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warc | 202143 | I am recalling a workshop on unconscious bias from last year, the moderator hands outpatient prototype profiles to each table of participants. Ours is a glossy paper with a color photo of our patient, Jane, and a clear outline of her type of employment, hobbies, interests, family members, religious beliefs, and how she prefers to receive information. This strikes me as very clear and succinct, calling attention to many of …
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warc | 202143 | Planning at all levels of the college is highly participatory. In keeping with the College’s culture of inclusiveness and transparency, KCC’s planning processes offer widespread opportunities for input by appropriate constituencies. From advisory boards for academic programs to shared governance and strategic planning, public and employee participation is highly sought after.
Like most other plans at the College, the strategic planning process solicits extensive public, Board of Education, and KCC employee input. The College’s strategic plan serves as the unifying element that takes into account the needs of the community, the mission of the College, efforts of the College’s internal departments, and the budgeting process.
KCC is in the second cycle of its current strategic planning series. The first cycle of strategic planning began in 2013. At that time, the president and the board chair asked for a new strategic plan series that would:
be highly inclusive of the public and all college departments,
give all departments a sense of meaning and forward vision,
be integrated with the budget process,
be a grass-roots, department-centered system, and
remain a vibrant, living document at the forefront of all College activities.
Developing the Strategic Plan included public workshops with campus tours for local business leaders, political leaders, the National Guard at Kingsley Field, K-12 districts, and regional agencies. Additional work sessions were held for all campus departments and the Board of Education. From their input derived a set of recommendations that became the strategic initiatives and their descriptions. Each initiative was intentionally phrased to match a part of the College mission statement (these vital parts of the mission are called "core themes"), that in turn, aligns with language in all academic and non-academic department plans. The College’s annual budget process incorporates the matching elements of the mission, core themes, initiatives, and department plans.
The first plan and related department plans — termed “Strategic Plan 1.0” — were implemented in September 2014 and had a three-year life cycle. Plan 1.0 ended in 2017, with an accomplishment report mailed to the community.
The College took one year to evaluate the process, re-connect with community organizations and all college departments to develop Plan 2.0. This Plan launched in September 2018 and will have a three-year life cycle.
For more information, see our
Strategic Plan FAQs page.
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warc | 202143 | Are you dealing with domestic abuse and want to find out how to protect yourself? Find out how to protect yourself andc all us today for a free evaluation! Dealing with Domestic Abuse | Order of Protection
Family court allows for people to file a document called a family offense petition. It’s a non-criminal allegation against a family member or a significant that involves conduct that is not appropriate. That conduct could be assault or it could be threats and the result is an order directing either that person not have any contact with you or that person not having any offensive contact with you. That means they are allowed to be around you, but if they do anything that is offensive such as striking you or hitting you, they could be in violation of that order.
Dealing with Domestic Abuse | Order of Protection Types
There are two kinds of orders of protection. The first is what we would call a no contact order of protection. That requires the person who has the order of protection against them not have any contact whatsoever with the other party. The order of protection of a no contact order of protection only flows one way. The person who gets the order of protection cannot violate the order of protection by having contact with the person who is not supposed to have contact with them. The other order of protection is the no offensive contact order of protection. This order of protection allows people to be around each other, to be near each other, but it prohibits them from injuring, assaulting, or otherwise harassing that person.
If you need legal representation for domestic abuse, please call our experienced Rochester family law attorneys today to get a free consultation. The law office of Michael Schmitt is dedicated to providing you caring support in times of difficulty. | 1,818 | 803 | 4,091.066002 |
warc | 202143 | Futures Trading in China
Chinese futures exchanges are required by law to enforce futures margin requirements, T+0 no-liability settlement requirement, price limits, position limits, large account position reporting requirement, simultaneous or rolling delivery, and risk reserve requirement.
Meanwhile, Chinese futures companies are required to have clients sign both risk disclosure and client agreement and deposit futures margin before starting to trade, and they are permitted to receive only market and limit orders via writing, phone, internet, and dedicated pc terminal. Chinese futures companies are also responsible for completing delivery procedures on behalf of clients. Risk Management Requirements[edit] Futures Margin- In accordance with the Administrative Regulations on Futures Trading, Chinese futures exchanges set a minimum margin requirement for each futures contract listed, but the margin requirement is raised under the following conditions - 1) the delivery date is approaching [1], 2) the position is getting larger [2], 3) price limits are being breached, 4) cumulative daily price changes reach a certain level. T+0 No-Liability Settlement- In accordance with the Administrative Regulations on Futures Trading, Chinese futures exchanges are required to report settlement results to clearing members by the end of the trading trade, i.e. T+0, and members (= futures brokerage companies) are also required to report settlement results to clients on the same day. If either members or clients fail to meet margin requirements, exchanges or members are respectively authorized to forcibly close members or clients' positions during the morning session of the following trading day, with profit/loss and other costs to be covered by members or clients. Price Limits- Price limits are calculated from the settlement price of the previous trading day. Position limits- Chinese futures exchanges set position limits for each futures contract listed, but hedge accounts are not subject to position limits. Price limits can be revised only once a year, with the approval of exchange board of directors, and take effect after reporting to the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Large Account Position Reporting- Members and large accounts that have reached 80 percent of the speculative position limit of a certain futures contract need to report to futures exchanges before 3 p.m. the following trade day 1) sources of funds, 2) five largest accounts with the same member, 3) and other required information. Simultaneous or Rolling Delivery Methods- All futures contracts in China, except CFFEX CSI 300 Index futures contract, which is to be cash-settled, are subject to delivery at settlement according to the simultaneous or rolling delivery method. Currently, the Shanghai Futures Exchange employs the simultaneous delivery method for all of its contracts, and the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange uses it for all contracts except for its wheat futures contracts, which are settled according to the rolling delivery method. In contrast, the Dalian Commodity Exchange employs the rolling delivery method for all of its contracts. Risk Reserve- Chinese exchanges are required to collect a risk reserve contribution equivalent to 20 percent of the trading fee, although they can stop collection with the approval of the CSRC when the total amount of the risk reserve fund reaches 10 times its registered capital. Information Disclosure- Chinese exchanges are required to price quotes and other market information instantly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. Client Management[edit] Opening Accounts- Before clients start trading future, Chinese futures brokerage companies are required to have clients sign a futures trading risk disclosure letter and futures brokerage agreement, and deposit futures trading margins. Placing Orders- Chinese futures brokerage companies can accept three types of orders – market, limit, and cancel – for domestic futures contracts. Among the four exchanges, however, only the ZCE accepts all three types, and the DCE and SHFE do not accept market orders, while the CFFEX does not accept cancel orders. Delivery Procedures- Chinese futures brokerage companies are required to represent clients in delivery processes and deal with exchanges on their behalf, and in case clients fail to fulfill their duities, mmebers are held liable for damages. References[edit] Margins. Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange. [http://www.dce.com.cn/portal/servlet/look/Measures+Of+Dalian+Commodity+Exchange+For+Risk+Management.pdf?filename=TWVhc3VyZXMgT2YgRGFsaWFuIENvbW1vZGl0eSBFeGNoYW5nZSBGb3IgUmlzayBNYW5hZ2VtZW50LjExNTc0MzY1NzczMTEucGRm Measures Of Dalian Commodity Exchange For Risk Management]. Dalian Commodity Exchange. | 4,771 | 1,988 | 11,416.321429 |
warc | 202143 | Ann Arbor City Council approved resolutions for two new construction projects, one for the Maple Shoppes retail center and the other on locations for a new Amtrak station, during their Monday meeting.
The council unanimously approved a new building addition to the Maple Shoppes center on North Maple Road and Dexter Avenue, though some attendees raised concerns about the location of the building.
Kathy Griswold, Ann Arbor citizen and former member of the Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Transportation Committee, said erecting the building on this corner would obstruct visibility for drivers in the area.
“What the city is doing now is they are putting buildings very close to the roadway to try and have a more vibrant sidewalk, so you don’t have large setback,” Griswold said. “Some of that makes sense, but they are going overboard in terms of putting buildings right up to the corner, so you can’t see around the corner.”
The plan for the building was originally approved in April 2008, but the project managers have since requested a modification to the distance between the building and property line, which would make the building closer to the sidewalk.
Councilmember Jack Eaton (D–Ward 4) echoed the concerns over smaller sidewalks.
“Is it good practice to make our sidewalk areas smaller when we are trying to encourage bicycling and pedestrian safety?” Eaton asked.
Derek Delacourt, community services area administrator, is leading the shopping center construction. He said the proposed building meets all the city’s minimum requirements despite being closer to the sidewalk.
Councilmember Chip Smith (D–Ward 5) also expressed concern about the lack of windows on the side facing Maple Road.
“We want a good building that encourages walkability by being interesting, by being able to see into the building, feeling that there are eyes on the sidewalk there,” Smith said.
The council added an amendment to the resolution requiring that the building’s developer add an additional window to the west side of the building, and voted unanimously to approve the resolution with the amendment.
During their meeting, council also voted on a resolution to approve an amendment to the city’s professional services agreement with AECOM, an engineering firm, which would provide additional funding to perform further studies on the proposed new Amtrak station.
Before the vote, however, many councilmembers expressed frustration over how much money has already been spent on studies related to the new Amtrak station. Close to a million dollars has already been spent on studies and environmental reviews. The city began the search process for a station location in 2012, and released several options for locations earlier this month.
“This additional money is necessary because we have not narrowed it down to one site. The original agreement included the environment review for one preferred alternative. If we were able to narrow it down to one alternative we would not have to spend this extra $196,000,” Eaton said.
Public Services Administrator Craig Hupy and Transportation Manager Eli Cooper affirmed the need for funding additional studies on the four potential sites for the station. They said the project’s current funding grant from the Federal Railroad Association did not cover the money for studies of additional station locations.
Nine councilmembers voted to approve the resolution, with Eaton the sole no vote. | 3,538 | 1,597 | 7,589.973701 |
warc | 202143 | While some students headed to the bars to down pitchers of green beer Saturday, others headed to Pierpont Commons to draw attention to what Steve Sosebee, founder of the Palestinian Children”s Relief Fund, said is the “most extreme level of oppression” the Palestinian people face from the state of Israel.
“Education and Empowerment,” was the theme of the Conference on Palestine. During the first part of the conference, which consisted of four simultaneous sessions on specific topics, approximately 500 participants were provided with basic information about the conflict. Speakers focused on Jerusalem, the Palestinian right of return, Zionism, the United States” role and past peace-making efforts.
The second part of the conference was designed to give the audience an idea of its role in the conflict. Speakers lectured on political lobbying, media activism, grassroots and campus efforts and relief work.
“Basically this is a way for people to learn about the situation and find out what they can do once they have learned,” said LSA sophomore Sameer Hossain, who helped plan the conference.
“Even though this problem has been around for a while this is a relatively new issue … being publicized on campuses and in the media in general,” he said.
Rackham graduate student Idris Elbakri, who chaired the event, said he and other students wanted to respond to the feeling of helplessness in the local Palestinian community, especially since the outbreak of the current violence and failed peace talks.
The event was the first of its kind at the University.
“We hope to do it again,” Elbakri said. “I think the fair was a great success.”
“This kind of conference is timely especially in light of the Palestinian popular uprising against the Israeli occupation of their land,” Turaani said.
The conference gave people statistics and facts to reinforce their ideas, SNRE junior Norah Rabiah said. “So many people feel a certain way, but they don”t have the facts to back up their feelings.”
LSA sophomore Nada Abu-Isa said she appreciated the empowerment section of the event because it gave people an idea of what they could do. Knowledge of the situation alone can leave people with a feeling of frustration, but the empowerment sessions gave people a sense of direction, she said.
“Don”t just sit on your hands. It”s our duty and our obligation to help them I think,” Sosebee said. Sosebee stressed that people in America can have a role in providing aid to Palestinians, however small. “If you have money but no time, give money. If you have time but no money, give time.”
“If you don”t do it, who”s going to do it?” asked speaker David Sole. He credited the efforts of grassroots campaigns with drawing attention to the situation and opening up dialogue on issues where there was none a few years ago.
“I count that as a success,” he said.
Sole cautioned that the campaigns were only a first step.
“We need a mass movement and we can”t do it with a handful of people,” he said.
Letters to congressional representatives are another way of showing support and working to change the situation, Turaani said.
Visual images were present along with speakers at the conference.
“Innocence Under Seige,” an art exhibit featuring the drawings of Palestinian children in Jerusalem, was incorporated into the event. The pictures reflected the childrens” reactions to the recent violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Some showed stone-throwing Palestinians facing Israeli soldiers with machine guns, while several depicted the death of 12-year-old Mohammed Jamal Aldura, who was caught in the middle of a skirmish and was allegedly killed by Israeli bullets last year while his father tried to shield him.
A fair including organizations dealing with Palestinians through relief, aid or other means also accompanied the sessions. | 4,042 | 1,914 | 8,090.335423 |
warc | 202143 | When he was a high school student in Midland, LSA senior Charles Crissman hated math. But if his recent recognition as a Churchill scholar is any indication, his distaste for of numbers and equations is a thing of the past.
Crissman was one of 11 American students awarded the elite Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship for this year.
When he graduates this spring with degrees in math, linguistics and Italian, the scholarship will send Crissman to the University of Cambridge, where he will spend the next year studying mathematics.
“(Crissman) has an academic breadth that most applicants don’t have. It’s not required, but it appeals to us,” said Elleanor Crown, a scholarship coordinator of the LSA Honors program. “If I had to create a Churchill candidate out of whole cloth, he would be about what I’d come up with.”
The scholarship is based on an applicant’s academic record, score on the Graduate Record Examination and letters of recommendation. With a GRE score of 1540 out of a possible 1600 and a 3.98 grade point average, Crissman more than met the criteria, Crown said.
Although he said he felt his chances were good, he never actually expected the January phone call that informed him that he had won the scholarship.
“I don’t know if I’ve absorbed the fact I am going yet,” he said.
When he came to the University, Crissman thought he wanted to major in biochemistry and attend medical school. But by his sophomore year, Crissman realized what truly inspired him: math.
But don’t let his passion for modern algebra fool you – Crissman is not a stereotypical math geek. He is a member of a snowboarding club at the University, an editor at the Every Three Weekly and an avid scholar of five foreign languages: Russian, Finnish, Italian, French and ancient Greek.
Crissman said he is looking forward to learning about another culture and taking more specialized math classes.
University alum Christopher Hayward, who is currently studying mathematics at Cambridge on a Churchill scholarship, said the experience provides not only academic benefits, but a better understanding of European politics and education.
Hayward said Crissman should expect an academic environment different from the University’s.
“It is important to be ready for a more independent way of learning and to have an open mind to things you are going to experience,” Hayward said. “It is easy to come here and make comparisons to the U.S. about things you don’t like, but if you immerse yourself in the culture, you learn a lot more than just mathematics.”
When his year at Cambridge ends, Crissman intends to pursue a doctorate in mathematics and eventually establish a career as a university professor.
“My real interest is doing research in something related to modern algebra,” he said. ” I think a lot of people are surprised that you can do research in math, but that’s what most math professors do.”
The scholarship, established in honor of the former British prime minister, annually offers 75 colleges nationwide the opportunity to nominate two students for consideration by the foundation. Other participating institutions include Boston College, the University of Chicago and Michigan State University.
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warc | 202143 | Lesson on Adjustment Disorder: DSM-5 Diagnosis and Treatment. Adjustment disorder is a psychiatric disorder involving emotional and behavioural symptoms due to a stressor that lead to significant impairment in a person’s life. If the stressor (and its consequences) is removed, the emotional and behavioural symptoms are assumed to ameliorate as well. Adjustment disorder can mimic other psychiatric conditions and can have symptoms of depression, anxiety, mixed and conduct issue symptoms. Treatment is generally more conservative and is based on psychotherapy approaches.
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warc | 202143 | Overview of Titanium carbide
Titanium carbide, chemical formula TiC, molecular weight is 59.89. Gray metallic face-centered cubic lattice solid. Melting point 3140±90 ℃, boiling point 4820℃, relative density 4.93. Hardness is greater than 9. Insoluble in water, soluble in nitric acid and aqua regia. It is stable to air below 800℃ and eroded by air above 2000℃. It can react with pure O2 at 1150C.
Titanium carbide
ceramics are typical transition metal carbides. Its bonding is made up of ionic, covalent and metallic bonds mixed in the same crystal structure, so TiC has many unique properties. The crystal structure determines the basic characteristics of TiC, such as high hardness, high melting point, wear resistance and electrical conductivity.
Preparation of titanium carbide
Method: the mixture of titanium powder and carbon obtained by hydrogen reduction TiO2 under high temperature, or by TiO2 and carbon powder mixed pressed into blocks, and then heated to 2300-2700℃ in the electric furnace and carbonized in H2 or CO atmosphere. The hard crystalline powder of TiC and titanium carbide is prepared by the reaction of titanium dioxide and carbon black at a temperature above 1800°C. It is compacted with cobalt or nickel for cutting tools and heat-resistant parts. It is lighter and less costly than tungsten carbide, but it is more brittle in cutting tools. However, when combined with tungsten carbide in the sintered carbide tool material, it reduces the tendency to create grooves in the tool.
Properties of titanium carbide
Theoretically, TiC contains 20.05% carbon and is light metallic gray. It is chemically stable and almost inert to hydrochloric and sulfuric acids. In oxidizing chemicals, such as aqua regia and nitric or hydrofluoric acid, TiC is readily soluble. It also dissolves in an alkaline oxide melt. Nitrogen forms above -1500°C when heated in a nitrogenous atmosphere. TiC is attacked by chlorine gas and tends to oxidize in air at high temperatures.
The density of TiC is 4.94 g/cm3, the Mohs hardness is 9+, the microhardness is 3200kg /mm2, and the elastic modulus is 309,706 MPa. The fracture modulus of the material sintered at 2600 ~ 3000℃ is 499.8 ~ 843.2 MPa at room temperature. The thermal modulus of fracture is 107.78-116.96mpa at 982℃ and 54.4-63.92mpa at 2200℃. TiC melting point is 3160 ° C, resistivity at room temperature is 180 ~ 250 | jQ - cm. It can be used as a conductor at high temperatures. The thermal expansion coefficient between room temperature and 593°C is 4.12 × 10-6/°F. Thermal conductivity is 0.041 CAL /cm S /°C.
Application of titanium carbide ceramics
1. Multiphase materials: titanium carbide ceramics belong to super hard tool materials, TiC can be made with TiN, WC, Al2O3 and other raw materials into various multiphase ceramic materials, these materials have a high melting point, high hardness, excellent chemical stability, is the preferred material for cutting tools, wear-resistant parts. Titanium carbide ceramics are used in the cutting of high-speed wire regulating wheels and carbon steel because of their good oxidation resistance and no crescent-shaped wear with steel. Multiphase ceramic cutting tools containing titanium carbide have been widely used.
2. Coating material: As a surface coating, titanium carbide is a very wear-resistant material. In the diamond surface by physical or chemical method coated with some strong carbides to form metal or alloy, these metals or alloys at high temperature and diamond surface carbon atoms interface reaction, the formation of stable metal carbides. These carbides can not only bond well with diamond, but also be infiltrated by matrix metal, so as to enhance the adhesion between diamond and matrix metal. By depositing titanium carbide films on the tool, the tool life can be increased several times.
3. In the research of nuclear fusion reactor, titanium carbide coating material and (TiN+ TiC) composite coating material, after chemical heat treatment, generate tritium-resistant permeability layer on the surface of titanium carbide, can resist hydrogen ion irradiation and resist a large temperature gradient and thermal cycle.
4. In addition, titanium carbide can also make smelting tin, lead, cadmium, zinc and another metal crucible; Transparent titanium carbide ceramics are also good optical materials.
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warc | 202143 | A majority of parents say they would get the COVID-19 vaccine for their children under 12, according to a new Gallup survey. Parents' willingness to get the vaccine for their children depends on such factors as their level of anxiety about the disease, whether they themselves have been vaccinated, and their political affiliation.
Pfizer and German partner BioNTech announced that they would seek emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Approval could come this fall. Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine was safe and produced strong antibody responses in children ages 5 to 11 in a large-scale trial, according to The Washington Post.
More than 5.5 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association. The highly contagious delta variant has been spreading quickly among unvaccinated adults and increasingly among children. There are vaccines available for children aged 12 and older.
More than half of parents in the Gallup survey say they are very worried (21%) or somewhat worried (32%) that their young child will get COVID-19.
An overwhelming majority of parents (90%) who are "very worried" about their child getting COVID want them to be vaccinated. Also, parents who are themselves vaccinated say they would vaccinate their children (82%).
But 24% of parents say they are "not too worried" and 23% are not worried at all that their offspring will get the coronavirus. Only 7% of parents who say they are "not worried at all" about getting the virus would have their children vaccinated.
Parents' anxiety about their children getting COVID-19 is down eight points from summer of 2020, when it was last measured (and there was no vaccine).
Parents who identify as Democrats are more likely to have their children vaccinated (83%), whereas 50% of Independents and only 21% of Republican parents want their kids vaccinated.
The issue of mask-wearing in schools is very divisive still, with 47% saying all students should be required to wear masks irrespective of vaccine status. But 40% of parents say no students should be required to wear masks, contrary to the guidance from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A similar division exists about whether teachers and staff should be required to wear masks, with 49% of parents saying yes and 38% saying no.
Some parents who are disinclined to vaccinate their children are concerned that there is no long-term vaccine safety data yet available, and others may be swayed by the fact that COVID-19 symptoms in young children are mild, Gallup noted.
The update to Gallup's probability-based COVID-19 web panel survey ended one day before Pfizer and BioNTech announced they would seek FDA emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11.
The Gallup Panel is a multimode Panel with approximately 100,000 members, all of whom can be reached via phone. About 80,000 members can be reached by email to complete a Web survey. Results for this Gallup poll are based on self-administered web surveys conducted Sept. 13-19, 2021, with a random sample of 4,034 adults. The margin of error is +/- 2 percentage points.
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warc | 202143 | A drug used to help reverse potentially fatal overdoses is not only saving lives, but also shining a light on the reality of addiction.
Narcan -- or Naloxone -- is an opiate blocker that once administered, reverses the effects of an overdose from drugs like heroin.
But not only is the opioid medication saving lives, it can bring hope by way of a second chance for those who suffer from addiction.
Diana Weiner, a registered nurse with the John Brooks Recovery Center in Atlantic City, demonstrated Tuesday night how Narcan works during a training session in Salem County, but also spoke about the doors it opens for recovery.
"Once a person is gone, there is no hope anymore for them. We can open a door for that person to get into recovery -- that is the ultimate goal," Weiner said.
Not only does Narcan work to reverse the effects of overdose from opiates, it also works on medications used to wean an addict off those narcotics, such as methadone or suboxone.
This free training is part of a movement to educate anyone on how to properly administer Narcan.
Training sessions are open to anyone throughout the different counties in New Jersey.
Regardless of the reason for training -- whether it's for a loved one or emergency response -- the goal is to get Narcan and awareness out to as many communities as possible, according to Weiner.
"It's critical for people to understand they need to get emergency care, beyond the reversal. This is only a quick fix. It's only going to potentially save the life of someone using," Weiner added.
Since the start of 2015, Narcan has been used three times in Salem County, according to Brian Facemyer, the county's chief of detectives with the prosecutor's office.
In Salem County, there have been five reported deaths so far this year as a result of drug overdoses.
"It's definitely a lifesaver -- it's just another way to save someone's life," Facemyer said Tuesday.
This year, there have been more than 340 documented administrations of Narcan by law enforcement officers in New Jersey and 541 in 2014, according to the chief of detectives.
A bill was signed in to law just last month that will protect first responders from liability when administering naloxone or Narcan.
As part of the Overdose Prevention Act, professionals including police officers, EMTs, and needle exchange program employees are protected.
But the question remains -- is there a liability for just anyone who can administer Narcan to someone who has overdosed?
Under the act, anyone who reports an overdose is safe from prosecution, and in New Jersey public access to Narcan is permitted after proper training.
This training provides protection to those administering the drug.
John Brooks Recovery Center of Atlantic City staff have been in different locations to demonstrate the use of Narcan, answer questions about the drug and its effects, and speak on the disease of addiction.
Participants who were trained in Salem County were also educated on how to handle the situation and communicate with the victim.
After the completion of training, Narcan kits were provided to participants.
"People don't wake up one day and think this is the life I chose for myself. An addiction doesn't discriminate -- it's a brain disease. No one chooses this life," Maggie Vaughan, with Salem County Department of Health and Human Services Office of Drug and Alcohol Services, said.
Other training opportunities are provided throughout the state.
For more information or for addiction resources and services for residents, contact the Salem County Office of Drug and Alcohol Services at
856-935-7510 ext. 8460.
To find out more information in other areas, contact addiction services in your county.
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warc | 202143 | Explore awards
Use the filter menu and interactive map to explore the past competitions offered and grants awarded through the Environmental Literacy Program.
To learn more about project findings and outcomes, view the summaries of our grantees’ summative evaluation reports.
Visualizing Change: Training and Tools to Support Informal Educators Funding:$174,431 Year:2013
A consortium of Aquarium of the Pacific, National Aquarium in Baltimore, New England Aquarium and Seattle Aquarium will build educator capacity in the aquarium community and informal science education field to more effectively communicate about climate change and its impact on coastal zones and marine life. The project will utilize NOAA datasets and visualizations in providing interpreters with training and strategic framing communication tools based on the best available social and cognitive research. The objectives of the project are to: (1) develop and test four exemplary interpretive “visual narratives” that integrate research-based strategic communication with NOAA data visualization resources; (2) test the application of the visual narratives in a variety of geographic regions and institution types (aquarium, science center, etc.) using multiple technology platforms; (3) build a professional development program for climate change interpretation with data visualization; and (4) leverage existing networks for dissemination and peer support. Other key partners include the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory (VisLab), the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the Ocean Explorium in southern Massachusetts, FrameWorks Institute and New Knowledge Organization.
Award Number:NA13SEC0080009 Grant Dates:10/01/2013 to 09/30/2017 PI:David Bader State:California County:Los Angeles District:CA47 Partners:Exploratorium · Monterey Bay Aquarium · National Aquarium / National Aquarium In Baltimore (NAIB) · New England Aquarium Corporation / New England Aquarium (NEAq) · Science Museum of Minnesota · Seattle Aquarium · Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) · NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory · NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) · CoCoRaHS: The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network Funding:$585,005 Year:2006
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) involves thousands of people of all ages in the observation and study of weather, climate and water resources. In CoCoRaHS, citizens of all ages help measure and report rain, hail and snow from their own homes, schools and businesses. These data are then efficiently collected via the internet, archived in a national database, and made immediately available to participants, scientists and the general public showing the fascinating patterns of precipitation from each passing storm (see http://www.cocorahs.org). The measurement of precipitation and the patterns, variations and impacts that result, open the door to creative study of our environment. It is the "lowest common denominator" of hydroclimatic exploration. In this project, data from the CoCoRaHS citizen science network will be shared with and utilized by NOAA partners to help monitor drought, to help detect local severe storms, to alert local authorities to developing flash flood situations, to provide "ground truth" for NOAA and NASA remote sensing technologies, and to provide verification for both local and national weather and climate forecast products.
Competition:2006: Environmental Literacy Award Number:NA06SEC4690004 Grant Dates:10/01/2006 to 09/30/2010 PI:Nolan Doesken State:Colorado County:Larimer District:CO02 Partners:American Meteorological Society (AMS) · | 3,794 | 1,833 | 7,691.491544 |
warc | 202143 | Vancouver Island’s West Coast is failing its local bear population as the death toll caused by unsecured attractants has reached eight this season.
Two bears were killed in Ucluelet last week after becoming conditioned to improperly stored garbage.
“It appears that there’s likely at least one, if not two, more that are what we would call ‘food conditioned,’ actively looking for garbage and finding it and exactly the same thing is happening in Tofino,” WildSafeBC Pacific Rim coordinator Bob Hansen told the Westerly News. “Sadly, the toll is going to keep climbing as the bears keep finding garbage.”
Hansen and WildSafeBC Hitacu-Macoah coordinator Marianne Paquette work to spread education around coexisting with wildlife throughout the West Coast, including door to door canvassing, workshops, social media outreach and in-person events.
“There’s been a lot of effort going on, but unfortunately the bears are giving us a report card and it’s showing that there’s still a lot of problems in our communities,” Hansen said.
“It’s just been continuous this season with the bears able to find things like garbage and such that’s left outside.”
With eight bears now killed this season, Hansen said Conservation Officers are planning to travel to the West Coast for waste management audit patrols, adding the COS has informed him that the conflict numbers on the West Coast are the “worst in their zone.”
He said bear sightings are being reported daily, noting a report came in Sunday morning about a bear trying to get into a chicken coop in Tofino.
“The added dynamic that’s at play right now is that this is the season where the bears are trying to consume as many calories as they can on a daily basis to try to be in the best possible condition to make it through the winter,” he said.
“They’re trying to eat up to 20,000 calories a day so that physiological drive to put on fat is really driving them right now so they’re looking hard for easy calories.”
He said those calories are coming in by way of garbage left outside, improperly mixed composts, outdoor freezers, chicken coops without electrical fencing, pet food left outside, uncleaned barbecues and a variety of other unnatural attractants.
“They’re actively searching our communities and finding all these sorts of things on a daily basis,” he said. “There have been a lot of improvements, but there’s just a lot of work still to be done, as the bears are showing us.”
He added once a bear begins finding consistent sources of unnatural food, its behaviours can escalate, leading to structural damage as it becomes motivated to break into sheds, freezers and other storage spaces searching for more.
He said both bears killed last week were adults, though one was significantly emaciated and appeared to have serious health issues.
In order to prevent further deaths, he urges residents to pay closer attention to their attractant management.
“Individuals, families and businesses need to have a hard look at their own situation and ask themselves, ‘Is there anything that we have out that a bear could get into?’” he said. | 3,287 | 1,560 | 6,510.788462 |
warc | 202143 | WHEEL CHANGING SAFETY
Make sure to read and fully understand the following warnings. Failure to comply with the safety instructions could result in an accident, leading to serious injury or death.
If in any doubt regarding the ability to carry out the instructions, or comply with warnings, seek assistance.
Always find a safe place to stop, off the highway and away from traffic. Switch on the hazard warning lights to alert all traffic of the obstruction. Apply the Electric Parking Brake (EPB) and engage Park (
P). Switch the engine off and remove the smart key from the vehicle.
If available, place a warning triangle at a suitable distance behind the vehicle, facing toward oncoming traffic.
Different countries have different traffic laws, where carrying and/or using warning triangles may be required by law when stopping at the side of a carriageway. The driver is responsible for staying informed about road regulations, and for complying with local traffic laws.
In the case of an emergency or a breakdown, wear a reflective jacket when stopped at the side of the road and working around the vehicle.
Different countries have different traffic laws, where carrying and/or wearing reflective jackets may be required by law. The driver is responsible for staying informed about road regulations, and for complying with local traffic laws.
Make sure that all passengers and animals are out of the vehicle and in a safe place, away from the highway.
Disconnect any trailer from the vehicle.
Make sure that the vehicle and jack are both on firm, level ground. Do not jack the vehicle if it is over a metal grating or manhole cover.
Make sure that the front wheels are in the straight ahead position and engage the steering lock.
Always use the complete jacking lever assembly throughout the wheel changing process, to minimize any chance of accidental injury. Position the jack from the side of the vehicle, in line with the appropriate jacking point.
Never place anything between the jack and the ground, or between the jack and the vehicle.
Do not attempt to raise the vehicle, unless the jack head is fully engaged in the jacking point. Only jack the vehicle using the approved jacking points.
WARNING - THAT NO PERSON SHOULD PLACE ANY PORTION OF THEIR BODY UNDER A VEHICLE THAT IS SUPPORTED BY A JACK.
The jack is designed for wheel changing only. Never work beneath the vehicle with the jack as the only means of support. Always use correctly rated vehicle support stands, before putting any part of the body beneath the vehicle.
When jacking the vehicle, make sure that all precautions are taken to prevent vehicle movement. As an additional precaution, it is recommended that the wheels of the vehicle are chocked.
When one rear wheel is lifted off the ground, the transmission
P position does not prevent the vehicle from moving. The vehicle can potentially slip off the jack, as the Electric Parking Brake (EPB) operates only on the rear wheels. Use a wheel chock when jacking the vehicle.
Always chock the wheel diagonally opposite the wheel to be changed. Chock the front of a front wheel, or the rear of a rear wheel.
If jacking the vehicle on a slight slope is unavoidable, place the chocks on the downhill side of the two opposite wheels. Two chocks must be used if this is the case.
Take care when loosening the lug nuts. The lug wrench may slip off if not properly attached, and the lug nuts may give way suddenly. Either unexpected movement may cause an injury.
Do not start or run the engine while the vehicle is supported only by a jack.
Remove the spare wheel before jacking the vehicle, to avoid destabilizing the vehicle when raised. Take care when lifting the spare wheel and removing the punctured wheel. The wheels are heavy and can cause injuries if not handled correctly.
After wheel changing, always secure the tools, jack and the replaced wheel in the correct storage positions. Such objects, if not properly stored, can become flying missiles in a crash or rollover, potentially causing injury or death. | 4,067 | 1,788 | 9,187.143736 |
warc | 202143 | Happy Friday, readers! The editors of PLANADVISER and PLANSPONSOR are hard at work prepping for next week’s PLANSPONSOR National Conference in Washington, D.C., one of our flagship annual events bringing together plan sponsors and providers from across the United States. Fair to say it’s been a whirlwind year for the industry, with even greater changes potentially right around the corner. This week’s editor’s picks spotlight some of the top trends and challenges we’ll explore next week at the conference.
Could Google one day be a top provider of investments or financial advice? What about Facebook, or Amazon? It may sound farfetched, but one industry expert says such a future might not be far off.Read more >
The strongest-performing advisers are leading the way on aggressive plan design, embracing re-enrollment, stretching the match and making sure plans work for participants as they’re designed to.Read more >
Reflecting the change in their own clients’ expectations, more financial advisers say they prefer to receive general thought leadership and market commentary from service provider partners, in lieu of more product-specific updates.Read more >
“This is hardly the first time regulation will change the way advisers get paid and disclose important information to clients,” one industry executive observes, “so in that respect I am confident firms will be able to make it work under the new rule.”Read more >
A new lawsuit suggests the individual advisory program TIAA clients were rolled into was significantly more expensive and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for TIAA—without providing commensurate performance benefits.
Agency leaders say the principal idea of the new proposal is that climate change and other ESG factors can be financially material and, when they are, considering them will inevitably lead to better long-term risk-adjusted returns.
Impax appoints Ed Farrington as head of distribution for North America; Prudential forms new Prudential Retirement Strategies business; Northern Trust appoints Gary Paulin as head of global strategic solutions; and more. | 2,185 | 1,167 | 3,961.833762 |
warc | 202143 | When I was going through my divorce, I didn’t know what to say to my kids. I was doing my best to protect them so I didn’t share much with them about the divorce. I assumed they would open up to me if they needed to talk. Knowing what I do now, I would do things differently. Following are some key points to help kids open up during divorce.
1. Start things off with honest communication.
How you are going to communicate with your children during divorce starts when you tell them about the divorce. It’s important to tell them together - with both parents if possible - without blaming either parent. You don’t have to give too many details, but answer their questions as they come up.
Kids are focused primarily on themselves and mostly care about how the divorce will impact them. They’re typically not thinking about their parents’ feelings too much.
You can give them information like:
It’s so important to be available to your kids when they want to talk. You can intentionally create situations where they’re relaxed such as when you’re driving in the car or before they go to bed. Here are some ways to encourage them to open up with you:
Kids live in the present moment - they’re much better at doing that than adults. When they don’t like what’s happening, they may say hurtful things to their parents. Try not to get caught up in the things they say during a stressful moment. They may seem extremely upset one day, but that doesn’t mean it’s how they’re going to feel the next day or next week. Do your best to let little things go and not to take it personally. As a parent, it’s devastating to know they’re hurting, but kids are very resilient. Their moods will not last forever.
However, there are times that you should consider reaching out for help. There are some clues to show if your child is simply upset and processing their feelings or if they are having deeper struggles. Here are some examples:
These behavior changes are signals that your child isn’t coping well with the divorce and may need extra help from a counselor or professional.
The great news is that the most stressful parts of your divorce will not last forever, and that there are clear ways to keep the lines of communication open with you and your children. Many times, parents can have even deeper relationships with their kids after divorce when the strain of the marriage isn’t a part of the parent/child relationship. In the meantime, these strategies can give you a positive direction for how to get your kids to open up.
Divorce is a painful experience that can leave you feeling lost. No matter how many years you’ve been married, your identity has been impacted by being a married person. When you lose this identity, it can send you reeling. Acknowledging all the big and little losses is an important part of healing. Take some time to journal about this loss of identity and talk about it with supportive friends and family, a divorce coach or a therapist.
The next step towards healing from this loss of identity is clarifying who you are and where you’re going. When you got married, you may have lost your identity as a single person, but didn’t realize it because it happened slowly. When you’re going through divorce, you get the chance to find yourself again and learn how to be happy in an authentic way.
Finding yourself is simply knowing yourself, what matters to you, and what makes you happy.
One painful part of divorce is that it shakes up our lives and we aren’t sure what will be left when the dust settles. But you get to choose who and what you want to keep and what to release and leave behind in your old life. You get to rebuild your self-esteem and confidence by knowing that you’re strong enough (you are!) to come through this even more healthy and whole than you were before.
One of the positives of divorce is the opportunity to find who you are and develop a future that aligns with that.
Start with remembering what you enjoyed before you were married. Write down answers to the following questions:
Take some time to think about these questions. Get to know who you are, what your priorities are and how you can move forward committed to living in a way that is fulfilling to you. This journey of finding out who you are can be exciting. Do you want to take up a new sport or other hobby? Do you want to volunteer and help others? Do you want to change careers? You have the opportunity to learn and grow from your divorce and the power to live in a more authentic way. Grab this chance and just do it!!
When you have children and get divorced, the final agreement must include a parenting plan to clarify what will happen after the divorce regarding the care of the children. A parenting plan outlines the parenting schedule - when each parent will see the children and the logistics of how that will happen. It also covers other relevant issues like how decisions should be made about medical situations, the children’s education and religious affiliation.
Everything that’s put into the agreement is part of a legal document, the Marital Settlement Agreement or the Separation Agreement, that’s filed with the court. Parents must follow that agreement and can be brought back to court if they don’t.
A child-centered parenting plan is one where you put your children and their wellbeing first. There are many things that get in the way of putting children first like work schedules and significant others. However, when you center the plan around the needs of the children and what’s best for them, it will help create a structure for them to grow into emotionally healthy adults.
Here are some key tips to keep your parenting plan child-centered:
When going through divorce, many people feel shame and/or guilt because divorce is at some point public and people feel like others are judging them that they’ve failed in their marriage. But shame and guilt are very different and while guilt can be appropriate and understandable, shame never is. There is a major difference between the feelings of shame and the feelings of guilt and there are ways to manage both.
Guilt is a feeling about something either that you’ve done or you *feel* like you’ve done. Brene Brown, a shame researcher, explains that guilt is about behavior where you say to yourself, “I did something bad.” However, Brown explains shame is much deeper and is the feeling like there is something wrong with me. Shame is a focus on one’s self rather than behavior where the person believes, “I am bad.”
Because shame and guilt are quite different at their root, it’s important to determine which one you are struggling with in order to understand what to do about them.
Coping with Guilt in divorce
To manage your guilt in divorce, explore your feelings. What are you feeling guilty about? Talk about your feelings to friends, family, a professional or journal about them. Decide if these feelings of guilt are rational and appropriate or they are irrational and false.
Rational: I took my stress out on my kids and spoke harshly to them.
False: If I had done XYZ, my husband wouldn’t have left me.
If you determine your guilt is rational and related to something real that you DID, then:
But, if your guilt is about something that you had no control over, but you just wish that you could have fixed it by some preventative action, that’s irrational guilt. You aren’t responsible for the actions of your ex, and you’re not responsible for every struggle your children are having because you’re getting a divorce. In these instances, work on your self-talk. Ex: “I am in control of my own responses, not the responses of others.”
Coping with Shame in Divorce
Shame is painful. Shame is the voice in our head that says that we are a failure, not a good person or similar negative messages directed straight at our identity.
To decrease shame, we have to figure out exactly what those messages are. What is that inner voice saying? Shame may come from negative spoken or unspoken expectations and reactions from childhood. What negative messages do you say to yourself? What you think about yourself and how do you talk to yourself and view yourself?
Determine where are these negative messages coming from? Was it from a parent, sibling, or some other significant adult in our life? Was it from religion's or a school's explicit or implicit messages? Or was it something else?
Identify negative thoughts that get stuck on repeat. Call out those thoughts and replace them with new, positive thoughts. Write all your strengths down. Replace the cycle of negative thoughts with positive affirmations and write them down where you can see them. Surround yourself with supportive people or a therapist who can help you work through these negative core beliefs.
It takes work but you can manage your guilt and shame. Like Robert Frost wrote: The only way out is through.
This past year has been tough and a lot of people have lost hope for a better future. But that can change by recognizing that we’re somewhat in control of our thoughts. Did you know that we have about 6,000 thoughts per day? And about 80% of them are negative! That means that we have a huge amount of negative self-talk. We spend a lot of time telling ourselves that we’re not good enough, not smart enough, not thin enough or not as good as someone else. When we do this often, it becomes a habit. We can start feeling bad about ourselves and lose hope.
The great news is that we can change these negative habits and train our minds to interpret our experiences in a more positive way. Sure, life can be HARD, but our patterns of thinking and the way we perceive the world can make it much harder than necessary.
In the words of Greek Philosopher Epictetus,
“We are disturbed not by things, but by what we think about things.” Therefore, if we can change the way we think, we can change the way we feel!
Have you ever expected, even visualized disaster? Have you noticed or heard about a problem and started asking, “What if?” What if tragedy strikes? What if it happens to you? That way of thinking is called “catastrophizing” where we catastrophize a problem and make it worse by escalating our negative thoughts.
With catastrophizing, we worry that the worst possible outcome will happen. We exaggerate the problem. When you realize you might be catastrophizing, stop and ask yourself the question, “What story am I telling myself?” It might take a moment, but get specific. For example, maybe you are telling yourself that you are ruining your kids and that you are a terrible parent and that none of you are ever going to be happy again. Whatever it is, when you force yourself outside the thoughts and examine them, it becomes apparent how dramatic your story has become.
After identifying the story you’re telling yourself, ask yourself, “What other story could be true?” This is where you use your logical brain and reference facts. An example of this would be, “Patty went through a divorce and it was so hard, but her children are all doing well and she moved on with her life and is thriving. That can happen for me, too.”
When you identify the negative thoughts, and replace them with positive ones, you’ll feel better. If you think you are a good person who deserves to be happy, you’ll create a happy life. You’ll see possibilities for the future and have hope. While using these techniques takes mindfulness and work, it’s worth it as it can give you a tool to start the new year off in a great place.
Setbacks, such as deep sadness or difficult days, are a normal part of getting through divorce. You may be feeling good for a while and then something triggers a strong painful feeling (like a text from your ex). Setbacks can be frustrating and can make you feel helpless. You can feel disoriented and scared about the future. You may feel exhausted, unable to sleep and anxious. You may question if you will ever feel good again.
Although it’s difficult, setbacks are an indication that you’re actually moving forward through your divorce recovery. Some setbacks are small and fleeting while others may be more intense where you don’t see an end to the pain. It’s important to address each setback as it occurs. If you avoid addressing each setback as it comes up, you can remain stuck in the pain or bitterness and it will take longer to move on. Throughout the process of tackling each setback you’ll take another step forward in your healing process.
Here are 6 tools to help you tackle any obstacle that you face:
1.Recognize that you’ve entered a setback and it doesn’t mean that you’re back to square one
2.Instead of distracting yourself so you don’t think about your emotions, really focus on what you’re feeling by journaling or talking to a friend, support group or therapist
3.Start charting your sadness levels twice a day so that you track the setback
4.Make a list of what makes you feel good. Use this list to form your weekly divorce recovery plan.
5.Change your self-talk – stop yourself when you have negative thoughts and replace them with more positive thoughts.
6.Regain control – focus on what you can control and not on what you can’t. You can’t control your ex. You can't control the length of the process. Focus on your plan for your new life, your comeback and what you want in your future.
If you focus on what you can control, it will help you move through your divorce with more confidence. Use the tools above and you will have an easier time facing your setbacks. These strategies will enable you to feel good again and to cherish your new life!
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The experience of divorce often involves intense feelings of anger. Whether it’s due to an ex’s behavior in the past or the adversarial divorce process, it’s tempting to hold onto that anger. However, letting the anger and pain dictate how you function each day will not help the healing process or get you where you want to go. It’s like trying to ride a bike with flat tires, you’re not going to get anywhere!
As good as it feels to point fingers at your ex’s mistakes, focusing on that will only create more animosity and won’t move you forward in your life. Yes, you probably have many reasons to be angry and frustrated at your ex but save those conversations for a therapist or a trusted friend. Don’t talk about it to your children, your attorney or your ex. Talking to your children will negatively impact them – they love their other parent and feel badly when anything negative is said about a parent. Talking to your attorney can cost you a significant amount of money. And talking to your ex about his or her mistakes will just escalate things and slow your progress in the divorce.
So how do you handle all the anger and emotions? You need to have a place where you can process what happened. A therapist, a trusted friend or a divorce support group are all great options. I run a Facebook support group –
Separation and Divorce Support Community – which is one good option. Once you’ve started to process all the feelings that you’re going through, it helps to put your intention on learning from the past instead of reacting to it. What have you learned from your relationship with your ex? What can you do differently because of this learning? Take the time to come up with a plan for yourself and what you want in your future.
This may seem unfair because you weren’t treated fairly or you aren’t getting a fair deal. But what’s more important in life – fairness or peace? Fairness or happiness? If you could be happy and peaceful, what is that worth to you?
With every door that closes, another one opens. Embrace this new opportunity as a new stage of your life with happiness, peace and hope. Your personal transformation is an exciting time with endless possibilities. Let go of the anger and go for what you want. You deserve it!!
We can get provoked or “triggered” by many things – a fight with a spouse, a child who won’t listen, a boss who treats you badly, an aggressive driver, etc. Being triggered simply means that some event has impacted us emotionally and we have a difficult time reacting rationally. When we’re triggered, we do things that we shouldn’t do. We yell back at our spouse or child, we say something inappropriate to our boss, or we leave in a huff. How wonderful would it be if we could somehow, in the moment that we are triggered, find a way to detach?
One skill that you may have tried in the past when you’ve been triggered is deep abdominal breathing. Deep abdominal breathing is where you push your stomach out as you breath in and pull your stomach in as you breath out. This enables your lungs to expand much farther than if you take the typical “chest breath”. When you do it correctly and for long enough, your brain will release a hormone that will calm you. This calm will enable you to detach. Once you’re detached, you can respond logically rather than emotionally.
Sometimes deep abdominal breathing doesn’t work. You try it and you’re still triggered and unable to detach. Grounding is another technique that can be helpful in these circumstances. Grounding is a type of coping strategy that is designed to “ground” you in or connect you to the present moment. You can only use grounding if you have given yourself some space from the person that you were interacting with. You can say that you have to go to the bathroom, ask them if you can talk about this a little later or find some other way to get to a separate space. Once you’ve gotten to a separate space, you can try these steps for grounding:
The key to being successful with these techniques is to practice them when you’re not being triggered. You can also make up your own method of grounding that enables you to distract and detach yourself from your emotions. Learning to detach is a powerful tool that can help you to be more successful in your communication skills and improve your relationships with your spouse, children, boss and anyone else important in your life. Let me know what techniques work for you!
It’s hard to let go of anger: anger at our parents, anger at a former friend, anger at a betrayal, anger at an ex-spouse, anger at ourselves. It’s understandable. Someone has done us wrong and we’re angry. We don’t have to forgive them. We can hold onto the anger for the rest of our lives if we want to. It’s our right to do that. But forgiveness can be healing and enable you to move on.
Holding on to anger can consume you. You start thinking about it all the time. Special occasions can be ruined simply because the person you are angry with is there. Relationships can be damaged as you project what happened to you in the past onto your current situation.
In order to get to forgiveness, you must work through your anger. A beneficial way address anger is to express it. Although anger is a normal emotion, it must be expressed in a constructive manner. Problems develop when the root of the anger isn’t recognized and the feelings aren’t expressed.
One of my clients was angry at her father for leaving her and her mother when she was a child. She carried that anger into her marriage and became angry at her spouse after their child was born. She felt that he was acting like her father even though he wasn’t anything like her father. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Her husband left her.
With some guidance, my client learned how to express her anger at her father and went through all of the feelings she had about him which included sadness, anger, regret and grief. After expressing all of her emotions, she was actually able to forgive him. After forgiving him, she was able to move on in her life and develop a deep, intimate connection with a man.
It’s like a jar with the top on. If you keep the top on the jar, the anger stays inside. But if you open the jar and let the anger out, it goes away. Once you release the anger you can start the path to forgiveness. Remember forgiving the person is for you, not for the other person. You’ll feel a sense of relief when you aren’t burdened by the anger anymore. Through this process, you’ll be amazed at your ability to heal your past wounds, let go of your anger and move on in your life.
Effective methods of releasing anger:
Positive affirmations have been shown to reduce stress. The following six mantras can be a powerful tool to reduce stress. Take deep breaths as you say the following:
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Jill Barnett Kaufman, MSW, LCSW and Certified Parent Educator is an experienced clinician who helps clients discover new ways to resolve a variety of challenges and bring more happiness and peace into their lives.
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warc | 202143 | There are so many distractions in life and if people succumb to all of them, they will find that they are never able to actually achieve any of their dreams or goals. Be this as it may, people must put some blinders on when they are going after something so that they are able to put all of their time, money, and energy into one certain avenue. And one common example of this is through studies, where people select one area that they want to learn about and focus on for several years of their life.
And while this is all well and good, there are many people out there who will finish school and will then feel lost when it comes to deciding what to focus on next. And many mistakenly think that the best thing for them to do is to find any kind of paid work to build their bank right away. As the pandemic may have changed the way that some people think about things, here is a discussion about why hands-on experience through accredited engineering internships is one of the most important things for you to focus on.
Hands on experience through engineering internships is one of the most important things for you to focus on when this is the way that you learn
Hands on experience through engineering internships is one of the most important things for you to focus on when this is the way that you learn. Each person in the world is slightly different which is why it only makes sense that people are going to learn things differently as well. For some, they will be able to look at the problem once and they will then be able to immediately solve the problem that is in front of them whereas there are others who learn by being shown things.
And then there are those who only learn by doing things over and over again which is why it is so important that they are able to get that experience. And even though this type of work usually isn’t a paid opportunity, it will usually pay in the long run.
Hands on experience through engineering internships is one of the most important things for you to focus on because this can be a hands on field to get into to
Hands on experience through engineering internships is one of the most important things for you to focus on because this can be a hands-on field to get into to. While there are all sorts of different areas and fields that people are able to get into, this doesn’t mean that from time to time, people won’t have to get their hands dirty. There may be some who find themselves completing a mixture of technical drawings and fabrication works in their new role and so they need to be able to be prepared for this.
Even those who work remotely may have to visit a factory onsite to complete some measuring or even just to attend business meetings. Whatever the case may be, most managers and business owners out there will want to work with someone who is just as reliable working face to face as they are when working behind their computer. And so, even if people feel like they are going to be taking on a more remote role, it can still be a great idea to get out there and get as much experience behind them as they can.
The world of SEO is open to everyone and anyone who has a brand to market on the web.
Although it is a complex manipulation of content and algorithm data that appears to be beyond the scope of most average users, it is not as scary as it would seem.
It is an exercise that should particularly entice sole contractors, giving them the tools to gain an edge and acquire authentic leads without having to spend thousands through traditional marketing methods.
Here we will discuss 6 effective tips that any self-employed individual can use, giving them the framework for sustainable success.
One of the greatest aspects that a great SEO company knows is that it always remains fluid. What worked in one week is not necessarily the method that should be applied today. That opens a world of possibilities but also offers challenges where budgets start to extrapolate and spin off into tangents. By setting the stall out with a budget in mind, outlining anything between $50 a week to $500 or $3,000 per month, the user will know where their boundaries are set.
A common mistake that sole contractors will experience as they embark on search engine optimisation techniques is the need to just throw money at the problem. The fact remains that businesses must have in-depth knowledge about who their target audience is, what they like, what they dislike and the types of messages that they will respond to. This is a method that delves deep into their psyche and their behaviours, offering the type of data that informs future digital campaigns. It is the approach that allows operators to cut out the guesswork from the practice.
Why spend cash on SEO activities when there are free outlets to leverage? Especially with the use of Facebook and Google analytics, this is key information that is available at the click of a button. In 2020 these dashboards expand on all of the details – telling the operator the amount and quality of traffic. It will detail demographics and value for money. Don’t waste that resource when there is no telling when this information could come at a cost in the future.
Two key factors that can be overlooked by self-employed participants in the field of SEO is the need to improve website loading speed and mobile performance. Both concepts are almost one and the same, ensuring that brands who master this criteria leap ahead of the cue. Free applications will give a diagnoses in this respect, detailing the mobile load speed and identifying any shortcomings that could be hampering performance.
While sole contractors will be giving themselves a rundown about the viability of SEO, they will soon be presented with the topic of pay-per-click or PPC spots. Just like we see with Google, Instagram and Facebook advertisements, brands pay their way to accelerate their online visibility. Businesses in this setting won’t receive the same type of traffic they are looking for without sustained optimisation though. This is where a balance must be struck.
Let’s be honest – sole contractors who work across the private sector should not be expected to know the intimate details of SEO. This is a digital science that takes years to understand, let alone master. However, there are enough case studies to glean some key lessons from the exercise. Persistence and patience is a major indicator, helping those individuals who won’t actually see returns for their work until at least 3-4 months down the line. There are also advantages for those who seek guidance, giving them the insights that others are too proud to look for.
By spending as little as a few hours running the rule over basic techniques, self employed operators can make serious gains with their digital visibility. This is an exercise that is only as intricate and confusing as participants allow it to be. By speaking with trusted sources and getting a grasp of some effective techniques, new phone calls and emails will come through the feed week in and week out.
Solar users recognise that they have a superior system on their hands once they make the switch away from a reliance on the public grid power supply.
This is a resource that is sustainable, eco-friendly and ensures a lower utility bill each cycle.
While the panels will be essential assets, the inclusion of a modern 3 phase inverter will empower home and business owners to track energy progress, receive notifications and updates all in the one confined placement.
We will take note of 6 reasons why they are worthwhile as complementary additions to the program.
