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warc | 202143 | This past week, I had the privilege of attending a panel discussion on health in the African American community hosted by my local church. Black community health professionals shared insightful advice, promoting health-seeking behavior in communities of color. Yet, when it was time for audience questions, the program took an unexpected turn: person after person lined up to share stories of mistreatment and disregard at the hands of medical professionals. It was painful to hear how little my community trusted health professionals like me to be a part of their healing. | 575 | 349 | 944.054441 |
warc | 202143 | Google data centers are the large data center facilities Google uses to provide their services, which combine large drives, computer nodes organized in aisles of racks, internal and external networking, environmental controls (mainly cooling and humidification control), and operations software (especially as concerns load balancing and fault tolerance).
There is no official data on how many servers are in Google data centers, but Gartner estimated in a July 2016 report that Google at the time had 2.5 million servers. This number is changing as the company expands capacity and refreshes its hardware.
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The locations of Google's various data centers by continent are as follows:
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The customization goal is to purchase CPU generations that offer the best performance per dollar, not absolute performance. How this is measured is unclear, but it is likely to incorporate running costs of the entire server, and CPU power consumption could be a significant factor.
[42] Servers as of 2009–2010 consisted of custom-made open-top systems containing two processors (each with several cores [43]), a considerable amount of RAM spread over 8 DIMM slots housing double-height DIMMs, and at least two SATA hard disk drives connected through a non-standard ATX-sized power supply unit. [44] The servers were open top so more servers could fit into a rack. According to CNET and a book by John Hennessy, each server had a novel 12-volt battery to reduce costs and improve power efficiency. [43] [45]
According to Google, their global data center operation electrical power ranges between 500 and 681 megawatts.
[46] [47]The combined processing power of these servers might have reached from 20 to 100 petaflops in 2008. [48]
Details of the Google worldwide private networks are not publicly available, but Google publications
[49] [50] make references to the "Atlas Top 10" report that ranks Google as the third largest ISP behind Level 3.
From this site, we can see that the Google network can be accessed from 67 public exchange points and 69 different locations across the world. As of May 2012, Google had 882 Gbit/s of public connectivity (not counting private peering agreements that Google has with the largest ISPs). This public network is used to distribute content to Google users as well as to crawl the internet to build its search indexes.The private side of the network is a secret, but a recent disclosure from Google
[52] indicate that they use custom built high-radix switch-routers (with a capacity of 128 × 10 Gigabit Ethernet port) for the wide area network. Running no less than two routers per datacenter (for redundancy) we can conclude that the Google network scales in the terabit per second range (with two fully loaded routers the bi-sectional bandwidth amount to 1,280 Gbit/s).
From a datacenter view, the network starts at the rack level, where 19-inch racks are custom-made and contain 40 to 80 servers (20 to 40 1U servers on either side, while new servers are 2U rackmount systems.
[53] Each rack has an Ethernet switch). Servers are connected via a 1 Gbit/s Ethernet link to the top of rack switch (TOR). TOR switches are then connected to a gigabit cluster switch using multiple gigabit or ten gigabit uplinks. [54] The cluster switches themselves are interconnected and form the datacenter interconnect fabric (most likely using a dragonfly design rather than a classic butterfly or flattened butterfly layout [55]).
From an operation standpoint, when a client computer attempts to connect to Google, several DNS servers resolve
www.google.com into multiple IP addresses via Round Robin policy. Furthermore, this acts as the first level of load balancing and directs the client to different Google clusters. A Google cluster has thousands of servers, and once the client has connected to the server additional load balancing is done to send the queries to the least loaded web server. This makes Google one of the largest and most complex content delivery networks.
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Google has numerous data centers scattered around the world. At least 12 significant Google data center installations are located in the United States. The largest known centers are located in The Dalles, Oregon; Atlanta, Georgia; Reston, Virginia; Lenoir, North Carolina; and Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
[57] In Europe, the largest known centers are in Eemshaven and Groningen in the Netherlands and Mons, Belgium. [57] Google's Oceania Data Center is located in Sydney, Australia. [58]
One of the largest Google data centers is located in the town of The Dalles, Oregon, on the Columbia River, approximately 80 miles (129 km) from Portland. Codenamed "Project 02", the million
[60] complex was built in 2006 and is approximately the size of two American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high. [61] The site was chosen to take advantage of inexpensive hydroelectric power, and to tap into the region's large surplus of fiber optic cable, a remnant of the dot-com boom. A blueprint of the site appeared in 2008. [62]
In February 2009, Stora Enso announced that they had sold the Summa paper mill in Hamina, Finland to Google for 40 million Euros.
[63] [64] Google invested 200 million euros on the site to build a data center and announced additional 150 million euro investment in 2012. [65] [66] Google chose this location due to the availability and proximity of renewable energy sources. [67]
In 2013, the press revealed the existence of Google's floating data centers along the coasts of the states of California (Treasure Island's Building 3) and Maine. The development project was maintained under tight secrecy. The data centers are 250 feet long, 72 feet wide, 16 feet deep. The patent for an in-ocean data center cooling technology was bought by Google in 2009
[70] [71] (along with a wave-powered ship-based data center patent in 2008 [72] [73]). Shortly thereafter, Google declared that the two massive and secretly-built infrastructures were merely "interactive learning centers, [...] a space where people can learn about new technology." [74]
Most of the software stack that Google uses on their servers was developed in-house.
