizoram and Assam recognise different boundaries of the Reserved Forest, accusing the other of encroaching into ‘their’ areas. The June 2021 clashes were a culmination of decades of such accusations. The Mizoram government claimed that Assamese officials encroached upon and destroyed plantation crops in the state, while Assam accused Mizo residents of planting banana and betel nut saplings and constructing makeshift settlements in Assamese territory.
The differences in boundaries stems from Northeast India’s tryst with British colonialism. Mizoram recognised the 1873 Bengal Frontier Regulation, which demarcated an ‘Inner Line’ over a specific territory—any British subject crossing this ‘line’ required a pass issued by the district authority. Transporting this terminology to colonial Assam, the reserve forest was declared an Inner Line forest in 1877, to create a buffer region between Assam’s Cachar plains, and the mountainous Lushai Hills, part of present-day Mizoram. After this demarcation, Cachar plains and Lushai Hills both administered over the reserve forest until 1904, when all control was given to the Lushai Hill authorities.
Assam on the other hand accepts a different boundary, described through a notification issued in 1933. In it, the British re-drew districts based on cultural, linguistic, and tribal lines, giving rise to new boundaries for Manipur, the Lushai Hills, and the Cachar plains. In doing so, some parts of the Lushai Hills went to Manipur, much to the dislike of tribal chiefs in Mizoram, who claimed that they had not been consulted in the process. So, when Mizoram was declared a state in 1987, its leaders stated that by backing the formation of new districts based on the 1933 notification, Assam had taken parts of Mizoram’s reserved forest away.
“This present scenario [of conflict] is not only a result of colonial extraction of natural resources. It is also reflective of the under-representation of Mizos in government machinery,” says TBC Lalvenchhunga, a politician from Mizoram and a party worker with the Zoram People’s Movement, in a personal capacity. “The British never allowed political parties to be formed in the Lushai Hills, and post-independence too, when the demarcations were happening, there was no representation of the Mizo community in these decisions.”
This lack of representation added to tensions amplified by other factors. “For communities living in these regions of Mizoram and Assam, imagined boundaries, a strong insider-outsider perception [between different tribes and ethnicities], and the assertion of ethnic identities strongly linked to their homeland’s boundaries also contributed to the violence that we see in recent times between Assam and the states carved out of it,” says Guwahati-based Sushanta Talukdar, Editor at
NEZINE, a magazine focusing on Northeast India. “These issues hardened with the colonial history of resource extraction in the region.” Talukdar is right. Viewing the demarcation through a historical lens shows that the origins of the Reserved Forest were triggered by a series of inter-tribal and tribal-British clashes. A History of Extraction that Demanded a Reserved Forest
“Since pre-colonial times [the 19th century], the tribes living in the Cachar plains in Assam were frequently raided by tribes living in the Lushai Hills [which today are in Mizoram, but were then a part of undivided Assam]. Such raids and clashes between tribes were a way of showing one’s own clan that they had control over the ‘other’ tribe, and that they would provide for and protect their own community against them,” says Dr. Pushpita Das, Research Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. Integral to the local culture, these raids by tribes like the Lushai and Kukis were often violent, resulting in the plunder of surplus resources, and in some cases, the kidnapping or murder of those identified as enemies.
To phase these clashes out, in the 17th century the Ahom King Pratap Singha (1603-1641 BCE) introduced the
‘posa’ system, through which tribes residing in the plains paid commodities or cash to the hill tribes to not raid them. When Assam came under the colonial administration in 1838, which included swathes of the Ahom kingdom, the British continued with the posa system, paying the hill tribes commodities instead.
Yet, the clashes continued. This had much to do with the colonial exploration of natural resources in the region and eventual control over them—rubber and tea plantations became a favoured British business to nurture. These growing industries, especially tea plantations, felled trees and encroached upon the Lushai tribes’ lands and traditional hunting grounds, threatening their historical socio-cultural ties with forests. Bamboo, for instance, featured heavily in Lushai culture—it was used in the walls, roofs, and floors of their houses, to make traditional ornaments and headgear, and in food, and dances. Streams and rivers were components of Lushai folk tales and songs too, highlighting their cultural ties to the surrounding environment.
Yet, by 1947, tea plantations had expanded immensely in the region. In Cachar alone, there were 231 tea estates spread over 75,000 acres employing 76,000 labourers, most of whom had migrated from out of the region. In fact, the British even allowed non-tribal populations to catch elephants—that played a major role in Lushai livelihoods— causing resentment among the locals. “As British administrative control over forests grew, they began classifying many trees as those which could not be used by the public, and were instead to be used for commercial purposes only [for instance, to build the railways],” Talukdar adds. These policy measures, as expected, added fuel to the fire.
The growth of the tea and rubber business in the latter half of the 19th century, was accompanied by a steady inflow of foreigners to the Lushai Hills and Cachai Plains which led to “grievances in the minds of the tribes that culminated in tribal attacks,” writes researcher Srijani Bhattacharjee in her 2020 paper. Perhaps the final straw for the colonial authorities was the murder of a British tea planter and the kidnapping of his daughter, as Bhattacharjee writes in her paper. The event sparked a realisation for the British: these industries could prosper only if peace with the tribes was brokered.
This is what led to the adoption of the ‘Inner Line’ under the 1873 notification. The permissions it demanded to enter parts of undivided Assam became a way to limit the inflow of ‘outsiders’ and diffuse the tribal-British clashes. The British realised that the forest could be a natural buffer between the Lushai Hills and the Cachar plains, and in 1877, demarcated it as a reserved forest to avert the raids where the plantations were located. All of this was done in a bid to nurture what the British held as a priority—the growth of the rubber and tea industries.
While the colonial government saw this manoeuvre as a way to diminish raids and violence, today, the forests are important to both Mizoram and Assam for the resources they provide to both states.
The Wealth of the Forest
“As much as land is important to the states who are contesting ownership of these areas, it is also the forest and its resources that are valuable in this region, where there are only a few livelihood options available,” says Das. The Inner Line Reserve Forest is dense with deciduous and evergreen forests laden with monkey fruit
(Artocarpus lakoocha), mangoes, elephant apple (Dillenia indica), bamboo, and cane. Rich biodiversity thrives here with various species of monkeys, jungle cats, deer, pangolins, including the endangered Hoolock Gibbon residing in the foliage.
The timber and non-timber forest produce available here are important livelihood sources for the communities living in the 24 forest villages within this reserved forest. A 2010 study of 654 households within the forest found that 72% of households were dependent on non-timber forest produce for their livelihoods, alongside their primary occupations as agriculturalists, betel leaf cultivators, or workers on tea plantations. “For many communities in Mizoram and even in Nagaland, forests are also avenues for fishing and hunting. Mizoram has also been demanding [jurisdiction over] this area since
jhum [shifting cultivation which involves clearing land by burning, cultivating it for a limited time, and then abandoning it for regeneration] is practised along the fringes of the ILRF, although in the last few years jhum has also reduced,” Das adds.
Undoubtedly, the wealth of these forests are of importance to both the contesting states. But they are not alone. Other states have made their voices heard about losing their ‘rightful’ forests and other natural resources to Assam. Nagaland demands 12,488 sq km of Assamese territory, which comprise 10 Reserve Forests, while Arunachal Pradesh claims that over 3600 sq km of plain areas were transferred to Assam in 1951, without the consent of its own people. Meghalaya has demanded two blocks of the Mikir hills in Assam, which they assert previously belonged to Meghalaya’s Jaintia and Khasi Hills. These demands have been raised through various agreements with the Union government as well. For instance, points 12 and 13 of a 16-Point Agreement signed between the Naga People’s Convention and the Centre in 1960 demanded a “Consolidation of Forest Areas” and “Consolidation of Contiguous Naga Areas”—which simply ask for a “transfer of areas from one state to another.”
Negotiations and talks have been active via the formation of regional committees, the latest announced by Mizoram in early September this year, and between Meghalaya and Assam in August. Assam has even filed cases against the opposing states at various points in time for encroaching on their territory, leading to formations of various committees to investigate the matters. Some of the cases are pending.
But, moving towards peaceful borders and better-shared resources is easier said than done. “These issues of reclaiming forests and lands were also a part of insurgency movements in the Northeast. It then becomes difficult to segregate them from local politics and violence,” shares Das. “Local politicians often use these to rally and gain popularity, but instead of these divisive policies, they should talk about inclusiveness. The solution to these conflicts depends heavily on political will.”
Talukdar offers another conflict resolution method, one that is integrated with the communities’ everyday lives. “Communities living on either side of the Mizoram-Assam border are interdependent on each other for trade and commerce. Mizoram’s bamboo and bamboo products are essential commodities for Assam, and for Mizoram, Assam is a major railhead,” Talukdar explains. “So, when such conflicts happen and the borders are shut for 10 to 15 days, it impacts the lives and economies of both states. Increasing and strengthening interdependencies can act as a measure to resolve this conflict.”
The complex battles at the Mizoram-Assam borders arise from years of colonial extraction of resources in the region, post-independence insurgencies, and a deep dependence of communities on the contested forests, hills, and water bodies within the ILRF. Resolving them clearly demands an equally layered solution.
Featured image: a colonial-era map of Assam, Bengal, and Burma (present-day Myanmar) from 1907; courtesy of Oxford University Press.
[1] Map sourced from: Islam, M., Choudhury, P., and Bhattacharjee, P. (2013). Survey and Census of Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) in the Inner-Line Reserve Forest and the Adjoining Areas of Cachar District, Assam, India.
Folia Primatologica, 84(3:5), pp. 170-179. | 15,587 | 6,718 | 2.320185 |
warc | 202143 | How the Federal Student Loan Refinance Program works
Business Insider has a good explainer on the FSRP and what it does.
Here are some key points: Federal Student Loans and the Federal Pell Grant Refinance The FSR is the federal student loan refuer and it’s the largest student loan servicing program in the US.
Its loan servicing fees are not tax deductible, but it does not take the federal government out of the equation.
It’s funded by the government and you’ll pay them back as you repay.
What does the FSFR cost?
Federal student loans and the federal Pell Grant are both Federal Stafford Loans, which means that the federal loan servicer is the same company that you would use to apply for a home loan or student loan.
So the FSPL does not have to make a profit.
What types of student loans are covered by the FSSL?
You can get federal student loans through the FSLS Loan Servicing Program (FSLP), which has a $3,000 loan fee, and you can get student loans from other sources.
The FSSLS loan servicing fee covers: F-1, F-2, F1-B1, and F1.1.
Federal student loan borrowers with F-3, F3.1, or F3-1 loans can also use the FSLP.
However, the FFSLP doesn’t cover any other types of federal student debt.
Student loans from the US government can be forgiven for up to 20 years if you file your tax return, but there is no maximum forgiveness.
How much does it cost?
The FSLPS loan servicing amount is $3.3 billion, but FSLPs are capped at $3 billion in total.
So if you’re eligible for a federal loan and you’re looking for the most cost-effective way to pay it off, it’s not going to be cheap.
But the FSDL is a cheaper option, and it will also save you money if you have other student loans.
So, if you want to borrow, the best option is to use the private student loan refinancing services and you get a lower interest rate and lower fees than a federal student.
What’s the difference between a FSL and a FSD?
The most important difference between the FDSL and FSL is that the FHSL is paid out by the federal budget, whereas the FCSL is funded by individual federal government accounts.
But both the FHD and FDS loans are funded by government accounts, which are separate from the federal payroll.
For example, the US Government’s General Fund (GCF) is $5.7 trillion, while the US Department of Education’s Public Education (PE) accounts are $1.6 trillion.
So you could borrow a FHS loan, pay it back with a Federal Student Bill of Rights (FPBOR), and then borrow the FSHL from a FFSL and pay it over with the FPSL.
FFSLS borrowers are more likely to qualify for lower interest rates than FDSLS borrowers.
But even if you get the lower interest on a FDSLP, you might still want to go for a FSFLS loan.
What about private student loans?
Private student loans can be taken out at any time, but they don’t have the same amount of repayment protection.
A private student Loan is funded with funds held by the US Treasury and the private lenders are known as “private banks”.
A private lender is also known as a private student lender.
Private student borrowers are less likely to get government subsidies.
So there’s a big difference between private student and FFS.
What if I need to get a loan?
If you’re going to take out a private loan and need help paying it off with a FRS, you’ll need to submit your federal income tax return to the FES.
Then you’ll have to wait until you can file your federal tax return and then you’ll be eligible for FFS loans.
But FFS loan borrowers who want to defer paying off their FRS loans should get in touch with the Federal Reserve.
They’ll help you choose a private lender that meets your needs.
What should I do if I get a bad FRS?
If the FRS is a bad loan, you may be able to pay the interest, but the FAS will still charge interest.
And if the FIS is bad, the federal refinance agency will likely give you a lower rate than the FUSL.
If you’ve taken out a FSH, you should try to avoid getting a bad lender.
If a FSS loan is bad and you don’t want to have to pay that interest, you can also get help with a federal repayment plan.
What happens if I owe back taxes?
If your income taxes are late and you’ve paid the FOS, you have to file an extension with the IRS. | 4,357 | 1,875 | 2.323733 |
warc | 202143 | The three-year-old was bitten in May then again this week, according to the dad who says he has been left livid.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous, spoke to Grimsby Live after the second alleged bite this week.
He said when the first incident happened in May, staff and the manager at Butterflies Day Nursery in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, apologised. However he was not satisfied with their response and has taken the matter further.
He said: “When my daughter got bitten in May, I spoke with the staff and manager at the nursery and they told me that they were sorry.
“I asked for a full incident report from the nursery, but I wasn’t happy with the response because it made no offer to make an amend to show children that biting is wrong. It just said what happened which they apologised for.
“So, I took the matter to OFSTED who said they would investigate the matter but told me that they couldn’t say much because it was an individual matter.
“I decided to put the incident behind me and forgive that it happened once.”
However, when his daughter came back with another bite mark on Tuesday, the dad was furious and claims the same thing has happened to ‘quite a lot of children’.
He said: “I do understand that kids are kids and some develop at different stages but surely they know right from wrong at that age?
“My little three-year-old girl would never dream of biting another child because she knows it is the wrong thing to do. I’ve had to take my daughter out of the nursery now because enough is enough.
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“I’m frustrated and upset by it because it’s not the first time it’s happened.
“They can’t stop every single incident but I think biting is another issue. We’re looking for a new nursery now because I don’t want these incidents to bring the worst out of her because she’s a lovely little girl and I don’t want this experience to change her.”
The father said that his daughter is heartbroken at leaving the nursery.
He said: “She’s upset that she’s had to leave but we’ve also spotted that she’s been really quiet about it all.
“Biting is a big no-no for me. It’s frustrating for us parents too. We don’t want to pick up her up and find another bite.”
Sara Wagstaff, early years manager at Butterflies Nursery, said young children do not have the skills to cope in certain situations and can bite for a number of reasons.
She said: “As an early years setting we follow the statutory requirements that are set out by the Department for Education.
“Our nursery puts the welfare of the children at the heart of our vision, to get the best outcomes for them possible. We want children to thrive during their time with us so they learn and grow in confidence.
“This means that we need to support children to become independent and resilient over time.
“As very young children are learning about themselves and others there are isolated incidents because they have not yet got the skills to cope in certain situations.
“We always reflect on any incidents, such as one child biting another, to minimise any repeated incidents.
“We would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with parents further.”
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warc | 202143 | 15 Jan 2020 EIA forecasts global oil consumption growth will average 1.4 million b/d in data and estimates indicate that global liquid fuels consumption grew by EIA forecasts that total US petroleum and other liquid fuels consumption 5 Feb 2019 Statistical data for the oil and gas industries in the United States comes from It covers world oil consumption, production and trade, oil reserves, market Provides current information on crude oil and NGLs, petroleum, and 4 Nov 2019 Keywords: Oil prices, consumption, cross-country, U.S. states, oil dependency. ∗ level data for the United States To this end, we use state-level data on For Volatility Changes In The Crude Oil Market,” Journal of Applied 30 Apr 2018 Contact us. For questions about the Australian Petroleum Statistics, reporting requirements, or to join the mailing list to receive notification when
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Most oil imports from Iraq zeroed out in 1974, 1981, and 1991-1995 as a result of the OPEC Oil Embargo, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Gulf War, respectively. Since 2014, oil imports have increased by more than 7% because of increased overall consumption. As of December 2019, petroleum consumption in the United States of America was 21,039.9 thousand barrels per day. The top 5 countries also includes China, India, Japan, and Republic of Korea. The description is composed by our digital data assistant. Mar 2019 However, the most recent decline in prices has raised expectations that OPEC and its allies would implement deeper cuts to stabilise the market. US crude oil dropped as much as 0.5% to $55.72 per barrel while Brent crude fell nearly 0.3% to $61.07 per barrel, around 06:30 AM NY time. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the world consumed 96.92 million barrels per day in 2016, with the top 10 consumers accounting for 60 percent of the total consumption. That’s nearly 100 million barrels per day. At today’s average oil price of $60 per barrel Crude oil production is defined as the quantities of oil extracted from the ground after the removal of inert matter or impurities. It includes crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and additives. This indicator is measured in thousand tonne of oil equivalent (toe).Crude oil is a mineral oil consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons of natural origin, yellow to black in colour, and of variable density and viscosity. NGLs are the liquid or liquefied hydrocarbons produced in the manufacture Daily oil consumption by region from 1980 to 2006. This is a list of countries by oil consumption. [1] [2] The total worldwide oil consumption was 93 million barrels per day (bbl/day) on average in 2015 according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
As far as possible the series include fuels consumed in refining, but exclude oil products obtained from natural gas, coal, lignite and their derivatives. The data on Crude Oil, Condensate, Refinery and Petroleum Products. Download Description, Current 2019 (12 Months), Historical Statistics 1986-2018 (33-Year Series). 2013 U.S. production data is from the crude oil production numbers in the EIA Short Term 33% of all the energy consumed by households, businesses, and. Interactive historical chart showing the monthly level of U.S. crude oil production back to 1983 from the US Energy Information Adminstration (EIA). Values Iraq: Oil consumption, thousand barrels per day: For that indicator, The U.S. Energy Information Administration provides data for Iraq from 1980 to 2014. loss, and bunkering. Also included, where available, is direct combustion of crude oil. By mid-March 2020, the price of U.S. crude oil was fluctuating just around $30 Key reports that affect crude oil prices in the short term are weekly inventory statistics from “Oil consumption in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and | 6,121 | 2,790 | 2.193907 |
warc | 202143 | There’s nothing worse than cranking your car air conditioner on a hot day — and discovering it’s broken. Your steering wheel feels like lava. Sweat soaks the driver's seat. You take a deep breath and ask yourself, “Who can fix my Subaru Forester A/C?” Firestone Complete Auto Care can! We know our way around Subaru vehicles, and our technicians are qualified to diagnose and repair 2017 Subaru Forester A/C systems. Come to your local Firestone Complete Auto Care in your Subaru Forester
During this initial A/C performance check, we’ll look at the state of your 2017 Subaru Forester’s A/C system to see if repair work is required. This check will include an examination of system pressure, a visual inspection, and a leak test. If any signs point to a possible leak, we’ll send a special U/V dye through the system, or use something called a “sniffer.” What’s a “sniffer,” you ask? It’s a specially designed machine that’s used on parts of your Subaru Forester A/C system to detect any refrigerant fumes that might be leaking out from the system. If there's a leak, we'll find it and fix it.
Let's say we repair your 2017 Subaru Forester A/C system. We will also perform an A/C evacuation and recharge. To do this, one of our technicians will remove the refrigerant in your A/C system (if there is even any left to remove). Then, they’ll perform an evacuation (also known as a discharge) on the entire system per Subaru guidelines. To finish, we’ll add new refrigerant to recharge the A/C system, and once the technician tests the cool blast for themselves, you’re good to go. Our technicians are trained to efficiently perform 2017 Subaru Forester A/C recharges.
Hot air is a common Subaru Forester A/C problem, but it’s not the only issue you might encounter. Typical A/C problems also include weak airflow, which could mean you have a compromised seal, mildew or mold buildup, a loose or damaged hose, or a ventilation fan that needs to be replaced. If your A/C system blows cold air first but then it turns warm, this may suggest a leak, a blown fuse, or a damaged compressor clutch. And smelly A/C in a 2017 Subaru Forester? That could be the result of a dirty cabin air filter (an easy fix!) or a moldy evaporator case. Technicians at Firestone Complete Auto Care are ready to help you address your A/C problems. So, chill out. We're here to help you get the blast back in your Forester’s A/C!
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warc | 202143 | Employee innovative behavior: a conceptual framework.
Author Jain, Ravindra
This article attempts to synthesize the results of previous research on innovative behavior at work that appeared scattered and integrate such results into a cohesive whole. The proposed framework is a multi-component construct which provides holistic view of various factors that affect employee innovative behavior. Such factors have been categorized into individual, interpersonal and contextual. Psychological capital and psychological empowerment have been identified as individual factors whereas transformational leadership and leader-member exchange, and knowledge sharing in social network are put under the category of inter-personal factors. Job context and supportive organizational climate emerged as contextual factors.
Introduction
Innovative behavior on the part of a large number of employees is significant for sustainable performance for all kinds of enterprises and for a variety of jobs therein. Therefore, the philosophy of innovation needs to be embedded in the organizational culture. "The foundation of innovation is ideas, but it is people who develop, carry, react to, and modify ideas" (Van de Ven 1986:592) and they require novel and divergent thinking whereby they contribute to transform their novel and useful ideas into developing processes, products or services of better quality. "Employees can contribute to innovation in organizations in numerous ways, but the three are particularly common and stand out as important across a wide array of organizations and industries: generating new ideas, sharing ideas with colleagues / supervisors and spreading innovation throughout the organization, and working to implement those innovations themselves or helping others to do so" (Ng & Feldman, 2010 : 1068). All these actions constitute innovative behavior at work. It may be defined as "individuals' behaviors directed towards the initiation and intentional introduction of new and useful ideas and processes, products or procedure within a work role, group or organization" (De Jong, 2006: 19). Innovation is the process by which new and applicable ideas generated through one's creativity and then such ideas are captured, recognized, filtered, clarified, modified, further developed, and finally commercialized and the process also includes overcoming a variety of obstacles that come in the way and it is the creativity that fuels the conduits of innovation process. Innovative behavior may be understood "as a multiple-stage process in which an individual recognizes a problem for which she or he generates novel or adopted ideas and solutions, works to promote and build support for them, and produces an applicable prototype or model for the use and benefit of the organization or parts within it (Carmeli, Meitar & Weisberg, 2006: 78). Creativity is a critical element of our capability to innovate. And innovation is a crucial factor to improve quality of work life, to enhance the level of our competitiveness and to ensure the sustainability of our development. "Creativity is the first step in the process of innovation starting with generation of novelty (invention) and moving on to 'exploitation' of it what we call 'insertion' into a functioning system" (Cropley, 2009: 260). Creativity is the process of producing or developing novel ideas whilst innovative behavior is about putting them into action. The base of innovation is new and applicable ideas, but it is innovative behavior of the employees through which such ideas are adopted, and implemented for achieving some business or social purposes. Organizations must stabilize their innovation process by creating and nurturing an environment in which creativity of the employees is flourished and it is reflected in their actions. Previous researchers have studied organizational variables, such as perceived organizational support, influence and leadership factors, and contextual /cultural variables. However, some empirical studies have revealed that psychological capital or competencies or self-efficacy of the employees generally decide the end results of incremental innovation.
Psychological Capital & Employee Innovative Behavior
Psychological Capital is one's optimistic and development oriented psychological mind state indicated by: "(i) having confidence (self-efficacy) to take on and put in the necessary effort to succeed at challenging tasks; (ii) making a positive attribution (optimism) about succeeding now and in the future; (iii) persevering towards goals and, when necessary, redirecting paths to goals (hope) in order to succeed; and (iv) when beset by problems and adversity, sustaining and bouncing back and even beyond (resilience) to attain success" (Luthans, Youssef & Avolio, 2007: 3). In recent research studies (e.g., Abbas & Raja, 2011; Jafri, 2012), psychological capital and innovative behavior were found positively correlated. "Self-efficacy refers to beliefs in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce desired results" (Bandura, 1997:3). Bandura (1997:239) suggests that "self-efficacy as a generative capability is essential for creative productivity.... innovativeness requires an unshakable sense of efficacy ..." Extant research (e.g., Jafri, 2012; Kumar & Uzkurt, 2010; Waenink, 2012) indicates that employees with high self-efficacy are creative and tend to demonstrate creative behavior. It has been suggested in the general framework of West & Farr (1989) that individual characteristics, intrinsic job factors, group factors, relationships at work, and organizational factors all have an impact on individual innovation or employee innovative behavior. Such a framework has been upheld in a study carried out by Axtell et al. (2000:.280). An emerging line of thinking suggests that employees may inspire and lead themselves towards achieving their predetermined goals through self-leadership. 'Self-leadership' encompasses a set of skills that include self-consciousness, self-goal determination, self-motivation, self- morale building, self-direction, self-control, self-feedback (e.g., positive or negative self-criticism), self-reflection on work experience and task accomplishments, self-counseling, and developing constructive thought patterns and auto-suggestion system for self-influence and self-development. In the study of Prussia, Anderson, & Manz (1998:523), "self-efficacy perceptions were found to fully mediate the self-leadership / performance relationship". The findings of the study carried out by Carmeli, Meitar & Weisberg (2006:85) "lend support to the role of self-leadership skills in fostering innovative behavior at work".
In nutshell, (i) psychological capital and innovative behavior are positively correlated; (ii) there exists a positive linkage between self-efficacy and innovative behavior of the employees; (iii) cognitive ability positively contributes to innovative behavior of the employees (iv) self-leadership skills foster innovative behavior at work; and (iv) expected positive results on one's performance have significant impact on employee innovative behavior.
Psychological Empowerment
Psychological empowerment is an internal mind state characterized by the feeling of self-confidence or enhanced job motivation at intrinsic level. The perceived organizational or management support available to empower employees certainly affects their willingness and capability to innovate and the sufficient resources provided in time to them further facilitate ideas to emerge. Psychologically empowered employees perceive themselves as capable to change their surroundings in meaningful ways, fostering pro-active behavior, taking personal initiative, and demonstrating their independent action. Earlier research indicates that self-perception of empowerment, (i.e. meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact) is significant for innovative behavior of the employees. Extant research (e.g., Kelly & Lee, 2010; Lari, Shekari & Safizadeh, 2012; Bhatnagar, 2012) revealed that there exists a positive correlation between psychological empowerment and employee innovation behaviors. The results of a recent study carried out by Fernandez & Moldogaziev (2012:177) also shows that "as a multifaceted managerial approach, empowerment increases encouragement to innovate". Thus, employee empowerment and innovative behavior of the employees are inextricably linked.
Transformational Leadership & Leader-Member Exchange
A transformational leader promotes exploring novel ways of getting things done, to test fresh products, processes and services, or in other words, to abandon old ways of doing things and provide way-outs for newer ones. Transformational leadership means "broadening and elevating followers' goals and providing them with confidence to perform beyond the expectations specified in the implicit or explicit exchange agreement" (Dvir, Eden, Avolio & Shamir, 2002:735). "Bass & Avolio (1994) characterized transformational leadership as being composed of four unique but interrelated behavioral components, viz., inspirational motivation (articulating an appealing / evocative vision), intellectual stimulation (promoting creativity and innovation), idealized influence (charismatic role modeling), and individualized consideration (coaching and mentoring)" (quoted in Jung, Chow & Wu, 2003:528).
In prior research, leadership particularly transformational leadership (e.g., Gong, Huang & Farh, 2009; Oke, Munshi & Walumbwa, 2009; Pieterse, van Knippenberg, Schippers & Stam, 2010) has been identified as an important currency in innovative behavior. Extant research (e.g., Reuvers, van Engen, Vinkenburg & Wilson-Evered, 2008; Khan, Aslam & Riaz, 2012; Pieterse et al., 2010) revealed a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership and...
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warc | 202143 | “Please use your liberty to promote ours.” –Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy As I get ready to celebrate this Independence Day by barbecuing and watching fireworks with my family this evening, I can’t help but think about what this holiday must look like from the outside. We are celebrating the day that Americans threw off the bonds of tyranny and claimed self-determination for ourselves. Although the verse declaring that “We hold these truths to be self-evident” is more well-known, the opening salvo of the Declaration of Independence is especially worthy of reflection today:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them…
These eloquent words have inspired people through the years and across the world. Integral to their beauty is their universality: the notion that “one people” have the implicit right to declare their independence from another and to undertake the endeavor of self-governance. But this begs the question. Once this implicit right is claimed by one people—Americans—how can it be justifiably denied to others? I can’t help but wonder whether my Palestinian, Tibetan, East Timorese, West Papuan, Kurdish, and Kosovar colleagues are asking themselves this very question today.
To the extent that Americans know about the nonviolent anti-occupation movements in Gaza and Tibet, for example, these struggles are hardly embraced with the same enthusiasm as we have for our own (largely violent, I should add) history of resistance to British rule. It’s one thing to not take an interest in someone else’s struggle for freedom. It’s quite another to gleefully celebrate your own liberty—which came at the hands of a determined resistance campaign (can anyone imagine the British celebrating the American Fourth of July?)—while simultaneously using that liberty to help deprive others of theirs.
As I write this, the world is waiting anxiously to see how the Israeli government will deal with the dilemma created for it by second Gaza Flotilla—a series of ships packed with humanitarian supplies and people determined to nonviolently show solidarity with the Palestinian people under occupation. And although the world has largely either forgotten about or given up on Tibet, the people of that region continue daily to resist the long and brutal occupation by China and fight for their self-determination with a degree of spiritual will that is truly breathtaking.
What makes the people of Palestine and Tibet less worthy of self-determination than the Americans of 1776? Like our own founding fathers, these peoples have demanded that the political bonds that tie them to another be dissolved. And of all people, Americans should be the most sympathetic of the desire by Palestinians and Tibetans to assume the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature entitle them. However, unlike Americans in 1776, both of these peoples have a long and proud history of self-rule, a strong precedent from which to pursue it again.
As Americans, how can we enjoy our own independence while watching others be deprived of theirs? Is that really how the founding fathers meant this principle to be employed? Do we really want to promote such egregious hypocrisy on a day that should be about universal values?
On Independence Day, as we celebrate the principle that all humans are entitled to life, liberty, and dignity, we should take a moment to reflect on whether and to what extent we as Americans actually use our liberty to promote for others all the natural rights that come with a separate and equal station.
Simply teaching kids about the science of the climate crisis isn’t enough. To prevent feelings of disempowerment, they need to see how they can make a meaningful impact.
As the pandemic continues to devastate America’s poorest, coalitions of unhoused people are finding inspiration in the powerful history of homeless organizing.
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Your heart is yet another thing which really can be helped by consuming apples. I am certain you know that apples have fiber, and that, as well as some of the various other components of apples can promote heart health. These ingredients will also help to decrease your cholesterol, which is also beneficial to promoting heart health. Of course to get all the benefits from apples it is important to know that most of the benefits can be found in the apples skin. And your best bet is to discover a local farm that grows only organic apples and be sure you eat the skin as well so you can get the most benefits of the apple.
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warc | 202143 | Hello everybody, welcome to our recipe site, If you’re looking for recipes idea to cook today, look no further! We provide you only the perfect Baked Handvo recipe here. We also have wide variety of recipes to try.
Before you jump to Baked Handvo recipe, you may want to read this short interesting healthy tips about { Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have To Be A Chore. I am sure you have heard that you should be eating an apple a day but did you ever wonder why this is actually important? You might know people that live by this and also require that their children live by this rule as well. This idea is known all over the world and men and women just take it as fact without knowing if this is in fact true. In the following paragraphs we are going to be looking at apples to see if they really are a food which will help to keep you healthy.
You’ve always been told to be certain that you are eating your vegetables and fruits so you get your vitamins, but apples have been at the top of the list. The very first thing you should know is that apples have more vitamins and minerals when compared with various other fruits.. When it comes to the minerals that are in apples you will find, potassium, calcium and zinc just to name a few. Obviously vitamins are additionally essential for your health and wellbeing and you will find vitamin B1, niacin, vitamin B6 and many more that promote well being.
At this stage we are going to explain to you why these minerals and vitamins are key to good health. You might or might not be aware that apples can actually help reduce risks of a variety of cancers, and that is due to all the things in apples. Some of the cancers that apples may help avoid are breast, liver, lung and colon cancers. Just that one element really should be enough reason for everybody to start eating apples.
Obviously, it’s not difficult to start incorporating healthy eating into your life.
We hope you got insight from reading it, now let’s go back to baked handvo recipe. You can have baked handvo using 29 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you do that. The ingredients needed to cook Baked Handvo: Take 3/4 cup of rice. Get 1/3 cup of chana dal. Take 2 tbsp. of tur dal. Get 2 tbsp. of masoor dal. Provide 2 tbsp. of urad dal. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of fenugreek seeds. Take 1/2 cup of grated beetroot. Use 1/2 cup of grated cucumber. Get 1/2 cup of grated green papaya. Provide handful of coriander leaves, chopped. Prepare 2 of green chilies, chopped. Get 1 tsp. of ginger, grated. You need 2-3 tbsp. of fresh grated coconut. Use to taste of salt. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of red chilli powder. You need 1 tsp. of cumin powder. Provide 1 tsp. of coriander powder. Provide 1/2 of juice of lime. You need of Tempering -. Get 2 tbsp. of oil. You need 1 tsp. of mustard seeds. Use 1/2 tsp. of cumin seeds. Provide 1 tsp. of sesame seeds. Provide 1 sprig of curry leaves. You need 1/4 tsp. of asafoetida. Provide 1 of dry red chilli. Prepare 1 tbsp. of fresh grated coconut to garnish. You need 1 tbsp. of chopped coriander leaves to garnish. Steps to make Baked Handvo: Soak the rice, fenugreek seeds and the lentils overnight. Grind to a slightly coarse paste.. Add rest of the ingredients and mix well.. Heat oil in a pan and temper with the dry red chilies, mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Saute for a few seconds. Add curry leaves, asafoetida and sesame seeds. Saute for a few seconds more.. Pour this tempering to the prepare batter and mix well.. Transfer the batter to a greased loaf tin and bake for 30-35 minutes at 180 degrees C.. Garnish with grated coconut and coriander leaves. Slice as desired and serve with mint chutney.. If you find this Baked Handvo recipe helpful please share it to your close friends or family, thank you and good luck. | 3,834 | 1,715 | 2.235569 |
warc | 202143 | Hey everyone, welcome to our recipe site, if you’re looking for Oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes recipe, look no further! We provide you only the best Oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes recipe here. We also have wide variety of recipes to try.
Before you jump to Oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes recipe, you may want to read this short interesting healthy tips about { Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have To Be A Chore. I am sure you have heard that you ought to be eating an apple a day but did you ever ask yourself why this is important? You might know men and women that live by this and also require that their children live by this principle as well. This thought can be observed in country’s all around the world and individuals follow it as gospel with out ever discovering why they should eat an apple a day. You will be pleased to know that we have carried out a little research, and we are going to teach you why this is thought to be a miracle fruit.
While everyone understands that consuming plenty of fruits and vegetables is a great way to make sure your body gets all the nutrition it needs, why are apples pushed so much? Well lets take a look at the vitamins and minerals that you could acquire in just one apple. On the subject of the minerals that tend to be in apples you will find, potassium, calcium and zinc just to mention a few. And you will also find vitamins in your apples like, vitamin A, B1, B2, niacin, folate, pantothenic acid, B6, C, E, K and various other trace vitamins.
So what can all these vitamins and minerals do for the actual overall health of your body. As I am certain you know, research is being done all the time and there have been studies that have been done that clearly show that apples can reduce some cancer risks. By eating apples you could lower your chances of getting breast or lung cancer. I’m not sure about you but when I read that I went out and bought a whole bag of apples.
Hence, it should be quite obvious that it’s not difficult to add healthy eating to your life.