While most infrastructure with power grids and solar energy systems will work within a framework of a single phase model, the 3 phase inverter is uniquely designed to handle the intricacies of a wider spectrum. Needless to say that these demands are not overly commonplace, but it is a way to offer peace of mind for local members who want the tools to leverage their 3-phase supply without being closed off from a more efficient operating model. If home and business owners do indeed have a wider source available to them and they do not have a requisite inverter, they should make contact with a supplier for an immediate upgrade.
The good news for solar users who introduce a 3 phase inverter system is that they are able to power a number of their appliances simultaneously without being worried about a breakdown in the charge. This is the issue that many single phase supply clients face. In this context, participants can power their sauna, their heater, air conditioner system, electric car charger, fridges, television sets, computers and more without the need to worry about where the power is directed or if the entire framework will be compromised.
Clients who tap into the power of these inverter systems don’t have to be left waiting for any issues to be addressed. They can monitor system progress in real time from anywhere in the world thanks to cloud-based connectivity via the app. Suppliers will already have access to the same model so there is no need to seek out outsourced assistance in case there is a drop in performance or a malfunction that has to be rectified.
Paying for unused power and failing to use appliances on site correctly will cost money. These concerns are directly addressed when a 3 phase inverter is brought into the picture. Members recognise where adjustments need to be made. This will help run a more efficient home or business environment while saving on the bottom line with bills that won’t be inflated due to a lack of energy insight.
This might sound like a big operational system to introduce to a home or business environment, but these units are small and lightweight. Their compact frame makes it easy for professional representatives to find a secured location to have the product accessible. This allows brands to bypass the complications that are discovered through panel installations and other frameworks that require far more space and labour power to navigate.
Solar constituents who have become paid customers of a 3 phase inverter system will have specialists ready to contact around the clock. This is a major selling point for families that want to be secured with their power infrastructure, ensuring that they are not left waiting on the phone for hours with middlemen that never deliver when it counts. By investing in a modern 3 phase inverter brand, families and businesses alike will have experts ready to make automated program repairs at a moment’s notice.
A ton of details go into planning your wedding: deciding on the venue, the music, what everyone will wear, and of course, the food.
Finding a wedding caterer in Sydney can be tough work: you want to ensure they are able to accommodate various dietary needs and restrictions, manage large groups, and still be able to serve great-tasting food you and your guests enjoy.
To help you narrow down your choices for your wedding caterers in Sydney, here are some tips to keep top of mind:
Before you jump into calling potential caterers, you’ll first want to decide on a budget. Based on the number of people coming to your wedding, what type of food you are looking to serve, and how many courses you want to include, you can do research into average prices.
Compare and contrast averages to decide what you should expect to cater for a wedding with the details you’re looking for. From here, you can determine a budget that works for you, and move forward to contacting caterers in the area.
When you get engaged, people are constantly offering details about their own wedding experiences, and sharing advice for the wedding planning process. Though it can be overwhelming to hear advice from a ton of people, you can speak with some trusted friends and family about their own wedding catering experiences.
Chances are, one of your friends or family members has experiences with the potential caterers you are considering, or have recommendations of their own. Depending on your venue, you may also be able to ask them for any recommendations. These groups will have insight into how the caterer performs on the big day so you know what to expect.
While planning a wedding, communication is everything. Once you’ve narrowed down your list of caterers, you will want to set up meetings to discuss the details of what they have to offer.
During these meetings, be sure to get a sense of how they will work on your wedding day, as well as how you will be able to communicate with them throughout the entire planning process. If you like what you hear, you can move forward with scheduling a tasting.
Scheduling a tasting will help you confirm which caterer is the right choice for your big day. You will want to make sure you love your food: often, it’s one of the major things guests and you yourself will remember from your wedding day! Be sure that you like what you’re trying, and if you need to make any modifications, ensure you can do that too.
Be sure to schedule tastings with more than one wedding caterer in Sydney. This is important to be able to compare and contrast what each option has to offer, and gives you a more realistic view of what to expect from wedding catering.
Finding a wedding caterer in Sydney can be tough work, but it’s worth it: anything that’s going to be a part of your big day is worth the work! Use these tips to help you find great wedding caterers in Sydneyfor your own wedding.
Bringing a laser cutter into a work space is incredibly beneficial for local developers who have a number of projects on their schedule. By cutting through materials and shaping designs, they ensure that professionals can fast track their operation from top to bottom.
The question remains for interested clients whether or not they should buy the product outright or rent it on a short-term basis or rolling contract terms?
We will look at the strategic advantages of selecting the latter option.
The good news for local developers who want to access a laser cutter for rent is that they save time acquiring the asset and overseeing their own project needs. Instead of going through an exhaustive checklist, constituents are able to be put in touch with a supplier who offers them a rental fee, something that is often arranged on a per-month basis. Once they have been started, they will allow professionals to expedite their tasks, cutting through materials at the touch of a button and fast-forwarding a task from weeks into days and days into hours.
The accuracy of a modern laser cutter is impeccable. Such is the precision of these utilities, the margin for error has been assessed at 0.0005 inches. Developers recognise that they have to maintain the highest of industry standards in order to be a viable entity. If they decide to introduce these systems through rental agreements, then they will be able to achieve those cutting measures without adding pressure to the overheads of the brand.
A key selling point for developers who find a laser cutter for rent will be the lack of upfront costs. Others who decide to acquire the system of their own accord are forced to budget for a utility that won’t be cheap. By connecting with nearby suppliers, it will be easy to introduce the product in the work space and reduce overheads in the interim. The rental option remains a viable alternative when it comes to financial management, assisting contractors and team members to get the most out of their resources.
Thankfully participants who engage with a laser cutter rental are not left to shoulder the burden of maintenance work, brand repairs and system upgrades. Given that they are made available on a short-term basis or for a rolling contract agreement, clients are able to hand back a utility that is underperforming or not delivering to the satisfaction as expected. Developers who buy these goods outright have to ensure that they have signed up to a package that offers a warranty or insurance protection in order to have those safeguards in place.
Attempting to craft the perfect product or repair job will be a challenge, no matter what kind of resources a local developer has on hand. However, through the inclusion of a laser cutter rental, it will be possible to work through woods, plastics, ceramics, metals, fabrics and other components that need to be adjusted. This is ideal for professionals who have a diverse range of materials to work with on site, ensuring that they are not stuck with an inflexible system.
There is no question that the modern cutter is up to standard on account of personal safety standards. Developers who are cautious about the utilities they introduce will be thankful that the laser cutter calls for zero contact. As soon as the dashboard is in place, it will automatically make the alterations and adjustments on command. Unlike older models that required intervention, this is a seamless process that is designed for workplace safety provisions.
There will be investors in the real estate market who will need to think carefully about off the plan selling strategies.
If they have decided to move forward with construction from a designed blueprint, then decided that the development is not right for their needs, they will need to examine avenues to on-sell the listing.
Some practitioners might already have these steps in place as they seek to cash in on a trending property market, turning it over in quick time and pocketing the profits.
Then there are others who genuinely reach a fork in the road and realise that their interests lie elsewhere.
Whatever position the investors arrive at, there will be some key methods that help members to enjoy quality returns without encountering too much trouble along the journey.
Real estate agents, conveyancers and other property specialists should have a seat at the table when it comes to arranging off the plan property selling strategies. These practitioners have the experience, insights and resources to outline what the priority list should be. By having open conversations with these professionals, then community members will be well placed to maximise opportunities in the market before adhering to their responsibilities as the seller.
There will be sensitivity in the detail when it comes to on-selling with off the plan projects. While conveyancers are across those legalities, others who deal with agencies are advised to consult with a lawyer to oversee the minutiae of the contract. Provisions in property law cannot be dismissed, so that legal footing will be helpful, especially if buyers make allegations or developers issue penalty notices.
Those constituents who want to proceed with off the plan selling strategies from the outset are wise to examine the market trends that are taking place in the region. They might have heard anecdotal evidence about sellers who made a $500,000 splash and on-sold the listing for $650,000, pocketing most of the profits before some process fees were calculated. Identify regions that are growing in popularity and where options will be rich as groups and couples create a plan of attack.
One general idea that often reaps rewards with off the plan selling strategies will be the conversations held between others who have been through this process before. These individuals, partners and groups will have already been through these steps with off the plan selling strategies before passing on advice. Even if their guidance is about what
not to do, it will be tangible feedback that can be adopted for future reference.
Reading extensive papers that involve terms and conditions of sale is not an exciting exercise. With this being said, community members who want their bases covered with off the plan selling strategies are strongly advised to read over these facts and figures because it could make all the difference in the end result. The stipulations listed for on-sale and resale ventures will be entirely unique and dependent on the agency, the developer, and the laws written at the time.
While there will be a time component that has to be respected in this setting, off the plan selling strategies still requires a diligent eye for detail when it comes to wrapping up all of the intricacies. There are tax implications that have to be covered with an accountant. There can be legal fees required to work through documentation and lodgments. There are agent’s commissions, stamp duty and the terms of the contract which will be bound until both parties have signed on the bottom line. This should be approached on a step-by-step basis for the sake of everyone involved.
An inflatable kayak is a great way to explore the water, without having to deal with all of the hassles that come with owning and operating a traditional boat. Though they were originally designed for children, these devices are actually quite versatile and can be used by anyone who’s interested in spending time on the water. The benefits of using an inflatable kayak are endless. Inflatable devices can be moved around easily, and you can take them anywhere with you. Not only is it easy to transport the device, but it’s also easy to maintain and keep clean. It works just as well as a normal one! The next time you’re planning a trip or thinking about buying a new toy for your kids, consider investing in this product. If you are considering a trip to the local lake or beach, then consider investing in the best inflatable kayaks instead of a traditional device.
An inflatable kayak is a portable device that is very easy to transport. A traditional product would involve transportation on the top of a car on roof racks and moving it around this way. This can often be difficult to do, and it requires facilities such as roof racks to be able to transport the product. An inflatable kayak comes as a deflated product which can easily be placed onto the backseat of a car or in the boot and blown up to size when required. This makes transportation significantly easier than others and thus, is a good choice for anyone who does not have roof racks or simply needs to save space for other equipment and can fold up the product neatly. If you are looking for a product which can be moved from location to location easily, then this is the product for you.
With an inflatable kayak, maintenance and cleaning is one of the easiest things to do. With a traditional product, maintenance and cleaning is something that needs to be done constantly and can take a considerable amount of time. With an inflatable kayak, maintenance and cleaning can easily be done as the product generally presents as a flat piece of material which can be washed. It can be washed by being dipped into water and soap and scrubbed, whereas a traditional product will need to be inspected in every area and scrubbed. There can be some difficulty in reaching certain areas, which can often leave the product not being as clean as it could.
Many have the common misconception that an inflatable kayak would not perform as well as a traditional product. Whilst the inflatable kayak is blown up with air and the traditional product is made of hard material, the integrity is essentially the same on the water. The product works just as well regardless and will perform well on your trip and should not be doubted. It is a tough product that will withstand many hardships and environments, and if looked after relatively well, it will do well.
Traditional products can be heavy and difficult to store, which is why inflatable kayaks make a great alternative. If you’re looking for an easy-to-store product that works just as well on the water, then it may be time to buy yourself an inflatable kayak! Going down the local lake or going camping doesn’t need to be difficult, and bringing down items can be easier than ever in this day and age, ensuring you enjoy your day down by and on the water.
The level of expertise that should be on show with timber floor installers in Sydney will be extensive.
From the knowledge of the material grades to the intricacies of implementation and the leveraging of long-term assets, homeowners will have peace of mind if they hire the right people for the job.
How do specialists meet this threshold exactly?
This is a chance to discuss the features that shoppers in the market will inspect as they survey brand after brand in the city.
Before participants decide to reach out to timber floor installers in Sydney, they need to know that the practitioners are certified and licensed to oversee this type of project. There can be some hesitation around the use of individual contractors, especially if clients have had bad experiences using other installers in the past. So long as they have checked for a current operating license and ties to networks and associations in the timber industry, then they have at least passed the basic threshold required to oversee the task.
Families will have confidence with timber floor installers in Sydney if they see that the provider is well thought of amongst community members. Clearly, talks with friends, family members, neighbours and work colleagues can shed more light on this reputation if they have hired them for previous installation jobs. Yet it will be the consensus from online users that will be as indicative of their quality, taking into account the ratings and reviews of constituents dating back to the start of their online profile as a brand across social media, apps and search engines.
Sydney homeowners who connect with these timber floor specialists need to cover every base when it comes to sourcing these materials. Style has to be a central component as constituents integrate a colour scheme, tone and texture that works for the space. Yet it will be the guarantees around insulation that matters most, introducing a design that traps heat and ensures a comfortable living environment for all residents.
Given the sheer array of materials that timber floor installers in Sydney have to work with, it is expected that providers in the market will allow members to customise their purchase before proceeding with the installation. From traditional hardwoods to pine, beech, cedar, oak, ash, eucalyptus, teak, maple, birch, walnut and beyond, there will be unique qualities on display from each of these brands. The key for members is finding an outlet that offers any from the selected list.
There is little point proceeding with timber floor installers in Sydney if their price is out of budget expectations. Every outlet will have their own unique policy in this regard as they factor in the material use and the labour hire amongst other components that add up to the bill. Survey a number of candidates to get a feel for median timber prices and see where each provider sits on that spectrum.
From the quoting process to the scheduling parameters that are in play with these projects, timber floor installers in Sydney have to be transparent communicators for people to invest in their services. Any red flags on this matter should emerge during online ratings and personal discussions. Each brand lives and dies by their ability to communicate, so even interested parties who want to know more about these practitioners should pick up the phone and see which timber floor installers in Sydney are responsive to inquiries via phone, email and social media messaging.
A site diary acts as a form of documentation in which managers are able to record occurrences on the construction project daily and record any contact details and small bits of information which may be important. A site diary can be used to record all of these things which makes them an important aspect of any documentation and organization based platform. Within the construction industry, documentation is important for a number of reasons. You need to be able to keep up with the details of each project such as materials, what has been completed and who is working there. In doing so, you can liaise with other organisations which may require your cooperation, making it easy to pick out details they may require. Moreover, it makes it easy to collect data which can be used to make strategic decisions based on this, if everything is recorded.
Here are some of the benefits of having a site diary for a construction company.
Disputes are common within the construction industry, and typically flare up over mismanagement of materials, failure to meet deadlines or failure to comply with safety regulations. By using a site diary, you are able to resolve these disputes quickly using documentation-based evidence to prove you are in the right. Often, disputes can carry on as it is one person’s word against the other. With a site diary, everything that is done on the project is recorded into documentation. In doing so, there is clear and irrefutable evidence being recorded which can be taken and displayed to prove a point and resolve disputes. Thereby, it is one of the best way to avoid legal disputes which may cost you a lot of money, as you have the clear evidence to prove that you are in the right.
Gone are the days of recording data using a pen and paper based system. Technology has ushered in a new wave of organizational ability and using a site diary is one of the best ways to take advantage of this. A site diary allows you to automatically generate data into a report such as injuries, progress, incidents, people inducted etc. It also allows for the generation of daily hours and recording of data based on people who have signed into the project. This can allow you to handle payments and distribution of wages much easier, as you can automatically see how much people have worked per day and so on.
Progression is an important part of a project that needs to be recorded. A timeline must be followed when in the construction industry and using a site diary allows you to enter entries that detail the progression of the project per day, as well as enter photos of the progression. This can create a digital timeline that shows the progression of the project, and this can be distributed to the client. This allows them to see the progression of their project through the site diary and be satisfied with the progress and its progression towards the deadline until completion. This can be done for multiple projects with the use of a site diary, and the data can be accessed and distributed to those who need it.
A site diary is undoubtedly an essential aspect for any business involved in the construction industry, and as such, should be utilized liberally throughout multiple projects. Not using it would put you at a competitive disadvantage in comparison to others in the field, which will put you behind the rest.
It can be tough to go through hardship alone. Whether you have recently come through a traumatic experience or are finding it hard to let go of a past one, having guidance is the best way to get you back into good spirits. Making the first step is hard. And that’s where an online therapy program is perfect. This format is one that stands out from other formats of treatment, as it allows you to be in touch with your coach as simple as a click of the button, giving you a chance to get better right in an instant. With all these benefits in mind, an online therapy program just may be one of the best decisions for your future. We’re going to be taking a closer look into what an online therapy program entails, how it differs from other treatments, the many benefits, and what to expect out of it.
An online therapy program is designed to allow you to have access to a health coach without having to go through the trouble of waiting for an appointment for weeks to months at a time, having to travel to the clinic and not get the results you want quicky enough. These sessions are over video call, readily available on call so long as you book the appointment. They look at your entire wellbeing, looking holistically at your nutrition, mental health, and lifestyle habits, to see what needs to be addressed and worked on, to improve yourself. An online therapy program right on the get go, gets to the root cause to help build your way back up prior to the trauma. With a coach at your side, they will provide you the tools and the tricks to help you overcome any obstacle that comes your way and find a new and better you on the other side.
An online therapy program gives you a trajectory of different sessions working a variety of different kinds of treatments to heal the whole body. Ranging from breathwork, meditation and other highly nourishing methods of relaxation, it helps you bit by bit unlock all the past tension
and bring yourself back into your body. With an online therapy program, you right away are given the action to bring about change into your life, building healthy habits ranging from diet to exercise to stress management. It is a life changer, giving you the ultimate transformative experience and for the better. You get one-to-one guidance, allowing you openly share your experiences without having to worry about a cloud of judgement. It allows you to feel comfortable and supported, knowing you have someone there for when you need it most.
There are many incredibly positive effects that come from an online therapy program. This includes a better mindset, allowing you to develop healthier habits, and encourage you to have more balance in your life. Your coach will provide you with the tools to be able to handle anything barrier that comes whether it is a reminder of a past trauma or having to face head on with a conflict. It can be done with their guidance and support, making sure you are given the best advice moving forward in your life. In this way, you will get the results you want aligning with your goals and dreams for yourself. You will have much more balance in your life, with a well rounded ability to work on all the different crutches in all areas of your wellbeing. | 34,147 | 13,138 | 88,143.340767 |
warc | 202143 | Online sale events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon Prime Day, etc. are usually highly anticipated by shoppers who want to take advantage of lucrative discounts and offers. However, with the pandemic, more shopping than ever is now taking place online. In previous years, it would be common to see shoppers lining up at large stores well before they opened for seasonal sales. Today, those crowds have largely moved online to scoop up products in limited availability or on sale at enticing discounts offered by e-commerce portals.
Retailers now need to be prepared to not only handle traffic surges during the sales season, but also protect their customers from cybercriminals that are always lurking around opportunities like this to defraud unsuspecting consumers.
How can merchants protect themselves and their customers from online fraud and ensure the most secure online shopping experience? Here are a few key recommendations:
Cyber-Security Policies-Lack of awareness around best practices for cyber security is often the root cause for security breaches and attacks. Begin by educating your employees about how they can be exploited by phishing or similar social engineering tactics devised to implore their psychology. Get your website and mobile app fully audited by security teams who can conduct penetration testing and recommend optimal security measures. Zero-Trust architecture-In this time of remote work at premises such as homes, shared workspace, even cafes, simple ‘allow or block’ mechanisms can often be circumvented by attackers. Using a Zero-Trust architecture, you can take a ‘trust nothing, verify everything’ approach to grant and control access by employees and your affiliates. Customer Awareness-Prompt your customers to use stronger passwords and add MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) that requires them to enter an additional code while logging in. Educate your customers to be suspicious of phishing campaigns that are run using your brand name, and to be careful about providing their personal or payment data and to verify that they are visiting your site and not a cunning lookalike with small variations in the spelling of your brand name (for example, “0nline.com” spelled with a zero and not the letter “O”, or even other top-level domains that seemingly appear to be your site but are operated by fraudsters (such as online.biz instead of your site at online.com). Software Update Audit-While this might seem to be a basic and logical step, it is still a crucial factor in protecting yourself against cyber-threats. Ensure that you use updated SSL certificates, use encrypted connections (indicated by “https” before your website address), and check to see that all your enterprise applications and operating systems have been updated to the latest versions. Also run a security audit on the APIs used by your digital infrastructure to be sure that they require authentication and are fully patched and secure from vulnerabilities. Carrying out regular risk audits of all third-party software that works with your site helps ascertain that they do not become a gateway for hackers to enter your network. Limited PII storage-E-commerce platforms are appealing to fraudsters because of the information they have on their customers. Protect your customers by collecting and storing minimal PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and always use encrypted storage for sensitive data such as customers’ credit card information to deter attackers from stealing data. Integrate Specialized Solutions to Mitigate Sophisticated Threats-Most e-commerce sites use a security solution to tackle any breach. However, with the evolving nature of fraudulent attacks, site owners can make use of specialized solutions like bot managers to keep sophisticated bots out of their networks. Visitor Intent-Dedicated bot management solutions like Radware Bot Manager study the intent of every visitor to allow only genuine visitors into your website and app, preventing bots from attacking them to carry out damaging account takeover (ATO) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as well as spamming, scalping, scraping, cart abandonment, denial of inventory, ad fraud, and other threats that can harm your customers and your brand. PCI-DSS Compliant-PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance is mandated by leading credit card issuing networks for organizations that accept and process credit card payments and cardholder data. Since its inception, PCI-DSS provides an annual compliance attestation as part of their security framework. Businesses should proactively comply with PCI Compliance to make sure that they and their customers are adequately protected.
Top bot attacks to be expected on e-commerce websites & apps this holiday season.
Customers expect online stores to provide them with a safe environment to conduct their transactions. Hence it becomes paramount for enterprises to protect their customers from any known and unknown threats. As we get ready for the peak shopping time of the year, do not let cybercriminals and fraudsters take advantage of your customers by hacking into their accounts to steal gift cards, reward points and discount codes, or extract personally-identifiable information (PII) that they can further abuse. | 5,373 | 2,588 | 11,026.276275 |
warc | 202143 | For a second straight year, California fires & acreage burned are more than double the average. Severe drought conditions in Northern California have led to a vast majority of the acreage burned in the state. But, as the fall wears on wildfire activity also tends to shift its impact to the Southern part of the state. Interestingly, only handful of large fires and a mere 3.4% of the State’s total acreage has burned in Southern California (year-to-date). Conversely, over 2 million of the acreage tally so far in the state has burned north of Fresno.
Santa Ana Season in Southern California
Next week marks the beginning of fall with the equinox and RedZone’s annual reminder of Santa Ana season. The perennial wind events have led to some of the fastest growing and most damaging fires in the country’s history. The fire weather outlook we referenced last week showed “normal” wildfire potential for Southern California through December. But, “normal” for Southern California is dry wind events and fast moving fires that cause rampant evacuations across Southern California. Despite the lack of a fire activity in comparison to Northern California, this is the time of year where acres can get added to the tally. Sometimes, all at once and in a hurry. Not surprisingly, research shows warmer annual temperatures and climate change are not going to help their frequency and intensity.
Offshore Winds in the Forecast
Fire weather conditions in many areas of Southern California will be elevated this week due to extremely dry fuels. The National Weather Service forecast includes:
“Brisk winds during late afternoons and early evenings through Thursday for favored pockets of mountain passes into adjacent deserts. This will lift fire weather conditions close to critical for a few hours each day. Winds will be lighter Friday through Monday. Offshore flow and Santa Ana winds may set up Tuesday morning. Humidity should fall below 15 percent across deserts, mountains and inland valleys.”
Although the northeast winds do not appear very strong or long lasting, this is the first such event this fall. | 2,157 | 1,075 | 4,221.700465 |
warc | 202143 | Any CBDC must support, and ‘do no harm’ to, the ability of central banks to fulfil their mandates for monetary and financial stability.October 15, 2021
Governor Yi Gang says the PBOC will continue to strengthen its supervision of fintech companies, while also improving policy transparency and predictability.October 15, 2021
The principles call for appropriate regulation and oversight, rigorous privacy and data protection standards, and safeguards to prevent fraud and sanctions evasion.October 13, 2021
The technical architecture proposed in a new whitepaper includes a privacy preservation arrangement that also allows for transaction traceability.October 5, 2021
In a new Spotlight Review, the FMSB outlines steps firms can take to promote equivalent conduct outcomes in a hybrid environment.October 3, 2021
The BIS and seven central banks have published three new reports exploring practical policy and implementation issues of general purpose CBDCs.October 1, 2021
A new OECD report identifies four determinants of trustworthy AI in the financial sector - transparency, fairness, data governance and accountability.September 29, 2021
The prototype platform was able to complete international transfers and foreign exchange operations in seconds while also lowering the cost of cross-border operations.September 29, 2021
The compliance notice was triggered by the cyber-attack suffered by the RBNZ in December 2020, and confirms the work underway to make its systems more secure.September 17, 2021
The open finance oversight committee which will formulate standards for consent-based data sharing will include representation from across the financial industry.August 10, 2021 | 1,703 | 902 | 3,175.660754 |
warc | 202143 | A New Zealand Supreme Court ruling against seabed mining has been described as important for the Pacific region.
After a long legal process the Supreme Court has ruled against a bid by Trans Tasman Resources to mine the South Taranaki seabed.
The ruling was welcomed by Te Paati Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of Ngāti Ruanui iwi in South Taranaki, who led legal challenges against the bid.
Ngarewa-Packer is wary about seabed mining companies courting Pacific islands governments with promises of money and claims that seabed minerals will help the fight against climate change.
"This isn't about the planet and this isn't about people, and I think if there's anything that a pandemic environment has warned us it's that money is not the 'be all and end all' I think," she said.
"Seabed mining wasn't able to guarantee any assurance off environmental protection at all, it's purely desecration."
Given the growing interest in the Pacific Ocean seabed by mining advocates, Ngarewa-Packer said it's incumbent on New Zealand to lead the way.
"The pressure now has to be calling on the prime minister to follow through and ban seabed mining. And if we follow through then the other Pasifika nations will get the confidenceto follow throught. There's better ways to grow an economy."
Ngarewa-Packer said New Zealand must now ban seabed mining in its waters.
She said economic growth should not come at the cost of the environment and future generations. | 1,483 | 754 | 2,863.724138 |
warc | 202143 | The self-assembly of styrene-type olefins into the corresponding stilbenes was conveniently performed in the Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES) mixture 1ChCl/2Gly under air and in the absence of hazardous organic co-solvents using a one-pot chemo-biocatalytic route. Here, an enzymatic decarboxylation of p-hydroxycinnamic acids sequentially followed by a ruthenium-catalyzed metathesis of olefins has been investigated in DES solvent. Moreover, and to extend the design of chemoenzymatic processes in DESs, we also coupled the aforementioned enzymatic decarboxylation reaction to now concomitant Pd-catalyzed Heck-type C-C coupling to produce biaryl derivatives under environmentally friendly reaction conditions.
The combination of metal- and biocatalysis is a challenging but forward-looking topic in synthetic chemistry. The unique selectivity of enzymes paired with the broad range of applications of chemical catalysts enables an undreamed-of number of novel processes. Herein, we describe the application of immobilized phenolic acid decarboxylase (PAD) for the decarboxylation of para-coumaric acid and subsequent Pd-catalyzed Heck cross-coupling with an aryl halide in a fully integrated two-step continuou...
Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation (ATRP) is one of the most important techniques to synthesize well-defined polymers with predetermined molecular weight, designed microstructure and tailor-made functionalities. Although ATRP has been extensively studied in a variety of common Volatile Organic Solvents (VOCs) and water, there is significantly less work done using fashionable and environmentally friendly Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs). Aiming to develop greener ATRP routes by allowing the recycl...
This work was supported by the University of Alicante (VIGROB-316) and the Spanish Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (CTQ2015-66624-P, PGC2018-096616-B-100). BS thanks Generalitat Valenciana (ACIF/2017/211) for a fellowship.
Phenolic acid decarboxylase from Bacillus subtilis (BsPAD) converts several p-hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives into the corresponding p-hydroxystyrenes, which are considered to be promising bio-based aromatic chemicals. Despite the enzyme’s high activity and stability, the low solubility of its substrates presents severe limitations for the establishment of industrial processes. Accordingly, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have emerged as interesting alternatives to aqueous or organic solvents and...
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: Despite their ubiquitous presence in synthesis, the use of polar organolithium reagents under environmentally benign conditions constitutes one of the greatest challenges in sustainable chemistry. Their high reactivity imposes the use of severely restrictive protocols (e.g., moisture- and oxygen-free, toxic organic solvents, inert atmospheres, low temperatures, etc.). Making inroads towards meeting this challenge, a new air- and moisture-compatible organolithium-mediated methodology for the an...
Directed ortho metalation (DoM) or nucleophilic acyl substitution (SNAc) can be efficiently programmed on the same aromatic carboxylic acid amide, in a choline chloride-based eutectic mixture, by simply switching the nature of the organolithium reagent. Telescoped, one-pot ortho-lithiation/Suzuki–Miyaura cross-couplings have also been demonstrated for the first time in Deep Eutectic Solvents.
The green and versatile character of deep eutectic solvents (DES) has turned them into significant tools in the development of green and sustainable technologies. For this purpose, their use in polymeric applications has been growing and expanding to new areas of development. The present review aims to summarize the progress in the field of DES applied to polymer science and engineering. It comprises fundamentals studies involving DES and polymers, recent applications of DES in polymer synthesis...
Previous studies have shown that aqueous solutions of designer surfactants enable a wide variety of valuable transformations in synthetic organic chemistry. Since reactions take place within the inner hydrophobic cores of these tailor-made nanoreactors, and products made therein are in dynamic exchange between micelles through the water, opportunities exist to use enzymes to effect secondary processes. Herein we report that ketone-containing products, formed via initial transition metal-catalyze...
Deep Eutectic Systems (DESs) are obtained by combining Hydrogen Bond Acceptors (HBAs) and Hydrogen Bond Donors (HBDs) in specific molar ratios. Since their first appearance in the literature in 2003, they have shown a wide range of applications, ranging from the selective extraction of biomass or metals to medicine, as well as from pollution control systems to catalytic active solvents and co-solvents. The very peculiar physical properties of DESs, such as the elevated density and viscosity, red...
Ultrafast addition of highly-polar organometallic reagents (RMgX/RLi) into cyclic carbonates (derived from CO2 as sustainable C1 synthon) has been studied, for the first time, in 2-MeTHF as green reaction media or in the absence of external VOC solvents, at room temperature and in the presence of air/moisture (i.e., without using protecting atmosphere); reaction conditions that are generally forbidden in the field of these highly-reactive main group organometallic compounds. The correct selectio...
Owing to a growing awareness towards environmental impact, the search for “greener”, safer, and cost-effective solvents able to replace petroleum-derived solvents has never been greater today. In this context, the use of environmentally responsible solvents like water and the so-called Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs), constructed from bio-based compounds, has recently experienced important growth in several fields of sciences. This short review highlights the key features of the chemistry of water...
Abstract Nowadays large quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are used, although they present serious disadvantages. Developing alternative reaction media capable of replacing VOCs is of the upmost relevance. Among the surrogates, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have received particular attention. This revision gathers all the organocatalytic transformations carried out in DESs, benchmarking these protocols against the corresponding transformation operating in traditional VOC solvents.
An efficient and selective N-functionalization of amides is first reported via a CuI-catalyzed Goldberg-type C-N coupling reaction between aryl iodides and primary/secondary amides run either in Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) or water as sustainable reaction media, under mild and bench-type reaction conditions (absence of protecting atmosphere). Higher activities were observed in an aqueous medium, though the employment of DESs expanded and improved the scope of the reaction to include also aliph...
Biomolecules have been thoroughly investigated in a multitude of solvents historically in order to accentuate or modulate their superlative properties in an array of applications. Ionic liquids have been extensively explored over the last two decades as potential replacements for traditional organic solvents, however, they are sometimes associated with a number of limitations primarily related to cost, convenience, accessibility, and/or sustainability. One potential solvent which is gaining cons...
Abstract Cellulose-modified magnetite-graphene oxide nanocomposite was prepared via click reaction and utilized for immobilization of palladium (Pd) nanoparticles without using additional reducing agent. The abundant OH groups of cellulose provided the uniform dispersion and high stability of Pd nanoparticles, while magnetite-graphene oxide as a supporting material offered high specific surface area and easy magnetic separation. The as-prepared nanocomposite served as a heterogeneous catalyst fo...
The use of micellar conditions to enable one-pot reactions involving both transition metal and enzymatic catalysts is reported. Representative enzymatic transformations under micellar conditions are unaffected by the presence of non-ionic surfactants, including designer surfactants such as TPGS-750-M. Furthermore, the presence of enzymes has a negligible effect on transition metal catalysis under micellar conditions in water. Finally, three one-pot chemoenzymatic reactions in water are reported ...
Here we report a chemoenzymatic approach to synthesize 1-octene from carbohydrates via ethenolysis of rhamnolipids. Rhamnolipids synthesized by P. putida contain a double bond between carbon five and six, which is experimentally confirmed via olefin cross metathesis. Utilizing these lipids in the ethenolysis catalyzed by a Grubbs−Hoveyda-type catalyst selectively generates 1-octene and with good conversions. This study shows the potential of chemoenzymatic approaches to produce compounds for the... | 9,022 | 4,106 | 19,722.716025 |
warc | 202143 | It is no doubt that Kratom has gained a lot of popularity among people due to its health benefits. Kratom has been assisting a large number of people for years and has been serving as a traditional herb. But a million-dollar question for many is, can Kratom be used to relieve pain in pets as well?
To find an answer to this and any other queries, let’s read this article until we meet again at the end
History Of Kratom
A tree that is common in Southeast Asia and a part of the Coffee family is what we call Kratom. Although it is also known as Mitragyna Speciosa, the famous name remains Kratom. We hear more about it later but this doesn’t mean that it was absent in the old times. Surprisingly, in the ancient times where there was more manual work, the workers had no machinery to assist them in performing tasks.
That was where they used to chew on Kratom leaves to avail themselves of instant energy and to combat fatigue for long hours straight. However, its benefits are not just limited to this but they are at least a list long. Also, more of its benefits are being explored since so far, only limited research has been conducted on Kratom. Its worth mentioning benefits are;
Euphoric effect Pain relief Increased libido Treating cough Decreased depression and anxiety Stimulating effects Sedation (due to high dosage) Is Kratom An Analgesic Substance For Pets?
Well, you can’t rely on it all the way because there is no scientific proof of Kratom being a good choice for pets. However, there are many people claiming it to be helpful for their pets. In some research, Kratom’s effects were observed on cats, dogs, lizards, and also rabbits.
When these animals were given Kratom in the appropriate dose then there were no side effects observed. Also, it is said that you should avoid using Kratom if your pet is already on any medication or else there will be a reaction. Kratom turned out to be helpful for relieving pain in pets when the instructions were followed. Asking an experienced vet about the dosage of Kratom for your pet is highly recommended. Moreover, you must also do your online research.
What Makes Kratom Effective For Pets?
It is basically Kratom leaves that provide Amazing Kratom with healing properties. Although it has a number of alkaloids, among these alkaloids, two are the most active ones. Mitragynine and 7-hydroxy mitragynine are these worth mentioning alkaloids. These two, when consumed along with other alkaloids and compounds work like a miracle.
How Has Kratom Helped Pets So Far?
Given the lack of research, there are mostly dog owners who speak in favor of Kratom for being a great source of help for their dogs’ health issues. To make its consumption easy, Kratom is now available in a vast array and also, there is an option to purchase it online. Just like the case with any other medicine and herb, its quality and originality must be confirmed before consumption otherwise, there will be more side effects than benefits.
Anxiety Control
Anxiety issues are not only limited to humans but also affect animals. In dogs, you must have noticed that when you leave them alone at home then they bark a lot and seem restless. This is where Kratom relaxes them.
Pain Relief
There are many ailments that cause pain to animals. Often, you see that your pet seems to be in so much pain that it stops acting normal and even stops eating everything. But, Kratom has helped in relieving pain in animals as well.
Beneficial For Arthritis
Arthritis pain is not a joke as your joints and bones hurt you so bad that you have to limit your activity. The same is the case with dogs, to raise their standard of life again, treating them with Kratom worked well for many.
Seizure Control
Without scientific proof, there is no guarantee if Kratom can be beneficial for the pet. However, it has worked to treat seizures in dogs, even if caused by epilepsy. Also, some people claim that the frequency of seizures decreased in their dogs and some say that it increased. So, nothing can be guaranteed.
Enhanced Appetite
Just as humans consume Kratom and end up developing appetite, in the same way, you can sometimes give it to your pets for this purpose. But most importantly, you must not make it a habit to feed it to your pet, or else in the long term, their appetite might decrease.
Energy Restorer
In the case of lethargy, Kratom has helped humans and pet owners claim that it delivers the same results in animals.
So, now you know the answer to your queries if you can use Kratom to relieve pain in the pets. Nothing is certain to say until plenty of research is conducted on the issue. What we shared above is majorly what pet owners have claimed. However, choosing premium Kratom for your pets and asking their experienced vet alongside your own individual research is something not to miss at all. | 4,884 | 2,273 | 10,384.677519 |
warc | 202143 | Seeking to dispel fears of financial turmoil, some Chinese banks are disclosing what they are owed by a property developer that is struggling under 310 billion US dollars in debt, saying they can cope with a potential default.
The announcements came as Evergrande Group promised to talk with some individual investors who bought its debt while creditors waited to see whether Beijing will intervene to oversee a restructuring to prevent financial disruptions.
Evergrande’s struggle to meet government-imposed debt limits has prompted fears a default might disrupt the Chinese economy or global financial markets.
While ratings agencies say a default appears likely, economists say Beijing can prevent a credit crunch in China but wants to avoid bailing out Evergrande while it tries to force companies to reduce debt levels.
One of Evergrande’s biggest lenders, Zheshang Bank Co said it is owed 3.8 billion yuan (588 million US dollars) and has “sufficient collateral”.
“The overall risk is controllable,” the bank said in a written answer to questions on a website run by the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
It said a “risk situation . . . will not have a significant impact” on the bank.
Others, including Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Ltd., gave no financial figures but said their lending was small, tied to individual projects and secured by claims to land.
The Pudong bank said it was in “close communication” with Evergrande.
Changshu Rural Commercial Bank Co. in the eastern province of Jiangsu said it had 3.9 million yuan (600,000 US dollars) in outstanding loans to Evergrande, secured by land.
The biggest state-owned commercial lenders including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd did not respond to questions.
Evergrande was caught by stricter borrowing limits imposed on real estate last year by regulators who are trying to reduce surging debt levels the ruling Communist Party worries might drag on economic growth that already is in long-term decline.
Regulators have yet to say what Beijing might do, but economists say if the ruling party gets involved, it probably will focus on making sure families get apartments they already have paid for, rather than trying to bail out banks or other creditors.
Evergrande is one of China’s biggest private sector conglomerates, with more than 200,000 employees, 1,300 projects in 280 cities and assets of 2.3 trillion yuan (350 billion US dollars).
It owes creditors some two trillion yuan (310 billion US dollars).
Other major developers such as Vanke Co, state-owned Poly Group and Wanda Group have not reported similar problems.
But hundreds of smaller developers have shut down since regulators in 2017 started tightening control over financing.
On Friday, investors in Evergrande debt who gathered at its headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen said the company agreed to hold a phone meeting with them.
Dozens of police officers with six vehicles stood guard outside the building.
Evergrande said earlier it negotiated details of an interest payment due Thursday to banks and other bondholders in China but gave no details.
The company has yet to say whether it will make an 83.5 million US dollar payment that was due Thursday on a bond abroad.
It has 30 days before it is declared in default, but economists say the company appears to be focused on repaying creditors within China.
Meanwhile, Evergrande is offering to repay some investors in its debt with apartments and other property.
The offer applies to investors who hold a total of about 40 billion yuan (six billion US dollars) of debt issued by its Evergrande Wealth unit.
News reports say they usually are retail customers, employees of Evergrande contractors and the company’s own workforce.
Evergrande said Thursday investors can apply online for available properties. | 3,896 | 1,846 | 8,038.929577 |
warc | 202143 | Introduction
The SP Architecture & the Built Environment School is pleased to introduce our new SGUS Facilities Management Programme. This is a programme we offer to enable non-facilities management PMET to further their education in a new knowledge domain as part of the journey in being a life-long learner.
Trainees are required to equip with a computer Notebook (installed with minimally windows10 OS) when attending lessons.
Course Objectives
This program aims to address the demands faced by graduates in the fields of engineering, technical, and other non-facilities management sectors to acquire facilities management knowledge and skills, since a large number of companies require PMETs with engineering and technical backgrounds to undertake facilities management positions.
In this regard, the program curriculum adopts a foundational approach that prepares Diploma and Degree holders for job functions and work responsibilities in the exciting field of facilities management.
Suitable for
This programme is specially designed for non-facilities management graduates. It is also suitable for those who wish to acquire facilities management knowledge and skills so as to prepare themselves for a career in facilities management, thus enhancing their job mobility and versatility in the workplace.
Industry and Career Options
With the skills and knowledge gained from this programme, you will be able to take on new challenges in the field of facilities management in all sectors of our rapidly changing economy.
Career options include:
• Property Officer/Executive • Fire Safety Manager Minimum Entry Requirements
Applicant must be a Singapore Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident aged 21 and above, and is able to commit to the full-time training schedule.
In addition, the target trainees for SGUS programmes will exclude the following:
a) Graduated or graduating in Calendar Year (CY) 2019 / 2020 /2021 from ITE, Polytechnics, Universities, and other educational institutions. This includes graduates from private universities as well as overseas institutions; and
b) Graduated from the educational institutions mentioned in (a) and completed or completing their National Service (NS) in CY 2019 / 2020 / 2021 and are entering the labour force.
Individuals who took on post-graduate programmes (both directly after undergraduate programmes and mid-careerists with working experience) in CY2019 / 2020 / 2021 will not be eligible for SGUS.
Applicant must have a diploma or higher qualification in any non-facilities management discipline from a local public sector educational institution (PSEI) or reputable overseas universities.
Recognition of Prior Learning
Applicants who do not meet the entry requirements may be considered for admission to the course based on evidence of at least 5 years of relevant working experience or supporting evidence of competency readiness. Suitable applicants who are shortlisted may have to go through an interview and/or entrance test. The Polytechnic reserves the right to shortlist and admit applicants.
Course Outline
The Programme consists of four (4) certificates to be conducted within 7 months. Classes will be conducted in full-time mode.
1. Certificate in Essential Skills to Enhance Employability
2. Certificate in Sectoral Fundamentals for Facilities Management 3. Certificate in Job Specialisation for Facilities Executives 1 4. Certificate in Job Specialisation for Facilities Executives 2
Please click here for module synopsis.
*Certificates may not be conducted according to the sequence listed.
Award / Certification / Accreditation
Upon passing all modules in each Certificate, trainees will be awarded a Certificate
Upon completion of all the certificates, trainees will be awarded a Certificate of Completion in SGUS programme
Please refer here for the FAQ on SGUS programme.
Course Fees
Full Fees (inclusive of GST): $22,684.00
Subsidised Fees for Singaporeans & Singapore PR (inclusive of GST): $583.33
Trainees must fulfil minimum attendance requirements and pass assessments to qualify for course fee subsidies. Trainees who are unable to meet these requirements may be asked to return the course fee subsidies that they have received.
Refund Policy:
• The programmes allow trainees to exit without penalty if they are successfully placed into a job or have secured a job on their own accord while undergoing training. However, trainees who exit the programmewithout a valid reason may be asked to return the course fee subsidy that they have received.
• Refund of paid course fees will be pro-rated based on certificates that have not commenced
• Trainees who wish to exit from the programmemust write to ptenquiry@sp.edu.sg | 4,764 | 2,122 | 10,551.743638 |
warc | 202143 | The project Shujola is funded by JT International SA. The project tested a new business model and facilitated designated public agencies to engage authorized private sector players (such as water technology companies) to extend the service delivery network through water entrepreneurship development. RMG workers and their communities gained the ability to meet their daily water consumption needs at a low cost from water kiosks dispensing safe water, run by water entrepreneurs. To date, the project has established 05 safe drinking water booths in the residential communities of RMG workers, where currently more than 5,000 RMG workers and their residential community members collect water on a daily basis and more than 10,000 people were made aware of the necessity of consuming safe drinking water. | 806 | 455 | 1,424.228571 |
warc | 202143 | The state of Utah does not follow the Daubert or Frye for the admissibility of expert witness testimony, but instead follows the Rimmasch test. Haupt v. Heaps, 131 P.3d 252 (Utah Ct. App. 2005). The Rimmasch test focuses on the reliability of the expert’s testimony, particularly in cases where the expert utilized “novel scientific principles or techniques” to reach its conclusions. Id. The Rimmasch test has been embodied by Utah’s Rule of Evidence, Rule 702, which stands as the overarching rule for the admissibility of expert witness testimony. State v. Sheehan, 273 P.3d 417 (Utah Ct. App. 2012). Utah’s rule of evidence states that testimony is admissible if there is a “threshold showing that the principles or methods that are underlying the testimony (1) are reliable, (2) are based upon sufficient facts or data, and (3) have been reliably applied to the facts.” UTAH R. EVID. 702 (2017). The portion of the rule that embodies the Rimmasch test is (c), and states that the “threshold showing … is satisfied if the underlying principles or methods, including the sufficiency of facts or data and the manner of their application to the facts of the case, are generally accepted by the relevant expert community.” Id. | 1,278 | 645 | 2,429.190698 |
warc | 202143 | Tasmania's borders have been its best asset during the coronavirus pandemic, but vaccinations in and outside the state are the best indicator to watch now, new economic analysis says.
" ... how the state transitions to more open borders will be very important," Deloitte Access Economics said in its latest Business Outlook report.
"The good news is that Tassie looks well placed to be able to choose the timing of that transition.
"COVID-free and open for business, that's something only a handful of states can say."
Deloitte forecast Tasmania and South Australia would lead economic growth at 3.6 per cent in the current financial year, thanks to minimal effects from the pandemic.
National growth was forecast to be 1.5 per cent.
Deloitte said the state's retail sector was going from strength to strength, while Tasmanians could not seem to get enough of home improvements and cars.
"But some of the spending train is reaching the station, so don't expect families to drastically increase their spending as they pop off to the shops during 2022," it said.
Business investment was holding up pretty well and commercial construction had taken the baton from machinery and equipment investment.
It said confidence was the key to keeping business engaged and the state's economy was recovering faster than expected from last year's virus-driven crash.
Downsides included jobs momentum slowing, while iron ore prices had dropped.
" ... the closure of borders continues to put Tassie's labour market to the test," the report said.
"Although job advertisements are elevated, getting the right workers continues to be an issue.
"Up until last year, Tassie businesses relied on international migration to help fill skill gaps in the local labour pool.
"That tap has well and truly been turned off at the mains."
It said migrants also provided an important offset to the state's ageing population.
"But with international migration shut off for some time to come, the state's best chance at keeping population growth alive in the short run is to attract interstate workers seeking a tree change," it said.
"But longer term, the best remedy for the ageing population is the creation of meaningful jobs that keep young people in the state in the first place."
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Deloitte said much continued to go right for Tasmania, due to strong coronavirus control and effective government support.
"But from here on out, Tassie is dependent on many external factors well out of the state's control," it said.
"Most important on that from is how quickly the rest of the country can get vaccinated ..."
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warc | 202143 | From the news broadcasts to internet research materials, social media and newspapers all showcase headlines of the adverse effects of the pandemic. The economy has been hit quite hard with other sectors, such as leisure and hospitality, food and agriculture, and real estate, experiencing the most effects.
However, there were different circumstances in sectors such as health and construction as they were more overwhelmed with the demands from all corners. Often, their supplying capacity couldn’t meet the demands on board. There was a need for new hospitals for more medical services, rooms for isolation for the affected individuals, and sad enough morgues for those who passed away.
So how did things turn out?
Construction vs. Corona Virus
The pandemic resulted in a global financial crisis, with significant building and construction players on the receiving end. These parties include;
• Architecture, construction, and engineering firms
• Building materials manufacturers and distributors
• Construction equipment manufacturers
• Insurance companies.
The real estate market was booming before the pandemic hit as people were buying, selling, and renting property. However, the pandemic resulted in multiple job losses, hitting the worst unemployment rate ever recorded in history. In turn, this slowed down developers as there was a reduced workforce due to the spread of infections, and some rules restricted the proceedings (
you can’t work from home when it comes to building and construction).
Furthermore, the market experienced some forced changes as the needs altered. Safety and health measures were to be met, which would also dictate the designs of projects and the construction approach. On the other hand, some notable trends are critical soon as construction is crucial once we have passed the pandemic.
The Trends The Trends
Several notable changes in the construction sector have developed into both short and long-term trends. These trends include;
1.
Increased digitization – The need for digital tools has increased
2.
Re-balancing supply chains towards resilience vs. efficiency – Contractors seek to secure critical materials, identify alternative suppliers, build inventory, and get long-lead items
3.
Augmented consolidation – This is to support investments in talent, technology, IT, and R&D and establish economies of scale
4.
Vertical integration – A move to increase efficiency to control and standardize designs and execution
5.
Further investments in innovation and technology of building systems – Addressed the need to increase skilled labor
6.
Increase in off-site construction – The thought of building in a controlled environment for close management
7.
Acceleration towards sustainability – Designs for healthy living. The New Normal The New Normal
The pandemic has registered multiple changes, and the construction sector has to adapt to these alterations to be as effective. In that case, there are some necessary actions that all major players should take to ensure they are successful. These actions include;
• Accelerate the adoption and roll-out of digitization • Invest in skills needed and culture to operate in the new normal • Build a control tower for the industry’s portfolio • Bolster the supply chain resilience • Redeploy resources and capital • Identify the opportunities to shift work off-site • Draw closer to customers. Role of Construction
After the pandemic, there is a need to improve the construction sector as multiple changes are expected once the conditions are favorable. Some of the key roles include;
i. Setting up places for reviving businesses
ii. Completing the stuck projects
iii. Meeting the “new normal” needs
iv. Maintaining the current health and safety culture driven by the pandemic
v. Providing a good transition from the current situation to another
vi. Becoming the bridge between the present and expected construction needs
vii. Pushing for the industry’s evolution.
As much as the industry got the ugly side of the pandemic, there’s still hope that things could work out well in construction. With the changes in developers’ needs and the different calls made by major game players, the construction sector foresees a critical role in rebuilding the world after the pandemic. And the work starts now! | 4,458 | 2,062 | 9,270.5645 |
warc | 202143 | Well-earned recognition for making a difference in our community
- Credit: DSA
There are many unsung heroes across our Bay who make a positive difference in our community, so it was great to hear two of them - Dave Musgrove and Trevor Staveley - had received well-earned recognition in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
The Disabled Sailing Association gives many the chance to experience the freedom of the waves who may be more restricted on land.
Dave Musgrove has, for many years, been a driving force behind it, overcoming the challenges presented by his own blindness to help others turn their disability into an ability.
Torbay Street Pastors have helped many enjoying a night out stay safe, with volunteers on the street until 4am providing a safe space, listening ear and a pair of flip flops to walk home in.
Trevor Staveley has not only helped co-ordinate this work for several years, but spent many very late nights out on the streets helping those in need of a very different type of mission to what many might see local churches doing during the day.
These honours are not just about their achievements of the two recipients, but a recognition of the work done by the teams they work with as well.
They are what the honours system should be about, saying thank you on behalf of society as a whole to those who only looked for the reward of knowing they had made a difference.
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Let’s hope we see more such awards in our Bay over the coming years.
Tourism recovery plan launched
A new rail pass and vouchers for popular tourist attractions are at the heart of a new plan unveiled by the Government to return domestic tourism to pre-pandemic levels by 2022 and international tourism by 2023.
A £10 million voucher scheme will be launched by the National Lottery this autumn to encourage trips beyond the peak summer season, with players having the chance to claim vouchers to redeem at tourist attractions across the UK between September 2021 and March 2022.
A rail pass for 'staycationers' will also be launched later this year, helping to make it easier and more sustainable for domestic tourists to get around the country.
The new pass will build on the success of the BritRail pass, which is sold through VisitBritain and gives international visitors flexible travel across the country, as well as providing discounted entry to tourism attractions.
This plan is welcome news as we look head to what could be the busiest summer season in our Bay for decades as many enjoy a staycation rather than heading abroad given the continuing restrictions on international travel.
Once those who would normally head abroad have enjoyed the beauty of our Bay, many will return.
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warc | 202143 | Effective tax management can result in significant cost and cashflow savings for your business. Here are some tax tips that every business should consider. Effective management of the business taxation affairs can reduce costs and enhance cash flow Be aware of different minimum wage rates for various categories of employees Consideration of dividends v salaries for emoluments of business owners Consider tax effective pension contribution Explore opportunity to employ family members and use Personal Tax Allowances Explore Research & Development Tax Credits Consider forming a Group structure | 598 | 351 | 1,015.407407 |
warc | 202143 | Quantify and certify your planned decarbonisation projects to create an edge over the competition and generate fast ROI
Climate change affects businesses from multiple angles putting pressure on them to reduce their carbon footprints. The public expects companies to reduce their environmental impact and develop plans to reach net-zero emissions to limit global warming. Effects of climate change threaten investments and increase prices for insurance and adaptation measures in many regions. In addition, economic pressure is put on companies as the cost of CO2 is rising.
Adding data to the above can help businesses and decision-makers understand why decarbonisation must be part of the business strategy.
CO2 accounts for more than 74% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to ourworldindata.org. Furthermore, energy use in industry, transport, and buildings is responsible for more than half of greenhouse gases globally. At the current rate of emissions, we will reach 1.5°C of global warming as early as 2034 (source: Copernicus Climate Change Service). The price for EU carbon permits has increased more than 95% between January and October 2021 and recently reached the 60 Euro threshold.
The main drivers for companies to get started with decarbonisation strategies are usually embedded in their value chain. External and internal stakeholders like customers, investors, shareholders, suppliers, and employees expect businesses to reduce their carbon footprint and stay profitable at the same time.
We developed VERIx specifically to solve this complex challenge. With VERIx, we can quantify, validate, and certify planned CO2 savings and decarbonisation projects. We can perform the VERIx service on single products and services, a cluster of products and services, a specific production line or all your processes depending on your projects. That means that you can create projects within your net-zero carbon emission strategy and quantify them to demonstrate your CO2 saving capabilities.
The flexibility of VERIx allows any business to prioritize decarbonisation measures and only work on the most promising ones with the highest carbon emission reduction potential.
In a real-world scenario, this means that your business can reduce the carbon footprint for products that are affected by external and internal pressures without touching other products with less saving potential. That translates into lower risk and higher, faster ROI for your decarbonisation strategy.
VERIx has been developed specifically for companies that want to reduce their carbon footprint in an agile, profitable, and flexible way. VERIx enables companies to verify their planned CO2 savings immediately.