[77] According to a well-known Google employee, C++, Java, Python and (more recently) Go are favored over other programming languages. [78] For example, the back end of Gmail is written in Java and the back end of Google Search is written in C++. [79] Google has acknowledged that Python has played an important role from the beginning, and that it continues to do so as the system grows and evolves. [80]
The software that runs the Google infrastructure includes:
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Google has developed several abstractions which it uses for storing most of its data:
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Most operations are read-only. When an update is required, queries are redirected to other servers, so as to simplify consistency issues. Queries are divided into sub-queries, where those sub-queries may be sent to different ducts in parallel, thus reducing the latency time.
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Like most search engines, Google indexes documents by building a data structure known as inverted index. Such an index obtains a list of documents by a query word. The index is very large due to the number of documents stored in the servers.
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The index is partitioned by document IDs into many pieces called shards. Each shard is replicated onto multiple servers. Initially, the index was being served from hard disk drives, as is done in traditional information retrieval (IR) systems. Google dealt with the increasing query volume by increasing number of replicas of each shard and thus increasing number of servers. Soon they found that they had enough servers to keep a copy of the whole index in main memory (although with low replication or no replication at all), and in early 2001 Google switched to an
in-memory index system. This switch "radically changed many design parameters" of their search system, and allowed for a significant increase in throughput and a large decrease in latency of queries. [94]
In June 2010, Google rolled out a next-generation indexing and serving system called "Caffeine" which can continuously crawl and update the search index. Previously, Google updated its search index in batches using a series of MapReduce jobs. The index was separated into several layers, some of which were updated faster than the others, and the main layer wouldn't be updated for as long as two weeks. With Caffeine, the entire index is updated incrementally on a continuous basis. Later Google revealed a distributed data processing system called "Percolator"
[95] which is said to be the basis of Caffeine indexing system. [87] [96]
In October 2013,
The Washington Post reported that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted communications between Google's data centers, as part of a program named MUSCULAR. [100] [101] This wiretapping was made possible because, at the time, Google did not encrypt data passed inside its own network. [102] This was rectified when Google began encrypting data sent between data centers in 2013. [103]
Google's most efficient data center runs at 35 °C (95 °F) using only fresh air cooling, requiring no electrically powered air conditioning.
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In December 2016, Google announced that—starting in 2017—it would purchase enough renewable energy to match 100% of the energy usage of its data centers and offices. The commitment will make Google "the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power, with commitments reaching 2.6 gigawatts (2,600 megawatts) of wind and solar energy".
[105] [106] [107] With our new data center in Storey County and our expanded investment in our Henderson site, Google will have two facilities in Nevada, bringing our total investment to over $1.88 billion. "With this latest announcement, Google will bring their total investment in the city of Henderson to $1.2 billion," said Mayor Debra March in the release
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warc | 202143 | Bugs can be a huge problem for homeowners. They are gross, they make noise, and they can spread disease. Some bugs have actually even been understood to cause structural damage to homes in time.
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warc | 202143 | Caregiver Respite
Caring for a parent, sibling or loved one with Alzheimer’s and related forms for dementia can be exceptionally rewarding. At the same time, it can include bouts of exhaustion and periods of being emotionally drained. As a caregiver, you may be required to make meals, feed, read, clean up, change bedding, offer comfort and good cheer, as well as a long list of other requirements.
During those unpredictable periods, you'll need to find time to manage your own life. And if you have other responsibilities like work or caring for additional family members, it becomes even more important for you to find time to tend to your own needs. Because of these responsibilities, it comes as no surprise 38% of family caregivers rate their job as being emotionally stressful.
Although you may be able to make your way through caregiving and your other responsibilities, too much time without time for yourself can result in depression, caregiver burnout, and other health problems. To remedy this, the Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center offers caregiver respite programs to help you make it through the long haul. In addition to these programs, we provide transportation and quality care, so you can stay at the top of your game.
Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center Day Programs
Monday through Saturday from 10AM to 2PM, we offer a state-of-the-art day program for your loved one with Alzheimer's disease. The main benefit of our day program is your loved one will be stimulated in a safe and engaging environment. Each program is uniquely designed to accommodate your loved one's abilities with a focus on what they can do — not what they can't. And while your loved one attends our day program, caregivers can take a much-needed break.
During this time, we encourage you to partake in self-care. Go see a movie, engage in a hobby, schedule doctor's appointments, spend time with your children, go food shopping, or simply catch up on some TV. Whatever you do, do it for yourself.
Research suggests that when you take care of yourself, you'll be better prepared to provide the patience, compassion, and level of care your loved one needs.
For more information about our Day Programs, contact Gia Mannone, LMSW, at (516)-767-6856 at extension 17..
In-Home Support: The Helen and Sydney Jacoff Respite Program
Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center's in-home respite program provides two hours of in-home support every other week for Alzheimer’s families in Nassau County. Our highly-trained respite workers provide stimulating cognitive activities for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. This program is partially funded by the Nassau County office for the Aging.
While your loved one is being stimulated, you and your family can take a much-needed break from your caregiving role. Whether you decide to simply rest, socialize with friends, run errands, attend medical appointments or anything else; Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center is here to support you and provide guidance along your caregiving journey.
For more information or to arrange in-home Respite services, please
contact us today. Transportation Services for Your Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease
One service difficult to come by is transportation, which Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center proudly offers to its participants to and from the center. Designed for optimum accessibility, Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center currently has two wheel-chair accessible vehicles. One of which was generously donated by the Esther and Harold Mertz Foundation.