We hope you got insight from reading it, now let’s go back to oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes recipe. To cook oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes you need 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it. The ingredients needed to prepare Oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes: Use 1 tbsp of olive oil. Prepare 3 small of sweet peppers. Take 1 medium of red onion. Provide 6 small of cherry tomatoes. Get 3 medium of sweet potatoes. Get 2 tsp of salt. You need 1 1/2 tsp of black pepper. You need 4 slice of salmon fillet. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter. Steps to make Oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes: pre-heat oven on gas mark 4. wash sweet peppers and cherry tomatoes. slice onion, sweet peppers in thin slices or however you prefer removing the bulb and seeds from awe peppers. cut cherry tomatoes in half and set aside with the peppers and onion. wash salmon fillets and season with 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of black pepper, onion, sweet peppers, tomatoes and olive oil and mix thoroughly.. trasfer seasoned fish with all the ingredients in an oven dish and place in oven. peel potatoes, cut roughly into big cubes, wash and transfer into a pot. add water salt, butter and remaining black pepper then place on the stove and cook till ready. check your fish and make sure it's not sticking to the dish. half way through cooking flip the salmon upside down. it should take around 45 mins to an hour to cook depending on your oven. check your potatoes. when ready turn off and drain.. when fish ready turn off oven, take out, plate up and enjoy. If you find this Oven baked salmon with sweet potatoes recipe helpful please share it to your close friends or family, thank you and good luck. | 3,783 | 1,723 | 2.195589 |
warc | 202143 | Introduction: The measures implemented to manage the COVID‐19 pandemic have been shown to impair mental health. This problem is likely to be exacerbated for carers. Method: Informal carers (mainly parents) of children and adults with intellectual disabilities, and a comparison group of parents of children without disabilities, completed an online questionnaire. Almost all the data were collected while strict lockdown conditions were in place. | 453 | 297 | 1.525253 |
warc | 202143 | When regions across the country imposed restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic and employers worked ardently to protect their workforce, working from home became a new norm. As people are returning to everyday things more and more, there has been an increase in corporate workers going back to the office. Nevertheless, not every company is quick to call everyone back to work onsite.
Safety Considerations
The threat of a more contagious and potentially more dangerous strain as most restrictions have been lifted has people on their guard. Also, a surprising number of people have been resistant to getting immunized because of misinformation campaigns, often driven by political objectives. In areas such as Florida, some leaders have actually attempted to prevent companies from requiring workers to get vaccinated. Understandably, employers remain cautious as a new wave of cases is on the rise.
Optimizing Productivity
Many workers have been able to enhance their productivity as well as their satisfaction with their job roles by working from home. Given the choice, many employers and employees alike would like the opportunity to make a permanent change.
Ultimately, work-from-home employees may help companies save on overhead costs and retain their best team members. Productivity and financial considerations are key factors in companies’ analyses, but keeping people safe will remain to be a priority.
There’s nothing like a sunny day on the water, but boating at night has its own special charm and appeal. The moon and stars shining overhead, the gentle rocking of the boat, and the wisp of clouds outlined by starlight are all part of the appeal.
Without the visibility provided by daylight, however, there are certain rules that should always be observed when you’re out on the lake or ocean at nighttime. Boating at night can be dangerous, but being cautious and following safety protocols is always the best practice.
1. Keep the Lights On
First and foremost, always remember that your running lights must be operating when you’re in the water at night. The red (port) and green (starboard) running lights should be easily visible and without obstruction (make sure anchor lights are on when you are moored). And since other boats in the water might mistake cabin lights for navigation lights, keep things dim after dark.
2. Slow Down
In most lakes, and in some places near marinas, a speed limit at night is often recommended, if not totally enforced. Mind your speed whenever you’re out boating, but particularly at night. Going too fast could result in a costly collision, or worse, the total loss of your vessel.
Always take it slow and keep safe in the dark of night!
Being a teacher is undoubtedly one of the most important career decisions a person can make over the course of his or her life. Naturally, this is also a position that comes with a ton of risks. When you’re an educator who operates within the public school system, it is important to understand that you have specific rights in regard to your employment. Not only are there rights granted on a state-to-state level, there are also federal laws providing specific provisions to those who are teachers. Understanding your rights can help you stay protected at work.
The Freedom To Speak Your Mind
There are plenty of points to keep in mind surrounding teachers rights. For one, a teacher is allowed on a federal level to exercise his or her freedom of speech to discuss matters that impact the public with students. For example, a teacher is within his or her rights when a local or national election is approaching and the educator shares personal opinions with students. Should a school try to fire the individual for this, the teacher has every right to respond with legal action. Other points to understand include:
Freedom to choose any schools for your own children Freedom to have privacy Freedom to discuss the government Understand Your Rights
By understanding what rights you have as an educator, you can do your part to operate in the correct way while at work. Take time to review the basics and discover exactly what rights you have in the workplace.
Retirement plans covered under the Department of Labor’s Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, have assets nearing $9.3 trillion. Those same plans are primarily online, linked to participants’ financial accounts and personal information. Combine this with the 100% rise in ransomware attacks in 2021 compared to 2020, and it’s clear why the DOL has issued cybersecurity guidance. Here’s what you need to know.
Cybersecurity Is Your Fiduciary Responsibility
The fiduciary responsibility to be effective stewards of a business retirement plan has been clearly laid out in ERISA from the beginning. Any of the following personnel are held to its requirements:
The plan investment committee Plan trustees, and Plan administrators.
Now the DOL is saying that responsibility extends beyond the passive act of avoiding mismanagement and bad investments into the active realm of protecting data.
How To Use The Guidance
Cybersecurity guidance is a roadmap to making sure you are actively protecting your employee’s data and finances through a three-pronged approach: program best practices, how to hire a service provider with strong cybersecurity and security tips.
Do not treat the guidelines as advice that can be ignored, or implemented as you see fit. To protect yourself from potential lawsuits after a breach, your company should be revisiting your computer policies and cybersecurity to meet each point of the guidance.
As a business owner, two things that occupy your focus are saving money and managing risks. Certain insurance products help you manage various operational risks that can threaten the health of your company. For example, you might have property insurance to cover losses due to theft or fire. While that’s a pretty typical coverage for most businesses, your operations may include risks that are difficult to cover with standard policies. Self-insurance is a go-to for many businesses, but this can be a very costly way to manage risk.
Enter Captive Insurance
Captive insurance solutions offer a way for companies like yours to reduce costs, cover unique and/or difficult risks and improve cash flow by creating an insurance company. Captive insurance offers certain benefits for you as the insured:
Evaluating subsidiary risks Writing policies Setting premiums Returning or reinvesting unused funds
Captive insurance includes common coverages such as general liability and worker’s compensation, as well as those for hard-to-insure risks that may be more specific to your company and its operations.
Control Your Coverage
Captive solutions put you in the driver’s seat when it comes to how you protect your business. Choose an insurer that can help you come up with a tailored approach that protects not only your company, but clientele risk as well. See how captive insurance can help you save money while protecting what matters.
When running any business, a level of risk and uncertainty is involved. Likewise, most business owners and management strive to determine how much chance or risk to accept or manage to enhance or erode company assets. This is why enterprise risk captive insurance is vital to the potential growth of your business.
What is Captive?
A captive can be an effective way of maintaining more significant control of risk management and fund self-insured risks. Additionally, a captive insurance company accepts premiums your business may have to pay against a parent company and can profit if those claims are less than the original premium. A captive can also lower insurance premium costs and provide long-term stability for pricing on customized policy manuscripts.
Benefits of Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise risk management or ERM is a crucial component of how a captive contributes to your business’s profitability. Often, a captive consists of a board of highly trained professionals within a variety of disciplines that can also influence your risk management program’s success. Since an ERM focuses on preventing uncertainty, claims are likely prevented instead of administered, giving business owners a broader understanding of their industry limitations as well.
When you have a captive in place and enforce an ERM, you can ensure effective compliance with local laws and reduce potential risks. Additionally, when you combine enterprise risk management and a captive, it can be vital to your company’s overall growth.
As a business owner, you have to be conscientious about safeguarding your business against risk. Working with an insurance company that is experienced in serving commercial clients in Richmond can provide you with thorough coverage to protect your business from risk comprehensively and affordably.
Getting the Right Help
Business Insurance by BlueSky offers a variety of coverage areas that can meet all of your business’ individual policy needs. BlueSky provides insurance for a wide range of businesses that vary in size and span across many different types of industries. Their experienced representatives can help you build a package that’s customized to address every type of risk involved in your day-to-day operations.
Tailored Policies for Your Business
To effectively safeguard your business, it may be necessary to get more than a basic general liability policy. BlueSky can help you get competitive prices for the following types of policies:
Commercial Property Commercial Umbrella Directors and Officers Employment Practices Liability Cyber Liability Errors and Omissions Special Events Workers Compensation Bonds
Building a package with an experienced agency can help you get access to the best carriers in the marketplace that serve your area. Reach out to BlueSky for help with protecting your business from potential liability or loss with thorough commercial insurance coverage. | 10,096 | 4,412 | 2.288305 |
warc | 202143 | Third party accounting companies aren’t just there to handle
monthly bookkeeping duties. They’re also there to limit the potential fraud risks that are inherent when you hire an on-site staff comprised of people whose backgrounds you’re not 100 percent sure about. Granted, not every employee that you hire is going to be a fraud risk or a hardened criminal looking for a golden opportunity to abscond with your company’s money. But without putting in place strong and frequently monitored controls, that threat will always exist. Signing up with a company that can provide bookkeeping and payroll services online helps you minimize that risk.
Creating phantom employees is one way that a dishonest bookkeeper can steal money from under a company’s nose without appearing obvious. The addition of a couple of extra employees earning a full-time wage can be highly profitable for fraudsters and equally as costly to a company, especially once the checks have been cashed and the money spent. But this isn’t the only way that a company can be drained of funds – another method is through the continuation of payments and benefits for employees who have been fired or let go.
Both of these incredibly destructive and costly practices can be prevented by contracting a third party to perform
monthly bookkeeping duties and payroll services online. Not only can you rest assured that the internal controls established by the outsourced accounting firm will prevent this kind of fraudulent activity from taking place, but you can also take comfort in knowing that all employees are background checked.
Security concerns over the transfer of documentation is assured through the use of scanners that enable the quick, encrypted transfer of information via email from one location to another without having to physically send documentation, yet another prospect that’s rife with risk. To learn more about how you can limit your exposure to fraudulent activity within your company, visit AccountingDepartment.com. | 2,051 | 1,022 | 2.006849 |
warc | 202143 | We assess several key measures of tobacco use among underage individuals, including awareness of tobacco products, current and ever tobacco use, demographic characteristics, brand and flavors used, and sources of access. The annual target sample size for the survey is 5,000 individuals under the legal age for tobacco use. We met our target from May to November 2020, collecting data from 5,252 underage individuals. We shared this data with FDA and made the results public through our Altria Science website, where we provide updates every 6 months.
This Underage Tobacco Use Survey is designed to help us meet stakeholder expectations – made clear through interactions with FDA personnel evaluating product and claim authorizations, the Tobacco Product Scientific Advisory Committee, investors, public health groups and others – that we and other tobacco manufacturers need to understand the latest product-specific underage tobacco use trends. | 960 | 538 | 1.784387 |
warc | 202143 | Dr. John Chalstrom, Ph.D.
Football has returned. The Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing. Hot, humid weather has given way to cooler days and blue skies. It is time to make sure your canine companions are in optimal shape.
Fall training shouldn’t be a crash course to get a dog in shape. Treating the fall like it was a dog navy boot camp is a recipe for disaster. Rather, a dog’s fitness must be maintained year round and proper exercise must meet the conditions. Provided a dog’s health has been properly maintained, regularly exercised, and properly stimulated, conditions are now favorable for improving the fitness program.
Hunting dogs are athletes and must be treated as such. A strict fitness plan must be adhered to all year round. When the season ends, it’s time to relax while moving on to a gentle but consistent workout. The condition of a dog that is groomed regularly keeps the dog ready for the hardships of the fitness camp in autumn. That being said, what are the best ways to prepare a dog for the field and the blind?
Swim: Perhaps the best way to exercise vigorously, improve cardiovascular health, and build muscle tone is to get a dog to swim in a pond or lake. Gentle training builds muscle mass and stamina without putting excessive strain on the joints. It’s also a great way to work on skill development in an environment where your dog won’t overheat. A rigorous swimming program will enable a dog to quickly start the upcoming season in perfect physical shape. This exercise is best for the evening hours. More:What will Iowa’s duck hunting season be like this year? Recall: Along with swimming comes the work of fetching in the field. The use of dummies or live birds and the reinforcement of hauling in under simulated hunting conditions is imperative. It is also a way to improve a dog’s physical condition, stamina, and endurance by providing intense and fun exercise for the dog and trainer. Take your companion to the field, not the back yard. This further simulates actual hunting conditions without the distractions the neighborhood might offer. At the same time, re-expose your dog to gunfire if it has not been exposed during the off-season. I usually take my dogs to the weekend trapping events, followed by a training session in the field. More:DNR: Iowa’s pheasant season could be the second best in 12 years Nourishment: Perhaps the most important aspect of case conditioning is diet. There are many different thoughts to this, and none of them are right or wrong. Rather, they are simply preferences. I know some trainers who like to increase a dog’s food intake and weight in late summer. The philosophy behind this method is simple: a dog is going to use a tremendous amount of energy in the coming months, perhaps more than its daily caloric intake. So by gaining weight before the season, a dog has an excess reserve. Personally, I try to maintain my dog’s weight year round without overfeeding or gaining weight before the season starts. Gradually switching to higher protein foods during the fall season is my preference without overfeeding the dog. My concern about weight gain is increased stress on the joints at all times, especially in older dogs. The transition to a higher protein diet is sufficient for an exercise program. And of course high quality dog food all year round.
It is important that your dog is ready for the field in early fall. Exercise, familiarity with birds, and proper diet are critical to success during the highland and waterfowl seasons. Expecting a dog to withstand the rigors of the field without proper fall conditioning is a recipe for disaster and potential injury.
This article is made available on the register with permission from The Iowa Sportsman magazine. For information on publishing and subscribing, visit iowasportsman.com or call 877-424-4594. | 3,917 | 1,864 | 2.101395 |
warc | 202143 | If you are like many woodworkers, you often wonder does my woodworking workbench jig work? Woodworking is an addictive hobby. Woodworking plans, books, videos, and woodworking ideas can fill your mind with images of beautiful projects that take all day and cost thousands of dollars to build.
For some woodworkers, woodworking can be a year long hobby that involves learning a variety of techniques, tools, and woodworking plans to build beautiful woodworking worksheets and furniture. Some woodworkers may only want to build one or two woodworking projects at a time. In these cases, they may only use a woodworking bench jig to perform small tasks such as sharpening a screw or adding a nail and move on to bigger woodworking projects.
The fact is that woodworking is much more versatile than most woodworkers believe. There is a world of woodworking projects that can be performed by just about any tool and any type of wood. One of the most versatile tools in woodworking is the woodworking bench jig. Using this tool, woodworkers can perform very specific tasks such as crosscutting lumber, sorting stock, and chiseling.
The woodworking bench jig is also an excellent choice for woodworkers who do not have a lot of experience working with wood. Using the woodworking jig, woodworkers who have been working with wood for years can quickly learn how to perform common woodworking tasks such as crosscutting lumber. This type of woodworking work can be done quickly and requires no special tools or skills. With this ability, woodworkers will save time and money by performing the woodworking tasks that require minimal effort.
Many woodworkers mistakenly believe that a woodworking workbench jig requires a considerable amount of skill to use. While it does take some practice to become comfortable with using a woodworking jig, the woodworking workbench jig is extremely easy to use. Because the woodworking workbench jig allows woodworkers to perform a variety of common woodworking tasks without having to use special tools, beginners to woodworking often find that the woodworking workbench jig is an invaluable aid to their woodworking efforts. Since the woodworking workbench jig is so easy to use, woodworkers can often get started on a project, complete the project, and then complete the task again within a few hours or less.
One of the keys to using a woodworking workbench jig is knowing where to place the jig. The woodworking workbench jig should be located in a place that is away from heat and moisture. Ideally, the woodworking workbench jig should be kept in a location where it will not be disturbed by high temperatures. While it is generally not a good idea to keep a woodworking workbench jig in a sunny closet, a workbench jig can be used out in the sun if desired. It is important to make sure that the woodworking workbench jig is out of direct sunlight and that no excessive heat or moisture is present. If either of these conditions are present, damage could occur to the woodworking workbench.
Another important question to ask when asking the question “Does my woodworking workbench jig work?” is whether to purchase a pre-made woodworking workbench jig or build one from scratch. Pre-made woodworking workbench jigs are widely available at many lumber yards and hardware stores.
Building your own woodworking workbench jig can save a tremendous amount of time and money. The jig is a much faster and more efficient method of working than using an old woodworking workbench that has seen better days. It can also be a lot of fun to build your own woodworking workbench jig. Once the project is finished, there will surely be a spot in your home where this woodworking workbench jig will not only look great but also be a useful addition to your woodworking supplies. | 3,818 | 1,534 | 2.488918 |
warc | 202143 | Despite a sustained rise in input costs, firms increased output prices at a slower rate last month to attract demand
02 Jul 2021 9:59 AM
On the price front, the survey also observed that there was a softer and historically weak rise in input costs
01 Oct 2020 9:54 PM
In April, the index had slipped into contraction mode, after remaining in the growth territory for 32 consecutive months
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warc | 202143 | Your Rights As a Home Buyer
Property buying necessitates knowledge of a complicated set of rules, a process that a typical homebuyer would find difficult. This is why it is best to enlist the help of legal/property professionals while making the transaction. However, it would be insufficient if you did not do some legwork and educate yourself on certain fundamental rules. Hyderabad has seen a great upheaval in the real estate sector. With so many new residential projects in Hyderabad coming up, buyers are spoilt for choices. In this article, we talk of some of the home buyer rights that everyone even remotely interested in India’s real estate must know about.
Right to get all property related information
The homeowner has the right to acquire project information such as authorized blueprints, layout plans, RERA registration number, and specifications from the responsible body.
Right to know details about the project
Every home buyer has the right to know the project’s stage-by-stage completion schedule, as well as the arrangements for water, sanitation, power, and other facilities and services indicated in the agreement’s terms and conditions.
Right to claim possession
If all of the essential procedures have been accomplished and the requisite payment has been paid, the home buyer has the right to take possession of the property, including the shared spaces.
Right to get the property with every amenity mentioned in the agreement
Because real estate investment is such a large investment, it’s critical to double-check all of the documentation to ensure that the property is free of legal issues. It’s also important to make sure that all of the promised/mentioned features and facilities are included in the sale agreement and you receive all the perks that have been mentioned.
Right to receive all the documents
The home buyer is entitled to the required documentation and plans, including those for shared spaces, after the developer has handed over physical possession of the property.
Once you have narrowed down a couple of choices, you must make use of the above list to exercise these rights for a smooth purchase process. With such a variety of residential properties in Hyderabad, you get more choices to explore. But your search will soon end with Kohinoor by Aurobindo Realty in HITEC City. | 2,365 | 1,130 | 2.09292 |
warc | 202143 | Everything You Need To Know About Consumer Goods Sector Stocks In India
Read this blog to know all about the consumer goods sector in India. Learn about the top Indian consumer goods stocks and their recent performance.
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If you’re reading this blog, you either want to become a Do It Yourself (DIY) investor in India or maybe you’ve heard of the term DIY investing and want to know more about it.
Either way… we’re here to help and tell you everything you need to know about DIY investing in India. But, remember to speak to a wealth coach before investing your hard-earned money in any asset.
Alternatively, you could take the free risk analysis in the Cube Wealth app as the first step.
In “Do It Yourself” or “DIY” investing, an investor makes their own investment choices instead of relying on an advisor. The DIY investor will build, manage and rebalance their own portfolio based on their judgment and reading of the market or economic conditions.
There are online and offline ways of DIY investing. But DIY investing primarily happens online because investment apps give DIY investors benefits like ease of access, low cost investing, and more.
DIY investors can use these platforms to manage their portfolios, track the markets, automate their payments, etc. This convenience is especially useful for busy professionals.
Online investment platforms that can be classified into 2 types:
Robo advisory platforms give DIY investors access to investment options with little to no human advice or interaction. The investment options are based on mathematical models and AI algorithms.
Hybrid investment platforms like Cube Wealth give DIY investors access to curated investment options but also the option to speak to a wealth coach to identify the right investment choices based on their preferences.
Want to know why investment advice is important for DIY investors? Watch this video
The popularity of DIY investing may be due to years of hard-selling by bank representatives, brokers, and others who are motivated more by their own targets rather than the individual investor’s goals.
On the other hand, investment apps have made it easier for DIY investors to make their own choices. But beyond that, DIY investing gives the individual investor a sense of transparency, control and clarity.
There are obvious benefits to investing yourself.
Other benefits may include:
Investing on your own may help you save on advisory fees.
Your investment choices won't be limited to a fund house or company.
DIY investing will help you identify each fee for what it is.
Other risks may include:
DIY investors may overestimate or underestimate their ability to take risks.
An investment advisor primarily helps you understand your investment goals, which can be neglected when investing on your own.
DIY investors may fall into the trap of looking too much into historical data and not future potential.
Your DIY investment journey should begin after speaking to a wealth coach. This is important because you need to know your risk level and investment objectives.
After that, you can potentially consider these best DIY investment options for 2021:
It’s a large pool of money collected from numerous investors. A fund manager invests this money in various stocks, bonds, and other securities. DIY investors can choose to invest in:
Benefits of investing in mutual funds for DIY investors:
Here’s how hand-picked mutual funds work on Cube
A stock is a publicly-traded piece of a company that you can invest in on the share market. As a DIY investor, you can invest in these options on the Cube Wealth app:
Benefits of investing in stocks for DIY investors:
Based on what you want out of your gold investments, you can choose to invest in:
Investing in digital gold by Safegold on the Cube Wealth app has several benefits for DIY investors:
Peer to peer lending puts borrowers directly in touch with lenders. This cuts out the intermediary, who in most cases, is a bank. DIY investors can become a lender on 2 RBI Certified P2P NBFCs using Cube:
Benefits of investing in P2P lending for DIY investors:
Cube helps you build the perfect portfolio based on detailed risk analysis and your investment goals. Read more about building the perfect portfolio here.
Let’s look at the key differences between DIY investing and professional advisory.
DIY investors will have to actively manage their own portfolios. This would require them to track the markets and periodically evaluate their portfolio.
This may be difficult to do with a full-time job. At the same time, it’s unavoidable because your goals rest on your portfolio’s ability to generate returns. Cube makes this easier with one simple view of your entire portfolio.
An advisor will excel at this because it’s their responsibility to actively manage every aspect of the investor’s portfolio. An advisor has a better understanding of portfolio evaluation and the various ways to buy heroes and cut the loss-makers.
DIY investors can lower the overall cost of investing. Advisors may charge what is known as, ‘advisory fee’, that can eat into your profits.
But you must ask yourself if scaling back on costs is a rational choice when you can get expert advice backed by years of investing experience from an advisor.
Most DIY investors have a basic understanding of the markets. It’s all too common to see regular investors buy or sell at the wrong time.
While Advisors may not be able to predict the markets, they know more about the general trends, the data and the various metrics that point to a ‘buy or sell’ decision.
A financial advisor is someone who tells you what to buy. A good financial advisor suggests what you should buy based on your goals, timeframe, age, financial condition, risk profile, etc.
There are obvious benefits that an advisor can give to a DIY investor such as objective investment suggestions and buying recommendations.
Cube’s advisors even suggest when you should sell an investment. Watch this video to know more about Cube’s advisors
DIY investing banks on 2 crucial aspects of the individual investor:
If you’re comfortable with a & b along with actively tracking the market and periodically re-evaluating your portfolio, DIY investing could work for you.
You would obviously incur a lower investment cost but at the same time, the DIY playbook must include:
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warc | 202143 | Exploring DORA – the Digital Operational Resilience Act and its impact on banks and their supervisors Speech at the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG) 1 Introduction
Ladies and gentlemen,
Friends and colleagues,
In 1974, Reinhard Mey, one of Germany’s best-known singer-songwriters, released one of his biggest hits, “Über den Wolken”, meaning
“Above the clouds”.
In the song, the protagonist stands on an airfield watching a plane take off. He imagines that the sky beyond the clouds must be where freedom can be found. In the chorus he sings:
“Above the clouds, freedom must be boundless.”
Nowadays one could be tempted to change the words of the chorus to:
“Inside the cloud, freedom is boundless.” Perhaps it is a little too sketchy to draw a parallel between the freedom above the clouds and the opportunities that come with cloud technologies.
But still, let me focus on another parallel between Reinhard Mey’s song and cloud computing. For the protagonist in the song, the sky beyond the clouds seems boundless, probably without any rules. But in reality, of course, there are plenty of international rules for the clouds, for air traffic, and air traffic controllers use rules to keep the airspace organised and, above all, safe. Without rules and oversight, air traffic would never be as safe and reliable as it is today, and it wouldn’t offer the freedom of travel we normally enjoy (except when a virus comes along, of course …).
Working in the cloud, having all your data available anytime, anyplace, seems boundless and offers many opportunities. But just like in air traffic, cloud providers and online traffic need rules and oversight in order to be stable and beneficial.
The cloud is just one example of the potential, and also of the risks that come with the digitalisation in the financial sector.
This is where DORA comes into play. With DORA – or, to give the act its full name, the Digital Operational Resilience Act –, the EU has begun to forge an oversight framework for banks’ Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) risks and for critical ICT third-party service providers. DORA introduces stricter regulation of ICT service providers, including cloud providers. So you could say DORA brings consistent rules and oversight to the seemingly boundless sky beyond the clouds.
My speech on DORA today will focus on three questions:
First: Why DORA? What’s our take from a supervisory and financial stability perspective?
Second: DORA, smaller banks and proportionality: What improvements could DORA deliver?
Third: Third-party oversight and banking supervision: are they two sides of the same coin? How should supervisors interact?
2 Why DORA?
Let’s kick off with my first question: Why DORA?
First of all, let me take a global perspective: DORA, which forms part of the EU’s digital finance package, takes an increasingly important area of digital finance regulation to the next level. This will open up opportunities for the EU to take a leading role in the field of digital financial services. We could even enhance our digital and financial sovereignty in the EU. By advancing regulation in this field, we have the opportunity to set global standards and remain competitive – while mitigating the risks arising from digital finance.
Second, from my perspective as a banking supervisor at the Bundesbank: DORA addresses today’s most important challenges for managing ICT risks at financial institutions and critical ICT third-party service providers. Only if these risks are properly managed can digitalisation truly deliver on the many opportunities it offers for the banking and financial industry: Better analysis and better data management can make banks more resilient. For instance, early warning systems for loan defaults based on automatically evaluated economic news could improve risk management.
I therefore see the role of supervision as a “supporter” of digitalisation in the banking sector. Legislation should not raise the bar for digital innovation, nor should it overburden the financial sector; instead, it should name risks and help institutions manage these risks adequately. This is, of course, within the framework of our supervisory mandate, which provides for technology and market neutrality.
And third, let me put myself in a central banker’s shoes: I believe digitalisation can make the financial system as a whole more resilient – provided risks are kept suitably in check. ICT risks continue to pose a challenge to the operational resilience, performance and stability of the EU financial system. This was insistently underlined in a paper published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) this Monday.[1]
Only if financial institutions take an independent, sovereign and balanced approach to the opportunities and risks presented by digitalisation can the functioning of the financial system be safeguarded in the long term. If we succeed in mitigating these risks, we even have a chance of making not only individual institutions, but the financial system as a whole more stable with the help of digital tools.
So from all three perspectives – from the global perspective, seeing the EU as a standard setter; from a supervisor’s perspective, looking at the stability of individual institutions; and from a central banker’s view, looking at the stability of the entire financial system – digitalisation opens up enormous potential for efficient and stable financial markets if risks are properly managed. That’s why I strongly support DORA.
3 DORA, smaller banks and proportionality
But of course, since I am speaking to the European Savings and Retail Banking Group today, whose members tend to be somewhat smaller institutions, there is another question that comes up: How can the many small banks we have in Europe leverage the opportunities of digital finance, and how does DORA affect smaller banks?
Let me start off by making a general point: small and medium-sized banks in particular can benefit a great deal from digitalisation if the risks are properly managed. Cloud services enable banks to tap into huge computing capacities and state-of-the-art software capabilities without an expensive IT infrastructure which would exceed their resources. Cloud services can boost big data analytics and artificial intelligence, even more so among small and medium-sized banks. Moreover, cloud service providers can better equip banks to fend off certain types of cybercrime. Using the cloud can therefore improve smaller banks’ access to new technologies.
But nevertheless, there is a clear rule in banking supervision: you can’t outsource responsibility. Every bank has a duty to monitor and control the risks arising from an outsourcing relationship. That rule also holds true for smaller banks using the services of cloud service providers.
Many cloud service providers operate internationally, have millions of customers and an enormous amount of data and money. Compared to them, smaller European banks are just too small to be able to really audit the cloud service providers. One current possibility for smaller banks is to work together when auditing cloud providers, in what are known as pooled audits. Banks can and should make even greater use of this cooperative approach.
This is the first efficiency gain that DORA can deliver for smaller banks: systemically important third-party service providers will be audited by public authorities.
This does not mean that the individual bank is off the hook, but central oversight of this kind is certainly a benefit for smaller banks. It could produce synergy effects. The resilience of providers would presumably increase. Institutions would enjoy greater certainty surrounding compliance with regulatory requirements. Maybe, in the end, banks could also base their own supervision on supervisors’ inspection and oversight findings and have greater legal certainty when outsourcing operations to the cloud.
But central oversight of cloud service providers is not the only improvement DORA can bring for smaller banks.
My second argument for DORA and smaller banks: lowering the cost of incidents and reducing the administrative burden in incident reporting.
Although it is difficult to estimate the cost of operational incidents in the financial sector, industry research points to a figure of between 2 and 27 billion euro per year for the EU financial sector. DORA could help to lower these numbers and mitigate wider impacts of serious cyber incidents.
With more consistent and standardised incident reporting procedures, DORA could also reduce the administrative burden on financial institutions and increase the efficiency of supervision.
However, standardisation also narrows the scope for implementing rules in a proportionate manner.
This brings me to my third argument: looking especially at smaller banks, proportionality is a key topic in the ongoing negotiations on DORA among EU Member States.
In fact, DORA – being level 1 legislation – should be as principles-based and technology-neutral as possible to allow a quick adaption to new technological developments. Bearing this in mind, proportionality will be an important aim when developing the regulatory standards for implementing the DORA rules. For DORA, then, the objective is to strike the right balance between providing principles and allowing for sufficient and proportionate flexibility.
4 Third-party oversight and banking supervision: two sides of the same coin?
My first point was: Why DORA? My second was: How does DORA work for smaller banks? Let me now turn to my third question: How can third-party oversight and banking supervision cooperate – are they two sides of the same coin?
Let me start with an example of two frameworks that don’t yet complement each other well. As banking supervisors, we are particularly interested in processes and applications that have a bearing on risk management, such as artificial intelligence in credit assessments, liquidity planning, or portfolio management. The use of artificial intelligence is supervised under the existing banking regulation. I am therefore rather critical about introducing special authorisation requirements, such as those proposed by the European Commission for creditworthiness checks. Banks should continue to be supervised in a technology-neutral manner – without duplicating any regulation, and without duplicating supervisory processes.
But let me circle back to the current DORA proposal: the oversight framework for critical ICT third-party service providers does indeed complement the supervisory approaches taken within the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and at the national level.
While the SSM focuses on the risks that financial institutions take when they outsource activities to ICT third-party providers, DORA enables the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to access critical ICT third-party service providers directly and sanction them if necessary.
For this task-sharing arrangement to work, there are three key requirements for DORA I would like to emphasise from my point as a supervisor:
A well designed approach ensuring supervisory efficiency; closer cooperation among authorities and and clear consistency of rules.
First, it is key that we always bear in mind the objective of supervisory efficiency when designing DORA.
The DORA proposal raises some crucial points regarding the interplay between (traditional) banking supervision and the new European oversight framework.
We welcome the aim to streamline and harmonise any overlapping regulatory requirements or supervisory expectations.
If the ESAs increasingly engage in supervising cloud providers, they must ensure that they do so in an efficient manner and without duplicating any work. One issue should be examined only once and by just one authority.
This is important for us as supervisors, as we have a duty to deploy our staff and resources efficiently. And of course, this is important for you, the banks, as well: you don’t want to be supervised twice for the same issue. I am sure this is also true for cloud service providers.
This implies that we must clearly define the responsibilities of both banking supervisors and the ESAs in order to avoid a clash of competencies.
Under the proposed regulation, the ESAs will perform operational oversight functions for critical ICT third-party service providers, with the EBA designated as the lead overseer and in close cooperation with EIOPA and ESMA. This includes on-site inspections, ongoing oversight and recommendations for action.
By contrast, banking supervisors are to stick to their mandate of supervising financial institutions. Supervision of critical ICT third-party service providers therefore falls only indirectly, if that, within the scope of banking supervisors.
Second, closer cooperation among authorities is needed.
If the ESAs directly supervise critical ICT third-party service providers, this will make the supervisory landscape more complex and increase the need for cooperation with supervisors.
It is all about striking a balance between (national) supervision and the new European oversight framework after all.
One example of this is the joint examination teams that the ESAs will set up to conduct on-site inspections on the premises of critical ICT third-party service providers: these teams will comprise staff from both the ESAs and the relevant competent authorities.
Moreover, authorities could also cooperate closely when identifying critical ICT third-party service providers and evaluating concentration risk – this is an area where supervisors could contribute valuable information.
Against this backdrop, I strongly support what is proposed under DORA: to prevent future cyber-attacks and reduce ICT threats to the financial system as a whole, we need to strengthen information sharing, and we need to boost cooperation between the ESAs, supervisors and other relevant stakeholders such as the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity.
My third point: the need for consistent rules.
It is important that the rules envisaged by DORA are consistent with the existing rules in banking regulation. Otherwise, this would fragment regulatory standards even further and overburden banks that engage in outsourcing arrangements.
In my view, we need a sound supervisory architecture balancing third-party oversight and banking supervision. Then, these two aspects can become two sides of the same coin: the coin that offers digital opportunities for the financial sector.
5 Closing remarks
Ladies and gentlemen,
to sum up:
First: digitalisation brings opportunities and risks. To help the financial sector seize the opportunities, it is helpful to manage the risks with DORA – from the global view, in terms of setting standards; from the supervisor’s view of individual banks; and from the central banker’s view in terms of financial stability.
Second: DORA comes with several improvements for smaller banks, but proportionality should be discussed further in the ongoing negotiations.
Third, banking supervision and third-party oversight should be two sides of the same coin, with an efficient institutional set-up, close cooperation among authorities, and consistent rules. We at the Bundesbank will do our part to make this work.
Returning to Reinhard Mey’s line that
“Above the clouds, freedom must be boundless”:
We all want to tap into the digital freedom that lies
“beyond the clouds”, into using digital technologies with the fewest constraints possible. In this spirit, let us all work together and help DORA set the standards for rules and oversight to make digital freedom and digital resilience possible.
Thank you for your attention.
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History
The Kennecott Utah Copper Company had its start when Enos A. Wall realized the potential of copper deposits in Bingham Canyon, 15 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in 1887 and acquired claims to the land. Underground mining in the area was begun in 1890, and Daniel C. Jackling and Robert C. Gemmell, both engineers, examined Wall's properties and recommended open-pit mining. In 1898, Samuel Newhouse and Thomas Weir formed the Boston Consolidated Mining Company.
Jackling and Wall formed the
In 1907, a railroad was built to transport the ore, and the Utah Copper mill in Magna started operation. Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated merged in 1910, and in 1915, Kennecott acquired 25% interest in the company. In 1936, Kennecott acquired all the assets of the Utah Copper Company.
During World War II, Bingham set new world records for copper mining and produced about 30% of the copper used by the Allies. Many women worked in the mines, mills, and smelters.
On September 9, 1949 three company officers were killed in an airplane bombing known as the Albert Guay Affair in Quebec: the retiring president E.T. Stannard; his designated successor, Arthur D. Storke; and R.J. Parker, a vice-president. Charles Cox, formerly head of Carnegie-Illinois Steel, was hired shortly after to fill the executive vacuum.