With VERIx, we empower companies to validate their decarbonisation strategies and inform them about how much CO2 they can save with specific measures. VERIx focuses on a company’s internal production and operation processes which can be managed and adapted by the company without the need to reconstruct the entire supply chain. At the same time, our VERIx service for carbon neutrality will positively affect all parts of the value chain.
That is an essential difference to lifecycle assessments and product carbon footprint calculations. These methods include all upstream activities (e.g., raw materials and tools) and all downstream activities (e.g., product usage and recycling).
Life cycle assessments are a good way to understand emissions from a product lifecycle management perspective and provide data to partners in the value chain.
However, lifecycle assessments and product carbon footprint can be manipulated by making adaptions to the supply chain without changing the internal production and operation processes.
VERIx focuses on these internal operations and thus offers a tremendous competitive advantage to companies. By using VERIx, a company can prove the potential for decarbonisation within the internal processes and business strategy. Companies can negotiate new partnerships, assignments, and investments based on verified data and competitive advantage with this information.
“VERIx offers a glimpse into the future. We start by determining your current carbon emissions. Based on that, we quantify the CO2 savings through your planned projects. Finally, you as a customer will receive an official certificate about these savings, enabling you to create a competitive advantage.” – Pascal Gaillot, Director Sales Green Production & Decarbonisation, TÜV SÜD
Our VERIx service consists of a 6-step approach, as shown in the graphic below.
The starting point for our work is to understand your specific objectives. In this step, you as the client can specify if you want to reduce emissions for one, multiple, or all your products or services.
You can also define which year we should use as the baseline for the calculation of carbon footprint reduction potential.
In the next step, we will define the project and data we will need to capture (based on ISO 17029 and related standards like ISO 14040, ISO 14044, ISO 14064, ISO 14067, ISO 22095 and more).
Then the raw data is captured, and the status quo/baseline is calculated. Based on this data, we will perform a plausibility check for processes and a completeness check of material and energy flows.
In the validation step, we process the emission data and confirm the CO2 savings planned in your strategy. As a result, you will receive a statement of conformity and inspection report, which you can use as proof for planned CO2 emission reduction.
Ideally, after realising the decarbonisation strategy, you start back at step one to create a new baseline and define further measures to reduce carbon emissions.
The VERIx service is based on a highly advanced data processing methodology that offers countless possibilities for customization. This flexibility enables us to verify planned carbon footprint reductions across nearly any industry and product or service. VERIx is already successfully in:
The high level of customisation enables you to use VERIx for single projects, products, and services. For example, if a particular product is offering a higher ROI for decarbonisation, you can use VERIx to validate the CO2 savings for this product. Therefore, you can focus your investments for carbon emission reduction on single products while leaving others untouched. This results in low levels of risk for your decarbonisation strategy and helps you reach net-zero emissions step by step.
Verify your planned CO2 savings already today – contact us here.
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warc | 202143 | Animal Husbandry Information
Animal Water Quality
The NIH Guide (ILAR 1996) recommends that laboratory animals should have access to potable, uncontaminated drinking water. Water quality testing of the Rochester water supply includes periodic monitoring for pH, hardness, and microbial or chemical contamination. The most recent report from the Monroe County Water Authority indicates that
Rochester drinking water meets all New York State and USEPA drinking water standards. Please refer to the website link above for more details about detected contaminants and a water quality summary.
Supplemental treatment (e.g., autoclaving, acidification, hyperchlorination) of water provided to the University's laboratory animals is available by special request. All water provided to animals housed in the KMRB and CVRI facilities is treated by reverse osmosis.
Water Delivery Systems
HYDROPAC®
CLOSE MONITORING OF NEWLY WEANED PUPS ON HYDROPAC®
NOTE: A FLAG/CARD Identification sign is posted on the door of every animal housing room
The pink post-it flag or laminated WEANLING/NEW TO HYDROPAC pink card is designated for PI use to label newly weaned mice. This will assist the Vivarium staff in identifying cages where animals might have a problem accessing water.
If using a pink post-it flag the PI writes the date weaned on the pink flag and affixes it to the cage card of the newly weaned pups.
If using the printed laminated WEANLING/NEW TO HYDROPAC pink card the PI must be sure the date weaned or a date of birth is clearly written on the cage tag. The laminated card is placed behind the cage tag. Please do not write on the laminated card as it is reusable.
The PI places several pieces of rodent diet on the cage floor and flicks the valve on the Hydropac® pouch to be sure water is flowing.
Vivarium staff will pay extra attention to pink flagged/laminated carded cages for any indication that the mice are not eating or drinking. This intense monitoring will continue daily for a two week period after weaning.
Any mice that do not appear well will be reported to the DLAM veterinary staff. The PI will be contacted by DCM regarding the problem and recommended treatment.
If the weanlings appear healthy after two weeks the Vivarium animal care staff will remove the pink flag or laminated card.
Rodent Diet and Bedding
In August 2021 we will transition from autoclaved to irradiated rodent chow as described in the March 2021 LIST SERV announcement
Irradiated Standard Rodent Chow 5053 replaces 5010.
Irradiated Breeder Rodent Chow 5058 replaces 5021.
The standard bedding used with our rodents is:
Primate Diet and Bedding
The standard laboratory diet fed to our primates and chemical compositions are:
The standard bedding used with our primates is:
Rabbit Diet and Bedding
The standard laboratory diet fed to our rabbits and chemical compositions are:
The standard bedding used with our rabbits is:
Animal Room Temperatures & Humidity Ranges
All of the University of Rochester's animal holding rooms are maintained within temperature and humidity ranges described in the ILAR Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996) with very rare exceptions. The building HVAC systems occasionally fail to tightly control room humidity in the face of outdoor seasonal extremes (Winter levels < 30%, Summer levels >70%). Please note that the animal room humidity levels rarely fall outside of range (less than 10 days in the Winter and Summer) and that the change in humidity is gradual over time. Be aware that we cannot control these outliers.
Animal Room Temperature Ranges
Mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guinea pig: 64-79F
Rabbit: 61-72F
Cat, dog, non-human primate: 64-84F
Farm animals and poultry: 61-81F
Animal Room Relative Humidity Range: 30-70%
Recommendations for Husbandry of Severely Immunocompromised Mice
The Animal Resource recommends the following special diet and water for severely immunocompromised mice such as NOG, SCID, RAG-2, Athymic Nude, and Beige mice. Immunodeficient mice also require strict attention to MicroIsolator Technology.
The following practices are available to investigators by submission of a special request to the Animal Resource Office:
Autoclaved acid water (pH 2.5-3.0) in sterile water bottles changed once weekly. This prevents a biofilm or overgrowth of
Pseudomonas sp. (and other bacteria) in the water bottle. Feed irradiated Mod LabDiet® 5P00 w/0.025%Trimeth/0.124%Sulfameth-5TK5 mouse chow. The vivarium has this diet available on inventory.
Please be sure to incorporate this information into your UCAR protocol as a Vivarium recommended husbandry practice for severely immunocompromised mice.
Interpreting Mouse Chow Supply and Drinking Water Hydropac™ Level
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warc | 202143 | Fab City hubs across Plymouth will be opening their doors to celebrate sustainability and collaboration in a day of free events on Wednesday 22 September.
Co-hosted by Plymouth College of Art’s Smart Citizens Programme and the University of Plymouth’s Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Laboratories, the Fab City Plymouth Open Day will see 12 local projects and organisations offer a range of free drop-in activities, demonstrations, business support and tours. From beekeeping and sustainable food production to digital manufacturing techniques, the Open Day will explore how Plymouth can become a more sustainable city through innovation and collaboration, following the Fab City principles.
Plymouth is the first Fab City in the UK, in 2019 joining the global Fab City network of 38 cities committed to producing nearly everything they consume by 2054. Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth City Council, the University of Plymouth and Real Ideas worked jointly on the citywide commitment in 2019 to becoming the UK’s first Fab City. Originally growing out of the Fab Lab rapid prototyping movement, the Fab City manifesto covers everything from farming and manufacturing to making and culture, asking how we can make the best use of the resources on our doorstep and fully realise the social, economic and environmental benefits of a more circular economy.
Through the Fab City initiative, cities are challenged to enable an urban transition towards locally productive and globally connected cities. By embracing strategies in circular economy and digital social innovation, Fab Cities foster collaboration between a global network of cities and territories to meet the planetary challenges presented by climate change and social inequalities.
Plymouth is well placed to meet the Fab City challenge, with a wealth of projects, organisations and people committed to re-localising production, supporting local skills development, protecting the environment and championing advanced technologies to transform our city. These local projects will be taking part in the Fab City Plymouth Open Day on 22 September to showcase their work and their future plans, celebrating how together we can make Plymouth a Fab City.
Fab City hubs across Plymouth include: Fab Lab Plymouth, Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Laboratories, Sustainability Hub, Precious Plastic Plymouth, Green Minds Living Lab, Pollenize CIC, The Plot, Plymouth Scrapstore CIC, Bikespace CIC, Food Plymouth, Ocean Studios, and Market Hall.
Learn more about the Fab City Plymouth Open Day and plan your visit here. This is a free drop-in event, so no booking is required.
This activity is part of the iMayflower project and has been supported by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, who fund the Cultural Development Fund, which is administered by Arts Council England. | 2,881 | 1,362 | 6,043.331131 |
warc | 202143 | Australia has a decimal system with 100 cents to the dollar ($AUD). Coins have values of 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents, $1 and $2 dollars. Notes have values of $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 AUD.
Banks and foreign exchange
Usual banking hours are Monday to Thursday 9am–4pm, Friday 9am–5pm. Major banks ANZ, Commonwealth, NAB and Westpac have offices in Melbourne and in many towns in regional Victoria. In smaller centres, you may withdraw money at a post office or newsagent. Major city branches can exchange foreign currency. Foreign currency exchange bureaus are also available at the airport and in Melbourne's central business district. ATMs (automatic teller machines) are widely available in the city and regional areas. Bitcoin ATMs are less common in Melbourne, but travellers can check with concierge at major department stores and hotels for locations.
Credit cards and travellers cheques
Major credit cards – Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Bankcard, UnionPay, Diners Club and affiliates – are widely accepted across Victoria. Some retailers in larger centres also accept JCB cards. Traveller's cheques are not as widely accepted in Australia as in some other countries. American Express and Travelex traveller's cheques are recognised in Victoria and can be cashed at banks and foreign exchange bureaus, larger hotels and some car rental agents. Check ahead for up-to-date information before travel, however, as use is on the decline. Passport ID is required when cashing travellers cheques. Service fees vary.
Tipping
Tipping is not customary in Australia and is at your discretion.
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Australia has a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 10 per cent on most goods and services such as accommodation, day tours, guides, translators, food, transport (coach, rail and cruise) and other tourism services. Prices quoted for an Australian holiday will include the 10 per cent GST, payable at the time of ticketing. International airfares are the exception and do not attract GST.
Tourism Refund Scheme (TRS)
Departing travellers may be able to claim a refund for GST and WET (Wine Equalisation Tax) paid on goods purchased in Australia. The refund is applicable to goods totalling at least $300 AUD (GST inclusive) being taken out of Australia and purchased no earlier than 30 days before leaving Australia. TRS offices are located at international airports and cruise-liner terminals. To claim, make sure you have your passport, international boarding pass, retailer's tax invoice and the goods. Other conditions may apply. Visit the Australian Border Force website for more information on the TRS.
Arriving or leaving with currency
If you are carrying $10,000 AUD cash or more (or foreign currency equivalent) into or out of Australia you will need to fill out a Cross-Border Movement – Physical Currency (CBM-PC) form. If asked at the border, you must also tell a Customs or police officer, if you are carrying any Bearer Negotiable Instruments (BNIs) – also known as promissory notes, travellers cheques, personal cheques, money orders and postal orders. Even if the BNI has no face value (for instance, a blank cheque), it still needs to be disclosed to a Customs or police officer on request. You will be given a form to fill out if required.
For more information visit the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) website or call the AUSTRAC Help Desk on 1300 021 037. | 3,465 | 1,700 | 6,970.764706 |
warc | 202143 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE: 2020 |
Year Volume
: 19 | Issue : 3 | Page : 233--239
Evaluation of estrogen expression of breast cancer using 18F-FES PET CT-A novel technique
Vuthaluru Seenu 1, Ankit Sharma 1, Rakesh Kumar 2, Suhani Suhani 1, Arun Prashanth 2, Sandeep Mathur 3, Rajinder Parshad 1, 1 Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India 3 Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Abstract
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Vuthaluru Seenu Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Room Number 5026, Teaching Block, New Delhi India
Estrogen receptor (ER) expression in breast cancer is routinely studied on immunohistochemistry (IHC) of tissue obtained from core biopsy or surgical specimen. Sampling error and heterogeneity of tumor may incorrectly label a breast tumor as ER negative, thus denying patient hormonal treatment. Molecular functional ER imaging can assess the in-vivo ER expression of primary tumor and metastases at sites inaccessible for biopsy and also track changes in expression over time. The aim was to study ER expression using 16α- 18F-fluoro-17β-estradiol or 18F-fluoroestradiol ( 18F FES) positron emission tomography (PET) computed tomography (CT). Twenty-four biopsy-proven breast cancer patients consenting to participate in the study underwent FES PET CT. Standard uptake value (SUV mean) of maximum of 7 lesions/patient was analyzed, and tumor-to-background ratio was calculated for each lesion. Visual interpretation score was calculated for lesion on FES PET and correlated with the Allred score on IHC of tumor tissue samples for ER expression. The diagnostic indices of FES PET CT were assessed taking IHC as “gold standard.” On FES PET CT, the mean SUV for ER+ tumors was 4.75, whereas the mean SUV for ER − tumors was 1.41. Using receiver operating characteristic curve, tumors with an SUV of ≥ 1.8 on FES PET could be considered as ER+. The overall accuracy of FES PET CT to detect ER expression was 91.66%, with two false negatives noted in this study. 18F-FES PET CT appears promising in evaluating ER expression in breast cancer. It is noninvasive and has potential to assess the in-vivo ER expression of the entire primary tumor and metastasis not amenable for biopsy.
How to cite this article:
Seenu V, Sharma A, Kumar R, Suhani S, Prashanth A, Mathur S, Parshad R. Evaluation of estrogen expression of breast cancer using 18F-FES PET CT-A novel technique.World J Nucl Med 2020;19:233-239
How to cite this URL:
Seenu V, Sharma A, Kumar R, Suhani S, Prashanth A, Mathur S, Parshad R. Evaluation of estrogen expression of breast cancer using 18F-FES PET CT-A novel technique. World J Nucl Med [serial online] 2020 [cited 2021 Oct 16 ];19:233-239
Available from: http://www.wjnm.org/text.asp?2020/19/3/233/290378
Full Text
Introduction
Breast cancer has been routinely staged in the clinical practice according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)/tumor node metastasis (TNM) classification. Over the past few years, it has been learned that the status of estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR) as well as Her2/neu is known to affect the prognosis of breast cancer that is independent of tumor staging. The evolving knowledge of breast cancer biology and increased validation of these biomarkers of prognosis as well as prediction of response to treatment suggest that these biomarkers should be documented at the time of initial diagnosis. With these points in view, the recently revised AJCC 8th edition has tabulated the prognostic TNM staging classification that incorporates the anatomical TNM stage as well as the status of ER/PR and Her2/neu. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) of tumor tissue obtained by core biopsy/wide local excision or mastectomy has been the conventional method of evaluating ER and PR expression in breast cancer. However, this conventional method of ER evaluation is associated with the inherent disadvantage of sampling error and thereby may result in the denial of hormonal therapy to some patients. There is need for a technique that can overcome this disadvantage of sampling error by studying the tumor in entirety preferably noninvasively. In addition, in certain patients with metastases, tumor in metastatic sites may not be amenable for core biopsy. Molecular imaging techniques can be ideal for this purpose. As 5-flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) lacks the specificity for ERs, radiolabeled analog of estradiol (16α-18 F-fluoro-17β-estradiol or18 F-fluoroestradiol [18 F-FES]) is recommended for in-vivo positron emission tomography (FES PET) imaging to study the ER expression of breast cancer.[1] With these points in focus, the present study was conducted to study the ER receptor expression of breast cancer using FES PET computed tomography (CT).
Materials and Methods
In this prospective study that was conducted after obtaining approval from the institutional ethics committee (vide ref no. T-437/26-8-15, RT-15/28.10.15), consenting patients of early/locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) above the age of 18 years were included in the study. The informed consent included that for participation in the study as well as publication of data for academic and research purposes. FES PET CT was performed after obtaining tumor tissue by core biopsy for diagnosis and ER expression was confirmed by IHC. The time interval between performing core biopsy and PET scan ranged between 2 and 3 weeks. ER positivity was scored using Allred Scoring system, and Allred score of 3 or more was considered positive. In Allred system of scoring, score 0–5 is given to the cells depending on the proportion of cells which are stained (proportion score [PS]) and score 0–3 is given depending on the intensity of staining (intensity score [IS]). By adding the PS and IS, final Allred score is calculated as follows: PS + IS = AS.[2] Standard staging investigations followed by locoregional and systemic adjuvant treatment as deemed appropriate as per institute protocol were administered to all patients. FDG PET CT and18 FES PET CT were performed in all patients using the same protocol at a minimum interval of 24 h. Positron emission tomography computed tomography protocol Synthesis of fluoroestradiol Reagents and solvents for synthesis and purification were obtained from ABX Biochemicals, Sigma Aldrich Chemical Co., Mallinckrodt Baker, Radberg, Germany, or from USP suppliers and were used without further purification unless otherwise noted.18 F was produced using either a Siemens Eclipse or a Scanditronix MC-50 cyclotron. Quality control tests were performed immediately following each synthesis to evaluate radiochemical and chemical purity and to calculate specific activity of each dose. A typical injection of FES consisted of approximately 185 MBq (5.0 mCi) (range 103.6–296 MBq [2.8–8.0 mCi]) of radiopharmaceutical in 20 mL of isotonic phosphate-buffered saline containing <15% of ethanol by volume. The mass injected per unit patient weight (μmol/kg) was also recorded. Positron emission tomography computed tomography imaging All imaging were performed on a GE Advance tomograph (Waukesah, WI, USA). Patient preparation Focused relevant history was obtained from the patients. Oncologic history, history of diabetes mellitus, results of other scanning modalities, and renal functional assessment were noted. On the day prior to the tests, the patients were advised not to do heavy physical activity, observe overnight fasting, and maintain adequate prehydration with water. On the day of test, blood glucose levels were obtained before FDG injection. Image acquisition After proper patient preparation,18 F-FDG in the dose 10 μCi/kg was injected intravenously into the patients. The patients were asked to wait for a period of 45 ± 15 min (uptake time of the tracer). Scanning was done on SIEMENS Biograph PET-CT (mCT True Point, Germany). First, a CT scan was performed with 64 multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) using acquisition parameters of 120 KeV voltage, 200 mA current, 0.5 s/CT rotation, pitch of 0.8 ratio (or 1.4), and 0.5-mm slice thickness. After CT acquisition, PET emission images were acquired with the acquisition parameter of 3 min per bed position in three-dimensional mode from the vertex to the mid-thigh or foot if needed (according to the patients' suspected or confirmed diagnosis). Additional views were acquired in some patients if indicated. PET images were reconstructed with iterative reconstruction algorithm using Gaussian filter. All images in each scan were corrected for scatter, attenuation, and decay. 18 FES PET CT was performed at a later date with the same protocol as for FDG PET CT (minimum interval – 24 h). Dosage of tracer used for FES PET was 6–7 mCi. Image analysis Standard uptake value (SUV) (mean) of a maximum of 7 lesions/patient was analyzed, and tumor-to-background ratio was calculated for each lesion. Tumor-to-background ratio was calculated for each lesion by comparing the uptake of lesion and mediastinal blood pool at the level of descending aorta. Visual interpretation score was also calculated for lesion on FES PET CT and correlated with the Allred score on IHC. Visual grading of breast lesion on FES PET CT was done as follows: Grade 1 – no uptake on FES PET CT; Grade 2 – uptake of lesion less than mediastinal blood pool; Grade 3 – uptake of lesion similar to mediastinal blood pool; Grade 4 –well-defined lesion, uptake more than mediastinal blood pool/similar to liver [Figure 1]a and [Figure 1]b.{Figure 1} Histopathology of breast tumors Tumor tissue samples obtained by core biopsy were subjected to IHC for determining ER expression using standard protocol status. The investigator in nuclear medicine department was blinded to the results of IHC. Statistical analysis Diagnostic indices of FES PET CT were assessed in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and overall accuracy taking final IHC of tumor tissue sample as “gold standard.” Statistical tests: SUV ratio (tumor to background) was correlated to the Allred score on IHC using Spearman's coefficient. SUV ratio above which a lesion is diagnosed positive on FES PET CT was done using the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC). Comparison between mean SUV ratio of FES and FDG PET CT was done using paired t-test. P <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results
Between January 2015 and June 2017, 22 female and 2 male patients of early/LABC enrolled in the Breast Cancer Clinic of the Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, were included in the study. The age range of these patients was 32–83 years (median 55 years). TNM status was as follows: T2N0: ten patients; T2N1: nine patients; T4bN0: one patient; and T4bN1: three patients. The details of each case with respect to FDG and FES PET CT are summarized in [Table 1]. One patient with clinical T4bN0 status had suspicious metastasis in D10 vertebra on FES PET CT. FDG PET CT and bone scan did not pick up the lesion. As FES PET CT has not come into routine practice, she underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by surgery. Tumor type was invasive ductal carcinoma (no specific type) in 19 patients, invasive ductal carcinoma with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in two patients, and one patient each had high-grade DCIS and secretory carcinoma of the breast. On IHC, seven of these patients had ER-negative tumors and 16 had ER-positive tumors. On FDG PET CT, the mean SUV of breast lesion for ER-negative tumors was 16.19 and that for ER-positive tumors was 20.03. No statistically significant correlation was observed between SUV on FDG PET CT and ER expression by IHC of the primary tumor (P = 0.1456) [Table 2]. On FES PET CT, the mean SUV for ER-positive tumors was 4.75, whereas the mean SUV for ER-negative tumors was 1.41. FES PET CT and ER correlation is summarized in [Table 3].{Table 1}{Table 2}{Table 3} Correlation between ER and SUV of tumor, tumor-to-background ratio, and visual grading was statistically significant (P < 0.05), with correlation being weakest for SUV of lesion (0.5305) followed by tumor-to-background ratio (0.6640) and was strongest for visual grading (0.7737). Using ROC curve [Figure 2], tumors with SUV of ≥1.8 on FES PET CT can be considered as ER+ (AUC = 0.8190, sensitivity = 73.33%, and specificity = 71.43%). On the other hand, cutoff value for tumor-to-background ratio on ROC curve [Figure 2] analysis was ≥1.24 for ER positivity (AUC = 0.8286, sensitivity = 80%, and specificity = 85.71%).{Figure 2} The results of ER expression on FES PET CT as compared to IHC are summarized in [Table 2]. The overall accuracy of FES PET CT to detect ER expression was 91.66%. There were two false negatives – one was a 55-year-old woman with metachronous early breast cancer that was triple positive. She previously had LABC in the left breast that was also triple positive. She was treated with NACT and trastuzumab followed by surgery, radiotherapy, and adjuvant trastuzumab therapy. She was receiving anastrazole at the time of diagnosis of metachronous breast cancer on the right side. Her ER expression was 7/8. However, uptake on FES PET CT was poor (0.55 for the breast lesion, visual grading 1). The second false-negative patient was a 55-year-old woman with LABC, in whom primary tumor in the breast lighted up on both FDG PET CT and FES PET CT. However, she had multiple non-FDG-avid subpleural lesions (~4 mm) that were also not picked up by FES PET CT. However, CT characteristics of the nodules were suggestive of metastases. The correlation coefficient between FDG/FES PET CT score for SUV of the tumor, ipsilateral tumor, metastasis, and tumor-to-background ratio was not found to be statistically significant. The corresponding Spearman's Rho correlation coefficients were −0.4436, −0.0088, −0.4000, and −0.0613.
Discussion
Conventionally, ER status of primary or metastatic breast tumor has been obtained by performing immunohistochemical evaluation of tumor tissue obtained by core or excision biopsy. However, sampling error and heterogeneity of tumor may result in wrongly labeling breast tumors as ER negative, thereby denying patients the important modality of antiestrogen therapy. In addition, tumor in some metastatic sites may not be amenable for biopsy. Molecular functional imaging using radiolabeled substance that can bind to ER can theoretically aid in overcoming the disadvantage of biopsy. Functional ER imaging also offers complementary information to biopsy, such as the ability to assess the entire tumor burden and can also track changes in expression over time. This study demonstrates good accuracy for FES PET CT in identifying ER expression in breast cancer. Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV in identifying ER expression when compared with IHC of breast specimens as “gold standard” were 87.5%, 100%, 100%, and 80%, respectively. The overall accuracy for FES PET CT to identify ER expression was 87.5%. Mintun et al.[3] reported the first study on the role of FES PET CT by studying ER expression in 13 patients with breast cancer. They quantified FES uptake from static images taken approximately 90 min after the injection of radiotracer. Their results showed excellent correlation between in-vitro tumor ER concentrations and FES uptake within the primary tumor (r = 0.97). Using dynamic FES PET CT imaging, Peterson et al. compared ER expression measured by in-vitro IHC with FES PET. Using a SUV of 1.1 as a cutoff for determining ER-positive versus ER-negative tumors, they reported an agreement rate of 94% (16 of 17 patients) between IHC results and18 F-FES uptake. In our study, we studied the correlation coefficient between ER status of tumor by IHC in relation to SUV of primary tumor, tumor-to-background ratio, and visual grading system. None of the earlier studies has compared the tumor-to-background ratio or visual grading system to the ER status of the breast tumor. The correlation coefficient between the lesion SUV and ER status of the tumor in our study was 0.5305 (Spearman's rho 0.53) and that between tumor-to-background ratio and ER expression (Allred Score) was 0.664 (P = 0.0008). The correlation between visual grading and ER expression was even stronger. Thus, though the correlation coefficient was significant for all the three measures (SUV, tumor-to-background ratio, and visual grading), the correlation between visual grading and ER expression was the strongest (Spearman's rho 0.7737; P < 0.0001). FES PET CT has also been reported to be useful in predicting ER expression in male breast cancer patients. Among the 148 female and 8 male patients evaluated by FES, Peterson et al.[5] reported no significant difference in mean SUVmax for FES in both sexes. In the two male patients in our study, the mean SUV for FES was similar to that in female patients and FES PET CT accurately predicted ER expression in both patients. FES PET CT has been shown to aid in differentiating metastatic from inflammatory lesions that light up on FDG PET CT in ER-positive breast cancer. In our study, in one male patient with T2N0M0 breast cancer, FDG PET CT revealed FDG-avid mediastinal lymph nodes (prevascular, SUV 11.49). However, FES PET CT did not show any uptake, and endobronchial ultrasound-guided FNA of the lymph nodes revealed reactive lymphadenitis, thereby confirming that there was no metastasis. Yamane et al.[6] reported about an FDG-avid primary tumor and bilateral axillary lymph nodes in a patient with ER-positive breast cancer. However, subsequent FES PET CT in the patient revealed uptake only in primary tumor but not in axillary lymph nodes that were later confirmed to be inflammatory. Further, FES PET CT may be a noninvasive method of confirming/ruling out metastasis in areas that may not be accessible for tissue diagnosis. One important limitation of FES PET CT is that it may fail to detect ER positivity of metastatic lesions in liver as 18F-FES has very high physiological tracer uptake in liver due to its hepatic metabolism. Hence, most liver lesions may appear relatively cold on 18F-FES PET-CT scan, despite modest tracer uptake. In our study, FES PET CT did not detect ER expression in two patients whose tumors on IHC were ER positive (false negative). In one of them, FES PET CT detected ER expression in primary tumor but not in lung lesions that were highly suspicious of cancer on CT characteristics. The reason could be these nodules were tiny and hence were missed out by both FDG PET and FES PET. The other patient was on anastrazole. Although the precise mechanism as to why FES PET CT failed to detect ER expression in this patient in whom IHC showed strong ER positivity (Allred score 7/8) cannot be explained, decrease in ER expression and SUV of FES PET CT in patients on aromatase inhibitors has been reported previously.[7] In this prospective study, majority of the patients had disease limited to breast and axilla and are not typically imaged by PET CT staging. This is in contrast to most studies in literature which evaluated patients with metastatic lesions. Using ROC curve for18 F FES uptake, we propose that the lesions with SUV of ≥1.8 can be considered positive for ER, and therefore will respond to hormonal therapy and carry better prognosis than tumors with a lower SUV. Though the correlation coefficient was significant for SUV, tumor-to-background ratio, and visual grading, correlation between visual grading and ER expression was the strongest. Hence, we propose the use of the visual grading system in addition to SUV of primary tumor alone to detect ER expression on FES PET CT. Two important limitations of our study are small sample size and not performing biopsy of metastatic lesions at all sites. The reason for not performing biopsy was technical as all the PET CT-detected lesions were small (<5 mm) or were in inaccessible sites and hence not amenable for guided biopsy. In one patient with lung metastasis, radiologists opined that the multiple subpleural locations of lesions as seen on CT were characteristic of metastasis because of their classic location but were small (<4 mm) and hence not amenable for guided biopsy. One patient had suspicious metastasis – D10 vertebral metastasis on FES PET CT. However, FDG PET CT and bone scan did not pick up the lesion. As FES PET CT has not come into routine practice, no biopsy was performed, and she underwent NACT followed by surgery. In addition, the limited disease in the ten patients included in this study with early breast cancer could have impacted on the performance of FES PET/CT. This is more so as FES uptake in breast cancer is far lower compared with FDG uptake. Potential clinical uses of FES PET CT include identifying patients whose tumors do not express ER indicating a lack of endocrine responsiveness, thereby acting as a surrogate pharmacodynamic marker for endocrine therapy and helping clinicians choose choice of therapy particularly in the metastatic setting. It is particularly useful in diagnosing ER-positive metastasis in sites not easily amenable to biopsy. While18 F-FES-PET CT represents a promising advancement, barriers to more widespread use also exist. First, additional work is required to prospectively validate its role in different clinical contexts, similar to the process undertaken with18 F-FDG-PET CT. Moreover, its utility as one component in a multimarker approach to prognostication and management must be further understood. Larger studies are needed to understand the clinical applicability, particularly given the high associated costs and limited availability in most institutions and settings.
Conclusion
FES PET CT is a noninvasive in-vivo investigation to identify ER expression in breast cancer with high accuracy. It scores over the conventional in-vitro study of ER expression as FES PET CT takes care of the heterogeneous nature of tumor and can also evaluate tumor at metastatic sites that may not be amenable for biopsy. It can also predict and monitor response to endocrine therapy, thus paving way toward more individualized therapy and personalized medicine. However, prospective studies including larger cohort of patients in multicenter settings with possible biopsy correlation of every lesion are essential to confirm these results. Financial support and sponsorship Nil. Conflicts of interest There are no conflicts of interest.
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warc | 202143 | One of the things I frequently hear is that, "it's impossible to tell what is true anymore!"
Maybe it's actually been that way for much longer than most of us ever realized. Operation Mockingbird, where big media got its talking points from the CIA, was exposed back in the 1970s. Did we really think that something which worked so well would be stopped just because it had been exposed?
What's different today is that a second front has opened up with disinformation and censorship. Big tech, which was created by DARPA, added censorship to the government's arsenal of lies. This is straight out of the fascist playbook, where it is illegal for government to censor individuals, so they use a created private entity to do the task. The end result is the same: Only the "official truth" emerges, and it always comes from big media and "trusted" sources.
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These sources are trusted, of course, only by those who lack the skills to assess their truthfulness. There are a variety of ways to tell if information is true. Writers ask – and answer – this question all the time. What might surprise you is that fiction writers ask it more often than nonfiction writers.
Makes no sense, does it? Fiction is, after all, a made-up story. The author can cause the characters to do and say anything. But can he, really? What happens if he does?
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I would argue that those who create fictional stories are less likely to take liberties with the truth than are their nonfiction brethren. Here's why: Fiction must seem real to the reader with each turn of the page. The fiction reader interacts with the story at a level much deeper than a page of reportage.
The author has to ask the same question the reader does: "Would this person (character) behave like this, given what I know of him/her at this time?" If the reader decides "no" once, she becomes more guarded about the entire story. Do that more than a very few times, and the author has lost her, probably forever. But if the reader applies that reality test as she reads the story, nods "yes," and moves along to the next page, then the author has succeeded in creating truth in the reader's mind. It matches what she had experienced at some point as truth in her life.
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This is a skill set that most non-authors could easily develop (and fiction readers already have). It's a way to bypass "trusted sources" that can't be trusted, because they make no sense. The source is only trusted if you trust it.
Today we are all drowning in active propaganda and disinformation that is being dispensed by our own government to be used against us. Bluntly, we want freedom. The government wants tyranny. Big media is the active lying propaganda arm. Social media censorship is the passive disinformation and demoralization arm.
You possess the knowledge within you to overcome this unholy duo. Here's an example that comes to mind: Earlier this year a report surfaced in Seattle that the state of Washington had achieved an historic milestone, something that had happened only once before in its history. The flu had been eradicated for 2020.
For most of us the flu has been with us, closer than we'd like, for most of our lives and especially heading into fall and winter. Many people, especially the elderly and infirm, die from the flu every year. I wouldn't believe eradication if I read it in a medical thriller. Why would I believe it from a talking news head?
What I would believe is that the normal number of flu deaths were shifted to a new, mysterious illness that has symptoms similar to the flu. The big clue for me is the overreach. All deaths were attributed to the new illness, taking the annual flu death total to zero? Ha, ha, ha! Not believable without a forensic audit of death certificates and patient records.
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Was the shift an honest mistake? Perhaps the dreaded new disease and the flu were very similar, and experienced medical people could not tell the difference in how the patients died. The longer you are alive and visit doctors, the less likely you are to believe that we can hide anything from them. It just doesn't ring true on a large scale, with many patients and many doctors, does it?
Maybe something else was at work. Were the hospitals padding the numbers of deaths by the dreaded new disease? Did they get extra money for dreaded new disease deaths? Yes, they did, and they still do. Would hospitals withhold therapeutic treatment with off-label drugs that alleviated hospitalization? Aren't hospitals supposed to fix people, not just keep them locked up until they die?
Is there anyone else outside of the hospital who benefits by lumping the seasonal flu deaths in with the dreaded new disease deaths? Tyrannical governors? Power-hungry health departments? Pharmaceutical companies? Go ahead and ask the questions. The reservoir of truth within you about how the world works and people act will set you free.
Fear is a powerful motivator. It elicits predictable responses in different personality types. But sometimes fear needs help in getting established. Reality, you see, shares the pages with fiction. It especially shares the human characteristics that have existed down through our history. Greed. The lust for power over others. A drive to implement a hidden agenda. A personality that shifts blame for bad outcomes onto others.
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Don't sell yourself short. Don't pay much attention to so called trusted sources. The fact that they are being called trusted sources by those driving the narrative is a big clue. Any source that can be trusted isn't afraid of being questioned.
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warc | 202143 | Tactile Walking Surface Indicators: Overview and Wayfinding Applications (WV LTAP To the Point 30-Minute Webinar) Time & Location About the Event Registration
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This workshop will be concluding through Zoom. There is no charge to attend, but
pre-registration is required at the link below. You do not need to have a Zoom account or download anything to participate in the workshop; you only need internet access. Once you pre-register, you will be provided with an access link. On the day of the workshop, clicking the link will give you access to the event waiting room. Description
Tactile Walking Surface indicators (TWSI) include attention fields (truncated dome detectable warning surfaces) and guiding patterns (directional indicators) of raised bars. Although there is currently no US standard for tactile guiding patterns, it is recognized that such patterns may be a good solution to wayfinding problems for visually impaired pedestrians in a number of applications, including: 1) shared streets, plazas, and other open spaces; 2) sidewalk-level separated bike lanes without a continuous buffer and 3) pedestrian crossings that are difficult to locate using non-visual cues, e.g., mid-block crossings and channelized turn lanes. This webinar will feature an overview of the types of guiding surfaces and their characteristics, identification of notable practices for use of directional indicators, current state of the practice and a variety of example applications.
Who Should Attend
Transportation planners, engineers, technicians, landscape architects, public works directors and others involved in the design, installation and operation of pedestrian and bicycle facilities should find the webinar beneficial.
About the Instructor
The instructor for this webinar is Ronald W. Eck, P.E. Ron received his B.S.C.E and Ph.D. degrees from Clemson University. He is Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at West Virginia University and Director of the West Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program (WV LTAP). He has been involved in traffic engineering, including accessibility and pedestrian transportation, for over 45 years. He was a member of the Pedestrian Committee of the Transportation Research Board from 2008 to 2017. He authored the chapter on Pedestrians in McGraw-Hill’s Handbook of Transportation Engineering. He teaches a variety of ADA-related classes for public works personnel throughout the United States. | 2,473 | 1,276 | 4,763.819749 |
warc | 202143 | Posted by Paul Moore on 3rd August 2021
Diesel engines remain the ideal prime mover for mining trucks. They are the benchmark for performance, availability, maintainability, refuelling range, costs, and are suitable for extreme environmental conditions. But they also account for about 50% of the GHG emissions of a typical mining operation. Reducing these emissions is a major lever for mining companies to achieve their ambitious decarbonisation goals.
With their typical operating cycle — hauling loads uphill and returning to the loading position usually the same way downhill — mining trucks provide the opportunity to recuperate a considerable amount of energy downhill and store it in batteries. Depending on the topographic profile of the individual mine, up to 30% diesel fuel savings, respectively GHG reductions, are possible.
Rolls-Royce is already offering mtu engines that fulfil the strict Tier 4 emissions standard to the mining industry, and with no
t aftertreatment which is unique in the market. These engines not only bring down fuel consumption – and thus CO2 emissions – by around 6% compared to Tier 2 engines, but also cut NOx emissions by 45% and particulate matter by 80%. At the same time they offer increased power with no power loss at altitudes of up to 5,500 m (18,000 ft) as well as reduced installation, maintenance and total ownership costs.
But battery-hybrid powertrains are also a key milestone toward fully GHG-neutral mining truck propulsion, as they help to diminish the drawbacks of potential GHG-neutral fuels: scarcity, costs and/or limited energy storage density. In a recent presentation by Rolls-Royce Application Engineer Alexander Richter, who also is the technical Product Manager for its Series 2000 engines, the company presented the concept of a hybrid drive system for mining trucks, which it will also highlight at MINExpo in September.
A key point about the solution is that it is based on existing and proven mtu technologies. Richter said that Rolls-Royce envisions equipping mining trucks with battery packs (so-called mtu EnergyPacks), allowing for significant CO2 emissions reductions, less noise and cost savings for the customer at the same time. The batteries are in series production for hybrid trains which will soon enter service, first in the UK.
The mtu EnergyPack is SIL 2 certified for rail passenger transportation and uses lithium–ion technology plus is liquid cooled/heated. They have 30.6 kWh capacity, 75 kW continuous power and 660V nominal voltage. They weigh about 370 kg with 1,600 mm x 750 mm x 220 mm dimensions. mtu DC/DC converters are integrated into the inverter cabinet plus the hybrid system is modular & scalable. The battery state of charge (SoC) is about 130 kWh, ie 22% of total capacity which is good for battery service life. Looking at CO2 savings, simulations for a 220 t truck used assumptions of cycle time 30 min; travel: 22 min plus queue, load, dump 8 min, so two cycles/h. This equates to 165 l/h and 2.65 kg CO2/l diesel fuel: total 6,500 h/year and 100,000 h truck life. Savings are 30% CO2 savings for a factory installed hybrid and 22% CO2 savings for a retrofit. The overall weight is higher with the hybrid – while 6 t are removed with the smaller engine and 2 t from the smaller tank, the batteries add 7.4 t and the DC/DC converters add 2 t.
For the 220 t truck, there would be 20 x EnergyPacks and 10 x DC/DC converters. There is a downsized engine – now using an mtu 16V 2000 S96, so 3,600 kg vs 9,500 kg and 36 l vs 60 l; 1,163 kW vs 1,865 kW (1560 hp vs. 2500 hp) and Tier 4i vs Tier 2 with fuel efficiency optimised operation strategy. Plus obviously there is a reduced tank size. The 20 x EnergyPacks replace the original diesel tank so the downsized diesel tank can be moved to the opposite side (this is one of many options, to be agreed with customers).
The batteries are recharged by recuperating braking energy when going downhill. This stored energy is used to provide power to the mining truck when going uphill loaded, which leads to fuel savings and allows for the downsizing of the truck’s engine. The solution is based on proven components, an it is planned as a retrofit offering for existing and also being available on newbuilt trucks and will be realised in partnership with customers. The mtu Hybrid System integrates as a subsystem into the truck architecture, plus FLANDERS Inc power electronics and controls can be utilised for retrofits. The powertrain controller and mtu Hybrid Controller continuously communicate dynamic power demand.
Richter also said that in the not so distant future, two more technologies pioneered by Rolls-Royce may help mining operations become green and reach net zero carbon emissions: mtu engines are currently being prepared to run on sustainable fuels which are made from hydrogen with the help of renewable power. These fuels play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in applications which are hard to electrify. By 2023, the newest generations of mtu Series 2000 and 4000 engines are set to be compatible with these fuels.
Hydrogen also plays a salient role in another future technology Rolls-Royce is currently working on: Fuel cells will soon be part of the company’s portfolio – first in stationary applications (power generation) but possibly for mining as well at a later stage. | 5,425 | 2,608 | 11,153.700153 |
warc | 202143 | Course Overview
A sales contract is a mutual written or oral agreement between two or more persons with a promise and in abidance with law wherein it can be considered enforceable. Thus, the essential elements of a contract include a written or oral agreement, mutual relationship, promise or vow and enforceability by law.
When is an international sales contract created? An international sales contract is created between two parties located in different countries. Complexity increases with international sales contracts as commercial law differs from country to country.
Thus, an international sales agreement needs to take into consideration national trade practices, values, and public policy. These sales contracts have a higher risk of failure because of nation-specific challenges. Arbitration clauses are the best to include in such contracts to increase security. Thorough understanding of the nature and scope of international sales contracts would lead to a successful and efficient performance of a contract.
This Zoe training course will empower you with a thorough understanding and detailed information critical for framing and drafting international sales contracts, keeping in mind all necessary elements to manage risks and prevent failures of these contracts.
Undertaking this course will help you prepare contracts with least effort and greater success, thereby testifying your talent and potential to not only undertake higher roles and responsibilities but also independently conduct international sales deals for your organisation.
Course Objectives
The primary objective of this International Sales Contracts training course is to empower professionals with—
in-depth understanding and detailed information of best practices and essential elements for drafting international sales contracts capabilities and confidence to undertake higher roles and responsibilities related to international trade and sales contracts, in turn demonstrating your talent and potential the required understanding of international commercial law to audit existing sales contracts or draft contracts in accordance with the law the necessary foresight and experience to anticipate risks and challenges and make provisions within the agreement to mitigate these the experience, confidence and knowledge to contribute to organisational growth through international sales the skill and capabilities to train other professionals on best practices and essential features of international sales contracts the experience to gain exposure to international law and commercial arrangements, thereby expanding the professional portfolio Training Methodology
Courses at Zoe Talent Solutions are created with an intent to suit a wide audience. However, for further specificity, before each training course, the content is reviewed to ensure that the content caters to the audience as per their respective professional experience and backgrounds.
A domain expert delivers the training in the form of lectures, using audio-visual presentations. To enhance learning through the program, the trainer encourages trainee interaction and involvement through group activities and assignments.
The trainer also encourages trainees to share real scenarios, issues and experiences from their respective workplaces and discusses them with relevance to the training content. Role-plays help in the practical aspect of training.
The above format of training used by Zoe Talent Solutions is called the Do–Review–Learn–Apply Model.
Organisational Benefits
Organisations of professionals who undertake this International Sales Contracts course will benefit in the following ways:
Better drafted international sales contracts by experienced and trained professionals Greater success in negotiation and closure of international trade contracts and agreements Increased sales internationally, thereby leading to organisational growth and development Better risk assessment and management as well as mitigation, thereby enticing investors and financers to various international projects Adherence to international and commercial law and standards set out for international trade, thereby reducing risks of lawsuits and legal hassles Regular training and upskilling of other professionals on important aspects of international sales contracts Competence to deal internationally and successfully carry forth international trade agreements Reduced costs because of operational efficiency and excellence as well as clear responsibility-sharing and other relevant terms set out in the agreements Personal Benefits
Professionals who enrol for this International Sales Contracts course will derive the following benefits:
Detailed understanding and knowledge of best practices for drafting international sales contracts Increased capabilities and experience to successfully create, close and carry forth international trade and international trade agreements for one’s organisation, thereby contributing to organisational growth Greater knowledge, confidence and experience to train other professionals on basic yet necessary aspects to be kept in mind for international trade agreements Updated knowledge of international law and other nation-specific laws governing international trade and sales between two countries, while establishing one’s ability to handle such critical roles and responsibilities to grow in the organisation Enhanced perspective and foresight to anticipate challenges and risks and make provisions in the agreement to mitigate these completely Increased ability to contribute to greater credibility of the organisation, leading to increased investments and, ultimately, growth Enhanced professional portfolio to handle and successfully conduct international trade and sales for any organisation, thus increasing scope and avenues for career progression Who Should Attend? Senior sales officials of an organisation who, primarily, are involved in drafting, reviewing, negotiating and closing international sales contracts Internal and external auditors responsible for checking and ensuring adherence to set standards within and outside the organisation Members of the legal team of an organisation who need to ensure that trade and sales are carried out within the limits and guidelines of the commercial laws in the respective countries Accounts and financial advisors providing advice to key stakeholders on profitable contracts Senior management of an organisation who provide strategic guidance and plans for growing the business Prospective investors who should understand terms set out in an international sales agreement Any other professional interested in knowing more about international sales contracts Course Outline
The International Sales Contracts course covers the following topics for thoroughly understanding how to draft international sales contracts:
Module 1 – Mandates of an International Sales Agreement Territory and exclusivity Pricing Minimum purchase quantities Restrictions on handling competing products Effective date Use of trade names, trademarks and copy rights Warranties and product liabilities Commissions Payment terms Transfer of ownership Insurance Government requirements Dispute resolution Applicable law Module 2 – Elements of a Sales Contract Offer Acceptance Consideration Competence/Capacity Mutual Consent Legality Writing Module 3 – Guidelines for Drafting International Sales Drafts Accuracy Organisation Readability Style Module 4 – Attributes of a Contractual Relationship Oral/written agreement Involvement of two or more persons Exchange relationship Promise Legal recognition of enforceability Module 5 – Risk Allocation in Contracts (Force Majeure Clauses) Negotiation Force Majeure clauses Drafting Force Majeure clauses Invoking Force Majeure clauses Module 6 – Best Practices for Negotiating International Contracts Create road map for export journey Clarify expectations and sales goals Define the dispute resolution process Include an arbitration clause Define the legal jurisdiction Anticipate contract termination Module 7 – Best Practices for Managing an International Contract Portfolio Clarify applicable laws Recruit counsel to review Address matters as per country Focus on relationships Module 8 – Events Triggering Termination Insolvency, bankruptcy or liquidation The merger of the other party Change of control of the other party Changes in government regulations Failure to meet certain performance levels General Notes All our courses can be facilitated as Customized In-House Training course. Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days. As for Open Enrolment Courses, we offer our clients the flexibility to chose the location, date, and time and our team of experts who are spread around the globe will assist in facilitating the course. The course fee includes facilitation, training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. FREE Consultation and Coaching provided during and after the course. | 9,146 | 3,585 | 23,100.984658 |
warc | 202143 | Regulation is a system of legislations created and applied by governmental or public establishments to control actions, whose precise meaning is a matter of long-standing argument. It’s additionally been otherwise defined as the scientific research of justice and the practice of law. Often, nonetheless, the meaning of law is made use of in contexts that do not have anything to do with either of those points, such as the area of criminal law. Crook regulation is the area in which we find the growth of theories of punishment and deterrence, along with attract a just globe view. Criminal legislation deals with the penalties that can be examined against criminal offenders, and also they differ substantially from state to state.
A lot of jurisdictions maintain some common law regulation sets, yet the majority of territories now have a common law of criminal conduct that is codified in civil law. That’s because the functions and functions that were offered by traditional regulation are commonly no longer offering their functions today. Common law territories additionally have a tendency to be far more elastic in their judgment on insurance claims of problems for individual and residential property damage. This is since personal injury insurance claims are not litigated within the exact same legal systems as traditional crimes. akcjonariat pracowniczy
A common law criminal law regime often tends to be much less demanding than its civil equivalent. It likewise tends to yield more compromise results. As a result of these distinctions, the majority of courts in criminal trials are pardons, also in the face of frustrating evidence against the defendant. Because it is so difficult to show regret beyond a practical doubt, courts are notoriously lax towards crooks.
A lot of Europe’s legal systems currently have a common law of crimes with religious or secular elements. The term “regulation” originates from the Latin word “leges.” This word initially referred just to civil law. However civil law today consists of all matters within a nation’s judicial system, including criminal legislation. Criminal legislation, which includes such matters as murder, arson, rape, burglary, as well as sexual offense, is criminal regulation.
Civil law is likewise separated into two major groups: common law and also management law. Common law has a tendency to be identified as having a lot more alike with the common law in the USA as well as Canada. Civil management legislation, on the other hand, occurs from points like common law business matters, business franchises, as well as intellectual property concerns.
European countries have created a crossbreed of the two kinds of regulation. Common law is integrated directly into civil law systems and also criminal regulation is integrated straight into criminal legislation systems. In several instances, the courts of a country to depend virtually specifically on common law as it has evolved from centuries of experience within its own society. Some points like building civil liberties, business franchise business, as well as residential or commercial property rights/commerce concerns are fixed alike law courts, while criminal courts solve points like torment, death sentence, discrimination, and also various other issues. This crossbreed system enables courts to work as an equal branch of government in several respects. [blogi prawnicze
Legislation is a complex system of regulations developed and also implemented by governmental or social establishments to socially control actions, traditionally with a focus on human rights and also freedoms. Currently it is differentially defined as both a scientific research as well as an art of civil justice. One aspect of the legislation that most individuals know with is criminal legislation. This regulation addresses offenses against the State under numerous areas including felonies as well as offenses. Bad guy law likewise consists of substantive issues such as punishment for criminal activities as well as penalties for criminal offenses, although some crimes do not have substantive laws bordering their punishment; these are under substantive laws of the State.
Civil law is not criminal legislation. It is the area of the law that manages disagreements between exclusive celebrations and also is not a branch of criminal law. For instance, there are no courts in civil law conflicts in between personal celebrations such as disagreements over building ownership, renters, and also concerns of separation. Civil law courts are created by law, as well as the jurisdictions are commonly varied.
Piersonism is a lawful theory that permits judges to comply with criterion in order to decide legal questions. If a situation has already been determined by another court, a judge may follow the criterion unless they clearly demonstrate prejudice. Some Piersonism issues consist of: The power of the legislature to change the legislations is unconstitutional; courts need to not allow Congress to transform existing legislations unless the adjustment is required to shield minorities within the State; courts can not reversal a UIGEA choice unless it can be confirmed that the President exceeded his authority. Some Piersonists argue that, following Posner v. Illinois, the UNITED STATE High court ought to take into consideration just situations that include social concerns such as discrimination, speech, or personal privacy.
One of the locations where Piersonism is especially appropriate is in criminal regulation. Historically, courts have actually neglected important laws or constitutional clauses because of their supposed “unremovable” character. One situation that is the beginning of the modern-day debate versus translating the constitution because of modern-day realities is the Miranda ruling. In Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that statements versus which uncertainty had to be shown before a person can be without the Fifth Change’s protection are secured versus self-incrimination. Unfortunately, this judgment led to individuals being positioned in prison for many years for stating what are commonly recognized to be true statements. Chief Justice John Marshall stated in the point of view of the court that, while Miranda was a smart decision, “the words of the Miranda rule are almost an alibi for all criminal offense.”
Piersonism is likewise at the workplace in civil law. There are lots of scenarios in which the jurisdictions outside of the common law are analyzing the exact same or comparable regulations as their own. The presence of a double standard is just one of the issues with analyzing criteria set in common law. Lots of attorneys really feel that the UNITED STATE High Court has a double standard when it pertains to protecting the civil liberties of criminal accuseds. Numerous laws have been analyzed to need criminal offenders to confirm their virtue of criminal activities beyond an affordable doubt before they will certainly be approved a fair trial in state courts. ugoda pozasądowa wzór
The U.S. Constitution vests in the regulation and all legal and also judicial implementations are subject to constitutional restrictions. It depends on the residents to be familiar with these constraints as well as combat to keep the laws consistent with the constitution. If the courts are unwilling to abide by the stringent requirements of the constitution in the case of obstacles to government legislation, the citizens are under no commitment to obey those laws. In cases where the constitution is challenged, it is always suggested to consult a lawyer who has examined the concern and can describe the relevance of the constitution in regards to standing alone. | 7,828 | 3,407 | 17,783.598474 |
warc | 202143 | Can you spray WD40 on a propane tank?
Ive had the same thing happen with the knob on my propane tank and I did use the WD-40 on it, opened and closed the valve a few times to distribute the lubricant and it worked like a charm.
How do you unstick a propane tank?
The remedy: shut everything off, wait one minute, open the tank valve, turn the grill to the LIGHT position, attempt to light. If the valve is still stuck, a small bit of oil applied to the stem will help loosen it up.
How do you repair a leaking propane tank?
To stop a propane tank from leaking, you should first eliminate all potential igniters to minimize risks. You also need to open the windows to reduce built-up gas. Once its safe, you can use soap and water to find the leak. After that, you can tighten the screws and valve to stop the leak.
Why is my propane tank so hard to open?
If the propane tank is full, but it wont open, you need to check the hose attachment. This is because the hose attachment must be properly connected to the propane tank to open up and work properly. In particular, the screw-on valve of the propane tank must be tightened.
How does the safety valve on a propane tank work?
A safety relief valve is there to protect your propane tank from rupturing if excess pressure builds up inside the tank. These safety relief valves are also called pop-off valves, relief valves, or pressure venting valves. Once the pressure is down below the pressure of the spring, the valve closes on its own.
Why does my propane tank feels full but no gas?
The bottle feels heavier and obviously is filled with propane but opening the valve produces no escaping gas. This is the way the OPD cylinder valve was designed. Unattached propane cylinders equipped with OPD valves will not allow gas to flow when the service valve (handwheel) is opened.
Can you smell propane when tank is low?