By providing our own transportation, we’re able to ensure the safety of your loved ones in the care of bus drivers who are trained to appropriately accommodate those with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Utilizing Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center’s transportation also allows for increased time for the caregiver to take care of personal appointments, household duties, food shopping, and more. We provide our door-to-door for families living in select areas of Nassau County.
All of our transportation services are available upon assessment. The low cost of using Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center’s transportation services to and from our center is $12 per day.
Contact Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center for Caregiver Respite
Long Island Alzheimer's and Dementia Center is here for you — providing guidance and assistance along every step of the journey. Would you like to learn more about any of our programs? Simply give us a call at (516)-767-6856 or complete our online contact form. | 4,669 | 2,031 | 10,572.491876 |
warc | 202143 | LONDON, England (LifeSiteNews) – A young woman with Down Syndrome says she will take her case to the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal after the High Court rejected her challenge to the current abortion law.
The British Abortion Act 1967 permits babies with Down Syndrome to be aborted until birth.
The High Court rejected 26-year-old Down Syndrome activist Heidi Crowter’s case against the Department of Health and Social Care earlier today.
Crowter was joined in the legal challenge by Máire Lea-Wilson, whose two-year-old son also has the chromosomal condition.
Heidi Crowter is a self-advocate who has campaigned for the last five years for equal treatment for those with Down Syndrome in all areas of life. She was married last summer to James Carter, who also has Down Syndrome. Máire Lea-Wilson, a 33-year-old accountant, was placed under pressure to have an abortion when a 34-week scan revealed her son had Down Syndrome.
Currently, the British Abortion Act 1967 prohibits abortion after 24 weeks unless “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.” In such a case, the child can be killed right up until birth.
“What it says to me is that my life just isn’t as valuable as others, and I don’t think that’s right,” Crowter has said of the current law. “I think it’s downright discrimination!”
Crowter and Lea-Wilson’s case was presented during a two day court hearing in July, during which their legal team argued that the abortion laws were unlawfully discriminatory and not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, today’s decision by Lord Justice Singh and Mrs Justice Lieven upheld the current abortion laws, deeming them to be lawful.
“The issues which have given rise to this claim are highly sensitive and sometimes controversial,” the Justices stated.
“They generate strong feelings, on all sides of the debate, including sincere differences of view about ethical and religious matters. This court cannot enter into those controversies; it must decide the case only in accordance with the law.”
U.K. data records 3,083 disability-selective abortions in 2020; 693 of those being babies were diagnosed with Down Syndrome, an increase of 5.64% from 656 in 2019. However, the actual figures are likely to be much higher – a 2013 review showed 886 babies were aborted for Down Syndrome in England and Wales in 2010, but only 482 were reported in Department of Health records. The underreporting was confirmed by a 2014 Department of Health review.
‘The fight is not over’
Both Crowter and Lea-Wilson, who were supported in their case by the Church of England’s Archbishop of York, spoke to the media outside the High Court following today’s decision, declaring that they would continue their fight for the rights of the unborn.
Crowter’s fundraising page is still open, as the legal team is now gathering the funds to take the case to the Court of Appeals.
“I am really upset not to win but the fight is not over,” said Crowter.
“The judges might not think it discriminates against me, the government might not think it discriminates against me, but I am telling you that I do feel discriminated against, and the verdict doesn’t change how I and thousands in the Down’s Syndrome community feel.”
“We face discrimination every day in schools, in the work place and in society. And now thanks to this verdict, the judges have upheld discrimination in the womb too. This is a very sad day, but I will keep fighting. I am not giving up! Let’s do this!!”
“I want to change the law and I want to challenge people’s perception of Down’s Syndrome. I want them to look at me and say ‘This is just a normal person’,” continued Crowter.
“That’s what this is about. It’s about telling people that we’re just humans with feelings.”
Lea-Wilson also criticized the High Court’s decision, stating that it “effectively says that my two sons are not viewed as equals in the eyes of the law, and I am incredibly sad and disappointed that the court has chosen not to recognize the value and worth of people with Down Syndrome, like my son Aidan.”
Stating that the COVID-era had shone a light on the “dangerous and deadly consequences” of discrimination against people with Down Syndrome, Lea-Wilson declared the ruling “condones discrimination, by cementing the belief in society that their lives are not as valuable as the lives of people without disabilities.”
“The judgement also gives very little consideration to the fact that many women, like myself, are pressured to abort much wanted pregnancies at such a late stage in the context of fear and misinformation which is given to them,” the mother continued.
“I do not regret bringing this case because I believe it has helped raise awareness around the wonderful lives people with Down Syndrome and their families lead, and helped dispel some of the negative, outdated, and prejudicial attitudes that are prevalent in society and the medical profession. As Aidan’s mother, I will continue to fight for his rights, and look to appeal this judgement, because equality should be for everyone regardless of the number of chromosomes they have.”
Both women were strongly supported by their legal team, one of whom observed that the “law sends a powerful message that the lives of people with Downs Syndrome are of lesser value.”
‘A dark day’
Following news of the ruling, disability campaigners were quick to show their support for Crowter and Lea-Wilson in their attempt to take their case to the Court of Appeals, and Crowter’s social media page has been flooded with messages of support.
Portsmouth Down Syndrome Association called it “a dark day for people with Down syndrome and learning disability,” adding “Shame on those upheld this outdated law and missed this vital opportunity to correct a gross injustice which stigmatizes and dehumanizes so many people.”