By 1961, Kennecott's copper mines included four large open pits in the Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada, and one underground mine in Chile. As the mine in Utah expanded, it subsumed the land on which the town of Bingham was built, and the city ceased to exist in 1971.
In 1981, a world-wide fall in copper prices brought about the acquisition of Kennecott by Standard Oil of Ohio (SOHIO). Production was interrupted from 1985 to 1987. In the latter year, British Petroleum acquired SOHIO, and Kennecott became part of BP Minerals America. In 1989 Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) purchased mining assets from BP. Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation was formed by Rio Tinto in 1989 as a new mining company under the laws of the State of Utah.
Rio Tinto Group, one of the world's largest mining operations, comprises dual-listed companies Rio Tinto Limited (based in Melbourne) and Rio Tinto plc (based in London) Although each company trades separately, the two Rio Tintos operate as one business.
Environmental relations
Significant groundwater contamination exists in the aquifer downgradient of the Bingham Canyon mining operations. Approximately 80 square miles are impacted in the southwest portion of Salt Lake County. The acid core of this contamination plume will be the subject of an upcoming Federal CERCLA action in the Fall of 2006. The public may or may not be notified of an opportunity to comment on a proposed settlement of this CERCLA action through a 30-day comment period sponsored by the Federal Court in Salt Lake City. It is not clear how the public will be informed as to when the action is filed in the Federal Court. Information regarding this confidential negotiation between Rio Tinto-owned companies and the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be available, but due to the confidential nature of the discussions among EPA, Department of Justice, and other agencies, very little public information is available at this time.
KUCC is considering possible alternatives that will keep the Bingham Canyon Mine open for at least another 50 years, however, the open pit operations are projected to extend to 2017.
Land development
Another Rio Tinto-owned company manages the non-mining land and water assets previously owned by KUCC, Kennecott Land Company, (KLC). KLC does not own any land, but manages land and water assets for Rio Tinto. These assets have been divested from KUCC to another Rio Tinto-owned company, OM Enterprises Company (OME) on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley in and near the Oquirrh Mountains. Approximately 74,000 acres (300 km²) of the OM Enterprises holdings are currently subject to a proposed master plan through Salt Lake County. The Rio Tinto West Bench which is planned to contain 166,000 dwelling units, is a greater number of units than within City of San Francisco. Extensions of UTA TRAX are planned. OM Enterprises Company, as the owner of this valuable development parcel, will undoubtedly request public assistance for infrastructure improvements such as water, sewer, transportation and schools. These infrastructure demands will be a topic of present and future obligations of public funding, which may be controversial.
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warc | 202143 | In 2020, tuition for full-time students at Benedictine College was $29,730 a year.
Tuition increased 3.48 percent in 2021, from $28,730 the prior year. On average, colleges raise tuition about 3 percent each year.
If these numbers feel scary, remember, the total cost of tuition isn't necessarily what you will have to pay to attend a school. Many students pay far less than the total tuition after grants, scholarships, and tuition discounts kick in. Plus, student loans can make the amount you do have to pay for college more manageable.
Benedictine College is a private, religious institution, so it has the same tuition for residents of Kansas as it does for residents from other states.
Public schools receive funds from the state to help them cover costs. These institutions offer reduced tuition for students who are residents of that state.
Choosing a college where you qualify for in-state can cut the cost of college tuition. Every state has their own rules about what makes someone eligible for in-state tuition. In many states, students must have lived in the state for 12 months before starting school to qualify for in-state tuition
Tuition at Benedictine College is the same for all students.
International students are not eligible for federal financial aid, but may be eligible for school-specific aid and scholarships. International students with need may be eligible for the following types of financial support:
On-campus jobs
Athletic Awards
Benedictine College-specific scholarships
International students without financial need may be eligible for merit-based institutional scholarships and athletic awards.
In addition to tuition, there are other costs associated with college, like room and board, facility fees, and books and supplies.
Room and board at Benedictine College is $10,450 a year. This includes the cost of living in dorms or other campus housing, plus a meal plan that allows you to eat in the school dining facilities. Students who live off campus but still want to use the dining facility can pay for a meal plan. The cost of board-only is $5,400.
Board costs may vary depending on how many meals are included in the meal plan you choose.
The cost of books often surprises first-year college students. At Benedictine College, you can expect to pay about $1,200 a year for books and supplies. This does not count the initial cost of a computer or other technology. The actual cost of books depends on the courses you take and the materials required.
Most schools also have fees to help cover the cost of facilties, like the library, gym and computer labs. Full-time undergrads at Benedictine College pay $800 in fees each academic year.
There may also be optional fees associated with participating in certain activities, like joining a fraternity or sorority, or playing on an intramural sports team, may mean additional fees.
The total cost of transportation in college can really vary. It depends on if you drive or fly to get to school, own a car, or if you prefer to walk or take public transportation to get around campus.
A school's location can impact transportation costs. The Benedictine College campus is in a small town setting in Kansas, not far from Kansas City. First-year students are allowed to park a car on campus.
For Benedictine College students, $1,900 is good ballpark for transportation costs for on-campus students. $4,820 is a good estimate for transportation costs for students who live off campus.
When creating a budget for college, don’t forget to leave some room in your budget for personal expenses, like entertainment, clothes, furnishings and toiletries.
Let’s look at the breakdown of all expenses, which can add up for both on-campus and off-campus students.
2021 Total Tuition and Expenses Tuition $29,730 Room and Board $10,450 Board Only $4,820 Books and Supplies $1,200 Yearly Fees $800 Transportation $1,900 Other expenses $4,120
Total Estimated Costs On-Campus $46,300 Off-Campus $40,670
The breakdowns above provide a good estimate of the total cost of attendance before financial aid and scholarships. Tuition and fees may vary depending on program, course level, location, and more.
Benedictine College’s tuition and fees change based on: Course load for both full and part-time students
The majority of Benedictine College undergrads use financial aid to finance their education. In 2021, 1,245 of the 2,084 undergrads enrolled received financial aid. Benedictine College meets 73 percent of the demonstrated financial need for undergraduates.
The average financial aid package for a full-time, first-year student is around $23,947 a year. Around 65 percent of Benedictine College undergrads take out student loans to cover any remaining costs. Benedictine College graduates who have student loans graduate with an average of $30,908 of student loan debt.
The average debt for each loan type varies.
Average Debt By Loan Type Federal Loans $23,536 State Loans $0 Benedictine College-Specific Loans $0 Private Loans $41,782
Most Common Loans for Benedictine College Students Federal Loans 64% Private loans 12%
Most students take out institutional or government loans, because they tend to have lower interest rates and more flexible repayment options than private loans. Loans from the federal government can be subsidized or unsubsidized. Subsidized loans do not accrue interest during school, while unsubsidized loans begin accruing interest at the time the loan is issued. If students do no qualify for enough federal loans to cover the cost of tuition, some take out private loans. Parents can also take out ParentPLUS loans, which are government loans for parents who are helping their children pay for college.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) helps colleges determine how much financial need students and their familes have, so they can offer a financial aid package that meets, or come close to meeting, their need. For more information on Benedictine College financial aid, keep reading, or visit their financial aid website.
Some students may receive grants and scholarships to help pay for college. Unlike loans, scholarships and grants do not have to be paid back.
In 2021, Benedictine College awarded 1,245 need-based scholarships to students, giving away total of $19,713,516 to help students with financial need cover the cost of school. An additional $13,868,747 in merit-based scholarship money was awarded to students without demonstrated financial need.
The net price of college is the actual cost of attending a school for one year. Net cost is calculated by subtracting any scholarships, grants or other aid that does not need to be paid back from the total cost. Student loans are not part of the calculation, because they need to be repaid.
Now that we have a sense of the total estimated costs for Benedictine College students, we can subtract the average financial aid package to find the estimated net cost. Net cost can vary depending on a students’ need and the financial aid award received.
When considering whether a school fits your budget, it is important to consider the estimated net cost, not just the sticker price of tuition. Often, schools with the highest tuition also offer the most generous aid packages, so estimate your net cost before eliminating a school because it does fit your budget.
The average amount of financial aid received by a full-time first year student with demonstrated need at Benedictine College was $23,947 in 2021. By substracting the average financial aid package from the estimated costs, we get a number that may make the cost of Benedictine College seem more manageable.
Estimated Net Cost for Full-Time Students On-Campus $22,353 Off-Campus $16,723
What will attending Benedictine College really cost you? The answer depends on several factors.
As of 2011, colleges are required to have a net price calculator on their website to help prospective students and their families get a better idea of the actual cost of attending that school, based on their financial situation. You can find the Benedictine College's net cost calculator on their website.
Some students choose to use payment plans to make the cost of tuition fit more comfortably in their budget.
Benedictine College does not have guaranteed tuition.
The school offers a Prepaid Tuition Plan, which is a type of college savings plan that enables people to purchase future credits for their children at today's rate. It is best for people who are sure they or their child will attend a public school in their state.
Benedictine College offers an Installment Payment Plan, which allows students to pay tuition in a series of smaller chunks instead of one lump sum.
Schools sometimes offer tuition waivers to certain groups to cover some or all of the cost of tuition. Some schools offer them for employees and their family, underrepresented students, or military students. Even with a tuition waiver, other expenses and fees are the responsibility of the student
Benedictine College has some full or partial tuition waivers available for: Employees or Children of Employees
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warc | 202143 | Tips to Keep Business Secure While It's Shut Down
If you’re temporarily closing your business, it’s important to take all of the precautions that you can to protect your business against criminals. A closed business is often a target for criminals.
Here are helpful tips for securing your business while it’s shut down:
Rekey Your Locks
When you want to shut down your business, it’s advisable to rekey your locks to keep your business safe from possible theft. You may never know who has copies of your business keys, so it’s a good idea to rekey your locks to be on the safe side. Rekeying your locks means changing the internal configuration of a lock so that the old key will no longer open it. You can as well change your locks if they are damaged or outdated. If you’re looking to rekey or change your locks, call Columbus Locksmith Pro to get the job done. Our nearby locksmiths in Gahanna are equipped with all the necessary tools to rekey different types of locks.
Install Smart Locks
Another effective way to secure your business while it’s shut down is installing smart locks. These locks come with many benefits for business owners. They provide a high level of security and added convenience. Besides, they give you peace of mind knowing your business is protected. Smart locks are accessible via smartphones. You can monitor your business’s security from anywhere in the world through your smartphone. Furthermore, you can receive security updates and alerts through your phone and take the appropriate action. At Columbus Locksmith Pro, we install a wide range of smart locks on doors, cabinets, safes, and other areas that use locks.
Security Audit
A security audit entails evaluating your business’s security measures to determine how well they’re working. Before you shut down your business, ensure you conduct a security audit to identify potential threats to your business. Our team of locksmiths at Columbus Locksmith Pro can conduct a full audit of your business’s security to help you identify security loopholes that burglars can exploit.
Secure and Lock All Doors and Windows
Along with upgrading your locks, it’s important to secure your doors and windows and make sure they are locked. A reliable locksmith shop can help you secure your locks and windows.
Seek The Advice of a Reliable Locksmith
A knowledgeable and experienced locksmith knows the effective measures you can put in place to secure your business. Whether you’re considering installing an access control system or upgrade your locking system, our team can help you make the right decisions regarding your business’s security.
There you have it. These tips will help you secure your business while closed.
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warc | 202143 | By Steve Nelson
Give the bullies an inch and they’ll take a mile or two. That’s where we are as a peculiar form of sociopathic narcissism sweeps through the country.
This small rant was inspired by a shopping trip this week to Safeway at 287 and Arapahoe Avenue in Erie. A large sign at the entrance reads, “MASKS REQUIRED.”
Dozens of freedom shoppers strutted mask-less past the sign. At checkout, a gum-chewing, mask-free young woman gazed at her phone as the store manager bagged her groceries. He wore a gaiter style mask, drooped well below his nose. Perhaps your response would be like my response — I seethed in silence.
There have been too many reports of physical altercations and I, 74 years old and recovering from a serious injury, am no longer eager for confrontation. The posture of a few male shoppers suggested an “I dare you” state of mind, a dare I might have relished 4 or 5 decades ago. I’m not proud of that.
It should be little surprise that the “nobody is going to tell me what to do” phenomenon is running rampant. A former president flouted the law with impunity. Members of Congress barge through metal detectors with weapons. (Yes, our “own” U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert) Livid, crimson-faced freedom fighters, veins bulging in their necks, verbally assault public officials at school board and town council meetings, too often shutting them down entirely. Bullies.
The 21st century rebels with a cause are armed with a bibliography of nonsense. I’m retired and may have too much time on my hands as evidenced by my repeated and futile efforts to reason with anti-maskers on Facebook or my not-so-friendly Nextdoor site. For every pronouncement from the Centers for Disease Control, there are dozens of allusions to “research” proving that masks are dangerous, vaccines install micro-chips and, if all else fails, some combination of Hillary’s emails, Hunter Biden and George Soros.
If I note that I trust a coalition of the world’s most prominent epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists more than I trust Tucker Carlson, I’m likely to be accused of being brainwashed by the lame stream media, especially the New York Times, whose reporters are members of a vast conspiracy, colluding with nefarious forces who are determined to turn America into a socialist nation — like Boulder or Vermont.
My purpose in writing, beyond the admittedly cathartic spleen-venting, is to offer perspective gained from decades dealing with middle school students, which is essentially analogous.
Don’t make rules if you have neither the intention nor the means to enforce them. The Boulder County mask requirement is not a request. As to establishments like Safeway, the language is unconditional; “Businesses are required to deny individuals entry for failure to wear a mask . . .” There was clearly no effort on their part to enforce the policy, particularly apparent in the store manager’s nonchalance in the close presence of a mask-less customer and his own sloppy adherence. Enforcement may be too daunting for store personnel, but modeling of good health practices seems reasonable. My admittedly anecdotal experience hints that this is the norm, not the exception, in our community.
The county doesn’t have resources to guard every retail facility, but a few stiff fines might help. If an inspection team notes flagrant defiance, individual fines would be a deterrent. And if Safeway (The Albertsons Companies) wants to make a mockery of public health mandates, a series of rapidly escalating penalties, culminating in shutting them down, might get their attention. They have a responsibility to enforce the law. Since their beleaguered staff shouldn’t do it, they can hire security personnel. If these employees are verbally or physically assaulted, call the police and see if jail time is more persuasive.
We don’t tolerate bars serving minors or myriad other violations — why this?
Steve Nelson lives in Erie. | 4,084 | 2,145 | 1.903963 |
warc | 202143 | Macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of vision loss. Dr. Hockemeyer and Dr. Hoffman at Hockmeyer Family Eye Care in New Haven provide individual and family eye care for several eye care conditions, including macular degeneration. Schedule your next eye exam with us today to help keep your eyes healthy and safe.
What Causes Macular Degeneration?
The exact cause of the condition is unknown, but there are several risk factors. These factors include genetics, poor diet, obesity, and smoking. It is also more common among Caucasians and people over 60.
Symptoms of Macular Degeneration
The symptoms of macular degeneration develop slowly and usually without pain. You may notice the symptoms in one or both eyes. Some of the symptoms include:
Visual distortions, meaning straight lines appear wavy or bent Impaired central vision in one or both of your eyes Blurriness for printed words Trouble recognizing faces Difficulty with night vision and dimly lit areas What Are the Types of Macular Degeneration?
There are two types of macular degeneration, dry and wet. Dry is the most common and it is caused by yellow protein deposits called drusen. The drusen can lead to the deterioration of the macula over time. Wet macular degeneration is less common and is caused by abnormal blood vessels that grow behind the macula. It is considered more advanced and accounts for a large percentage of cases of legal blindness.
Preventing Macular Degeneration
Comprehensive eye exams from an eye doctor are the first step to detecting and treating macular degeneration. Furthermore, several proactive steps can reduce the risk of this disease:
Control Other Health Conditions. Health conditions like high blood pressure need to be controlled. Take the required medication and follow your doctor's recommendations. Stop Smoking. Smoking can increase your chances of developing macular degeneration. Exercise Regularly and Eat Healthy. Healthy body weight and a nutrient-dense diet can reduce the risk of macular degeneration. Eat Fatty Acids in Your Diet. Omega-3 fatty acids may help reduce the risk of macular degeneration. Nuts and fish such as salmon include good amounts of fatty acids. Protect Your Eyes from Sunlight. Harmful ultraviolet rays can damage your eyes. Wear protective sunglasses when you are outdoors. Schedule an Eye Exam in New Haven, IN
At Hockmeyer Family Eye Care, Dr. Hockemeyer and Dr. Hoffman provide quality eye care for residents in and around New Haven. If you are concerned about macular degeneration or it has been a while since your last eye exam, contact our team today to book an appointment. Call our team today at (260) 493-1505 or reach us through our website by using our online contact form. | 2,745 | 1,310 | 2.09542 |
warc | 202143 | Biofuels and the need for additional carbon
Use of biofuels does not reduce emissions from energy combustion but may offset emissions by increasing plant growth or by reducing plant residue or other non-energy emissions. To do so, biofuel production must generate and use ‘additional carbon’, which means carbon that plants would not otherwise absorb or that would be emitted to the atmosphere anyway. When biofuels cause no direct land use change, they use crops that would grow regardless of biofuels so they do not directly absorb additional carbon. All potential greenhouse gas reductions from such biofuels, as well as many potential emission increases, result from indirect effects, including reduced crop consumption, price-induced yield gains and land conversion.
If lifecycle analyses ignore indirect effects of biofuels, they therefore cannot properly find greenhouse gas reductions. Uncertainties in estimating indirect emission reductions and increases are largely symmetrical. The failure to distinguish ‘additional’ carbon from carbon already absorbed or withheld from the atmosphere also leads to large overestimates of global bioenergy potential. Reasonable confidence in greenhouse gas reductions requires a precautionary approach to estimating indirect effects that does not rely on any single model. Reductions can be more directly assured, and other adverse indirect effects avoided, by focusing on biofuels from directly additional carbon. | 1,484 | 705 | 2.104965 |
warc | 202143 | Various factors driving the growth of the hard seltzer market include increase in influence of Western culture, growth in awareness regarding the health.
PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES, September 27, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Hard Seltzer Market by ABV Content, Packaging, and Distribution Channel: Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2020–2027. The global hard seltzer market size is expected to reach $10,921.9 million by 2027 at a CAGR of 12.7% from 2021 to 2027.
Hard seltzer, spiked seltzer, or hard sparkling water is a type of highball drink containing carbonated water, alcohol, and fruit flavoring. The fruit-flavored sparkling hard seltzer can or bottle is with just 100 calories, one gram of sugar, and 5% alcohol by volume (ABV). This has made it massively appealing among health-conscious consumers.
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Rise in disposable income and increase in expenditure on alcoholic beverages drive the growth of the product market. Furthermore, rise in consumption rate of alcoholic drinks and increase in trend of hard seltzer among the young population are some of the other factors that fuel the demand for hard seltzer in the market.
The development of new innovative & fruity flavors and introduction of new ingredients along with the introduction of new fermenting processes by various companies are the major factors that are expected to expand the global hard seltzer market growth. Moreover, young generation and millennials have found increased appeal in flavored hard seltzer beverages, which further drives the growth of the hard seltzer industry during the forecast period.
According the hard seltzer market trends, the product market is segmented into ABV content, packaging, and distribution channel, and region. By ABV content, it is categorized into ABV less than 5% and ABV more than 5%. Depending on packaging, it is fragmented into metal cans, glass bottles, and plastic bottles. On the basis of distribution channel, it is differentiated into off-trade and on-trade. Region wise, it is analyzed across North America (the U.S., Canada, and Mexico), Europe (Germany, the UK, Ireland, the Netherland, Sweden, and rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and rest of Asia-Pacific), and LAMEA (Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa).
On the basis of ABV content, the ABV less than 5% segment was valued at $2,092.7 million in 2019, and is projected to reach $ 5,622.2 million by 2027, registering a CAGR of 11.9 % from 2021 to 2027. This is majorly attributed to growing health concerns and increasing fad of flavored alcoholic beverages and ciders. Furthermore, casual or irregular alcohol drinkers are majorly attracted toward the hard seltzers, owing to low ABV content and increased consumption in family parties.
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On the basis of packaging, the glass bottles segment was valued at $1,194.0 million in 2019, and is expected to reach $3,673.0 million by 2027, registering a CAGR of 13.8 % from 2021 to 2027. Glass bottles has gained significant popularity in the beverage industry and is expected sustain its popularity throughout the hard seltzer market forecast period. Glass container is popular in alcohol beverage industry, owing to the aesthetic appearance and transparent nature, which allows the manufacturer to showcase the premium quality of the product inside. Furthermore, glass is 100% recyclable without the loss of quality and sturdiness. The majority of utilized glass bottles are used for the production of new glass bottles.
On the basis of distribution channel, the on-trade segment is estimated to reach $4,371.8 million by 2027, at a CAGR of 13.2%. The on-trade segment includes outlets like bars, restaurants, coffee shops, clubs, pubs, and hotels. Growth in the tourism & hospitality industry and young population is likely to surge the demand for hard seltzer through on-trade channels. People majorly prefer to have alcoholic beverages in hotels, restaurants, bars, and pubs, owing to privacy, hospitality, and premium services, which further adds to the growth of the on-trade hard seltzer market.
Region wise, North America dominated the Hard Seltzer market in 2019, and is projected to sustain its dominance during the forecast period. North America hard seltzer market is driven by increase in young‐adult demographic and rise in consumer demand for premium/super premium alcoholic beverages. Furthermore, the leading alcoholic beverage manufacturers are investing in the product market and coming up with hard seltzer under their well-known alcohol brand, which is likely to get major popularity in short period of time, which in turn, boost the demand for hard seltzer during the forecast period.
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The players operating in the product market have adopted product launch and business expansion as their key developmental strategies to expand their market share, increase profitability, and remain competitive in the market. The key players profiled in this report include Truly, White claw, Barefoot Cellars, Future Proof Brands LLC, Bon & Viv, Ficks & Co, Nude, Kona Brewing Co., Lift Bridge Brewing Co., and Bud Light Seltzer.
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warc | 202143 | Different car features have surely decreased the chances of us getting into car accidents or more over
getting injured or dying as a result of those accidents.
Some of the features are seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes etc. These have been made compulsory
for cars to have in order to be sold in the UK. Technology keeps advancing more and more and better vehicles are being made which have a better protection before the accident occurs known as active safety kit and protection after the accident has occurred known as passive safety kit.
Here are few active safety kit features
Electronic Stability Control
This is a new development when it come to car safety. This software actually reduces engine power on
its own, obviously different systems have different softwares so some operate individual brakes etc. They are able to detect when the car can skid or lose stability and thus, automatically reduce the engine power.
Although different acronyms have different methods by which they operate but the main objective is keep
the car moving ont he same path especially when the tyres could lose drip due to snow or rain etc. Autonomous Energy Breaking
This is new in book of vehicle safety, but still has made its mark already. It is although given as an option
most of the times, but it is still advancing towards being a standard provision. This system has numerous cameras and sensors installed that keep check on the road in front of your car. If in car, the car is about to collide, it gives an audible alert message to the driver and if the driver shows no response in time then it takes action by itself. It causes the car to stop in emergency so that the impact of collision can be minimised. In some cases it completely prevents the accident from happening like at lower speeds. If your car has this installed then insurance cost is reduced by alot as this reduces the risk of damage and accidents. Adaptive Cruise Control
This is a software that actually uses radar to keep a certain set amount of distance from the car in front.
If your car is getting too close to the car in front then this software automatically reduces the car speed causing it to slow down and when the car moves then it will increase the speed of the car again to the initial speed before.
The more advancing technology is coming up with ways in which it works in a slow heavy traffic too
where it can completely get the car to stop before starting again. Lane Keeping Technology
This systems helps driver to ensure that they’re driving in their own lane without drifting off towards the
edges especially on motorways or entering into the other lane. This is usually done by an alert message or haptic feedback that may include vibration of steering wheel.
The newer versions actually adjust the steering wheel by themselves to keep you in lane, however if the
driver shows no response soon then they also stop working. This along with some other features actually help relieve some of the stress that comes on long journeys however this does not mean that you can leave your car unattended by any means. Visibility Aids
This is provided by using different hidden cameras that provide different views of the car which can help
you when it comes to parking as well as reversing the car in a heavy traffic area. Speed Limiting Devices
This is a simple feature that stops the car from exceeding a certain set speed. These can be set to any
speed and can reduce the engine power once they’ve been crossed/reached. Smart Seat belt Reminder
Nowadays, its become the new normal to stop using seat belts which causes extra injury if one gets into
an accident. The newer systems have advanced quite alot and instead of giving a simple small reminder to wear seat belts, the system itself senses which seat is occupied and if one is wearing a seat belt or not and then has an alert noise that reminds the driver or passenger to fasten up. Active Headlights
All cars come with basic headlight systems bu these are additional lights that are added on the corner.
The more advanced systems actually work in a way that they’re directly linked to the steering wheel, as
the steering wheel and tyres more, the light beam direction also moves accordingly to provide maximum light in that direction. Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
Not having proper car tyre pressure can actually lead to a lot of accidents as it causes problem in the
car’s handling. This system warns you whenever the pressure is increased or decreased from the optimum pressure.
There are actually 2 types:
Direct tyre pressure monitoring This works by fitting in a sensor in each tyre that continously measures the pressure of each tyre and if any pressure is detected to be different then a warning signal is sent to the driver. Indirect tyre pressure monitoring This works by measuring the speed of each tyre with respect to the other tyres, if it is changed then it assumes that it could be because of the tyre pressure. This system uses ABS ( anti lock brake system). | 5,068 | 2,227 | 2.275707 |
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Pregnancy after 40
June 16, 2017
Katie Visco
How often have you heard that women over a certain age cannot get pregnant? Well according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, planned pregnancies among women 40 and over are becoming ever more prevalent. However, that does not mean there aren’t certain biological issues that arise when a woman over 40 attempts to conceive. At the age of 40, your chances of conceiving falls to 5 percent over the course of a menstrual cycle. Although there are more challenges for women attempting to conceive over the age of 40, there are some measures you can take to ensure your best chances.
Pre-conception Counseling
Mapping out a pregnancy with your doctor is good idea to make sure you understand and address all possible medical complications for you or your future baby.
Timing, Timing, Timing
As women near the age of 40, their bodies begin to prepare for menopause. Understanding the changes of menopause is important in being able to conceive after 40. Once you understand the changes happening in your body, you can better plan out the timing of attempting to get pregnant.
Healthy Habits
If you are over 40 and trying to get pregnant, being healthy is an absolute must. Eating healthy and exercising can help your body to be in its best shape to conceive. Moderate exercise such as swimming and running are a good place to start, according to WebMD.
Some other small changes you can make to give yourself the best chances to conceive are taking special supplements like coenzyme Q10 and reducing stress wherever possible in your life.
If all of these changes do not seem to be helping, you might consider alternative options such as an egg donor. An egg donor would allow you to carry your child with the help of an egg donation. While the child may not genetically be tied you, most women find that by carrying their child they still feel the same connection.
There are tons of resources available to promote physical health for people during pregnancy, but less conversation about the mental side of staying in shape during pregnancy. Pregnancy is one of the biggest life changes a person can go through in their lifetime, and it is important to realize that and treat yourself with care, admiration, and love during it.
How to prioritize your mental health during pregnancy.
Country singer Granger Smith, and actress Amber Smith are currently expecting a baby. This exciting news for the couple and their family is all the more meaningful when considering their family history...
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warc | 202143 | This timely book explores a critical new juncture where globalisation is in retreat and global norms of behaviour are not converging. Frank Vibert provides an expert analysis on how this situation has arisen from a combination of changes in the relative power and position of nations and the different values behind the organisation of domestic government in democracies and authoritarian states.
Browse by title Multilateralism in the New Cold War Frank Vibert Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction in China, Japan, and South Korea Danielle Ireland-Piper
Extraterritoriality in East Asia examines the approaches of China, Japan and South Korea to exercising legal authority over crimes committed outside their borders, known as ‘extraterritorial jurisdiction’. It considers themes of justiciability and approaches to international law, as well as relevant examples of legislation and judicial decision-making, to offer a deeper understanding of the topic from the perspective of this legally, politically and economically significant region.
A Comparative Analysis of Referendums and Initiatives across Europe Edited by Daniel Moeckli, Anna Forgács and Henri Ibi
With the rise of direct-democratic instruments, the relationship between popular sovereignty and the rule of law is set to become one of the defining political issues of our time. This important and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of the limits imposed on referendums and citizens’ initiatives, as well as of systems of reviewing compliance with these limits, in 11 European states.
Financial Stability but Constitutional Inequality Tomi Tuominen
This insightful book assesses the theory of constitutional pluralism in light of the events of the Eurozone crisis of the past decade. Based on an analysis of how national courts reviewed the crisis response mechanisms and participated in the European-level political process, Tomi Tuominen argues that constitutional pluralism is not a valid normative theory of European constitutionalism.
Legal and Economic Aspects of a Political Divorce Edited by Jörn A. Kämmerer and Hans -B. Schäfer
This timely book presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the dynamics, trajectories and consequences of Brexit. Focusing on the interaction of legal and economic issues, it evaluates the relevance of non-economic expectations and ‘red lines’ involved in the process of the UK’s exit from the EU.
Comparing the Law of Democracy in Continental Polities Edited by Philipp Dann and Arun K. Thiruvengadam
Comparing the structures and challenges of democratic constitutionalism in India and the European Union, this book explores how democracy is possible within vastly diverse societies of continental scale, and why a constitutional framework is best able to secure the ideals of collective autonomy and individual dignity. It contributes to an emerging comparative discussion on structures of power, separation of powers and a comparative law of democracy, which has long been neglected in comparative constitutional studies.
Domestic and International Dimensions Edited by Linda Hamid and Jan Wouters
This thought-provoking book addresses the legal questions raised by areas of limited statehood, in which the State lacks the ability to exercise the full depth of its governmental authority. Featuring original contributions written by renowned international scholars, chapters investigate key issues arising at the junction between both domestic and international rule of law and areas of limited statehood, as well as the alternative modes of governance that develop therein.
Edited by Maurizio Cotta and Federico Russo
At a time when political representation can be said to be facing its ultimate crisis, this crucial work clarifies the terms of the debate, providing an up-to date analysis of the main conceptual and institutional controversies that have arisen surrounding this topic. Written by leading scholars in the field, contributions focus on how representation is conceptualised and its relation to democracy.
Reflections on Constitutional Change Edited by Martin Belov and Antoni Abat i Ninet
This timely book offers a novel theory of constitutional revolutions, providing a new and engaging framework for critically assessing how revolutions and contra-revolutions, transitional periods and the phenomenon of oblivion influence constitutional change.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legislatures Edited by Cyril Benoît and Olivier Rozenberg
This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of parliaments, offering novel insights into the key aspects of legislatures, legislative institutions and legislative politics. Connecting rich and diverse fields of inquiry, it illuminates how the study of parliaments has shaped a wider understanding surrounding politics and society over the past decades. | 4,945 | 2,249 | 2.198755 |
warc | 202143 | “How to lead a healthy lifestyle?”, how often do we come across this question? And what answer do we always get? Cut on carbs, do rigorous exercise maintain a strict diet, etc.But, healthy lifestyle is not synonymous to mechanical life. Healthy life means to lead a balanced life: a balance between your body and soul. We are often misled by thinking that having a healthy lifestyle is something difficult to achieve and thus we dread to take a step forward.
At Endura Mass, our priority is your health, and therefore, we have brought to you few simple steps that would bring a huge change in your daily life and eventually lead you to a healthy life style.
The morning ritual:The beginning of the day marks how it would pass. So, begin your day with a calm and stress-free mind. You can follow these steps to kick start your day: Start your day with meditation: Meditation is not simply to sit at a corner with closed eyes. It is an exercise to calm your mind so that your concentration is improved. Pre-plan your day: set your priorities for the day the night before, so that you can jump on to it instantly the next day. Go for a walk or exercise: Most people prefer exercising in the evening due to lack of time in the morning, but it will surely relax your mind if you could expose yourself to sunlight early in the morning. Detox: Have a glass of warm water with lemon and honey or green tea to eliminate the toxins from the body. Breakfast: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Take your time to have a nutritious and heavy breakfast that would keep you full for long. What to eat:Try to include mostly fruits and vegetables in your diet. They are full of fibers and thus would improve your digestion and bowel movements. Having a vegetarian diet is a healthier option than a non-vegetarian diet. But if you cannot cut off meat completely, then go for lean meat options like chicken or tuna instead of beef and pork. Try to include whole grains like wheat, oats, brown rice in your food rather than flour and white rice. Hydrate yourself:Our body is made of 60% of water, and we are continuously losing water from our body in form of sweat or urine. So, it is very necessary to keep yourself hydrated. If you are not in the habit of drinking water, try infusing your favorite citrus fruits in it to give it an extra flavor. Love yourself:Running after jobs, chores and family throughout the day, we often forget to pay attention to the most important person of our life: ourselves. In your busy schedule try to cut out some “me time” for yourself. You can spend this time looking after yourself, reading a delightful book or simply brooding over your most cherished memories. Look before you eat:It is not surprising that the major source of unhealthy fats in our body comes from processed food. Even some of the popular brands of fruit juices have tons of added sugar in it. Read between the lines of the packaging before buying any product. Let it go:To embrace a healthy life you need to let go many things. Firstly, eliminate toxic substances like cigarettes and alcohol. The next harmful substance is sugar. Control the portion of sugar intake and slowly get rid of it. Include natural sweeteners like jaggery or berries in your diet. Lastly, even eliminate those toxic people from your life who hamper your positive thinking or confidence. Sweat it off:Exercise is very important to keep our body fit. But do not over stress yourself in the name of exercise. Start slow and then gradually increase your quota of stretches. If you are not an exercise person, then go for a brisk walk or a short run. Sleep sweet sleep:Sleep must not be discarded as the most unproductive portion of the day. It is a good amount of sweet sleep that keeps us going throughout the day. An adult need at least 8 hrs. of sound sleep. Therefore, do not compromise with your sleeping hours if you want a healthy body.
Life is a beautiful journey and we do need a healthy body to enjoy it to the fullest. But, a healthy body is a result of healthy habits that need to be developed over time. Include the above steps in your lifestyle to achieve not only a healthy body but also a healthy mindthat can be cherished for life. | 4,247 | 2,015 | 2.107692 |
warc | 202143 | To watch a video of Senator Manchin’s opening remarks, please click here. To watch a video of Senator Manchin’s questioning, please click here. Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider the nominations of Ms. Laura Daniel-Davis to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management, Ms. Camille C. Touton to be Commissioner of Reclamation, and Ms. Sara C. Bronin to be Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP). During the hearing, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, questioned Ms. Daniel-Davis on the status and impact of the Administration’s pause on new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
“Within a week of taking office, President Biden issued an executive order that directed the Secretary of the Interior to pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and in offshore waters pending a comprehensive review of the Secretary’s stewardship responsibilities… Are we producing as much oil and gas as we were before the pause?”
Chairman Manchin asked.
“We are. The production has stayed at levels consistent with past administrations. The pause did not impact ongoing permitting on legally held leases, so that has continued and the jobs associated with that have continued. We’ve got about 9,000-plus permits available for use as well,”
said Ms. Daniel-Davis.
Chairman Manchin also questioned Ms. Daniel-Davis on the status of the Administration’s report of its review of the federal oil and gas leasing programs. In response, Ms. Daniel-Davis stated that the Interior Department expects its release “very soon."
Chairman Manchin also highlighted the Bureau of Reclamation’s critical role in ensuring Americans have access to their water supplies.
“I spoke in my opening remarks about the number of dams and reservoirs the Bureau of Reclamation manages. But do you agree that the job of the Commissioner of Reclamation is not so much about managing dams and reservoirs as protecting the water supplies upon which millions of Americans rely?”
asked Chairman Manchin.
“I agree. As a Westerner and as a Nevadan, there’s nothing more important than your water and the management of your water supplies. The Bureau of Reclamation is the largest deliverer of water in the nation. Part of that is being able to utilize our significant infrastructure but the most important part of managing water supplies is working with your partners, the states, the tribes, and all the communities,”
said Ms. Camille Touton.