NOTE: Some people believe that the smell of propane gas is a signal that their tank is nearly empty and should be refilled. When a tank is low you may get a momentary whiff of gassy smell when burners are ignited. However, if the smell of gas odor continues, you may have a serious propane gas leak.
How do you reset the OPD valve on a propane tank?
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Does a propane tank have a safety valve?
All propane tanks, including the cylinders you use for your grill, are required by law to have pressure relief devices that allow for the release of excess pressure inside the tank. The safety relief valve is designed to protect your propane tank from rupturing in case excess pressure builds up in the tank.
How far should you open the valve on a propane tank?
You should open a propane tank valve all the way when using a grill. The valves are double sealing which means they seal in a fully open or closed position. Turning it partially increases the chances of gas leaking. Turn the valve counterclockwise (in the “Open” arrow direction) until it stops.
What temperature will a propane tank explode?
The Flash Point of propane is -156 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the temperature at which already ignited propane will continue to burn on its own. If the temperature drops to -157 degrees, propane will extinguish itself - unless theres a continuous source of ignition present.
Is a propane tank supposed to hiss?
Propane tanks will often hint at a slight leak by making a hissing sound, which gets louder as you get closer to the tank. But, there are a few other possible reasons your new tank isnt working as expected.
Why do you smell propane when tank is low?
Its also good to be aware that you may smell a strong odor of propane gas when your tank is empty. This is because the odor can sometimes settle and collect in the bottom of the tank. When the propane supply runs low, you are left simply with the concentrated odor.
Does a propane tank have to be empty before refilling?
Instead of waiting to run out of propane before refilling, we recommend filling your tank up when it has 2 pounds of fuel left. There are two main ways to check the fuel levels of a propane tank. Look at the fuel gauge/overfill protection device located at the top of your tank. | 4,446 | 1,985 | 9,859.592947 |
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warc | 202143 | Committee representatives comprise one girl and one boy from each province. The coordinating body for the CFCI in Germany sends a newsletter out every two to three months to cities involved in the Initiative, which includes information about training opportunities. With growing tolerance and acceptance in society for previously stigmatized sexual minorities, there is now a subtle push to disregard pedophilia as a mental disorder and accept it as another sexual orientation. It is not a new phenomena, yet there is a recent change in the way things occur in family court, throughout the state. This can be done through, for example, child rights education in school or through life and livelihood skills education and other outreach programmes for out-of-school children. The guidebook outlines the various elements needed for inclusive policies and advocates accessibility, cross-sector coordination, social attitudes, individualized approaches and parenting support, as well as the full and equal participation of children with disabilities. Phone 727-686-1852 to get help from an experienced Mental Health Rights Advocate! Factual Information for Individuals to Make Informed Decisions and protect their rights! Release from Florida involuntary commitment? Download PDF. The right for a child to get a fair education! The Pedophile Agenda. Project areas include a Child Rights Awareness Campaign launched in 2006, the Child and Youth Friendly Communities Project, which produced a number of public resources and a child-friendly community toolkit, and staff awareness training to better support youth transitioning from foster care. Sadly, family court has gotten even more devastating, in terms of its proceedings, for children and parents. - Those rights are recognised internationally through the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Many of the issues in regards to mental health and children, enter into the family court arena and if one parent desires to have their child receive thorough physical testing to detect and possibly physical ailment that may be causing their mental health problems, and if the other parent demands strictly and only mental health drugs for the child, an all-out battle ensues. The ENOC holds an annual meeting. Inclusion does not necessarily imply endorsement by UNICEF. All too often, the child becomes the focus of court proceedings because one parent is asserting that the child has a mental or behavioral health problem or learning disorder and that parent is pushing for meds, whereas the other parent is strongly objecting to the meds due to the FDA warnings on them. Learn More. The committees are involved in conducting peer training to inform other children about their rights and to create awareness about children’s priorities and the committees. EUROPE !. The criteria for the Baker Act is very specific and to understand more about it, it may help understand what doesn’t meet the criteria. The actions and projects selected promote the Convention on the Rights of the Child and improve the wellbeing of children. GERMANY Survivors of sexual abuse are impacted in nearly every aspect of their lives. You have the right to know the risks of the proposed treatment and you have the right to know the alternatives to that treatment. Since the violent death of George Floyd, people in the USA and around the world have been taking to the streets to protest against racism. To be useful, child rights must be known and understood. There are parents, across the state, who have found themselves in the midst of battle in family court, with one or all of the above-mentioned court appointed professionals, and have found their rights to be surpassed and at times, withdrawn. Sec. Child Advocacy is a broad topic that covers many different issues in the area of mental health. The district of Seongbuk in the Republic of Korea, has developed a training programme for child rights education for municipal staff, local government employees, social workers and school employees. Parents are right to want to protect their children’s rights and there are laws that exist to help them to do just that. SPAIN In support of that vision, ... Join our efforts and advocate for every child. This has become so prevalent that a group of parents have formed an organization dedicated to helping parents, who find themselves in the midst of this type of proceeding. Procedures, such that are followed to prevent this type of violent outbreak at school, are necessary and yet they do not exclude parents legal rights or the child’s rights. This, of all areas of mental health rights, is one that deserves time and effort on the parents’ part, to get informed on the subject, almost from the moment their child is born. For the sake of ease on the reader, this article will be subdivided into several issues in connection with child advocacy. Download Germany CFCI case study [PDF]. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 protects the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance, including federal funds. There are many children, over generations, who come from divorced homes. In our current era, text messaging, Facebook, Twitter and other electronic gadgets are being used by children and teens to communicate with their friends, no matter the time of day or night or the child’s frame of mind. - In the U.S., we are prey to direct-to-consumer advertising that promises “a-cure-all” in the form of a pill, that in itself, has FDA warnings of mental health effects that, by evidence, prompt severe mental disturbance in those that take the pills. A 2014 article, published by Flagler Live, gives an overview of children and Baker Act. Child Advocacy and Parents Legal Rights. Children are open to mental health questionnaires, from school personnel, public schools have School Resource Officers positioned at every school, nurses are dispensing mental health meds in the school, and children who have, apparently misbehaved are brought to the school counselor’s office and given informal questioning about their mental health. Posts. Every year, millions of children are sexually abused by pedophiles. Get help from an experienced mental health rights advocate! In the area of mental health and family court, the adverse consequences leave many parents in the wake of the storm, that is called “justice”. Child Rights Advocacy Project aims to support eligible Hong Kong NGOs in implementing projects which help promote and realise children’s rights in Hong Kong. Most parents love their children and want to help them the best way they know how. - Young people with experience in alternative care shared recommendations on how to improve the leaving care process with more than 60 representatives from governments, NGOs, youth welfare services and universities. November 21 2018 November 18 2019 Child Rights Advocacy For all Social and Legal partners,contributors and supporters of Child Rights. In spite of the attempts to foster acceptance of pedophilia, you can work to help protect the children and join us in raising awareness about this troubling reality. Link to site. 300.304 through 300.311 as having mental retardation, a hearing impairment (including deafness), a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment (including blindness), a serious emotional disturbance (referred to in this part as “emotional disturbance”), an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, an other health impairment, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities, and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services.”, Parents are, typically, not told that mental health professionals and medical professionals do not have a single test that evidences a mental health disorder, behavioral disorder or learning disability. Now thanks to a network of youth advocates this is about to change. The prevalence of child sexual exploitation is one of the most disturbing tragedies plaguing our modern day society. July 13 2020 This Parents’ Rights Document is one way a parent can assert that right to decide. These indicators could be used to measure progress on children’s participation at the local level. Briefly and for the purposes of this article, Express and Informed Consent is a right assured to a parent to be informed of the risks and the alternatives to any proposed medical treatment. The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) is a nonprofit association of independent children’s rights institutions (ICRIs). (world-renowned for their work as psychiatrists advocating for the rights of children and adults).
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warc | 202143 | Noakes, Laura (2021).
Chrystal MacMillan and Elsie Bowerman: First Women Barristers' Negotiation of Professional and Political Identities. Abstract
This thesis examines the relationship between first-wave feminist political activism and the professional identities of early women lawyers through a detailed contextual consideration of two women: Elsie Bowerman and Chrystal Macmillan. Bowerman was a keen member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was Christabel Pankhurst’s election agent for the 1918 general election and founded the Women’s Guild of Empire (WGE) with fellow suffragette Flora Drummond. Bowerman was called to the Bar in 1924 and practised until 1938. Chrystal Macmillan was a leading member of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), the first woman to plead her case in the House of Lords, and a successful barrister whose feminist politics extended beyond the granting of suffrage to women. Much of her post-World War One activism focused on opposing the practice of assigning married women their husband’s identity.
I argue that there were complex and multifaceted connections between these women’s activism, legal practice and the law, which originated during the fight for women’s votes. I will examine in depth the effect these connections had on their legal aspirations and their involvement with politics after 1918. In doing so my thesis calls attention to the complications encountered by both women within the legal profession as women and feminists, and also reveals their long-term dedication to facilitating legal change through their activism. This research illuminates the multiple links between Bowerman and Macmillan’s roles as barristers and political activists, by exploring how complex societal expectations of women’s behaviour interacted with their wish to challenge gendered inequality. Consequently, it complicates our understanding of women entering the professions, feminist activism, and the relationship between law and politics during the late-19th and 20th centuries. Viewing alternatives Download history Metrics Public AttentionAltmetrics from Altmetric Number of CitationsCitations from Dimensions Item Actions Export About Item ORO ID 77337 Item Type PhD Thesis Keywords suffragists; barristers; women lawyers; feminism; sex discrimination; women's rights; practice of law; criminal justice administration Academic Unit or School Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Law Copyright Holders © 2021 Laura Georgina Noakes Depositing User ORO Import | 2,623 | 1,315 | 5,122.330038 |
warc | 202143 | The birth of a healthy baby is always something to celebrate, and Victoria’s Epworth Freemasons is close to delivering 3,000 bundles of joy this year.
The hospital’s maternity unit is marking 30 years of helping new lives into the world, with the first baby born at Epworth arriving back in September 1991.
Midwife Judy Jackson was among the original staff and said she was proud to still be working there today.
“Epworth Freemasons is like an extended family,” she said. “And it was such a big part of my life when my young family was growing up.
“My children say it was part of their lives too. In fact, two of my grandsons were born at Epworth Freemasons.
“Our team cares for each patient as if they were family.”
Ms Jackson said she often ran into former patients who had fond memories of the care they received at the Melbourne hospital.
“A couple of years ago, I was at my grandson’s school and a woman who was there with her Year 12 daughter recognised me – I cared for her when her daughter was born,” she said.
Five years ago, Ms Jackson moved to the special care nursery, which has just had its busiest month in more than 13 years.
“The special care nursery has been quiet during lockdowns but in August we cared for 52 babies, including six sets of twins,” she said.
Obstetrician Len Kliman estimates he has delivered more than 20,000 babies during the past 30 years, with many of them born at Epworth Freemasons.
He said a lot of things had changed in that time, but the fundamentals remained the same.
“It’s a privilege to care for a family on one of the biggest days in their lives,” Dr Kliman said.
“That’s one of the reasons that I have been an obstetrician for as long as I have.
“I feel proud to have been here since we opened maternity 30 years ago, and it’s that feeling of family and first-class care for my patients that has kept me here since then.”
The average age of mothers at Epworth Freemasons is 34 and, according to the hospital's Executive General Manager Simon Benedict, staff are beginning to see a second generation of Epworth babies being born.
“In fact, a patient services staff member and her three sisters were all born at Epworth Freemasons, and that staff member delivered her son here last year,” Mr Benedict said.
“People keep coming back to have their babies at Epworth Freemasons because of our personalised approach and support, every step of the way.
“Our recently-appointed maternity concierge helps people navigate their way through booking with us and with any questions about their hospital stay.
“We also have dedicated pre-admissions midwives to help with any concerns before they come in and talk through any physical or mental wellbeing questions during pregnancy, working closely alongside our wonderful Epworth Freemasons obstetricians.”
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the maternity unit, Epworth has launched a book for parents-to-be, called 'Bump, Birth and Bub'.
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Secondly, you probably have an previous automobile simply sitting round in your garage, it results in the accumulation of undesirable mud and dirt. Following the evaluation, you’ll be given a quote and whether it is to your liking, they’re going to pay you in cash and haul your automotive away promptly. In order for you the most effective deal for your old automobile, a junk car company could be your finest wager. Getting rid of an outdated, useless automobile is usually a good suggestion in more methods than one. In recent years, increasingly people have began to sell junk vehicles relatively than simply protecting them lying round and most of them have walked away with good sums of money in trade. Initially, maintaining a junk automobile in your storage or yard can eat up loads of unnecessary house – area which could be used in many higher methods. So, for those of you who have previous, ineffective vehicles rotting away in their garages, just find some good offers in your space and get on-spot money for junk automobiles – it is easy, actually! Old, unused vehicles are also discovered to do a lot harm to the atmosphere as they often release poisonous chemical fumes which cause pollution and may lead to serious health hazards in the long run.
It killed the space between the buyer and seller. Now there is no excuse not to go for unique merchandise. Now you not want to visit the junk yards, salvage yards or breakages to look for used elements. Elements used are effective, cheap and accessible, and these qualities can’t be attributed in combination in relation to other choices similar to spare elements, re-built elements, parts re-completed and new parts. Now it’s not obligatory for the installation of parasitic spare parts and rebuilt components in your vehicle always end in incompatibility when used together with different unique elements. They can be found on the web, cleaned, performance tested and prepared to make use of. These elements are OEM and readily available, which implies no extra compromises on quality. All it is advisable do is select the part of the automobile straight and place your order and that’s all the trouble on your half. These auto parts are available with particular reductions and packages. They include a warranty, cash back guarantee, free delivery and dwelling supply, customer assist and technical assistance. There are extra elements set up advantages used in your vehicle than you thought. Internet has developed as a big market for purchasing used auto elements. | 4,826 | 2,318 | 9,933.065574 |
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Do not turn the water up too high when in the shower or the bath. It can cause problems for your eczema. In addition, be gentle when washing your skin. Do not rub the skin too hard, and avoid soap. Instead, use a cleanser that is safer for your body.
You should always use sunscreen. This is even more important when you have eczema. Use a sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30 so you don't get a sunburn. Having a sunburn can make your skin even itchier than usual. You could use sunscreens specifically formulated for the face on the entire body. These are generally more gentle to use.
Always select sunscreens that are PABA-free. This particular additive can cause eczema symptoms to worsen for some. You should also carefully read the ingredient list even though the sunscreen says it is PABA-free. If nothing else works, you should speak to your physician about prescription sunscreen.
Some researchers have linked eczema to a Vitamin D deficiency. Therefore, a little bit of sunlight may help your condition. Do not go overboard, however. Spend about ten minutes in the sun each day. If you are going to be out longer than that, apply sunscreen and go about your business.
If you suffer with eczema flare-ups, be sure that your skin remains moisturized. This is a great way to make sure your flare ups are under your control. Keep your skin moisturized often after you bathe or shower to keep skin soft and pliable. Try plain moisturizers without additives, chemicals or scents.
To reduce eczema flare-ups, there are some basic bathing rules you can follow. Use room temperature water in your tub or shower. Hot water can cause eczema flare-ups. Don't scrub your skin. Use a gentle soap alternative instead of soap itself. Pat your skin dry, and liberally apply moisturizer when you are done bathing.
Discuss medications with your doctor. If an over-the-counter medication doesn't do the trick, a prescription one might. Use store-bought and prescription medication as directed. Straying from the instructions could cause more harm than good. At the very least, it will be ineffective, resulting in a waste of both effort and money.
Experiment with suntan lotions to find one that works for you. Certain sunscreens may exacerbate your eczema while others will not. However, what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. Keep trying them until you find one you can live with. However, be sure to just test them on a small patch of skin first.
Speak with your doctor about your eczema if changing your lifestyle isn't enough. They may be able to help you find a medication that helps ease the symptoms. These medications can be over-the-counter antihistamines or creams. More serious cases may require a prescription medication. Make sure that whatever they suggest or give you is used as directed.
Do you have eczema on your hands or wrists? Cold winter weather can be really brutal on these areas if they are not properly protected. The cold, dry air associated with winter can increase the dryness of your skin. Of course, this can cause a flare-up of your eczema. To help prevent this from happening, rub a ointment-based moisturizer on your hands and wrists. When you go outside, wear gloves for added protection.
You may already know to change your sheets frequently but have you considered your curtains? Your curtains can attract a great amount of dust over time and that dust is released in the air whenever you open and close them. So you should wash them frequently or invest in some that are easier for you to wash.
Be cool! Make an effort to keep your temperature steady at all times. Avoid extremes of either heat or cold. Be careful not to allow yourself to become chilled or overheated. Avoid getting sweaty or being exposed to humidity for long periods of time. This can make your eczema flare up.
Start putting a soothing oil in your bath with you. Using a bath oil will help keep the water from drying your skin out. You can emerge from the tub with your skin hydrated and nourished. Then finish up by applying a lotion to lock that moisture and hydration in. | 4,512 | 2,126 | 9,539.71778 |
warc | 202143 | Articles & Links
The internet is full of good reads related to our ET theme this month. We have searched the World Wide Web and presented some good links for your perusal.
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The 'How' of Transformation
Amid the VUCA environment, companies are embarking on transformational activities. This Mckinsey read aims to guide readers on the nitty gritties of the transformation process.
Link: http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/the-how-of-transformation
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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It
Writers Scott Anthony and Clark Gilbert reveal that there is no harder job for a corporate leader than transformation. The article highlights how to develop and manage transformation efforts.
Link: https://hbr.org/2013/03/transforming-a-company-is-daunting-but https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=42304&i=42395&cs=d390bd270807c3de5235e32aebfff556 &utm_source=hs_automation&utm_medium=email&utm_content=15606673&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9aKfk6Z21TFFvZ-QBnlahtzrw9n-NRmSLHq8qX9msCzSGZZ7E9NN27 c9BZi7EivK29KiZsIOrIe5dUnRylLU01e1vqWaH9BFsnm-XrdJkhtmhHCNc&_hsmi=15606673
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The Unconventional Habits of Transformational Leaders
Through examples of two distressed Russian companies, INSEAD Professor, Stanislav Shekshnia, highlights the exceptional qualities that leaders must possess to transform and turnaround companies.
Link: http://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/the-unconventional-habits-of- transformational-leaders-4439
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From the Outside In - Faced with volatility, more companies are looking beyond their own ranks to find new leadership
Faced with complexity and volatility, companies are looking beyond their own ranks to find new leadership, a move companies make only when the Board fails to groom a suitable successor, or to force out the incumbent CEO. The article weighs the pro and cons of hiring outside talent versus internal resources.
Link: http://www.strategy-business.com/feature/From-the-Outside-In
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How to beat the Transformation odds
Research studies have pointed out that transformational change is hard. However, the odds of success can be increased by communicating, leading by example and engaging employees continuously.
Link: http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/how-to-beat-the- transformation-odds
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Transforming Organisations for Sustained Innovation
This INSEAD article reveals that market-oriented businesses are better able to innovate on the back of complex and demanding organisational changes. However, a market-oriented transformation not only takes time but implies the development of a new organisational culture.
Link: http://knowledge.insead.edu/strategy/transforming-organisations-for-sustained-innovation-4315
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warc | 202143 | If you desire to improve your take in at the activity table, a games seat is a superb choice. This kind of office chair has actually been expanding in popularity due to the fact that its own very first overview right into the mainstream. These chairs are actually specifically useful to those that devote a great deal of opportunity playing computer game, as they are actually created to be ergonomically welcoming. Pc gaming office chairs fit to partake, and they have numerous functions that create all of them a fantastic choice for those that are regularly playing video games.
A pc gaming office chair normally is actually not ergonomically best. Nonetheless, they are actually created with several essential features in mind. For the main thing, they are actually made in order that the recline could be varied, which enables a selection of distinct levels of comfort relying on where you are sitting. One of the most fundamental versions are actually just flat, along with either a couple of armrests at the face and a two-point or solitary recline. Greater end ones are going to possess added functions like a padded headrest, back assistance, changeable armrests and even recline positions. They are actually also commonly extra ergonomically friendly: the lesser back-rest, armrest, seat as well as back may all be one by one changed for each convenience as well as productivity, allowing for higher customization as well as customization. N4G
Poor posture is a significant source of discomfort in resting. Some of the primary causes of bad pose is actually being in an uncomfortable placement for extended amount of times. Many of individuals who partake a poor pose position for their whole lifestyles deal with persistent return problems, pyrosis ( heartburn ), shared discomfort, problems, shoulder, neck and sleeplessness ache as well as other pains and discomforts. Gamers are particularly at raised risk of bad position due to the nature of most of their task – investing long periods of time in a settled, static posture in front of a pc display screen is certainly not suitable for somebody that requires a really good pose to be completely comfy.
Players sitting in the suitable pose will locate that they are more comfortable, will certainly have much better circulation and will definitely have an organic body weight bearing fit. Players that are actually regularly in bad sitting position are at enhanced threat of muscular tissue pressure as well as accident. This is actually given that muscle mass strain can lead to ache, while inadequate position can bring about a loss of circulation as well as a loss of muscular tissue strength, resulting in tiredness. Players may substantially enhance their convenience, wellness and also pose if they spend some time being in a pleasant office chair, changing the lumbar back, the armrest, the angle of the chair, etc. Proper resting is actually half the fight against poor position as well as bad circulation.
Players might also be actually experiencing neck as well as shoulder ache. Commonly this is triggered by unsatisfactory resting position, but there is more to it than that. Players occasionally hold their heads as well near to their bodies, or place their hands as well near their back. A quality video gaming office chair are going to allow the player to adjust the crown as well as arm height for maximum convenience and also will certainly make it possible for the neck to become correctly sustained by the armrest and also by the rear of the chair.
Those that participate in extremely lengthy video games on their personal computers must take into consideration receiving a special office chair along with longer back support, as effectively as flexible branches and also a vast seat. You might additionally really want to appear for a video gaming chair along with a tipping function, which are going to permit you to change the seat to acquire the excellent angle for best positioning. N4G
Immersive computer produces usage of a lot of attributes offered only in pc gaming chairs. Players who are in to this extra challenging form of immersive computing will definitely need an office chair along with all-steel frameworks along with dense supporting and also arm rests. Your lower legs should be relaxing comfortably versus the thigh remainder of the seat, as well as the back of your lower legs should be actually relaxing standard against the back rest of the chair.
When looking for a gaming office chair, you ought to look at the materials the chair is made from. While there is commonly no distinction in premium when it pertains to different types of products utilized to construct games seats, there are some materials that are actually much more comfy to sit in than others. A natural leather pc gaming office chair frequently possesses an incredibly lifelike organic allure, while some leather-made seats may be exceptionally warm and comfortable and have a tendency to sweat a little. You can easily commonly purchase an office chair according to the size and shape of your physical body. Lots of people prefer the conventional design of games chair, which features an L-shaped backrest and broad bottom, while others enjoy the ergonomic desk features of the swivel office chair, which permits all of them to keep their shoes strongly grown on the flooring.
They are certainly not the exact same as workplace seats. For one, the previous is tailored to provide the individual along with optimum ergonomic desk assistance while the last is primarily tailored to accommodate to the necessities of the gamer.
A workplace chair might happen in several layouts as well as styles but they still can’t offer the kind of comfort and comfort that office chair created primarily for game gamers can. If not cared for appropriately, this negative posture will affect your health and also even lead to major issues such as back pain as well as back ache. this class guide from TGC
An ergonomic video gaming chair performs not make use of bands or any sort of various other extra anchors to keep you in place. There are actually 2 significant concepts that office chair designers center on when developing these chairs. | 6,224 | 2,769 | 13,940.501264 |
warc | 202143 | نویسندگان چکیده کلیدواژهها عنوان مقاله [English] نویسندگان [English] Background and Aim: Childhood is undoubtedly the most important period of human life, the personality of each person has been formed in this period and how to spend this period has pressed the role of human acceptance in other periods of life. The United Nations has also stated that crime prevention guidelines should focus on childhood. The education system of each country has an irreplaceable and decisive role in educating the next generation and preventing the tendency of children and adolescents to delinquency. The purpose of this study is to investigate why, how and the effect of delinquency and child victimization in the education system with a preventive approach. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and has been conducted in a descriptive-analytical method using new scientific sources and secondary analysis of theoretical and predictive research. Results: based on the research findings, school functions increased in three aspects of growth, socialization and counting control, as well as school construction and performance functions and its effect on usability. Conclusion: The research showed that there was a special and close relationship between school factors (both structurally and functionally) with the process of delinquency of children and adolescents. Although this relationship is not really a cause and effect, but in general there is a high correlation between them. کلیدواژهها [English] | 1,775 | 865 | 3,094.450867 |
warc | 202143 | A whitepaper discussing payday lending and what credit unions are doing to combat this problem has been published by the Southeast Regional Credit Union Schools (SRCUS). The paper was authored by a team of third-year students in the SE CUNA Management School program comprised of Lisa Jo Cody, TruNorth Federal Credit Union (Ishpeming, MI); Lisa Spearman, Peach State Federal Credit Union (Lawrenceville, GA); Jennifer Christopher, BayPort Credit Union (Newport News, VA); and Becky Dawsey, Ferguson Federal Credit Union (Monticello, MS). Completion of the written project and an oral presentation of the research report is a prerequisite for graduation from the program. This team of students received recognition at the 2017 SE CUNA Management School graduation ceremonies last month for their exceptional work on this project.
In a society where many families are living paycheck to paycheck, it’s no shock that our nation is struggling with a predatory lending epidemic. An amazing 12 million Americans used payday lending services in 2010. Forty-seven percent of Americans say they do not have enough money saved to cover a small emergency such as car repairs and medical bills. For someone with low income and imperfect or limited credit, turning to a payday lender may seem the best available option. Because this is something that so many credit union members are personally impacted by, many credit unions have begun offering cost-saving alternatives and financial education.
In the paper, the team researches what credit unions are doing to combat the problem and seek to determine if credit unions are helping or contributing to the problem. The history of payday predatory lending is discussed, as well as the growth of this industry over the years. Current and possible solutions are analyzed to help determine how credit unions are responding. The authors also provide a review of past and current regulations surrounding payday lending to determine if they have had positive or negative implications on the payday lending industry. A thorough analysis is included, as well as an appendix containing recommendations and solutions.
To access a complimentary copy of the white paper, please visit www.srcus.org/management-school/student-white-papers/. | 2,273 | 1,160 | 4,434.309483 |
warc | 202143 | Crypto derivatives platform Delta Alternate introduced Wednesday that it has launched futures buying and selling on Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA), giving buyers a brand new entry level to the main altcoins.
The preliminary rollout of SOL and ADA name and put choices could have day by day maturities, with weekly and month-to-month maturities to be made accessible at a later date.
Choices give house owners the best, however not the duty, to purchase or promote a particular safety at a specified worth inside a pre-defined timeframe. Name and put choices are used closely in conventional markets however have develop into extra prevalent inside crypto markets.
Delta Alternate already offers choices buying and selling for Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP (XRP), Bitcashpay (BCP) and Binance Coin (BNB). As Cointelegraph reported, the derivatives trade launched a number of choices merchandise in mid-2020.
The crypto derivatives market has grown exponentially this 12 months, with merchants defying a regulatory crackdown from international monetary authorities. Cryptocurrency trade Binance just lately introduced it was restricting derivatives trading for Hong Kong users amid native pressures. In the USA, officers on the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee have voiced their help for broader enforcement on crypto-based derivatives.
After a mid-summer lull, choices buying and selling picked up considerably in August as crypto markets staged a large rebound. By mid-August, the open interest in Bitcoin options had greater than doubled from their yearly low set in late June.
Analysis undertaken by CoinMarketCap decided that, by December 2020, derivatives accounted for 55% of the general cryptocurrency market. The expansion of platforms like FTX, Bybit and Delta counsel derivatives could account for a bigger share of the general market. | 1,862 | 1,000 | 3,452.148 |
warc | 202143 | Everything you should know about Virginia's ITIN Loan Program for Immigrants
There’s something about owning a home that’s inherently American, but purchasing an abode is also possible if you’re an immigrant—whether you’re a citizen or not. Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) Loans are available to those not eligible for a social security number, who instead have an ITIN number.
What is an ITIN number?
You need a nine-digit ITIN number in order to file your federal taxes—which is mandatory for anyone living in the US regardless of immigration status. If you don’t have one, you can request one from the IRS. Once you have an active ITIN, you are eligible to submit an application to the ITIN loan program in Virginia.
Who is eligible for an ITIN home loan in Virginia?
ITIN mortgage loans have more specific requirements than other loan programs. You must be able to offer a down payment of at least 15% (or up to 25%) depending on your credit score. That said, gift funds are accepted. You also need to have filed 2 years’ worth of tax returns already, using your ITIN number (or bank statements if you’re self-employed), and you need to demonstrate a minimum 2-year work history in the same field. You may also be asked for a month’s worth of pay stubs. Finally, most lenders require your debt-to-income ratio be 50% or lower, and that you have a credit score of at least 600.
How to improve your chances of ITIN Loan Program approval
Although having an ITIN number helps, it doesn’t guarantee you will be granted a loan. Here are a few tips to help increase your chances:
1. Find a lender with a reputation for working with ITIN home loan candidates
Always research potential lenders. While some will be willing to grant smaller loans to those trying to rebuild their credit score, big banks may turn you down without a strong credit history. Check out lending networks online to familiarize yourself with smaller financial institutions that may be more amenable, or look into hiring a specialized mortgage broker; get recommendations from friends and reputable experts to help guide your search for the right broker!
Pay down your debt
When trying to land a home loan, your credit score can make all the difference in the world. To raise your credit score, do everything you can to pay down enough of your existing debt to improve your score, as this demonstrates financial responsibility. Start by paying off delinquent debts and then get to work on high-interest debts (such as a high-interest credit card balance).
Don’t over-borrow
Although this can be a very effective way of ironing out your credit score, it’s often glossed over. Frequent utilization doesn’t necessarily equal a higher credit score. Borrow only what you need, when you need it, and pay it back on time. It may sound simple, but it’s also foundational.
ITIN Loans in Virginia
Recap: if you have an ITIN number, a 2-year work history, a sizable down payment, and a minimum credit score of 600, you’re eligible for Virginia’s ITIN Loan Program. To apply for an ITIN number, follow these steps.
Everyone deserves a dream home. The sky just might be your limit if you take things one step at a time! Need help? Find a broker to help you with your ITIN Loan Program application today. | 3,372 | 1,632 | 6,754.330882 |
warc | 202143 | Running a business of any size is a time-consuming task that requires you to put all the pieces together with accuracy to ensure the success of your enterprise. At Advanced Business Computing Services, we suggest that if there’s any way you can get support with some of those ongoing chores, then it’s in your best interests to consider it. That’s why we’ve provided this blog post so that you can look at choosing a company that offers
payroll tax management and support.
Quite simply, using a trusted outside company to oversee your payroll gives your more time to focus on other areas of your business. You don’t have to hire and train more employees to do the work. All you need to do is provide the required information to the company you’ve chosen to work with, and rest easy knowing it is correct. You don’t have to wonder if you’ve taken care of
payroll tax filing or if all the paperwork is in order.
Taking a further look at taxes, using a payroll company with significant experience in this area ensures that you are not paying more tax than you have to, and you’re taking advantage of any credits that may be available to your company.
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warc | 202143 | We understand the challenges that some of our students may face whilst studying in the UK. Moving to a new country and becoming a Boarding School student is a big adjustment. It’s natural for students to feel nervous or worried before they fully settle in to school life. Some students may be more prone to mental health issues such as anxiety or depression and we understand the importance of providing support to these students.
Talking about any mental health issues a student may experience whilst at school is the first step to them feeling better. Academic Families are always on hand to help students to find extra support. Our staff are open, non-judgmental and understand the importance of listening. Students can go to any person they feel comfortable with, but some of the best people to talk to include,
If it is determined that a student requires specialist support they may be referred to CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). CAMHS is a service that supports the mental health of young people through a range of therapies.
Academic Families staff are trained by Mental Health First Aid England, so we have the necessary skills to support students who may be struggling with their mental health at Boarding School. The two-day training course equips us with the knowledge and understanding to spot mental health issues before they escalate.
We believe in the importance of having a team of people around our students to keep them safe, happy and successful. We have excellent relationships with all schools that we work with and are in regular contact with them to work together to provide the correct student support. Our host families also take part in safeguarding training and take the welfare of our students seriously.
Before the start of each term we try to meet our new students in person so that they feel comfortable enough to approach us should they ever have any issues. We understand that coming to a new place can cause anxiety, so our video calls before the start of term give students a chance to talk to us about any of their worries. Being prepared and managing expectations is a great way to reduce anxiety, so we encourage all students (and parents) to read our handbooks before coming to the UK.
Whilst students dealing with mental health issues won’t all experience the same symptoms, there are some key signs to look out for, including
There are plenty of charities and organisations who provide help for young people with mental health difficulties. Young Minds are a UK based mental health organisation and their website is a great starting point for finding support. Samaritans offer confidential helplines which are free to contact and are open 24 hours a day. Similarly, Childline supports anyone in the UK under the age of 19. By calling 08001111 or visiting their website, students can chat with a trained Childline counsellor about anything they may be struggling with.
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warc | 202143 | Addressing a renewable energy conference in Washington today, the Prez said: "America is in the lead when it comes to energy independence; we’re in the lead when it comes to new technologies; we’re in the lead when it comes to global climate change — and we’ll stay that way." Bush threw out some big roundContinue reading ““We’re in the Lead in Global Climate Change””
According to the Wall Street Journal, the coal industry is struggling to build new plants, because of fear of climate change. It’s a long story, so I’ll put a couple of other excerpts (one relating to Florida) below the fold, but here’s the lede:
From coast to coast, plans for a new generation of
coal-fired power plants are falling by the wayside as states conclude that conventional coal plants are too dirty to build and the cost of cleaner plants is too high. [cut] As recently as May, U.S. power companies had announced intentions to build as many as 150 new generating plants fueled by coal, which currently supplies about half the nation’s electricity. One reason for the surge of interest in coal was concern over the higher price of natural gas, which has driven up electricity prices in many places. Coal appeared capable of softening the impact since the U.S. has deep coal reserves and prices are low.
But as plans for this fleet of new coal-powered plants
move forward, an increasing number are being canceled or development slowed. Coal plants have come under fire because coal is a big source of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming, in a time when climate change has become a hot-button political issue. | 1,682 | 891 | 3,035.52862 |
warc | 202143 | Additionally, you can pick precisely which meals you would like to receive from the 20 meals readily available weekly – . For example, if you are on the Calorie Smart meal plan but see a Household Friendly dish that you want to attempt, you can quickly swap out a meal to consist of that meal in your delivery.
According to its website, HelloFresh concentrates on sourcing high quality components. The business includes fresh produce with a lot of dishes, and a few of it is organic. It likewise sources hormone-free chicken and pork and sustainable, “ocean-friendly” seafood, according to its site. What’s more, HelloFresh has an objective of promoting positive experiences in the kitchen area.
HelloFresh functions appealing and intriguing tastes across a variety of regional foods. Some examples of the recipes on its weekly menu consist of: Pork Sausage Rigatoni in a Velvety SauceZucchini and Mushroom Bibimbap BowlsSalsa Verde EnchiladasPork SchnitzelBuffalo-Spiced Chickpea BowlsCaramelized Apple Cheddar MeltsWith the exception of vegetarian, pescatarian, and lowered calorie diet plans, HelloFresh does not deal with specialized diet plans.
However, HelloFresh might not be perfect if you are strictly following a vegan, paleo, or keto diet. That is because a number of its offered options will not satisfy the requirements of these diet plans. In addition, if you are gluten-free or following an allergen-free diet plan, you might prefer a meal kit shipment service that caters specifically to these dietary needs.
Each of these meals clocks in around 650 calories per serving, and according to the HelloFresh website, they are dietitian-approved. If you are consuming at a calorie deficit, then you are most likely to slim down. The calorie-controlled meals on HelloFresh’s Calorie Smart plan might assist you accomplish this goal. Nevertheless, weight-loss is not a guarantee, even if you are getting Calorie Smart meals ().
You can get the most affordable cost per serving by ordering the largest strategy size: five dishes each week for four individuals. Shipping is a standard $7. 99 per box. Nevertheless, HelloFresh regularly uses brand-new users totally free shipping and a discount on their first delivery or numerous shipments. HelloFresh’s most popular strategy size is 3 dishes weekly for 2 individuals.
99 per serving or about $55 weekly, plus the expense of shipping. This table compares and contrasts HelloFresh with some other popular meal set shipment services. Keep in mind that this table only includes meal set delivery services, not services that provide preprepared meals. Numerous possible rivals will ship completely cooked and put together meals to your door, including BistroMD, Fresh n’ Lean, and Newly.
It is a solid alternative if you value the convenience of a meal set and take pleasure in cooking however are still on a budget. HelloFresh is more cost effective than its competitors Sun Basket and Green Chef, but uses a more limited choice of meal strategies that may not work for those with stricter dietary needs or preferences.
As much as I enjoy cooking supper, I ‘d rather buy takeout than brave the hectic grocery stores on weekends. That’s why I chose to try Hi Fresh, among the best meal set delivery services that assures to handle all of the menu planning and food shopping for me – . Overzealous Hi Fresh ads have actually interrupted my podcasts for a long time, making me skeptical about the truthful value and quality of its boxes.
But beware: Meal preparation isn’t as basic as it appears. Hi Fresh presumes you have certain culinary staples accessible which understand your method around the kitchen area. Or, at least, you have actually minced garlic prior to. . Here’s what else I found out during my first month with Hi Fresh, why I’m mostly offered on its service and answers to other concerns you might have prior to subscribing.
I’ve been spending $96. 87 for 4 parts of three meals weekly, suggesting each of my meals costs $32. 29 and each portion costs $8. 07. (Image credit: Future) For my household, this is considerably more economical than eating in a dining establishment or purchasing takeout. We ‘d spend about the same at the shop, if among us had the time to store – .
92. Each portion comes out to $11. 82, which is most likely less than you ‘d invest at a dining establishment but might not justify shunning the grocery store – . If you include a 4th meal, the price per part drops to $9. 86. For contrast, Blue Apron’s three-meal, four-serving plan costs about the very same as Hi Fresh’s, but the very same two-serving plan expenses simply $60.
I signed up for the Chef’s Menu, which features a range of foods and deals with those with versatile diet plans. If you are a vegetarian, prevent beef or are trying to be calorie mindful, you can alter your strategy accordingly.( Image credit: Future) One week, my menu included Pork and Veggie Bibimbap, Melty Monterey Jack Burgers and Parmesan-Crusted Chicken.
And if I wanted to change my menu, I might include or drop any of these dishes as long as I did so before my order processed. The growing Hi Fresh recipe archive has more than 2,500 meals covering 18 foods. In other words, your tastebuds should not tire quickly. Blue Apron doesn’t specify how many total recipes remain in its catalog however says it seldom provides the exact same meal twice – .
For hygienic purposes, the meat was kept separate from the grains and produce within package, and a huge ice bag kept my food cool throughout delivery. (Image credit: Future) A third-party delivery service will provide your box on the very same day weekly within a particular time window – . You probably wish to pick a delivery day when you, another family member or a doorman are readily available to get your box.
Most of my components arrived unhurt, but I did deal with an icky sour cream explosion in my taco bag. But a quick call to customer support rewarded me with an account credit in exchange for the mishap. Each Hi Fresh meal came with most, but not all, of the essential active ingredients for preparation.
Plus, you’ll need utensils like pots, pans, a strainer and sharp knives before starting. The dish cards were simple to follow and thought about the different times separate meal elements require to prepare. They even offered some neat kitchen area tricks. (Image credit: Future) For example, I challenged myself one night by making bibimbap, a Korean rice dish I had actually never become aware of previously, let alone tasted.
I didn’t understand I could use a peeler to make a carrot appear like pappardelle, but Hey there Fresh’s big images instructed me to rotate the root for a ribbon effect. Because the rice took the longest to prepare, Hey there Fresh advised me to begin boiling the grains before sauting the veggies in a frying pan.
A sweet vinegar scent wafted through my apartment, letting my family know supper would be ready shortly – . Hi Fresh is a bit positive when it comes to prep time, however. The whole process took nearly an hour, while the recipe card said it ought to require only thirty minutes. (Image credit: Future) However the wait was worth it. | 7,342 | 3,483 | 15,139.317829 |
warc | 202143 | Additionally, you can choose exactly which meals you want to get from the 20 meals available every week – . For instance, if you are on the Calorie Smart meal strategy but see a Family Friendly dish that you would like to try, you can quickly switch out a meal to consist of that dish in your shipment.
According to its site, HelloFresh concentrates on sourcing high quality ingredients. The business consists of fresh fruit and vegetables with most dishes, and a few of it is natural. It also sources hormone-free chicken and pork and sustainable, “ocean-friendly” seafood, according to its site. What’s more, HelloFresh has an objective of promoting favorable experiences in the kitchen.
HelloFresh functions appealing and fascinating flavors throughout a range of local cuisines. Some examples of the recipes on its weekly menu include: Pork Sausage Rigatoni in a Velvety SauceZucchini and Mushroom Bibimbap BowlsSalsa Verde EnchiladasPork SchnitzelBuffalo-Spiced Chickpea BowlsCaramelized Apple Cheddar MeltsWith the exception of vegetarian, pescatarian, and reduced calorie diets, HelloFresh does not deal with specialized diets.
However, HelloFresh may not be perfect if you are strictly following a vegan, paleo, or keto diet plan. That is because a lot of its offered options will not satisfy the requirements of these diets. In addition, if you are gluten-free or following an allergen-free diet plan, you may choose a meal set delivery service that caters particularly to these dietary requirements.
Each of these meals clocks in around 650 calories per serving, and according to the HelloFresh site, they are dietitian-approved. If you are eating at a calorie deficit, then you are most likely to slim down. The calorie-controlled meals on HelloFresh’s Calorie Smart plan might assist you accomplish this objective. However, weight-loss is not a warranty, even if you are getting Calorie Smart meals ().
You can get the most affordable price per serving by ordering the largest plan size: 5 recipes per week for four people. Shipping is a standard $7. 99 per box. Nevertheless, HelloFresh routinely offers new users totally free shipping and a discount on their first shipment or numerous deliveries. HelloFresh’s most popular plan size is 3 recipes each week for two individuals.
99 per serving or about $55 each week, plus the cost of shipping. This table compares and contrasts HelloFresh with some other popular meal set delivery services. Keep in mind that this table just consists of meal package shipment services, not services that provide preprepared meals. A number of potential rivals will ship totally prepared and put together meals to your door, including BistroMD, Fresh n’ Lean, and Newly.
It is a strong option if you value the benefit of a meal set and take pleasure in cooking but are still on a budget plan. HelloFresh is more economical than its competitors Sun Basket and Green Chef, however provides a more minimal selection of meal strategies that may not work for those with more stringent dietary needs or choices.
As much as I enjoy cooking supper, I ‘d rather purchase takeout than brave the hectic supermarket on weekends. That’s why I chose to attempt Hey there Fresh, one of the best meal set delivery services that promises to deal with all of the menu preparation and food searching for me – . Overzealous Hello Fresh advertisements have actually disrupted my podcasts for some time, making me doubtful about the truthful value and quality of its boxes.
However beware: Meal preparation isn’t as simple as it seems. Hi Fresh assumes you have particular culinary staples accessible which understand your way around the cooking area. Or, at the really least, you have actually minced garlic prior to. . Here’s what else I discovered during my first month with Hey there Fresh, why I’m primarily sold on its service and responses to other concerns you may have before subscribing.
I’ve been investing $96. 87 for four portions of 3 meals per week, meaning each of my meals costs $32. 29 and each part costs $8. 07. (Image credit: Future) For my household, this is significantly more economical than eating in a dining establishment or buying takeout. We ‘d spend about the same at the store, if among us had the time to store – .
92. Each portion comes out to $11. 82, which is probably less than you ‘d invest at a dining establishment but may not validate avoiding the supermarket – . If you include a 4th meal, the price per portion drops to $9. 86. For contrast, Blue Apron’s three-meal, four-serving plan costs about the like Hey there Fresh’s, however the same two-serving strategy expenses simply $60.
I signed up for the Chef’s Menu, which includes a range of foods and accommodates those with flexible diet plans. If you are a vegetarian, avoid beef or are attempting to be calorie mindful, you can modify your strategy accordingly.( Image credit: Future) One week, my menu consisted of Pork and Veggie Bibimbap, Melty Monterey Jack Burgers and Parmesan-Crusted Chicken.
And if I wished to alter my menu, I might include or drop any of these meals as long as I did so before my order processed. The growing Hey there Fresh recipe archive has more than 2,500 meals covering 18 cuisines. Simply put, your tastebuds shouldn’t tire quickly. Blue Apron does not define how numerous overall dishes remain in its catalog but says it rarely provides the exact same meal two times – .
For hygienic purposes, the meat was kept different from the grains and produce within the box, and a massive ice pack kept my food cool throughout shipment. (Image credit: Future) A third-party shipment service will deliver your box on the same day each week within a particular time window – . You probably want to pick a delivery day when you, another home member or a doorman are available to get your box.
The majority of my active ingredients arrived unhurt, however I did face a disgusting sour cream surge in my taco bag. However a quick call to client service rewarded me with an account credit in exchange for the mishap. Each Hello Fresh meal featured a lot of, however not all, of the essential active ingredients for preparation.
Plus, you’ll require utensils like pots, pans, a strainer and sharp knives prior to beginning. The dish cards were simple to follow and considered the different times different meal elements take to cook. They even offered some cool kitchen area tricks. (Image credit: Future) For instance, I challenged myself one night by making bibimbap, a Korean rice meal I had never ever become aware of before, not to mention tasted.
I didn’t know I might utilize a peeler to make a carrot appearance like pappardelle, however Hello Fresh’s large images instructed me to turn the root for a ribbon effect. Due to the fact that the rice took the longest to prepare, Hey there Fresh instructed me to begin boiling the grains prior to sauting the veggies in a frying pan.
A sweet vinegar aroma wafted through my home, letting my household understand supper would be all set quickly – . Hey there Fresh is a bit positive when it comes to prep time, however. The whole procedure took nearly an hour, while the dish card said it should require only 30 minutes. (Image credit: Future) However the wait deserved it. | 7,425 | 3,476 | 15,518.591772 |
warc | 202143 | It is widely known that everyone can have financial problems nowadays. Adult life makes us meet hardships and solve them according to our abilities, knowledge, and talents. Clearly, money problems can be solved by time and work applied. Though, emergency situations demand spending lots of money that not everyone can afford in a moment. When you live from check to check every month, a $500 payday loan can become a great solution to deal with emergencies.
You have to think over several important facts before applying for a 500 dollar payday loan. Will you be ready to pay it totally off in a short-term period? How and where can you find the most trusted lenders? How to choose between payday loans online that they offer? How much time will it take to get instant approval? Follow our guide to know everything.
Possible Reasons to Apply for a $500 Payday Loan
There are many reasons why you may need a 500 dollar loan. Banks take too much time to process an application; sometimes we have no time for it, even if we have a positive credit score.
You never know what unpleasant things may happen to you. For example, you are a student, the semester is on, but the financial aid is on the road. You have to buy books and routine necessities for your student shelter, so a $500 loan could be in hand.
Your insurance may not totally cover the medical bills, and your car may have a desperate accident beyond warranty measures. The roof of your house may be damaged; the plumber wants money to stop the fountain under your kitchen sink. Do not concentrate on negativities, though. You may need a loan of 500 dollars to make a present for a baby shower or take your pet to the vet. Life goes on, and 500 dollars should not prevent you from being happy and confident.
Anyway, 500 dollar loans exist to cover emergency costs, and many companies, including America Cash, offer this short-time help. So, do not be desperate; trusted lenders exist, and you can find them both online and directly around your place.
» COMPARE: $600 Payday Loan Interest Rates and Fees
If you plan to get a 500 dollar loan, you have to keep in mind that the annual interest (APR) is usually 400%. It means that you have to return from 15 up to 30 dollars if you borrow $100. If you plan a short two-week loan, the finance charge in interest may rate from 390% to 780% APR. So, when you apply for a $500 loan, consider the period. Shorter loans have higher fees.
Requirements to Get a 500 Dollar Payday Loan
When you have already decided to fix problems with a small loan, you need to know the eligibility requirements to get a $500 payday loan or even a $1000 loan. Here they are:
A valid US ID card; Regular income from any source. I can be a Social Security or Disability; Active bank account; Valid e-mail and phone number; The borrower should be 18+; How to Get a 500 Dollar Loan Online
If you have any restrictions going to the local lender, you can apply to receive a $500 loan online at the site or using a mobile application. Many companies offer this opportunity. What do you need to do:
Go to the request form; Fill in the application listing; Get an answer in 90 seconds; Get your funds; Getting a 500 Dollar Loan With No Credit Check
If you are a master of a bad credit score, there are possibilities that you will not get a $500 cash loan. However, it is absolutely free to apply and to check out if you can get a $500 loan with bad credit. AmericashPaydayLoans.com has a huge lender network all around the country, so you do not have to drive far away if you avoid using online services. Another benefit is that you will get the answer very fast. At least, if your aim is not to apply for a $5000 loan, then you will need to represent more income to get a loan. Still, there are chances it will work, anyway. It is up to you to check out whether customer-friendly lenders are going to satisfy your extreme needs.
You can take some steps to improve the chances of qualifying:
Review the credit report and fix it; Add a co-applicant with a better rate; Add collateral like an investment account or an auto; Take more time for building the credit; FAQs Can I Take Out a $500 Loan With No Cosigner
A cosigner is a person who is also responsible for your loan and how you pay it out. Their credit history is relevant when the lender makes a decision about a loan. Online lenders cater to categories with no cosigner. So, yes, it is possible to get a $500 personal loan without a cosigner.
How Long to Get an Approval for $500 Loan?
A decision on a loan request never takes more than 5 minutes. Usually, you will get the answer in 90 seconds. It is an average amount, so usually, there are no problems in receiving this loan.
How to Get a $500 Loan With a Bad Credit
500 dollar loans are very common, and it is not a challenge to receive them even if the credit score is far from positive. It is almost impossible when it is about bank credit. Though modern lenders observe the difference between a small short-term loan, and it is easy and fast to get such a loan.
How Much Does a $500 Payday Loan Cost?
Every lender provides an online calculator to see how much you will pay every month to cover the debt. Usually, when you need a 500 dollar loan, you will have to pay 46 dollars per month during a year. If you choose a long-term loan, you will pay 9 dollars per month. | 5,385 | 2,519 | 11,447.667725 |
warc | 202143 | Heartfulness and AIFC - Association of Indian Football Coaches Launch the Heartful Coach Program for 2021 Mumbai: The Heartfulness Education Trust and AIFC, the Association of Indian Football Coaches, launched the national program, Coach to Heartful Coach as part of the International Day of Peace Celebrations. The Heartful Coach is a 3-day masterclass program designed to introduce a heart-centered approach to sports coaching in schools. More than 3,000 coaches will be participating in the virtual program this year. Eminent guests including Mr. Aditya Thackeray, Hon’ble Cabinet Minister of Tourism & Environment, Government of Maharashtra; AIFC Founder & Director Mr. Dinesh Nair; Mr. Pullela Gopichand, Chief National Coach, Indian National Badminton Team; Mr. Bharat Madhavan, Director Heartfulness Education Programs launched the program.
Participants shall be entitled to:
• Simple Heartfulness practices booklet and other reading resources • Access to free meditation sessions with 14,000+ trainers across the world • E-Access to all Heartfulness Webinars and Youtube Channels • Participation Certificate jointly endorsed by AIFC and Heartfulness Education Trust
Sport is one of the facets that drive holistic development among children and connect to their hearts. Sports coaches, therefore, play a crucial role in inspiring children to achieve their dreams. Often coaches are mentors to the children on and off the fields. The influence of coaches is beyond the games as they imbibe life skills such as discipline and consistency. A coach’s strength is in the calmness of his mind, cool temperament, tons of talent and self-belief. It’s the coach that finds diamonds in the dust. In many ways, coaches enable the mental, physical, psychological, and personality developments within children. The Coach to Heartful Coach Program enables football coaches to connect with the infinite potential of their hearts. The three-day immersive program that starts today includes Heartfulness Practices for inner peace, self-transformation, and overall well-being. The program hosts a 75-minute session on topics like coaching with the heart, being a heartful role model, and achieving coaching excellence.
Speaking on the launch, Mr. Aditya Thackeray, Hon’ble Cabinet Minister of Tourism & Environment, Government of Maharashtra, said, “As sportsmen, most of us want to excel and win, bring laurels for the country and society, at various levels. We want to play fair, win and create a name for our team, ourselves, and our sport. It is the spirit of winning that creating champions in sports. But the idea is to go one step further and create champions in life. A coach wields the art of nurturing and bring out the best in society. We have brought all coaches across India for Heartfulness. Today’s sport is about life and being a winner in whatever role you play in your life besides sports. The art of nurturing are aimed at learning and absorbing and sharing from each other at an international level for a better future.
AIFC Founder & Director, Mr. Dinesh Nair said, "Every child who plays a sport may not become a champion, but as coaches, our role is not only to create an Olympian or a gold medallist but to nurture children and look at the overall holistic development of a child to create role models and responsible citizens. We need to nurture a child’s mind, so let us embark on the journey of a ‘Coach to Heartful Coach’.”
Mr. Pullela Gopichand, Chief National Coach, Indian National Badminton Team said, “In the 35 years of my life as a player and coach, it has revolved around producing champions. Around 11 years after I began to coach, I realised that the number of people who come out confident in sports is a lot lesser than those that come out of sports dejected. It’s not about how many champions we make, but how many of them are on the journey. For too long sport has been for the winning few, who are genetically endowed, have better facilities, and it’s time we need to change that. Sports gives us more than medals – it helps us to share with the team, being part of the team, and gives life lessons. It is in the art of the coaching and heart of the coach – integrity, compassion, and trust are important for a coach. Being connected with the self is very important.”
Mr. Bharat Madhavan, Director Heartfulness Education Programs, said, “The launch of the Heartful Coach, coincides with International Peace Day. It is in the alignment of peace and relaxation with success and happiness. Inner peace is the secret formula to success in any field. The qualities of a coach to observe and not react, to let go and stay relaxed, and show empathy and compassion are necessary for a coach. Harmony between the inner conscience and the inner coach is possible only for a calm mind to achieve the peak performance and be in the zone. For an effortless performance, the Heartful Coach training programme comes in for inner integration that helps in tapping into intuitive capabilities for both the coaches and the players.”