Robert Clarke, Deputy Director of advocate for ADF International, wrote that “Every human life is valuable. International law makes clear that children with disabilities have the right to be treated equally and without discrimination.” Describing the U.K’s current abortion laws as “deeply troubling” and “blatant discrimination,” Clarke confirmed that ADF International would “stand with Heidi.”
Right To Life UK also expressed their outrage at the decision, with spokeswoman Catherine Robinson saying there was a “clear display” of “discrimination against people with Down’s syndrome and other disabilities.”
“The law unambiguously says that their lives do not matter as much as others. Hopefully, the Court of Appeal will see the obvious that the High Court failed to see.” | 7,166 | 3,188 | 15,091.757842 |
warc | 202143 | About Me
Nearly all the things we do is affected by laws. There are plenty of laws that it will take a person with an average reading skill over a thousand years just to read through the law book. As in case we've nothing else to do with our lives but read laws. So what do we do when a legal situation comes up? Do we manage it ourselves or do we call a lawyer who's been trained in the legal field? For many individuals, the thought of calling a lawyer could be frightening. Sometimes they might possibly not actually know whether they require a lawyer or the way to even choose one, thus they may avoid contacting a lawyer also when it's in their best interests to do it. However, do your homework before you use a lawyer for yourself and/or the business of yours. At the moment when you're faced with serious legal or maybe medical issues, you still have to produce a great, informed decision about who will represent you. And it doesn't have to be as tough or as costly as you may think finding an excellent lawyer. Provided below are actually some quick suggestions that can take the stress out of finding a lawyer.
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warc | 202143 | Across democracies, education predicts electoral participation and political interest. Here, German students on the pre-vocational and pre-academic educational tracks are compared to show how these differences emerge, and thus indicate how they can be addressed. In a Preliminary Study, a large dataset (3747 participants) revealed that there is a gap in political interest between the tracks, and that this predicts a gap in voting intentions. Study 1 (228 participants) tested three mediators of the relationship between educational tracks and voting intentions. Differences in civic understanding primarily explained the link between educational track and voting intentions. Lastly, in Study 2, 23 semi-structured interviews explored how limited civic understanding constrains political engagement among students on the pre-vocational track, indicating that a narrow understanding of power and a lack of sociological imagination are key. The finding that the gaps emerge due to differences in civic understanding, which is teachable, suggests that schools can play an effective role in addressing them. Limitations and implications are discussed. | 1,151 | 573 | 2,308.026178 |
warc | 202143 | A University of Queensland (UQ) neuroscientist has set out to develop a quick and cheap test to measure brain recovery for concussion in athletes.
UQ Queensland Brain Institute’s Dr Fatima Nasrallah is using an advanced MRI to collect data on mild traumatic brain injuries, to give certainty on when an athlete’s brain has fully recovered.
“You may feel fine — recovered from headaches or blurred vision — but your brain takes longer to mend and is still recovering behind the scenes,” Nasrallah said.
“If you get another knock during this time, the effects are cumulative and can lead to long-term consequences.
“We can perform an advanced MRI scan to pick up very subtle changes in the brain and then process the data to get a deeper understanding of how the brain recovers from different types of impacts,” she said.
“It’s challenging for sporting bodies to make policies and guidelines around concussion when there’s such a huge gap in knowledge. By studying a wide variety of impacts, we can build up a picture of how the brain is recovering.”
AFL and rugby players, fighters and kickboxers have all volunteered to have a brain scan to support Nasrallah’s quest, in the name of science and better athlete welfare.
One such volunteer is former professional AFL player Ed Barlow, who is increasingly interested in the effects of concussion on the brain, as a psychologist.
“I would definitely encourage players to get involved in the study — having the scans was time-consuming but this is a growing area of concern and we are only just scratching the surface with what we know,” Barlow said.
The study required athletes in high-contact sports to have a baseline scan at the start of the season, another if they sustain a concussion and subsequent scans to monitor their recovery.
“Brain scans are costly and take time — we are using them now to gather data, but ultimately we want to develop a quick, cost-effective test that can be used to judge whether someone’s brain has fully recovered,” Nasrallah said.
Nasrallah is researching changes in biomarkers — or molecules in the blood or saliva – when concussion occurs, which she can match to the brain scans.
Her aim is to identify biomarkers specific to the brain, that can be easily monitored to distinguish whether there is a brain injury or when the brain has fully recovered.
“There is now evidence to show that repetitive injury causes long-term consequences with the developing brain especially vulnerable, so it is essential that we have all the information possible to set guidelines to protect our players in both professional and local sports,” Nasrallah said. | 2,766 | 1,322 | 5,494.33888 |
warc | 202143 | Pune, India, June 2020, MRFR Press Release/- Market Research Future has published a Half-Cooked Research Report on the Global Thermoelectric Generator Market. Market Overview
Market Research Future (MRFR) projects the thermoelectric generator market 2020 to advance ay an approximate rate of 14% from 2016 to 2021 (review period). We will provide covid-19 impact analysis with the report. The COVID-19 impact on the thermoelectric generator market has been carefully assessed, following which the report outlines the key developments post the coronavirus disease outbreak.
COVID-19 Analysis
The COVID-19 outbreak has left the thermoelectric generator market high and dry, in conjunction with the falling product demand and the crashing power prices in the energy and power industry. Acknowledging the long-term impact of COVID-19, most of the notable companies are trying to cut down the costs of protecting their assets, and are endeavoring to ensure continuous flow of operations to curb revenue loss induced by the novel coronavirus. While several nations are working on finding a COVID-19 breakthrough, the lockdown period has led to restrained movement of materials in the thermoelectric generator market. The short term impact has resulted in a substantial downfall in the investment capacity combined with the power prices dropping as a result of political turbulence, following the onset of SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic has massively impacted the industrial sector, steering the focus of global companies towards development of mitigation measures as well as new business models to deal with the crisis, which can work in favor of the global market.