Finally, Ms. Sara C. Bronin stated that, if confirmed, she would work with Congress and other stakeholders “to ensure the ACHP continues to take a leadership role in advancing and modernizing preservation practice nationally.”
To read the nominees’ testimony, please click here. To watch the hearing in full, please click here.
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warc | 202143 | Two dozen countries joined, on Monday (11 October), an US and EU-led initiative to reduce global methane emissions, as momentum builds ahead of the UN climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow later this month, writes ELENA SÁNCHEZ NICOLÁS.
Nigeria, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Philippines were among the new 24 signatories of the Global Methane Pledge, first announced by the European Union and the United States in September.
Under this global effort, countries have committed to reducing methane emissions by at least 30 percent over the next decade and to improving
the monitoring of emissions and leaks across the globe.
During a ministerial meeting with participating countries on Monday, US climate envoy John Kerry clarified that this was a global target and, therefore, "every country will do what it can in order to be able to reduce methane emissions".
Methane is the second-biggest contributor to global warming, following carbon dioxide. It is estimated to account for about half of the 1.0 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures that has already occurred since the pre-industrial era.
"The solutions are proven and even profitable in many cases," IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said at the time
Delivering on this global pledge could buy the planet some time, since it is estimated to reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees by 2050.
However, according to Inger Andersen from the UN environment programme, countries should not consider it as "a get-out-of-jail-free card" to tackle the climate crisis.
"It is important that we swiftly decarbonise our energy systems, that action on methane should be seen as complementary in the short term to the global efforts on CO2" in order to achieve the 2015 Paris Agreement targets, Andersen said.
This partnership now covers nine of the world's top 20 methane emitters, representing about 30 percent of global methane emissions and 60 percent of the global economy.
But both the EU and the US hope more countries will support this initiative, when it is formally launched in Glasgow.
"The pledge's supporters are putting methane squarely on the COP26 agenda, where it belongs, and every country in the world should follow their lead and join the pledge immediately," said Sarah Smith from Boston-based NGO Clean Air Task Force.
Meanwhile, a group of 20 philanthropists has announced €170m to implement the global pledge.
EU imports methane emissions
Over the last three decades, the European Union has reduced methane emissions from landfill almost by half and fossil fuels by almost 65 percent, EU climate chief Frans Timmermans told his counterparts.
"But the large part of methane emissions associated with the European economy are not happening within our borders. Instead, they take place during the productions and transportation of fossil fuels that we import into the EU," he added.
The EU produces some five percent of global methane emissions internally, but
it is the world's largest importer of gas and oil.
As a result, the European Commission is expected to put forward a legislative proposal by the end of the year to reduce methane emissions across the whole energy supply chain in the EU and in primary export countries - including
binding rules on monitoring, reporting, leak detection and repair in the energy sector.
Within the EU, more than half of man-made methane emissions comes from agriculture (53 percent), followed by waste (26%) and energy (19%).
In the agriculture sector, the EU will promote research on innovative methane reducing technologies and nature-based solutions.
Europe’s policymakers lag behind truckmakers on CO2 emissions EU policymakers are lagging behind truckmakers when it comes to CO2 emissions, a new study shows. Improvements in aerodynamics and fuel efficiency, as well as flexibilities in the regulations, mean trucks can already achieve the EU’s 2025 CO2 reduction target while producing just a few zero-emission vehicles. T&E says the EU needs to raise targets in order to increase the production of zero-emissions trucks throughout the decade to ensure the industry decarbonises on time.
Lucien Mathieu, acting freight director at T&E, said:
“Truckmakers are going green quicker than policymakers, which is absurd. However, this is not the case of the free-market doing its job, but rather policymakers failing to do theirs. Truckmakers are clearly able to decarbonise quicker. It’s time to make them.”
Swedish truckmaker Scania leads the way in terms of CO2 emissions from new trucks with emissions 5.3% lower than the average for the most common type of long-haul truck. Scania’s better emissions performance is primarily down to aerodynamics, which it has achieved without producing any zero-emission trucks. Laggards Renault and IVECO, on the other hand, have the highest emissions: 2.6% and 2.4% above the long-haul average respectively.
If all of Europe’s trucks performed as well as the most efficient models on the market, it would reduce average truck CO2 emissions by 6% today, the study shows. But efficiency gains alone will not get Europe’s trucking sector to net-zero, T&E warns.
Lucien Mathieu added: “Best-in-class trucks can deliver emissions reduction today, but efficiency only gets you so far. Europe needs to drastically increase the number of zero-emissions trucks on its roads in the coming years to have any chance of decarbonising the sector on time. But current truck CO2 targets fail to encourage truckmakers to produce them. We need to crank up the targets throughout the decade.”
Most truckmakers have made voluntary commitments for electric sales which go beyond what the EU requires. According to their public announcements, these voluntary commitments would take the market to around 7% zero-emission vehicles in 2025 and 43% in 2030 - higher than the 2% needed in 2025 to meet existing voluntary targets. These voluntary announcements show that the EU can set a realistic - but more ambitious - target of at least 30% zero-emission trucks by 2028, says T&E.
Average CO2 emissions for new long-haul trucks were higher in larger western European countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, while smaller countries such as Bulgaria, Estonia, Portugal and Slovakia performed significantly better. Poland's long-haul truck emissions, for example, are 3.5% below the EU average while Germany’s are 2.2% above. EU Sustainable Investment Summit: President von der Leyen calls on global partners to set global standards and support sustainable investment This morning (7 October), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (pictured) delivered the opening address at the EU Sustainable Investment Summit, the first annual event on sustainable finance hosted by the European Commission. In her speech, the President spoke about the current rise in energy prices: “In these very weeks, we all see how crucial it is to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels such as gas, oil and coal. So in the long term, the European Green Deal and renewables are the solution to the rising electricity prices. Every euro spent on renewable energies does help our planet. And it equally helps the consumers. But it is also an investment in the resilience of our economies. So, we have to speed up our work on the European Green Deal to become more energy independent.”
President von der Leyen identified two key challenges we need to address to boost global sustainable investment: First, how to attract more capital towards sustainable investment. Second, how to bring more countries on board, and raise the global ambition. The speech was also an occasion for her to recall Europe's commitment and leadership: “Europe can lead by the power of its example. Europe has become the home of sustainable investment. The European green bond market today is worth around €1 trillion. We have built the largest carbon market in the world, with our Emissions Trading System. And later this month, we will strengthen our leadership, when we will start issuing green bonds worth €250 billion, as part of NextGenerationEU. This is a leadership we are proud of, and we will keep consolidating.” Finally, looking ahead to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, the President said: “The COP26 in Glasgow will be a moment of truth for the global community. Ambitions need to be backed by concrete plans. And Europe will continue to engage, with the highest level of ambition.”
‘Green mining’ is a myth: EU must slash resource consumption by two-thirds – new study New analysis suggests the EU must ditch plans under its European Green Deal to increase mining and instead set hard limits to the natural resources it extracts in order to prevent human and ecological disaster. Read the full report here.
European Green Deal plans will fail to stop runaway mining, creating further permanent damage to the environment and wreaking havoc on human rights. The EU must reduce extraction of natural resources by 65%, according to a new study released today by Friends of the Earth Europe and the European Environmental Bureau. [1]
The report shows that the EU is already extracting and consuming a dangerous proportion of the world’s limited resources, with serious consequences:
The EU material footprint [2] is currently 14.5 tonnes per capita, about double what is considered a sustainable and just limit, and well over the global average. The EU alone already uses between 70% and 97% of the global environmentally ‘safe operating space’ related to resource extraction impacts. Any resource extraction beyond this ‘safe’ threshold threatens the stable functioning of the earth’s biophysical systems. More environmental defenders are killed for opposing mining than opposing any other industry. 50 of the 212 environmental defenders killed worldwide in 2019 were campaigning to stop mining projects.
Yet European Green Deal plans are continuing on the path of ‘consumption as usual’, meaning enormous increases in mining for certain metals and minerals. For example batteries, primarily for electric vehicles, are predicted to drive up EU demand for lithium by almost 6000% by 2050.
Supplying such demand will inevitably lead to scarcity, conflicts and destructive mining, closely resembling social and environmental harms from digging up fossil fuels. The answer here is not simply to replace cars running on fossil fuels with electric cars – it is to also reduce private car use overall. [3]
These issues demonstrate that the green transition must be used as an opportunity to tackle the root causes of the broader climate and environmental crises - an economic system which drives overconsumption and social inequities in all sectors. As an urgent first step, the EU must set a material footprint reduction target of 65%.
Meadhbh Bolger, resource justice campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: “The EU has a history of passing weak laws which fail again and again to reduce the amount of natural resources we consume, putting the remaining parts of the natural world and many communities under immense stress. The reason is simple: the laws are all predicated on economic growth, which is not compatible with a sustainable future.
“The EU needs to wake up and set a headline target to cut material use by two-thirds so that the European Green Deal doesn’t become another footnote in the history of the destruction of the planet.”
Diego Marin, associate policy officer for Environmental Justice at the European Environmental Bureau said: “Recognizing that we cannot mine our way out of the climate crisis means that we need to stop the growth frenzy. It is as if current policies were driving a bus toward a cliff edge and the passengers were arguing about whether the bus should run on electricity or fossil fuels, when the more urgent question we should be asking is how we can stop the bus from plummeting down the cliff in the first place.
“End of pipe solutions alone no longer cut it, we need to tackle the many issues with the linear take-make-use-lose economy at the very source.”
[1] The report analyses various policies under the European Green Deal including the Circular Economy Action Plan, Raw Materials Strategy, trade policies and human rights legislation. It focuses on mining of metals and metallic minerals
[2] Total consumption of fossil fuels, biomass, metals and non-metallic minerals, including embodied in imports.
[3] The mining industry and governments must also stop attempts to greenwash mining, using the fact that certain metals and minerals are key for green technologies to greenwash the metal mining industry in general and promote the nonsensical concept of ‘green mining’. Metals like copper, iron and aluminum are overwhelmingly used in construction and other industries, such as the destructive military sector.
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warc | 202143 | In the data recovery business, we hear it all the time.
“The data volume was missing, so I did a RAID rebuild.” “The partition would not mount, so I did a RAID rebuild.” “All my data was corrupted, so I did a RAID rebuild.”
These quotes go show how little most people understand about what a RAID rebuild is and what it accomplishes.
The RAID card/controller has no idea what your partitions look like, doesn’t care about your photos, and has no idea if your data is corrupted or not. It has one job: take a bunch of disks and make it one logical volume. It doesn’t look at that volume, inspect that volume, or understand that volume, nor does it want to.
There is only one scenario where it makes sense to rebuild a volume: The logical state of the union is good. The volume mounts, the system boots great, none of the data is corrupted – but one physical member disk is either out of sync or is a new replacement. If the logical state of the union is bad, a RAID rebuild is incredibly dangerous.
Our data recovery specialists commonly see error conditions where an IT service provider noticed 2 failed drives in a RAID-5. They pick one at random and force it online. Now the volume boots, but lots of the recent data is missing or corrupted. This is because the member they just forced online failed 4 years ago and nobody noticed. So, the operating system can boot because it hasn’t moved or changed substantially in 4 years, but all the data that has been created or updated over that period is missing or corrupted.
Now, the IT service provider doubles down on their mistake and decides to run a RAID rebuild. What a RAID rebuild accomplishes in this scenario is to take the current logical state of the union which is, again, very bad, and then make that bad data redundant by calculating and writing parity data to the other member disk that was offline. That member is the one that failed yesterday and contained the data required to have a healthy volume. The RAID rebuild trashes all that recent data in a quite permanent way.
At the end of the rebuild process, the RAID is redundant, hurray! But the logical state of affairs is horrific, as you now have perhaps 2 good disks with bad parity, a disk that fell offline 4 years ago, and a disk that contains a bunch of rebuilt garbage and trashed XOR. But the RAID controller is quite happy that everything is perfectly synchronous and redundant. Sometimes being redundant isn’t good!
The moral to the story: be incredibly careful about auditing backups before you go screwing around with the RAID controller. Restore those backups to a DIFFERENT set of drives, and make sure your backups are complete and current. Having established that the backups are great and complete, now go ahead and start working to get the physical array back online. Need Help Now? We Can Help with RAID Rebuild Problems
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Ideally, an IT professional will be notified of the degraded state from monitoring software, like Nagios, or from the RAID controller. As discussed previously, the logical state of the union should be good before attempting a rebuild – that is, the unit may be degraded, but there should be full data access and functionality.
Once again, if data is inaccessible or the volume isn’t online, a rebuild will never help. In fact, it will potentially be catastrophic. All a rebuild does is take the logical state of affairs and make it redundant. If the logical state of affairs is bad, that is something we don’t want redundant.
After confirming that everything from the end user’s perspective is great, the IT professional must pull and then replace the failed drive. This positive logical state will then get back to redundancy by a RAID rebuild process. Some RAID controllers will be configured to automatically rebuild when they detect the new healthy drive. Some will require an operator to run proprietary commands on the RAID card, sometimes through a GUI. The RAID controller will read all the information from the current drives, and run an XOR parity calculation, writing the results to the new healthy drive. At the end of this process, the array is no longer degraded and you’re back to redundancy–back in position to have another drive go down safely.
Can You Recover RAID 5 Data from a Single Drive?
With only one drive of a RAID 5, you will not recover any significant amounts of data. This is because most important files are going to be significantly bigger than the stripe size of the array. A four-megabyte picture will be broken up into hundreds of 64-kilobyte pieces, and in a 4 drive RAID 5 array, each drive will contain 25% of those pieces. We need to analyze and copy each drive so we can determine the overall geometry of the array and to determine which drive set is optimal, but we must have all pieces of the puzzle.
If RAID-5 Is So Great, Then Why Does Gillware See So Many of Them Come into Its Data Recovery Lab?
RAID 5 offers, for a small reduction in overall storage, one disk worth of data redundancy. RAID 5 arrays will need at least 3 drives but will commonly consist of up to 8. The main idea is that if one drive fails, the RAID controller will remove it from the group but there is no immediate impact to the data or the business. In this degraded state, you can still boot, access data, and write new data. It sounds like a well-maintained RAID 5 array should never crash.
But even well-looked-after RAID arrays can need a trip to a data recovery lab – sometimes even RAID recovery software technology can’t cut it. Here’re a few of the reasons why:
1. RAID 5 Is Not a Logical Backup
Even with the redundancy provided by RAID 5, there is no second copy of your data anywhere unless you fastidiously back up the data using a data backup service. If a human makes a mistake and deletes a bunch of data, RAID 5 cannot help you. If a malicious human or process infects the contents of a RAID 5 with a ransomware virus, RAID 5 cannot help you. If you fail to make this distinction between RAID and backup you can get burned by all manner of logical problems and end up calling into a professional RAID data recovery lab.
2. Two Drives Fail in a RAID 5
Multiple drive failure is the most common cause for needing a RAID 5 data recovery. We are commonly called on to recover data from a RAID 5 configuration with 2 failed drives. Sometimes two or more drives will fail simultaneously because of sudden power loss or a power surge. More often one of the drives has failed historically and we regard its data as stale. Depending on how long a drive has been stale it will have limited usefulness in a RAID 5 data recovery effort.
Regardless of how we got here, with only n-2 drives in the volume, the XOR parity cannot be fully calculated, and you are left with 50% or less of the RAID 5 volume’s binary.
The volume’s binary content is striped across the drives and the stripe size is typically measured in kilobytes. So, you don’t have access to 50% of your files, you only have access to 50% of the binary of each file.
Worse, you’ll only have access to 50% of the file definitions. And this is only if you can even get the RAID controller to serve up this partial RAID–which is a terrible idea because file system consistency checkers will run around destroying data that seems to them to be corrupted but is simply incomplete.
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warc | 202143 | The date is lodged in Erin’s Long mind. She doesn’t need to comb through records or consult a calendar.
“It was March 16,” the Hospice of the Northwest volunteer coordinator said confidently, remembering the day in 2020 the organization’s volunteers could no longer go to patients’ homes and care facilities because of the threat of COVID-19.
The Hospice of the Northwest serves terminally ill patients and their families throughout four counties, including Skagit.
While there’s a staff to manage care and support for patients, much of the work is done by a core group of volunteers who help out by doing such things as sitting with bedridden patients, bringing therapy animals for a visit, playing music for patients, accompanying them on walks, checking in by phone and cleaning litter boxes.
Long and others say that COVID-19 tested the organization’s volunteers. It also made more clear the importance of the work they do.
“This is making a difference at such a basic, human level. There’s no pretense. Everything is stripped away. It’s just a beautiful, human-to-human connection,” Long said of the connection forged between volunteers and patients.
Hospice of the Northwest, which was founded in 1989, serves dozens of patients in local care facilities and homes. Long said the organization even provides services for homeless individuals; one recent patient lived in his truck.
The hospice has about 90 staff members, and in January of 2020, shortly before COVID-19 began ramping up, it had about an equal number of volunteers.
As the pandemic worsened, Long said, uncertainly swirled. Volunteers didn’t know if they should go into homes or facilities.
“There was so much uncertainty and fear,” she said. “They didn’t want to be responsible for bringing an unknown virus into a patient’s home. That was their biggest fear.”
Even more uncertainty was introduced by rules instituted for long-term care facilities. The rules changed often and sometimes varied from facility to facility.
For several months, volunteers weren’t permitted in care facilities or homes, although they could still make contact with patients by phone. When infection rates began to drop, they urged management to allow them to enter the field again, albeit with extensive safety protocols in place.
Several volunteers spoke to the Skagit Valley Herald about their experiences during the pandemic and with hospice overall.
Kelly McKnight, La Conner
McKnight remembers many things from her mother’s final illness and death, such as her mother’s resilience.
McKnight also remembers the patience and kindness of the hospice volunteer who was there to help.
“He came and talked to us, gave us grace. He talked about the dying process, asked how we were doing,” McKnight said.
McKnight remembers thinking that this was something she felt like she could do. So she did.
McKnight went through training in 2018 to become a volunteer. She became what is called vigil volunteer, one who is with a patient in what’s expected to be the last 48 hours of their life.
“No one should have to die alone,” McKnight said.
When the first patient McKnight sat with died, it was a powerful experience.
“It was sad but so fulfilling. It’s like someone giving birth ... watching someone try to die. It’s hard work. To participate in that and perhaps give comfort is such a gift to me,” McKnight said.
The volunteer work has sent McKnight as far as Langley and Camano Island. Remembering how she found aspects of healing when telling stories about her mother, as a volunteer McKnight gives family members of hospice patients the opportunity to tell their own stories.
That was quelled when COVID-19 arrived.
“It was a very frightening time ... not being able to volunteer,” McKnight said.
When she was able to visit patients again, things were much different.
“You do a vigil, and you’re covered head to toe — face screen, goggles, everything. Every inch of my body is covered in that blue protective gear, and I’m sitting with someone who’s dying,” she said. “It felt confusing to me. It felt sad. If the person had woken up they’d see a blue blob, because that was what was required ... It was odd to visit that way.”
McKnight said some restrictions have been eased. She’s still happy to follow any of them as long as she can help patients and their families.
“I can wear a mask and see my people,” she said.
Rose Mallon, Anacortes
When COVID-19 curtailed the opportunities of hospice volunteers to visit patients, Mallon focused on making connections bye phone.
Mallon, who started as a hospice volunteer while living in the Chicago are, remembers the first patient she sat with, an elderly woman who lived with family.
“We chatted the whole time. We talked about her life ... she’d come here from Europe and we talked about her life here, her brothers and sisters,” Mallon said.
Mallon remembers how suddenly the pandemic seemed to arrive and make things more tense.
“In March of last year, (my husband and I) had plans to go to Texas and when we were there everything blew up. It was so so nerve-racking to come back from Texas. It taught us to stay put,” she said.
Mallon had joined what the local hospice calls its tuck-in program, where volunteers call patients before the weekend to see if there are any issues that may need attention over the weekend, such as new symptoms or medication refills.
The phone calls that became the norm when visits weren’t allowed brought about closer connections.
“Our calls — when I first started, they was more perfunctory. Last year our calls became ... deeper, I guess,” Mallon said. “There were things they’d talk about to us because they needed to talk.”
She credits Long with adding a question to the callers’ script that asks patients whether there are any needs that can be passed along to other members of the caregiver team, such as social workers or spiritual advisers.
“When you’re not with a person, you can develop relationships with people over the phone. I didn’t miss out on (visits) because I had the phone calls,” Mallon said. “It’s a nice feeling to know you’re helping. People drawn to hospice volunteering are drawn to that aspect of it. I was lucky to do tuck-in phone calls that filled that need.”
Richard Fink, Oak Harbor
Fink is a Navy veteran. When he began volunteering with hospice, he and a staff member came up with a way to honor patients who were veterans of the armed service.
The service — performed with the patient’s consent — is called a pinning ceremony, and involves a flag pin, a certificate customized to the patient’s experience in the military and a what is called a challenge coin that reflects the veteran’s branch of the military.
“We ask if they’d like to say something; most of time they’re not communicative, but I’ll tell you the response we get from them sometimes is outstanding,” Fink said. “Sometimes they wake up, and someone hasn’t spoken in six months may say a few words ... I’m convinced they understand what’s going on.
“We did one last week and the family was crying more than the patient. It was also his 94th birthday.”
Fink is often accompanied at pinning ceremonies by other volunteers who are veterans, and is sometimes joined by those on active duty.
He said COVID-19 prevented pinning ceremonies from being held for a while. One wasn’t able to be held, and the patient died before it could be rescheduled.
“Those things happen. You can never tell,” Fink said.
At times, Fink said he did the ceremony in a gown, gloves and other safety gear.
He said, “I looked more like I was coming out the surgical suite than a hospice volunteer.”
— This story is part of an occasional series on how this community is pushing forward — through and eventually past — the COVID-19 pandemic that reached Skagit County in March 2020. | 8,282 | 3,624 | 2.28532 |
warc | 202143 | Guerrilla Translation is much like a chosen family, and a lot of that sentiment comes from the shared sense that we ‘found each other’. Most of us worked as independent, freelance translators before joining the collective (and some of us still have one foot in that world). My mind conjures up an image of each of us roaming the inhospitable desert of the translation industry, laptop in hand, until we happened upon the oasis that is Guerrilla Translation. Here we were finally recognised as living beings with creative qualities to offer and human needs to be met. Outside of the translation world, though, most people are entirely unaware of just how bleak things look for the translator and for the craft of translation itself, so I’d like to shed some light on our motivations for deciding to forge a different path and doing things the way we do them.
It’s difficult to hold on to your ideals in any industry that is trying to thrive and expand within the capitalist system. The tendency will always be to consolidate revenue at the top and deprive the workers that drive the industry of fair compensation. Job competitiveness will ensure that wages are kept low as workers are forced to undercut each other until the work no longer provides a living wage. Meanwhile, the revenue generated by the industry is invested in technology that will eventually make the workers obsolete. The translation industry is no different.
Most translation work is done through corporate translation agencies. These agencies typically have a staff that includes full-time, in-house translators, a management team and other employees to handle all of the admin work that goes into taking orders, managing clients and delivering translations. They also, however, contract a lot of work out to freelance translators, giving jobs to the lowest bidder, typically stipulating very tight deadlines while taking their time to pay for any services rendered, and often expecting the translator to do unpaid work such as providing feedback and updates for termbases and other digital resources.
On top of this, most agencies will require the translator to work with specific – generally very expensive – translation software called CAT (computer assisted translation) tools. These tools use databases of terms and previously translated texts to automatically translate segments of text, which the translator can then approve or adjust as needed. It can speed up the translation process a lot, and initially it sounds like it would make the translator’s work much easier.
However, the flip side of CAT tools is that they can calculate how much of a text is made up of repeated words and phrases and how much is uniquely original. This means that algorithms can be created to pay the translator only for segments or phrases that have not already appeared in the text. If a sentence is repeated twice in a text, the translator will only get paid once for that sentence. If a sentence is 50% similar to another, then the translator only gets 50% of the per-word rate for that sentence, and so on. The result is that this often drastically reduces the paid word count of a text and thus the amount of money a translator can earn from it. However, it does not significantly decrease the amount of work put into a translation. The translator still has to read the repeated, computer-translated segments (now in two languages) and determine if the previous translations still apply to the context at hand, or if they should be reworded and translated differently for stylistic or aesthetic reasons. In the end, the translator’s expertise is still needed for a repeated segment, yet it is not deemed worthy of payment.
Essentially the translator must shoot herself in the foot. She is required to pay out of pocket for very expensive software that directly reduces her value as a worker. After her translation is complete, she will then be required to give the new ‘translation memory’ from her text back to the agency, so that they can plug it back into their algorithm and use it against other translators in the same way. Furthermore, this algorithm only works to reduce payment to the translator. The agency is still charging the client for the full word count and using that extra money to invest in further developing even more advanced machine translation software. According to one machine translation market forecast, neural machine translation (NMT), a kind of approach to machine translation that imitates the logic of the human brain, is now receiving heavy investment from many industry leaders such as Moravia, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Raytheon and many more. These corporations are finding profit in the precarity of translators, and this trend is only expected to increase in the coming years. According to the Language Industry Survey Report 2020, NMT is the strongest technology trend in the industry, even exceeding investment in CAT tool development, which nonetheless, is also continuing to grow.
Accordingly, it is becoming more and more common to see ‘post-editing’ jobs advertised on translation job platforms. This is where a text is machine translated and then reviewed or edited by a human to fix any mistakes made by the translation software. Of course, editing is usually paid at about a third of the rate of translation (or less), so many companies are opting for this cheaper approach to their translation needs. The human ‘reviewers’ are still required to have the skills of an actual translator, but they are paid a fraction of a translator’s (already undercut) rate. In short, translators have been forced to cooperate in devaluing their own skills and, ultimately, putting themselves out of work while industry revenue increases. Corporate industry leaders are using technology specifically designed to reduce the amount of money paid to the very human workers that the entire industry has been built on. I can’t imagine a surgeon getting paid less as her surgical equipment becomes more advanced or as she is able to do more surgeries in less time. Why should this logic apply to a translator?
One industry-level difference between surgeons and translators, though, is that most surgeons are men, whereas most translators (particularly freelance translators) are women. In fact, around 75% of surgeons are men and 75% of freelance translators are women. Considering how much behind-the-scenes, invisible and unpaid (care) work goes into translation, it should be no surprise that women are the majority of the workforce in the industry. Modern western society has always expected women to silently tolerate and complete an exorbitant amount of behind-the-scenes work without any compensation. The classic example is all of the care, maintenance and support that a family and household needs but which generates no income. This type of work has rarely been called ‘work’ and is simply expected based on gender norms. Even today.
The same thing happens in the workplace. Women are typically expected to pick up the slack, ‘take one for the team’ and have much of their creativity and productivity go unacknowledged. In the translation industry, freelance translators are typically paid a per-word rate for texts translated, but there is an enormous amount of work, beyond actual word-to-word translation, that goes into a good translation. New or rarely used industry-specific terminology and jargon must be researched (in two languages) and care must be taken to ensure that translations of such terms are accurate and up to date. This type of research can be very time-consuming; a 10-word sentence, perhaps grossing the translator €0.80, might take up to a half hour or more to translate accurately if multiple sources and databases need to be cross-referenced to ensure accurate use of terminology. This is a half hour of unpaid work that is simply expected of the translator.
Freelance translators are also not paid for the time spent updating their own term bases and tools, responding to translation requests and negotiating with agencies. While agency project managers sit at their desks, stringing the translator along through an often lengthy negotiation process, they are getting paid a salary. The freelance translator, of course, is not. Furthermore, it is the agency that determines the terms of payment for the freelance translator, not the other way around. The translator has no choice but to accept these terms – often that payment will be rendered at least one month from the end of the month in which the translation is turned in. Would you hire a contractor to renovate your home and stipulate that the work must be done as quickly as possible but that you’ll decide when it’s convenient for you to pay? This type of behaviour would be unacceptable in most male-dominated professions.
This is not to say that there are not male translators, but if we look at the graph above, we’ll see that men are most represented in translation companies or in translation departments of larger companies, i.e. men are more represented in steady positions where care work is more likely to be compensated by regular salaries or where there are other (probably female) staff to do the care work for them. Meanwhile, the freelance sector, overwhelmingly the most precarious, is significantly more female.
The precarity of the freelance sector has only increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, freelance translators were already having a difficult time making ends meet, with around 40% of them needing to take up other sources of income to supplement their translation earnings. This makes very little sense considering that we are talking about highly skilled professionals providing a service that is increasingly in demand. Why is so much pressure put on translators while so little compensation is provided?
The Language Industry Survey Report 2020 gathered feedback from freelance translators regarding what changes they feel they would need to make in order to reduce stress and precarity in their profession (see infographic above). Many of the changes suggested, however, are just not realistic within such a profit-driven industry. Translators are in no position to simply negotiate better rates, be more assertive with their needs, reject tight deadlines or set regular working hours for themselves. These tactics are just not feasible because the agencies and clients have too much power. In my own freelance practice, I do follow all of these suggestions and it translates directly into fewer clients (pun intended). The only reason I am able to try advocating for myself and other freelance translators in this way is because I have Guerrilla Translation to fall back on. Most do not have this luxury.
In order for any improvement to materialise in the professional lives of freelance translators, much larger, systemic changes are needed. Ideas revealed in the survey, such as legally fixed pay rates, educating clients on the complexity of translation work and more respect for the profession in general, are all long-term goals to fight for. But ultimately this is an uphill battle if corporate translation agencies and translation departments are still in the picture. The central wish expressed by freelance translators is that they would have more direct clients and that EU institutions would work directly with them, not through agencies. Freelance translators know that the agencies’ only purpose is to make money off of the labour of translators while harvesting data from their work to develop technology that will eventually make them obsolete.
Freelance translators are caught in a ‘vicious cycle’, and nobody in the industry is doing anything to stop it. Deadlines are too tight, but competition is too high and work opportunities too irregular to refuse any assignments. Translators make themselves available at all hours and then have unrealistic, and frankly unethical, expectations put on them by agencies and clients who make little to no effort to understand the complexity of the work they are commissioning. 70% of freelance translators reported that their pay rate is a source of stress, whereas only 6% definitively answered that they were happy with the amount they earn. It was also determined that the vast majority of freelance translators would only be able to survive without work during the COVID-19 pandemic for less than three months without additional support.
It’s clear that there is a lack of understanding and respect for what translators actually do. Not only do we attain a very high reading and writing level in at least two languages, but we also master the art of transferring ideas, not just words, from one language into another in a way that sounds natural and authentic. We translate in such a way as to conceal the fact that the text was translated. We study the theory behind this skill and bridge cultural norms and practices in addition to languages. We ensure that your message is received just as you communicated it. Ultimately the client is putting their voice in our hands, and for that amount of responsibility, we deserve much more respect. After all, we’re basically superheroes.
And this brings me back to Guerrilla Translation. Part of our approach is that we do not lose touch with the art of translation, the human touch required to render a truly quality text. We do not use CAT tools or machine translation, both on principle and because they yield sub-par work. We factor care work into our payouts within the collective and have on-going discussions about whether or not this care work is being fairly distributed and compensated among members. We respect each other and we expect the same from our clients. From our little oasis, we try to provide our services in a way that does not feed the capitalist machine and does not contribute to the demise of our art, our craft, our profession. We’re trying to effect change from the ground up, and we hope that we have your support in this mission. | 14,183 | 5,886 | 2.409616 |
warc | 202143 | By: Teresa Mull
As anyone who’s tried to purchase a firearm in the past year-and-a-half knows all too well, gun sales are booming.
And a new study shows just who’s buying all those guns: women.
The
Wall Street Journal reports: Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study.
According to results from Northwestern University’s 2021 National Firearms Survey, from 2019 ‘til now, some 3.5 million women have become first-time gun buyers, compared to 4 million men.
The
Journal article notes how the #MeToo movement has evolved into the #NotMe movement of women empowering themselves against becoming victims of sexual assault and other forms of abuse.
What’s more, reports the
Journal, “…[T]he survey found that new gun buyers were more racially diverse than existing owners who bought more. Among new gun buyers, 55% were white, 21% were Black and 19% were Hispanic. Among new women gun owners, 28% were Black. The 19.6 million existing gun owners who bought more firearms since 2019 were 71% male and 74% white.”
This survey comes at the same time as Fox News reports on Rick Ector – a
GPM friend – who “trains thousands of inner city women 'to ensure they’re never victims.’”
In a 2019 profile of Ector, we reported the NRA instructor had a goal of instructing 900 women in defensive firearm use.
In one weekend.
From the archives:
Eight years ago, Rick Ector hosted a free firearms training seminar for about 50 women in the Detroit area. This year, he’s confident 900 women will come out for a free lesson about gun safety, shooting, and self-defense.
“A lot of rumors and wives’ tales are dismissed as pure folly, and women are able to experience shooting for themselves,” Ector told
Gunpowder Magazine. “And for many people, it’s like a watershed moment. They say, ‘I should have done this a long time ago!’”
Ector, an NRA-approved firearms trainer with Legally Armed in Detroit, explained to
GPM that he was inspired to offer the free classes after hearing a grisly story of a murder of a woman on the news.
“It really bothered me to my core, that someone could be so evil and callous and disrespectful and just deposit a body of a woman in public like that,” Ector said. “It really stuck with me that somebody should do something. I couldn’t forget that story, and I decided that as a firearms trainer, I can do something with regard to empowering women, or at least give them an option to consider.”
Ector reached out to a handful of fellow firearms trainers and convinced them to donate their time. Ector was also able to convince the local gun range where he was teaching concealed carry classes to let him use the rang free of charge. Ector himself paid for the ammo and targets, and thus the free women’s firearms training program was off and running.
It hasn’t slowed down since.
“We had 50 women who were brave enough to come out and meet some strangers at a gun range for a free lesson,” Ector told
GPM. “The next year we did 100, the year after that 200, then 400, etc. And now, I’m having a really good feeling that I can convince 900 women to show up to the gun range. I am looking forward to it. I have received nothing but positive responses from the news releases we’ve put out, and the feedback we’re getting in terms of registration and people calling and asking for more information.”
There are no pre-requisites to take the class, and guns and ammo are provided free of charge. Participants will receive an in-depth range safety briefing and be assigned a time slot during which they will receive one-on-one instruction in the shooting booth, where they will practice firing.
“You can be a complete novice to guns and shooting,” Ector said.
The extremely successful program attracts new-comers and veterans alike. Ector says some women come back year after year, some return every few years to take a refresher course, and some have never heard about the program and attend for the very first time.
“Many people, when they actually participate, are really surprised at how just some basic fundamental instruction can lead to positive results,” Ector said. “And I tell you, it’s a great feeling seeing all the smiles and the picture-taking, and people posting on social media, ‘Look at what I did!’
“What I hear from women is that they feel empowered, and they heard a bunch of information that wasn’t true about guns, and they’re glad that they did it, and they wish they had been exposed to guns and the shooting sports before,” Ector continued. “It’s just a great event, and what we find is that women go on and purchase guns down the road and seek out training and concealed pistol licenses and take on a more active role in personal protection of themselves, their children, and in some cases, their spouses.”
Ector also encourages other gun ranges, firearms instructors, and gun shops to try something similar to what he’s doing in metro Detroit.
Teresa Mull ( teresa@gunpowdermagazine.com ) is editor of Gunpowder Magazine. | 5,360 | 2,511 | 2.134608 |
warc | 202143 | Breast most cancers is an extremely common kind of cancer amongst girls. in case you would like to examine extra about this sickness, continue studying this text. for the duration of the item we can discuss unique statistics concerning breast cancer, in addition to discuss the specific ranges and the survival fees of this ailment.
As stated previously, cancer of the breast is extraordinarily common amongst girls. it is, in reality, the second most not unusual contamination of this kind amongst American women (coming in second to skin cancer). statistics propose that 1 in every 12 girls will broaden breast cancer during their lifetime. men can also expand this disorder, however the records are much smaller.
in step with the yankee cancer Society, if a woman is diagnosed with this sickness, there is a 3% risk that it can be deadly, leading to demise. due to the fact 1990, the wide variety of women loss of life from this disease has reduced, in general due to increased cognizance and screening. in case you or a person you understand has been identified with this dreaded illness, do no longer lose hope. There are currently over 2.5 million breast cancer survivors inside the united states by myself.