Last year, Heartfulness Education Trust and AIFC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to introduce the transformational ‘Heartful coach - Let's Coach with our Heart.' The ongoing program is intended to help sports coaches from all strata and regions of the country. | 5,444 | 2,422 | 11,953.423617 |
warc | 202143 | A wireless kit, comprising headphones, a microphone, and an app might be a cheap alternative to the usual treatment of the common temporary hearing loss in kids, popularly known as ‘glue ear,’ finds a small study, published in the online journal
BMJ Innovations.
It may avoid the need for surgery in many cases, and could cut down on clinic visits, by enabling parents to monitor their child’s hearing remotely at home, say the researchers.
Glue ear (otitis media with effusion), occurs when the middle part of the ear fills up with sticky fluid, usually after a cough, cold, or ear infection, causing temporary hearing loss in one or both ears.
One in 10 children starting school in the UK or Europe will have some hearing loss caused by glue ear.
Deafness in young children can interfere with speech development, language, communication, auditory processing, self-esteem, socialisation, listening and learning, say the researchers.
Current solutions are far from ideal. A grommet, or T-tube, is a small tube designed to drain fluid away and keep the eardrum open, but it requires insertion under general anaesthetic.
Around a third of children fitted with them will develop an infection as a result; and in a small percentage of cases, grommet insertion risks perforating the eardrum or permanent scarring.
Hearing aids require several audiology appointments to adjust sound levels correctly, because the condition fluctuates.
And hearing aids that enable sound to vibrate through the skull bone directly to the cochlea (inner ear bone), so bypassing the eardrum and middle ear, are very effective. But they are expensive.
Bone conduction headphones, however, which are marketed to cyclists, allow sound from mobile phones to be directed straight to the cochlea while not blocking out vital sound from traffic, and are much cheaper.
The researchers wanted to find out if the commercially available Bone Conduction Kit, comprising a wireless headset plus microphone, paired with the freely available Hear Glue Ear app, would enable children and their parents to manage glue ear effectively at home.
The parents of 26 children diagnosed with glue ear and/or scheduled for grommet insertion in the local area during the first wave of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, were sent the kits and details of the app.
They filled in an Otitis Media Quality of life questionnaire within 3 weeks of kit receipt to assess the impact of ear problems on their children with and without the kit. Progress was monitored via remote virtual or phone consultations over the subsequent 3 months.
The children, who were all aged between 3 and 11, made up 82% of those on the local surgical list for grommet insertion. Their average level of hearing loss had been measured as mild.
Twenty families set up the kit successfully straight away; four others waited for a call. After the initial set-up, four families required additional help to use the kit later on.
In the 3 months before the kit was supplied, 19 sets of parents said their child’s hearing had been poor or very poor. None of the parents reported this while using the kit, with 24 reporting it as ‘normal’ or only ‘slightly below normal’.
Twenty three parents reported that their child ‘often’ or ‘always’ had difficulty hearing in a group before the kit’s arrival, compared with 22 out of 26 saying their child rarely or never had problems hearing in a group when using the kit.
Two thirds (17) used the app at home, 8% (2) on car journeys, and 26% (7) didn’t use it at all. Fifteen (58%) of the children took the kit to school or nursery.
One family commented that the school took their child’s hearing more seriously as a result; one parent said the headset was a visual cue to others that their child needed support. But three mentioned schools needed more support, or more resources, to use the kit at school.
By the end of 2020, none of the children had had a grommet inserted. Three families said they would continue to use the kit rather than have a grommet inserted.
All families chose to keep the kit at the end of the study, even if the child’s hearing had improved. Most found remote management acceptable and thought their child had benefited.
The researchers acknowledge that the study was short term, didn’t include a comparator group, and only involved a small number of children.
But remote management of glue ear in this way has many advantages, they point out, including improving children’s hearing at an important stage of their development; reducing travel to clinics with small children; and enabling children to hear online learning more clearly.
“Innovative use of bone conduction headphones, a microphone and the Hear Glue Ear app, sent through the post to patients, is a novel, new and effective approach to the management of glue ear and its resulting hearing loss, especially when families have reduced access to audiology or Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) services, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic,” write the researchers.
Further larger scale studies are needed to look at the cost effectiveness and clinical effectiveness at scale, they say. But they add that this option might avoid the need for grommets in many cases of glue ear, while enabling mild, fluctuating cases to be offered early hearing support.
Holland Brown, T.M.,
et al. (2021) Bone conduction hearing kit for children with glue ear. Human Reproduction. doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2021-000676. | 5,564 | 2,582 | 11,711.982959 |
warc | 202143 | 20/09/2021
With the aim of raising public awareness of the consequences of car use in the city and promoting other safer, healthier and more sustainable ways of getting around, European Mobility Week (EMW), is once again being held from September 16 to 22. With the support of the European Commission, throughout the year but especially over these days, the aim is to promote more sustainable behavior in terms of mobility, highlighting the benefits of using less polluting modes of transport such as cycling, walking or public transport rather than using private cars. At
Fundación MAPFRE we advocate for Better Mobility: sustainable, healthy and safe. Will you join us?
This year the European Commission has put the focus on both physical and mental health. Under the slogan "Safe and Healthy with Sustainable Mobility" it focuses on the way we move around in our towns and cities.
Fundación MAPFRE is promoting this better mobility through an extensive campaign. To raise awareness of this more responsible and respectful mobility in Spain, various face-to-face activities are being carried out in Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza and Bilbao. An exciting event is also being organized in Portugal.
The way we move around has changed a lot in recent years with the proliferation of personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) and the growing importance of bicycles in cities. All this has led to changes in mobility, risks, behavior... everything has been modified. With the aim of helping you to ride a scooter safely,
Fundación MAPFRE and RACC have created the specific campaign " If you do it well, everything goes well":
What better day to demonstrate this commitment to better mobility than September 22, Car Free Day? A great opportunity to address the problems associated with increased traffic in cities, discuss the benefits of cycling and propose and promote these new, safer, healthier and more sustainable forms of mobility.
Fundación MAPFRE, national liaison for the European Road Safety Charter, invites you to reflect on the forms of mobility available and how we can improve them to achieve a better place to live and move around both safely and healthily. Find tips and ideas in our Better Mobility Handbook.
SUSTAINABLE AND SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVES
Indeed, the
Virtual Training Bike project from Fundación MAPFRE has been awarded the " Muévete Verde" [Go Green] prize in the Sustainable Mobility Promotion category by Madrid City Council. This is an innovative proposal in which, through simulators based on 360 videos, users can practice and experience what it is like to ride a bike in the city. In this way, it promotes the use of bicycles as an ecological and healthy mode of transport and helps users to learn how to ride safely.
This project is part of
Eccentric-Civitas, an initiative of the European Union within its Horizon 2020 research framework program, promoting healthier, sustainable and cleaner transport in cities, through innovative measures to improve sustainable mobility.
Together we can achieve Better Mobility. Will you join us?
PEDAL WITH US IN PORTUGAL!
Are you someone who cycles for more sustainable mobility? This weekend, from September 18 to 19, don't miss the activity that Fundación MAPFRE is organizing in Luís de Camões Square (Lisbon), in Portugal, at 7:30 pm.
Under the slogan 'Pedaleando por la sostenibilidad da jugo' [Pedaling for sustainability makes juice] we invite you all to exercise and pedal for better mobility. Pedaling on a exercise bike with the best views of Lisbon, we will be making juice, as the bike generates energy to power a fruit juicer.
Attendees will not only get a glass (eco-sustainable and recyclable, of course) of freshly squeezed juice, but also contribute to reforestation, as Fundación MAPFRE is committed to planting a tree for every 10 glasses of juice generated by pedaling. Do you want to pedal for a good cause? | 3,964 | 1,951 | 7,899.5551 |
warc | 202143 | It’s hard to return to something, like writing a blog, that you’ve been away from for a while. Especially when the world is on fire.
I’m back to a common battle for me: the line between indulgence (true self-care) and laziness (false self-care).
This is all about setting our expectations: this is the one thing we can individually control for ourselves. Expecting the world to jump back to how it was is a futile exercise. It might seem comforting, but it’s delusional, and will lead to disappointment that always comes when expectations are not in line with reality.
I’m convinced that, as a country, we are missing the ingredients for true reconciliation with the grief we are all experiencing: acknowledgement and empathy.
I’ve written about the kind of grief that I think we’re all experiencing, but have a hard time naming and therefore talking about: the grief of losing our former lives. | 936 | 536 | 1,562.910448 |
warc | 202143 | Takes place in the mountains of Northern India. The dog survived. Not quite sure how but it did. Amazing video. It’s incredible how close this leopard gets to the dog without the dog realizing it. These things are stealthy as Hell.
James Schipper: Here are some Dutch verbs that refer to the noises that animals make. Let’s see how many you can guess.1 – balken 2 – hinniken 3 – loeien (oe is pronounced oo) 4 – brullen 5 – knorren 6 – piepen 7 – blaten 8 – blaffen 9 – kakelen 10 – krijsen 11 – grommen 12 – zoemen 13 – koeren 14 – mekkeren 15 – kraaien 16 – keffen 17 – janken 18 – huilen 19 – klokken 20 – snateren
It’s pretty obvious that you remove -en for “sound an animal makes” when you are trying to take apart the word. Look at the part of the word to the left of -en.
I’m hardly getting any.
1. Dog
6. Chicken 7. Sheep
That’s it. That’s all I get.
The forms in the first part of this paper are from a paper by Geoffrey Kimball referenced at the end. He examined the relationship between the Muskogean languages and the isolates Tunica, Natchez, Atakapa, and Chitimacha in a proposed Amerindian family of the Southeastern US called Gulf. He concluded that although the languages were probably related, there was no way to prove it was so.
Granted, there are problems in the relationship, that’s for sure. But I went through a paper by Pam Munro looking at the relationship between Yuki-Wappo and Gulf and found the relationship convincing. The Gulf languages seemed obviously related; either that or massive borrowing had occurred.
People who oppose long-range language proposals like the above like to harp on a few caveats that get in the way of showing language relationship. For instance, they throw out all onomatopoetic words – words that are based on the sound of something. In animal names, this often refers to the sound of an animal.
Buzz for insects, slam or punch for a fist pounding, chirp for bird noises, meow for cat sounds, on and on. All of these are supposed to be rejected because people make up words based on the sound something makes. This gets in the way of proving relationship because we can always argue that these words are not cognates; instead, they are just words based on the typical sounds an animal makes.
However, I would say, “Not so fast now!” Follow me.
It’s from a scan, so it’s not letting me cut and paste but if you look at pp. 33-34, neighboring Siouan Quapaw has
shikkokkoke.
Then in Gulf, we have
"Robin" Tunica wishkokuProto-Muskogean tsiskoko/kwiskokoNatchez mishkokwaSiouan shikkokkoke
He says onomatopoeia, and then he says heavy borrowing. Also, as a birdwatcher, I am unconvinced that words for “robin” always end up looking like this due to the sound the bird makes. I don’t buy it. Our word is “robin.” That look like any of the words above.
I’m curious why any of these tribes would have to borrow a word for “robin” which has been found in their area since the tribes were founded. Animal names are usually borrowed when a group moves into a new territory with new animals with no names for them.
Onomatopoeia – fine, but why the same phoneme sequence over and over? There must be 100 onomatopoeic ways to describe this bird.
Kimball says this term is obviously widely borrowed.
More likely: A Gulf term, widely disseminated in Gulf and even reconstructed all the way back to Proto-Muskogean. That’s an old word! Remnants remain in Tunica and Natchez Gulf languages. Quite possibly borrowed by the Siouan Quapaw, who were migrants to the area. In this case, it would have been borrowed into Quapaw from Tunica because they neighbored each other.
It’s found in a number of Gulf languages and only in one Siouan language. They all could have borrowed the Siouan word for “robin.” Also, the Siouans were migrants from themselves, from Ohio. The Gulf languages probably came from Mexico, but robins winter there. Why would all of those Gulf languages independently borrow a Siouan word? Majority rules. If a form is widespread in one family and only present in one language of a neighboring family, the form was borrowed by the single language from the widespread form in the other family.
Also notice that this word in all of these languages has the same set of phonemes. Why would this set of phonemes be necessary to describe this bird? Our word robin doesn’t sound like any of those words. I am a birdwatcher but I’m not aware that that word represents the sound of a robin. The word has the same set of phonemes in different languages because it’s not onomatopoetic, that’s why! So it’s either genetic or widely borrowed.
Granted, maybe it was borrowed around in Gulf, but maybe not. I don’t know how to tease that apart.
Next we have two “woodpecker” words:
"Pileated woodpecker" Tunica pahpahka-naProto-Muskogean kwakakwaNatchez papaku-shil"Redheaded woodpecker" Tunica chuchuhi-naProto-Muskogean chaxchah-kaNatchez tsawtsa
Once again, oddly enough, this word is ancient, going all the way back to Proto-Muskogean. Once again, it shows up in both Tunica and Natchez. How odd that these three same languages always get affected by these words.
Why would these three languages be more likely to borrow words from each other than any of the other languages?
Onomatopoeia is brought up again, but why would the two woodpeckers have phonemes that are exactly alike for each separate one? Woodpeckers don’t sound all that different. I’m a birdwatcher.
Tunica and Natchez were not adjacent, so it’s hard to see how there could be borrowing between them. Also, Proto-Muskogean was spoken in Mexico! The Proto-Muskogeans moved from Mexico to an area around Tennessee. We don’t know where the homeland of the Gulf languages was. It was possibly in Mexico too. Possibly Proto-Gulf was spoken in Mexico, and it migrated to the Southeastern US. Neither of these woodpeckers is found in Mexico, so both would have been new to the Gulf migrants.
If the entire Gulf family moved into Southeastern Louisiana, the two woodpeckers above might have been new to them. Proto-Gulf could very well have coined those two terms for the different woodpeckers because they had never seen them before. The words then filtered down through the years into the present-day languages.
The conclusion here is that the feint to onomatopoeia by anti-long rangers is a potential dodge, and just because a disseminated word is onomatopoetic, that doesn’t mean that all of those languages made it up based on the sound of the object. If the words for an animal always take the same phonemic shape, this tends to argue against onomatopoeia because you would think different groups would make up different words for objects that make the same sound. Why would they all make up the exact same word with the exact same phonemes? It doesn’t fly.
As an example, see this segment copied from an article by John Bengtson (an acquaintance) in
Mother Tongue November-December 1989.
J.D. Bengtson
Soon after I began actively comparing the languages of the world some three decades ago I noticed a recurring phonetic pattern in word for
‘butterfly’all around the world. They all involved syllables with a labial (usually /p/) followed by a vowel and a liquid resonant (usually /r/ or /l/). The syllables were often repeated or reduplicated with partial or full reduplication. The collection of these words grew until they make up what is now Table 1.
Table 1: Words for
‘butterfly’containing labials and liquids
Indo-European :*pXpili- ~ *pòpili- > Italic: LatinpXpilie (pXpilion-) > ‘butterfly’ Frenchpapillon, papillot , pavillon ‘butterfly, leaflet’ ‘’(> tent, pavilion’ Engl.), pavilion Venetianpaveğa, Tyrolianpavel, Friulianpaveye, Provençalpabalho, Catalanpapalhó, Calabrianparpaggyune, etc. Germanic: Old High Germanfîfaltra (> Germanfalter, [dial. fifalter, pfeipfalter, etc.] Yiddishflaterl); Old Saxonvîvoldara, Dutchvlinder; Old Englishfòfealde; Icelandicfifrildi ~ fijrildi, Norwegianfivreld(e), Swedishfjäril (dial. fjörald, fervel, fjärafalla, etc.) , etc. [ ‘butterfly’ Italianfarfalla < Germanic: cf. Swed. dial.fjärafalla]
Afro-Asiatic: : Semitic HebrewparpXr, Aramaicfurfr- ‘butterfly’
Kartvelian: Georgianp’ep’el-, Mingrelianparpal(ia)-, papralia, Lazparpal-, Svanp’ärp’old, p’ärp’and ‘butterfly’
Euskaro-Caucasian: : pinpirin ~ pinpilin Basque ‘butterfly’ : Caucasian Udipäpäläk ~ Udi (Nidzh)pampaluk Andipirinpa ; ‘butterfly’ Abkhaza-parpal’ ; ‘moth’
Dravidian: Kuipipili ‘moth’ Kodagupa:pÈli ; ‘butterfly, moth’ KurukhpaplX Naiki pipuli, Parjipilpili, Gondipòplò, pòprò, Kuwipubuli ‘butterfly’
Austronesian: Tagalogpapaló ~ paparó ~ parú-paró ‘butterfly’
Indo-Pacific: Trans-New Guinea: Karepurupuru, Bunabunpiropir ‘butterfly’ Andamanese: Öngebebele, Aka-BalepomÃlÃ, Aka-BeapQmilÃ-dÃ, Aka-Puchikwarand Aka-BobQmilÃ-dÃ, Aka-KolbÃmilà ‘’ butterfly’
Amerind: Hokan: Tequistlatecpápalo ‘butterfly’ Uto-Aztecan: Aztec: Zacapoaxtla paapaaloo-t, Tetelcingopöpölu-tl; Hopipó:voli ‘butterfly’ *pimpilitu, *pil¨pintu Andean:Quechuan ‘butterfly’
It should immediately be noted that the words in Table 1 are not necessarily all the words of this type in all the world’s languages, only those that have come to my attention since I began collecting them some thirty years ago. What are we to make of these very similar words for
‘butterfly’,found in diverse areas of the world? Most historical linguists would probably dismiss the similarities, attributing them to independent and recent origins.
For example, R.L. Trask (1997: 296), remarking on the Basque word pimpirina ‘
butterfly’and others: “This impressive collection of regional terms can hardly represent anything of any great antiquity; most of these terms appear to be strongly phonaestheticin motivation.” (Italics added.) Trask (1997: 258) defines a phonaesthetic word as “one which has apparently been coined out of thin air purely because of its appealing sound.”
While such words as referred to by Trask may exist, “coining out of thin air” can hardly be applied to the words for
‘butterfly’listed above. Why indeed would Europeans, Asians, Pacific peoples, and Native Americans independently arrive at almost the same shapes for these words? With further analysis, we find these words can be subdivided into the following types:
Table 2: Simple reduplication:
p a r p X r Hebrew Tagalogp a r ú p a r ó Karep u r u p u r u Bunabunp i r o p i r
Here the syllable type
PVR(V)is simply reduplicated. This syllable closely resembles the form of a global etymology meaning ‘ to fly’,which Merritt Ruhlen and I gave the approximate phonetic shape of PAR(Bengtson & Ruhlen 1994, pp. 317-318).
Table 3: Reduplication with apophony or dissimilation:
Basquep i n p i r - in Udi (Nidzh)p a m p a l - uk Abkhaz-p a r p a l - ‘ Quechuap i m p i l - itu ~ p i l¨ p i n - tu
In these words simple reduplication (as in Table 2) has been altered either by apophony1 (alternation of r ~ l ~ n), or dissimilation substitution of similar sounds, here other resonants r ~ l ~ n > m, as in
English“pilgrim”, ultimately from Latinperegrinus). Note, for example, the similar results in widely separated Basqueand Quechua.
Table 4: Partial reduplication (type
PùPVLV): Latinp X p i l i - ion- Georgianp’ e p’ e l- Udip ä p ä l ä - k Kodagup a: p È l i Tagalogp a p a l ó Öngeb e b e l e Hopip ó: v o l i
1 For more on apophony (consonantal ablaut) see Wescott (1974, 1998), Bengtson (1998). In these examples, which I find the most interesting of all, we find the common elements of:
initial labial stop [p], voiced [b]in Andamanese; first vowel, sometimes stressed and/or long [X, a:, ó:]; medial labial stop [p](the Hopichange of *p > v is parallel to the change from LatinpXpilion- > Frenchpavillon); [b]in Andamanese a second vowel (with some variation [i ~ È ~ e ~ o]; a third consonant – always lateral [l]; the original final (thematic) vowel, in three of the languages [i].
In the face of these closely parallel common elements, I find independent coinage extremely unlikely, borrowing between these diverse languages just as unlikely, so we are left with one viable explanation: a very ancient common origin of these words for
‘butterfly’.
But if so, how do we account for the amazing similarity after what could be 50,000 years or more? I propose that the reason they have been preserved almost intact in widely separated areas is due to the preservative effect of phonosymbolism. Phonosymbolism, which symbolizes an action or state of being, is not the same as onomatopoeia, which imitates it.
As explained by Frederic G. Cassidy (1985):
One may guess that to keep the ‘same’ bases from spreading apart phonologically (as speakers spread apart geographically) to the point where all plausible or obvious similarity is lost, there must be some restraining forces at work – and one of these would be phonosymbolism. … So, phonosymbolism would perhaps exert a centripetal force holding basic forms together despite their having lost geographic contact.
We actually have historic documentation of this preservative effect in the case of the
Frenchdoublets papillon ‘ butterfly’and pavillon ‘tent’(both from LatinpXpilion-). In the former case phonosymbolism ( PVPVLsymbolizing the silent flapping of wings) has acted to preserve the medial [p],contrary to regular sound change, while the latter word (pavillon), with the secondary meaning of tent, has evaded the preservative effect and changed [p]to [v]in the regular manner (cf. savon ‘soap’< Lat.sapone-, etc.).
But phonosymbolism did not manage to keep all the eventual words similar: we saw in
Hopipó:voli that the regular sound change (intervocalic *p > v) was not impeded by phonosymbolism. And note that many other radical phonetic changes have taken place, especially in Germanic!
In conclusion, I propose that all or most of the words for ‘butterfly’ listed in Table 1 are extremely ancient, and most likely traceable to
Proto-Human. Also present in Proto-Humanwere at least two mechanisms for the creation of phonosymolic words:
(a) simple reduplication of the type
PVR(V)PVR(V), as shown in Table 2, from which the variants in Table 3 can be derived; and
(b) partial reduplication of the type
PùPVLV(with r ~ l apophony: see Bengtson 1998), as shown in Table 4. Subsequent to the initial creation of these words, phonosymbolism continued to exert a centripetal or preservative force, keeping the words similar after geographic dispersal.
References
Bengtson, John D. 1998. “Consonantal Ablaut (Apophony) in Proto-Human.” Mother Tongue 4: 138-140.
Bengtson, John D., and Merritt Ruhlen. 1994. “Global Etymologies.” In M. Ruhlen, On the Origin of Languages, by, pp. 277-336. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Cassidy, Frederic G. 1985. Letter to John D. Bengtson, dated 23 November 1985.
Trask, R.L. 1997. The History of Basque. London, New York: Routledge.
Wescott, Roger Williams. 1974. “Types of Apophony in Proto-Speech.” In Language Origins, ed. by R.W. Wescott, Silver Spring, Md.: Linstok Press.
Wescott, Roger Williams. 1998. “Consonantal Apophony in Indo-European Animal Names.” Mother Tongue 4: 126-137.
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References
Bengtson, John. 1989. “Letter from John D. Bengtson Responding to Hal Fleming’s Editorial Essay.”
Mother Tongue. November December 1989, pp. 7-10.
Kimball, Geoffrey. 1994. “Comparative Difficulties of the “Gulf” Languages.” In Langdon, Margaret (ed.), Proceedings of the Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous languages of the Americas July 2–4, 1993 and the Hokan-Penutian Workshop July 3, 1993 (both held at the 1993 Linguistic Institute at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio). Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, Report 8. Berkeley: University of California.
Rambo:Of course vegetarians say the reason human beings are bloodthirsty murderers is because of the consumption of meat. If everybody just went veggie, people wouldn’t be so lustful for blood.
I’m not so sure that is true. First of all, we don’t kill most of the animals we eat. If we had to, we might not eat them! When I eat meat, I purposely put the idea of the fact that this meat I am eating came from a living animal that had to be killed in order for me to eat it
out of my head because it’s so upsetting. So when I’m eating spare ribs, I may as well be eating carrots for all my moral mind knows. Killing Animals and Killing Humans May Be Two Completely Different Thought Mechanisms in Humans Having Little to Do with Each Other
But I’m well acquainted with homicidal feelings, as I’ve experienced them much of my life, although much less often now that I am older. The odd thing is that I’m a pacifist, maybe the nicest guy you’ve ever met, the least irritable person around who is bothered by nothing that others do, and I’ve never even tried to kill anyone in anything other than self-defense (we won’t discuss the possible exemptions to this rule here), much less a completely innocent person. So you can see that if even a passive pacifist like me has led this homicidal of a mental life,
God forbid what your ordinary person thinks like, and I think we don’t even want to know what your average aggressive hypermasculine male thinks!
So homicidal
thinking seems quite universal in humans, or at least in males. Yet I never think with joy about the animals I eat, and not only that but I brainwash myself into thinking that a living animal did not have to be killed for me to eat it. So I take my mind completely outside of the knowledge and awareness that an animal had to be killed in order for me to eat it. Such knowledge would seem to be necessary in order for there to be a connection between meat-eating and homicidality.
People who brainwash themselves into thinking eating a pork chop is the same thing as eating Brussels sprouts hardly have the murderous mindset necessary for the theory to be true. And as I pointed out, completely passive and more or less harmless people can think in markedly homicidal ways. So it seems that eating meat in which an animal had to be killed in order for one to eat it and homicidal thinking towards other humans are
two completely different mechanisms and in many cases, have little to do with each other. Actual Hunting of Animals Doesn’t Seem to Lead to Killing Humans
What about hunters? I used to be friends with a taxidermist who was an avid hunter and even a hunter guide. I brought up the question of whether killing animals may make someone more likely to kill people. He’d thought about it a bit, and he said that the thought streams
were two completely different mechanisms. There is a huge gap or fence in place between killing animals and killing humans, and most hunters are aware of it. It’s as if the thoughts of killing animals and killing humans were from two different planets.
Hunters section these thoughts apart and make a vast divide between them as if they are two completely different things altogether. I’m not sure what the literature shows, but it seems as if hunters
deliberately create a mental barrier for themselves when they kill animals, possibly to make sure that murderousness towards animals does not lead to homicidality towards humans. Or perhaps the two thoughts are already walled off that way due to socialization. Or perhaps the hard divide between them is hardwired into our brains. Boys Killing Small Animals in Almost All Cases Does Not Lead Them to Kill Humans
Notice how easily children, especially boys, kill bugs, fish and in less frequent cases, amphibians and reptiles, even less often birds and least of all, mammals? Well, as a boy, I had no issues killing bugs and fish; in fact, it was a cause for delight. But those feelings would not even extend to amphibians, much less anything higher than that (We caught snakes but that was in order to make pets out of them!), and I’ve never killed an amphibian, reptile, bird, or mammal in my life. I tried to kill frogs recently because the ones around here are pests, but my mind stopped me. It seemed too cruel and disgusting.
So when do you hear about about even the cruelest animal-killing boys killing other humans, except in the case of adolescents? Almost never.
So already in boys the killing of lesser organisms, especially at the lower end, is sectioned off with a hard wall, probably genetically based, against even killing more advanced creatures, much less humans, which is verging on the unthinkable.
Teens Torturing Mammals to Death, Especially Dogs and Cats, Is Different
However, once teenagers get to the point where they are killing mammals, especially beloved domesticated ones like dogs and cats, a hard line has been crossed, and they are now more likely to kill higher mammals like humans. This is particularly the case because boys killing lesser animals often involves torture (it certainly did with us), and kids who kill dogs and cats often torture them to death. Torturing a mammal to death
is completely different from a hunter killing a deer quickly and cleanly. The former is much more likely to be escalated to killing humans due to the sadistic nature of it. The Original Theory Appears Unfalsifiable
But this is unfalsifiable in a sense. Where are all these human vegetarians we can test this theory on? They don’t really exist (but see below). So there’s no way to even test out the theory. Theories that can’t be tested out are nonfalsifiable; that is, there is no way to prove them wrong. Another way of saying is by saying not only is the theory not right, it’s
not even wrong!
Largely vegetarian Hindus have conducted some major massacres in past decades.
And Hitler was said to be a vegetarian, and Nazis promoted vegetarianism due to an animal rights project they had that they unfortunately did not extend to human animals.
Repost from the old site.
When I was working as an anthropologist for a local Indian tribe, I had to go through all of the anthropological literature about the tribe. This took quite some time. There was quite a bit of hostility from the Indians towards the anthropologists, which is stupid, sad, and mostly just ignorant.
The legend had grown up among many of the Indians that the anthropologists who had come through were the “enemies of the Indian people.” I researched the folks who had come through and it didn’t seem to fit.
We are talking some of the biggest names of all like Alfred Kroeber. Kroeber and his wife loved the Indians in a time at the turn of the century when Indians were not so popular. The legend continued that the crafty Indians, in order to fool the wicked White men, had concocted lies to tell the anthropologist.
Anthropological field work is hard enough without having to deal with this kind of crap, but it does come up at times.
Fieldwork manuals will tell you, first of all, that you need to develop a strong sense of cultural relativity if you are going to do fieldwork.
You have to decide that whatever it is these folks do in terms of their culture and values, no matter how weird, stupid, horrible, or noxious, it’s ok. You aren’t going to make any judgments about it.
You want to chop off little girls’ clits? Ok, no big.
You put grandpa on an ice floe when he gets old? Understandable, I’d do the same with my own Dad.
You treat your women like shit? Hey, I can understand, in dating countless women over a lifetime, I’ve built up a nice boiling witches brew of hatreds and grievances myself. Keep them ball-breaking bitches down! You go, guys! Show them cunts who’s in charge! Damn right they better put out or else! They owe us! We rule!
I think you get the picture.
This sort of thing may prove difficult for many folks.
In fieldwork, you need to do this to get along properly with your subjects. If you don’t accept their lifestyle with “unconditional positive regard,” it’s probably not going to work very well. You get subjects lying to you like they did with Margaret Mead and all sorts of stuff.
I actually spent a lot of time on this agonizing question, and I called up famous anthropologists all over the country in trying to solve this empirical question. Had the evil White anthropologists really been had by these crafty noble savages, fresh out of Paleolithic?
Turns out they probably had not. Further, I uncovered a lot of data that suggested that all of the anthros had a good relationship with their informants.
Another thing you can do is go through all of the old data and see how well it all lines up. Turns out that all of the data I had from 1873 through 1970 lined up very well.
There were times when I spotted some lying. Indians said that wild horses and buffalo used live in Central California, and they used to hunt them. The last wild horses lived here 10,000 years ago, and buffalo never did. The anthro himself wrote in his field notes that he thought they were lying to him.
There are several ways to test this. One thing you can do is to interview informants over a period of time, say weeks or months. You can work with a single informant any number of times over that period. You can ask the same question over and over a few times and see if the answers vary.
Another thing you can do is go around to different informants and ask the same question. If only one informant says, yeah, we ate vultures for breakfast, and the others say, “Hell no, we did not, he’s lying,” then vulture-eater is probably lying.
You can interview informants alone and with others, changing the others around, and see if their stories change when they are with various others compared to what they say when they are alone. You can shoot questionable material to others and see if they back it up. In fact, you need to try to back up all of your data. One informant is pretty shaky.
It all rests on the sort of relationship you have with your informants. Bad relationship = possibility of poor data. Good relationship portends good data.
I decided that there was some tragic reason why the Indians harbored this hatred for the anthros. Obviously, the anthros just represented Whitey.
Plus many of them had this crazy idea that all the anthros had used the Indians, gone back to Berkeley or wherever and used this illustrious knowledge to write famous books about the Indians and got rich. The anthros got rich, and the Indians never saw a dime. It’s not true, but it felt good to them.
There was a sadder aspect to this anger. All of the great stuff on these Indians had been written by White people. Everything on the language, the culture, everything.
Why couldn’t the Indians write down about their language and culture themselves? The suggestion is that they are too stupid to do that, so they have to have the Smart White Man come and do it for them, and that’s totally humiliating. A reaction to humiliation is rage.
I went through Sylvia Broadbent’s Grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok as part of my work. One informant, who worked as some sort of “House Indian” in Yosemite National Park, was well-known for being a showman, liar, and teller of tales. He also knew a lot of language, but he threw in lots of other words that other informants had never heard before. She ended up rejecting a lot of his data as spurious.
As you can see, this is not exactly hard science. Where do you think “physics envy” comes from? It gets hard to get mathematical proofs of much of anything in the social sciences, which is why the physicists sneer that our sciences are “soft sciences”.
So much of our judgments in these tough cases in fieldwork is play it by ear, seat of the pants, I know it when I see it intuitive stuff.
Unfortunately my project floundered over some of the Indians’ rage at the anthropologists. I had gathered this data and was set to write it up, and the whole thing got shot down.
Because elders said that the Indians had lied to the anthros, every word of the notes was up for grabs. There were known knowns, known unknowns, and worst of all, unknown unknowns, the last category being what the otherwise non-empirical Indians deemed the notes.
I was on a salary anyway, so it really didn’t matter. One of the amusing things was the sort of things that they disputed. They were livid about the notes that reported that these Indians tole the anthros that they used to eat skunks, rattlesnakes, and gopher snakes.
Their rejection of this food, of which the rattlesnakes at least are proven to taste precisely like chicken (of course), is based on a primitive but common mode of thinking. Rattlesnakes are poisonous, so they are evil, so they should not be eaten. The suggestion is that the meat is poison too. Only an idiot would eat poison meat.
Skunks smell horrible when you piss them off, so obviously their meat must taste like their horrid odor. Someone else opined that their meat is “probably pretty oily.”
Turns out, according to the New York Times in 1913, skunk is one of the delicacies of the woods, right up there with possum, deer, and bear. The main obstacle in the way of proper enjoyment are the speed bumps of human psychology. As long as you associate the meat with skunk-stink, it might taste pretty bad. Convince yourself it’s really fillet mignon and you can dig in for a hearty meal.
Tender eating, skunk meat tastes like either chicken (obviously), goose, duck, or rabbit, depending on your powers of dissociation. You really need to figure out how to dress skunk meat properly in order to keep the stink away from the choice cuts. Baked skunk recipe here.
As I feel I’ve been figuratively eating skunk most of my life anyway, I may as well take the plunge some day. If it’s really as good as they say it is, I assume it will be coming to Chez Panisse or Spago anytime now.
The gopher snake was also rejected as food, but I have often wondered what they tasted like. A while back, I was catching them by the side of the road a lot. If they were near dead, I’d bring them home and throw them on the lawn for my cats to play with, or drag them around on the lawn and let the cats chase them.
Of course I washed the snake blood off my hands and my car. People who saw me doing that still think I’m a
really weird person.
After the gopher snake died, I brought it inside and seriously thought about figuring how to cook the sucker. I finally gave up and threw it out in the woods in back. One cool thing about living in the woods is any small dead animal you toss into the woods will always vanish within 1-2 days max. Carrion doesn’t stick around long in nature; it’s the feral equivalent of dumpster-diving.
I later asked some people how to slice up and cook a gopher snake, and everyone thought it was one of the most outrageous things they had ever heard. I guess
they still think I’m weird too.
Anyway, the Indians insisted that they never ate gopher snake. “Ugh!” One Indian said, “They taste like dirt. It lives in the ground!” He curled up his nose.
I’m told this is more erroneous thinking, and the guy’s probably never chowed down one anyway. This cognitive error states that a thing tastes like what it lives in. Gopher snakes spent a lot of time in subterranean mode pushing up daisies but living to tell about it, so therefore, they must taste like dirt. It lives in dirt; it tastes like dirt. Probably not. By this logic, pork tenderloin ought to taste like mud, and it doesn’t.
Of course, inquiring minds the world over (Well, at least me anyway) are dying to know the ins and outs of how to hunt, kill, and skin skunks. Forget the kitchen for now. Procurement and dressing are tough enough.
Try here. Turns out skunks may be trapped, shot, killed by bow and arrow, drowned, or asphyxiated with car exhaust. Clearly the trick is to kill em without getting sprayed. This ends up being quite the challenge. Skunk dressing is so involved that colleges ought to offer six-month courses for certificates in it. The first story here is quite amusing. It’s pretty much skunk-skinning gone wrong about every way it could. I got a kick.
In a lot of cultures, no one particularly cares what postmenopausal women do. They are often allowed to drink and take drugs, while this may have been banned earlier for obvious reasons.
And perhaps the sexual prohibitions come off because once a woman can’t have kids anymore, who the Hell cares what she does sexually, right? Control of female sexuality is all wrapped up in paternity and childbearing. Briefly, you always know who your mother is. Not so with your Dad! Your Mom might be pointing the finger at the wrong guy. Men are loath for obvious reasons to invest time and money taking care of some other guy’s kid, so they really want to make sure the baby is theirs. Hence the strict controls over female sexuality in post-hunter-gatherer societies.
Incidentally, a man who is with a woman who has a child by another man is ~70 times more likely (!) to kill the kid than if the kid was his. Typical situation is man hooks up with woman who has a kid by another guy. Then he kills the kid. You’ve got to think there’s some caveman logic working there.
Male mountain lions and possibly grizzly bears will often kill any kittens a female lion or bear had with another male. The female goes along with this – just lets him murder her kids and then hooks up with him for sex and babies. I guess something similar may have happened in caveman days. You wonder why women love serial killers so much?
Furthermore, we evolved in brutal times. Many times in tribal warfare the conquering tribe would kill many if not all of the men and teenage boys of the other tribe. Then they would enslave all the women and children. So the women would all become sex slaves of some maniac who just murdered their husbands and son(s). Women apparently just went along, though you wonder how they could. Perhaps many women could not tolerate this and escaped or suicided out to avoid the situation. Here we come to our selection.
The women who remained and had kids were ones who could tolerate some maniac coming along, murdering her husband and her son(s), and then turning her into a sex slave for life. If you want to know why so many women are attracted to BD/SM dom/sub sex slavery and being owned by a “master,” this may be why. It’s a mystery to me and I think the whole thing is sick.
But some sort of masochism or even love of degradation seems to be inherent in the female sex drive. There are women who hate this sort of thing, but I can’t tell you how many women I’ve met who expected or demanded this sort of treatment. Of course I take requests, so it was no big deal. Not into hurting them physically though, and you’d be shocked to know how many of them request or demand even this. Spanking is fine (and you’d be shocked at how many women love this) but beyond that, yuck.
So the women who survived were ok with murdering sex slavers and the men who survived (remember, the defeated men got murdered) were not only serial murderers but were willing to murder women’s husbands and kids by other men (sort of like lions and bears) and sexually enslave her and enslave her kids. Not very nice guys. So we men are descended from sadistic, raping, murdering, enslaving, sexual psychopaths and women are descended from masochistic sex slaves who love murderers, rapists, slavers, sex slavers, and sexual psychopaths.
If you know much about that BD/SM scene, it is overflowing with male “doms’ who proudly describe themselves as sadists. Of course they are sexual sadists, but many men are a bit, no? But it’s beyond that. They’re just sadists period because once you get into the “dom owns her as a slave” thing, it’s 24-7, which almost all of this scene is. It’s almost all 24-7 dom/sub, master/slave nonsense.
Well, the number of men who leap at the possibility of being sadistic sexual maniacs with willing women is shocking, and it’s enough to turn you off to the male gender. I’ve been studying these relationships for some time. The males are, well…a lot are more pleasant than you think, but the women…they seem like battered women.
They almost all have terribly low self-esteem. In fact, these sadistic men deliberately seek out women with low self esteem as easy prey. If they’ve been raped or molested before, this makes them easy targets, as apparently this sets them up for further abuse because women tend to sexualize everything.
A dirty little secret.
Women sexualize their abuse. Women who got molested often…yep, end up sexualizing the sexual abuse. They turn it into something that turns them on. Further, women who get raped…you guessed it. It’s not PC to say so, but a lot of women got aroused during the rape and orgasm is not uncommon. That doesn’t mean it’s right or she wanted it, but our bodies are reactive organisms.
And after women have been raped, I hate to say it, but many of them sexualize the rape and start wanting very rapey-type sex. And they incorporate the rape into their masturbation repertoire. That’s not PC either but I’ve seen it happen so many times that I know it’s true. It’s weird, but women are weird. And there is nothing weirder than female sexuality. It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
If you study these SM/BD relationships, it looks exactly like an abusive relationship. Precisely. Down to the letter. So BD/SM is simply an abusive relationship. However, it is a consensual one.
So a lot of men are apparently more than willing to get into a relationship where they can abuse the woman like Hell and not only get away with it but have her enjoy it. And a lot of women apparently
really enjoy the battered woman role. The former statement may not be controversial but the latter is surely not PC. Nevertheless, it looks like it might be true. Not that woman abusers are good men. And not that battered women who don’t like it don’t deserve our sympathy. But as is common, things are more complex than they seem.
Furthermore, I know people who study these relationships and they say that all women who come out of these relationships are damaged. And the damage looks exactly like…yep. What a battered woman or a woman in an abusive relationship looks like. So this crap isn’t as innocent as everyone thinks.
Looking at it, I believe he is definitely Southern Chinese fore the most part. His father is Hainanese and has a rather distinctive genotype that looks something like his son’s. His mother is a certain type of Malay that dates back to the 1400’s and is significantly mixed with European blood, mostly British and Dutch, as Europeans have a presence in the area dating back centuries. I believe that they are called Pernakans. He also has some female relatives that look very Malay. I do not know who the older man to the right is, but he looks quite Malay to me.
I think my friend ended up looking more Chinese than Malay. The Hainanese are definitely a Chinese type people. Whether they also have a Vietic type SE Asian component is not known as I do not know the history of Hainan.
Although my friend definitely has a strong Southern Chinese look, he also has another component that makes him look, well, different. I’m not going to attempt to describe this element, but it does make him look somewhat “odd,” “interesting,” or “unusual, ” from a Southern Chinese POV. A typical Southern Chinese would say that he looks like a Southern Chinese, but he’s not like us. A Southern Chinese has more of a Modern Mongoloid look. My friend is mostly modern Mongoloid, with some elements of transitional Mongoloid or archaic Mongoloid – this is what the Malays are after all – added in.
The evolution from Negritos to moderns occurred much later in Malaysia, much taking place in only the last 5,000 years. The Senoi are an example of an archaic group that is definitely Australoid yet nevertheless more progressive than the Negritos. These are the “dream people” of psychological and anthropological literature, though modern research has shown that they do not incorporate dreams as much into their waking lives as we previously thought and that the extent to which they do this was much exaggerated.
There are also Negritos (or original Asians) in Malaysia. In fact, there is a group in Malaysia that genes that date back to 72,000 YBP. This is actually before the main Out of Africa event, yet is has now been shown that other small groups went out of Africa before then.
Most of these groups were devastated by the vast Toba volcanic explosion in India 72,000 YBP that exterminated almost all humans in South and Southeast Asia. It is thought that only 1,500 of this group survived the explosion. This means that humans went through a severe genetic bottleneck no doubt accompanied by massive selection pressure and huge genetic effects. Whether this explosion’s effects extended to Central Asia (probably), the Middle East (maybe), or East Africa (unknown) is not known. At any rate, this original group departed from East Africa near Somalia and Djibouti.
The main OOA group left out of here too. No one quite knows what these people looked like but they have appeared somewhat Khoisan. The Khoisan are the most ancient group in Africa with genes dating back 52,000 YBP. Further, their click language to me seems like a good candidate for the original human language. It does seem to be quite primitive. Before that, we clearly used sign language. Neandertals could not speak due to their hyoid bones. The great apes also have this problem. So when Neantertals vocalized, they may have sounded like great apes.
The Sasquatch, which I believe is an archaic hominid related to Heidebergensis which somehow survived, has a very odd speech pattern (it speaks on the inhale, bizarrely enough – try it sometime) and a friend of mine who shot and killed two of them told me that the juveniles were using extensive sign language. They ran half the time on all four and half the time on two legs, which is very odd. Sasquatches can run up to 30 mph on all fours. That must be quite frightening to watch but it can be seen in the Port Edward Island Sasquatch footage. Anyway, enough about Bigfoot for today!
It’s not known how far modern human language dates back. Sergei Starostin feels it cannot date back more than 50,000 because so many cognates remain that we can actually construct a bit of Proto-World. One Proto-World term is “
tik” meaning one, to point, index finger, etc. From this comes our word to teach. Imagine a teacher pointing at a blackboard with his index finger. I worked on an Indian language a while back and they had a very archaic word found only in the earliest vocabularies – tik, meaning “the point of a spearhead. I cannot prove it but I believe deep down inside that this is from the same root. I
It’s more of a gut feeling or intuitive thing, and intuitions are often wrong because they overgeneralize, throw out logic altogether, and rely exclusively on notoriously unreliable and subjective (the very word subjective implies emotional response) feelings, especially deep or gut feelings that can be described as “Gestalt.” I’m a birdwatcher and we use something called Gestalt to identify fleeing glimpses of a bird.
All we can see is what philosophers like Heidegger might call “the essence” or essential nature of the bird rather than it’s surface characteristics which are too fleeting to identify. Heidegger discusses surface versus essence interpretations of objects a lot. It seems hard to figure out but it’s easier than you think.
Logic relies on surface or appearance, including the human definition we have given to the object.
Intuition on the other hand pretty much throws out the surface stuff and looks for the “essence of the thing” or the “deep meaning” or “true meaning” of the object. We are getting into Plato here with the concept of “pure objects” that actually do not exist in reality.
An example of Platonic pure objects would be what I call the Masculine and Feminine spirit (see the brilliant and wrongly derided Otto Weininger’s “Sex and Character” for more. And Weininger comes from Nietzsche in my opinion and leads to Heidigger, also in my opinion. He seems to be a sort of a bridge between the two. Note that all were Germans, Weininger an Austrian, but oh well.
The Masculine Spirit and the Feminine Spirit is one way of dividing the universe or world in a binary manner. Not that there are not other binary methods of chopping the world into opposite halves, but this is just one of them.
I would argue that the world is half Masculine principle and half Feminine principle and that neither is better than the other and the marriage of the two opposites creates a whole that is bigger than the sum of its parts, hence the human pair bond where each pair of the male-female couple fills in the missing blanks or parts of the other one, each creating a whole person in the other where only a “half person” had existed before.
We are also getting into Taoism here, but the ancient Chinese were awful damn smart, so you ignore them at your peril in my opinion. Furthermore, the Taoist maxim of how to live your life – “moderation in all things” is an excellent aphorism, not that many of us ever do it. It’s clearly the route to a long lifespan.
To do the opposite is to burn candles at both ends, life fast, die young, and leave a pretty corpse, which sounds very romantic and appealing when young (it did to me) but which sounds increasing idiotic and even suicidal for no good reason with each advancing year past 30. I now find it laughable, pathetic, and openly suicidal and delight in mocking the concept. But I survived another 30 years past the expire date on that concept, so perhaps my new attitude is simply the inevitable product of living out that maxim twice and hence nullifying it.
There are a number of Southern Chinese groups with more of an indigenous look, sometimes prognathous. These date back to the original indigenous elements in Southern China and SE Asia, who all date back to the Negritos. The Montagnards of Vietnam are definitely one of these indigenous types. The indigenous went from
Indigenous (Negrito) -> Proto SE Asian (with Melanesian component) -> modern SE Asian (Modern Mongoloid with archaic components. This effect is quite pronounced in the Vietnamese, who were completely overrun by a Chinese invasion 2,300 years ago after which there was much interbreeding and a huge infusion of Cantonese words, which now make up 70% of Vietnamese vocabulary.
However, the core vocabulary of of Vietnamese remains Austroasiatic (a language family nevertheless with Southern Chinese roots derived from the archaic Mongoloid peoples of the region 5-7,000 YBP, who later moved into SE Asia. This core vocabulary is shared by the Munda branch of Astroasiatic, completely isolated India, particularly Eastern (Mongoloid) India. The fact that Vietic shares a common core vocabulary with the geographically separated Munda proves the existence of Austrasiatic.
In fact, it is the final convincing argument. Anyone who says that Austroasiatic does not exist is a fool.
Further, the evidence for Austroasiatic, a proven family, is no greater than the existence for Altaic, and in fact Altaic may be better proven. The “numerals” argument against Altaic is belied by the 13,000 year old Afroasiatic language, the numerals of which are a complete disaster.
Numerals are more often innovated and replaced than people think. Often the old cognates survive in archaic words or words used for related concepts, but it’s not unusual at all for the main term to be an out and out innovation. Most Altaic numerals are innovated, but there are a few cognates. Further most of the numerals have cognates in related or archaic words.
This is the most archaic layer of Austroasiatic. Some of these peoples are archaic Mongoloids with a strong Australoid component. A branch of these Australoids called Carpenterians went from India to Australia 11,000 YBP and become part of the Aborigines. Another group of archaic Australoids were called Murrayans. They came from Thailand 17,000 YBP and went to Australia. It is not known what Australians looked like before that but no doubt they were quite primitive. It’s long been thought that they have more Erectus component than the rest of us, but I’m not sure that is proven. Certainly their appearance resembles that.
The Murrayans are the core element of the Ainu, who went to the Philippines 16,000 YBP in an unusual, Caucasian appearing type, and then moved to the Southern Japanese islands north into Japan 13,000 YBP, quite possibly replacing an ancient Negrito type already there. This Negrito type definitely existed in Southern China and may well have existed in Korea. Some Australoids or especially Australoid-Mongoloid mixes can have a superficial “Caucasian” appearance, but that’s just parallel development, coincidence or more probably the fact that the possible human phenotypes is only a small subset of the possible ones.
It is this coincidentally “Caucasoid” appearance that led many observers to believe that the Ainu were somehow ancient Caucasians (Norwegians, joked one anthropologist was) that got stranded from the rest of Europoid flock way over on the other side of Asia. In fact, the Ainu are Australoid by skull and Mongoloid by genes. Their language, like the Japanese language, has an ancient Austronesian layer that has led many to falsely conclude that the Altaic Japanese language is actually an Austronesian one. The argument is even better with Ainu, the deeper group of which has not been shown to my satisfaction.
A previous post about a nonfunctional stage of the female body which nevertheless seems to be peak beauty in one sense. This got me thinking.
Perhaps the world is not supposed to be beautiful. Suppose most beautiful things are either accidents or with the females in the previous post, nonfunctional.
Which also got me thinking. Maybe pure, natural,
functional beauty loses some of its awesomeness because of the necessity of developing utility.
Usually when an object of any kind starts to acquire utility, utility goes to the front of the line and beauty and appearance go to the back.
Perhaps a bit of beauty is always sacrificed when making anything functional, useful, or utilitarian. Probably things in this world are not supposed to be shockingly beautiful.
Sure, there are beautiful things in the world, but
not that much of nature is pure beauty. The parts of nature that are pure beauty are rightly set aside as natural wonders in national parks and whatnot. The world has to figure out how to function. Rocks, water, trees, grass, lichen, clouds, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals are primarily concerned with functionality.
Yes, even clouds, rocks and water have to figure out how to work and do what they need to do.
Living things are mostly just concerned with survival, and
what in the Hell does beauty have to do with survival? Nothing.
A plant’s objective is to live long enough to scatter its seed and create offspring.
An animal’s objective is to survive, not get killed by predators, find and acquire food, mate, rest, hide, raise offspring, etc. That’s the evolutionary trajectory.
Where does beauty fit in? At the end of the line.
Although sometimes we get natural beauty like male peacocks who have evolved beauty in order to compete with other male peacocks to attract mates where the most beautiful male wins. But this is one of the more unusual cases in our world
where beauty actually serves some sort of a utilitarian and even evolutionary purpose.
Mostly beauty just
happens by some coincidence of nature and natural beauty just sits there undergoing its natural processes, not trying to either get pretty or lose its looks. Instead it just sits there waiting for you to marvel at or take a picture of it. But it’s accidental. Nature didn’t evolve that waterfall to be so gorgeous that tourists would take pictures of it all day. Nature evolved the waterfall by accident when a stream or river ran right off a damned cliff. Redwoods are accidental. Wildflowers are beautiful accidents. And on and on.
Polar Bear:Whites and Blacks have qualities not measured in IQ. From the redneck inventing in his garage to a Black street musician freestyling.
I’ll say this for Whites and Blacks, they top the racial scales on immeasurable qualities.
Aren’t those both sort of winging it, jerry-rigging it, putting a lot together with a little, freestyling…in a word, improvisation? Jerry-rigging, etc. is simply a form of improvisation, and in that sense, it is immensely adaptive and even a form of genius. Improvisation is also a form of “pure creativity.”
Look at the Black jazz musician noodling away, winging it so to speak, improvising. What sort of cookbook or lesson plan is he following? None. It’s as good as the surrealists’ automatic writing. That’s why I would call that sort of improvisation “pure creativity.”
Another way of describing jerry-rigging or improvisation would be “designing a solution to a brand new problem that one has never encountered before.” That’s absolutely a form of genius. And Blacks are great at that. For a couple of reasons, I think.
Blacks no matter what we think of them, are adaptive. Jesus Christ, they’re adaptive as Hell. A Black can live anywhere. Throw him into one of the worst environments on Earth and he not only survives but thrives. Look at Africa.
And Blacks are survivors. Blacks can survive in anything. They tried to enslave the American Indians, but they either refused to work or somehow or other they all died off. The Blacks weren’t happy with it, but they did survive.
But almost all primitive peoples are experts at winging it, jerry-rigging, or improvisation. Improvisation, in a word, is about nothing less than
immediate survival. About putting something half-assed but “good enough” together so you can make it to live for at least another day.
Some animals are showing signs of jerry-rigging or improvising, even making their own tools. It’s pretty interesting.
Um, eating bats didn’t cause the COVID virus. Eating anything probably doesn’t cause any virus. The virus started in bats and then jumped to pangolins, but those are Malaysian pangolins from Malaysia imported for food and medicine.
But if you have all of those things together alive in crowded, stressed, Hellish conditions in that market, perhaps the virus could have jumped from bats to the pangolins there.And perhaps from there onto the humans in the very same market in the same conditions. We’re not sure.
We’re not even sure that the virus started in the market. The first cases in November had no connection to the market. The first market case was on December 1 and there were a number of cases before that. But it definitely went wild when it hit that market all right.
Nevertheless, I firmly believe that those markets need to be shut down.
These markets may not even be necessary to spread these diseases. The real problem is the loss of wild areas and humans moving into areas where wildlife live to where people and wildlife have much more contact now than they used to.
Polar Bear:My parents had a cat with wet stinky crap that could only eat canned or he’d get the squirts. Given that wet canned food is more natural and healthy, I was thinking dry food is for domesticated cats and humans while the wild cats and humans shit ponds of pudding in the wilderness.
There’s probably not a lot of dried out food in the wilds. Think about it. What food in the wilds is naturally dried out? Not much of anything. Everything in the wilds is full of some liquid or juice or whatever. Drying foods out is an artificial project and we obviously did not evolve eating dried out foods or at least I don’t think we did. Drying food is a good way to preserve it though. Dried fruit sure lasts a hell of a lot longer than fresh fruit, that’s for sure.