Top Drivers and Main Barriers
Given the mounting concerns with regard to the environment, the importance of renewable energy in electricity generation has multiplied significantly in recent years. Taking into account the extended life span and lower cost, the demand for renewable energy resources is soaring at a rapid pace. Thermoelectric generators make extensive use of renewable energy to generate electricity. Extensive applications of thermoelectric generators are aerospace, semiconductor networks, automotive and more, as these industries deploy power sources that are easy to maintain and are affordable.
The rising adoption of technologies that decarbonize greenhouse gas emissions will also work in favor of the thermoelectric generators market in the approaching years. The demand for these generators is expected to be extremely high in the automotive industry, on account of the increasing worldwide automotive manufacturing. The market also benefits from the increasing commercialization of various automotive thermoelectric generators combined with the emerging trend of miniaturized or compact TEGs.
Market Segmentation
Source, material, power, temperature and end-user are the key segments based on which the market assessment has been carried out in the study.
The source-wise categories include energy harvesting, waste heat recovery, co-generation and direct power generation.
The segments that are based on material include lead telluride, bismuth telluride, and others. Out of these, the highest gaining rate can be achieved by the bismuth telluride segment, on account of the better quality of these materials.
Power-based segments are <10 w, 10- 1 kw as well as >1kw.
The market segments, depending on temperature, include <100°c, 100-500°c and >500°c. Over the coming years, the Low Temperature (< 80 ° C) segment can procure the fastest CAGR, thanks to the increasing deployment of TEGs in applications like controlling watches, sensors; and various other consumer electronics.
The primary end-users in the worldwide industry are aerospace & defense, consumer, automotive, industrial, and others. The highest growth rate can be procured by the industrial segment in the next few years, as a result of the strict environmental protection rules and standards and the expanding industrial base in developing as well as developed regions.
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The key regional markets for thermoelectric generator are APAC/Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and RoW/rest of the world.
North American market is the most lucrative out of the regions, given the increase in futuristic application of the TEG technology in diverse industries to power a variety of tools and equipment. Some of the major industries in the region that are expected to make high demand for TEGs to generate power are automotive, commercial electronics, space, among others. The strong financial status, massive industrialization, and the increasing need for cleaner energy also act as significant boosters in the market.
With the fastest growth rate, the APAC market is largely bolstered by the huge demand for TEGs in the automotive industry for better fuel efficiency. Rapid surge in the industrialization rate across India and China can also boost the demand for thermoelectric generators in the market. The increasing application scope of thermoelectric generators in the healthcare industry and the soaring demand in the sensor network for low-power generators can boost the growth potential of the APAC market in the following years.
Renowned Players
Renowned payers in the thermoelectric generator industry are Komatsu Limited, II-VI Incorporated, Tellurex Corporation, Gentherm Inc., Evident Thermoelectrics, Ferrotec Corporation, Tecteg, Yamaha Corporation, Laird PLC, Alphabet Energy, to name a few.
Latest News May 2020
A research team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has successfully created thermoelectric generators with the use of an additive manufacturing method known as cold-spray deposition. These thermoelectric generators have the ability to harvest massive amount of waste heat from otherwise inaccessible sources, including pipes that have complex designs. These generators also exhibit excellent performance over a broad range of temperature. | 6,079 | 2,709 | 13,544.792913 |
warc | 202143 | 1. Have you ever abused substances while alone?
2. Have friends and or family members expressed concern about your substance use?
3. Has your substance use been a source of conflict in your marriage or with your boyfriend girlfriend?
4. Have you lied to your friends or family members about the amount and frequency of your substance use?
5. Have you lied to a doctor in order to obtain prescription medications?
6. Has your substance use negatively impacted your performance at work or school?
7. Have you stolen substances, or stolen money or property in order to buy substances?
8. Have you awakened after using substances with no memory about what you did while you were high?
9. Have you used substances in order to wake up in the morning and/or go to sleep at night?
10. Have you used one substance in order to intensify the high from another substance?
11. Have you used one substance in order to recovery from using another substance?
12. Have you used substances as a way of dealing with stress pressure or other negative experiences?
13. Have you tried and failed to reduce the amount and or frequency of your substance use ?
14. When you try to stop using or when you can’t use do you start to feel sluggish sick agitated or depressed?
15. Do you worry that you might have a substance abuse problem?
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warc | 202143 | This workshop will use art to explore the relationship between critical pedagogy, social emotional learning (SEL), and liberatory practice. This session will seek to decenter the teacher as primary meaning-maker and examine the power of relationship-building to develop critical partnerships among teachers, students, and community members through critical pedagogy and SEL. Creating and sustaining these connections is key to fostering the empathy that transforms classrooms into spaces of liberation. Participants in the workshop will collaboratively define core concepts and strategize ways to disrupt oppressive narratives through inquiry-based learning and the exploration of the work of Jacob Lawrence. The session will support the cultivation of a curriculum that engages youth in discussions of art as a mechanism through which we can more deeply understand ourselves, others, and our communities.