There are several distinct degrees of this form of cancer. The exclusive stages of breast most cancers are based upon 4 things; the dimensions of the tumor, what kind it's far (invasive or non-invasive), whether or not lymph nodes are concerned, and whether or not or now not the contamination has unfold to different areas of the frame. allow us to take a short observe the distinctive stages of breast cancer.
The primary stage which is considered level zero, describes non-invasive breast cancers. on this level, all cancerous cells stay in the breast and do now not invade into neighboring tissues. degree 1, then again, describes invasive breast most cancers. Invasive most cancers way that the cancer cells are breaking out of the breast and heading into neighboring tissues. In stage 1, the tumor is up to two cm in length and no lymph nodes are worried.
Degree II if the ailment is split into 2 categories; IIA and IIB. each stages contain invasive cancers. An person is identified with stage IIA breast most cancers when no tumor is located inside the breast but cancer cells are observed in the lymph nodes, while a tumor inside the breast (measuring up to 2 cm) has unfold into the lymph nodes, or while the tumor within the breast is between 2-5cm however has now not spread to the lymph nodes. level IIB is identified whilst the tumor is among 1-5cm and has unfold to the lymph nodes, or while the tumor is larger than 5cm and has no longer unfold to the lymph nodes.
Level III of this infection is likewise divided into subcategories (IIIA, IIIB, and IIIC). degree IIIA most cancers is identified while most cancers has spread into the lymph nodes and they're clumping together. stage IIIB is recognized while the tumor has unfold to the chest wall or pores and skin of the breast. sooner or later, stage IIIC is recognized whilst the tumor has spread to the chest wall or breast, and has unfold to the lymph nodes. The final level of breast most cancers, stave IV, occurs when the cancer has spread to other organs of the frame.
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warc | 202143 | More than 120 COVID-19 deaths reported this weekend in SC, along with 3,450 new cases
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the fifth consecutive day, more than 3,000 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed Sunday in South Carolina by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Health officials confirmed 3,450 new positive tests and 60 more coronavirus-related deaths. That brings the death toll to 123 deaths reported over the weekend, according to DHEC.
Since testing began in March, 376,987 cases of the coronavirus and 5,915 deaths have been reported in South Carolina, data show.
Sunday's data is based on 13,560 tests, and the percent of tests coming back positive increased to 25.4%, according to DHEC. The Jan. 7 percent positive of 34.2% is the record for highest in a single day since testing began.
Last year, the World Health Organization advised governments not to reopen until percent positive rates were at 5% or lower for at least 14 days.
Roughly 17% of all COVID-19 tests administered in South Carolina since last March have come back positive, according to DHEC. The state's seven-day percent positive rate briefly dipped below 5% in mid-May but has otherwise remained well above the WHO's guidelines for reopening.
The most new cases in a single day was the 6,824 positive tests from Jan. 8. No other single-day report has surpassed 5,000 new positive tests.
Since Dec. 27, there have been 10 days with more than 4,000 new cases of coronavirus confirmed in a single day, the data shows. Prior to the surge in December and January, the previous single-day record was 2,343 cases confirmed on July 18.
Sunday marked the 69th consecutive day that more than 1,000 positive tests were confirmed in South Carolina, dating back to Nov. 16 when DHEC reported 981 new cases. Health officials reported more than 3,000 daily cases 26 times, and 50 of the past 53 days have seen more than 2,000 positive tests confirmed, the data shows.
On Friday, Jan. 15 deaths were reported by DHEC, the most deaths reported on a single day in South Carolina, eclipsing the previous record of 84 confirmed on Jan. 2.
Vaccine distribution
Health officials said Sunday that South Carolina had received 542,050 total doses of COVID-19 vaccine and that 267,884 of those doses had been administered, according to DHEC.
The majority of the doses received, or 274,950, are Pfizer-BioNTech doses that have gone to frontline health care workers and community first responders. Of the vaccinations administered, 174,255 have been first doses, while 40,838 more are second doses, according to DHEC.
The other 64,400 are Moderna doses that have been reserved for long-term care facility residents and staff. To date, 17,843 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, data shows.
Another 305,672 people have made appointments for vaccinations.
Health care workers, long-term care facility residents and staff, and hospital inpatients over 65 are currently eligible to receive the vaccine. As of Jan. 13, all South Carolinians age 70 and older are now also able to schedule vaccination appointments.
Anyone eligible to receive a vaccine who would like to get one can use DHEC's locator tool to find a provider with availability nearby at www.scdhec.gov/vaxlocator.
State health officials advise South Carolinians to continue taking measures to mitigate spread of COVID-19 as the vaccination rollout progresses in the months ahead.
DHEC urges anyone who is symptomatic or who has been exposed to someone with COVID-19 to get tested themselves and recommends routine monthly testing for anyone who is out and about in the community, even if they are asymptomatic.
To find a testing location near you, visit DHEC's website at scdhec.gov/covid19/covid-19-testing-locations.
Which counties were affected?
COVID-19 cases in the Upstate continue to surge, and the area had the most new cases Sunday.
Greenville led all counties with 467 new COVID-19 cases, and nearby Spartanburg County had 276 more with an additional 193 in neighboring Anderson County, according to DHEC.
Greenville County, the state's most populous county, has reported more than twice as many cases as any other county in South Carolina over the past two months and was recently ranked among the nation's top COVID-19 hotspots. Among South Carolina counties, Greenville County is second only to Pickens County in its per capita rate of COVID-19 infection over the last two months.
In the Midlands, Richland County reported 395 new cases, second most behind Greenville County, and Lexington County reported 128 more positive tests.
That brings the number of confirmed cases in Richland County to 30,854 and in Lexington County to 20,513.
COVID-19 has taken the greatest toll on South Carolina's elderly residents.
The average age of all South Carolinians who have died from coronavirus complications is 75, and the vast majority of those who died — 87% — were over 60, the data shows.
Of the 60 deaths reported Sunday, 44 were elderly (65 and older) and 16 were middle-aged (35-64) people, including two in Lexington County, according to DHEC. The other middle-aged deaths were reported in Chesterfield (3), Florence (3), Aiken, Beaufort, Cherokee, Dorchester, Greenville, Lancaster, Pickens, and Union counties.
Five of the elderly deaths reported Sunday were in Lexington County, while another was in Richland County, with the others confirmed in Darlington (7), Greenville (4), Spartanburg (4), Orangeburg (3), Anderson (2), Georgetown (2), Horry (2), Aiken, Beaufort, Cherokee, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Dorchester, Florence, Greenwood, Jasper, Lancaster, Laurens, Marion, Oconee, and Pickens counties.
Overall, 361 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in Richland County, while the death toll increased to 316 in Lexington County, according to DHEC.
How are hospitals being impacted?
The number of people hospitalized statewide for COVID-19 Sunday was 2,189. It marks the 26th consecutive day of more than 2,000 people with COVID-19 being cared for in a South Carolina hospital, according to health officials.
Prior to the recent winter surge, hospitalizations for COVID-19 previously peaked at 1,723 on July 23, according to DHEC.
Coronavirus patients made up 23.8% of all reported inpatients in South Carolina on Sunday, data shows.
Nearly 19.5% of COVID-19 patients, or 428 people, are in intensive care units, and nearly 12.5%, or 274 patients, are on ventilators.
Of the 13,447 hospital beds available in South Carolina, 9,190 inpatient beds are currently occupied, health officials said. There are currently 1,404 of 1,781 ICU beds occupied, or 78.8%, according to DHEC.
In Richland County, 818 hospital beds are occupied (75.6%), while 475 of 541 hospital beds in Lexington County (87.8%) are occupied, according to DHEC.
How are schools affected?
More than 640 COVID-19 cases in the past week are associated with schools, DHEC reported Friday.
State health officials, who report school-related cases twice weekly, documented 484 cases among students and 158 cases among staff since last week.
The numbers include kindergarten through 12th grade students and staff in both public and private schools, and count only individuals who attend school in person or are on campus on a regular basis.
Results from a rapid schools testing initiative that some districts are in the process of implementing are included in the counts.
A total of 8,465 school-related cases have been reported since Sept. 4, DHEC said.
How is COVID-19 trending in SC?
Daily case rates continue to increase and are up 75% in the past month, with 73.6 people per 100,000 testing positive for the novel coronavirus over the past 30 days.
Coronavirus deaths also have risen in recent weeks, reaching a weekly record high of 334 confirmed and probable deaths in the week that ended Jan. 9, according to DHEC. The agency has reported nearly 1,500 virus deaths, or about 25% of the state's cumulative death total, in just the past 30 days
COVID-19 hospitalizations have also remained elevated the past couple weeks, with the number of coronavirus patients reported Saturday about 6% higher than the average over the past month, according to DHEC.
The number of people being tested across the state is also rising. An average of 254 tests per 100,000 individuals have been performed daily over the last 30 days, a 13% increase from the month prior, data show.
The state's seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate, which provides an idea of how widespread infection is in a testing area, is 24.8% and the 30-day positivity rate is 27.5%.
Elevated percent positive rates indicate there are likely more people infected with COVID-19 in the community who have not yet been tested and that testing may need to be ramped up.
Overall, 4,658,300 tests have been conducted in South Carolina.
Are all cases accounted for?
Across the country, health experts said official case counts have likely under-counted the number of cases to large degrees. At one point, South Carolina officials estimated that 86% of those infected never got tested or diagnosed, but they no longer provide those estimates.
DHEC has also been recording probable cases and probable deaths. A probable case is someone who has not received a lab test result but has virus symptoms or a positive antibody test. A probable death is someone who has not gotten a lab test but whose death certificate lists COVID-19 as a cause of death or a contributing factor.
On Sunday, DHEC reported 119 new probable COVID-19 cases in the state, and eight new probable deaths. That puts the total number of probable cases at 41,338 and total probable deaths at 632.
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warc | 202143 | State's largest grain producing county must be preserved
CENTREVILLE — A coalition of Queen Anne’s County farmers have joined in a statement urging the County to commit strongly to farmland preservation in the 2021 Comprehensive Plan Update.
The sign-on effort is being led by two farmers with deep family roots in the agricultural community, Howard Dean and Scott MacGlashan, both of Church Hill.
The Dean-MacGlashan Statement on Farm Preservation began circulating early February to “farmers, farmland owners and others committed to maintaining Queen Anne’s County’s agricultural economy and rural heritage.” According to its sponsors, the Statement has been endorsed by more than 100 signers.
Dean stated, “We’ve had a lot of uptake on the Statement, and we hope more will join in the effort. We urge other farmers to contact either Scotty or me to be included. More people are signing on everyday.”
The Statement leads off by reiterating support for the 2010 Comprehensive Plan’s “vision” of the County as a “quintessential rural community” and then goes on to urge specific actions in the 2021 Plan Update to protect County agriculture. Dean and MacGlashan want to be sure that farmer’s voices are heard and plan to share their statement with the consultants on the Comprehensive Plan and ultimately the county commissioners.
The Statement supports maintaining the County’s position as “the State’s largest grain producing county”; supports all farmland preservation programs, including Rural Legacy, the Maryland Ag Land Preservation Fund, and county supported programs; and proposes Route 301 from Queenstown to Millington be designated as a “County Scenic Agricultural Byway”, protected from commercial and residential development; and encourages direct growth of residential and commercial projects toward the Towns, with assurances of...compatibility with their surroundings and the necessary infrastructure...so as not to over-burden County services leading to increased taxes on all residents.
The Statement concludes with a declaration in bold print that “the rural and agricultural character of Queen Anne’s County should be maintained and protected, with emphasis on those areas North and East of Queenstown, by every means practical.”
“Agriculture represents the largest economic sector in the County,” MacGlashan said, “so we want to make sure we have our say in how the Comprehensive Plan is updated. We need to preserve as much farmland as possible, to keep it productive for the future and maintain a critical mass of ag support businesses. When we lose farms to residential and commercial development, we never get them back — and when things go far enough in that direction, the whole ag sector collapses.”
Dean added, “Our county has been an agricultural county for more than 300 years. Two-thirds of the land area of the County is farmland. The soils here have been described by USDA as ‘brown gold’. So agriculture is both our heritage and our future. We want the Comp Plan Update to recognize these facts and reaffirm our commitment to preserving, by every means practical, the rural and agricultural character of Queen Anne’s County.”
For questions or to endorse the Statement contact Howard Dean at 410-708-2245 or Scott MacGlashan at 410-490-2764. | 3,458 | 1,577 | 2.192771 |
warc | 202143 | Jupiter, FL Pest Control Experienced Pest Control in Jupiter, FL
The city of Jupiter offers visitors and residents the opportunity to hike our many beautiful trails, watch both the Florida Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training, swim at one of our many beautiful beaches, and a chance to enjoy our nightlife and fine dining.
While enjoying living and working in the area, Hometown Pest Control’s main priority is to keep you, your family, and guests safe from stinging insects, biting pests, and rodents while you enjoy your favorite activities. We work with residential and commercial property owners regarding any level of pest control problems.
Since 1997, Hometown Pest Control’s licensed and highly trained pest management professionals have been working diligently to identify, remove, and prevent pests in the Jupiter area. You do not have to share space with unwanted intruders.
Keeping Your Jupiter, FL Home Free from Bugs and Rodents
You worked hard to own your home – don’t let insects and rodents take over. If we discover a pest during our free initial inspection, our experienced and licensed pest control technicians will identify the level of infestation and offer solutions to remedy the problem. We provide an integrated pest management program based on the unique characteristics of your property and the pest.
Commercial Pest Control in Jupiter, FL
If a customer or health inspector sees a pest at your establishment, not only do you have a pest problem, your reputation could be on the line as well. It’s a challenge to rebuild your reputation after this happens. Hometown Pest Control provides you with solid prevention and control measures to help keep your business and reputation strong.
Our Pest Control Services: General Pest Control
After an initial inspection of your home to identify any current issues, we treat the area, offer monthly services, and we offer callbacks for covered pests between scheduled visits. If the callback is for a pest that is not covered, there will be a free inspection of your property where we discuss how to get rid of the pest. Learn more about our pest control services and what we can do to help!
Bed Bug Control
Bed bugs are commonly found in mattresses and box springs but can live wherever humans exist, especially on your clothes. Adult bed bugs have a brown and flat appearance before feeding and they redden and swell after feeding. To learn more about our bed bug control service, be sure to give us a call!
Stinging Insect Control
Never attempt to remove bees, hornets, or wasps on your own. A licensed pest control technician can remove these stinging insects safely and apply repellent materials to discourage new colony infestations. Keep your home safe from stinging pests and give us a call at the first sign of an infestation.
Ficus Whitefly Treatments
Florida’s beautiful plants are under attack from the ficus whitefly. A non-native insect that lacks natural enemies, they cause the yellowing and loss of leaves to your ornamental plants. Don’t blame your dying plants on lack of fertilization or sunshine. Contact us to learn more about our treatments for ficus whiteflies.
Mosquito Control
Don’t let mosquitoes bug you! Hometown Pest Control can work to help control mosquitoes by inspecting your property in Jupiter, FL and applying materials to mosquito breeding and harborage areas. Don’t let mosquitoes ruin your time outside, and contact Hometown today.
Rodent Control
Rodents cause a lot of damage to property, frighten guests, and can carry pathogens that cause disease. Hometown Pest Control can help trap, remove, and work to prevent them from coming back. Learn more about our rodent control services!
Termite Control
Signs of termites include live swarms, mud tubes on walls, discarded wings, pin-sized exit holes, darkening or blistered wood, and tiny droppings. If not found on time, termites will severely damage your home, and likely your homeowner’s insurance will refuse to cover the damage. Schedule a free termite inspection and let Hometown help!
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Schedule a free inspection and call today to discuss our various treatment services. Your property deserves the ultimate protection. Hometown Pest Control will create a program that fits the needs of your home or business. | 4,399 | 1,947 | 2.259373 |
warc | 202143 | Home >Safe access for the retail world
Safe access for the retail world
13 November 2019
Retail companies expect comprehensive shop maintenance services, even when shops are open. Areas where standard working at height equipment cannot fit are a problem. LOBO Systems offer a solution.
Regular service appointments and routine maintenance, with a clearly defined range of services, helps make sure shops stay open and running without any problems.
Safety management begins with an organisation ensuring that employees have fit for purpose, work at height safety equipment, on which they have been trained to assemble, inspect and use safely. This saves time and money and keeps engineers safe.
Often aluminium scaffolding products cannot be reconfigured to fit awkward areas such as stairways. Tube and clamp scaffolding is heavy and time consuming to construct.
The LOBO System can offer a solution to these problems. As it is quick to assemble, significant reductions in labour costs can be achieved.
Real time overnight maintenance issues exist as time constraints increase labour costs, with safety being a key component. The strategic use of the LOBO System to gain rapid access for working at height issues may in part alleviate these issues.
Key to efficient running, smooth operation and safety is properly maintained property and associated plant rooms.
The LOBO System can be configured to create a safe work platform.
The photos show the rapid assembly time of a 20-minute system. LOBO says this, coupled with the no-tools-to-erect feature, means a lower labour cost and a safer working environment.
The Solution
The LOBO System can be assembled quickly, easily and safely around, above desks or restricted access areas, without the need for tools, by your own in-house maintenance crew. This means out-sourced scaffolding labour costs can be reduced without comprising safety. Areas previously considered difficult to get to can now be accessed with ease for maintenance and cleaning purposes.
In addition, it is available 24/7 and so puts you in control of what and when you schedule your maintenance tasks.
The LOBO System can be configured into unlimited shapes and sizes to suit almost all awkward access situations and packs away for easy storage or transportation to the next work area.
Product Benefits
LOBO is scalable, adaptable and adjustable to meet your ongoing and changing requirements. Simply add more components or alter your existing configuration to satisfy the demands of the next task.Protect your initial investment with a product that will meet all your access needs safely.
LOBO is a rigid and stable product, which meets or exceeds current safety regulations. Handrails can be fitted in seconds, at any point during the assembly process.
LOBO’s steel modular components ensure many years of product life cycle and a system that will not shake or rattle. The system also includes anti-sway braces and outriggers for totally rigidity on taller systems.
LOBO’s modular approach means components fully integrate and can be hand carried. Fully constructed systems can also be made mobile by the addition of wheels.
Cost Benefits
LOBO says its experience shows that deploying the LOBO system reduces the costs associated with hiring scaffolding and constructing bespoke access systems: By reducing your reliance on out-sourced scaffolding and engineering companies, cost savings will be achieved – easily in a 12-month period.
LOBO Towerstore
The Towerstore offers security on or off site. The Towerstore provides a secure and yet simple way to store your LOBO components, which also makes managing all the components parts that much simpler.
Designed specifically for LOBO’s advanced work platform system, it is fitted with feet for easy pallet truck or forklift manoeuvrability. Also, it can be locked with a padlock for security or storage. The Towerstore can be vertically or horizontally mounted to suit the workshop or can be transported for rapid deployment, on and off site.
With this quantifiable reduction in costs comes the added savings associated with reduced down-time and greater productivity from your maintenance department.
Available 24/7, quick to erect – and above all safe – it is immediately adjustable for your next job with no staff waiting time while new fixed-frame structures are built.
Re-configurable, again and again, this product comes with minimal replacement and on-going training costs. | 4,510 | 2,064 | 2.185078 |
warc | 202143 | Earlier this month, ASX-listed Transurban extended its stranglehold over Sydney’s toll roads by leading a consortium to acquire the 49 percent of the WestConnex project that it did not already own, taking the group’s ownership interest to the full 100 percent.
The consortium, known as Sydney Transport Partners, agreed to pay A$11 billion ($7.9 billion; €6.8 billion) for the stake, more than the A$9.26 billion it paid for 51 percent of the scheme in 2018.
The latest 49 percent was split into two 24.5 percent tranches by the New South Wales government in the hope of drumming up some competition to Transurban. IFM Investors was the leading alternative candidate but decided to withdraw before final bids were due. In the end, Transurban won its stake unopposed.
While IFM Investors has not publicly said why it declined to bid, it appears from the outside that Transurban’s incumbent position in Sydney’s toll road market was too strong to compete with effectively, enabling the listed firm and its partners to comfortably bid a higher price given the data on traffic and other underlying asset fundamentals they have access to.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission examined the first auction in 2018 and decided that Transurban’s acquisition then would not lead to a lessening of competition for future toll road concessions – a view that has not aged all that well considering the recent auction.
Separately, a NSW Parliament inquiry into tolling regimes is currently underway, which is highlighting some of the challenges that Transurban’s monopoly could pose long-term.
In evidence to the inquiry this week, the Transport Workers Union, which represents workers in the roads and aviation sectors, revealed a note that Toll Group, one of Australia’s largest trucking companies, had sent to its drivers thanking them for not using toll roads unless they had prior authorisation from the company to do so. “In most cases, the cost of the toll roads outweighs any benefit we receive from using them,” the note said, according to a report in the
Australian Financial Review, which should raise eyebrows given that freight traffic has underpinned toll roads’ resilience during the pandemic.
In some ways, this is just another chapter in the ongoing debate about light-touch regulation of what are effectively monopoly infrastructure assets in Australia. The toll road crossing Sydney Harbour via bridge and tunnel is the only toll road in NSW – and one of only two out of Australia’s 23 toll roads – that Transurban does not control.
Transurban, in evidence submitted to the inquiry, has rightly defended the private sector’s involvement from one important perspective: the amount of investment that has been secured thanks to the Asset Recycling Programme and other initiatives. “The current [road] network represents more than A$9 billion of investment, of which the private sector has contributed 80 percent. The involvement of the private sector has substantially accelerated this investment, delivering the associated benefits many years ahead of when they might otherwise have been achieved,” the firm stated.
That is difficult to argue with, but there is a fine balancing act here: Transurban will be able to raise tolls every year by 4 percent or in line with the consumer price index, whichever is greater, until 2040 – and in line with CPI after that. Chief executive Scott Charlton has argued this makes toll roads a “heavily regulated” sector with prices set by the government.
So, the company doesn’t have free rein, but what is stopping it from enacting the maximum possible rise every year?
After all, it is hard for any competitors to try and undercut it on price – for the simple fact there are no competitors. | 3,873 | 1,895 | 2.043799 |
warc | 202143 | The Crawfordsville Community School Corp. board voted unanimously Thursday to change the district’s mask policy as a rising number of students test positive for COVID-19.
Under the new policy, masks will be required for 14 days when a school’s total number of positive cases reaches 2-1/2% of the student population, the district’s highest rate last year. The change takes effect Monday.
The district began the school year with masks optional. Superintendent Dr. Scott Bowling, who recommended the change, called the measure a “targeted approach” to limit the spread of the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Bowling said the new rules were designed not to be open-ended, acknowledging the division over masks. The percentage baseline is a rolling total that can be revisited.
“I’ll be transparent, well, this is an attempt at a compromise,” Bowling said.
As of Tuesday, 13 students had tested positive since the school year began on Aug. 9, the district reported. By Thursday, there were more positive student cases than during the district’s highest week of infections last year.
Eight students from the same classroom at Nicholson Elementary have tested positive, but were already quarantined when the results came back, the district said.
Though cases are going up, administrators say fewer students are being quarantined thanks to the vaccine, which is not yet authorized for children under 12.
Under district policy, vaccinated students and staff are contact traced but not sent home unless they have symptoms. Bowling said administrators were working with local health officials to find ways to further limit quarantines.
Students are settling into the classroom amid high transmission of the more contagious delta variant of COVID-19. The rate of weekly cases per capita has increased from 54 on July 1 to over 290 this week, according to the Montgomery County Health Department.
The infection rate is significantly higher for unvaccinated people, the department said.
Montgomery County Health Officer Dr. Scott Douglas, who attended the board meeting, said the new mask policy was a “step in the right direction.”
Parents supporting universal masking in schools said they appreciated the efforts to find a compromise. But they said the policy change doesn’t go far enough because of limited coverage of coronavirus tests, though more people are being tested as cases rise.
They said masks should be worn before the schools reach their highest level of infections and questioned why a districtwide mandate was not in place as Bowling recommended postponing Hoover Elementary’s upcoming fifth grade camping trip.
Jim Cherry, who said one of his child’s classmates was being quarantined, called masks “a very small price to pay” to keep schools open. He said trusting families to choose whether to mask doesn’t acknowledge the pandemic’s reality.
“Family choice is great for ordering pizza, not crushing pandemics,” he said. | 3,047 | 1,468 | 2.075613 |
warc | 202143 | Your second term at City Hall doesn’t even begin until next month, but we know you’re already plotting to leave us—at least if you think you’ve got a fair shot at grabbing the gubernatorial crown off that Austrian bodybuilder in 2010. It took a good while, but we realize now that your career has been less about fulfilling commitments than about seizing opportunities and satisfying ever-larger appetites at the expense of those who put faith in you. Your estranged wife, the politicians who stood behind you and took a haircut for their trouble, the voters who believed you could love this city more than you love yourself—we can tell the same story of betrayal.
Why, you may ask, are we so bitter? It’s a fair question. We weren’t as harsh when your predecessor, James Hahn, ran our city like a midlevel bureaucrat. It was no great revelation when Hahn preoccupied himself with bean counting, and only mildly surprising when his best accounting practices became tarnished by petty corruption. In his campaign speeches Hahn had given us little to aspire to, and so he could hardly disappoint. Then again Hahn made the courageous but suicidal political move of ending Bernard Parks’s tenure as police chief in favor of William Bratton, which so outraged South L.A. that when you ran against Hahn in 2005, that former constituency of his was all yours.
We are bitter because you promised us so much. You were not only our first Latino mayor in 137 years but arguably the most charismatic leader in memory to step onto L.A.’s bland political stage. You had charm, poise, and vigor, and you spoke in cadences that reconciled reason and compassion.
Your life story alone was cause for celebration. Here was no high-powered man of business who traced his father’s footsteps, like Richard Riordan, or scion of a beloved county supervisor, like James Hahn. As a boy, you endured Eastside poverty and a drunken, violent father who abandoned the family. Dropping out of high school, you sank into hurt and hostility. A tattoo on your arm warned that you were “born to raise hell.” In your rise from those beginnings to the mayor’s office, you bulldozed long-held prejudices about what any of us could or deserved to achieve. You spanned the city’s divides of race, class, and geography. You owed your mayoral victory as much to the home owners of Encino and the African American congregations of Crenshaw as to the laborers of Boyle Heights and the Prius drivers of Westwood. Under your reign, our city might cohere.
What an agenda you rolled out for us. Your progressive platform, if enacted, would cleanse the city of its toxins: street crime and failing schools, the evaporation of affordable housing and the carcinogens in our skies. You made your share of election-year boasts—a thousand new cops! a million new trees!—but we understood these to be ornaments hung upon a grand civic vision.
You didn’t exactly settle into City Hall. Instead, you kept on barnstorming. We watched you plant the first of all those promised trees and fill in potholes and leaflet motorists on Wilshire Boulevard. We were sure to hear about it when you stumped for Hillary Clinton or scaled the Great Wall of China. You tossed out new programs as if you were still a candidate, most of them paper-thin, without any strategy for implementation or credible source of funding. You said you were a “big-picture guy,” too busy touting lofty plans around the city and the world to bother with details. Rather than adapt your regime to compensate for your lack of organizational concern, you commandeered it for self-promotion.
Yes, crime has dipped under your stewardship, and it looks as if we will be getting those thousand cops. You negotiated a living-wage ordinance that has lifted the lot of hotel workers near LAX and helped the city secure billions in bond money for the “Subway to the Sea.” But these successes can’t mask the essential truth: What you now lead is an administration in which politics almost always trumps policy—where solvable problems become impossible to fix. This past winter we discovered that you couldn’t stop city employees from gulping down almost $184,000 in bottled water three years after a city controller’s audit caused you to institute a Sparkletts ban. You vowed to make L.A. a no-kill zone for abandoned cats and dogs. By the end of 2006, the euthanasia rate at city shelters was 41 percent, not even 2 percent less than the previous year; your animal services director recently resigned after suspending the city’s free spay-neuter program. A fraction of your million trees may have been acquired, but how many have perished in their pots or in parched ground after being handed out to practically any passerby during community events? At our libraries, staff and book purchases have been cut back. There have been no great civic works to mark your tenure—no public art or municipal architectural feat to instill pride. The zoo remains a joke. The only perceptible change at our national embarrassment of an airport is the scaffolding that has enveloped its space-age Theme Building for the last two years.
As for that personal life of yours, it is hardly up to us whom you should fool around with. But did you really have to choose a Telemundo news anchor whose job was to go on the air and report that your marriage was over? Loath to explain the whole mess, your online city hall bio, as it appeared this spring, made no mention that you were ever married or that you have kids. After the scandal you all but vanished, depriving the city of the one asset you’d consistently been able to deliver—your public face.
Let’s remove ourselves from the spectacle you’ve made of your private business and look at what should have been three triumphs of your mayoralty: education, the environment, and affordable housing.
Of all your first-term foggy notions, your attempted takeover of the Los Angeles Unified School District stands as the most quixotic. While your desire to help the city’s children was no doubt genuine, the initiative itself was born of reckless political one-upmanship. During your spring 2005 runoff against Hahn, pollsters found that what voters wanted most was for the mayor to fix our miserable school system, even though the City Charter and the state constitution prevent anything of the kind. When Hahn showed up at a local school demanding that he be allowed to appoint at least three LAUSD board members, your campaign dismissed it as a gimmick. Two days later you appeared at the same school and raised the ante, saying you would seize control of the entire system, replacing the elected seven-member board with candidates of your choosing. For the first 22 months of your administration, you burned the bulk of your political capital waging a war against the LAUSD. When the state legislature passed your education bill, it was so watered down that it gave you little more than veto power in selecting the superintendent and direct control of only a handful of schools. A superior court judge declared even that version unconstitutional, and an appeals court affirmed the obvious. Our schools are still a shambles.
As a candidate you promised us the “cleanest and greenest big city in America.” We already mentioned the trees. The solar power initiative you championed was savaged for its lack of specifics. But we know that had voters not rejected it last spring, it would have been a windfall for the electrical workers union, whose leaders virtually put it on the ballot. Among the region’s most entrenched health hazards are our ports, whose trucks, trains, ships, and loading equipment belch out enough pollution to cause 1,800 premature deaths a year, by one conservative estimate. You did support a clean trucks bill, which, if it survives a court fight, could rid the area of the dirtiest diesel haulers. But which side were you on when state senator Alan Lowenthal introduced a ports bill that would have done far more, taxing every container and reaping as much as $400 million annually to lessen traffic and pollution? Just as the bill was nearing a crucial moment in the state assembly, your spokesperson told the
Los Angeles Times that it was unacceptable because it didn’t include money to repair two bridges you wanted fixed. You added your voice to a chorus of detractors that included Wal-Mart, Burger King, and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
Only when money for the bridges was found elsewhere did you endorse the ports bill—tepidly. You may have called on the governor to sign it, and you may have encouraged some legislators to pass it, but the one time we heard you speak out was when vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin urged Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto it, which he promptly did. A nice opportunity for some national exposure, to reinsert yourself into the presidential race after placing all your bets on Hillary.
The year you took office, L.A. was in the midst of one of the greatest real estate booms in its history, and units for the lower middle class and working poor were disappearing as buildings in once-undesirable neighborhoods became condos or were leveled to make way for luxury apartments. In 2008, the Los Angeles Business Council determined that L.A. was the least affordable metropolitan area in America. During the runoff against Hahn, when you were still serving on the city council, your colleagues Ed Reyes and Eric Garcetti were pushing for an inclusionary zoning ordinance, much like Chicago’s, that would have required developers to commit 10 percent of a project’s value toward funding affordable housing. Their proposal never made it to the floor after you and then-councilman Martin Ludlow made it clear that this was perhaps not the best time to be alienating the business sector.
You said Hahn’s affordable housing trust fund was inadequate, and for the first half of your administration, you did cobble together enough city, state, and federal dollars to double the annual allotment to $100 million. This coming fiscal year you’ll be 20 percent shy of that figure, with the city’s proposed contribution reduced to zero. Today’s outlook might have been less grim if the city council’s $1 billion affordable housing bond hadn’t lost last year by a couple of percentage points at the polls. The measure hardly benefited from mayoral support so anemic that some regarded it as mild opposition. By the time you introduced your own housing plan last September, mostly paid for by billions in diverted and purely imaginary funds, the bottom had fallen out of the market.
Mr. Mayor, the city you have sworn to lead is in crisis. It is time you put a stop to the betrayals and fecklessness that have marked these past four years, time you resist the urge to bound up the career ladder faster than even term limits compel you. You’re an old pro at campaigning by now, but you must finally decide whether you want to govern. Call a press conference and tell us in language that contains no loopholes that you’ll stay with us until the end of your term. Do what more you can for schools, housing, jobs, and the environment, but enough with the bragging. If you want to leave your stamp on this city, and not a mere smudge, concentrate on one—just one—ambitious initiative to make Los Angeles a more tolerable place than when you took power. Should it be traffic? The zoo? The airport? OK, what about gangs?
We’re still the gang capital of the world, with 40,000 members causing havoc. In 2006, gangs were responsible for more than half the city’s murders. Crime rates have gone down, though try telling that to the elementary school students in Highland Park who practice diving under their desks in anticipation of live rounds, the way children in the ’50s prepared for atomic bombs. By middle school, as much as 90 percent of the students in L.A.’s poorest neighborhoods will have been exposed to violence, with more than a quarter of them suffering post-traumatic stress disorder.
You’ve already come up with something that, if you can get serious about it, could make a difference. In January 2007, civil rights attorney Connie Rice recommended an overarching strategy intended to eliminate as many root causes of gangs as possible, and that summer city controller Laura Chick launched an audit that showed L.A.’s anti-gang efforts in disarray. Instead of responding with a hasty memo, you introduced a gang reduction and youth development plan articulating a vision both focused and audacious. Your administration identified 12 hot zones where the mayhem is at its worst. Within them you proposed to reach everyone from preschoolers threatened by shootouts to adolescents pressured to join neighborhood crews to bangers seeking a way out. You shut down the bumbling Riordan-era L.A. Bridges program and appointed a capable gang czar, Jeff Carr. Typical of your administration, he has the mandate but not the resources to coordinate the anti-gang efforts of the LAPD, the sheriff’s department, neighborhood councils, the city housing department, parks and recreation, public schools and colleges, the county department of child and family services, the city’s cultural affairs office, and the state department of corrections.
The local news has barely concerned itself with your anti-gang program, preoccupied as it is by Octo-mom and the tanking economy. You can bring the cameras to the scenes of devastation and demand they stay there beyond the usual eight-second recap of the latest killing, because you’re not about to leave, either. Your anti-gang crusade will take more funding than you’ve devoted so far, more commitment to persuade unions and city, county, and state agencies to accept such a sweeping strategy, and almost all the moral leadership you have left. Should you succeed, you will have introduced to the rest of America a blueprint for radically shrinking perhaps the most intractable problem of our civic life.
Politically, here is a chance to redeem yourself. Give it your all, and maybe you’ll emerge from your tenure at City Hall looking more like Barack Obama than Sammy Glick. Even if you fall short and accomplish not a fifth of what you set out to do, at least you’ll have saved lives. We’ll be able to shed some of our cynicism and disappointment, and when the next governor’s race comes along, you’ll be able to run on a record. For the sake of the city, remind us that you once stood for something more than the political advancement of Antonio Villaraigosa, and that there is some residual greatness about you yet.
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warc | 202143 | Kingsville police are investigating an incident in which a trailer came unhitched from a pickup truck on Highway 77 and caused a deadly crash. The driver of the truck fled the scene. Police are asking anyone with information to contact law enforcement.
The Fatal Accident
On Wednesday, September, 29, a 46-year-old man was killed when the vehicle he was driving was struck by an unhitched trailer. The deceased was traveling on Highway 77 near Corral Ave. in a black truck when the accident occurred.