The wet food is better for cats. The dry food is too dry and I believe it’s bad for their kidneys somehow or other. I’m not sure exactly how that works. You can feed your cat dry food all day – no problem. But you should also feed him once or twice a day with the wet stuff. It’s more expensive but it’s good for them.
They like the wet stuff but they can get infuriatingly picky over it. My family had cats that would only eat the very most expensive varieties of wet food and refuse anything else. We had a number of cats over the years that developed this problem. They eat anything at first but then they develop these picky tastes and start refusing a lot of the different types of wet food, often settling on just one type, typically an expensive gourmet brand.
Cats do love human food more than anything else. They always walked around on our table in my family. They would come over to our plates, and we would feed them. My Dad hated it and was always demanding that cats be off the table. He thought it was unsanitary or uncouth or something. We would throw them off but they would just jump right back on.
At my Mom’s house, they hang out under your feet when you are eating meat dishes, basically begging for food. I don’t think they can see well up close because you throw them small pieces of food and it seems like they can’t see them. Instead they start sniffing around until they find the food. Sometimes you have to stick the food right in front of their stupid faces because they literally seem completely blind to the food.
Any animals have a strap-on equivalent? I doubt there are fake dicks in nature. Lesbians are just low. They want to strap it on and be a man, but this is all imaginary. They are really only good for licking. All they can really do is lick pussy and ass, so those are the cards they play.
In nature, a strong man would penetrate the pussy. What male could the weaker female overpower? She’d take on a submissive role like all women, with the only trace of her lesbianism existing in her proficiency in licking a mans ass.
Of courses there are no aminals that strap it on or do anything equivalent. In fact, in most animals including mammals sex is for procreation, not for pleasure. Only chimps and bonobos have sex for pleasure.
There are no lesbian animals no matter what the Gay Agenda (Gay Identity Politics) tells you. There are few gay animals. There are cases of two female birds guarding an egg together, but that is because there was no male around. Likewise for male penguins guarding an egg. They don’t fuck in either case.
There are no gay reptiles, amphibians, insects or birds. Zero.
And only one species of mammal has gay males, sheep, and even they don’t fuck. They just try to mount each other, but nothing happens. Maybe they should send those sheep to Frisco to show ’em how it’s done.
Sometimes female mammals will try to mount a female animal that is in heat. I had a cat that was going into heat (their vaginas get wet, which is very interesting, like human females). This other female cat I had got this weird look on its face and tried to mount her. Not sure what’s going, but it ain’t lesbianism.
Gay IP says that stupidest stuff, like “10% of all animals in every species are gay!” The 10% of people are gay lie is one of the biggest lies of all told by Gay IP.
Posted last year. Updated and reposted as it’s getting some comments lately. Answered on Queera , I mean Quora .
The PC line is that homosexuality is widespread in the animal kingdom. “All animals are gay!” is how Gay Politics propaganda goes. Actually it’s not.
This line is taken to extremes recently, and it is not uncommon to hear PC types say that 10% of all types of birds and mammals are gay. That’s clearly nonsense.
Both claims are simply examples of the typical retarded lying that Gay Politics constantly engages in. It shares this with other forms of
Identity Politics, all of which are forms of chauvinist propaganda for various groups based on massive retarded lying and victim worship for the identity group along with demonization and irrational, often bizarre and extremely dishonest propagandized hatred of out-group “oppressors” of the same group.
There are cases of two same sex birds incubating an egg, but apparently there was a shortage of the opposite sex that gave rise to this. Also they didn’t have sex with each other.
I had a cat once that went into heat. You can hear and even observe when a cat is in heat. I won’t go into details. You will have to figure it out for yourself. When this cat was in heat, one of my female cats tried to mount the female in heat!
If you drive mice crazy enough in the lab or subject them to very crowded conditions, male mice will attempt to mount each other. They don’t actually have sex. This is called lordosis. This pseudo-homosexuality is a side effect of the mice being driven crazy by overcrowding or whatever. This suggests that homosexuality may be a psychological or sociological behavioral disturbance in some cases.
Bonobo chimpanzees (at least the females) are apparently often bisexual, but I am not aware of any gay or lesbian bonobos, nor am I aware of male bonobos having sex with each other.
However, sheep are a good case for homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Approximately 6% of male sheep prefer to mount other male sheep. I am not sure what they accomplish when they do that, but that’s what they do. They don’t have sex with female sheep. That is quite an excellent analogy in the animal world to male homosexuality among humans. As far as why sheep are like this, I have no idea at all.
Polar Bear:Just woke from a dream pondering why bald eagles favor North America? Well, they favor Alaska specifically. The last remnant of old untapped forests that was the early North American frontier.
Those birds favor colder areas for the most part, I believe. Anyway, they only evolved in North America. I believe there are other types of large eagles down in South America. There are definitely warm weather jungle eagles in the Philippines, but they are almost extinct.
Bald eagles are actually water birds that tend to be fish eaters, specifically favoring dead fish. They’re basically scavengers – not very dignified animals. It’s weird how we think of our national bird as this proud, dignified creature because they’re not. They simply
look regal and impressive – they don’t act that way.
They’re found around large bodies of water – lakes and large rivers. Alaska is wild, yes, but it’s also full of large rivers and lakes, especially in the southern part. They especially favor the large rivers which often have huge salmon runs. Large numbers of eagles congregate on these rivers to feed on the salmon.
We actually have bald eagles in the local area in the Sierra Nevada at a lake called Bass Lake. They’re been breeding there for years. I went one time to a bar on the shore of the lake and looked at a couple of bald eagles on a nest on a treetop. There’s been a pair breeding there for years.
They’re very rare down here in the Central Valley. I finally saw a bald eagle here locally after we had a huge amount of rain, and there were small lakes formed all over the local grazing land. I looked out at this huge flooded area and saw a huge animal. At first I thought it was a cow, except it wasn’t a cow. Next I thought it was a dog, except it was way too big to be a dog.
I pulled over, confused, and got out of my car. Sure enough, it was a bald eagle! The thing was absolutely huge, one of the most massive birds you will ever see. It took off when I pulled over, as other animals like coyotes usually do if you pull over and look at them. It was a damned impressive sight, man.
…we either have male dominance and violence, or gentle female dominance.
First of all, you’re going to have male violence (and female violence too for that matter) in either one. Actually the men might be more violent if they were being dominated by women because being dominated by women is one thing that pisses real men off more than anything else.
First of all, female dominance of men will never be gentle. Women are
never gentle with the men that they dominate, in relationships or otherwise. It just doesn’t work that way. I think it is not possible for a woman to dominate a man in a gentle way. Women will always be cruel, vicious, and even evil with the men they are dominating.
On the other hand, I think we men can dominate women in a civilized manner. First of all, we men evolved to be dominant, to dominate women and children, and to fight for dominance with other men. The fact that dominance was bred right into us means that
we can choose to implement our inborn trait either nicely or cruelly. It is certainly possible for men to dominate women in a non-harmful way. I’ve done it in most of my relationships.
Sadly, one gender has to dominate the other. The reality for most men is that
most women expect the man to dominate. Women come into the relationship specifically expecting to be dominated by the man. Now, in their minds this is not a bad thing, as they like being submissive, and their view of male dominance often does not involve harm.
Men realize that if we don’t dominate our woman, she is going to take those pants right off of us and dominate you! It’s like someone has to dominate – it’s either him or her, take your pick.
I used to believe that full equality between the sexes was possible, but after 45 years of experience with women, I no longer believe this.
Complete equality between men and women is simply not possible – it’s folly, a fool’s errand, an unwinnable war.
Gay male relationships are full of dominance and submission, tops and bottoms, bears and twinks,
in full imitation of heterosexuality.
Lesbians like to think they are beyond this, but how many times you have seen a lesbian couple where one was butch (the man) and the other was more femme (obviously the woman)? So
they’re imitating heterosexuality too. And you can’t tell me there’s no dominance-submission stuff going on in that butch-femme relationship either.
From the lesbians I read on the web, I have learned that there is quite a bit of dom-sub type sex going on with them as a matter of course, especially with the young ones, 18-30. I hate BD/SM but I know a lot about it. The number of female subs who have dom “mistresses” is very high, and the setup is about the same as with male dom-female sub relationships.
If you look at mammals, it is quite typical for male mammals to not only be much more aggressive but also to keep harems, fight over females, etc. And in mammalian sex the male often acts quite dominant, and the female acts…you guessed it – submissive.
I am reading a book about grizzly bears, and the author witnesses a rare mating. Yes, the male bear is acting very aggressive and dominant, and believe it or not, the female
grizzly bear of all things is acting…yep – submissive!
Ape sex is often about rape. In chimps and baboons, a male will literally terrorize a female ape for some time, chasing her, hitting her, scaring the living crap out of her. He acts extremely mean towards her. And guess which male she picks to mate with come mating time? Yep, the rapey, female-beating, stalking, creepy, abusive male ape, the same one who terrorized her her before.
I think the best we could hope for would be one sex dominating the other, but in the mildest and kindest way possible that does the least harm to the more submissive partner. And we should hope for submissive partners who don’t like to be hurt or abused.
At least in any normal society, that is. As in, every single non-feminist-fucked society on Earth.
A Hero among Men
If the Player is very humble or even acts embarrassed of his success, other men will respond very well. In Man World, Players are often treated as sort of heroes for some reason.
This goes for men of all ages and even boys, teenage boys, and
even prepubertal boys. And it goes for all ages of men – young men of course, but also middle aged men think Players are hilarious and heroic figures. Oddly, even elderly men fall into convulsive laughter over the Player’s exploits, pat him on the back, and treat him like a hero.
In fact, humor is a typical reaction to the player. Males of all ages will roll on the floor laughing at the antics of the Player. For some reason, he’s absolutely hilarious.
And a Hero among Women, Too
Many adult women also treat Players this way. A lot of women think Players are funny. They burst into laughter when they meet one or hear of his exploits.
Girls, even prepubertal girls, act rather amazed, amused, and giggly about the Player. This applies especially when they are 10-12, when they are starting to get a bit curious about boys. Younger girls don’t understand male-female dynamics very well.
Married women chuckle and think he is funny. Oddly enough, most old women also find him absolutely hilarious. Once again, as we see with men, the Player is an object of comedy and hilarity. Why?
A Hero in Most Traditional Cultures, Too
I figure that this is the normal way that any society treats the Player. Traditional societies apparently are a bit in awe of him, and the men quite possibly treat him as some male hero figure. The women are stunned by him, some want to date him, and most think he is humorous or hilarious. This seems to be the natural, normal way that most human societies treat the enigma known as the Player.
Keep in mind that Players are basically Alphas by default. On one Manosphere site, one man said if you have had sex with 100 females, you are an Alpha period – no ifs, ands, or buts about it. If you have a high enough lay count, you cannot
not be an Alpha. That’s probably correct. Only 6% of men have three-figure laycounts. I would wager that most if not all of them are Alphas.
Furthermore, I doubt if there are many Beta Players out there. The nature of the Beta seems to imply that he’s usually not a Player. An Omega Player is literally not even possible due to the nature of the Omega. Alphas are 15-20% of male society, and that’s probably the maximum number of males who are Players in any age group.
You can’t have a society where every man, or even a majority of men, are Players. Well, you could. That would be gay male culture. But I do not think that straight society will ever resemble gay male culture. If anything, it’s the opposite, as the growth of hypergamy and the damage left in its wake such as incels show us. It’s Human Evolution Talking – the Voice of Hundreds of Thousands of Years
The normal society reaction to the Player is probably rooted in evolution. See the elephant seal, buck, or stallion with his harem. Get it? It’s evolution in action. The Player is a male two-legged ape with a harem. We are mammals after all.
If you really want to understand human males and females, study those female deer, elephant seals, and sheep. Study those male elk, seals, and horses.
I have learned more about human males and females by studying the so-called lower mammals than from studying humans. Everything starts to add up and finally make sense.
We are doomed to be mammals no matter how hard to we try to escape the bestial trap. We cannot not be mammals. As with everything else, when it comes to mammalian behavior in humans, Nature bats last.
In my peer counseling practice, I have so far had two animal killers. One was a 16 year old boy in Germany. He came to me about violent thoughts but he didn’t and couldn’t pay. Nonetheless he was so profoundly disturbed (killing puppies) that I felt that he needed an immediate intervention so I simply worked with him for free. Also I sometimes work with teenagers for free as they can never pay.
This boy had rescued a dog and made a pet out of it. It was a female and soon enough it had puppies. The boy then strangled all of the puppies one by one.
I was very alarmed by this, but I had to tread very carefully. I did not get angry at him for killing the puppies, nor did I act shocked. My attitude was just, “Ok, so you killed some puppies.” I told him that killing puppies was wrong, and he should not have done that. This prompted a weepy apology session where he tried to defend himself by saying it wasn’t his fault. I accepted his apology and didn’t bother him about killing the puppies.
However, I did say that I wanted this puppy-killing to stop, and I didn’t want to hear about him killing any more puppies. I was emphatic about this. He readily agreed.
A lot of clinicians will freak out and get very angry at a client who is killing mammals, but I think that is the wrong approach. The client is just going to get his back up at best, and he may well get up and walk out of the room at worst.
Even if you are shocked and horrified by the mammal-killing, it is important to not show your feelings. You can raise your eyebrows, suck in your breath, say, “Wow”, things like that, but don’t get mad at them. However, you need to throw down a hard limit of no more mammal-killing at least while the client is talking to you.
Not all mammal-killers are bad human beings. A lot of them are but not all of them. Some of them are good people who are simply ill. Also it’s just a lower mammal. Killing a dog or a cat, as much as we love them, is simply not the same as killing a human, sorry.
I finally figured out that he was probably hallucinating voices although he denied that he was, as he called them thoughts and not voices. But you can tell through careful questioning and listening carefully to their answers whether you are dealing with thoughts or hallucinations. Sometimes what people describe as “thoughts” are actually auditory hallucinations. He was getting command hallucinations telling him to kill the puppies, and he was acting on them.
He also had some other problems. His mother was dead. At age 13, his mother had taken him and herself to the railroad tracks in order to get hit by a train and commit dual suicide. At the last minute the boy ran away from the train. The mother stayed on the tracks and was killed. That’s a pretty traumatizing experience!
He had a flat attitude about him where he was always saying, “I don’t care.” It seemed a bit odd how he seemed to not care about so many things.
He kept to himself at school and drew pictures a lot. For some reason his behavior was odd enough that his schoolmates bullied him. They often hit him. He would fight back vigorously, so he was getting into fights all the time. I didn’t think this was pathological, as he was just defending himself.
After he killed the puppies he felt so guilty that he put his hands in boiling water for a long time to punish himself. This had caused some injuries to his hands.
He also didn’t get along with his father at all for whatever reason.
He was extremely confused sexually and most of his early sexual experiences from 13-on had been with other boys. But now he had a girlfriend with whom he was having regular sex, and he said he had discovered that he liked sex with women just fine. I figured he was probably straight or at least not gay. He was one of the most sexually confused people I have ever dealt with.
He also told me that he had killed a pet rabbit when he was five years old. After a bit I figured out that this was in response to a command hallucination also.
I relayed the case to a former therapist, a clinical psychologist, and he told me that mammal killers are often either psychopaths or psychotic. He also suggested that this boy may be on the track to develop Borderline Personality Disorder. He was a Pre-Borderline if you will.
We have to say this because we cannot diagnose personality disorders in people under 18 because personality often changes quite a bit, especially in adolescence. In particular, a lot of adolescents appear psychopathic but then they age out of it as they become adults. A lot of juvenile delinquents are actually just “temporary” criminals.
The BPD did fit with the self-harm (Borderline men, like Borderline women, often self-harm), the constant fighting (Borderline men often pick fights a lot), the identity confusion, and the sexual confusion.
Borderline men are bad. They’re much worse than Borderline women.
I told him it was absolutely imperative that he get to a psychiatrist and find out what was going on with his head. His father convinced him to go to a psychiatrist, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia as I suspected.
He had a rather apathetic and “so what?” attitude about that too.
People can be apathetic for various reasons. I had an OCD man who wrote to me once with a 10 page long history of his illness. He was from India.
He worried about every stupid thing under the sun, but he also kept saying, “I don’t care” through the paper. In this case, obviously he
did care and in fact, he cared way too much. So the constant “I don’t care” was probably a defense against his over-caring and the illness that developed out of it. It was a thought compulsion to counteract the excessive caring that was causing the obsessions.
However, in this case, the apathy made sense to me after his diagnosis because schizophrenics often seem apathetic, and one of the symptoms of the illness is flat emotions.
So you see not all mammal-killers are psychopaths. There can be other things going on too.
However, I must say that this boy was one of the most seriously disturbed clients I have ever had.
SHI:Other dog breeds I like include Labrador retrievers, Balinese poodles, and even strays. I get along great with the strays. Do you have strays in California where you live?
Absolutely no stray dogs whatsoever here or in the last California town I lived in. Or really in the one I lived in before that. I mean there are a tiny few here and there, abandoned pets mostly. My brother made a pet out of one when he was homeless.
We don’t tolerate stray dogs here in the US. At least in the White US. People say Whites have no culture, but actually we do. Of course we have a culture. How can a people not have a culture? It’s not possible.
Anyway, one thing White culture simply does not tolerate is stray dogs. We have dogcatchers who work for something called Animal Control, and they take care of them right quick.
I have no idea how other cultures like Black or Hispanic cultures deal with stray dogs. I think Hispanics may tolerate them because if you go down to Mexico, there are stray dogs everywhere.
While there are few stray dogs in White areas, there are some stray cats in these places. We don’t really like them, but we tolerate them. Some people trap them and pay to have them neutered, which is the best policy. Also a lot of people feed them. I don’t really like it as those wild cats kill an awful lot of rodents, small reptiles like lizards, and especially birds.
Cats kill an incredible number of birds in the US every year. There’s a town called Antioch in Northern California where there are supposedly 26,000 cats and they are hammering the birds something awful. Sorry, you have to start killing them when it gets like that. The town are trying to kill a lot of those cats, but the cat-lovers are up in arms over it.
Animal control goes out, catches a dog or cat, and brings it to the “pound.” The dog or cat stays in the pound for a week or two, at which time anyone can adopt it assuming it’s not totally wild. Wild cats cannot be adopted at all, and if they have been wild even for a short time at the beginning of their lives, say 2-3 weeks, there is a wildness that gets imprinted on them that stays with them for the rest of their lives – could be 18 years.
If no one adopts the pet after a week or two, they take the animal and put it in a chamber that has some strong tranquilizing gas pumped into it. The pet more or less falls and asleep and dies soon after.
There are now no-kill shelters, which I think are irrational. My Mom loves them, as she is a cat-lover. These places somehow just house all these stray cats forever. There is one near here called Cathouse on the Kings. My Mom and sister have been there a few times. There are literally hundreds of cats on a small enclosure.
These cat-lovers don’t make sense. They’re irrational. They’re mostly women, so of course they’re irrational, right? They think we can solve the stray cat problem with catch and euthanize. It’s a great idea except it doesn’t work. We catch and euthanize lots of them, but the numbers still don’t go down, as the others are breeding, or the numbers of stray cats are always being replenished by new stray cats.
A lot of stray cats are former pets. I adopted one once. This is a part of White culture that is no good. It’s ignorant working class White culture. People move and when they move, they usually don’t take their cats. For one thing, cats don’t travel well at all.
A lot of Whites like this turn their cats loose in the wild instead of taking them to the pound and killing them as you are supposed to. They think it’s more humane to turn the animal loose in the woods somewhere than to take it to the pound and kill it.
Except it’s not, really. Most former pets turned loose die horrible deaths maybe a week or two after being abandoned. I have seen what appear to be former pet cats when I was out walking in the woods. One was emaciated and looked ill. But it wouldn’t let me near it. Most former pets don’t know how to hunt or survive in the wild very well.
Or these working class Whites refuse to fix their female, so it has kittens. $25 is just too much money. She has kittens a lot and they just take the kittens out and abandon them somewhere. I have no idea if other ethnicities do this. I know that middle class Whites think working class Whites are disgusting morons for throwing their cats out to the wild like that.
Same here. But, I don’t ever recall hurting a kitten or pup. Even as a toddler, I always loved cats and dogs. What is it really about them that children love so much? Maybe that they’re mammals?
I think the children who abuse cats and dogs are violent psychopaths in the making. I’d have never ever imagined hurting these creatures.
First I would like to point out that animal-killing is something boys do, and it’s very common. Girls generally speaking simply do not kill any kind of animals, even insects. They’re too tender-hearted for that sort of thing.
Sure, there is a hierarchy to this sort of thing. Most all boys kill
insects and that’s no big deal really.
Next is
fish. Yes, some boys kill fish for kicks, especially boys who fish for sport, but a fish is a primitive organism. To me though, killing fish is more serious than killing insects. A fish is larger and you can really see it suffer if you kill it. Bugs just die right away and they are so small that it is hard to empathize with them if you kill them.
Next up are
amphibians like frogs. For some reason this is a bit more serious than killing fish. Nonetheless, quite a few boys kill frogs and other amphibians. President George Bush did as a boy.
Next up would probably be
reptiles. For some reason, I think this is a bit more serious than killing amphibians, mostly because I’ve rarely heard of boys killing reptiles.
It’s rare for boys to kill reptiles because they’re a bit dangerous. Also boys love to catch snakes and make pets out of them. My friends caught kingsnakes and made pets of them. You had to feed them live mice! Our friends cackled with glee watching their pet snakes eat a live mouse. I told you boys are evil. Lizards will also fight back and a lot of them bite, especially those nasty alligator lizards we have here in California.
Next up would be birds. Now we are getting serious because birds are warm-blooded. Killing cold-blooded creatures is not that big of a deal, as they are all extremely primitive creatures far removed from us. The closer the animal gets to a human, the more of a serious matter the animal killing is.
But humans are warm-blooded, so killing warm-blooded creatures is a big deal. The Mexican Indian man next door told me that as a boy in Mexico, they used to kill birds! I could not believe he did that, and he was a bit defensive about it. He came out fine though. There’s nothing wrong with him. But I like birds so I won’t look fondly on bird-killers.
I am just guessing, but I think bird-killers might be older than killers of cold-blooded creatures, who tend to be young boys. As boys become teenagers, most of them start to think that killing bugs, fish, amphibians, etc. is childish and stupid. If they still want to kill animals, I imagine that they graduate on to birds and mammals. But most boys who killed animals as boys simply stop killing creatures when they become teenagers. They simply mature out of it.
Next up of course is
mammals. Mammals are warm-blooded, and humans are mammals. If you are hunting mammals for sport with a gun, that is one thing, especially if you are going to eat the animal you kill. But if you are just killing them for kicks (typically by torturing them to death), you’ve got problems, especially if you are killing dogs and cats, as we humans love these animals and make pets out of them.
Yes, many serial killers start out killing mammals as boys. It’s more or less practice for killing humans, which they will do later on. I have no idea if mammal-killing boys can turn out ok. Perhaps some of them can. But if you know of a child or adolescent who is killing mammals, some intervention is needed. As soon as possible. This is a serious matter not to be trifled with.
Also I would like to point out that mammal-killers tend to be older than the other animal-killers listed above. They are usually teenagers aged 14-16, and they can be both boys and girls, but they are mostly boys.
My brothers and friends and I were all wicked little shits as young boys.
We stole things.
We tortured and killed bugs and fish, and it was all a big blast.
We even had industrial mass murder facilities to kill the pillbugs because they ate our strawberries.
We poured salt on snails because they were pests.
We had “gladiator” fights or “bullfights” with these caterpillars called wollybears. There’s nothing wrong with these caterpillars. We simply killed them for sheer kicks.
We would clear out a circle on the dirt and that would be the arena. We would put the caterpillar in the arena. Then we got these huge nails and threw them at the caterpillar. Every time we did it we shouted “Picadors!” or “Picadores!” (I love these hilarious names boys come up with for their evil games.) If you watch bullfights those are the guys on horses who ride up to the bull and stab it with spears to make it easier for the bullfighter.
We used to go fishing for smelts at this place called “The Smelt Place.” Original name, huh? It was in an estuary called the Bolsa Chica. There were fish called smelts there (Pacific smelts) and we could not catch enough of these damned things. We mostly just released them. We would catch up to 100 of them in a day.
Finally we got mad at the fish for, frankly, being such morons as to let us catch 100 of their kind every day without every figuring out that the Velveeta was nothing but a scam with a hook in it. We lost respect for them. I also think we got bored of catching them all the time.
So we started this game called “Acapulco Cliff Divers” (I love these hilarious names boys make up for their wicked games) where we would catch a smelt and then cast it over onto the rocks. The fish would land on the rocks, injuring it. Then we would reel the poor fish in
over the damned rocks, which of course hurt them even more. They’d be dead after a couple of casts. I’m not sure how many days we did that, but it was not a lot.
One boy, TM, who had a diabolical laugh, tied a live smelt to a rope to the back of his back and then took off on his bike via the drainage ditch we used to access the place. The fish was dead shortly after. I remember he was laughing like a maniac the whole time he did this. We all thought that was pretty damn funny – tying a live fish to a rope and dragging it to its death! Ha ha! Good times!
SHI: Funny thing I am hated by the Hindutvadi morons more than they do Muslims. Something about me sets a TRIGGER and they react crazily.
They probably think you’re a traitor. You used to be one of them and now you went over to the other side. Few of them will admit it, but a lot of the hatred towards me is coming from that same point of view. Some of them are almost heartbroken. Heartbroken that this good liberal man has turned into such a vicious, evil, racist brute. Except I’m not really racist at all.
The Left hates me for more than the Right does. Most rightwingers are actually quite pleasant. The Left on the other hand has been vicious, destructive, and even evil, waging a campaign of personal destruction and character assassination against me. The take-down of my blog has been only part of that.
I’m lucky I don’t have an academic job, or any job, that these psychos could connect me with because they have openly stated that they will find out my job and try to get me fired on some SJW bullshit charge (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.).
It might be nice if there were a few employers in this country who reacted to this garbage with, “So what! So my employee is a racist, sexist, homophobe, whatever! In your highly subjective opinion, that is. I got some news for you. I don’t care! People like that are more than welcome to work for me!”
But no one has the balls to do that. I know you would though, SHI, if you were an employer. That’s why I like you.
On the other hand though that employer might get a boycott against him. But if we had enough employers doing that they might stop boycotting because how can you boycott thousands of businesses at once. It’s boy who cried wolf and people would just throw up their hands and say, “Forget it! I’m buying whatever I’m buying!”
I must say though that the liberal-Left is not alone in this insane, destructive, fanatical hate.
I got the exact same thing from the Bigfooters (some of the most vicious and downright wicked and sociopathic freaks I have ever encountered) and the true crime crowd, where a group of people, mostly women waged an all out war on me for some things I wrote when I was reporting a crime.
From the True Crime Crowd it was basically coming from a total feminist POV, but it also picked up a lot of retarded Middle American monkeys from the Midwest, fundamentalist Christian redneck Trump-lovers.
A friend of mine refers to the enemy of the men as femiservatives. There are many conservatives out there who hate us men just as much as the feminists do. He uses some word like Feminist/Conservatives – I forget the actual terminology. A lot of this enemy is made up of conservative Republican fundamentalist Christian White women, part of the Trump coalition.
They’re the worst enemy I ever met. They tried very hard to dox me, and they reported me to the police probably 50 times. I even got a call from a detective who told me I was a suspect in a terrible crime because so many people had called me in.
Before that it was Jews, mostly super-Jews and Zionist Israel-reporters. They doxed all of their enemies and contacted their employers and tried to get them fired as “anti-Semites.” Utterly vicious people with a black hole where their heart should be.
Is it something about the Internet and the anonymity of it that brings out the Secret Psychopath in so many people? Is it Snark Culture on the Net, exemplified by
In fact, recently I found that people on
of all places were far more open-minded about US foreign policy, government lying, and media lying and bias. A lot of them are very cynical and they hardly believed anything the state or media said about anything anymore, which is a good idea because 50% of what they say is either lying or biased anyway. Breitbart
One
Brietbart commenter said that whenever the government says anything, your first assumption should be that they are lying. I’m not sure about that but on foreign policy it is absolutely. Disinformation, outright lying and blatant propaganda have essential tools of US foreign policy forever now, going back to the Spanish Civil War and the yellow journalism and state-sponsored hate campaigns that accompanied it.
I was shocked at how antiwar (in an isolationist way) they were.
Half of those Brietbart commenters sounded exactly like me!
Then I went over to
Daily Kos (the left wing base Democratic Party) headquarters, and they had swallowed all of the media and state lies about that refinery attack whole.
I will say that the
Left ( Alternet) has a very open mind, except on SJW crap, but a lot of the Alternet crowd are open-minded about that too, and a lot of them are starting to rebel against SJWism which they see as puritanical, prudish, uptight, priggish, party-pooping no-fun people. Others just think it is a silly and petty distraction.
Actually over on
Daily Kos ( liberals) the SJWism is vastly worse. That’s a brainwashed horde over there. And on the actual Hard Left (actual Communists and antifa anarchists) is where you will find the worst SJWism of all.
I think it is because both the
Breitbart crowd and the Alternet Left have gone over to a “conspiracy theory” view of the world for some time now. At times this is quite wrong, but at other times, it is flat out true.
The Democratic Party though says that
every time you question the media or state on anything foreign policy or some other things, it’s “conspiracy theory.” All “conspiracy theory” is banned on Daily Kos, for instance. Ok, now right off the bat you can’t talk about 50% of what the media or state is telling you because those are lies that can only be explained by, frankly, conspiracy theory.
On the other hand though, even Kosnicks have come a long way. The early articles on the refinery attack were very skeptical, with 80% of them saying the government is lying. Now they are all saying the government is telling the truth.
It’s really pathetic when liberals
of all people (we came out of the Vietnam War era, remember?) buy the foreign policy lies of the state and media far more than conservatives do, as conservatives have always been more likely to believe this propaganda crap.
Modern liberal Democrats are utterly pathetic. They’re better than they used to be, but they are still a huge clusterfuck.
One thing that particularly galls me is that conservatives are far friendlier, nicer, and more decent to me than the Left is. And I am a Leftist! I am supposed to be one of their sworn enemies! They are supposedly full of hate, viciousness and outright evil, but when you meet them, they’re so nice and pleasant, even to an out and out Leftist!
On the other hand though the SJW Left are utter monsters – savage, destructive,, and vindictive freaks. I always thought we on the liberal-Left were the nice and compassionate ones and the Right was where al the haters and hate was.
Now it’s the other way around.
It’s so discouraging and disappointing. In a way, it breaks my heart. I have been a man of the Left my whole life, and now it feels, just as I feel about my country, that the love of my life (the Left) has ripped out my heart and crushed it on the ground like a bug. So I’m also heartbroken. Heartbroken at both my country and the liberal-Left, two things I once held near and dear to my heart.
This is a repost of a very nice earlier post from four years ago that is being posted around the Net right now. From the Internet. Fascinating stuff. A number of respondents said they would bet on the human or said that a smart human can indeed take out a wolf, although your odds are a lot better if you are armed with anything. However, many other respondents said if you a wolf attacks you, and you are unarmed, get ready to die. You’re gone. Overwhelmingly, your chances of survival are near zero. First thing to note is that they are extremely intelligent, far smarter than a dog.
I raised many hybrid wolves, mostly German Shepherd breeds, and one 80% wolf that was awesome with me and my partner, but no one else dared go near it – luckily it never really wanted to mess with people, but if you picked a fight with it, you picked the wrong one to fight with…
The thing with wolves is the intelligence and the chess match you are involved in from first encounter. They are always thinking two steps ahead and know what to do, even as youngsters… …If you are in a fight with a wolf, I’d give you less than the minute it took for them to down a pig, and unless you’re some kind of ninja, you’d never remember what happened. They know where and when to strike you, know how to do it, and are so smart.
99% of the time, you are going to die.
Maybe if you knew some kind of special wolf triangle choke where you could incapacitate the wolf, but just like everyone else says, you’ll lose that fight 99 times out of 100.
A wolf is not a dog.
You wouldn’t stand a chance in Hell against an adult wolf.
Oliver Starr has dozens of accounts of living with wolves, including several on this very subject, and one thing that is quite clear is wolves are not just wild dogs.
Wolves chew right through solid metal objects. Think of what they could do to your measly flesh.
My friends had a part wolf dog. The most noticeable difference was the mouth. That wolf dog was very friendly, but he had a long head and was all teeth. Having read Oliver Starr’s story I would not give myself good odds of surviving if he had ever tried to take me down. He once chewed through a metal cooler to get some lunch meat and routinely chewed open food cans.
Wolves are not dogs, and it only takes two dogs to kill an adult human.
Even if you do live and kill the wolf, you might wish you had not survived:
If you do manage to fight the wolf off, you could be hurt really bad, possibly sustaining life-threatening wounds. A bite can tear open major veins, crush bones, and rip open your abdomen or throat.
Police are allowed to use deadly force against even large dogs that seriously attack them. It is considered a deadly force encounter.
That is why I as an officer am allowed to shot a wolf or dog that I feel is going to attack me. It is considered a deadly force encounter.
If you don’t have a gun, the best thing to do is to climb a tree, but that probably won’t work, as wolves are fast as lightning.
A wolf will kill most adult humans easily. That is why if you fight a wolf, you must always presume it will be a fight to the death, and you had better
wantto live. Yes, some people have hysterical/psychotic strength, but that happens rarely and cannot be depended on. Best advice is to climb a tree (if you get the chance, good luck with that) if unarmed, otherwise shoot it if you have a gun.
The feminist argument is that males are violent due to patriarchy. They say this because all feminists reject biological gender and think that gender is a social construct. So you deconstruct gender, get rid of masculinity, and wa-law, males are as pacifistic as females.
I have said for a while now that if you want to understand men and women, study mammals, especially the higher-order ones. The males are always far more violent than the females. They fight, sometimes to the death, for access to females. The most Alpha male mammals end up with entire harems of females. The rest of the Beta male mammals are resigned to bachelorhood and probably never breed. It’s even true with cats. I have had many cats in my life. The males were far more aggressive and even violent than the females. And these males had been castrated for Chrissake. Many of them seemed to have an almost wild, restless energy about them such that they never seemed to calm down much. One thing I learned that in general you cannot have more than one male cat in a household. Most times I got more than one male, they fought like maniacs. They almost tried to kill each other. The theory is that the males are territorial. The other male is encroaching on the first male’s territory. At the moment I have only female cats. They are so much calmer. In case anyone is wondering, humans are mammals. If male mammals are a lot more violent than female mammals, wouldn’t it be logical to assume the same is true in humans? I am indeed a biological essentialist. I think the feminists cut us men way too much slack. The feminists are Utopians. They think that if they can just fix up society enough, we men will stop being so aggressive and violent. If only it were that easy. I’ll take the feminists one step further: Males are innately violent. I would even expand that to males and humans who behave like males. Masculinity is not a requirement. Gay men are quite violent. Gay male relationships are more violent than relationships between men and women. Further, transwomen are extremely unmasculine in behavior (they behave like ultra-feminine women), but we can see how violent and dangerous many transwomen are – probably more so than cisgender men. I think this is the autogynephile group. The true transsexual group, mostly homosexuals, is probably less violent than cisgender men and probably even less violent than cisgender gay men. It is from this evidence that I would say that the problem is something inherent in us men – in our minds – and just waging war on masculinity won’t get rid of it.
Connecticut, West Virginia, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Nebraska, and Alaska have at least one thing in common: each has a Panhandle (WV has two). The Nebraska Panhandle is the westernmost part of Nebraska, where the prairie turns into rocky mesas, buttes, and pillars, such as Chimney Rock. It’s where the Midwest becomes the West.
Cattle outnumber people by about three to one in Nebraska. While Eastern Nebraska has excellent cropland for corn, the rest of the state is abundant with grassland for cattle grazing. In the semi-arid Panhandle, cattle ranching dominates. That means Rocky Mountain Oysters are a celebrated delicacy.
This past April the Sidney Shooting Park held its 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry and Fundraiser at the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds west of Sidney, Nebraska. At the Silver Dollar Bar and Grill, also in Sidney, you can stop in for cold beer, onion rings, and Rocky Mountain Oysters – described by one satisfied customer as hot, fresh, and tender.
They might have been hot, fresh, and tender, but you and I know that there aren’t any oyster reefs in Nebraska. These Oysters are bull testicles – or, more accurately, calf testicles. In spring or early summer, ranchers dehorn and castrate bull calves that they won’t be using as breeding stock. They call these non-breeding stock
steers. The males that keep their testicles and are later used as breeding stock they call bulls. The main purpose of castration is to calm their tempers, says Dr. Jake Geis, cattle rancher and veterinarian.
Simply put, bulls like to fight. They fight to establish dominance and even after they settle the hierarchy, they fight to re-assert dominance. Dr. Geis says that he’s worked on bulls that have been banged up fighting each other; sometimes the animal is so badly injured that a rancher has no choice but to put it down. Breeding bulls are essential so the problem can’t be entirely avoided, but castrating the non-breeding animals reduces the number of bulls from half the calf crop to three or four.
Also, bulls are more aggressive toward people than steers. Castrating bulls makes them mellower and safer to work with. A herdsman could be seriously injured or killed by a bull while loading or unloading them via trailers.
Another problem, says Dr. Geis, is that when bull calves reach puberty, they want to start breeding. Young females, or
heifers, on the other hand, aren’t ready to breed. They can get pregnant but they can’t yet safely deliver and raise a calf. Castration eliminates this problem.
Arguably the most important reason for castrating bull calves is that Americans prefer the taste of steer meat to that of bull meat. The hormone profile of steers with their reduced testosterone changes the flavor of the meat. Dr. Geis says that not all cultures share this preference. He mentions that in Italian culture bull meat is preferred. This means they raise the bulls to harvest weight but have to manage all the problems with aggressiveness and fighting.
With a pair of organs coming off each calf, ranchers could easily end up with scores of them in a day’s work. The dogs get their share before the ranchers, herdsmen, and their families cook the rest just as they would any other part of the animal. The same as cattlemen have done for centuries all over the world.
When they’re not castrating bulls, beef cattle herdsmen are doing various other things with cattle such as feeding, giving vaccinations, tagging or branding, trimming hooves, assisting with births, performing artificial insemination, loading animals onto trailers, driving feed trucks, maintaining pastures, mending fences, and just about anything else that needs to be done on the ranch or feedlot.
You Indians better work on your personalities! You’re even starting to piss of the birds for Chrissake, and birds are pretty stupid. Where do you think birdbrain came from? And ducks are some of the dumbest birds of them all.
My high school biology teacher once told us that ducks were very stupid. On her farm where she grew up, there was this path they walked down every day, and the path turned sharply into a low spot where a pond of water had collected in the trail. The pond was easily avoided if you knew it was coming. The ducks would walk along the path and then turn the corner and land right in the water, upsetting and surprising them. They never learned anything from one day to the next, like a lot of humans I know. Every day they made the same damned mistake and fell into the pond squawking again. They simply could not recall that there was a bend in the trail and a hidden pond after it that they had fallen into the day before. I guess these London swans* are not too stupid though! They seem have figured out like so many of us in the West that Indians are lousy people! *If you are interested, there are three types of birds: ducks, swans and geese. They are all related as members of the larger Duck Family. Swans and geese are separate genera, something I was not aware of (I just learned that today!). Swans and geese are larger than ducks. They must be closely related though because swans and geese can interbreed to form hybrids (I just learned that today too!). Isn’t life cool? Here I am at 60 years old and I am still learning new things, even new basic facts about our world, almost every day! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think that’s really neat. H who is not busy growing is busy dying.
I’m confused. Sure, humans have racist impulses; Ballets like Swan Lake are said to be ‘racist,’ but…UK Swans Hate Ethnic Minorities (right click to open in new window):
(Birds have more acute eyesight than human I check). “Angry ‘Racist’ Swans are Terrorizing Students at Warwick University
The bullying birds have been spotted standing guard at a campus footbridge to stop humans from crossing. Students say they are being continually confronted on their way to lectures. And the birds – who are currently in their breeding season – are said to be particularly aggressive towards Indian students. One victim, a 24-year-old student who asked not to be named, said:
“I am from India, and they attack me especially – they focus straight on me. We have been warned that the swans will be a bit feisty at this time of year, but they go for me all year round. I think they don’t like too many Indians in England – maybe the swans here are a little bit racist.” ………………. When the yanks pick an African ballerina to play Odette, the swan queen, they picked one with fairer skin and without peppercorn hair.
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Answered on Queera , I mean Quora .
The PC line is that homosexuality is widespread in the animal kingdom. “All animals are gay!” is how Gay Politics propaganda goes. Actually it’s not.
This line is taken to extremes recently, and it is not uncommon to hear PC types say that 10% of all types of birds and mammals are gay. That’s clearly nonsense.
Both claims are simply examples of the typical retarded lying that Gay Politics constantly engages in. It shares this with other forms of
Identity Politics, all of which are forms of chauvinist propaganda for various groups based on massive retarded lying and victim worship for the identity group along with demonization and irrational, often bizarre and extremely dishonest propagandized hatred of out-group “oppressors” of the same group.
There are cases of two same sex birds incubating an egg, but apparently there was a shortage of the opposite sex that gave rise to this. Also they didn’t have sex with each other.
I had a cat once that went into heat. You can hear and even observe when a cat is in heat. I won’t go into details. You will have to figure it out for yourself. When this cat was in heat, one of my female cats tried to mount the female in heat!
If you drive mice crazy enough in the lab or subject them to very crowded conditions, male mice will attempt to mount each other. They don’t actually have sex. This is called lordosis. This pseudo-homosexuality is a side effect of the mice being driven crazy by overcrowding or whatever. This suggests that homosexuality may be a psychological or sociological behavioral disturbance in some cases.
Bonobo chimpanzees (at least the females) are apparently often bisexual, but I am not aware of any gay or lesbian bonobos, nor am I aware of male bonobos having sex with each other.
However, sheep are a good case for homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Approximately 6% of male sheep prefer to mount other male sheep. I am not sure what they accomplish when they do that, but that’s what they do. They don’t have sex with female sheep. That is quite an excellent analogy in the animal world to male homosexuality among humans. As far as why sheep are like this, I have no idea at all.
Answered on Quora: In most mammals, males are far more aggressive and even violent than females. Take cats. I have had many cats in my life, sometimes whole herds of them, up to five at a time. Male cats are far more aggressive and violent than female cats. And they are so territorial that I can never have more than one male cat in a house. Frankly even one is an issue. The more I study male and female cats, the more I think they resemble male and female humans. If you study other mammals – seals, elk, deer, etc., you will find much the same thing.
The Big Black River, flowing southwest across Mississippi, is the site of a pivotal battle during the Vicksburg Campaign of the Civil War. After a decisive loss at Champion Hill, the Confederates reached the Big Black River on the night of May 16, 1863, under the command of Lt. Gen. John Pemberton, commander of the Confederate Army of Mississippi.
The Confederates constructed earthworks on the river’s east bank and placed 18 guns behind the works. Large sections of Pemberton’s line were protected by a bayou of waist-deep water. A planked-over railroad bridge and another makeshift bridge provided access to additional artillery overlooking the river on its west bank.
Union forces led by Maj. Gen. John McClernand encountered the Confederates early on the morning of May 17. It just so happened that the men led by Brig. Gen. Michael Lawler actually got to the Rebels first, wading through the bayou to overrun the Confederates on the east bank of the river. Inspired by Lawler’s attack, other Union formations surged forward.
Overwhelmed, the Confederates broke for the makeshift bridges to get to the west bank. Most of Pemberton’s men made it across, but Pemberton’s chief engineer set fire to both bridges to cut off any Union pursuit. Many of the Confederates tried to swim across the river and drowned. About 1,700 Rebels were stranded on the east bank and subsequently captured. It was the final battle before the Siege of Vicksburg.
After floods you can still sometimes find artifacts from the gunboat battles that took place on the Big Black River during the War. But most people on the river nowadays aren’t really interested in Civil War artifacts. The big payoff during springtime on the Big Black are flathead catfish – also called tabby cats, shovelhead cats, yellow cats, flatties, and who knows how many other names. The Big Black River will overflow her banks that time of year. As Cliff Covington tells it:
Foraging catfish move into the flooded timber in large numbers. Catfish anglers take advantage of this feeding frenzy by setting multiple trotlines in likely spots along the main channel. Chicken livers, cut skipjack, live goldfish, and pond perch are the baits of choice when a boatload of catfish is the big objective.
Muddy and slow-flowing due to the large amount of sediment it carries, the Big Black River is renowned for yielding blue, channel, and flathead catfish of what Covington calls “mythical proportions.” It is one of the premier handgrabbing destinations in the South. A handgrabber catches fish by placing his hands directly into a catfish hole, and some anglers are very good at it. Covington refers to Woodie Reaves, who says there is no better place for handgrabbing catfish than the shallow waters of the Big Black.
While Reaves’ personal best is a 93-pound whale of a catfish that he wrestled from its underwater bed just a few years ago, his group routinely lands up to 25 big cats, averaging 50 pounds each, every time they venture out on this stream.
Sportsmen say that the Big Black River is also a good place for bowfishing. Bowfishers use highly specialized bows to catch fish, usually on a boat set up just for bowfishing. Hunting fish using a bow and arrow isn’t new at all and is a traditional way of fishing all over the world. Bert Turcotte of Vicksburg has been an avid bowfisher since high school and says that anyone with a regular bow can also fish this way. As he told Phillip Gentry:
All kinds of bows can be used for bowfishing. People who like traditional archery can easily equip a recurve bow for fishing. Any compound bow can also easily be set up, but the range of draw weight is the key. Forty pounds of draw weight or less will get the job done here in Mississippi.
Unlike hunting bows, fishing bows come with reels for retrieving your prey.
In Mississippi you can legally catch carp, buffalo, gar, shad, bowfin, and catfish with a bow. There are restrictions, however, on when and where you can catch catfish in this way.
Gentry says that nearly all bowfishing is done at night when carp, buffalo, and gar can be found hiding in extremely shallow water. Buffalo and carp feed on aquatic vegetation and are especially fond of newly planted areas that have recently flooded from spring rain. Gar are the most commonly sought daytime species, he says, and can be found “sunning” in shallow water or lurking near the surface in deeper water.
Sean Ford of Madison, Mississippi, uses a gas generator on his bowfishing boat to power either sodium or halogen lights for night fishing. He says:
The platform will allow two of us to fish at the same time from the front as we ease along in shallow water with the trolling motor, looking for fish to shoot.
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warc | 202143 | A Study on Quality of Work Life of Employees in LPG Bottling Plant DOI:https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2021.036 Keywords:Exploratory Factor Analysis, Quality of Work Life, LPG Bottling Industry, Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Abstract Goal: Quality of Work Life (QWL) draws more attention in the present context, and it is a multidimensional construct. The oil and gas industries have realized the significance of employees' QWL to retain and attract a talented workforce in the competitive job market. This study examines the status of QWL of employees in the LPG Bottling Industry. Design / Methodology / Approach: A measuring scale was designed and validated to evaluate the employees QWL working in the LPG bottling plant. The data for the study was gathered from 435 employees working in four LPG bottling industries. Using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), predominant components of QWL are identified. With the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), the designed scale is validated. With percentage analysis and chi-square analysis, the data was analyzed, and meaningful inferences were drawn. Results: EFA and CFA resulted in four components of QWL with 19 items representing superior model fit. The model fit indices reported from the model namely Chi-Square value = 399.020; CMIN = 2.978, AGFI = 0.900; CFI = 0.937; GFI = 0.915; IFI = 0.938; NFI = 0.909; TLI = 0.920 and RMSEA = 0.068 are in the acceptable range. 51.5% of the respondents expressed to be satisfied with present condition of QWL. The research outcome revealed that among demographical characteristics, nature of activities significantly impacts on the status of QWL of employees. Limitations of the investigation: The data was collected from 435 employees working in four industries because of time constraints. Practical implications: This research's outcome will help the policymakers of LPG Bottling industries to implement QWL interventions for improving the work-life of employees. Originality/value: The present paper is one among the few studies carried out in the oil and gas sector as minimal research has been done in this area. Downloads Downloads Published How to Cite Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 19(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2021.036 Issue Section License
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warc | 202143 | Put time back into your calendar by learning how to use leverage.
We all have the same number of hours in a week, so why do some people seem to get more done?
It’s easy to assume that productive people work
harder, but that’s not necessarily true. The most productive leaders have learned to work smarter. Being productive while managing your time and priorities is key to running a successful business, department, or team. But there is only so much you can do on your own. The secret to accomplishing more throughout the week is by learning how to leverage your time.
Leverage allows you to multiply your time by simply adding a little force. Getting better at using leverage will allow you to expand past your current capacity without being stressed or overworked.
What is time leverage?
Time leverage is achieving the biggest result with the least amount of effort. There are multiple strategies you can use to leverage time to increase productivity and create bigger results.
Time leverage allows you to multiply the rate at which you can get things done. A key component of time leverage is delegation. You can also leverage time by hiring a new employee, building a system or process, automating a process with technology, outsourcing, and utilizing downtime.
In this post, we’ll primarily focus on how you can leverage your time through
delegation. Delegation is the art of asking for help. By empowering others to help you pursue your goals, you will realize the greatest return on leverage. No matter how great you are, having others help you will get you to the results. Think about rowing a boat; can you do it on your own? Sure, but if you had a few others rowing as a team, you could get much further. If you can’t delegate effectively, you can never expand work beyond your capabilities.
Mastering time leverage will allow you to be exponentially productive. Here is a
4 step process you can use to start leveraging your time to maximize your productivity and focus on more high impact items each week. 1) Layout the plan.
Successful time leverage starts with giving yourself time and space to plan. Planning helps you generate a progressive mindset and provides direction and guidance to avoid wasting time on the
wrong tasks.
Start by planning out each week in advance. At the end of each week, sit down with a list of objectives you need to accomplish for the year. For this, you should be pulling from your long-term vision. Identify the big rock items you must achieve by the end of this quarter or this month to hit your year-end goals. Those goals will act as guidelines to keep you on track week by week. Then, write down a plan for what needs to get done this week.
By creating a plan, you enter your week with direction and purpose, keeping your long term goals top of mind while simultaneously identifying time leveraging opportunities.
2) Identify opportunities to leverage.
As you plot out your week, look for opportunities to save time. Here are a few examples of ways you can save time every week without delegation.
Work on similar tasks in blocks.A simple trick to staying productive is using block scheduling to group similar tasks into one batch throughout the week. For example, instead of emailing prospects randomly throughout the week, schedule a 2-hour block twice a week to focus on business development. By grouping similar tasks together, you can develop a groove and work faster and more efficiently. Take advantage of your commute. Leverage time on your commute by scheduling calls to be completed during that time. Use meetings to address multiple topics. If you are meeting with someone, use that time to cover additional topics you intended to discuss. This will help you save time by eliminating the need to schedule another meeting or going back and forth over email. Utilize technology. There are several apps or software you can use to save time. For example, you can use a calendar app that sends reminders for upcoming events to eliminate the time needed for follow-up. Or you can use project management software to keep track of where your team is on a project. 3) Identify who can take on additional tasks.
While delegating can be significant and save you time and productivity, it’s important to recognize the “why” behind what you want to delegate. Think about the tasks you’ve identified. Is there anyone on your team who would be better suited for the task?
Here are some tasks you can delegate to save time.
Recurring Tasks:Look for frequent tasks. Routine tasks are an excellent opportunity to delegate. Tasks that don’t benefit you:This one can be tricky as sometimes you have to work on tasks that don’t directly benefit you. However, this is an excellent place to start looking. Think through the task and ask yourself, “Is this task my responsibility”? If the answer is “no,” you may want to consider delegating this to someone that receives the benefit of the task being done as motivation can be higher. Tasks you’re not great at:Practice makes perfect, but at the end of the day, we all know our strengths and weaknesses. If you aren’t great at a particular task, look to see if someone might be better at dealing with it. This may even be an opportunity to swap tasks for something you excel at. This will still save you time as the better we are at something, the quicker we tend to work through it. Tasks that take too much time:Before you start trying to delegate everything on your list, you must consider who you would be delegating to. If a task takes a lot of time, look for ways to improve its efficiency and speed before delegating it.
Here are some tasks you should not delegate.
Tasks requiring your expertise:If you are the resident expert on the task, it will be a hard sell to delegate that task. If the job requires your specific expertise, that is a task you should hang onto. Look for other opportunities to delegate. Tasks you don’t understand:If you don’t understand a task, you need to take the time to understand it before delegating properly. It’s still your name behind the task. 4) Identify a follow-up or management plan.
Most people dump; they don’t delegate. If you delegate, you need to ensure they are set up for success. There is a common disconnect between delegation and success.
When you delegate, you must set clear expectations and offer support, coaching, and follow-up. Holding regular check-ins or accountability meetings can help with time optimization and allow you to assess how the task is going or if additional support is needed. This will ensure effective delegation and further success.
Leveraging can allow you to work less and accomplish more, but if you’re unsure where to start, try the
26-hour challenge. Look into your calendar and find 30 minutes that you can leverage every week. If you do that all year you’ll get 26 hours back in the next year.
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warc | 202143 | Major brands on social media and influencers make social media marketing look easier than it is.
What could be easier than creating a social media account, making a few posts, and exploding your brand overnight, right?
But of course, it’s just not that simple or easy at all. With billions of users and a veritable ocean of content to compete with, businesses need to strengthen their social media presence to make any kind of impact.
In this post, we’ll break down how you can create a solid presence on social media in 2021.
As you build your profile and create content, you’ll see better engagement, more social media followers, and an overall boost in your brand image. Let’s dive in!
Be present on all the relevant platforms
Do you feel like you can’t catch up with the many different platforms available online? That’s understandable because not only are there global platforms like Facebook and Twitter, there are also niche communities on Reddit, YouTube, Nextdoor and other networks.
It is worthwhile to make the effort to identify and be active on as many relevant platforms as you can. You want to especially do your research on networks that are specific to your industry or audience. One major reason to do this is to have ownership of your brand’s narrative in as many places as possible.
The more profiles you have, the more difficult it will be to consistently create quality content for each platform. Even so, being present is important since you’ll have more control over your brand image and content that appears in relation to it.
Complete your profile
A simple but impactful mistake that businesses can make is to not complete their social media profiles.
Very often, the ‘About’ section or the ‘Description’ area of a Facebook business page is given very little thought while the company focuses on content in its feed.
You need to maximize and optimize every area of your profile that you can.
Remember to do the following:
Add pictures to your profile image and header. Use your logo, add text to your header image to provide information Fill in your contact information completely Add detailed information in the About or Description sections and use keywords that people may use to find your business Provide details like working hours, services provided, and more Connect your pages and groups with each other
The details you provide on social media impact your SEO performance. They also help social media algorithms to understand what your profile is about, and help people find your business and reinforce your brand image.