Objectives Teachers will consider the ways in which relationship building is foundational to critical teaching practice and healing-centered engagement. Teachers will define and discuss culturally sustaining pedagogy, critical pedagogy, and the ways in which SEL fosters this work in the classroom. Teachers will examine several works of art and reflect on how art can be used to disrupt oppressive narratives and colonial paradigms. Speakers Katherine Tineo-Komatsu is a licensed clinical social worker and a registered yoga teacher. She graduated with a bachelor of arts in Africana studies from Brown University and a master of science in social work from Columbia University. Tineo-Komatsu is an Afro-Indigenous Dominican born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City. She is particularly interested in exploring the various ways of dismantling systems of oppression through decolonization, while finding purpose through communities rooted in antiracist frameworks and social, environmental, and healing justices. Tineo-Komatsu lives in NYC with her partner and two daughters. Anya Meier is a high school teacher, certified in English language arts and special education, in New York City’s public school system. Meier believes deeply in the power of literacy as a mechanism of liberation and empowerment and is committed to culturally sustaining pedagogical practice and healing-centered engagement across school spaces. She received a bachelor of arts in Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino studies and political science from Hunter College; a master of arts in teaching in secondary English education, with additional concentration in special education and TESOL, from Northeastern University; and is a 2021 cohort member of the Summer Principals Academy at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Carroll and Milton Petrie Education Program Endowment, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund, and the Mimi and Peter Haas Endowment Fund for Elementary School Programs.
Additional funding is provided by the Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation and by the Annual Education Fund. | 3,157 | 1,472 | 6,736.506114 |
warc | 202143 | I invested in a healthcare fund when the sector was not doing well at all. I remember being taunted on Twitter: “Oh your fund must be really struggling.” The same voices were silenced when the sector began to rally impressively last year.
When it comes to investing, every investment will have bouts of underperformance. This gets all the more amplified with a sector fund. And it is with such funds that one has to be very careful of behavioural biases.
Investors hop onto sector funds for all the wrong reasons.
Herd mentality. Everyone is investing in this sector and they can’t all be wrong. I would be a fool not to. FOMO. The fear of missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime chance is a big driver. The story is too good to ignore. Recency bias. The particular fund or sector is shooting the lights out and there’s no stopping it.
Investing based on emotion is almost always a disaster. I borrowed from the insights of Alex Bryan, Director of Product Management - Equity Indexes, at Morningstar, and put it in the form of questions. Answering them should help you figure out whether you are investing with your mind or your heart.
Are you driven by the marketing spiel?
If you are really honest with yourself, it may be just that. While we all like good stories, they need not translate into good investments.
Good investment stories often seek to capitalize on well-publicized, long-term macro trends that transcend the business cycle. But good stories are often the best thing these funds have going for them; they don’t necessarily make sound investments.
Investors in these funds must get three bets right for these stories to translate into market-beating performance:
1. The macro trend must play out as expected. Yet long-term trends don’t always play out as expected. For example, in the late 1990s, investors were enamoured with Internet stocks, convinced they would fundamentally transform the economy and allow e-retailers to take market share away from brick-and-mortar stores. The story was right, but the timing was wrong. It took longer than many expected for that transition to happen, which prevented many from profiting from it.
2. Companies in the portfolio must benefit significantly from that trend.
3. Stock prices don’t fully reflect the impact of this expected growth.
Are you driven by recent performance?
Investors rarely act on a well thought out strategy. They simply gravitate towards the flavour of the year, which means that they are already behind. Individuals who invest in today’s winners are “buying backward”. They enter the fund at its peak, leaving little leeway for the investments to run. And then they have a horrible investing experience.
An essential characteristic of sector funds is that they can shoot out the lights one year and be a loser the next because they essentially lack the diversification to ride out trouble. One should never commit the grave error of investing in a sector fund simply because it has had a great run that year. Unlike a regular equity diversified fund, the fund manager does not have much latitude if the sector falls from favour. And the volatility can be unnerving.
Has the market appropriately priced the trend?
On the surface, the fund may seem like great ideas. They attempt to capitalize on a seemingly inevitable long-term trend. It may seem plausible that stock prices don’t fully reflect those trends, given the widely held perception that the market is focused on the short term.
Even if a trend plays out as expected and a fund is well-positioned to take advantage of it, that won’t necessarily translate into market-beating returns. The market may have already priced in that trend. Macrotrends aren’t a secret. If you know about it, the odds are so does everyone else.
The key is to identify underappreciated trends, which is no easy feat. The relationship between earnings growth and stock returns is tenuous at best, as faster-growing companies tend to trade at higher valuations, which offsets the benefit of that growth.
What matters is growth relative to the market’s expectations, not the absolute level of growth. It is difficult to forecast the impact of a trend on businesses more accurately than the market. Doing so requires more than just an understanding of the macro story, but also understanding what the market is currently pricing in and how the competitive landscape might evolve. That’s a tall order.
Have you researched your fund?
It’s necessary to look beyond the fund name to understand the exposure the portfolio delivers. Not all thematic funds will effectively profit from the growth of their targeted trend. It’s tempting to take for granted that the stocks are positioned to benefit significantly from the targeted theme. After all, fund providers wouldn’t be doing their jobs if they delivered a portfolio incongruent with the fund’s mandate.
Being a thematic or sector fund will ensure that the portfolio is narrow. But all portfolios are not equal. Not in the stocks selected, the weightage to the top 5 stocks, or the number of stocks.
Some may be pretty diversified to negate the risk, while others may decide to go all in with some really bold bets. Undoubtedly, it creates considerable upside potential for those fortunate enough to find one of the few winners. The key word being
potential; the risk hovers.