According to officials, the trailer had been attached to a grey dually pickup truck. Based on photos of the scene, the trailer appears to be an old, rusted flatbed trailer, and it was empty at the time of the collision.
After the trailer became unhitched, it crossed the median of the highway before striking the victim’s truck. The victim was ejected from the truck after it crashed into a barrier and flipped over.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. According to authorities, the driver of the grey pickup fled the scene following the fatal accident.
Any individuals with information regarding the grey dually truck or its driver have been asked to call the Kingsville Police Department or file a report online.
Practicing Trailer Safety
Even for experienced drivers, towing a trailer is no picnic. Trailers can be difficult to maneuver, can block visibility, and can greatly reduce your vehicle’s braking speed. Because of this, it’s essential that you learn about all of the safety rules and guidelines regarding trailers.
In fact, the safety rules for trailers begin long before you get to the road. First, you will need to make sure that your trailer and its connection to your vehicle are safe and secure. Additionally, you’ll want to do the following:
Check tire pressure and condition Keep oil changes and other maintenance up to date Always use a ball hitch that matches the coupler on your trailer Always pack a spare tire Use safety chains to ensure your trailer stays connected Check that your trailer’s lights are in working order Pack wheel chocks, or wedges, to stop your trailer from rolling out of park
After you’ve made sure that all the preparations are complete, you can set out on the road. However, we recommend practicing with a trailer in a familiar environment for some time before considering taking longer trips. When you drive with your trailer, keep the following driving tips in mind.
As you can see, the skills it takes to drive while towing aren’t exactly the same that you might use when driving without a trailer. Download our handy guide to make sure that you never forget the best techniques for driving safely with a trailer.
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warc | 202143 | Although the conclusion paragraph comes at the end of your essay it should not be seen as an afterthought. As the final paragraph is represents your last chance to make your case and, as such, should follow an extremely rigid format.
Therefore, if you take the time to review your notes and ensure you understand everything that was discussed, it should be difficult for the essay question to catch you off guard. As soon as you read the question, relevant course concepts will start popping into your head, and you`ll just have to organize them into a coherent essay.
The most important part of writing an essay exam is ensuring that you`re answering the question was posed. Even if you made sure you were interpreting everything correctly before you began, you may have forgotten to address a subquestion or integrate an example as you were writing. Before you submit, read the prompt again and make sure your completed essay matches up!
Decide on your thesis, the topic of each paragraph, and the arguments which you intend to cover, then jot down some quick point-form notes. This process won`t take long, and, once you complete it, all that`s left will be to expand those notes into a well-organized essay.
If you realize that you`re falling dangerously behind schedule, it might be necessary to cut some arguments or examples you planned to include. Although making these omissions can be painful, it`s better to leave out a few points from one section than to leave out an entire paragraph because you ran out of time.
Do your research: Read primary and secondary sources and take notes to help you work out your position and angle on the topic. You`ll use these as evidence for your points.
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warc | 202143 | LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi government through ministry of health with Partners In Health (PIH) this week validated World Health Organisation (WHO) Safe-Childbirth tool aimed at improving quality of delivery amid rise cases of maternal deaths in the country.
The WHO tool has been localised as Safe Childbirth Flowchart which health workers including midwifes will be using when helping mothers to deliver safely.
PIH’s Primary Nursing Manager Isaac Mphande told The Maravi Post that his organisation expects quality delivery of babies as the flowchart acts a reminder for health workers to follow when executing duties.
Mphande disclosed that after completing validation of the tool will be put into usage in health facilities across the country.
“Partners In Health (PIH) Malawi, locally known as Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) has been supporting Ministry of Health (MOH) in piloting implementation of the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Tool in all the 14 health facilities of Neno district from 2017 through GAIN program.
“Following its successful implementation, the Reproductive Health Unit within MOH would like
to scale it up to all facilities in Malawi in form of a Flow Chart hence the validation. We expect the tool to reduces simple errors which health workers miss when helping mothers to deliver,” he said.
Echoing on the same, The Director in Reproduction Health Unit and Nursing Services Fanny Kachali observes that the tool has been development meet WHO standards on safe motherhood.
Kachali added that health workers will not have any excuses on complications that come after missing some guidelines when helping mothers to deliver.
“Its an added tool to already safe motherhood guidelines to our health workers. As using the flowchart increases chances of safe childbirth among women in Malawi,” assures Kachali. | 1,880 | 929 | 2.023681 |
warc | 202143 | The governor of Connecticut released a budget request on Wednesday that includes a plan to legalize marijuana. But while the proposal places an emphasis on social equity, advocates are expressing expressing concerns about the lack of specifics so far.
Gov. Ned Lamont (D), who convened an informal work group in recent months to make recommendations on the policy change, said his budget plan will involve establishing a “comprehensive framework for the cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession, use, and taxation of cannabis that prioritizes public health, public safety, and social justice.”
“The proposal builds on the significant work that the Legislature has done on adult-use cannabis in recent sessions and ensures alignment with the approaches pursued by regional states,” a summary of the plan states.
During his budget speech, the governor noted that “our neighboring states are offering recreational marijuana on a legal and regulated basis,” and Connecticut is losing out on tax revenue that could be generated by following suit.
Watch Lamont discuss his cannabis legalization proposal below:
“Rather than surrender this market to out-of-staters, or worse, to the unregulated underground market, our budget provides for the legalization of recreational marijuana,” he said. “These additional revenues will go to distressed communities, which have been hardest hit by the war on drugs.”
The Lamont administration, which has recently been circulating a draft legalization bill for feedback, said in the written summary of the legalization proposal that it hopes Connecticut will become “the first state to create a truly equitable cannabis industry.”
But the details of how communities most impacted by the war on drugs could gain from the legal industry would be mostly determined after officials receive a report from a new equity commission.
“The commission will be given the important charge to develop guidelines and proposals regarding how individuals and neighborhoods that have been most affected by the enforcement of cannabis prohibition can benefit from the creation of a legal market,” the summary says.
Jason Ortiz, the Connecticut-based president of the Minority Cannabis Business Association and a member of Lamont’s cannabis equity task force, told Marijuana Moment that the details of how the legal market is implemented will matter.
“The recommendations from the task force were clear and I’m hopeful the governor heard us, but saying you support equity is not the same as backing it up with systemic change and robust investment,” he said.
“I still think we have fundamental disagreements over what equity means but look forward to analyzing the details,” he said, adding that he plans to review “every line of this bill” and will work with lawmakers and stakeholders to make sure that “the final policy that passes in Connecticut puts equity first in language and in dollars.”
The Marijuana Policy Project’s DeVaughn Ward said the proposal “is a solid starting point to began negotiations with the legislature.”
“I’m encouraged to see the inclusion of an expungement provision, a micro-business and delivery license type, an equity applicant, and a sizable portion of the revenue directed towards equity and communities of color,” he told Marijuana Moment. “The governor’s proposal keeps me optimistic that consensus on this complex issue can be reached this year.”
In broad stokes, the summary of Lamont’s plan makes the case that the current approach to criminalizing marijuana has been a harmful failure.
“Cannabis prohibition has not worked,” the 10-page document says. “It has failed to protect public health and safety, and instead has caused significant injustices for many residents, especially people in black and brown communities because of enforcement laws.”
“With legal cannabis available, or soon to be in neighboring states, Governor Lamont has made the decision to introduce legislation that would create a legal market for cannabis in Connecticut that is well-regulated to protect consumers and the public at large, will reduce the size and influence of the black market, and prevent economic loss from residents crossing borders to neighboring states.”
-Adults 21 and older would be allowed to possess up to 1.5 ounces of marijuana. Homegrow would not be permitted, but penalties for personal cultivation would be reduced and the state Department of Consumer Protection would be charged with studying the policy. Possession of between 1.5 and 2.5 ounces would be an infraction, while possession above 2.5 ounces would be a class C misdemeanor. People under 21 who possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis would face infractions, not misdemeanors.
-Regulators would be responsible for approving licenses for “cultivators, retailers, hybrid medical/adult-use retailers, microcultivators, product manufacturers, food and beverage manufacturers, product packagers and delivery services.” In the initial stage, licenses will be approved via a lottery system. Existing medical cannabis businesses could convert to recreational “for a substantial fee.”
-Adult-use cannabis sales would launch in May 2022. A standard sales tax and an excise tax ($1.25 per gram of flower) would be imposed on marijuana sales. Local municipalities that allow cannabis businesses to operate in their areas would be able to impose an additional three percent tax.
-In fiscal year 2023, “an estimated $33.6 million in revenue will be generated from the cannabis market, growing to $97.0 million by FY 2026,” the summary says. Starting in fiscal year 2024, half of the excise tax revenue “will be intercepted for municipal aid and social equity.”
-Marijuana-related convictions from before October 2015 would be automatically expunged. “The legalization of cannabis possession and the erasure of prior convictions will help erase some of the disproportionate impact of the War on Drugs on our state’s Black and brown communities,” the plan states.
-Law enforcement would not be able to conduct searches, stops or seizures based on the odor of cannabis, except in the context of impaired driving.
-People could not be denied professional licenses from the state because of their work in the cannabis industry or use of marijuana.
-To ensure that the program meets public safety standards, the governor is proposing to add 64 jobs to the consumer protection department. One unique component would involve having “secret shoppers” inspect cannabis businesses to ensure compliance.
The legislature has considered legalization proposals on several occasions in recent years, including a bill that Democrats introduced last year on the governor’s behalf. But while those stalled, there’s increased optimism that 2021 is the year for reform.
Lamont reiterated his support for legalizing marijuana during his annual State of the State address last month, stating that he would be working with the legislature to advance the reform this session.
House Speaker Matt Ritter (D) said in November that legalization in the state is “inevitable.” He added later that month that “I think it’s got a 50–50 chance of passing [in 2021], and I think you should have a vote regardless.”
Should that effort fail, Ritter said he will move to put a constitutional question on the state’s 2022 ballot that would leave the matter to voters.
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A poll released last year found that nearly two-thirds of voters (63.4 percent) either “strongly” or “somewhat” supported recreational legalization.
Some lawmakers have already made clear that they will not support legalization unless is adequately supports social equity and reinvestments in communities most impacted by the war on drugs.
Sen. Douglas McCrory (D), cochair of the Education Committee, said in a recent interview that “Frosty the Snowman would have a better chance of passing summer school in hell than any piece of legislation in Connecticut if it doesn’t deal with equity, economics and the communities that have been targeted and devastated by this fake war on drugs.”
The governor has compared the need for regional coordination on marijuana policy to the coronavirus response, stating that officials have “got to think regionally when it comes to how we deal with the pandemic—and I think we have to think regionally when it comes to marijuana, as well.”
He also said that legalization in Connecticut could potentially reduce the spread of COVID-19 by limiting out-of-state trips to purchase legal cannabis in neighboring states such as Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Read the summary of Lamont’s marijuana legalization plan below: Photo courtesy of Brian Shamblen. Virginia Has Sealed 64,000 Marijuana Distribution Charges Since Legalization Took Effect This Summer “These aren’t just numbers and there are families attached.” By Ned Oliver, Virginia Mercury
Virginia has sealed records documenting more than 64,000 misdemeanor marijuana distribution charges since the state legalized the drug in July.
The figure came out Thursday during a meeting of the legislature’s Cannabis Oversight Commission.
Officials said the records were scrubbed from the state’s criminal record database, which is used by employers like school boards, state agencies and local governments to screen employees.
The state had already sealed 333,000 records detailing charges of simple possession last year after the state reduced the offense to a civil infraction on par with a traffic offense, said Shawn G. Talmadge, the Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security.
Lawmakers directed the state to expand that effort when they voted to broadly legalize recreational use of marijuana earlier this year.
The legislature also agreed to a broader expungement reform that will automatically seal other misdemeanor charges, including underage possession of alcohol, use of a fake ID, petit larceny, trespassing and disorderly conduct. Talmadge said those charges will remain in the system until the state finishes updating the software it uses to track criminal records.
“As of right now, the process is proceeding,” he said.
The Virginia Joint Commission on Cannabis Oversight is meeting now. You can find the agenda and links to livestream and to provide public comment at https://t.co/f1wsPn7SV7
— Jennifer McClellan (@JennMcClellanVA) October 14, 2021
Members of the oversight commission also heard from two advocates who urged them to move fast to address people currently imprisoned for marijuana offenses—a category of people the legalization legislation passed this year did not address.
Chelsea Higgs Wise, the leader of the advocacy group Marijuana Justice, and Gracie Burger, with the Last Prisoner Project, said Department of Corrections data suggests there are currently 10 people being held solely on serious marijuana charges.
They said it remains unknown how many more are being held because of marijuana related probation violations.
“These aren’t just numbers and there are families attached,” Burger said.
DEA Proposes Dramatic Increase In Marijuana And Psychedelic Production In 2022, Calling For 6,300 Percent More MDMA Alone
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is proposing a dramatic increase in the legal production of marijuana and psychedelics like psilocybin, LSD, MDMA and DMT to be used in research next year.
In a notice scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Monday, the agency said there’s been a “significant increase in the use of schedule I hallucinogenic controlled substances for research and clinical trial purposes,” and it wants authorized manufacturers to meet that growing demand.
DEA had already massively upped its proposed 2021 quota for cannabis and psilocybin last month, but now it’s calling for significantly larger quantities of research-grade marijuana and a broader array of psychedelics to be manufactured in 2022.
It wants to double the amount of marijuana extracts, psilocybin and psilocyn, quadruple mescaline and quintuple DMT. What especially stands out in the notice is MDMA. The agency is proposing an enormous 6,300 percent boost in the production of that drug—from just 50 grams in 2021 to 3,200 grams in the coming year—as research into its therapeutic potential continues to expand.
LSD would see a 1,150 percent increase, up to 500 grams of the potent psychedelic.
Marijuana itself would get a 60 percent boost under DEA’s proposal, up to 3.2 million grams in 2022 from the 2 million grams last year.
Here’s a visualization of the proposed quota increase from 2021 to 2022 for marijuana and cannabis extracts: For all other THC, psilocybin, psilocyn and MDMA: And for other psychedelic substances like LSD, mescaline and DMT:
DEA said in the Federal Register notice that it has been receiving and approving additional applications to “grow, synthesize, extract, and manufacture dosage forms containing specific schedule I hallucinogenic substances for clinical trial purposes” to achieve these ambitious quotas.
“DEA supports regulated research with schedule I controlled substances, as evidenced by increases proposed for 2022 as compared with aggregate production quotas for these substances in 2021,” the agency said, adding that it working “diligently” to process and approve marijuana manufacturers applications in particular, as there’s currently only one farm at the University of Mississippi that’s permitted to cultivate the plant for research.
“Based on the increase in research and clinical trial applications, DEA has proposed increases in 3,4- Methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, Dimethyltryptamine, Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), Marihuana, Marihuana Extract, Mescaline, Psilocybin, Psilocyn, and All Other Tetrahydrocannabinols to support manufacturing activities related to the increased level of research and clinical trials with these schedule I controlled substances.”
Here are the exact numbers for the proposed 2021 and 2022 quotas:
Substance 2021 2022 proposed Marijuana 2,000,000 3,200,000 Marijuana extract 500,000 1,000,000 All other tetrahydrocannabinol 1,000 2,000 Psilocybin 1,500 3,000 Psilocyn 1,000 2,000 MDMA 50 3,200 LSD 40 500 Mescaline 25 100 DMT 50 250 5-MeO-DMT 35 550 MDA 55 200
A 30-day public comment period will be open after the notice is formally published on Monday.
It’s difficult to overstate just how significant the proposed 2022 increases are, but it’s certainly true that scientific and public interest in marijuana and psychedelics has rapidly increased, with early clinical trials signaling that such substances show significant therapeutic potential.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow told Marijuana Moment in a recent interview that she was encouraged by DEA’s previous proposed increase in drug production quota. She also said that studies demonstrating the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics could be leading more people to experiment with substances like psilocybin.
Advocates and experts remain frustrated that these plants and fungi remain in the strictest federal drug category in the first place, especially considering the existing research that shows their medical value for certain conditions.
A federal appeals court in August dismissed a petition to require the DEA to reevaluate cannabis’s scheduling under the Controlled Substances Act. However, one judge did say in a concurring opinion that the agency may soon be forced to consider a policy change anyway based on a misinterpretation of the therapeutic value of marijuana.
Separately, the Washington State attorney general’s office and lawyers representing cancer patients recently urged a federal appeals panel to push for a DEA policy change to allow people in end-of-life care to access psilocybin under state and federal right-to-try laws.
Image element courtesy of Kristie Gianopulos. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case On Legalizing Safe Drug Consumption Sites, But Activists Are Undeterred
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has rejected a request to hear a case on the legality of establishing safe injection sites where people can use illicit drugs in a medically supervised environment.
The justices announced on Tuesday that they decided against taking up the case raised by the nonprofit Safehouse, despite the pleas of attorneys general from 10 states and D.C. who recently filed amici briefs urging the court’s involvement.
Representatives from 14 cities and counties, as well as the mayor of Philadelphia, which is at the center of the current case, also filed briefs in support of the case in recent days.
Safehouse was set to launch a safe consumption site in Philadelphia before being blocked by a legal challenge from the Trump administration. It filed a petition with the nation’s highest court in August to hear the case.
But while the Supreme Court declined to take action—and the Biden administration passed up its voluntary opportunity to weigh in at this stage, which may well have influenced the justices’ decision—activists say the battle will continue at a lower federal court level, where the administration will have to file briefs revealing its position on the issue.
Disappointed but not surprised U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear our case. We’re pursuing our claims in federal court. As that litigation proceeds, Biden administration will have to take a position, which it avoided by waiving its right to respond to our Supreme Court petition.
— Safehouse (@SafehousePhilly) October 13, 2021
“We were disappointed that the government chose not to respond to our petition,” Safehouse Vice President Ronda Goldfein told Filter. “They said, ‘We’re going to waive our right to respond,’ [and] the Supreme Court declined to review our case. Ordinarily that sounds like the end of the road—but in our case we are still pursuing our claims in a different venue.”
That venue will be the the federal district court in Philadelphia, where activists plan to submit multiple arguments related to religious freedom and interstate commerce protections. The Biden administration will be compelled to file a response in that court by November 5.
“If they don’t respond, they lose,” Goldfein said.
A coalition of 80 current and former prosecutors and law enforcement officials—including one who is President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. attorney of Massachusetts—previously filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to take up Safehouse’s safe injection case.
Fair and Justice Prosecution, the group that coordinated the amicus brief, also organized a tour of Portugal for 20 top prosecutors in 2019 so they could learn about the successful implementation of the country’s drug decriminalization law.
If the Supreme Court were to have taken the case and rule in favor of Safehouse, it could have emboldened advocates and lawmakers across the country to pursue the harm reduction policy.
The governor of Rhode Island signed a bill in July to establish a safe consumption site pilot program where people could test and use currently illicit drugs in a medically supervised environment. It became the first state in the country to legalize the harm reduction centers. It’s not clear whether the Department of Justice will seek to intervene to prevent the opening of such facilities in that state.
Massachusetts lawmakers advanced similar legislation last year, but it was not ultimately enacted.
A similar harm reduction bill in California, sponsored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D), was approved in the state Senate in April, but further action has been delayed until 2022. | 20,669 | 8,654 | 2.388375 |
warc | 202143 | Dogs are a common pet that can be found in most neighborhoods and apartments. Many are outgoing and lovable, making affable companions. A few dogs, for various reasons, have to potential to lash out in sudden aggressive acts causing injury and harm.
The law for dog bites in New Mexico is based on rulings by the court on accounts of negligence or knowledge of the dog’s nature. Through previous court rulings, victims of dog bites can receive compensation for their injuries.
Knowledge
The technical term used by the courts is called scienter, the Latin word for knowledge. When a dog causes an injury, it is preposterous for the court to find the dog liable to make reparations or otherwise carry the consequence for its actions. Therefore, if the owner had knowledge of or should have known their dog had a violent tendency, they are responsible for the dog’s actions.
However, this means a compelling argument must be conveyed as to how or why the owner should have known about or suspected the violent nature of the animal. If the owner of the dog can convince a jury that they had no knowledge their dog would behave in such a manner, no liability may be awarded.
Negligence
While liability may not apply, negligence very well may. New Mexico can hold the owner of the dog guilty of negligence, of not exercising proper control over an animal in a situation where one could reasonably assume injury can occur. The owner of a dog may be held liable for the dog’s actions regardless on whether the owner knew of the dog’s nature or could have assumed as much.
Where scienter, or knowledge, claims may fail. It is possible to gain reparations for a dog bite under negligence charges. | 1,715 | 847 | 2.024793 |
warc | 202143 | Starting June this year and
throughout the Volvo Ocean Race competition in Gothenburg, Sweden, the
pioneering autonomous Volvo bus will be shown to specially invited guests. The
prototype is based on Volvo’s commercially produced electric city bus, which
has been modified for autonomous operation. At the demo event there will be
presentations to show how this technology can contribute to safer and more
comfortable travel as well as more efficient handling of vehicles in the depot.
“With low noise level and emission-free
operation, electric bus systems provide an excellent alternative for attractive
and sustainable public transport. With various degrees of automation, we can
make even further progress regarding safety, comfort and efficiency. Leveraging Volvo Group technologies, we will
demonstrate these opportunities for the future during the Volvo Ocean Race,”
says Håkan Agnevall, President Volvo Buses.
The autonomous 12-metre bus is
designed to give its passengers a safe and comfortable ride. It is programmed
to accelerate and brake gently and smoothly when starting off and stopping. At
bus stops, the bus always halts in exactly the same position, with the same gap
between the bus and the platform for convenient entry and exit. The bus is
equipped with sensors that maintain a constant watch around the vehicle.
Information from the sensors is used to navigate the vehicle, and also in the
future to prevent incidents and accidents by identifying objects approaching
the bus, adjusting its speed accordingly or stopping the bus. The autonomous
bus is designed for gentle driving so that its operation is as
energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and economical as possible.
“The technology also permits
more efficient vehicle handling when the bus is not in traffic operation. With
autonomous buses depot staff can focus on service and maintenance instead of
having to charge the batteries, drive to the bus wash and park the bus.
Tomorrow’s buses will be able to do all this on their own,” relates Håkan
Agnevall.
The autonomous bus will also
be used for research into bus platooning, where buses drive in close convoy in
urban traffic.
“Volvo has been a pioneer
within high capacity transport systems based on buses, so called Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT). Now we take the next step by using automation to wirelessly
connect the buses to bus trains with high flexibility”, says Håkan Agnevall,
adding that “Electric bus systems provide an attractive alternative to rail
bound solutions in the cities’ future public transport
Over the next two years the
bus will be used in two automotive research projects – FFI’s Autonomous City
Buses project and KRABAT. FFI is the Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation
Programme, a cooperative venture between the automotive industry and the
Swedish state. KRABAT is part of the Swedish government’s joint programme
entitled “Next-generation travel and transport”, financed partly by Vinnova
through Drive Sweden.
Earlier this year Volvo Buses
launched a joint autonomous electric bus project with the leading Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) in Singapore for developing and trialling
autonomous buses in Singapore. Volvo Group has previously demonstrated
autonomous vehicles for mining and refuse operations
Source: Volvo Buses
BPW will be presenting the
innovative advances of its tried-and-tested new disc brake Eco Disc TS2 at the IAA
Commercial Vehicles 2018. The Eco Disc TS2 works with modern single-tappet
technology and the specially developed, unique BPW Offset Tappet Design (OTD):
thanks to a special configuration of the brake actuating unit with an offset
tappet, an ideal balance of the forces and moments acting on the brake pad is
achieved. The reinforced pad back plate also ensures even distribution of
pressure between the pad and the disc. This ensures that the pads wear
uniformly and so have a longer service life.
With this new design, the BPW engineers were able
to reduce the number of components. In a multifunctional adjuster (MFA) the
most important functions are logically integrated into a small number of
innovative components. This means less interfaces and so fewer possible errors.
'As we have integrated the most important
functions into a small number of innovative components, the number of
interfaces is reduced even further, whilst the robustness of the overall system
has increased,' explains Bernhard Rossenbach, Head of Product Management at
BPW. In addition, the reduction in components makes the brakes lighter and more
compact – in the case of a three-axle truck, a whole twelve kilograms of usable
load is gained.
Another advantage is the usual user
friendliness: the innovative compact design combined with BPW ECO Technology
makes dismantling the brake caliper unnecessary when changing discs – and,
compared to conventional systems, saves up to three hours in the workshop per
vehicle.
“The product has been perfectly thought out,
very high-quality and durable,” says Carlos Lazzarini, member of the Board of
Management, Sales Trailer Equipment & Solutions at BPW. “'These brakes ooze
the know-how and experience of BPW, the biggest trailer brake manufacturer in
Europe. As the only axle manufacturer producing its own disc brakes we know the
overall system and are a competent contact person for our customers, who we can
help quickly and directly,” added Lazzarini.
BPW Bergische Achsen KG's Eco Disc has been
demonstrating its top quality in action out on the road for nine years. More
than two million brakes have been produced in Hunsheim near the BPW
headquarters in Wiehl: it is one of the most widely sold trailer disc brakes in
the European market. With this reworking the new models TS2 3709 and TS2 4309 replace
their predecessors: axles will be gradually converted to the new generation of
trailer disc brakes from the start of 2019.
Source: IAA COMMERCIAL VEHICLES 2018
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warc | 202143 | Last update May 3, 2020 – created Apr 18, 2020 by Alfredo M. Gravagnuolo Fighting disinformation and misinformation The purpose of this page is to provide accurate (and scientific) information on COVID-19 from “official sources”, authorities and scientific institutions to fight disinformation and misinformation, minimize the harmful impact on psychology, politics and global economy and support sustainable development of society. It is worth noting that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers “education” as a treatment type for COVID-19 (e.g. training for wearing mask). Health misinformation expert Prof. Timothy Caulfield at the University of Alberta, Canada, has stated in his recent article on COVID-19 (web link) that: “correcting misrepresentations should be viewed as a professional responsibility”
and quoted his colleague Dr. Claire Wardle, director of “First Draft” (at the Harvard University, USA, web link), which is a nonprofit specialised on information disorder (dis-, mis- and mal-information, web link):
“The best way to fight misinformation is to swamp the landscape with accurate information that is easy to digest, engaging and easy to share on mobile devices”.
What is information disorder? Dr. Claire Wardle provides classification:
Mis-information is when false informationis shared, but no harm is meant. Dis-information is when false informationis knowingly shared to cause harm. Mal-information is when genuine informationis shared to cause harm, often by moving information designed to stay private into the public sphere. Things you could do with Nanobiotechnology
In order to save lives and economies, it is necessary that (nano)scientists
promptly provide answers and solutions to the pandemic (and probably on the long-term on the endemic) by focusing their effort on COVID-19, and following rigorous, high quality standards in research and development (R&D). Prof. Kostas Kostarelos of the University of Manchester, UK, shared his views on how nanoscience community should contribute (web link).
We need to
maximize synergiesfree from any political, linguistic, financial, geographical or scientific discipline obstacles. We — the biomedical scientific community — have the responsibility to support our clinical and healthcare colleagues, who work on the frontline of the pandemic, with our technical and intellectual capabilities in generating relevant and much needed scientific knowledge. Nanoscience and nanobiotechnology.
Nanoscientists, are working “around the clock” to deeply characterise SARS-CoV-2 (the name of the virus that causes the disease COVID-19) using cross-disciplinary approaches (e.g. biophysics web link and biomedicine, web link) in order to acquire soon the technological know-how necessary to fabricate
nanobiohybrid devices for its detection (biosensors, fast diagnostic tools) as well as to boost protection/ personal protective equipment (PPE) (nanoengineered antiviral surface coatings, air purifiers, face masks, advanced respirators and other types of PPE, web link), immunotherapy(vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant therapies), targeted therapy medications(nanomedicines, enzyme inhibitors, antivirals) and any other types of treatments(e.g. respiratory support/ventilators and non-specific medicines to alleviate symptoms). The WHO in the situation report 99 (web link) has reviewed the landscape of drug and non-drug experimental treatments for COVID-19, however, studies are still ongoing. Know that coronavirus.
SARS-CoV-2 is a RNA virus (web link) that has something in common with other known viruses (Bat CoV, pangolin CoV, SARS-CoV-1). A recent study carried out by a research team of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, MT, USA (web link) has revealed the
stability of SARS-CoV-2 (time to decay 1000-fold at 23°C and 40% relative humidity) on surfaces and in aerosol: ????✂️? Plastic: 72-96 h ??⛓ Stainless steel: 48-72 h ??? Cardboard: 24-48 h ? ? Aerosol: 4-24 h ⚱️? Copper: 4-8 h “Nano”-engineers take advantage of the newly acquired knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 to fabricate cost-effective smart devices including reusable face masks, personal protective equipment (PPE). Indeed, supplies of top level protective gear for SARS-CoV-2 (e.g. N95 face masks, not even considering N99) are not available to everybody. Thus, engineers will develop tailor-made affordable equipment for people, depending on the level of exposure they face related to working/living environment. Likewise, it could be possible to generate an adverse environment for the coronavirus (e.g. self-sanitizing surfaces, controlled airflow and air recirculation, temperature and humidity) in public places such as hospitals, markets and restaurants. On the other hand, sustainable (e.g. biodegradable) materials will have to replace plastic components in masks and gloves to avoid the accumulation of clinical waste residues in the environment caused by the massive use of protective kits. Time and numbers matter.
An article constantly updated by a team of The Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel (web link), advises that
once a person is infected, it takes in median ≈3 days (current best-estimate) before being able to transmit the virus, followed by ≈4 days of extraordinary infectiousness. However, scientists and mathematicians are accumulating new knowledge on COVID-19 pandemics on a regular basis. Prof. Kostas Kostarelos states that:
We know that 80% of infected individuals are asymptomatic or suffer from mild symptoms, 15% need hospitalization and 5% develop a serious illness and may need critical care. We also know though, that valid
epidemiological data should be taken with great cautionas different countries and health systems have very different approaches to testing and reporting. Early detection and monitoring. Biosensors are necessary to make “visible” the “invisible enemy”, which is spread on surfaces and by people who are asymptomatic. Thus, biosensors for rapid, cheap and portable virus tests are pivotal in order to go back to normal life soon. The scientific community working in the area of Biosensors for technologies able to detect COVID-19 related biomarkers in clinical or environment samples, aims to give prompt response to this urgent need. Prof. Arben Merkoci is one of the members of the Organising Committee at the the ICN2 that with the Phantoms Foundation presents the event Biosensors for Pandemics (web link)
“Biosensors for Pandemics: reliable and efficient nanotech-based diagnostics in emergency situations”
The development, approval, production and commercialisation of biosensors and
personal protective equipment (PPE) are much faster as compared to vaccines (see video below).
Experimental treatments and clinical studies
Even though the first human trial in Europe of a vaccine has begun in Oxford in April 2020 on two volunteer scientists, the results may not be known for up to six months and require around one thousand of patients. This vaccine is based on the genetic material that encodes the spike glycoprotein (S), which protrudes from the surface of the virus and targets the cognate receptor on human cells. However,
in a normal situation it may take more than one year to make a vaccine available to everyone, as stated by Dr Rino Rappuoli (see video above). The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a R&D blueprint for experimental treatments (web link) beyond vaccination. The document contains a living map of ongoing research and clinical studies (web link) (excluding Traditional Chinese medicine trials), updated every week by an international scientific team of the COVID-19 “network meta-analysis” project following a rigorous scientific protocol.
The living systematic reviews of COVID-19 study results (web link) focuses on three areas:
pharmacologic treatments, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) supportive treatments, and preventive treatments.
However, the
WHO does not make any warranties regarding the quality, safety and/or efficacy of any of the experimental treatments listed in the landscape documents published on 27 April 2020. Coronavirus, separating fact from fiction (EU)
Statement by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, on disinformation during the coronavirus crisis 31/03/2020
The escalating number of victims across Europe proves that COVID-19 is a new and dangerous virus, not merely a recurring strain of seasonal influenza. There is currently no known cure for the coronavirus. We are all at risk of being infected by the coronavirus. No one is using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to impose mass vaccinations. Viruses don’t care where you’re from. They don’t care what colour you are or what passport you hold. In different parts of the world, people are trying to blame the disease on different groups – calling it the European virus, the Chinese virus, the American virus. World Health Organization (WHO)
The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, tiredness, and dry cough. Some patients may have aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat or diarrhea. These symptoms are usually mild and begin gradually. Some people become infected but don’t develop any symptoms and don’t feel unwell. Most people (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing special treatment. Around 1 out of every 6 people who gets COVID-19 becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes, are more likely to develop serious illness. People with fever, cough and difficulty breathing should seek medical attention.
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Selected articles for scientists 16 April 2020. Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 (web link) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, MT, USA. SARS-CoV-2 was more stable on plastic and stainless steelthan on copper and cardboard, and viable virus was detected up to 72 hours after application to these surfaces. […] On copper, no viable SARS-CoV-2 was measured after 4 hours[…] On cardboard, no viable SARS-CoV-2 was measured after 24 hours. 14 April 2020. Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period (web link). Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Our model presents a variety of scenarios intended to anticipate possible SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics under specific assumptions. We do not take a position on the advisability of these scenarios given the economic burden that sustained distancing may impose, but we note the
potentially catastrophic burden on the healthcare system that is predicted if distancing is poorly effectiveand/or not sustained for long enough. The model will have to be tailored to local conditions and updated as more accurate data become available. Longitudinal serological studies are urgently required to determine the extent and duration of immunity to SARS-CoV-2, and epidemiological surveillance should be maintained in the coming years to anticipate the possibility of resurgence. 8 April 2020. COVID-19: A Call for Physical Scientists and Engineers Northwestern University, IL, USA.
We hope researchers in the physical sciences and engineering will proactively study these challenges, develop new hypotheses, define new research areas, and work with biological researchers, healthcare, and public health professionals to create user-centered solutions and to inform the general public
31 March 2020. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers (web link) The Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel. This article is being updated on an ongoing basis.The discussion is framed around two broad themes: 1) the biology of the virus itself and 2) the characteristics of the infection of a single human host. […] Once a person is infected, it takes a period of time known as the latent period before they are able to transmit the virus.The current best-estimate of the median latent time is ≈3 days followed by ≈4 days of close to maximal infectiousness . 17 March 2020. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 (web link) The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA
“Our analyses clearly show that
SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory constructor a purposefully manipulated virus” 12 February 2020. Novel coronavirus takes flight from bats? (web link) Nature Reviews Microbiology.
In sum, these studies provide initial reports on 2019-nCoV, which could be vital in preventing its spread, and highlight bats as carriers of viruses with zoonotic and devastating potential.
The 11 February 2020. WHO Director-General’s remarks at the media briefing on 2019-nCoV (web link) World Health Organization.
First of all, we now have a name for the disease: COVID-19
6 February 2020. Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents (web link) University Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
The analysis of 22 studies reveals that human coronaviruses such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus or endemic human coronaviruses (HCoV) can persist on inanimate surfaces like metal, glass or plastic for up to 9 days
Articles collections for scientists : Research, Commentary, and News (web link) AAAS Science
The
Sciencejournals are striving to provide the best and most timely research, analysis, and news coverage of COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it. Basic biology and epidemiology of emerging viral diseases (web link) Nature Research:
Our collection includes research into the basic biology of coronavirus infection, its detection, treatment and evolution, research into the epidemiology of emerging viral diseases, and our coverage of current events.
Nanotechnology solutions to mitigate COVID-19: detection, protection, medication (web link) Ensuring clear public messaging: Strategic Narratives in Political and Crisis Communication (web link) Solutions: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Management and Public Health Response (web link) The Impact on Psychology of Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Global Economy (web link) Call for urgent publications on COVID-19 related Biosensing technologies (web link) Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Elsevier):
Biosensors are increasingly considered as the rapid and essentially diagnostic tools in providing accurate and timely guidance for case identification, prevention of the spread of infectious diseases and appropriate treatment administration to decrease the death rate of people. | 15,617 | 6,673 | 2.340327 |
warc | 202143 | Long Island makes development difficult. That's our reputation, and it's hard-won. For many residents and government leaders, rejection is like a muscle that needs frequent exercise. And we've been on quite a run.