Tweak your content for each platform
All social networks aim to engage people and foster communication. However, each one is different to the point where content that works on one platform will be invisible on another.
Every social network uses algorithms to display content to people. While we won’t know exactly what works, there are brands and individuals who have figured out the best types of content that work on specific networks.
You need to do some research on each platform and come up with the right type of content for each one.
For example, did you know that LinkedIn prioritizes text posts where the phrasing is short, emotional, and has a strong opening hook? There’s even a formula for LinkedIn posts that you can start using to see a boost in your post engagement.
Likewise, for Pinterest, you need to be extremely mindful of the images that you share. You need to create graphics and images in a vertical orientation since Pinterest content is usually consumed on mobile.
And Pinterest’s AI also curates topics based on the objects recognized in images. Meaning you should avoid generic or stock images and use pictures that clearly relate to your post content. For example, if you’re an ecommerce business selling shoes, then your images should contain clear pictures of shoes.
In short, research the kind of content that’s relevant for each social network. Tweak your content so that even if you want to share the same content across, it’s personalized for every platform and for different audiences.
Focus on visual content
The key to social media is remembering that it is largely a visual-driven platform. People aren’t going to carefully read every post they come across. They quickly scroll through their feed until a post does a good job of catching their eye in the split-second’s attention they’re given.
Stay on top of the visual aspect of your content by doing the following:
Create image-based posts regularly Post video content by uploading video files to the platform itself. You can also share links from YouTube to other platforms Make use of ‘Stories’, ‘Reels’ and similar short video formats on different social media platforms Host live video sessions where you answer questions, stream an event, or otherwise engage with people
By studying your engagement stats and data, you’ll see that your visual content will create the most impact. And videos perform especially well.
Post. Every. Single. Day
For typical content marketing, posting something daily is unfeasible and even detrimental. Sending an email blast every day could lead to losing some of your subscribers. And you might also get penalized by email providers. Similarly, if you’re creating your own blog content, posting high-quality posts daily won’t be easy.
But on social media, where attention spans are short and people expect fresh and new content, creating content virtually every day is critical to be relevant and get more eyeballs.
This doesn’t mean that low-quality content is acceptable.
What you need to do is create a content calendar for your social media posts. You also need a marketing calendar to make sure that you create special campaigns for different events like Black Friday, New Year’s Eve, and other holidays.
Check out Constant Contact’s Marketing Calendar for 2021 to get ready for major events for the rest of the year.
Use social media management tools
So far, I’ve suggested that you open accounts for your brand on as many social networks as possible, that you personalize your content for each platform and provide extensive information, and that you post frequently — pretty much every day.
Does that sound overwhelming to you? That’s okay — Because it is!
A critical tool that any business needs to amplify its social media presence is a social media management tool.
Let’s take a look at Constant Contacts’s social marketing features to see just how they can help create and share content:
You can connect various social media accounts to a single platform Schedule your posts in advance Get personalized insights to measure how well your posts and campaigns are doing Reply to comments and posts on multiple social media platforms from a single place
When you create a content calendar and use a good social media management tool, you’re on track to leverage social media well.
You’ll share posts to multiple networks easily, avoid missing comments or mentions from your audience, and you’ll track the results of your efforts from a single place.
Build a brand aesthetic
It’s important to have a cohesive brand image across your social media profiles and content. You can do this by developing a brand palette – one that matches your business and website colors.
You need 3-5 colors that you use consistently across your content as filters, backgrounds, font colors, overlays, and everything else.
You also need to settle on a font combination that is widely used throughout your social media.
The simple act of creating a brand kit and then applying colors and fonts in a consistent way makes a dramatic difference in how your brand appears to people.
You also want to establish an aesthetic for your social media posts. This is especially important for places like Pinterest and Instagram where the main content is pictures and videos.
Look for inspiration from influencers and other brands online. Here’s an example from Etsy India. The consistent use of specific colors and adding the same frame to their images make their profile eye-catching.
Engage with your audience
The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people and to stay connected.
Many businesses forget this and it shows in the constant barrage of promotional materials and little to no engagement with their audience.
Start to be more social online by engaging with people and even other brands too.
When people leave comments on your post, reply to them, answer questions, or at the very least leave a Like or some other reaction whenever appropriate.
You can also engage people by using the tools created on social networks for this very purpose. Here’s a post by How To Cook That where the creator asks people to share their opinions in a poll.
Another idea is to see what’s trending on social media and to join right in if it’s appropriate.
Take a look at this example. A Twitter account for fictional character Ted Lasso tweeted that he would toast people.
This led to many brands participating in the thread to create a wholesome experience that caught the attention of the internet.
When you engage with your users consistently, you highlight a more human side to your brand and also show people that you are listening. This creates a positive impression that stays with your audience.
Create emotions in your audience
Brands that stand out on social media often do so by triggering emotions with their content. Check out this simple but beautiful post by Costa Coffee.
The focus on recycling and better sustainability reaches people at an emotional level and makes for better engagement and brand building.
And finally, one of the most effective ways to stand out online and create emotion is to share humorous content. Here’s an example from The Office’s YouTube channel.
Last thoughts
There you have it. There are plenty of ideas in this post that will help you create a strong social media presence in 2021.
To make it easier and effective, make sure that you leverage Constant Contact’s social features and you’ll drive your social media marketing in the right direction from the get-go. | 10,397 | 4,401 | 23,810.807317 |
warc | 202143 | in the top 25% of all research outputs ever trackedby Altmetric. higher than 74% of its peers. higher than 76% of its contemporaries.
Title
Exploring factors that influence the spread and sustainability of a dysphagia innovation: an instrumental case study
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12913-016-1653-6 Pubmed ID Authors
Irene Ilott, Kate Gerrish, Sabrina A. Eltringham, Carolyn Taylor, Sue Pownall
Abstract
Swallowing difficulties challenge patient safety due to the increased risk of malnutrition, dehydration and aspiration pneumonia. A theoretically driven study was undertaken to examine the spread and sustainability of a locally developed innovation that involved using the Inter-Professional Dysphagia Framework to structure education for the workforce. A conceptual framework with 3 spread strategies (hierarchical control, participatory adaptation and facilitated evolution) was blended with a processual approach to sustaining organisational change. The aim was to understand the processes, mechanism and outcomes associated with the spread and sustainability of this safety initiative. An instrumental case study, prospectively tracked a dysphagia innovation for 34 months (April 2011 to January 2014) in a large health care organisation in England. A train-the-trainer intervention (as participatory adaptation) was deployed on care pathways for stroke and fractured neck of femur. Data were collected at the organisational and clinical level through interviews (n = 30) and document review. The coding frame combined the processual approach with the spread mechanisms. Pre-determined outcomes included the number of staff trained about dysphagia and impact related to changes in practice. The features and processes associated with hierarchical control and participatory adaptation were identified. Leadership, critical junctures, temporality and making the innovation routine were aspects of hierarchical control. Participatory adaptation was evident on the care pathways through stakeholder responses, workload and resource pressures. Six of the 25 ward based trainers cascaded the dysphagia training. The expected outcomes were achieved when the top-down mandate (hierarchical control) was supplemented by local engagement and support (participatory adaptation). Frameworks for spread and sustainability were combined to create a 'small theory' that described the interventions, the processes and desired outcomes a priori. This novel methodological approach confirmed what is known about spread and sustainability, highlighted the particularity of change and offered new insights into the factors associated with hierarchical control and participatory adaptation. The findings illustrate the dualities of organisational change as universal and context specific; as particular and amendable to theoretical generalisation. Appreciating these dualities may contribute to understanding why many innovations fail to become routine.
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warc | 202143 | Edward D. Vargas
Center for Women’s Health and wellness Disparities analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nadia C. Winston
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Wellness Policy at Meharry Healthcare College
John A. Garcia
Emeritus Professor at both the (ICPSR-Institute for Social Research-ISR (the University of Michigan), and class of Government and Public Policy (University of Arizona)
Gabriel R. Sanchez
Department of Political Science and RWJF Center for Health Policy, University of brand new Mexico
Abstract
Discrimination centered on one’s racial or ethnic back ground is one of several earliest & most perverse practices in the usa. A growing body of research is attempting to measure race through socially-assigned race while much of this research has relied on self-reported racial categories. Socially-assigned or ascribed competition measures how individuals feel these are typically categorized by others. This paper attracts from the socially assigned competition literary works and explores the effect of socially assigned battle on experiences with discrimination making use of a 2011 sample that is nationally representative of (n=1,200). This paper marks a deviation by using socially-assigned race and national origin to understand how being ascribed as Mexican is associated with experiences of discrimination while much of the current research on Latina/os has been focused on the aggregation across national origin group members. We find proof that being ascribed as Mexican advances the possibility of experiencing discrimination in accordance with being ascribed as White or Latina/o. Also, we realize that being miss-classified as Mexican (ascribed as Mexican, although not of Mexican beginning) is connected with a greater possibility of experiencing discrimination when compared with being ascribed as white, ascribed as Latina/o, and correctly ascribed as Mexican. We offer proof that socially assigned battle is really a valuable complement to self-identified race/ethnicity for scholars enthusiastic about evaluating the effect of race/ethnicity on many results.
Introduction/Overview
Racial, cultural, gender, and sexual orientation 1 based discrimination is among the central experiences that continue steadily to plague the usa. Research literature has regularly documented the distinctions in results because of discrimination for such populations (Anderson 2013; Reskin 2012). Due to discrimination, a few populations have seen social inequalities, that have affected their livelihood and well-being that is overallBranscombe, Schmitt, and Harvey 1999; Harrell 2000; Leonardelli and Tormala 2003). While scholars when you look at the social sciences have actually developed a sustained interest in checking out exactly exactly how discrimination influences the life of communities of color (Keith and Herring, 1991;Jud and Walker 1997; Williams 1999; Williams et al. 2003 ; Reskin 2012), our assessment seeks to delve “deeper” in to the characteristics of discrimination in the pan-ethnic Latina/o community by assessing exactly how discrimination varies predicated on how Latinos are viewed by other people.
Extant studies have identified strong relationships between racial discrimination and many outcome domains. Such outcomes consist of team identification (Clark and Clark, 1949; Banfield and christiancupid com Dovidio 2013; Branscombe, et al. 2012; Sellers et al. 2006), governmental actions (Schildkraut 2005), psychological and health that is physicalBrodish et al. 2011; Stuber et al. 2003; Williams, Neighbors, and Jackson 2003), and generational health (Goosby and Heidbrink 2013; Nicklett, 2011). Social scientists have actually also found correlating relationships between discrimination along with other domain names such as for example house ownership and housing conditions (Painter, Gabriel, and Myers 2001; Turner et al. 2002; Williams et al. 2005), harsher unlawful charges (Steffensmeier, Ulmer, and Kramer 1998), negative work market results (Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004), and segmented consumer markets (Harris, Henderson, and Williams 2005).
Even though this research area is considerable and contains increased our knowledge of the role, effect, and disparity that discrimination plays in the life of several folks of color within the U. S., our examination that is additional can to distinctions when it comes to bases of discriminatory habits and “targeted” groups. Our analysis promises to reveal discrimination and race/ethnicity dimension in three particular areas in this larger literary works: 1) recognition of contributors of discrimination utilizing the fairly lower examined Latina/o population, 2) the part of socially ascribed competition ( just exactly how other people see you in culture) on discrimination, and 3) unpacking of this pan-ethnic classification of Latina/os by checking out nationwide beginning variants in discrimination (in other words. the Mexican origin population) in accordance with being misclassified as Mexican when you’re from an alternate origin group that is national. The outcomes with this analysis will advance our collective understanding of the main idea of discrimination by giving some viewpoint on what being considered Mexican by other people drives discrimination experiences within the minority population that is largest in the usa. | 5,481 | 2,522 | 11,672.660983 |
warc | 202143 | Last Updated on October 6, 2021 by Grow with Bovees
Bermuda grass can be a gardener’s worst nightmare if they do not want to grow this specific grass, as this grass can grow in basically any condition and is extremely challenging to get rid of.
But to some other gardeners, this grass is lovely and is the best grass to have as a lawn.
So, is Bermuda grass good or bad?
Bermuda grass can be considered an invasive plant species when it grows where it is not wanted, but if the grass is wanted and correctly maintained, it can be a really lovely grass to have as a lawn. So, this grass is neither good nor bad; it just depends on how you take care of it.
Read on to find out the pros and cons of Bermuda grass that you should know before you decide on growing this grass as your lawn.
We will also go over how to maintain this grass and what to do if it starts getting out of hand.
Is Bermuda Grass Good Or Bad?
Bermuda grass is neither bad grass nor good grass; how the grass looks and behaves will depend on how you look after it.
Bermuda grass was said to be bad grass as it was believed to take a lot of water to keep this grass green. But
Bermuda
grass is drought-tolerant, and it can withstand not getting water for longer than other grass types.
Bermuda grass was also considered “bad” as it was seen as invasive grass due to its fast growth, but this grass can be great if you keep on top of it.
Bermuda grass
can become quite the handful if you do not maintain it correctly, but this grass can be a lovely grass to use as your lawn.
To understand this grass better and see what the good and the bad are, we need to look at and go through all the pros and cons of Bermuda grass.
Pros Of Bermuda Grass
Some pros come with Bermuda grass that makes this type of grass desirable to grow in many different spaces. The pros of growing this grass include
the overall toughness of this grass.
This grass is highly durable to foot traffic and is extremely heat tolerant, meaning Bermuda grass can withstand extremely high temperatures longer and better than other grass types.
Bermuda grass also has
a high resistance to many common diseases that may plague other grass types. Bermuda grass is not 100% impervious to all diseases, but it is rare for this grass to fall prey to them.
If it contracts a disease, it will only get a severe disease that will affect its leaves and roots.
But if you take care of your Bermuda grass, it will be easy to keep it disease-free.
Another benefit to growing Bermuda grass is that
it roots deep, securing the grass into the soil, so it is established well and will not be pulled out easily.
Bermuda grass is tolerant of salinity; this means that this grass can be planted on properties near the sea. Bermuda grass grows extremely thick and competes well with other plants, making it
weed resistant, so you can put away your weed eater.
Even though Bermuda grass has all these benefits, there are some cons that you should consider with this grass.
Cons Of Bermuda Grass
So, you need to create a mowing schedule, and you need to stick to it; otherwise, the grass can overrun your garden and become unmanageable, especially over the growing season.
Bermuda grass
needs to be fertilized regularly, as it is a fast-growing grass; it will go through a lot of nutrients every day that need to be replenished to keep the grass healthy.
It is recommended that you fertilize your Bermuda grass once a month, and this can get expensive.
Bermuda grass
has a very low shade tolerance when compared to most other grass types, meaning that if you plant Bermuda grass in an area that is not full sun, then the grass may die quite quickly.
If you want to plant this grass, you cannot plant it anywhere near buildings or trees that may cause shade.
Growing Bermuda grass requires a lot more maintenance than other grass types.
The reason for this is that the grass grows very fast and
can quickly take over different areas of your garden where you do not want it to grow, like your flower beds.
And as this grass is highly competitive with other plants, if it gets into your flower beds, then your other plants may die.
How To Manage Bermuda Grass
To help ensure you can manage your Bermuda grass, you need to do regular maintenance in your garden where the grass grows.
This regular maintenance will need to include
mechanical and chemical edging, especially during the growing season of this grass, as this is when the grass will creep out of bounds both below and above the ground.
An easy way to do this that many landscapers and homeowners are using is to use a lawn edger to create crisp edges on the borders of the lawn and driveways.
They usually follow this with a glyphosate weed killer to help stop Bermuda grass shoots from popping up in mulched flower beds and other non-lawn areas like cracked pavements.
After the edging is sorted, the grass needs to be fertilized to help the Bermuda grass stay healthy.
And then, the grass needs to
be left for at least three days to let the fertilizer settle; once this time is up, you can mow the grass.
If your neighbors are struggling with your Bermuda grass creeping into their garden, and they do not want Bermuda grass, then they will have a challenge on their hands.
All types of organic and conventional chemical control solutions that have a chance against Bermuda grass will also kill other types of lawn grass.
The task of preventing Bermuda grass from growing in their lawns will never finish.
Is Bermuda Grass Good As A Lawn?
Even though Bermuda grass is a fast-growing and spreading grass that can be aggressive and steal nutrients away from other plants, this grass is commonly used as grass for golf courses, recreation spaces, and even lawns.
Bermuda grass does require a lot of maintenance, and you need to be sure that it is the grass you want for your lawn as it is challenging to get rid of, and you may need to employ a lawn care professional, but this grass grows into lovely, luscious grass that will be difficult to resist walking barefoot on.
Conclusion
Bermuda grass is a hardy but high-maintenance grass to have in your garden. This grass does not have a huge impact on the environment if you look after it correctly and stop it from spreading to other areas that the grass should not grow in. Taking on Bermuda grass as your lawn can be difficult, but it can be rewarding too. You may want to consider using Zoysia grass instead, you will certainly avoid a lot of headaches! | 6,545 | 2,716 | 15,593.775773 |
warc | 202143 | Lacking the right amount of funds to get a business off the ground makes it extremely difficult to succeed. In order to finance a start-up, business owners need to pay for a range of things, from developing and producing a product and paying employees, to spending enough money on marketing. Not having enough to pay for everything might make entrepreneurs ‘give up on a great business idea. But which
financing options are best?
Both traditional and modern methods of funding can be a way to generate enough growth – a bank loan and the more modern funding methods, such as invoice financing or crowdfunding.
Why would a business need to take out finance?
The competition is always growing – and other businesses may have more funds available. Businesses such as Deliveroo were heavily funded, which allowed them to establish a firm place in the market and become a highly popular brand. Areas such as marketing and advertising can be very expensive, but without them, it will be incredibly hard to reach a wider audience in order to grow. Even successful businesses can run into cash-flow problems or may need extra funds to launch a new product. Having money to spend on a business is never a bad idea.
What is the difference between equity finance and debt finance?
Equity finance means that a part of a company is sold to investors. Equity typically doesn’t need to be repaid but business owners will likely have to give up some rights and privileges. Debt finance is borrowing money and paying it back in installments or over a certain period of time. Interest can be high when paying for debt finance loans, especially when taking out a short-term loan. Both have their pros and cons.
The different methods of finance Investment: Angel Investment
Angel investors are usually not bound by the requirements of a larger investment group. They typically like to invest in upcoming start-ups and technologies and may be more willing to take a risk.
Equity Crowdfunding
This is a method to get early investors to take an interest in a company that has not yet been listed.
Private Equity
Private equity can mean gaining an investment by venture capitalists or forming partnerships in order to raise funds.
Loans: Bank Loan
A traditional bank loan might be a good option for small and medium-sized businesses looking to boost their growth in the early stages. Considering the financial history of the business is not too bad, it is typically not hard to get a bank loan for a business with a good business plan.
Invoice Financing
Invoice financing is a way to get by if a company is suffering from cash flow problems. Since businesses may experience problems when invoices are paid late by customers, invoice financing gives brands the option to cover their expenses and still have enough funds available.
Asset-based lending
This is a very risky type of loan. It may not have to be paid back but is secured by an asset, such as a home.
Funding options can help businesses grow and secure the funds they need. | 3,050 | 1,443 | 6,359.97921 |
warc | 202143 | Entrepreneurism is tough. Really tough. Should you take on the challenge of unlocking your full professional potential in your chosen niche field, you will be sure to encounter a number of problems and challenges on a daily basis. If you’re to overcome these hurdles in a highly efficient and effective fashion, you’re going to need to heed the following advice.
Here are three things you must do to maximize your potential as an entrepreneur:
Challenge Yourself
When you remain rooted in the same position for too long, doing the same things day after day will increase the likelihood of your career stagnating. As a determined, dedicated, and driven entrepreneur, this is the last thing that you want, which is why it is always recommended that you consistently find a way to challenge yourself. This will help you in your bid to remain motivated, it will freshen up your perspective, and it will help you to pick up new skills going forward in your career.
Challenging yourself is by no means going to be a straightforward task to undertake. If you wish to successfully achieve this difficult yet rewarding feat, try putting the following advice into practice:
Learn:Dive into industry-related books and/or podcasts that you haven’t previously considered reading/listening to. Push Yourself:Always embrace the opportunity to step outside of your comfort zone – if you remain in your comfort zone rather than push yourself to try things in your stretch zone, your comfort zone will never increase in size. Stay relevant:Keep your finger on the pulse of the latest happenings in your field, as this will help you to unearth new growth opportunities as and when they arise. Accept Help
You may be the one calling the shots in both your business and your career, but this doesn’t mean that you can’t lean on others for support every now and again. If you’re to successfully overcome each challenge that comes your way, you’re going to need to rely on the expertise and experiences of your colleagues, employees, and external partners.
The type of assistance that you seek and ultimately accept should depend on the specific problems that you regularly encounter. If, for example, you find yourself facing a number of HR headaches on a daily basis, you should consider aligning yourself with a PEO. With an expert professional employer organization by your side, you will have the capacity to outsource all of the administrative tasks that slow you down throughout the course of each working day. Ultimately, this will allow you to dedicate more time and effort to the optimization of your company’s core competencies.
Tend to Your Well-Being
Unfortunately, the sad truth is (something many only learns the hard way) that you won’t get very far in your entrepreneurial endeavor if you consistently fail to look after yourself. From a physical and mental point of view, it’s highly recommended that you tend to your well-being at all conceivable points. Why? Quite simply because this will help you to avoid burning out easily, which, in turn, will aid you in your attempt to operate in a productive fashion over a sustained period of time. | 3,203 | 1,572 | 6,391.737277 |
warc | 202143 | An introduction to the London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) was founded in 1801 and today is the largest stock exchange in Europe. The LSE operates two primary markets: the Main Market and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The Main Market is home to over 1,600 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of around £1 trillion. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Deutsche Boerse AG, which itself has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2000. The LSE works with numerous banks and clearing corporations to provide a global trading platform for its members, including some of Europe’s largest firms such as BP, Shell, HSBC, GlaxoSmithKline, and Vodafone.
How the exchange functions
The London Stock Exchange provides a means by which companies can raise capital in order to fund their business. When a company lists its shares on the exchange for the very first time, the process is referred to as a Floating, or more commonly, an Initial Public Offer (IPO). The LSE enjoys a global reach and thus doesn’t just list UK companies. Instead, it allows countries from all over the world to list and currently houses more than 50 in total. Thus, the exchange allows for a global investment audience to partake in its markets, including those interested in trading UK shares on FTSE 100 companies. The exchange offers people around the world the mechanisms by which to trade shares in the various companies listed on it. In addition, the London Stock Exchange keeps all investors and/or interested parties up to date by way of regulatory news and share prices. Companies listed on the stock market are obliged to make certain key announcements, and these include financial updates, changes to board positions, and the details of trades made by company directors. The exchange also allows investors to go beyond traditional share price practices and thus also condones more complex financial products.
Primary markets
The exchange consists of two primary markets which provide investors and traders access to the shares of over 1,600 listed companies. These markets are as follows:
Main Market:Consisting of roughly 1,200 listed companies, the Main Market sports a value to the total of £3.9 trillion. The Main Market is home to several stock markets with companies encompassing close to 40 various sectors. A listing on the Main Market means that companies have access to tremendous amounts of capital and real-time pricing. In addition, a listing on the Main Market also means access to capital found in the FTSE UK Index Series, loads of media coverage, regular announcements, and research. Alternative Investment Market:The AIM houses roughly 900 listed companies equating to a total market value exceeding £100 billion. The AIM’s rules for getting listed are less stringent and thus if a company wants to get listed on it, will pay less in order to do so. Historically, the AIM was home to smaller companies, although nowadays some of the biggest AIM companies boast market values running well into the hundreds of millions of pounds. Generally, figures on this market tend to fluctuate due to the rate of company exits and entries. In conclusion
The London Stock Exchange provides governments and companies the world over with the means to issue securities like bonds and shares in order to raise capital and expand business interests. Thanks to a global footprint consisting of over 50 countries, those securities can be accessed and traded by thousands of investors around the globe, varying from private individuals to sizeable financial organizations. | 3,642 | 1,671 | 7,852.858169 |
warc | 202143 | 👋 My name is Casey Botticello.
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Marketing your business to customers can feel impossible at times.
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warc | 202143 | Peer Reviewed Medical Development of Novel Pain Medications from Marine Sources to Replace Opioids Posted September 16, 2021 Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D., University of Utah
Dr. Baldomero Olivera
Opioids are pain management drugs known to lead to problems, including drug abuse, addiction, overdose, and tolerance. These problems can occur even when the drug is used as intended, to mitigate pain. Despite the many well-known adverse effects, opioids are still the standard treatment for severe acute and chronic pain. There is an urgent need to replace opioids as the standard of care; however, there have been very few non-opioid pain medications developed in recent decades. Historically, major classes of pain drugs were discovered from natural sources, but recent efforts have focused on synthetic compounds. Prialt
® (ziconotide) is one of the only new pain drugs with a novel mechanism of action, meaning it works through a separate pathway compared to existing pain drugs, and it was developed from a marine source in the laboratory of Dr. Baldomero Olivera.
The magician’s cone snail,
Conus magus. A component of the venom of this fish-hunting snail was discovered by Dr. Olivera’s laboratory and has become the FDA-approved drug for severe pain, Prialt.
With a Fiscal Year 2016 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Focused Program Award, Dr. Olivera sought to explore natural sources for the next generation of pain medication, specifically marine sources such as sea snails, as they are largely unexplored. Dr. Olivera’s methods led to two innovations: a biology-first approach and constellation pharmacology. The biology-first approach focuses on a new discipline called “chemical neuroethology” that studies how one organism affects the behavior of another through the chemicals they secrete. The team investigated compounds that seemed to have a pain-reducing effect on other animals. Their other key innovation, constellation pharmacology, is a novel approach to testing for new drugs. Constellation pharmacology looks for effects the drug has on specific cells of animals and humans and has been more productive than the other methods. This has allowed Dr. Olivera’s team to test crude mixtures of natural products on a set of diverse neuronal cell types at the same time and identify each mixture’s effect on pain-sensing neurons.
A cone snail capturing its fish prey. The venom components from these predatory marine snails are being used to develop non-opioid drug leads for pain. The species shown is the bubble cone snail,
Conus bullatus.
An exciting application is that constellation pharmacology makes it possible to identify potential drug leads that not only alleviate severe pain symptoms, but which may prevent the onset of pathological pain altogether. The constellation pharmacology platform leads to understanding how pathological pain develops and is an approach to identify compounds that prevent disease progression. Thus, traumatic injuries such as an exposure to an explosion can ultimately lead to severe chronic pain, but the constellation pharmacology platform may provide a therapeutic approach to prevent the progression to the pathological pain state before any symptoms occur.
The shells of fish-hunting cone snails. These snails not only have beautiful shells, but their venoms have bioactive compounds that are being developed as non-opioid drug leads for pain.
In the first 3 years of their PRMRP-funded project, Dr. Olivera’s team has identified 53 active compounds, exceeding their initial goal of 20. Many of these compounds are newly identified, and eight are considered viable for drug testing and are being further investigated. Of the eight viable compounds, five (compounds 1-5) modulate type A GABA receptors (the major inhibitory receptor in the nervous system) on neurons. Other molecules can also target type A GABA receptors for pain-reducing effects; however, the structures and activities of the new compounds are very different and they expand the number of chemicals available for designing novel neurosteroids, i.e., compounds that modulate a neuron’s excitability or reactivity to signaling. The team has also created a synthetic analog (a chemical with a similar structure) of compounds 1-5, called SSP3, or compound 6, and early results indicate a potential application in pain.
1 Another of the viable compounds (compound 8) and its analogs are active in a model of neuropathic pain. This means that compound 8 also has potential application in pain management.
The need for novel pain medications to replace opioids cannot be overstated. Opioid drugs are highly addictive, and there is a high prevalence of substance abuse disorders among patients being treated for chronic pain.
2 After finding eight candidates for pharmacological and preclinical testing in the first 3 years of this project, Dr. Olivera’s research team hopes to accelerate the discovery of new compounds in the final year based on what they have learned, and to fully characterize and determine the therapeutic potential of the molecules they discover. Further research is necessary, but their work has the potential to replace opioids and make treating acute and chronic pain safer for patients. References: 1 Olivera BM, Raghuraman S, Schmidt EW, and Safavi-Hemami H. 2017. Linking neuroethology to the chemical biology of natural products: Interactions between cone snails and their fish prey, a case study. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 203(9):717-735. 2 Rosenblum A, Marsch LA, Joseph H, and Portenoy RK. 2008. Opioids and the treatment of chronic pain: Controversies, current status, and future directions. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 16(5):405-416. 3 Raghuraman S, Xie JY, Giacobassi MJ, Tun JO, Chase K, Lu D, Teichert RW, Porreca F, and Olivera BM. 2020. Chronicling changes in the somatosensory neurons after peripheral nerve injury. PNAS 117(42):26414-26421; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922618117 Link:
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Learn what you should know about renovation and home enchancment permits as well as different crucial information associated to residence improvement projects. I Like how this recommendation began off with the with the thought of doing what you’ll be able to within your own energy. In my opinion, it makes that step to asking an expert simpler. I think about that it’ll be simpler to get the home renovations you need as a result of you already have an thought of what you have to talk.
Or on the very least you want to act as your individual general contractor and as nicely do what you’re comfy with tackling yourself. In the bathrooms of many of our houses which may be Pre-1980’s you will most likely have a plugin within the wall with a big entrance cowl and a small single plugin the middle. These where for razors most of them are so large as a outcome of there’s a small transformer behind there that reduces the voltage so it can be utilized by razors that did not want a hundred and twenty volts of electrical energy. Power tools are sometimes extra environment friendly than hand tools and are important to many projects. Selecting the proper energy tool is the necessary thing to getting a job done proper.
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4 th Amendment of the US Constitution Open Field Doctrine and How It Can Be Used Against Animal Ownership
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America states that, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
The Open Field Doctrine – Your Rights To Privacy Are Not What Most Think
While open fields are not protected by the Fourth Amendment, the curtilage, or outdoor area immediately surrounding the home, may be protected. Courts have treated this area as an extension of the house and as such subject to all the privacy protections afforded a person’s home (unlike a person’s open fields) under the Fourth Amendment. An area is curtilage if it “harbors the intimate activity associated with the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.” However, this right is being manipulated by animal extremist groups in legislation they have pushed and are continuing to push in a number of states across the country.
What Is The Open Field Doctrine In North Dakota?
Gary Dassinger, a rancher in North Dakota last year suffered a great injustice over an “Open Field Doctrine” that was originally pushed by HSUS. The North Dakota legislation allows for intrusion on property regardless of fencing or “no trespassing” signs. In North Dakota these lands have been excluded from the fourth amendment rights and expectation of privacy isn’t considered reasonable nor legitimate.
The over-reaching doctrine allows for an actionable claim to be made, against a person for animal abuse and neglect, by anyone. This includes someone from out of state who has never been on the property. As the law reads, there is no liability for the accuser and the State’s Attorney can seize animals, write up a bill of sale and arrange for the animals to be sold to other parties, all without having to notify the owner and without holding a hearing. Under the law
, Title 36, Livestock. Chapter 36-21.1. Humane Treatment of Animals, a claim can be made against any person and they will automatically be considered guilty without the opportunity to prove their innocence. The law was purposely left vague and puts all animal owners at risk.
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er Clarification OPEN FIELDS DOCTRINE
the fourth amendment protects “persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The amendment, held to embody a right of privacy, shelters certain enclaves from arbitrary government examination and interference. Within these enclaves, roughly defined as places where persons have a subjective expectation of privacy that society recognizes as reasonable—the paradigmatic case is the home—governmental searches and seizures are unreasonable unless authorized by a search warrant issued on probable cause. There are some exceptions to this rule against warrantless searches, however, and the open fields doctrine presents one of them.
In applying the Fourth Amendment to detached dwellings the Supreme Court has held that persons have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the home and its “curtilage.” Curtilage is the area immediately surrounding the home that harbors the intimate activities associated with domestic life and home privacies. Proximity to the home, containment within an enclosure surrounding the home, use for domestic and private purposes, and steps taken to protect the area from observation all help to define its ambit.
The open fields doctrine permits warrantless searches of private land outside the curtilage. The right of privacy that the Fourth Amendment protects is therefore not congruent with the right of property ownership, and exercise of the common law right to exclude persons from land cannot make governmental searches of it unlawful. Further, under the doctrine open fields need be neither open nor fields, but only areas of land outside the curtilage. Fenced dense woods could therefore qualify as open fields. Consequently, neither the natural seclusion of property, which might be thought to make it private, nor efforts to keep trespassers out, such as posting with signs or surrounding with fences, secures it from governmental search.
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he Open Fields Doctrine: Legal Search or Trespassing?
In many marijuana trafficking cases, police will discover marijuana growing in the backyard of a person’s home. In the case of a marijuana grow house, the plants will be discovered in a detached building, such as a shed or detached garage on the property.
Now you would think that the constitutional protection against unlawful searches would automatically extend to your own backyard. It’s not that black and white. The Supreme Court created the “Open Fields Doctrine,” which is an exception to the requirement that the police need a search warrant in order to search your property.
The Open Fields Doctrine states that a person cannot have a reasonable expectation of privacy in open fields surrounding their residence. Since many people in Miami-Dade County (namely rural areas such as the Redlands and Southwest Ranches) have more than one acre of property, this doctrine permits police officers to simply walk onto your land without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe that marijuana is being grown on the premises.
For instance, if you live on an acre of unfenced land, you cannot reasonably expect to have privacy on every corner of your land. So if you are growing marijuana on your land in an area that is significantly removed from the residence, the police can very likely access it without having to obtain a search warrant.
Now here’s the thing – police officers often think that the Open Fields Doctrine means that as long as they do not enter your house without a warrant, they can do whatever is necessary to access your property if they think you are growing marijuana.
The courts have narrowed the Open Fields Doctrine so that many properties are still protected. Courts typically state that the curtilege of your property – the immediate outlying areas of your home, including nearby outbuildings – is protected under the 4th Amendment. This means that cops cannot come into your backyard and search the area immediately surrounding your house without a warrant.
Also – the courts look to see what measures the owner or occupant of the home has taken to ensure their privacy. Is the property fenced? Are there openings in the fence? Is the fence tall enough so that the public can’t see into the yard?
I have seen cases where cops have jumped over large fences and simply walked around a person’s fenced-in yard under the guise of the Open Fields Doctrine.
If you are arrested for having a marijuana grow house or for having marijuana plants growing in your backyard, contact a criminal defense attorney to evaluate whether you have a valid motion to suppress based on the officers’ violation of your right to be free from an unlawful search. The police may claim that they are allowed to access the property under the Open Fields Doctrine. However, a police officer’s misunderstanding of the law should not cost you your freedom. Trafficking in marijuana carries mandatory minimum prison time and fines. If you don’t fight your charges, you could end up serving mandatory day-for-day prison time.
Risks to Farmers and Ranchers
While the entire language is vague and a major cause for concern for farmers and ranchers, here are some we find most concerning:
36-21.2-10. Veterinarian- If upon examining an animal a licensed veterinarian determines that there is reasonable cause to believe an animal has been neglected, abused, treated cruelly, or subjected to any act or omission in violation of this chapter, the veterinarian may retain custody of the animal and shall immediately notify law enforcement officials regarding the determination. Note: Shall means must. Therefore, by law the veterinarian must immediately notify law enforcement. 36-21.2-05. Seizure of animal–Court order 1. A law enforcement officer may petition the court for an order directing the seizure of any animal believed to have been neglected, abused, treated cruelly, or subjected to any act or omission in violation of this chapter. 2. The court may act without notice to the animal’s owner or to the person having custody or control of the animal and may rely solely on testimony or an affidavit in considering the petition. 3. In the order for seizure, the court may direct that a veterinarian humanely destroy an animal if the veterinarian, upon examining the animal, determines that the animal is experiencing excruciating pain or suffering and that the animal’s pain or suffering is not likely to be alleviated using reasonable medical interventions. 36-21.1-14. Assumption of custody – Immunity from liability. Any sheriff, police officer, licensed veterinarian, investigator, or person who has custody of an animal under this chapter and who is acting in an official or professional capacity and making a good-faith effort to comply with this chapter is immune from any civil or criminal liability for acts taken or omitted while attempting to comply with this chapter. Note: The term investigator is not defined, so that could mean anybody. Dassinger’s Case
Due to an out of state report, the unethical behavior of a veterinarian, and an overzealous Sheriff, Gary Dassinger faced the seizure and sale of his livestock, criminal charges and 20 years in prison for what essentially amounted to false claims. Here’s a high-level overview of the history of Gary’s case:
Measure 5, an initiated state statute was pushed by the Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund. It was defeated by the people of North Dakota, however an amended version became law in 2013. Law enforcement in North Dakota was trained by the Humane Society of the United States on how to go about seizing animals and the enforcement of this new law. A disgruntled employee that was not following through with his responsibilities of caring for the livestock was behind the claim of neglect and abuse. Even though his behavior was unethical, he became a witness with immunity. An out of state accuser. A veterinarian with a grudge and a previous defamation judgment against her (she slandered one of her associates over hearsay to the entire veterinary community) to the tune of over a quarter of a million dollars. A Sheriff’s Department with Deputies that have little to no experience with animals, especially livestock. A State’s Attorney’s office that clearly has no ranching or livestock background. Two independent veterinary assessments, proving that the out of state claims and the report by the unethical veterinarian were not based on factual observations or science, were disregarded.
Gary Dassinger Prevails
With the help of his daughter, Protect The Harvest and many others, Gary successfully fought to keep his livestock and his 40-year breeding program. However, it was not without great personal sacrifice both emotionally and financially. In order to defend himself and to stop the seizure and sale of his livestock, Gary and his daughter made a considerable investment in time and legal fees.
The first step was to stop the removal of his livestock from his property which Dassinger’s attorney was able to successfully achieve. The next step was to address the criminal charges, filed by the State’s Attorney based on the nefarious claims. After all of the facts were finally presented, including the reports from two independent veterinarians, the State’s Attorney’s Office was willing to negotiate a plea that involved minimal sanctions. Dassinger was already in debt from the initial proceedings and preparing for a trial is prohibitively expensive. Therefore, despite the fact that he was not guilty of the charges, he decided to cut his losses and take the plea deal.
Impact In Other States
What happened to Dassinger is almost identical to other cases executed by the HSUS. The result of Gary Dassinger’s legal fight is a strong lesson to farmers, ranchers and animal owners in North Dakota and around the whole country. If the HSUS is allowed to push more laws like Nebraska’s Tilte 36 in other states, even more ranchers and farmers, could face the same unfortunate and unnecessary circumstances. The question is, will they have the same emotional fortitude and resources available to defend themselves?
Resources
protecttheharvest.com; en.wikipedia.org, “Open Fields Doctrine,” By Wikipedia Editors; ericmathenylaw.com, “The Open Fields Doctrine: Legal Search or Trespassing?” By Eric Matheny;
Addendum Open Fields Doctrine History
The open fields doctrine was first articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in
Hester v. United States, which stated that “the special protection accorded by the Fourth Amendment to the people in their ‘persons, houses, papers, and effects,’ is not extended to the open fields.” This opinion appears to be decided on the basis that “open fields are not a “constitutionally protected area” because they cannot be construed as “persons, houses, papers, [or] effects.”
This method of reasoning gave way with the arrival of the landmark case
Katz v. United States, which established a two-part test for what constitutes a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. The relevant criteria are “first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and, second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable’.” Under this new analysis of the Fourth Amendment, a search of an object or area where a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy is, in a legal sense, not a search at all. That search, therefore, does not trigger the protections of the Fourth Amendment.
In
Oliver v. United States, the Supreme Court held that a privacy expectation regarding an open field is unreasonable:
… open fields do not provide the setting for those intimate activities that the Amendment is intended to shelter from government interference or surveillance. There is no societal interest in protecting the privacy of those activities, such as the cultivation of crops, that occur in open fields.
Distinguishing open fields from curtilage
While open fields are not protected by the Fourth Amendment, the curtilage, or outdoor area immediately surrounding the home, may be protected. Courts have treated this area as an extension of the house and as such subject to all the privacy protections afforded a person’s home (unlike a person’s open fields) under the Fourth Amendment. An area is curtilage if it “harbors the intimate activity associated with the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life.” Courts make this determination by examining “the proximity of the area claimed to be curtilage to the home, whether the area is included within an enclosure surrounding the home, the nature of the uses to which the area is put, and the steps taken by the resident to protect the area from observation by people passing by.” Theoretically, many structures might extend the curtilage protection to the areas immediately surrounding them. The courts have gone so far as to treat a tent as a home for Fourth Amendment purposes in the past.
Despite this rather broad interpretation of curtilage, the courts seem willing to find areas to be outside of the curtilage if they are in any way separate from the home (by a fence, great distance, other structures, even certain plants).
Rejections of doctrine by state courts
Since
Oliver, the highest courts of Montana, New York, Oregon and Vermont, as well as a Washington state appeals court, have held that the open-fields doctrine does not apply in those states due to their state constitutions granting greater protections to citizens (under dual sovereignty a state may grant its citizens more rights than those guaranteed in the federal constitution). Since Katz grounded privacy in persons rather than places, they argue, landowners who have taken affirmative steps to exclude the public such as fencing or posting the bounds assert a privacy interest sufficient to prevail over any warrantless search of the property where common exceptions such as hot pursuit and plain view do not apply. Some of those opinions have been critical of not only Oliver but Hester.
In a 2017 concurring opinion where the doctrine did not come into play in overturning a Wisconsin farmer’s convictions for threatening two state game wardens he believed had been illegal hunters trespassing on his land, Justice Rebecca Bradley of that state’s Supreme Court was highly critical of it.
Within a year of
Oliver, deputy sheriffs in Coos County, Oregon, followed up on a tip that marijuana was being grown on a local lumber company’s land. After flying over the property in question and observing possible groves of the plant, then seeing a truck carrying water onto the property via a private access road, the deputies followed the road, past a cable stretched across it, signs prohibiting hunting on the property, and a felled tree, past which they had to proceed on foot to a dwelling at the center of the 40 acres of forest. From the dwelling they were able to see cannabis planted 800 feet away, outside the curtilage of the house. The couple who were in the process of buying the property, and a friend who was helping them grow the plants, were arrested and later convicted of manufacturing and possessing a controlled substance. Oregon Court of Appeals
The appeals court reversed the conviction after hearing the appeal
en banc in 1987. “The decisive issue is not, as the trial court apparently thought, one of federal law”, Judge Thomas Young wrote for the plurality. “Whether defendant’s land is constitutionally protected depends, in the first instance, not on United States Supreme Court cases interpreting the Fourth Amendment, but on the basic principles underlying the Oregon Constitution … we need not join the federal retreat from the constitutional requirements.”
“Does the constitution protect property as property, or is its protection of property a means to a greater end?” Young asked. The majority believed the answer was the latter, to which Young cited writings of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who strongly supported the colonists in the years before the American Revolution, in support of their understanding of this concept of privacy: “The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown.” The U.S. Supreme Court had also recognized “the indefeasible right of personal security” as what is most breached by a search in its 1886
Boyd case.
Oregon’s Supreme Court had, since 1931, recognized this as a privacy interest, Young wrote, and as he found little guidance in federal privacy cases beyond the instant issues of those cases, the majority looked to Oregon case law as it had interpreted Article I, Section 9, of the state constitution, the counterpart to the Fourth Amendment. Young found
Katz‘s two-part test unhelpful and flawed: “The proper question, thus, is not what the defendant expects or whether that expectation is reasonable but whether the constitution protects the defendant.” In this case, Young concluded, the deputies had trespassed on the Dixsons’ land and violated their privacy.
Judge John Buttler wrote a special concurrence for himself and two colleagues, reaching the same conclusion as the plurality but basing it on different logic which he felt was more in compliance with state Supreme Court precedent: “I would hold that, if it is necessary for the officers to trespass on property not within the curtilage in order to observe the activity or contraband in question, there is an unreasonable search and, therefore, any ensuing seizure would be unlawful.” In the instant case, Buttler said that it had, as one of the deputies had testified that he and his partner had at all times believed they were on the lumber company’s property and would not have entered without a warrant or permission had they known they were not.
Judge George Van Hoomissen wrote one of two dissents, taking issue with every aspect of the plurality opinion—arguing that there was no evidence that the framers of the state constitution had intended it be read more than literally, that the appeals court was ignoring earlier precedents that had explicitly adopted the open-fields doctrine, that the defendants had not raised a trespass claim against the deputies at trial, and that courts in other states with similar constitutional language had found it compatible with the doctrine. “The plurality has hopelessly confused constitutional law with the civil and criminal law of trespass and … substitutes its own social theories for the plain meaning of the specific constitutional text”, he wrote. Van Hoomissen also noted that if the plurality needed guidance as to whether the citizens of Oregon had embraced an expectation of privacy around growing marijuana, the failure of a 1986 ballot measure that would have decriminalized the drug suggested otherwise.
A shorter dissent was written by Judge Kurt Rossman, joined by Mary Deits. While he agreed with the plurality that the state constitution was not meant to be read in a narrowly literal manner, and with the special concurrence’s criticism of the plurality’s disregard of precedent, he believed that the defendants had not established that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy, since the signage that the deputies passed simply said “No hunting” rather than “No trespassing” and the felled tree merely signaled an intent to deter vehicles, not foot traffic; thus the deputies could reasonably have believed they were still on lumber company land. “It is unnecessary to sail into uncharted waters by formulating a new, untested constitutional analysis, as the plurality and special concurrence have done.”
Oregon Supreme Court
Prosecutors appealed the case to the Oregon Supreme Court, which heard arguments in March 1988 and returned its decision at the end of the year. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice W. Michael Gillette affirmed the lower court’s holding that Article I, Section 9 provided broader privacy protection than the Fourth Amendment and thus the open-fields doctrine did not apply in state prosecutions.
After reviewing the facts of the case and all the appellate court’s opinions, Gillette considered all the arguments. The two cases Van Hoommissen had pointed to as precedent adopting the open-fields doctrine were actually not dispositive of the issue, since one had involved a search on public land and the other appeared to rely on circumstances unique to that case. In another of its own recent holdings, he noted, the state Supreme Court had also rejected
Katz’‘s reasonable expectation test, so in the instant case the court could consider the issue without relying on it.
Gillette rejected the textualist interpretation of the constitutional language that had been held by the Supreme Court and other states’ courts to support the doctrine for three reasons. First, the court’s own prior holdings recognized Article I, Section 9, as establishing a broad privacy interest beyond those items specified in it. Second, the Supreme Court had itself admitted in
Katz that in extending privacy protection to the user of a phone booth it was going beyond any possible meaning of “persons, houses, papers and effects”, as Justice Thurgood Marshall had noted in his Oliver dissent. Lastly, Gillette noted, if read literally the Fourth Amendment as well as Oregon’s constitution would have only protected citizens in their own houses, and not in any other buildings. “If the individual has a privacy interest in land outside the curtilage of his dwelling, that privacy interest will not go unprotected simply because of its location.”
Next, Gillette turned to the claim that common law recognized a distinction between the curtilage of a house and the property as a whole. In
Hester, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had cited William Blackstone‘s Commentaries on the Laws of England, a common reference for English common law, in holding this distinction originated there. But Gillette quoted the passage Holmes had cited, in which Blackstone discussed what constituted burglary under common law, to cast doubt on Holmes’ interpretation, noting that Blackstone had included all the possible outbuildings as places where unlawful entry and theft could be punished as burglary. Blackstone’s chapter on trespass likewise specifically mentioned a man’s land as legally protected. “Reliance on the common-law concept of curtilage to justify excluding land outside the curtilage from the protections of either constitutional provision is misplaced”, Gillette concluded.”
Lastly Gillette rejected the state’s argument that whether land outside curtilage was covered by its owner’s privacy interest depended on how that land was used. It depended, he wrote, on whether the owner had taken steps to exclude intruders, such as putting up fences or posting the bounds. “Allowing the police to intrude into private land, regardless of the steps taken by its occupant to keep it private, would be a significant limitation on the occupant’s freedom from governmental scrutiny.”
From this Gillette derived a “simple and objective” rule: “A person who wishes to preserve a constitutionally protected privacy interest in land outside the curtilage must manifest an intention to exclude the public by erecting barriers to entry, such as fences, or by posting signs.” He then applied the rule to the instant case and found that it did not apply to the Dixsons since the signs they had posted on the road to their house barred only hunting. “There was no objective reason for the officers to believe that … other uses such as hiking were forbidden” since it was common in Oregon for those uses to take place on large tracts of privately owned land where it was not expressly forbidden. Therefore, having affirmed the appeals court’s rejection of the open-fields doctrine, the state’s Supreme Court reversed it on the specific issues of the case and affirmed the conviction.
State v. Kirchoff
A case that had begun before
Oliver provided the Vermont Supreme Court with its opportunity to consider the open-fields doctrine almost a decade later. In 1982 Robert Kirchoff bought a 39-acre parcel in the town of Lincoln, Vermont, posted it and filed a notice to that effect with the town clerk. He allowed some of his neighbors to ride their bicycles on trails that crossed the property, but otherwise did not allow any access.
Kirchoff had been living there for four years when the Addison County sheriff received a tip that he was growing marijuana on his land. The sheriff and another law enforcement officer went to a neighboring house, crossed a fence, and followed an old logging road past some old “no trespassing” signs. They left the road and found the growing cannabis plants in the woods roughly 100 yards from his house, invisible from the road.
The sheriff called in two other officers to keep an eye on the marijuana while they got a search warrant. Kirchoff went out to tend them at this point, and admitted to the officers that he had been growing them. When the sheriff returned, he and the police seized the plants and other evidence of the grow operation from Kirchoff’s house.
At trial, Kirchoff moved to have the evidence obtained from the search suppressed. It was denied, and he was convicted. He appealed to the state’s Supreme Court. The case was not argued until 1989, and it took an additional two years for the court to decide.
In early 1991 the Supreme Court issued its decision, holding 4–1 that the evidence should have been suppressed. After reviewing the facts of the case, Justice James L. Morse conceded that the search was lawful under
Oliver. However, the court went on to note that it had to consider whether the search complied with Article 11 of the state constitution, which while substantially similar to the Fourth Amendment did have some differences in wording. Most significantly, it referred to a person’s “possessions” as coming under its purview rather than just their “effects”.
Did that mean it applied to all a person’s landholdings, Morse asked? The minimal records from the state’s original constitutional debates did not offer much guidance, so he looked at how other states with similar language had addressed the issue. They had divided on the issue, yet at the same time states that used “effects” in their constitutions had held it applied more broadly than
Oliver had held.
“Our decision, however, need not rest on the drafters’ choice of one word over another”, Morse wrote. “Even if we cannot say with confidence that the scope of the term ‘possessions’ mandates a right of privacy in real estate, it certainly does not rule out such a right.” He noted that this interpretation was at odds with
Oliver, and said the fault lay with the Oliver Court, which had “misinterpreted its own Fourth Amendment precedent.”
In
Oliver, the Supreme Court had seemed “to equate privacy with crime”, which Morse considered flawed. “If one assumes at the outset that people will only seek privacy in the use of their land for criminal purposes,” he wrote, “the conclusion that society will not recognize a claim to privacy in the land readily follows. But we cannot presume how an individual will employ private lands—that is the nature of privacy.” Oliver‘s association of privacy and criminality, according to Morse, was an ipse dixit.
Morse accepted the Oregon Supreme Court’s rule in
Dixson that the open-fields doctrine did not apply where a landowner had, like Kirchoff, taken affirmative measures to control access to their land. He grounded this in state constitutional and statutory provisions that allowed public use of unposted land for many outdoor recreational activities and limited the liability of landowners for damages suffered by those they allowed, even implicitly, to engage in those activities on unposted land. “These provisions evidence the state’s policy of providing the public with certain privileges and liberties not permitted under the common law”, he wrote. “They evidence no intent, however, to limit the right of landowners to pursue their affairs free from unregulated intrusion by officials.”
Lastly, Morse said that while the Vermont Supreme Court was not completely discarding
Katz as the basis for its personality-rooted concept of privacy, it found some issues doing so. It was not comfortable with the concept of a reasonable expectation, since that could too easily change “with political winds and the perceived exigencies of the day … The question is not what society is prepared to accept but what the constitution requires.” This formulation, Morse believed, would better protect people’s privacy expectations as technology advanced. Lastly he placed the burden of proof on the state in cases where a search such as the one in the instant case, was challenged as unconstitutional, and held that under that standard this search had violated the state constitution.
There were two other opinions. District Judge Lewis Springer, specially assigned to sit on the court for this case due to a vacant seat, concurred but said the majority opinion should have more thoroughly grounded its arguments in the state’s constitutional history rather than the federal constitution. Louis P. Peck, in one of his last opinions before retirement, dissented at length, attacking and ridiculing the majority for judicial activism in an opinion rife with cultural and literary references.
Dissent
“I am sadly disappointed, and frustrated beyond comfort”, by the majority opinion, Peck began. He likened it to a brief for the defendant in the case. “It is, in my judgment, one of the most result-oriented opinions I have ever been exposed to. I am not prepared to countenance in silence the extreme and unwarranted judicial activism of which the opinion is an example.”
Peck suggested that the majority’s confusion over the meaning of “possessions” in the state constitution was “a calculated tactic rather than the result of interpretive incompetency … Disregarding a word because it may have different meanings in different contexts constitutes an argument weak to the point of absurdity.” By doing so, he charged, the majority had been able to substitute its own meaning. If that had not been the plan, “I am afraid that the majority’s training in elementary logic, if any, failed to penetrate or make a lasting impression. The reasoning is a syllogistic blunder and a
non sequitur.”
There was no constitutional problem presented by the case, Peck said; the state’s existing laws were enough protection for landowners.
For all realistic and practical purposes, the sole beneficiary of today’s decision is the owner of open fields who conducts criminal activity thereon in defiance of the law. In short, the majority has given birth to a right of privacy to commit crime. If our marijuana farmers have the good sense I think they have, they will soon be busy as little bees putting up no-trespassing signs, while laughing up their sleeves at the gullible naivete of the cooperative majority.
The insistence that police needed a warrant to search any posted or fenced land due to the state’s trespass laws was, Peck wrote, “like saying a police cruiser, in responding to an emergency call, may not exceed the speed limit because there are laws against speeding.”
Returning to the majority’s apparent confusion over the meaning of “possessions”, Peck said it was insulting to the framers of the Vermont Constitution to suggest that they “simply tossed in words willy-nilly with no intent that they have any particular meaning; merely filling in blanks, as it were, with the first word that came to mind.” He believed that they chose their words carefully and would not have expected the level of protection the court was giving landowners.
Peck also called the majority’s holding that the search was unconstitutional “a grossly unfair example of police-bashing”, that he himself took personally.