Check the expense ratio. It could be pretty steep.
How much is your allocation?
Sector funds can be useful tools for investors with strong views who want to give a tactical slant to their portfolio. In areas of the market you are confident about or see an upturn in the future, you can employ a sector strategy to increase exposure. But if you invest in them, you need to understand exactly what you’re buying — and how much risk is involved.
Be geared to take a hit if your call goes wrong or takes a long, long time to fructify. And, as long as you are invested, don’t let hair-raising volatility disturb you.
Decide on your sector allocation based on your risk capacity, not on how well that particular sector is doing. Keep your allocation small, and never let a sector fund be a core holding.
What is your investment thesis?
Before you invest in a sector fund, you should be in a position to articulate your stance on why you believe that sector is likely to outperform, and what your criteria are for exiting it.
Ask yourself:
Why do I believe that this particular sector is likely to outperform? What is the time frame I am looking at? Is this money I can afford to lose?
What is your exit strategy?
Have a harvest strategy. You know what happens to unharvested crops, right?
What is your criteria to offload? Do you have a return in mind? Then when you attain it, walk away. Don’t be upset about leaving potential gains on the table. You took a call and made money – don’t let greed mess it up.
This is a mistake I made when I invested in the pharma fund. I could deal with the fund slumping or its volatility or the long wait. But as I did not put an exit strategy in place, I have no idea when to pull out. I thought of selling in the recent run-up, but hesitated. Now it has dipped and left me indecisive.
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warc | 202143 | As an aspiring overseas student seeking to study in Canada, there are various aspects that you must take into consideration. One among them is the aspect of affordability. The determination of affordable Canadian Universities is based on several factors. These include among others living costs, location, and scholarships facilitation.
Meanwhile, you must be aware that your Canada Study Permit can also be your
pathway for Canadian Permanent Residence. The cheapest Canadian location for your studies is dependent on your chosen course, available facilities, and the destination itself. Saskatchewan, Scotia, Toronto, Manitoba, and Alberta are some of the most affordable places for your study in Canada.
Here we present the
top ten Universities in Canada offering affordable courses and that assist overseas students:
One of the affordable Universities across Canada is York University. It is also the second-largest University in Ontario being situated in Toronto and the third largest in Canada.
The tuition fee at the university is on average
$ 22, 417. The living costs for residence and dormitory can be in the range of CAD 7500 to 3000 annually. Students are offered capstone projects, co-ops, community placements, and internships. This is to facilitate them with purposeful careers, critical industry knowledge, and long-term success. The courses offered include Bachelor’s Program in Business, Science, Engineering, Law, Environmental Studies, Health, Education, and several others.
The College has been ranked # 1 in the report of Research Infosource Inc for Top 50 Canadian Research Colleges: 2020. Lambton College has its campuses spread across Toronto, Mississauga, and Sarnia. It is renowned for its Programs in Technology and Applied Arts. The University also offers prominence to athletics and sports for its students.
The courses offered include Business & Management, Engineering & Technology, Healthcare & Nursing, and several others. The College is highly compatible with its students and provides monetary assistance of up to $ 7000. The annual tuition fee is roughly $ 7000. The living costs inclusive of meals, residence, and other expenses may range from $ 6500 to $ 6000.
A Public College located in southwestern Ontario; Fanshawe College is roughly 2 hours drive away from Toronto. It is the largest college in Canada while also being amongst affordable Canadian colleges for overseas students. The tuition fee is in the range between $ 14, 223 and $ 13, 623.
With 200 plus academic programs, Fanshawe College caters to diverse students. The programs include 1-year Post-graduate Programs, 3-year Advanced Diplomas, 2-year Diplomas, and 4-years Honors Bachelor Degrees.
The college offers a unique Arrival Service Package for all overseas students – the Fanshawe Cares. This provides them with diverse facilities and assistance in the entrance period. Its 4 major campuses are:
The college spends around $ 5 Million annually on bursaries, awards, and scholarships.
A public research university, the University of Manitoba is situated in the Manitoba province in Canada. It offers 100 plus Certificates, Diplomas, and Degrees at the Undergraduate level. The University also has Post-graduate Programs based on Clinical skills. These include Fertility/Reproductive Endocrinology, Family Planning/Adolescent Gynecology, Gynecological Oncology, and several others.
The annual tuition fees range from
$ 18,000 to $ 10,000.
A public university, the University of Prince Edward Island is the sole university in Prince Edward Island province. It offers Doctoral, Graduate, and Undergraduate Programs. It is amongst the affordable Canadian Universities offering scholarships to overseas students for their study in Canada.
The annual tuition fees for courses range from $ 16,650 to $ 9, 650. But the programs in the Health stream can incur tuition fees of up to $ 47,200.
A Post-secondary institution, Centennial College is publicly funded and located in Ontario. This is a College of Technology and Applied Arts. The Diploma and Certificate courses cost roughly $ 14, 080. The cost of the Degree program is roughly $ 18, 366.
The college offers an Online courses option with 24X7 access. The objectives of the online programs are personal development as well as business and professional growth.
Funded by the Government, Seneca College is one of the on-budget colleges in Canada. Situated in Ontario, it offers 146 plus Full-time programs and 135 plus part-time programs.
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warc | 202143 | This week, our founder, Lindsey Herman Nolan, was able to attend the Medical Group Management Association’s (MGMA) 2019 Operations Conference in Austin, Texas. The conference was two full days of educational sessions, networking and great reviews of industry wide data. We also got a chance to stop by the Texas Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Conference.