Fights are being waged against an assisted living facility in Huntington, a day-care center in North Massapequa and luxury senior housing in East Hampton. Rental housing and affordable housing -- or worse, housing that's both -- face pitched battles pretty much everywhere. Heck, the Town of Hempstead said no to a Sonic fast-food restaurant in East Meadow after howls of protest from residents that it would increase traffic -- on Hempstead Turnpike.
The say-no mantra was proudly evoked by Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto at a recent meeting: "The trail to this town board is filled with would-be business owners and developers who never saw the light of day."
When the economy was humming along and most everyone was flush, when people young and old could see a future for themselves here, we could afford to say no. Not any longer.
Long Island has been stagnant for a while, and saying no is more problematic now because we're running out of time to deal -- seriously deal -- with our biggest problems. Such as building housing that is affordable for people at both ends of the age spectrum. Such as creating exciting downtowns that work in concert with cheaper housing to attract the young people the Island desperately needs. Such as fostering new businesses to increase our tax base.
And we need to string some successes together to show Long Islanders that the region can start growing again.
"The hope is you eventually reach a critical mass of successful local projects so people in other communities say, 'Hey, that's not so scary, I want a piece of that for us,' " said Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University. "That's what you hope for, but it's taking an awful lot of time."
It's important to note some good things have been happening. Villages such as Patchogue, Farmingdale and Westbury are being transformed by their willingness to build housing -- some rentals, some affordable, some with density -- near train stations in their downtowns. Huntington town, in a departure from form, approved a scaled-down version of AvalonBay's controversial high-density development in Huntington Station. A gauge of need: The town received 489 applications for the 43 affordable rental apartments.
Pitted against the successes are some head-scratching rejections. Huntington turned down a plan for 117 affordable rentals on Ruland Road in Melville, a matter headed for court because the units were meant to compensate for a lack of affordable housing at a previously built senior complex.
The Hempstead Town Board rejected a developer's request to change an approved luxury development in Island Park from mostly condominiums to mostly rentals, after neighbors absurdly complained that the renters -- paying up to $4,000 monthly -- would be "transients." The project would have cleaned up a brownfield. No wonder Long Island has the fewest active brownfield cleanups per capita in the state -- people worry about what comes next. Fear is a powerful motivator.
Residents think small. That's understandable. It's their neighborhood, their street, their house. Leaders need to think big. That's their job, their responsibility. It requires courage. It requires them to better sell why the vision benefits everyone. Sometimes, it requires expending political capital -- as Mayor Paul Pontieri did in Patchogue. His re-energized downtown -- where business vacancies have plunged from 50 percent to 6 percent and people are lining up for new apartments being built -- should be a model.
Michael Dobie is a member of the Newsday editorial board. | 3,833 | 1,965 | 1.950636 |
warc | 202143 | Explore awards
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Building a Green Texas: Activating a New Generation of Sustainability Leaders Funding:$450,000 Year:2020
Climate change disproportionately impacts low-income and otherwise marginalized communities that typically have the fewest resources to adapt. Furthermore, the very communities that feel the effects of climate change most acutely have been historically underrepresented in the fields of sustainability and green building. The Building a Green Texas (BGT) project helps address these concerns by giving high school students opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to tackle challenges posed by climate change. In the process, students gain valuable green career skills and credentials and become part of a green building school-to-job pipeline that will help contribute to a more diverse workforce. Texas-based nonprofit EcoRise, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Texas Marine Science Institute/National Estuarine Reserve System of NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management will lead this robust, three-year project beginning in Central Texas in Year 1 and expanding into Houston and Texas Gulf Coast communities in Year 2. Through school-year field experiences and paid summer internships, students in the program will use established scientific evidence, citizen science, and an understanding of location-specific socioeconomic and ecological factors to explore current and future extreme weather phenomena and other environmental hazards facing their communities. They will gain real-world learning experiences and career exposure by directly engaging with scientists, civic leaders, green building professionals, and NOAA data and staff. As students help design community-based green building projects, they will consider scientific uncertainty, cultural knowledge, and social equity, in the real-world context of improving community resilience.
Award Number:NA20SEC0080017 Grant Dates:10/01/2020 to 08/31/2023 PI:Abby Randall State:Texas County:Travis District:TX35 Partners:National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) Mission-Aransas · The University of Texas at Austin · The University of Texas at Austin / School of Architecture · City of Austin / Office of Sustainability · City of Austin / Equity Office · City of Austin / Austin Energy · Austin Independent School District · BLGY Architecture · Go Austin/Vamos Austin (GAVA) · City of Houston / Office of Sustainability · Harris County Department of Education · U.S. Green Building Council / Texas Chapter · CAPA Strategies · The University of Texas at Austin / Office of Sustainability · Gensler · Pease Park Conservancy · Fruitful Commons · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) · Empowering Rural Youth for Community Climate Resilience in New York State Funding:$449,278 Year:2020
Empowering Rural Youth for Community Climate Resilience in New York State is a three-year project led by The Wild Center in partnership with the Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith College and the Alliance for Climate Education, which builds on the achievements of Convening Young Leaders for Climate Resilience, a project previously funded by NOAA. Today’s youth are deeply concerned about the impacts of climate change in their communities and increasingly demand positive action and a role in decision-making. The proposed collaboration will support the development of leadership skills for rural youth by creating programming that demonstrates best practices for students and teachers to engage and partner with local municipalities on climate resilience planning. The project will also increase awareness of the NY State Climate Smart Community (CSC) program, a national model. Over the next 3 years the project will: 1) Develop pathways for young people--specifically in rural areas--to effectively partner with decision-makers in their home communities through partnering with the NY State Climate Smart Community (CSC) program; 2) Increase climate literacy, education and action among high school students through place-based Youth Climate Summits and intensive Youth Climate Leadership Retreats; 3) Increase teacher comprehension and confidence to prioritize climate change education instruction and mentor students; and 4) Formalize the NY State Youth Climate Summit network by establishing a community of practice centered on sharing best practices and actions that align with NY State climate change adaptation and resilience planning. This project aligns with NY State’s climate resiliency planning by building on successful and current partnerships with the NY State Office of Climate Change, NY State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and NOAA’s Climate Program Office to connect project participants with cutting edge science, hazard assessments, and established community climate resilience programs. The project will serve 700-800 high school students, 60-80 high school teachers, and 60 youth leaders in New York State. The project is also designed to reach a much wider audience, including 30 rural decision-makers and community members, as well as 50-60 formal/informal educators. Project documentation includes a Guide to the NY State Climate Smart Community Program for Students and Educators, and a Youth and Local Government for Climate Resilience Workshop Module, which will benefit other Youth Climate Summits and be disseminated through the online toolkit and through the national network of youth climate summits. Additionally, the project will support a community of practice for informal and formal educators across NY State who are working on new and existing Youth Climate Summits to provide the opportunity to align with the CSC program, collaborate on best practices, and co-create strategies for engagement.
Award Number:NA20SEC0080004 Grant Dates:12/31/2020 to 12/30/2023 PI:Jen Kretser State:New York County:Franklin District:NY21 Partners:NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) · National Wildlife Federation (NWF) / Northeast Regional Center · Alliance for Climate Education · New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) · New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) / Office of Climate Change (NYSOCC) · Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith College · Ecology & Environment, Inc. · WSP New York · | 6,759 | 2,844 | 2.376582 |
warc | 202143 | Plumbing emergencies can cause major damage to your residential property and health. It’s best to avoid the danger of plumbing problems by working with a professional
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warc | 202143 | Biological butanol equipment
Biological butanol equipment is a production equipment for producing butanol by microbial fermentation. Generally, it takes starch agricultural and sideline products such as wheat, corn and cassava, or sugar products such as pulp waste liquid, molasses, sugarcane and sugar beet as raw materials, obtains hydrolysate through physical or biological treatment, and then uses the enzyme secreted by acetone butanol bacteria to undergo complex biochemical changes, Acetone, butanol and ethanol are produced from the fermentation broth, and butanol can be obtained by distillation. Its process equipment is similar to alcohol production, with cheap raw materials, wide sources and small equipment investment;
Biological butanol equipment adopts the fermentation method, with mild production conditions, generally slightly higher than normal temperature operation, and does not need precious metal catalysts.
As an automobile fuel, butanol has the following advantages compared with ethanol:
① High energy content, vehicle can travel 30% more than ethanol;
② The volatility of butanol is 1 / 6 times that of ethanol and 1 / 13.5 of that of gasoline. When mixed with gasoline, butanol has great tolerance to water and better adaptability to humidity and low water vapor pressure;
③ Butanol can be used in the existing fuel supply and distribution system, while ethanol needs to be transported by rail, ship or truck;
④ Compared with other biofuels, it is less corrosive and safer than ethanol and gasoline;
⑤ Compared with the existing biofuels, the mixing ratio of bio butanol and gasoline is higher, there is no need to transform the vehicle, and the economy of mixed fuel is higher;
⑥ Compared with ethanol, it can improve the fuel efficiency and mileage of vehicles;
⑦ The biofuel butanol produced by fermentation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Like ethanol, no Sox or NOx is produced during combustion, which is beneficial to the environment;
Bio butanol equipment, problems in development and Countermeasures
The early butanol fermentation industry declined because of its high cost, which is inferior to petrochemical products, which is also the bottleneck restricting its large-scale development. According to the analysis of industry experts, if the crude oil price remains above $80 / barrel, the market opportunity of biological butanol will have a large market.
Biological butanol equipment. Common problems in traditional fermentation industry include:
① The yield of butanol is low. Due to the toxic effect of butanol on bacteria, the mass concentration of butanol was less than 13 g / L, the yield of butanol was less than 4.46 s / (L • h), and the yield of butanol was less than 25% (mass fraction).
② The final concentration of solvent is low. In traditional ABE fermentation, the total solvent mass fraction is ≤ 2% and the water mass fraction can reach more than 98%. The conventional distillation method increases the consumption of equipment, power and energy, which is also the key to the high cost of butanol.
③ The proportion of butanol in the total solvent is low, generally accounting for only 60%, the other 30% is acetone and 10% is ethanol, which increases the cost of butanol recovery and separation in the later stage.
④ Traditional butanol fermentation generally uses corn and molasses as raw materials. With the rise of food prices and the lack of food resources in the world, the development of butanol will be at a disadvantage.
Biological butanol equipment must be transformed and upgraded for the traditional butanol fermentation industry. The specific strategies are as follows:
(1) Improve existing strains. Genetic engineering and metabolic engineering technology are used to remove the inhibition of possible products or intermediates in the metabolic process, improve the strain's tolerance to butanol, strengthen the key enzymes in butanol production, cut off the generation and metabolism of acetone and ethanol, and improve the proportion of butanol in solvent.
(2) The economic and effective methods of recovering butanol from dilute fermentation broth were studied, such as pervaporation, stripping, liquid-liquid extraction and so on.
(3) Optimization and commercialization of butanol fermentation process with knowledge of enzymology, microbial physiology and fermentation technology.
(4) Expand the variety of fermentation raw materials, improve the raw material pretreatment method, and reduce the butanol cost through systematic research:
① Widely use cheap and easily available wood fiber raw materials. The raw materials that can ferment to produce butanol include corn, molasses, whey, glucose, etc. In recent years, some agricultural wastes, such as rice straw, corn fiber and orchard defective fruit, have also been used as fermentation substrates. Among them, the cost of producing bio butanol from substances rich in lignocellulose such as agricultural and forestry by-products, organic wastes and straw is lower than that of corn and molasses. After large-scale production, its price is closer to that of butanol in petroleum industry, which has commercial prospects. Making full use of crop straw has become one of the important topics of agricultural development. ② study effective pretreatment methods to increase the effectiveness of microbial or enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose. The treatment of wood fiber raw materials with dilute acid at high temperature will produce furfural and other substances toxic to microbial fermentation. The development of chemical and biological detoxification hydrolysates and the study of detoxification mechanism are of great significance to speed up the fermentation efficiency and reduce the process cost.
③ The high yield fermentation system of biofuel was studied with lignocellulose. Multistage continuous fermentation, immobilized fermentation and cell cycle high-density fermentation were used to ensure the vitality of microorganisms through the study of microbial tolerance to high substrate concentration, fermentation inhibitors, organic acids and alcohols.
④ In order to improve the economy of the process, the steps in the bioreactor can be coupled to simultaneously produce biofuel butanol through enzyme / microbial saccharification fermentation downstream technology.
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warc | 202143 | Medical wellness devices such as thermometers, blood pressure monitors, oximeters, diabetes monitors, sleep trackers, and smart watches are important devices that are very helpful in monitoring the health condition of patients. Devices such as braces, orthotics, and those for mobility care are helpful for serious injuries or dysfunction / disability of any body part.
With consumer awareness regarding these devices increasing, the market is expected to witness high growth. As the number of people with heart diseases, blood pressure, injuries, and accidents is increasing year on year at 10% growth rate, the need for medical wellness devices is rising faster than before.
According to a new report published by Persistence Market Research, the
was valued at North America medical wellness devices market Get Sample Copy of this [email protected] https://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/samples/32486 Company Profiles: Key Takeaways from Market Study says an analyst of Persistence Market Research. “Demand for braces and supports rising due to increase in geriatric population across the world,” Healthcare Spending Increasing on Medical Wellness Devices
Healthcare spending has increased at a high rate in recent years. North America healthcare spending increased at a
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Persistence Market Research offers a unique perspective and actionable insights on the medical wellness devices market in its latest study, presenting historical demand assessment of 2016-2020and projections for 2021-2031. The research study is based on product (blood pressure monitors, diabetic monitoring devices, thermometers, pulse oximeters, sleep trackers, smart watches, massagers and pain relief, mobility care, braces and supports, orthotic, and light therapy) and distribution channel (institutional sales and retail sales), across North America.
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warc | 202143 | We get it. For the environmentally focused future corpse, becoming a tree is, simply put, afterlife goals.
Trees are an invaluable part of the carbon cycle. While planting a bunch of trees alone won’t slow climate change (at least not without a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions) trees increase biodiversity and do their part to capture carbon.
Perhaps even more important is the societal shift that comes with asking, “how can I become a tree?” With no intervention, the human body decomposes after death. Yet for over a century, modern funeral practices have attempted to slow decomposition and lock the nutrients a body can provide into metal and concrete boxes below ground. Choosing to forego the expensive interventions of the funeral industry is humanity’s attempt to re-identify with the natural world and view our bodies as biomass and organic material.
As a final bonus, there is emerging evidence that trees possess a form of cooperation and communication, connecting underground through fungal networks (colloquially known as the wood-wide web.) For those of us without strong religious beliefs, becoming part of a plant that will continue to thrive and communicate for years after we die is a kind of immortality we may never have dreamed possible.
Whatever your reason for seeking ‘treedom’, the following are several methods to achieve your post mortem dreams.
Method: I want to be buried and have a tree planted over me. The Facts
You are a purist! Put you straight into the soil and plant a tree over you. Seems simple enough, right? Not always.
Your local cemetery may require a vault to be placed around your body, cutting you off from the dirt (and any potential aid to a nearby tree). Using a vault is not the law – and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise – but part of the individual cemetery’s policy to help them maintain a level ground and make landscaping easier. Yes… really.
In seeking your cemetery it is best to look for the labels: green, natural, or conservation. These cemeteries are most likely to let you be buried naked in a simple shroud directly into the earth. As a note, some conventional cemeteries will have a small section that allow natural burials, so it doesn’t hurt to ask.
Even if you find a green cemetery, ask questions! Some cemeteries like to re-wild the land with native species and trees, but not all will be able to accommodate your specific request for a tree. (How do you feel about a shrub?) You may be required to select and pay for a specific location within the burial ground where a tree could successfully grow, so be sure to plan ahead.
A final option would be a home burial, which is technically legal in most states. We say technically because if you don’t have a cemetery already legally established on your property, you may need to invest a good deal of research, time, and expense. A good place to start is by checking in with your local zoning board.
Method: I want to be composted. The Facts
Welcome to the exciting new world of human composting! Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), or human composting, became a legal option in the state of Washington in 2020. Since then, NOR has been legalized in Colorado and Oregon, with bills in process in several other states. NOR turns the body into nutrient rich soil, absolutely ideal for growing trees, flowers, whatever flora your heart desires.
If Recompose, a pioneer in the NOR field, is handling your NOR they can also arrange for you to become part of a forest by having your soil donated to Bells Mountain, a nonprofit land trust in southern Washington. The NOR there is used to nurture native trees and heal land destroyed by “years of abuse and extraction.”
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At this time, most of you will not reside in a state where NOR is an option. If you live in a neighboring state, you still might be able to fulfill your Future Tree goals if transport of remains across state lines does not require embalming. You can also help the Order in our continued quest to see this option legalized all over the world, hopefully available when you need it.
Method: I want to be put in one of those tree burial pods. The Facts
Though this is a popular viral concept, it’s important to understand that this product, billed as a cozy death egg, nestling you in a fetal position into the earth, is conceptual and not actually available.
Capsula Mundi burial pods were designed in response to Italian laws that have made make un-casketed burial difficult.
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Most places don’t have laws requiring caskets for burial, so any sort of eco-casket would be unnecessary, as well as create an additional expense. The best option would be to return to the first option on this list: burial in a simple shroud, straight in the earth.
Method: I plan on using one of those cremated remains urns that will turn me into a tree. The Facts
One of the most popular corpse to tree products is the Bios Urn, or similar urns, that promise to transform your loved one’s ashes into a tree, plant, flower, etc. But, can plants actually grow in ashes?
No.
While it can be a lovely idea to scatter your loved one’s ashes at the base of a tree or in the garden, this is more of a symbolic gesture, since cremated remains are inorganic and contain no trace of human DNA. You aren’t really “becoming a tree” post-cremation.
In addition, ashes aren’t really compatible with the micronutrients and environment necessary to facilitate healthy soil or plant growth. Some companies claim to have specially prepared the soil to counteract the harmful properties of the ashes, while others include a protective container or filter, which keeps the ashes separate from the soil and plant growth. But please do your own research before purchasing this type of urn.
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There are several makers of beautiful wooden urns, like Boyce Studio, that have an isolated space for ashes in the bottom section of the urn, while the top serves as a small “pot” for smaller plants like succulents, herbs, or cactus.
If cremation is the best option for you (financially it is often the least expensive choice, as well as being available almost everywhere) consider planting trees as a carbon offset to the cremation process and then scattering the ashes somewhere meaningful. Yes, even the base of a tree. | 6,454 | 3,023 | 2.134965 |
warc | 202143 | swami rajneesh: few times i have spoken about this mystical emptiness… that is the very source of your life i have used the term black hole… so dark that nothing can penetrate into it
and that is the source
of the deep restful featherlike quality you cannot create it you cannot destroy it whether you are here or you are still to come it will remain silently present that is the nature of the black hole what mahavir calls cessation of the flame it is your invisible presence and this darkness attracts so much light to it that it is not a negative darkness but filled with a light that is not of this earth
surrounding you is this living quality
floating invisibly everywhere you may have seen it once in a while accidentally when you rub your eyes suddenly millions and millions of light flashes… blue electric light…appearing everywhere
right in the middle of your eyes
there is a black space which perceives light mystics have known and have called this the state of samadhi falling into this black hole everything surrounding it becomes filled with light
to see light you need darkness
deeper the darkness greater the light hence the seeing eye is a floating black hole floating…invisible… it has no gravity it displaces all gravity wherever it goes
everything starts expanding and expanding
because gravity does not hold it down each one of you is such immense light you are swimming in the ocean of life you go on missing the water because you are surrounded by it… you were born in it
the moment you will be pulled out of this water of life
you will say aha…this is it… everything will be exploding in light everything around you will be filled with light this invisible force is like an infinite net… surrounding all that is living… the trees…the plants…the rocks…the waterfalls… the whole space is filled with this livingness it breathes the air it supports you
when you go to spaces where people are meditating
you can see this light clearly it is far more dense…settled and available in spaces of meditation this energy is also available in abundance where there is flowing water or close to trees wherever life force is less..but it is still present it cannot be taken away even in the deadest remotest place there is this blue pranic light… that is floating…searching for life
it searches for a tree…for a plant…
for anything that is receptive if you are receptive it comes to you silently and merges with you you have to know how to merge with pranic energy
and the only way is to be very soft…sensitive…open…
and suddenly the trees and the rocks and the mountains will start pouring it is always looking for life life is continuously searching for life
hence all the meditations events around me
are always in the open… under the trees…near waterfalls… where there is living force so that when you are open and receptive this energy suddenly pours into you…
i always speak about trees
and the life force surrounding trees each meditator has to learn about trees surrounding each tree there is an immense amount of blue light the tree is doing many functions it is continuously throwing out oxygen and if you sit near the tree it will pull out your carbon dioxide pump in the oxygen…pull out the carbon dioxide…pump in oxygen…
its food is carbon dioxide…your unconscious states…
and it pumps oxygen into you… oxygen is not prana oxygen just creates the right situation where life force can enter you oxygen is simply a carrier…
when meditators are sitting under a tree
with their spine to the back of the tree the tree is doing so many functions it is pushing your energy deep into your hara…into your roots… and it is pulling your kundalini higher…stretching you higher… spreading you like its branches it is balancing your psychic energy
the tree is one of the greatest living masters…
if the tree is hundred metres deep in root the tree will be ninety metres tall in height the root is always greater than the trunk if the branches are spread out the roots are spread out what you see of the tree above is exactly the roots below
if you can learn to sit under a tree
the tree sucks out your carbon dioxide and gives you oxygen… surrounding the tree there is blue light suddenly you are filled with blue light and like a flame it goes higher and higher and sharpens your being it peaks you it deepens you and pulls you into an equilibrium
why i speak about these natural spaces
is because we have lost touch with the nature that surrounds us there are many nice trees here very rarely i see people sitting with trees always going into some meditation hall… meditation should be done under trees
for example…dynamic meditation…
when you do dynamic in a hall there is not enough interchange… between oxygen and carbon dioxide release you need deep amounts of oxygen to be pumped into your body so do dynamic under a tree… it is the best place
to do dynamic next to a tree keep your belly facing the tree
the moment you shout…ho ho…the door opens and oxygen and the blue flame is pumped into your hara
the tree is a great master
you are looking for oxygen… expansion…release of carbon dioxide… the moment enough oxygen pumps into your body your muscles begin to relax you need abundance of oxygen flowing… through the muscles
when you do dynamic in a hall
you do not get enough oxygen and your muscles start cramping they are getting tight because it is not getting a good flow of oxygen
people should try to do dynamic under the trees
and use outdoors as much as possible when your become acquainted with doing meditations outdoors you will start feeling… the living quality of the air that surrounds you falling in tune with nature is ninety nine percent of the work because you are part of nature that is why one of the greatest taoist master lao tsu said follow the nature of tao just follow nature totally…
understand nature
and you will understand that you are filled with life all around you there is so much life pulsating around you and you do not have enough life within you and the reason is you do not know how to drink from the trees…from the air…from the waterfalls…from flowing water…
experiment with trees and dynamic
there are few trees here we all should do dynamic tomorrow in the open find a spot…each one face a tree and breathe rapidly out through the nose keep your mouth closed breathe out from your nose a secondary layer of breathing will start your nose is giving oxygen to the brain…to your lungs… and to certain vital forces in your body but your whole skin…the whole body… is a also breathing mechanism your whole body is a breath… all the pores are breathing you are a porous being
so when you are near a tree
the tree will find every nook and corner of you and try to suck out the poison its function is to suck out the poison the carbon dioxide that is keeping you unconscious and is pumping in oxygen… so all your pores near the tree will start tingling your will feel your whole palm of your hands the extremity of your hands and your feet… tingling and vibrating… because oxygen is trying to find its way through each and every pore
so being near the tree is a vital experiment for dynamic
just try under a tree and your whole body will be vibrating you should be able to feel each and every pore of your being and once you can feel it you will see your aura around the body becoming thicker and thicker and thicker
you need to expand the aura around the body
until the blue line around the body… what is known as the etheric body… becomes vital and sharp
the etheric body
is the vital body that keeps you healthy it needs tremendous amount of cleanliness in the bio system to be brilliant and blue… for example if you smoke and drink your chi is low the etheric body will start getting damaged there will not be enough blue flame surrounding you you understand ? the blue pranic light will reduce because you are creating the wrong climatic conditions… for the etheric body to be healthy around you
tomorrow when you do dynamic
find a tree… each one of you experiment and you will feel the difference
source – swami rajneesh book “ZERO” | 8,517 | 3,256 | 2.615786 |
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warc | 202143 | A month later, on a Tuesday evening, Bertleson heard a weird noise. She thought maybe a plane from Williams Gateway Airport was going to crash.
It turned out to be another explosion at the plant less than two miles from her home. "With all the work that's gone into making TRW safe, I never thought it would happen again," she says.
Three employees were severely burned. A preliminary investigation by the Mesa Fire Department shows the blast was triggered as the workers attempted to dismantle a pipe as part of a demolition project. The probe also showed that TRW had again violated work-site laws because it failed to conduct a safety inspection before using a cutting torch on the pipe. It was the identical error that had caused the fatal fire in 1994.
Fire investigators believe had an inspection been performed, sodium azide residue that ignited inside the pipe would have been detected. On March 21, the Mesa Fire Department told TRW to stop all demolition work until the investigation into the incident was complete and until a "joint action plan and remedy" could be identified.
Cameli says the fire department is continuing its investigation. Further action won't come until inquiries by TRW, OSHA, the Attorney General's Office and the EPA are finished.
TRW calls the explosion an isolated incident and says it is continuing its investigation into the blast.
Meanwhile, the victims have been released from the hospital. A physician said they may suffer vision problems in the future.
Shortly after the explosion, Bertleson got on the phone. She called Dave Nichols, the TRW manager who once worked for Mesa Fire, to voice a complaint.
She called Mesa Mayor Keno Hawker and asked that the plant be shut down. She called the attending physician at Maricopa Medical Center to inform him about the dangers of sodium azide.
At home in Phoenix, Joy West couldn't believe it when she read in the newspaper about the latest explosion at TRW. "I thought, 'God, how many things can this company do?'" she says.
Her hands have healed and she has nearly full use of them. She left TRW a year after her accident; she says that with burned hands, a hearing problem and a raspy voice, she was in no position to look for another job for a while.
She moved to San Diego, then to Phoenix to sell cars, a less risky job. At age 40, she worries about what health problems she may encounter in the future as a result of her exposure to sodium azide.
"I looked as hard as I could to see what long-term effects there might be for me," she says. "But there isn't any information on it."
West says she wants to contact the latest employees injured at TRW to offer her condolences or any assistance she can give them. "I wonder what protective equipment they had on," she says.
Meanwhile, in the far reaches of the southeast Valley, Bertleson keeps writing letters, making phone calls. She keeps her video camera in a little backpack, and when she goes somewhere in her car (an older model with no air bags, thank you), she tosses it in.
With "For Sale" signs going up in the neighborhood all around her -- and few properties actually selling -- the question arises: Why doesn't she and her husband just move?
Because she doesn't want to give up.
"This is our home. We were here first," Bertleson says. "And this is a problem that needs to be solved, not only for me, but for everybody." | 3,410 | 1,731 | 1.96996 |
warc | 202143 | When it comes to creating the perfect working environment at home, it can be tough to know where to start. Contemporary home office furniture options are in abundance, which means it can be hard to decide on the solutions and styles that will suit your lifestyle and décor.
The right home office furniture sets can transform your productivity and help you create the perfect working environment. However, what does it take to furnish a home office? We have taken a closer look at the essential items you need to create the perfect space.
The first thing you need to consider is your
home office desk. This is one of the most important pieces of contemporary home office furniture, acting as the room’s focal point and giving you the space to work.
When finding the right desk, you will need to consider the size that you will require. Will you need space for a monitor, keyboard and printer? Or will you be using it solely for your laptop? Do you need space for writing? Whatever it might be, make sure you consider how you will be using your desk on a daily basis.
Alongside your desk,
home office chairs are another crucial part of your set up. The right chair will give you the support and comfort you need to be able to work all day long, helping to maximise your productivity.
Working at a desk all day can be damaging to your spine and place significant stress on your muscles. That is why you should look for home office chairs that give you the adjustability to ensure it fits your body. We recently examined how to choose the right office chair, which you can check out here.
Of course, another crucial aspect of contemporary home office furniture is the storage solutions. The size of the
home office storage you require will depend entirely on your personal situation. For some workers, they might simply need a few drawers to hold key papers and stationary, while others might need to keep vast files close to hand and need a more robust solution.
Whatever your needs might be, you also want to ensure that your home office storage solutions are still in keeping with the aesthetics of your room. While practicality is important, your home office is your chance to create your own décor, so find a storage option that matches your desk and chair.
Finally, when furnishing a home office, you should consider the accessories that you add to your room. When working from home, it can be tough to find the motivation you need, so additions such as plants have been shown to help keep you focused.
Equally, if you are planning to burn the midnight oil, then adding lamps and task lighting can help to provide you with ample lighting to ensure you can work late into the night.
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warc | 202143 | While the word mantra originated as a Hindu “sacred utterance,” people use mantras every day to guide their efforts at home, at work, and at school. The popular culture definition of mantra has evolved to mean repetitive slogan, personal truth, or structured thought. At Red Oak Recovery, we are committed to helping the young men in our care find holistic drug addiction treatment. We utilize mantras for addiction, experiential therapy, and a range of evidence-based therapeutic methods to help our clients find complete recovery. You don’t have to live with your addiction any longer. Find healing at our North Carolina treatment center.
Mantras for Drug & Alcohol Treatment
Adopting one or more mantras as part of your addiction recovery experience is a focused way to achieve your objectives and remain motivated. Words have a powerful way of changing behaviors, thought patterns, and emotions over time. Consider mantras a tool in your toolbox: useful for chanting when you are tempted to use drugs or alcohol or for achieving focused calm during meditation.
I Am a Worthwhile, Deserving Person
By undervaluing themselves, those in recovery spiral into a dangerous pattern of self-deprecation and low self-esteem. Use this mantra as a reminder that you are lovable, valuable, and deserving of wellness and joy.
I Am in Control of My Life
At first, these words may seem hollow. After all, most people who use drugs or alcohol feel as if their lives are spinning out of control with the substance in the driver’s seat. Use this mantra to take a stand. Addiction does not control you. You are in control of your destiny, and you have a supportive rehabilitation team ready to help.
I Am Not Alone
Feelings of isolation can quickly give way to destructive behaviors. When you are in the grip of loneliness, remind yourself of this truth and call on your community of family, friends, and counselors to help you avoid making a negative choice.
I Am Making Progress
While your steps may seem small, you are moving in the right direction when you seek addiction treatment. Live in the moment, celebrating small triumphs and reminding yourself that each forward step takes you further from the bondage of addiction and toward the freedom of sobriety.
I Will Not Give in to My Drug or Alcohol Craving Today
While it is important to acknowledge that sobriety is a lifelong effort, getting through today is the most important thing on your agenda. Chant this mantra when you are feeling tempted to drink or use drugs. Meditate on it when you are in the middle of a stressful situation. Resisting substance use today fuels you to take another stand tomorrow.
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At Red Oak Recovery, our comprehensive, clinically driven program meets young adult men where they are and helps them rehabilitate their body, mind, and spirit. Our addiction treatment programs can provide support for clients regardless of where they are in the recovery process. Whether you have been in treatment several times in the past or this is your first time, we can help. Unlike other addiction treatment programs, we combine traditional therapeutic options, like group or individual therapy, with experiential therapy. Experiential therapy allows our clients to become active in their recovery process. We use holistic healing in a variety of our addiction treatment programs, including:
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warc | 202143 | Project type: Neighbourhood ReLeaf Year: 2016 Season: Spring
It was a hot, sunny day for ReForest London’s Millbank Neighbourhood Tree Blitz on June 19th. Despite it being Father’s Day, there were many people at the tree depot in Heritage Park right at 12:30. People were eager to load up a wagon with a new tree or two from the selection of 15 local species.
Maria Jakimouski said she chose the smooth serviceberry and the tulip tree because she likes the flowers. Evelyn Striegl, who lives down the street, had her sights set on an apple tree. “Trees are life,” said Striegl when asked about why trees are important.
The importance of trees for fresh air was a common sentiment in the neighbourhood. Saanzan Bari, a volunteer tree planter, said, “The country that I was born in, the air quality is really poor. I don’t really like the smoggy feel.” Although he’s a new volunteer, he’s already planted trees at five events this season.
Seven teams of volunteers with wagons went door-to-door offering to plant trees, and three truck driving teams kept the wagons well stocked.
For homeowner Paul Zappitelli, the Tree Blitz came at just the right time. “I was thinking of planting a tree this week,” he said happily. His front yard used to have a tree, but it had been removed by previous owners. He chose a red maple because “it’s Canadian” and said trees are important for the fresh air they provide.
Gail Copeland requested a red maple for the longer lifespan and the colour. Her backyard has several trees and shrubs, including one of particular sentimental significance—a large 15-year-old lilac given to her years ago by a woman she used to look after.
Overall, 115 trees were planted. This was the first Tree Blitz targeting a south-east London neighbourhood, which is among the 30% least leafy areas in London. On this bright day, the neighbourhood got a little bit shadier by adding more native trees to ensure London remains known as the Forest City.
Thank you to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Richard and Beryl Ivey, a fund within the London Community Foundation, TreeMe and the City of London and KPMG for being lead funders on this project. | 2,245 | 1,194 | 1.880235 |
warc | 202143 | Possibly one of the most controversial matters facing industry, government and workers is the subject of the minimum wage. Before the minimum wage was introduced in the late 90s most employers opposed its introduction, stating that it would destroy jobs. It didn’t.
You can rest assured that employers may well oppose any significant increase now on the same basis, that it would destroy jobs and of course raise costs. However, with cost of living likely to be the predominant issue in the run up to the 2015 General Election the proposal to significantly increase the minimum wage may well find favour in some unexpected places.
Why do employers think it will destroy jobs?
Well it’s quite simple actually. Assume you are the store manager of 'Tesbury’s Supermarket' in Watford. You have a wage budget of £1 million per year. The majority of your shelf-filling staff are on the minimum wage and they make up 50% of your workforce. You will budget for an increase in wage costs to be in line with inflation at 2%.
The Government then introduces a 10% increase in the minimum wage. This will push your wage costs up by £50k. You are not allowed to go over your wage budget. Therefore, the only way to stay in budget is to lose some members of staff.
That is the argument for not increasing the minimum wage; and, of course, we all would accept that having people in lower paid jobs is better than having no jobs for them at all.
However, this isn’t necessarily so. If 'Tesbury' is like any of the major supermarket chains it is already operating at maximum efficiency and has no slack in the workforce.
They cannot reduce the number of staff without hurting sales. So, in fact, they have to increase the budget. This will have to translate through to higher prices, but only slightly. Does this make them less competitive?
No, it does not. Let us assume that their main rival, 'Mosda Supermarket' on the other side of town, will also have to increase the pay of its workforce, and therefore its prices, and the status quo is maintained.
A small price to pay?
It does, however, mean that we have to pay more for our food. The rate of inflation would go up, squeezing living standards — so we are back to square one. Only you’re not actually, because it is not only the people on minimum wage who are paying more for their food. It is all of us. To the majority of us a tiny increase in the price of our food would not cause us too much hardship; whereas, on the other side of the equation, the lowest paid in our society are better off. Morally, this has to be the right thing to do.
There is a much bigger prize that may persuade the Government that this is the right thing to do. Many people on minimum wage are also on benefits. Any increase in the minimum wage would save the Government
significant amounts of benefit payments at a time when the Government is desperate to bring the welfare budget, which eats up about one third of all government spending, down.
Add that to the warm glow it would give the Chancellor in the run up to an election, and I think we can safely assume a significant increase is on the way.
Industry won’t like it and I am sure many businesspeople reading this article will be appalled at the prospect. But this government doesn’t have to worry about them. Almost for sure, all political parties will be arguing for this increase as they compete in the battle for which improves people’s living standards.
And the future?
Of course, what would really boost this whole process would be if the Government returned some of the savings made on benefits to the employers by reducing employers national insurance contributions, otherwise known as the jobs tax. I have argued on these pages before that the lowest paid in our society should not be paying any tax — nor should employers be punished for creating jobs.