The police are not psychic. At the time they entered the open fields portion of defendant’s property, they had no way of knowing or of anticipating that this Court would follow, sheep-like, the decision of one of the most activist-oriented among the state courts, or that we would reject a contrary decision by the high court of a state which borders us and is far more similar to us in size and other characteristics than the former … I would remind the majority, as it sheds its tears for the defendant, that the entry was not arbitrary. It was not an afternoon of sport for the police, on the off-chance they might just happen to stumble on marijuana or some other contraband, in much the same spirit that we hunt deer and other game. The entry was undertaken in reliance on a “tip”; with every reason to believe the search was legitimate, and it was done in good faith.
Peck feared that the majority’s decision would unnecessarily handicap the state’s police in preventing crime. He accused it of “choosing the possible prestige with which it may be honored by law reviews and other constitutional activists among the courts, and legal writers, to a recognition of the rights of the individual inhabitants of the State of Vermont.” At the very least, the majority should have held the issue to be decided on a case-by-case basis rather than establishing a blanket rule.
People v. Scott
As the Dixson appeal was being considered by the Oregon courts, across the country, a hunter pursuing a wounded deer onto posted private property in Preston, New York, came across what appeared to him to be the remnants of a marijuana growing operation. In July 1988, he returned, and confirmed his suspicions, finding about 50 cannabis plants being grown on the site, guarded by an armed man. He reported this to the state police, who asked him to bring back a leaf from one of the plants. The next month he did, and after testifying
in camera he returned with a detective.
Guy Scott, owner of the 165 acres on which the marijuana was growing, was arrested and charged with first-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a felony, after 200 plants were seized. At trial in Chenango County Court, he moved to suppress the evidence against him as seized unconstitutionally. After the court ruled that it had not been, Scott pleaded guilty and appealed the conviction on the same grounds, arguing that by posting the property’s bounds at 20–30-foot intervals he had secured a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Following
Oliver, a five-justice panel of the Third Department of the state’s Appellate Division unanimously rejected that argument in 1991. “The marihuana in question here”, it wrote, “was clearly grown in an open, uncultivated field away from the curtilage of any residential structure; thus, defendant had no legitimate expectation of privacy.” Scott appealed to the Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court.
In 1992, Judge Stewart Hancock wrote for the majority in a 4–3 decision reversing the appellate court and Scott’s conviction that rejected the open-fields doctrine. Like Marshall and Oregon’s
Dixson court, he found Oliver‘s recourse to a property-based privacy interest at odds with Katz‘s reasonable expectation test. But that would have little bearing as the majority found New York’s constitution, “with its own unique history”, more relevant to the issues raised by Scott’s case.
Prior to 1938 New York, Hancock noted, had restricted searches and seizures only at the statutory level. When the state constitution was amended that year, in addition to language similar to that of the Fourth Amendment that had long been in the statute, it included a provision explicitly including telecommunications under the same warrant requirements, a reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Olmstead case a decade earlier, which had held that police did not need a warrant for wiretapping telephones since that took place far from the property of those communicating over them. Therefore, according to Hancock, it did not follow that the state constitution should or could be interpreted in the same way the Oliver Court had interpreted the federal constitution.
Hancock turned to the second part of the
Katz test: whether Scott’s interest in his privacy asserted by posting his property was objectively reasonable. The Oliver majority had dismissed the idea, pointing instead to social consensus as where to look, but, the judge wrote:
We believe that under the law of this State the citizens are entitled to more protection. A constitutional rule which permits State agents to invade private lands for no reason at all — without permission and in outright disregard of the owner’s efforts to maintain privacy by fencing or posting signs — is one that we cannot accept as adequately preserving fundamental rights of New York citizens.
While Hancock conceded that property rights do not automatically create a privacy interest, his review of the state’s statutory and case law convinced him that, in interpreting both state and federal law on this issue, the state’s courts had constantly followed the
Katz concept of rooting privacy in the person, rather than property. He also shared Marshall’s observation that the Oliver majority had suggested that a reasonable expectation of privacy depended on what the landowner intended to shield from view by posting or fencing the land:
The reasoning of the … majority, seems, to be this, in effect: that law-abiding persons should have nothing to hide on their property and, thus, there can be no reasonable objection to the State’s unpermitted entry on posted or fenced land to conduct a general search for contraband. But this presupposes the ideal of a conforming society, a concept which seems foreign to New York’s tradition of tolerance of the unconventional and of what may appear bizarre or even offensive.
Judge Joseph Bellacosa’s dissent, addressing not only
Scott but a companion case in which the court had ruled evidence gathered in warrantless administrative searches of businesses to be inadmissible, focused largely on what he considered to be the majority’s faulty reasoning for departing from Oliver. In a similar case of a rural marijuana grower four years earlier, he noted, the court had accepted evidence gathered by an aerial search and declined to consider the same privacy issues that defendant had raised. The majority responded that in that case she had not raised the issue of her land being posted. State v. Johnson
Again, as
Scott was reaching the New York Court of Appeals, another marijuana growing investigation across the country again gave rise to a state court’s rejection of the open-fields doctrine. This case involved the additional question of whether federal involvement negated any state consideration of the issue.
In 1991 agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) received a tip that a “Jim Johnson” was growing marijuana on his property near Scott Lake. The two took this information to the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force, and a detective helped them confirm that a man by that name lived in the area, and found his address. However, the only way to reach the property was via a dirt road that ran through Millersylvania State Park.
The three went down the road but found it gated, fenced and posted at the property line, and they chose at that time not to pass it, unable to see any evidence of marijuana being grown from where they were. At the DEA agents’ request, the county officers flew over the property and took photographs. Several days later the DEA agents returned, without the local detective, in the middle of the night. This time they passed the gate and walked 200 yards to a barn, with a house visible about 75–100 yards beyond, where they smelled growing cannabis plants and heard the sounds of machinery they associated with such cultivation operations. They completed their investigation by aiming a thermal imaging device at the barn; its results further confirmed their suspicion. After finding from local utility records that the property’s electricity consumption also matched the profile of a growing operation, they got a warrant and arrested both Johnson and his wife.
Although the DEA had gathered most of the evidence against them, the couple were prosecuted in state court. They sought unsuccessfully to suppress that evidence, but the trial court held that the DEA had largely been acting independently of the state, making the evidence admissible under the open-fields doctrine. The court convicted them in a bench trial and they appealed.
The Washington Court of Appeals first reconsidered the trial court’s ruling that the DEA acted without the cooperation or assistance of the state, which under the silver platter doctrine would have protected it from being challenged under the state constitution. Judge Gerry Alexander rejected the state’s argument that the local officers had only provided the DEA with locally relevant information, noting that a county detective had accompanied the DEA agents on one trip, the aerial surveillance and the involvement of local law enforcement in the arrest. And since the state was so involved, the court could consider whether the evidence was gathered in violation of the state constitution.
Washington’s equivalent to the Fourth Amendment, Article I, Section 7, is unlike New York and Oregon’s very differently worded from its federal counterpart: “No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law.” It had thus, Alexander wrote, been held repeatedly to offer broader protection to privacy rights.
The state had argued that the DEA agents had, by using an accessway to the house, complied with that provision, citing several precedents where searches had been upheld where police used routes for the public to approach a residence. But Alexander distinguished them from the instant case by noting that “here … the agents were using it as the most convenient route on which to trespass on the Johnsons’ property” instead of trying to reach the house and speak with its occupants; the fact that the agents intruded late at night in one argued against that, the judge observed. The posting, fencing and gate also indicated that “the Johnsons withdrew any permission that arguably may be implied for the DEA agents to use the accessway, especially at 1 a.m.”
Alexander conceded that the barn was not within the curtilage of the house, but again felt that was outweighed by the visible measures the Johnsons had taken to exclude the public from their property. This was not just an issue of privacy, Alexander noted, but the safety of law enforcement. Justice Thurgood Marshall‘s dissent in
Oliver had noted that many rural landowners resorted to “self-help”, as he put it, when faced with trespassers, and the DEA agents’ furtive nocturnal visit to the Johnsons’ barn could have resulted in violence. “We conclude that the agents’ entry onto the Johnsons’ property was an unreasonable intrusion into the Johnsons’ private affairs”, Alexander wrote. Since the remaining untainted evidence submitted to obtain the search warrant was thus insufficient to establish probable cause, the Johnsons’ convictions were reversed with directions to dismiss the charges. The state Supreme Court declined to review the case the next year. State v. Bullock
Contemporaneously with
Johnson, another case involving the open-fields doctrine began working its way through Montana’s state courts. Unlike its state and federal predecessors, it involved illegally taken game rather than marijuana cultivation
In October 1991, Chuck Wing, a Boulder, Montana, man saw a six- or seven-point bull elk on a hill as he was returning from work. He knew that these elk could only be taken by hunters with special permits in that area. As he was watching he saw two men shoot the elk and put it in their truck, which he knew belonged to a man named Eddie Peterson, without field dressing it. Wing reported it to Jefferson County Sheriff Tom Dawson, which in turn passed the information to the state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP).
Chris Anderson, an MFWP game warden came from nearby Helena to Boulder the next morning and interviewed Wing. Anderson learned that Peterson lived in nearby Basin Creek, and he and Dawson drove to his cabin, down a 7-mile one-lane Forest Service road bordered by private property in some stretches, with signs advising the public to stay on the road. At Peterson’s house, the gate to his driveway was open, and the sheriff and game warden drove past an open gate, with “No trespassing” signs on either side, down a 334-foot road to Peterson’s cabin, which he had in the past moved behind a rise in the land so that it would not be visible from the road.
Anderson and Dawson saw an elk carcass hanging from a tree roughly 125 feet from Peterson’s cabin, likewise invisible from the road or adjoining property. Anderson asked where the elk had been killed, and Peterson took the two there, but while there were some of the animal’s innards there were no tracks. Anderson believed the elk had been taken somewhere else, and told Peterson what Wing had told Dawson about seeing the day before.
Peterson continued to insist that the elk had been taken on his property, which Anderson did not believe. Bill Bullock, who was also on the property, attempted to corroborate Peterson’s account even when offered immunity from prosecution if he told Anderson what the game warden believed had actually happened. The next day Anderson returned to the property and confiscated the elk. Peterson was charged with unlawfully killing a game animal and Bullock with possessing an unlawfully killed game animal.
The two men’s trial took most of the next year. In February 1992 the county Justice Court granted their motion to suppress all the evidence that Anderson and Dawson had obtained when they went on Peterson’s property, dismissing entirely the case against Bullock in the process. The state appealed to District Court, and asked for a new trial; the defendants in turn asked that the charges be dismissed because they were misdemeanors and more than six months had elapsed since they had been charged. After that motion was denied, they pleaded guilty and, in October, appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court sent the case back down for evidentiary hearings and imposition of sentence, proceedings that took place over the next two years. After they had been held, the justices heard arguments in early 1995 and rendered their decision in August. They considered three issues: the delay in trying the men, whether Bullock had standing to challenge the evidence against him obtained from the warrantless search of Bullock’s property, and whether the state constitution‘s privacy provisions precluded the open-fields doctrine.
On the first question, Justice Terry N. Trieweiler held for a unanimous court that the six-month deadline had not been passed due to the state’s appeal that granted a trial
de novo, and even so the delay had not been presumptively prejudicial. The next question was resolved in Bullock’s favor as the court held that its own prior precedent, and a similar case from New Jersey, that anyone charged with an offense alleging possession of something automatically has standing to challenge the seizure and any evidence derived from it, regardless of another recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that had narrowed the scope of a similar longstanding rule of its own.
Having established that both defendants had standing to challenge the state’s evidence as unconstitutionally gathered, Trieweiler turned to that final question. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions on the open-fields doctrine had revealed “what appear to be seeming inconsistencies”, he believed it was proper for the court to reconsider whether it was good law in Montana. After retracing its history at the federal level, Triweiler turned to the state’s cases, where cases that had upheld the doctrine after
Katz but before Oliver and Dunn had upheld it. He believed that the instant case, however, could be “factually distinguished” from those precedents, where the court had not considered the defendants’ expectations of privacy over their open fields to be reasonable due to the circumstances of those cases.
Precedent also held that while the language of Article II, Section 11, in the Montana Constitution was, like the corresponding provisions of New York and Oregon’s, similar to the Fourth Amendment, it guaranteed broader protections against unlawful search and seizure. Trieweiler looked at the Oregon, New York and Washington cases. He found that the common element was that the defendants had taken steps to exclude all members of the public save those they invited onto the land, by posting, fencing or otherwise limiting access to the property.
“We conclude that in Montana a person may have an expectation of privacy in an area of land that is beyond the curtilage which the society of this State is willing to recognize as reasonable, and that where that expectation is evidenced by fencing, ‘No Trespassing,’ or similar signs, or ‘by some other means which indicates unmistakably that entry is not permitted'”, Trieweiler wrote, quoting
Scott. He explicitly excluded cases, such as some of the precedents he had discussed, where law enforcement had observed the illegal activity from adjoining public property, but declared that to the extent those cases relied on the open-fields doctrine they were overruled.
Having rejected the open-fields doctrine for Montana courts as a general principle, Trieweiler turned to its applicability to the instant case. He noted that not only had Peterson posted the property and placed a gate at the entrance road, he had some years beforehand moved his cabin to a less visible location after repeated vandalism. On previous visits, law enforcement had requested his permission to come on the property. “The entry onto Peterson’s property and observation of the elk carcass, which could not have otherwise been observed, was an unreasonable search in violation of Article II, Section 11, of the Montana Constitution”, Triweiler concluded.
Trieweiler rejected the state’s argument that Peterson’s offer to lead Anderson and Dawson to the purported kill site and permission for them to examine the elk constituted sufficient consent to allow the carcass into evidence as those actions only took place after the sheriff and warden had already trespassed far enough on to the property to see the carcass. The court affirmed the district court’s denial of the defendants’ motion to dismiss, but overruled its decision not to suppress the evidence from the search.
State v. Stietz
… Important practical considerations suggest that the police should not be empowered to invade land closed to the public. In many parts of the country, landowners feel entitled to use self-help in expelling trespassers from their posted property. There is thus a serious risk that police officers, making unannounced, warrantless searches of ‘open fields,’ will become involved in violent confrontations with irate landowners …
The scenario Justice Marshall feared in his
Oliver dissent came to pass in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, in 2012. Near sunset on the last Sunday of November, the last day of the state’s firearm deer season, Robert Stietz, a cattle and mushroom farmer, went to patrol a detached 25-acre parcel of his land off state Highway 81 for illegal hunters and vandals, both of which he had had problems with in the past. He carried both his rifle and a pistol, and drove to the property in his wife’s sedan since he did not expect to be bringing a deer carcass home. For the same reason, he wore camouflage and no blaze orange.
At the same time, unbeknownst to Stietz, two game wardens with the state’s Department of Natural Resources were patrolling the area in their vehicle, looking for hunters who might be trying to take a deer after the official end of the season, 20 minutes after sunset, which that day was 4:45 p.m. Just before 5, they found the sedan parked alongside the highway. In it they observed an open and empty gun case, a bottle of scent-killing spray and a camouflage tree seat, all of which led them to deduce that the occupant of the car was probably hunting. The car’s registration came back to Stietz when they checked it on their vehicle’s computer.
The wardens decided to investigate. They parked their pickup truck, put on their own blaze orange jackets, on which their departmental insignia was not as conspicuous as it had been on their uniform shirts, and found the open cattle gate leading on to Stietz’s property. Shortly after they passed it, Stietz himself saw them and approached them, believing from the blaze orange jackets that they were possibly trespassing hunters.
At trial, the wardens testified that they identified themselves as such upon seeing Stietz; he in turn said they did not do so clearly enough for him to hear and believed they were asking if he was a warden or had seen any. The wardens asked how many deer he had seen that day; after Stietz said he had seen seven does but was not at the time hunting, he testified that one of the men threw up his arms and seemed upset, which led him to further believe they might be trespassing.
Noticing that the wardens seemed to be trying to interpose themselves between him and his car, Stietz said, he began to feel fearful. One asked him if his rifle was loaded; when Stietz confirmed that it was the other asked him for it, several times, leading Stietz to believe he was being attacked. The two wardens then attempted to take the rifle, leading to a physical struggle between them and Stietz. When they regained their feet, one of the wardens pulled his handgun and pointed it at Stietz, who in turn did the same, followed by the other warden.
One of the wardens made a radio call for backup, at which point Stietz said later that he began to realize who they really were and relax slightly. He kept his gun pointed at the wardens, he testified, because they refused to lower theirs. Eventually deputy sheriffs came and, after assuring Stietz he would not be “gang tackled”, took him into custody.
Stietz faced six felony charges over the incident. At trial in March 2014, the jury convicted him of two: intentionally pointing a firearm at a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with a dangerous weapon. His pretrial motions for jury instructions on self-defense, trespass, and violation of his right to keep and bear arms were denied, as were his post-trial motions for acquittal or a new trial.
In May Stietz was sentenced to a year in prison and probation. The day of sentence, he filed his appeal, arguing the denial of his jury instructions constituted fatal error. In an unpublished 2016
per curiam opinion, the appeals court upheld the conviction.
Stietz appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It accepted the case in late 2016 and heard oral arguments early the next year. In June 2017, by a 4–2 margin, the court held that the trial court’s denial of Stietz’s requested self-defense instruction had deprived him of a factual credible argument that the jury could have believed and reversed and remanded the appeals court.
Justice Shirley Abrahamson‘s majority opinion declined to address the proposed trespass instruction since she believed Stietz might well prevail on retrial with just the self-defense instruction. But the state had raised the open-fields doctrine in its briefs on the case, which led Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley to write a concurrence, joined in its entirety by Justice Daniel Kelly and partially by Chief Justice Patience D. Roggensack, which argued that Stietz had a constitutional right to raise the trespass issue and that not allowing him to do so violated that right. She also was sharply critical of the open-fields doctrine as used to justify the evidence behind the arrest.
In her arguments that the trespass instruction should have been permitted, Bradley had noted that at oral argument the state was unable to cite any statutory authority for the wardens’ presence on Stietz’s property, nor evidence that they had Stietz’s permission. She did not believe the parked car constituted reasonable suspicion of illegal hunting that would have allowed them to enter the property, either. And he had put up clear signals—the posting, gating and fencing of the property—that no one was to come on that property without his permission.
In the absence of those more specific justifications, the state had cited the open-fields doctrine as to how the wardens’ uninvited presence on public land was legal. “The state is wrong”, Bradley wrote. “The open fields doctrine does not transform private fields into public places that anyone is free to enter uninvited or without reason. Nor does it convert the act of trespassing into a lawful intrusion.” It existed, she asserted, only to prevent the suppression of evidence gathered by intrusions into the areas it covered, and could not be extended to justify Stietz’s arrest. “The open fields exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement was not intended to eliminate property owners’ rights by sanctioning entry onto open land at any time for any reason, or no reason at all”, she reiterated, citing
Bullock, Dixson, Johnson and Scott in a footnote.
Dissenting justice Annette Ziegler wrote for herself and Michael Gableman. She primarily took issue with the majority opinion, primarily arguing that the wardens did have reasonable suspicion and legal authority to enter the property. She touched on the open-field doctrine only to note that the appeals court had held it applicable, and Stietz had not raised it on his appeal to the Supreme Court.
Following the decision, Assemblyman Adam Jarchow and State Senator Dave Craig introduced a bill that would require that DNR wardens have reasonable suspicion of a law being broken before entering private property without the owner’s consent. “Preventing poaching is somehow so important we allow DNR incursions on private property for any reason under the sun or no reason at all”, Jarchow complained. “Something is seriously out of whack here.” It was vigorously opposed by wildlife conservation organizations such as the League of Conservation Voters and the state Sierra Club chapter, who feared that it would severely hamper the wardens’ ability to do their jobs, and was never brought to a vote.
In his 2018 retrial, Stietz pleaded guilty to a single count of restricting or obstructing an officer and was sentenced to time served. He filed suit in 2019 against the two wardens alleging they violated his rights under the Second and Fourth amendments; it is currently pending in federal court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
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warc | 202143 | One critical part every entrepreneur should have in their business is a list of core values. Core values can be used as a blueprint when
Author: Diane Prince
You’re probably here because you saw that one of the first steps of building a business plan is to write your mission and vision statements,
Business Metrics, also dubbed as KPI (Key Performance Indicators) is the cluster of important business data that will help grow your business through well-informed decisions.
A good recipe for a strong business includes success, teamwork, and growth. One without the other doesn’t amount to much. The best way to incorporate
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warc | 202143 | Follow These Tips For Optimal Bone Health In Older Adults A healthy diet and lifestyle can help prevent bone-related problems. Add enough foods rich in calcium, protein and vitamin D to your diet.
Regular exercise helps you keep bones healthy
Your bones undergo a constant self-regeneration process known as remodelling to remove old bones and replace them with new. There is a delicate balance that the body makes to maintain bone mass and strength which in turn prevents any kind of deformity. However, with age, this balance shifts in the negative direction, leading to loss of bone density and higher risk of conditions like osteoporosis. Bone-related condition, osteoporosis is commonly seen in menopausal women, or those with improper dietary habits, etc. It is important to take precautions to prevent loss of bone density in the elderly, especially in today's scenario when a visit to the hospital regularly may not be possible. Here are some tips to maintain optimum bone health in people above the age of 50 years.
Optimum nutrition
The elderly need enhanced intake of calcium and vitamin D and other essential nutrients to maintain their bone health. Foods rich in calcium such as cereals, fruit juices, green vegetables, milk and fish, etc., are some of the ideal sources for these. Vegetarians can opt for supplements with Vitamin D. To supplement the desired quantity of vitamin B12, they can consume lean meat, fortified cereal, fish and seafood. Another important nutrient is vitamin K which activates a protein called osteocalcin. This protein is necessary for bone building and healing. However, it is important to consult a dietary expert or a registered medical practitioner before taking supplements.
Regular screening
Women in the menopausal stage as well as men above 50 years must get an osteoporosis screening done. Women must prioritize their health and not ignore symptoms like prolonged back pain, frequent falls and fractures. A bone density test can provide an accurate picture of bone-mineral density.
Quit smoking and limit drinking
Smoking is one of the leading causes of bone loss and fractures in women older than 40. This is because nicotine has a toxic effect on the bone-forming cells and reduces estrogen levels, which further lowers bone density. Limit alcohol intake as much as possible.
Physical activity
Undertake about 30 minutes of physical activity every day to strengthen the bones. Some exercises to try out would be yoga, tai-chi and brisk walking. Exercise will help in stimulating the bone cells to grow and build muscle. It will also improve balance and flexibility thereby reducing the likelihood of falls - one of the major causes of fractures in the elderly.
In conclusion
Regular medical check-ups can help in early detection. Teleconsultations also make it possible for specialists to offer psychological and nutritional counselling, to boost the morale and concerns of an aggrieved individual. Reduced bone density is a natural part of the ageing process. However, the condition can be prevented from leading to diseases like osteoporosis through a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.
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warc | 202143 | Full-spectrum, broad-spectrum and Isolate. For pain, full-spectrum CBD oil is considered to be the most effective because it features all compounds of the hemp plant. This includes terpenes, essential oils and cannabinoids. Nearly all of the studies that referenced in this article consider full-spectrum CBD oil to be more effective than other types of CBD.
A handy dropper that allows you to exactly measure the amount of CBD oil you draw comes with the bottle of CBD oil. Simply use the dropper and place the desired amount underneath your tongue, hold for a few seconds and then swallow. This method is called taking CBD oil sublingually. Cbd Isolate for Bad PMS Mood.
These come pre-dosed and they taste great! How long until I feel the effects of CBD oil? The effects of CBD oil on pain management are dependent on a whole range of factors. You should start to feel something in 20 minutes, and the benefits last between 4-6 hours. Of course this is dependent on what your dosage was, and your metabolism - Cbd Infused for Period Cramps.
The saying goes low and slow, but why is this case? There’s many reasons you’d want to start low and go slow. First of all, according to reviews a lot of people can feel the effects of CBD when it’s used in low doses, this is called microdosing. Secondly, the majority of the studies conducted on CBD agree that it is something that should be used over the long term.
Starting a CBD regime is akin to starting a new wellness program. Over time, you should begin to see progress - Cbd Hemp for Pmdd. How do I choose the best CBD oil for pain management? To find high quality CBD products, you need to ask yourself the following questions: What type of CBD is in the product? (Full-spectrum, broad-spectrum or isolate) Has the product been third-party lab tested? What other ingredients are in it? Price.
(AAXLL Insights) How we determined the best CBD oil for pain Types of CBD There are three unique types of CBD, each with its specific characteristics. The way the hemp is processed determines what kind of CBD you get; isolate, full-spectrum, or broad-spectrum. As previously mentioned, the majority of the studies carried out on the effectiveness of CBD on pain agree that full-spectrum has the highest impact.
Broad-spectrum contains all of the compounds found in full-spectrum, however THC is at a non-detectable level. Broad-spectrum still triggers the entourage effect, however the extent is less than full-spectrum. Isolate CBD oils only contain CBD, and the carrier oil that they are made of. They do not contain additional cannabinoids.
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0255 CBGa 7. 268 0. 0255 CBG 9. 263 0. 0325 CBC 9. 260 0. 0320 The best CBD oils for pain also have other compounds present, such as CBG and CBDV. In this lab test there are, which means you’ll experience the full benefits of the entourage effect. Another thing to note is that delta-9 THC amount should be below 0.
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warc | 202143 | The Small Predicts Large Effect in Crowdfunding
Tingting Fan,
Leilei Gao and
Yael Steinhart
Journal of Consumer Research, 2020, vol. 47, issue 4, 544-565
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Entrepreneurs are increasingly relying on online crowdfunding—the use of online platforms to raise money from a large number of people—to finance their ventures. This research explores the proposition that the amounts contributed by the majority of funders in the early stages of a crowdfunding campaign may have a counterintuitive influence on follow-up contributions and on the campaign’s fundraising success. Findings from an analysis of real-world large-scale crowdfunding data and five experiments show that potential funders are more (vs. less) likely to contribute to a newly launched project when early contributions consist mainly of relatively small (vs. large) amounts. The results further show that this Small Predicts Large effect is driven by people’s relationship inferences: when contributions made at the early stages of a crowdfunding campaign mainly comprise relatively large amounts, consumers tend to infer that those large contributions were made by the entrepreneur’s friends or relatives. Because of this relationship inference, prospective funders perceive larger contributions as being less diagnostic of others’ true opinions of the project and this perception negatively affects their willingness to contribute. However, if a crowdfunding campaign provides sufficient justification for the early-stage large contributions, this Small Predicts Large effect will be eliminated.
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warc | 202143 | Wiewiora, Anna and Brown, Kerry and Dhakal, Subas P. and Mahmood, Muhammad Nateque (2015)
Managing knowledge for asset management: shifting from process to relational frames. In: 7th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management: Towards Integration and Interoperability (WCEAM 2012), 8-9 Oct 2012, Daejeon City, Korea.
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The purpose of this paper is to review existing knowledge management (KM) practices within the field of asset management, identify gaps, and propose a new approach to managing knowledge for asset management. Existing approaches to KM in the field of asset management are incomplete with the focus primarily on the application of data and information systems, for example the use of an asset register. It is contended these approaches provide access to explicit knowledge and overlook the importance of tacit knowledge acquisition, sharing, and application. In doing so, current KM approaches within asset management tend to neglect the significance of relational factors; whereas studies in the KM field have showed that relational modes such as social capital is imperative for effective KM outcomes. In this paper, we argue that incorporating a relational approach to KM is more likely to contribute to the exchange of ideas and the development of creative responses necessary to improve decision making in asset management. This conceptual paper uses extant literature to explain KM antecedents and explore its outcomes in the context of asset management. KM is a component in the new integrated strategic asset management (ISAM) framework developed in conjunction with asset management industry associations (AAMCoG 2012) that improves asset management performance. In this paper, we use Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s [24] model to explain antecedents of relational approach to KM. Further, we develop an argument that relational KM is likely to contribute to the improvement of the ISAM framework components, such as organizational strategic management, service planning, and delivery. The main contribution of the paper is a novel and robust approach to managing knowledge that leads to the improvement of asset management outcomes.
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warc | 202143 | As much of the corn across the state of Indiana has emerged and is beginning early vegetative growth, it is important to understand the characteristics of these early growth stages and what is happening in the plant at this specific time.
The
VE growth stage is defined when the coleoptile breaks through the soil surface. The number of calendar days that this takes to occur is directly related to soil temperature. As farmers continue to push corn planting earlier and earlier, emergence can take much longer, which heightens the probability of corn seedling exposure to cooler temperatures and stress. As the coleoptile emerges, sunlight disrupts the mesocotyl (a white, tubular, root tissue between the seed and the base of the coleoptile) which fixes the depth of the corn growing point (~3/4 inch below the soil surface). In addition, through continued leaf expansion inside the coleoptile, the coleoptile tip is ruptured, the first true leaf begins to emerge, and photosynthesis begins. Note: If seed is planted too shallow, the growing point is fixed closer to the soil surface which can result in floppy corn (e.g. leaning over) syndrome. This can also be caused by poor seed furrow closure or excessively dry conditions following emergence.
The
seminal root system is the primary root system of the corn plant at this point up until V3-V4 and is used to anchor the corn seedling and facilitate minimal nutrient and water uptake. In the background, a second root system is forming which is known as the nodal root system. If damage occurs to the seminal root system prior to nodal root establishment, plant stunting or death can occur.
The
V1 growth stage is defined as plants with their first collared leaf. The first collared leaf is unique because it is oval shaped compared to the rest of the leaves which are pointed, this is also the starting point for growth staging plants using the leaf collar method. The first leaf of the corn plant is referred as the first true leaf because it is the first leaf of the plant to use photosynthesis to produce energy.
The
V2 growth stage is defined as plants with the second collared leaf visible. At this growth stage formation of the nodal root system has begun and can be identified apart from the seminal root system. Note: nodal roots that grow aboveground are known as brace roots. These roots can help the plant acquire nutrients and water from the upper soil layers and also help stabilize the plant during the growing season.
The
V3 growth stage is defined as plant with three visible collared leaves. Up until this stage, corn seedlings are dependent primarily on the energy and nutrition reserves of the kernel for development. At V3, corn begins to shift its nutritional dependence to the nodal root system. This is an important transition stage in the corn plants life because successful transition will significantly influence the continued development of the corn plant. Success or failure at this growth stage can dictate whether stand establishment is successful or if stand establishment does not look so good. This transition period can also influence how well a corn plant can tolerate stress later on in the growing season which may influence yield potential. Note: use of a starter fertilizer (e.g. 2×2) application at planting can help aid young corn plants as they transition from using kernel reserves to the nodal roots.
The good news is that as the corn plant advances from V3 and begins to shift its nutritional dependence to the nodal root system, the photosynthetic capacity or “factory” of the plant begins to increase. This allows the plant to ready itself for take-off and often move from a yellow-green, ugly corn plant, to a dark-green, attractive corn plant, which always makes those who produce and study this crop for a living, feel pretty good.
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warc | 202143 | whether between lovers, family members or buddies – can be fixed by bringing awareness of a couple of considerations that are important.
Think of how these 5 points connect with your relationships that are own make use of the questions for every tip to steer your thinking and actions whenever dilemmas emerge.
1. Know very well what you desire through the relationship.
To obtain what you need from your own relationship, it can help to understand what this is certainly. People merely wish to be pleased together. Other people may want a feeling of psychological security, economic protection, or perhaps a partner to explore the planet with.
Think about: exactly What do i would like from my relationship?
2. Give attention to what can be done differently significantly more than on what your lover has to alter.
Most of us have actually space to improve and develop. This will be real of you, plus your partner. Nonetheless, you’ve got more impact on making changes that are personal on making your partner change. Therefore, if you should be unhappy with a few facet of your relationship, begin with changing your self.
Ask yourself: just exactly What do we subscribe to the nagging issues we face? How to alter to enhance our relationship?
3. Element in emotions – relationships are far more than just rational interactions.
Relationships are far more than just business transactions – many more. The better people feel to one another, the greater powerfully their relationships affect them. It’s these reactions that are emotional so frequently cause issues between lovers. Therefore, to the office through dilemmas, it is crucial to know and respect each other’s reactions that are emotional.
Think about: how do i well comprehend my emotional responses and those of my partner? And exactly how are these responses impacting our relationship?
4. It is really not adequate to desire an alteration. You need to produce it.
Everybody wishes their relationships become harmonious and delighted. Although this appears to just take place often, long-lasting relationships should be nurtured to keep them healthier and strong. Otherwise, dilemmas overtake all of the beauty that exists inside them, just like weeds overtaking a yard.
Think about: Do this relationship is wanted by me adequate to focus on it?
5. Working through dilemmas takes persistence and patience.
Then choose to give it your full attention if your relationship is important enough to work on. While you address issues, keep in mind that you might be chatting with some body you love – even although you aren’t pleased about a specific behavior or trait. A good way of thinking relating to this is you are working dilemmas out with a “teammate” in the place of attempting to beat an opponent. You shall want to check out and re-visit problems with your spouse. Therefore, remind yourself to show patience.
Think about: have always been we doing all I’m able to to have patience? Am we happy to take some time and put into the required effort to make our relationship healthier and strong?
These tips and their questions that are accompanying be helpful at any point whenever you feel there clearly was stress in your relationship. Nonetheless, the earlier you address any tension that is growing the less of a genuine hazard it’s going to pose to your relationship.
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warc | 202143 | From “Zoom fatigue” to “pandemic whiplash,” the last months have introduced a wave of new terms into our regular conversation. One of these new concepts is “collaborative overload.” Keep reading to learn what it is and how to avoid it.
What Is Collaborative Overload?
Simply stated, collaborative overload occurs when an employee spends more time collaborating than actually working.
With its abundance of video calls, emails, and phone calls, the pandemic has created optimal conditions for collaboration overload. Employees everywhere find themselves spending more time responding to requests, communicating, and then double-checking those communications than focused on the tasks they’re supposed to do.
While the term “collaborative (or collaboration) overload” began gaining traction around 2016, but today it feels more relevant than ever thanks to the changes ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic.
How to Avoid Collaborative Overload?
Collaborative overload hampers productivity and increases your employees’ stress levels, leading to burnout and a poor work-life balance.
And you still think that there’s no such a thing as too much collaboration, keep this in mind: according to the authors who coined the term “collaborative overload,” the proportion of collaborative work is about 80%. Think about all the things your team could accomplish if you could whittle down that percentage to a more reasonable figure.
Here are some steps you can take to avoid collaboration overload in your organization:
Set well-defined goals for your team Use only a limited number of collaboration tools Take the time to analyze the communication habits in your organization Seek feedback from your employees Identify and break “communication bottlenecks” More Tips to Propel Your Business Forward
Read these previous posts for more tips that cover every aspect of the management of your organization, from communication to online security.
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warc | 202143 | “I can’t fathom how I’ll go back to working in the office. I just finished fully adjusting to working from home,” my client Alana, a vice president of marketing, said with a troubled look on her face. She sighed deeply and continued, “My biggest worry though, is how to handle the emotions of my team. Everyone is so anxious and worried — and it’s starting to take a toll on morale, and me.”
Many leaders I coach share Alana’s concerns. As companies unveil their return-to-work plans, employees’ fears are hitting a fever pitch. It’s understandable when health and safety concerns abound (Will everyone wear their mask? What about germs in shared spaces?). There’s also the stress of re-acclimating to in-person dynamics (“I forget how to make small talk,” one client told me while another said, “I don’t think I have slacks that fit me anymore.”)
Re-entry anxiety doesn’t only affect the individual employee experiencing it. Stress is contagious — a psychological effect known as emotional contagion. Research has shown it’s possible to “catch” the emotions of others. In other words, humans naturally (and unconsciously) mimic the behaviors, posture, and facial expressions of those who they spend a lot of time around. This is true for teams in the workplace, too. You’ve probably witnessed emotional contagion in action before. For instance, when someone’s negative mood brings down the energy of a meeting, or during the height of the pandemic when your friend’s panic buying spurred your own shopping spree.
Protecting against re-entry emotional contagion is something all managers need to be mindful of, since absorbing direct reports’ emotions will only fuel greater angst and perpetuate a vicious cycle of fear. Not only that, but emotional contagion can harm your personal well-being as a leader. The moods of those around you can impact your own. This is especially true for a certain group that I call sensitive strivers. Representing about 20% of the population, these leaders have more active mental circuitry in empathy areas of the brain (called mirror neurons), which cause them to be more influenced by — and reactive to — other people’s feelings and behavior.
So how do you shield yourself from “catching” your other’s re-entry anxiety? Here’s how to avoid being an emotional sponge while still being empathetic to your team’s needs and concerns.
Take your emotional temperature.
As a leader, you may be the primary source of emotional contagion. Consider yourself like a mood inductor: because of your power and authority, others pay attention to your behavior first and foremost. If you’re carrying worries and fears into conversations, your team will pick up on it and the low mood will “infect” and “spread” to others. That’s why it’s important to periodically check in with yourself throughout the day to be aware of what emotions you’re “carrying into” your interactions. This applies to both in-person and virtual interactions where you need to be mindful about the tone and feelings you’re transmitting. I like to recommend my coaching clients use a simple mood tracker to monitor themselves. You can also get creative. Set the background on your phone to display a simple mental check-in question such as “how am I feeling right now?” or schedule a calendar notification that reminds you to consciously assess your emotional state.
Visualize a boundary.
When a direct report expresses concerns about returning to work, you may take their re-opening anxieties personally, perceiving them as a judgment on your competency as a manager. Their stress may trigger worry for you. You might think, “Should I be more concerned? What if they think I’m failing to advocate for them?” If you’re a sensitive striver, you may feel so affected by these interactions that the residual feelings last for hours or days afterwards. A helpful way to create separation and shield yourself from others’ emotions is through visualization. Imagine there’s a glass pane between you and the other person where their reactions cannot get through and affect you. Another great visualization is “zipping yourself up” energetically. Place your hand by the bottom of your stomach, then draw an imaginary line up your body to the top of your head, as if you were zipping up a coat.
Empathize, don’t internalize.
Don’t wallow or delve into fear-based thinking with your team. Straddle the line between holding space for your directs’ concerns without allowing them to complain or spread anxiety to one another. Instead, leverage empathy. See these moments as an opportunity to shift into compassion and validation. Encourage solution-focused problem solving through the use of questions. Here are a few examples:
It makes sense that you’re nervous about coming back to the office. Let’s talk about ways to make it a smooth transition for you. I hear you’re worried about our new hybrid schedule. What have you considered so far in terms of adjusting how you’re prioritizing your workload? I understand the current climate of uncertainty is nerve-wracking. How can I, as your manager, support you through this time? Practice co-regulation.
Emotional contagion isn’t all bad. The truth is that positive emotions can spread, too. Leverage the fact that human’s nervous systems sync to your advantage with a technique called co-regulation. Co-regulation happens when you intentionally calm or soothe yourself, which then influences the people you’re with to do the same. If you’re dealing with an anxious direct report, consciously slow down your breathing and take deep belly breaths. Speak more quietly and slowly (what I call my “therapist voice”). You can also model relaxed body language, such as rolling your shoulders down your back and sinking your hips into your chair. You’ll notice your mood shifts, and also that your team member’s panic decreases as well.
Be a resilience booster.
Psychology research finds that you need five positive interactions to outweigh one negative one. This means you can turn the tables of emotional contagion by offering praise, recognition, and compliments to your team. Try starting meetings by having each person share a win from the last week, for instance. Add a section to your one-on-ones with staff to reflect back the areas they’re growing and improving in their roles. You can also consider starting a “shine” channel on your company messaging platform where team members acknowledge and celebrate each other for a job well done. These efforts work to create a more positive emotional culture and balance out the effects of contagion.
Have a way to cleanse the day.
Disconnecting after work is crucial to ensure you don’t carry a sour mood with you after hours. I recommend creating a transition ritual to symbolize the transition from work to personal time. You might process events from the day by reflecting on your top accomplishments or learnings, for instance. If you’re commuting to and from the office again, perhaps you listen to a non-work related podcast or audiobook on the way to decompress. My clients who are still working at home often like to change their clothes to signify the end of the workday. Most of all, remember that the best, most emotionally resilient leaders make self-care non-negotiable. They don’t view downtime as “lazy,” but rather an essential investment in their workplace performance.
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warc | 202143 | Students learn best in schools that provide safety and social support. However, some young people experience violence and harassment in, around, and on the way to school. This includes gender-based violence (GBV), which can take many different forms.
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warc | 202143 | It appears that in the world we live in, there are no absolutes. It cannot be absolutely never okay to kill. You and I can reason that in war, blood is often shed, lives are lost for a worthy cause; the soldier that dies for his country is considered a fallen hero, not a victim of our justification of death in war. One could argue: kill or be killed; our enemies will do us harm at the first opportunity, and to defend ourselves we must be willing to do the same. And such arguments are hard to fight against, in fact, such arguments don’t across as opinions anymore, but are ”the facts of life”- crude, man made elements of our existence that we must learn to live with..
But where do you draw the line? Can there be, at least, an instance when it can be undeniably wrong to take the life of another human being? It’s easy to answer ”Ofcourse” and give reference to the many murderers and killers that have displayed the very worst of human nature, and say ”That’s wrong”. But what of abortion? Simply put, it is murder. Killing an unborn child, or to be more specific (and more self-justifying): termination of intro-uterine human tissue.
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warc | 202143 | Air conditioners are considered to be a gadget that is essential invariably for every season. People no more consider air conditioners as luxury as it has become a component and parcel of every home, offices, hotels, and just about all the places that are prominent. Air conditioners are preferred because dust and air pollution is completely eliminated from the rooms. Ac units are available in different brands and capabilities. They vary only on few grounds that are main sound produced, competence, and convenience. The most selective companies manufacturing air that is explicit are Kenmore, LG, Frigidaire, GE, and few more to name. Adding to the, national has facilitated people by asking the fresh air conditioning equipment manufacturers to improve the power efficiency rate thereby making the purchase easier. Folks have to calculate the minimum number of years they anticipate their air conditioners become retained and then arrive upon a spending plan to buy an air conditioner. Energy efficient ranked air conditioners perform magnificently and their prospect of cooling is also ranked good. These air conditioners are user friendly and now have electronic settings accessible at feather touch. a bedroom that is petite of to 150 square foot can be associated with economical models. Economical model air conditioners may also be facilitated with features like cooling rates, timer, electronic touchpad, and control that is remote. Larger rooms of 18 x 20 feet need air conditioners with more facilities like four means atmosphere deflection, digital temperature, and electronic controls. Techniques have enhanced therefore well that the installing these units is very simple like the main air conditioning equipment in the devices as well as the lightweight carcass on the window. Nowadays, air conditioning units can be obtained with a series of facilities like timers, remote controls, speed fans with sleep settings, digital displays also as being a check filter that functions like a reminder and it is a cash saver as it turns the fan off when the compressor is not working. Air conditioners are well purchased taking into consideration few things such as one should calculate the location and then pick the specified size of the air-conditioner. A big room can not be accommodated with a little unit as it's going to defy from providing enough cooling. Likewise, very air that is large do not prohibit moisture efficiently. As air conditioners are fixed installations, one needs to think about the weight of air conditioners. The lightest air conditioner weighs approximately 100 pounds. So choosing a fresh air conditioner having a slip in framework makes installation easier. The electrical fittings must be taken into concern like fitting a 220 volt plug and specially the sound of the air conditioner. an air that is expensive will prove effective as it will save power and even a light sleeper can sleep tight. So it is crucial for you to go ahead with acquisitions bearing in mind their comforts and convenience It is a job that is tough the summertime months without the right air conditioning. Generally it is hot, which is humid too. Having an air conditioner installed not only does it cool your surroundings cool but you'll also have a less place that is humid work or relax in. There are primarily four kinds of ac units you can purchase. They are: 1. Central Air Conditioners 2. Window Air Conditioners 3. Freestanding Air Conditioners 4. Ductless Air Conditioners Of the, probably the most convenient and economical is the air that is freestanding. There are certainly a wide range of benefits that the ones that are freestanding throughout the other kinds. We shall list a few below. To start with, the freestanding air conditioner is the easiest to install. In fact there is hardly anything to install. You only have to plug it in and it is prepared to start working. But with window air conditioning units, and more so with main atmosphere conditioners, you need to go through a large amount of installation work. This does not only mean which you have to tolerate a large amount of hassle, but in addition got to spend a significant sum of money to have the units installed. There are not any such costs with an air conditioner that is freestanding. The other great advantage is that with a freestanding air conditioner you might have it anywhere you want to own it. Therefore once you have been in your living room with your friends you can have it over there, and if you are back for to sleep after a night of enjoyable you can have it in your bedroom. The freestanding air conditioners are light enough to be moved around. This ensures that you can further save on your expenses. If you had window air conditioners you required to install separate ones for every single of the rooms. With freestanding ac units you can do with a single unit. Although central air conditioners fun the air of all the rooms together, but they also eat much more energy than the air that is freestanding. Energy is being expended for spaces which are not occupied. With freestanding air conditioners you can reduce your electricity bills. Since there are not any installation dilemmas it can be properly used anywhere. While window air conditioning units need a window or an available stretch of wall while the air that is central requires the provisions for ducts, you can place the freestanding air conditioning units anywhere.
Air conditioning units Types and their Advantages
Nothing comforts than the chilly breeze from the vent of a ac on a hot summer afternoon. With an air conditioner you can beat the temperature and there is absolutely no need to worry about the warm weather outside. More efficient models of ac units are coming into industry each and every day that is power saving and user friendly. It is very simple if we look at the working of an air conditioner. When hot air passes through the coils of a air conditioner, the moisture from the warm air will be removed and this in turn reduces the humidity associated with place and causes it to be cool. The moisture that is separated condenses in the coils that are cold is drained out of the air conditioning equipment. There are various types of air conditioners such as for example portable, through the wall, window, packaged terminal, ductless or mini-split and air-conditioning that is central. The through- the-wall and window types work with an analogous manner, but the place of the air conditioner in the room differs. The window type is set up in the room screen whereas the through the wall surface type is fitted by simply making a gap in the wall. The type that is portable more flexibility as they can be moved from place to spot. Within the Ductless type, the air handler is kept inside the room as well as the compressor is kept outside. Packaged air that is terminal enclose cooling and emitters and are set up through the wall. Central air conditioning units are the best bet it also dehumidify and filters the atmosphere as it not only cools the air.
Portable Air Conditioner
The window and portable air conditioners are meant for a smaller area, generally a room while the central air conditioners are meant for entire houses or offices. The central ac units require a healthy investment and also your house will need the provisions to get it set up. Window air conditioners also need to be fitted to the screen or a wall and requires installation facilities. Portable ac units are much better on that count as there is no installation hassle and you'll just place the plug in the socket and revel in the good cooling effects of air conditioner. Of course, being lightweight also allows that it is carried anywhere we want them to. The portable air purifiers are generally used in conjunction with the central air conditioners for commercial purposes. Despite having the best organized duct network and proper outlets in a factory that is large here remains a few hot spots where air form the central ac usually do not achieve. For such areas placing an air that is portable can solve the problem. So, portable air conditioners is of good benefit to many a business and warehouse owners. a comfortable environment guarantees that their workers can concentrate on their work and never bother about other fundamental things. Portable air conditioners are great for domestic purposes also. Then you can go for portable air conditioners if you have a small family and most of the rooms in your house are not occupied at one given time. In that way you don’t need to spend separately on atmosphere conditioners for every single room but carry your air that is portable conditioner you are. Whenever you are watching a movie on your television, put it in the living room. You can just move it to your bedroom when it s time for bed.
Window Air Conditioners
Are you contemplating replacing your old and window that is battered conditioner that have certainly seen better times? Why would you settle for some less piece that is efficient there is a wide array of new and impressive models that are easily obtainable on the market today! However that you should consider and take into account if you are planning to purchase a new window air conditioner, there are some primary features. One of the major attributes that you should consider is the capacity that is cooling of window air conditioner. The higher BTU (British Thermal Units) will mean a more efficient power that is cooling. The BTU should be proportionate to the area regarding the room since air-con products with too much cooling capacity will have a far more frequent on and cycle that is off. The majority of the screen air conditioners have a BTU rating of 10,000, which will be perfect for a medium sized room. You likewise require to check the device of power effectiveness, which is measured by the EER of the Energy Efficiency Rating. Units with greater EER are more effective and will mean a lesser energy bill for you personally. An additional point on the EER on your unit can certainly make a big difference in you monthly bill in consideration to the increasing cost of energy across the United States today. And needless to say you also have to make sure that the product you wish to buy is the exact size for the window where you will be planning to mount you window air conditioner. When looking for the window that is right conditioner, you will need to check always the noise degree of the merchandise. There are numerous units today that are relatively quieter than the older ones. The dehumidifying ability of your screen atmosphere conditioner should additionally be examined. Some are far more efficient and effective in creating a comfortable atmosphere especially during the summer season although all units have this capability. There are actually some models in the market that significantly exceed the standards set by the government for window air conditioners today. The American Council for an Energy- Efficient Environment (ACEEE) releases annual documents on the most energy-efficient units available in the market today, which serves as being a extremely good basis for customer when choosing among the list of different products on the market today. So before you get a brand unit that is new be sure to request information from, instead of just purchasing any product right off the shelf. This can prevent you from creating a costly mistake in the run that is long.
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warc | 202143 | What is enaible?
Let’s start with a bold assertion:
enaible is the new future of work – your work, to be precise. Our AI-driven solutions help you do better, work smarter, and achieve more. Lofty claims? Maybe, but enaible is not just a productivity tool, it’s a productivity lifestyle. And like any credible lifestyle, ours is built on science, evidence, and hard fact.
In essence, enaible combines the power of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with proven methods of leadership and behavioral science to turn millions of data points into powerful insights that improve the way you work and earn you the recognition you deserve.
And there’s another important point: enaible is not an employee monitoring software. It does not reveal your personal activity history to anyone but you.
It’s about getting better.
At enaible, we believe in personalized growth experiences for every employee. By analyzing your own, individual work patterns, enaible identifies the improvement areas that will yield the greatest results, helping you to maximize your productivity and outperform the standards you set yourself – no matter how high. Here’s the most exciting part: until you try enaible, you have no idea how incredible you can be.
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It’s about achieving more.
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warc | 202143 | The best way to circulate air in your home is as a whole unit of the heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. When you close several doors in and around your home, you are disrupting the nature of how your heating and cooling system works.
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warc | 202143 | Oliver Dowden has sought to reassure the public there will be no shortage of presents this Christmas, after of the world’s biggest shipping companies said it is diverting vessels away from UK ports because of a build-up of cargo.
He said the Government is “working through the challenges” and said people should shop for Christmas presents as normal.
The Conservative Party Co-Chairman told Sky News: “The situation is improving. I am confident that people will be able to get their toys for Christmas.”
He added: “I quite understand why people are concerned… but we are working through these challenges.”
When asked if people should start their Christmas shopping now, 10 weeks before the festivities, Mr Dowden said: “I think it is sensible to buy when you want for Christmas.
“Some people buy quite early for Christmas, my wife is quite an early Christmas buyer, others buy later. I would say just buy as you do normally.”
Asked if Father Christmas would visit, the minister said: “Yes, I have children myself and they can be (comfortable) on that front.”
But an expert has expressed concern over supplies of Christmas presents, and admitted it might be necessary to buy gifts early.
Doug Bannister, chief executive of the Port of Dover, told Times Radio: “Felixstowe, London Gateway, Southampton, these big container ports, for the goods coming on the long supply routes, on these big ships from Asia and India and the Middle East, these are providing a lot of the goods that people want to have around Christmas time.”
He added: “So I don’t feel particularly grumpy knowing our business, but I do wonder about, you know, if my wife needs to pre-buy some early Christmas presents for the kids.”
A toy shop owner in Devon has also warned consumers to “buy now” to avoid Christmas disappointment and suggested prices could soar in the lead up to the holiday.
Robert Gliddon, the owner of Gliddons Toy Shop in Sidmouth, Devon, said: “It’s not just shortages, you’ve got to face the reality of price rises, anything from 10 per cent to 15 per cent on anything from across the seas.”
He advised consumers: “If you see it, buy it, and be prepared to pay more before Christmas.”
His comments come in response to news Danish shipping giant Maersk said it is had started re-routing ships from Felixstowe to other destinations to avoid queuing outside the port.
The Suffolk port, which handles 36 per cent of the shipping containers entering Britain, has blamed problems at the root of the supply chain crisis – from lorry driver shortages to a lack of inland warehouse capacity – for a chronic build-up of cargo on its quaysides.
During the interview, Mr Dowden gave an apology to the British public in the wake of a damning Covid report, after colleague Stephen Barclay refused to say sorry 15 times yesterday.
The Conservative Party Co-Chairman said both he and the Prime Minister were “sorry” for the deaths seen throughout the pandemic.
Sky News host Kay Burley asked the minister if he was happy to “offer an apology to all the families who have lost love ones”.
He pointed out Boris Johnson apologised earlier this year to families that have suffered during the pandemic and added: “I share that and of course I offer that as well.
“It has been a terrible time for every family affected by this terrible virus.”
But when asked a second time if he would personally apologise, Mr Dowden said: “Yes of course I am sorry, as the Prime Minister is sorry.”
Clarifying what it was he was sorry for, the minister added: “We are sorry for the losses that all those families have suffered.”
Mr Dowden then briefly discussed the Covid report that found serious errors and delays led to “many thousands of deaths which could have been avoided” during the pandemic.
The study, published yesterday, also claimed it was a “serious early error” not to introduce lockdown sooner.
Commenting on this, the minister admitted the Government would have taken different steps in retrospect.
“This was an unprecedented crisis, its a once in a hundred years event,” he said.
“There isn’t a rule book to follow we are having to adapt and move very quickly and of course we would do some things differently with hindsight.”
Mr Dowden refused to be drawn on Mr Barclay’s interview yesterday, where the minister admitted he had not even read the Covid report and failed to apologise for its findings over a dozen times.
He said: “Steve said what Steve said. I didn’t read the full transcript of the interview… I’m not going to start giving running commentary on interviews that I did not watch.” | 4,867 | 2,248 | 9,887.717527 |
warc | 202143 | Racism and anti-racism has been more part of the educational conversation this year, than at any time during my time as an educator. Early on in my career, I joined Amnesty International. Participation in community groups, and Amnesty events and actions were the source of much of my learning about white privilege and the inequityContinue reading “Equity in Action”
The notion of a moral imperative to guide action is not a new concept. For German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), human understanding of pure reason was the basis for a moral code defining subsequent action. Long before that, holy books from world religions were proposing a course of action focussed on the moralContinue reading “The Moral Imperative” | 757 | 464 | 1,189.338362 |
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