Peter Burgess is MD of Retail Human Resources Plc. He holds an MBA from The London Business School and is a Fellow of the CIPD. | 4,047 | 1,898 | 2.132244 |
warc | 202143 | When camping, all the things that go into your head are how to have fun. Of course, that’s one of the primary reasons why this outdoor activity is a never-ending trend. Leisure, adventure, expeditions–you name it. They are the magnets that attract people to head out and be off-the-grid. However, it’s not all fun and […]
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What are the benefits of rucking? Is it a suitable outdoor activity that you should pursue? The short answer is yes. But of course, I am going to explain its perks in detail. For starters, rucking is a form of exercise that involves carrying a weighted backpack for long distances. Rucksacks can range in weight […]
How to get in shape for hiking? Are there any foolproof and effective methods to get in your prime condition for your next big outdoor hike? If you’re anything like me, you hike because you love nature, you love all the exercise and fresh air, and you love to escape everyday stress. But if you’re […]
How to survive in the wild? Perhaps this question came across your mind already. Initially, you didn’t bat an eye about this. However, a sudden weeklong trip to the outdoors with your family and friends made you think about this matter again. Of course, survival is an important matter that you shouldn’t shrug off, especially […] | 1,683 | 912 | 1.845395 |
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As was observed in Chapter 1, the aim of good matching is to ". . . avoid the twin pitfalls of demanding too much and expecting too little." As HMI (1978) found, this is easier said than done in classrooms and thus two of the aims of this study were to establish the degree to which tasks were matched to children, and to ascertain how problems, if any, came about. | 445 | 298 | 1.493289 |
warc | 202143 | There is now emerging evidence on the impact of obesity on male fertility. It reduces sperm quality and alters the physical and molecular structure of germ cells in the testes and, ultimately, mature sperm.
A recent study suggests that male fertility can be improved through early weight loss. Even after short-term weight loss, alterations in reproductive function could be partially reversed in young boys with obesity.
Leydig cells in the testes become active in puberty to produce the primary male hormone, testosterone. Sertoli cells in the testes are critical for the production of healthy sperm and produce several reproductive hormones, essential for sperm maturation.
Past study has shown that obesity alters the Sertoli cell from the age of 12. From the age of 14, it starts altering Leydig cell function.
However, whether losing weight could help restore the function of these cells remains elusive.
In the new study presented today at the 59th Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting, scientists determined -how a 12-week educational weight loss program in 34 boys, aged 10 – 18 years, affected markers of Leydig and Sertoli cell function, as well as metabolism.
The boys had a healthy, balanced diet, undertaking physical activity for at least 1 hour per day.
Scientists measured their levels of reproductive hormones, body fat composition, and blood glucose before and after the program. Over the 12 weeks, the boys significantly lost weight and had improved insulin levels and increased testosterone levels.
Scientists didn’t notice any significant changes in markers of Sertoli cell function. Since fat cells produce an enzyme that converts testosterone to oestrogen, the actual loss of fat mass may account for some of the increased testosterone levels, in addition to the reversal of Leydig cell altered function.
Dr. Solène Rérat at the Angers University Hospital in France said,
“These findings underline the need to consider childhood obesity as a factor in future fertility issues. We strongly recommend that early management of childhood obesity is necessary to reverse these impairments and to help prevent future reproductive problems, as well as lowering the risks of other debilitating diseases.” “Our study only evaluated the effects in a small number of obese boys after a twelve-week therapeutic, educational program. Further studies with longer follow-up are needed to help us fully study the effect of weight reduction on reproductive function.”
In the future, scientists will measure the reproductive function of the group more long-term. By including more participants, they will gather more data to confirm and extend these findings. | 2,742 | 1,311 | 2.091533 |
warc | 202143 | The 12th annual Spirit of the Heart Virtual Awards Gala & Fundraiser, to be conducted as a virtual event on Saturday, October 16th, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST, provides an opportunity for individuals to support the efforts of the ABC to remove barriers to optimal heart health in minority populations.
Increase in risk for incident cardiovascular disease reaches clinical significance approximately 10 years from first exposure.
Significant associations seen for functional iron deficiency with coronary heart disease, cardiovascular mortality, all-cause mortality.
Emerging data demonstrate that iron is an important regulator of FGF23.
No associations observed in large study of middle-aged, postmenopausal Korean women.
Even occasional physical activity was linked to a decreased risk for death from any cause, investigators reported.
The updated USPSTF aspirin for preeclampsia prevention recommendation is strengthened by new safety data but gaps in implementation remain.
At age 55 years, remaining lifetime risk of diabetes in the high genetic risk group was 23.5 percent for those in ideal cardiovascular health.
The removal of the contraindication to screen for hypersensitivity to blood and blood products is expected to improve workflow efficiency for health care professionals.
Researchers compared cardiovascular risk among patients with gout who received treatment with allopurinol vs benzbromarone. | 1,425 | 816 | 1.746324 |
warc | 202143 | Mental disorders in obese.
In a study of 155 obese children aged 5-17 years, 88 (57%) had a DSM-IV diagnosis. At least one anxiety disorder was diagnosed in 63 children. Another 25 children were diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders, and 19 were diagnosed with affective disorders (Psychosom. Med. 66[3]:387-94, 2004).
The children were assessed using two self-reports and the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. There was no association between severity of obesity and the presence of psychopathology, but the data suggested that psychopathology in obese children was highly correlated with that of their parents.
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warc | 202143 | UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has set out plans for a "fair but firm" overhaul of the immigration system that will make it harder for some asylum seekers to stay permanently in the country.
Under the new plans, only migrants who arrive in the UK through official channels, such as refugee schemes in war zones or escaping persecution, will be entitled to stay permanently.
Others will be eligible for "temporary protection status" under which they will be reassessed for removal at a future date.
Proposals include bringing in a new body to determine the true age of applicants over concerns that some adults are posing as children.
The government will also curtail the ability of migrants to claim "family reunification" rights to bring their relatives to the UK.
Setting out the plans in the House of Commons, Ms Patel said the new system would be "faster and fairer" and would help stop people smugglers.
"If you illegally enter the UK via a safe country in which you could have claimed asylum, you are not seeking refuge from imminent peril, as is the intended purpose of the asylum system, but are picking the UK as a preferred destination over others," she told MPs.
Earlier, Ms Patel said the government would introduce the new system because currently the UK was "unable to fully help people who are fleeting persecution" due to "the extent of illegal migration taking place".
She said the proposed system rewarded those who came through legal routes, such as the United Nations Refugee Agency, and discouraged those travelling via safe countries such as France, where thousands of migrants use small boats to make the dangerous crossing across the English Chanel.
More than 100 migrants, including a young girl, crossed the Channel on Tuesday, adding to the 806 migrants who have arrived on small boats this year.
Efforts will be stepped up to remove Channel-crossing migrants who could have claimed asylum in safe countries from which they travelled, such as France.
Britain's main opposition Labour Party said the government lacked "competence and compassion", while refugee advocates branded the changes "inhumane".
The Home Office said its review would focus on three areas: increasing fairness and efficiency; deterring illegal entry; and easing the path for deportations.
Ms Patel said the UK would create "safe and legal routes" for asylum seekers to come to the UK.
"It's important to recognise that we are unable as a country right now to fully help people who are fleeing persecution and who are destitute in the world because of the extent of illegal migration that is taking place, where people are putting their lives at risk and fuelling criminality," she told BBC's Radio 4
Today programme.
"We will bring in changes of the system where we effectively create safe and legal routes."
She said people were dying "in the hands of gangsters and people smugglers" on their way to Britain.
"We cannot carry on as we are," she said.
But refugee groups said the proposed changes would create a "two-tier system" where cases are not assessed on their merit.
Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the government's plans could undermine the country's traditions of providing protection for people “regardless of how they have managed to find their way to our shores”.
"[The government] is seeking to unjustly differentiate between the deserving and undeserving refugee by choosing to provide protection for those fleeing war and terror based on how they travel to the UK,” he said.
Mike Adamson, chief executive of the British Red Cross, said the changes were “inhumane”.
"We should not judge how worthy someone is of asylum by how they arrived here," he said.
“The proposals effectively create an unfair two-tiered system, whereby someone’s case and the support they receive is judged on how they entered the country and not on their need for protection."
As part of the Brexit debate, campaigners said the country needed to update the system after its EU exit, as immigration was one of the key reasons why many people voted to leave the bloc in the 2016 referendum.
Ms Patel said her New Plan for Immigration would stop some asylum seekers receiving the same entitlements as others.
“If, like over 60 per cent of illegal arrivals, they have travelled through a safe country like France to get here, they will not have immediate entry into the asylum system, which is what happens today," she said.
“And we will stop the most unscrupulous abusing the system by posing as children by introducing tougher, more accurate age assessments."
Ms Patel announced a policy to deter human traffickers.
“Profiteering from illegal migration to Britain will no longer be worth the risk, with new maximum life sentences for people smugglers.
"I make no apology for these actions being firm, but as they will also save lives and target people smugglers they are also undeniably fair."
The immigration overhaul, which will be formally introduced in the UK Parliament on Wednesday, featured in a speech she made in October 2020 at the Conservative Party's annual conference.
Then, Ms Patel, whose parents of Indian descent emigrated from Uganda to Britain in the 1960s, said the new rules would welcome people through “safe and legal routes”.
Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the proposal went against traditional British values.
“This is wholly unjust and undermines the UK’s long tradition of providing protection for people, regardless of how they managed to find their way to our shores," he said.
Bridget Chapman, of the Kent Refugee Action Network charity, which works in one of the coastal areas where many refugees arrive on British soil, was distressed by the new plan.
"There are people who have been displaced, through no fault of their own, who've ended up coming to Europe and they're still in need of a safe place," she said.
"They are not going to stop coming. We have to find a different, more humanitarian way to deal with those who are going to come."
A record 8,400 asylum seekers tried to cross the English Channel last year.
Since January, the government has been trying to pass laws that give British border police more powers to obtain fingerprints from migrants trying to cross the Channel. | 6,416 | 2,824 | 2.271955 |
warc | 202143 | Ankylosing Spondylitis is a chronic inflammation of one or more of the vertebrae of the spine and sacroiliac joints, which can cause some of the spinal column to fuse. This fusing makes the spine less flexible and results in a hunched-forward posture and case ribs are affected, it may result in difficulty to breathe deeply. Although it can occur at any age, most often strikes men in their teens and twenties.
According to Ayurveda, Ankylosing Spondylitis is induced due to inflamed vata dosha takes place under the broader perspective of
Ama Vata. But sometimes can be because of the imbalance of the three Doshas as well. This imbalance causes degeneration & inflammation of the spine and may even serve to disability in the future. In this auto immune disorder, the disc between the vertebrae gets swollen up leading to regulation of movement. The traditional Spondylitis classification system – makes six separate diseases and, The newer Spondylitis classification system – with two wider categories Ankylosing Spondylitis (as)– Inflammation in the spine and/or pelvis leads to pain. After some time, this inflammation can lead to ankylosis — new bone formation in the spine Enteropathic arthritis (EnA)– Arthritis correlated with inflammatory bowel syndrome In extension to inflammatory back and/or joint pain, inflammation of the intestine, which includes the bowel, is a predominant feature of Enteropathic arthritis. Symptoms may include chronic diarrhea/ blood in the stool, abdominal pain, and weight loss Psoriatic arthritis (PSA)– frequently causes pain and swelling in the small joints of the hands and feet associated with a psoriasis skin rash. Reactive arthritis (rea)– An infection in the intestine or urinary tract usually occurs before inflammation in the joints. It causes inflammation associated with pain in the joints, eyes, skin, bladder, mucus membranes, and genitals. Undifferentiated Spondyloarthritis (uspa)– People with uspa have symptoms and disease features consistent with Spondyloarthritis, but their disease doesn’t fit into another category of the spa. Juvenile Spondyloarthritis (jspa)– Symptoms begin in childhood. Enthesitis-inflammation, where tendons or ligaments meet bone is seen as a dominating feature. Axial Spondyloarthritis (axspa)– Axial spa causes inflammation in the spine or pelvis that typically brings on inflammatory back pain. Peripheral Spondyloarthritis (pspa)– Peripheral spa commonly causes inflammation in jointsor tendons outside the spine or sacroiliac joints. Symptoms of Ankylosing Spondylitis: In the early stages Stiffness and pain in the lower back, severe in the early morning that lasts at least 30 minutes and then eases through the day or with activity Pain that wakes you in the night Pain in one/both buttocks and sometimes in the backs of the thighs Other possible symptoms include: soreness at the heel & foot arch pain and swelling in a finger/toe tenderness at the pelvis Chest pain or tightness Inflammation of the bowel (IBD) Fatigue Depression and anxiety either uveitis or iritis Ayurvedic Treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis: Main procedure:
In Ayurveda, no disease is considered organ-specific. It believes in treating the patient as a whole rather than the disease
Ayurvedic treatment aims at digesting the ama by giving dipana/pachana herbs and balancing aggravated vata. External Therapy such as Lepanam, Pichu, Kati Basti, and sarvangadhara, patrapinda svedana are beneficial. Panchakarma Therapy such as Nasyam, Snehavasthy, Virechanam, Vaitharana vasthy, Kashayavasthy is also recommended. Ayurvedic Diet and Lifestyle advice for Ankylosing Spondylitis : Eat Food that pacifies Vata and Pitta Include ghee in your diet. Take light food and avoid oily foods & curds. Ensure proper evacuation of bowels and avoid the cause for constipation Apply heat pads on affected areas to l help relieve pain and stiffness. Avoid sleeping during the daytime Yoga Asanas such as Pawana muktasana, Dhanurasana, Bhujangasana, Paschimottasana, are beneficial for this disease. Practice Pranayama such as Chandrabhedi, Nadi shodhana Sheethali & Bhramari. DISCUSSION:
The effectiveness of Ayurveda in the area of spine and joint treatments is globally accepted and appreciated as it works on the root cause of an issue/condition and it offers excellent therapies for treating Ankylosing spondylitis. Treatment is usually aggressive, long-term, and requires regular follow-ups. Ayurvedic remedies can be followed in general and will be beneficial. It’s advised to get a complete check-up and a customized
Ayurvedic treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis other health conditions. Contact our expert online Ayurvedic doctors at Total Ayurveda Care today. | 4,794 | 2,195 | 2.184055 |
warc | 202143 | Judicial integrity, one of the pillars upon which rule of law rests, depends on a long list of factors which continues to be adapted in a fast-changing world. While national contexts vary, judiciaries often face comparable challenges in ensuring independence and integrity in their respective countries, and they agree on the need to ensure that guidelines on judicial matters remain current.
While the basics of judicial integrity have been agreed and enumerated in the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct, the guidelines on some topical matters may not be up to the required standards. To overcome this, two big meetings were held in Seoul in December, the first organized by the Judicial Policy Research Institute of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea; the second, by UNODC.
Sextortion, as defined by the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), is the abuse of power to obtain a sexual benefit or advantage. As such, it is a form of corruption in which sex, rather than money, is the currency of the bribe. It is not limited to certain countries or sectors and can be found wherever those entrusted with power lack integrity and try to sexually exploit those who are vulnerable and dependent on their power.
The IAWJ has succinctly explained the principle underlying sextortion as follows: what distinguishes sextortion from other types of sexually abusive conduct is that it has both a sexual component and a corruption component. The sexual component of sextortion arises from a request - whether implicit or explicit - to engage in any kind of unwanted sexual activity, ranging from sexual intercourse to exposing private body parts.
While the pace of developments in technology continues to accelerate to the great pleasure of many, it does present challenges to certain categories of professional disciplines whose nature does not lend itself well to much flexibility; with the preservation of judicial integrity at the helm of their principles, many judges may have difficulty embracing rapid innovation.
Judges must comply with legal and ethical ramifications which other professions may not face when using technology. This is particularly the case when considering social media platforms, which have become ubiquitous in the last few years; inserting themselves into people's mundane activities, they allow instant communication with family, friends and total strangers, the sharing of holiday photos and funny memes, and the ability of commenting on news stories.
The effectiveness of any judiciary depends upon its perceived legitimacy, especially in the eyes of the public. This perception requires not only that the judges uphold the highest standards of integrity and independence, but also that states respect judicial independence and do not undermine judicial decisions.
A successful judiciary is one whose members are appointed following a rigorous process assessing both the candidate's legal qualifications as well as integrity. Different countries' constitutions and other laws provide for different requirements, but it is crucial that only the best people are appointed to judicial positions. Judiciaries should not be politicized - this means that ruling parties should not appoint judges who will be answerable to them and not to the constitution and members of the public.
Established in 2016, the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award is designed to showcase creative and outstanding achievements of anti-corruption projects from across the globe and publicly acknowledge these exceptional efforts.
Awarded by the Rule Of Law and Anti-Corruption Center (ROLACC), and presented in support of the anti-corruption mandate of UNODC, the initiative promotes the importance of tackling corruption and encourages the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. | 3,850 | 1,848 | 2.083333 |
warc | 202143 | Top technologies equipped in a Luxury Armoured Car
The world of cars is getting as fascinating as it could with each passing day. The best engineers and designers in the world are putting up a spectacle on the roads by equipping the latest cars with the best features and design elements. These features and design elements are not just to make sure that the silhouette of the car looks amazing, these also help in making the cars safe. Most of the car manufacturers now work primarily on making the cars, road-safe for passengers and the commuters around the car. The aspect of safety is taken a notch higher in armored cars. Armored cars are vehicles that are designed and manufactured keeping in mind that the passengers in the car are safe in case there is any kind of life-threatening activity around them, like gunfire or the use of any explosives.
Facts About Luxury Armored Vehicles
Armored vehicles come with different certifications depending upon the level of security they provide. Not all armored vehicles will protect their passengers against landmines or heavy gunfire, while some might. So, it depends upon the certification of the vehicle. Though these cars now come with technologies that astonish a commoner. So, what are the top technologies equipped in a luxury armored car? Here is a list of a few.
1- Bullet Resistance Glass:
Bullet resistant glass is thick glass panes that are installed in place of a regular window, windscreen, or a backlite. These bullet-resistant glasses can be up to 55mm or thicker depending upon the level of protection they provide. The Bullet resistant glasses are multi-layered glasses that are a combination of various dampening materials like polycarbonate.
2- Run Flat tires:
When under threat or attack the attackers try to hot the tires of the car to immobilize it. In case the car stands still during the attack the chances of the attackers penetrating increase. Therefore, the option of run-flat tires comes into action. These tires even when flat can take the car up to 30+ miles at speeds around or greater than 50+ miles per hour.
3- Smoke Dispensers:
Every car but electrical dispense smoke, so what is the difference? While most of the cars in the world dispense some smoke into the atmosphere through their exhaust, there is a safety feature that makes sure that this smoke increases to a level that the car is just surrounded by smoke. The smoke dispensing system uses oil which is heated to the level that it evaporates and when it mixes with the cool air around the vehicle, it makes a mist curtain not allowing the attackers to see the location of the vehicle. This gives the vehicle a clear passage.
4- Electric Shock Handles:
It may be possible that the attackers somehow can reach the armored vehicle. In this case, they would want to open the car to extract the passenger from the car. In this scenario, electric shock handles come into action. These handles have enough energy in them to give the attackers a jolt which can cause them some serious injury. Therefore, allowing the driver to escape with the vehicle.
The world of automobiles has moved leaps and bounds ahead in terms of technology and safety. Armored cars are one such example. Cars are not big machines, and therefore fitting in technology in them is not an easy task. The level of security that the cars now provide is commendable. Armored vehicles are an example of high-class engineering that makes sure that the passengers in the car feel safe irrespective of what surrounds them. | 3,537 | 1,591 | 2.22313 |
warc | 202143 | A company worth hundreds of billions of dollars has appeared every six years over the past four decades, investor Chamath Palihapitiya says — and he thinks the next one will look different and think differently than its predecessors.
Appearing on the latest episode of
Re/code Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Palihapitiya explained why he’s trying to use the firm he founded, Social Capital, to bet on companies with world-changing ambitions. To back up investments in companies like Syapse, which aims to increase the speed and reduce the cost of cancer treatment, he has also invested in more conventional tech companies such as Slack and Box that he believes also represent modern, progressive values.
“In all this technological upheaval, there’s going to be massive wealth created,” Palihapitiya said. “It’s going to get allocated to somebody. Better people with a moral imperative, who have a sense of equality and a sense of social justice, than a bunch of rich douchebags who are already rich.”
Currently wealthy individuals, to put it more mildly, are not going to hold on to power forever and neither are their investors, he argued. Some younger startups and funders that will take their place will think about the world in different and more open-minded ways, and Palihapitiya suspects that when one of those takes off, imitators will follow.
“Startups copy what good companies do because they think it contributes to success,” Palihapitiya said. “The Kind Bars don’t do shit. If you’re going to copy, copy the really important stuff like a diverse workforce.”
He also discussed at length with Kara how he came to be an investor, by way of Winamp, AOL Instant Messenger and Facebook.
“I was a curmudgeon,” he said of Facebook’s corporate culture in the early days. “I would see an Audi in the parking lot, take pictures of it and email everybody saying, ‘This is exactly what’s going to fucking destroy us.'”
“Says the man who has a sports team,” Kara replied.
“You know, things change.”
Listen to or download the episode in the audio player above, or click here to subscribe to
Re/code Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher on iTunes; you can also find Re/code Decode on TuneIn, Stitcher and Clammr.
Kara will be back next Monday with another great guest. On Thursday, don’t miss
Re/code Media with Peter Kafka, our newest podcast. This week, Peter talks to Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight. Click here to subscribe to Re/code Media on iTunes.
You would normally hear Kara this Friday on
Too Embarrassed to Ask, her podcast with Lauren Goode of The Verge, but this week we’ll have a special episode with Lauren and Re/code co-founder Walt Mossberg. Click here to subscribe to Too Embarrassed to Ask on iTunes right now. And you should also check out Re/code Replay, an archive of audio content from our events and interviews by Kara Swisher, Walt Mossberg, Peter Kafka, Ina Fried and more. To subscribe to that, click right here.
You can follow @Recode on Twitter for the latest on upcoming guests.
If you like what we’re doing, please write a review on iTunes — and if you don’t, just tweet-strafe Kara. You can also suggest guests for the show on Twitter, and we’ll do our best to nab them for a Red Chair interview.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net. | 3,456 | 1,693 | 2.041347 |
warc | 202143 | Commission: Safety Gate effectively contributes to the withdrawal from the market of dangerous coronavirus-related products
The European Commission today published its annual report on the Safety Gate system, the EU’s early warning system for dangerous consumer products, which helps to withdraw dangerous non-food products from the market. The report shows that the number of actions taken by the authorities following warnings is increasing from year to year, reaching 5,377, compared to 4,477 in 2019. 9% of all warnings recorded in 2020 concerned products related to
COVID-19, mainly inappropriate protective masks, reports APE.
Other examples of dangerous products associated with COVID-19 and reported to the Safety Gate system are disinfectants that contain toxic chemicals, such as methanol, which can cause blindness or even death if swallowed, or UV-exposed disinfectants. in intense radiation causing skin irritation.
Justice Commissioner Didier Renders said: “The Safety Gate system has proven to be resilient to crises: during the COVID-19 pandemic it helped to protect consumers as a key tool for the effective and rapid circulation of information on dangerous products. , as unsafe
masks or toxic disinfectants, and to withdraw these products from the market. With similar protection tools, consumer rights are further guaranteed. Main findings of the report
The surveillance action focused on COVID-19-related products that have become essential for all consumers and, as a result, in 2020 there were 161 mask warnings, 3 special mold warnings, 13 hand sanitizer warnings and 18 warnings for UV lamps that are supposed to act as sterilizers. The warnings circulating in the system continue this year.
In 2020, the authorities of the 31 countries participating in the Safety Gate network (EU Member States plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom) exchanged a total of 2,253 warnings about measures taken against dangerous products through the system. There were 5,377 follow-up actions. This is an increase of more than 20% compared to the number of follow-up actions in 2019.
According to the report, “toys” are the product category for which most notifications were submitted (27% of total notifications), followed by product categories “motor vehicles” (21%) and “electrical appliances and equipment” ( 10%). This shows that market surveillance in the EU places particular emphasis on children, a vulnerable group of consumers. In general, the most common source of concern is related products that cause injuries, such as fractures or concussions (25%), followed by chemicals in products (18%) and the risk of drowning for children (12%). | 2,726 | 1,322 | 2.062027 |
warc | 202143 | This is what you need to know to trade today
Tuesday, September 28:
Markets are looking to move higher after pulling back amid rising yields and energy issues. The US dollar is losing some ground ahead of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony. Power shortages are gaining more traction as cryptocurrencies recede amid talks on regulation.
10-year US Treasury yields have fallen below 1.50% after several days of rising. The upward move is related to the Federal Reserve’s tapering signal last week and the outlook for higher inflation, as reflected in energy prices. At the time of writing, falling yields on US debt allow the dollar to take a breather from its gains.
The president of the
Federal Reserve Jerome Powell to testify before Congress on Tuesday. In his prepared remarks already released, Powell stresses that he would act against sustained inflation and that higher prices and hiring shortages could be more sustained than anticipated. On the other hand, you see continued strong growth.
Powell is willing to emphasize that ending bond purchases does not mean imminent rate hikes, echoing comments from Fed Governor Lael Brainard. His colleagues Michelle Bowman and Raphael Bostic are scheduled to speak later in the day.
Resignations at the Fed: Boston Fed Chairman Eric Rosengren and Dallas Fed Chairman Robert Kaplan will resign in the coming days following revelations of active operations surrounding central bank decisions. Kaplan stood out as a hawk and his departure could tip the Fed into a pessimistic stance. Energy problems: China is struggling with cuts to energy sources in several regions, threatening to slow down the economy. Coal and other fuels used to create electricity are hard to come by. In the UK, the army has been put on hold in case gas stations need to be filled, amid a shortage of truck drivers. The rise in natural gas prices in Britain and Europe it is weighing on sentiment. The crude WTI trades above $ 75, while the Brent has exceeded $ 80.
The indicator
consumer confidence del Conference Board by September it is ready to increase. It is essential to note that the August sentiment drops did not lead to lower consumer spending.
On Monday, the United States reported better-than-expected durable goods order data for August, up 1.8%.
The
EUR/USD clings to 1.17 as the dollar softens and ahead of a speech by the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde. On Monday, Lagarde remade his position that inflationary pressures would ease.
The
GBP/USD remains at 1.37 after the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, repeated its position that interest rates could rise before the bond purchase plan is concluded. Debt ceiling: Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would fund the US government. Investors continue to ignore the possibilities of a US default on their debt, as such situations have been resolved in the past. cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin is trading below $ 43,000, Ethereum is below $ 3,000 and ADA is under pressure around $ 2.15. Regulatory concerns appear to be the driver behind the most recent slump.
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warc | 202143 | The Enneagram is a psychological-spiritual tool that can help you be your best self by helping you to connect with your inner wisdom.
There are nine different personality types and you have all nine points within you. Your type represents the box you get stuck in when you are experiencing stress.
The Enneagram can get you out of your box by getting you in touch with your three centers of intelligence. It helps to peel off all the lies you tell yourself.
Your Enneagram type can help you to observe yourself in action. It will show you what to look out for, allowing you to know whether you are moving towards stress or integration. The more you work on this, the more presence you will experience.
Does it feel warm or cold? What are you feeling? Are you feeling kindness and compassion? Or are you fearful and closed down?
3. Head Center
Your head center is a transmitter between you and the universe. The more you can quiet your mind, the better you will access the wisdom, giving you great insight into what the Spirit is calling you to do.
Exploring your Enneagram wings can help you to be at your best.
Even more so, the more healthy you get in all nine Enneagram types will enhance your life, bringing you the joy you never dreamed you could experience.
To benefit from the Enneagram, you need to make this teaching life-long work. You will keep growing in confidence and awareness for the rest of your life.
The more present you become, the greater the flow you will experience in your life. It doesn't mean that life will be easier, but you will struggle less. | 1,584 | 801 | 1.977528 |
warc | 202143 | AstraZeneca ( AZN Quick Quote AZN - Free Report) announced that two phase III studies (MANDALA and DENALI) evaluating its investigational dual combination inhaler, PT027, for asthma achieved all primary endpoints.
Developed by the company in collaboration with Avillion, PT027 is a fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide. While albuterol is a short-acting beta2-agonist, budesonide is an inhaled corticosteroid.
Data from the studies demonstrated significant benefits of PT027 at both doses of 180/160mcg and 180/80mcg in asthma patients compared with individual components of the candidate - albuterol and budesonide. The safety profile of the candidate was consistent with the known profiles of the individual components.
The company’s stock has rallied 12.6% so far this year in comparison with the
industry’s 10.7% increase. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research While the MANDALA study evaluated PT027 as a rescue medicine in response to symptoms in moderate to severe asthma patients against albuterol, the DENALI study evaluated the candidate in second-line treatment of mild to moderate asthma against individual components - albuterol and budesonide as well as placebo. Data from the MANDALA study demonstrated that PT027 significantly reduced the risk of severe asthma exacerbation in patients compared to albuterol. Data from the DENALI study demonstrated significant improvement in lung function in PT027-administered patients in response to individual components, albuterol and budesonide.
Please note that the doses of the candidate and individual components were administered to patients enrolled in the study in a pressurised metered-dose inhaler using AstraZeneca’s Aerosphere delivery technology.
The safety profile of the inhaler was also consistent with the known profiles of the individual components. The company anticipates divulging details of the studies at a future medical meeting.
Per the collaboration terms, Avillion became the study sponsor responsible for funding PT027 through a regulatory decision in the United States, while AstraZeneca has the option of commercializing the candidate in the country, once approved.
If approved, the drug will face stiff competition from
Glaxo’s ( GSK Quick Quote GSK - Free Report) Trelegy Ellipta, which received approval from the FDA to treat asthma indication in adults in September 2020. The drug is already marketed to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The medicine has demonstrated an encouraging uptake since approval for asthma indication.
In a separate press release, AstraZeneca announced that it has presented detailed data from the phase III POSEIDON study at the 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer. The POSEIDON study evaluated the company’s drugs Imfinzi and tremelimumab in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy in first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. Data from the study showed that Imfinzi and tremelimumab with chemotherapy improved progression-free survival by 28% as well as overall survival by 23% compared to chemotherapy alone in the above-mentioned patient group.
Zacks Rank & Stocks to Consider
AstraZeneca currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A couple of better-ranked stocks in the biotech sector include
Moderna ( MRNA Quick Quote MRNA - Free Report) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( REGN Quick Quote REGN - Free Report) , each sporting a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see . the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here
Moderna’s earnings per share estimates for 2021 have increased from $24.71 to $29.21 in the past 60 days. The same for 2022 has risen from $17.83 to $25.44 over the same period. The stock has rallied 336.4% in the year so far.
Regeneron’s earnings per share estimates for 2021 have increased from $49.53 to $54.15 in the past 60 days. The same for 2022 has risen from $41.35 to $44.11 over the same period. The stock has rallied 33.7% in the year so far. | 4,022 | 1,770 | 2.272316 |
warc | 202143 | Carbofix is a natural herbal nutritional supplement for continual low-energy fat burning as well as boosted metabolic price. As the cornerstone carb-blocker, this product efficiently tightens down blood glucose levels to stabilize on demand the energy expense. Carbofix not only burns fat yet additionally helps to produce muscle mass. While the primary supplement targets and also reduces excess glucose in the blood stream, it also all at once puts in numerous various other health and wellness advantages on the body, which eventually help in long-lasting weight control. Nonetheless, like with all supplements, there are certain elements that impact and determine the rate of Carbofix, in addition to what it needs to cost. Rate has nothing to do with the efficiency or the quality of the item.
Carbo Fix Coupons
Carbofix is offered in 3 versions, normal, pre-workout, and also post-workout. The difference in between these variants is based upon just how they are developed. Regular describes the variant of components discovered in the formula. Pre-workout variation consists of a dose of ephedra and/or high levels of caffeine. Post-workout has no ephedra or caffeine and also is hence one of the most effective variation. The difference in between regular and pre-workout carbofix is just how their metabolic stimulants respond with each other as well as exactly how swiftly they reach the muscle mass to support as well as improve workout efficiency.
Numerous online item markets supply Carbofix at competitive rates. The crucial reason that Carbofix is cost a lower cost online is because of its access. In addition, unlike in neighborhood drug shops and also fitness centers, you do not have to drive a far away to access a store offering Carbofix. You can just acquire Carbofix and have the pills shipped right to your door.
In addition to being offered practically everywhere, one more reason that Carbofix is offered less costly online is as a result of the limited variety of active ingredients utilized in making the formulation. Carbofix has just one significant active ingredient unlike the other fat burning supplements that are produced by several business. In addition, the main web site highlights the efficiency of Carbofix and the fact that the company behind the creation of this product is continuously making every effort to make it a lot more reliable as well as efficient. As a result, even more people are acknowledging the effectiveness of Carbofix.
One of one of the most usual claims regarding Carbofix is that it aids customers lose persistent fat faster than any other item on the marketplace. What the official website states concerning Carbofix is that it contains natural components. Among the natural components found in Carbofix is environment-friendly tea essence. Although the results of eco-friendly tea essence are yet to be established, numerous believe that it can help in reducing body weight because of its capability to decrease cholesterol degrees. In addition to that, various other all-natural active ingredients in Carbofix such as yerba friend, guarana, as well as green tea extract work in synergy with the green tea to assist the supplement accelerate the rate at which the body burns fat.
One more advantage of using Carbofix is that the ingredients discovered in this supplement to aid raise the metabolic price of the customer. What the metabolic price is essentially, is how rapid your body burns calories. If your metabolic price is high then you would naturally burn more calories each day than if your rate is reduced. In addition to assisting increase your metabolic rate, the ingredients utilized in Carbofix additionally help raise the blood sugar level level of the customer, which consequently enhances the energy degrees of the consumer.
When using Carbofix, customers have actually reported raised power degrees, better stamina, as well as boosted mental clearness. Because the Carbofix supplement does not contain synthetic active ingredients, it can be utilized by virtually anybody. In addition, individuals do not have to take the pills for a prolonged amount of time like other weight loss supplements. Instead, the customer can experience the results of Carbofix in its most effective form within three months of use. This suggests that individuals are able to see outcomes as well as transform their lives in a matter of just three months.
The use of Carbofix is definitely among the best ways to slim down as well as burn fat. In addition to giving the consumer with healthy and balanced benefits, the use of Carbofix also aids boost the power degrees of the user. This in turn, increases the metabolic rate, which advertises the burning of even more fat. Along with this, customers have also reported really feeling a lot more stimulated and happier. These are simply a few of the many wellness advantages that are gained by using Carbofix. | 4,929 | 2,084 | 2.365163 |
warc | 202143 | No matter if you may be just begin or choose to break into westerner writing, placing is a important element to the story.
No matter if you may be just begin or choose to break into westerner writing, placing is a important element to the story.
not merely what you will want to be fabled for when individuals see your website. Provide your name along with other details you want to appear on the website. Monetization possibilities start that is many site or web log with the aim of fundamentally generating revenue along with it.
you may spot your very own advertisements on your internet site. You need to make use of a totally free Website Builder platform which includes numerous unique templates from which to choose. You can concentrate on the functionality and design of one's web web site rather than coding web scripts.
What exactly is the Controlled chemicals Act, and exactly what does it want to do utilizing the appropriate usage of cannabis in america?
Whilst the legalization of marijuana used in some type has passed in 29 states additionally the District of Columbia, it's safe to express that the appropriate usage of cannabis has arrived a long distance socially|way that is long, along with politically.
Why Acid that is cannabigerolic) is style of a Big Deal
Cannabigerol is among the numerous phytocannabinoids within the cannabis plant, of which over 70 have been elucidated and discovered. And, as explained inside our other article about cannabidiolic acid, numerous phytocannabinoids have actually acidic precursors. To recap actually quickly, these acid precursors become a procedure called decarboxylation. Decarboxylation occurs through different types of temperature application and it is a fancy science term for when one thing loses a molecule of skin tightening and.
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