This was the first national event for Nolan Health Care Solutions and was a success. While at MGMA, Nolan HCS was able to gain insight on a number of topics, ranging from the top performance indicators to be tracking, an update on the transition to value based care and reimbursements, keys to patient collections, and many related to organizational culture and employee retention. All practices face these issues and Nolan HCS now brings a new perspective after these educational sessions.
In addition to a lot of learning, Nolan HCS was also able to have some fun networking with our peers. Nolan HCS met administrators from all over the country, specializing in everything from Dermatology to OBGYN to Ophthalmology. In addition to other administrators, the conference had a full lineup of vendors, allowing Nolan HCS is create partnerships in order to provide our customers the best rates and services on everything from supplies to practice management software to staffing and HR services. Additionally, Nolan HCS was able to stop into an event held by HFMA of Texas and talk a bit with our financial partners.
Lastly, Nolan HCS was able to interface with the MGMA staff themselves. It can be hard to stay in touch with organizations that are not located in our geographic area, but the MGMA staff made themselves very available. We were able to come home with some new compliance templates for our customers and new books filled with the latest best practices. The most interesting tool that we previewed was the national database that MGMA supplies - it provides true data in all areas of the practice (financially and operationally). This is a huge resource that practices working with Nolan HCS will now be able to utilize in order to ensure that practices are running at the most efficient level possible. This level of data collection has previously only been afforded to large companies who can track themselves.
Overall, Nolan HCS had a wonderful experience at the operations conference and looks forward to bringing the lessons learned at this conference to life in the practices we support. | 2,513 | 1,219 | 5,157.937654 |
warc | 202143 | The Reality of Protein Supplements
If you are a fitness enthusiast or go to the gymnasium, you would have heard the guys talk about protein supplements a lot. Those promises of ripped abs, sleek muscles and toned muscles are often tempting. However, it's best to know the realities of protein supplements for bodybuilding before you spend a fortune on them.
Misconceptions
‘You need to consume protein powder for bodybuilding’ is a misconception. You don’t need protein supplements unless you are a frail, elderly person with a limited food intake. They are for convenience and not superior to regular food.
You can build muscles in a healthy way
Rather than looking for quick-fixes, it is better to build muscles in a healthy way. All you need is a disciplined workout program and diet. You need to eat healthfully satiating foods to achieve your bodybuilding goal.
Assumption of increase in muscle and strength
Many assume that they can increase muscle mass and strength through supplements and these will help gain muscle faster. Consuming more protein doesn't actually contribute much to gain muscles, but may bulk you up.
Harm to your body
Protein supplements can do harm to the body. Excess consumption can cause a buildup of toxic ketones in the body and your body will find it difficult to flush toxins out. With kidneys working to eliminate the ketones, you may get dehydrated.
Natural protein
Protein is elementary to any bodybuilding plan. Include in your diet healthy sources of protein such as fish and poultry. Eat red meats in moderate amounts as these add lots of unnecessary calories to your diet.
If you are a vegan
Foods that are enriched with soy fits best for vegetarians or people who don't like to eat meat. Another option can be whey proteins shakes. Among other extremely rich sources of protein are eggs and egg whites.
Excess whey can make you fat
Whey protein doesn’t make you fat unless you consume it in excess. However, there are chances that whey is not absorbed by the body. As a result, you don’t get muscles, but fat.
The more is not better
Eating more than the recommended protein intake offer no benefits, but may harm you. Besides being heavy on your pocket, a protein-based diet may take off important carbs from the regimen. Fewer carbohydrates to fuel your muscles properly will only give you fat and no muscle.
Protein after a workout
You may worry that protein supplements after a workout maximize recovery before the next session. If your workout does warrant a recovery meal, eat a healthy meal that has enough proteins. | 2,611 | 1,273 | 5,260.970149 |
warc | 202143 | Early treatment in multiple sclerosis (MS) with higher-potency therapies can improve long-term patient outcomes 1,2 New subgroup analysis of the pivotal Phase 3 OPTIMUM trial shows that MS patients with early disease achieved increased clinical benefit when treated with ponesimod compared with teriflunomide 1,2
BEERSE, Belgium–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced results from a new subgroup analysis of the pivotal Phase 3 OPTIMUM trial. Featured as an e-poster at the 37
th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) from October 13-15, the subgroup analysis showed that in the expanded disability status scale (EDSS) ≤ 3 subgroup, ponesimod significantly reduced annualised relapse rate (ARR) by 47 percent (rate ratio [RR] = 0.53; 99 percent confidence levels [CLs]: 0.372, 0.755; p<0.0001) and MS-fatigue was statistically significantly lower in the ponesimod group compared with the teriflunomide group at week 108, with a mean difference (MD) of -4.31 (95 percent CLs: -6.99, -1.63; p=0.0017). 1,2
“Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating and degenerative disease for which there is no cure, so our current focus is on preventing progression and minimising relapses,” said Allitia DiBernardo, M.D., lead author of the e-poster and Global Medical Affairs Head, Neurology, Janssen Global Services, LLC. “The OPTIMUM subgroup analysis supports the principle of early treatment intervention with high potency therapies such as ponesimod, which aims to reduce relapse rates, improve patient outcomes and ultimately contribute to a better quality of life for people living with MS.”
The OPTIMUM study subgroup analysis randomised 1,133 patients (ponesimod, n = 567; teriflunomide, n = 566) and examined those with EDSS ≤ 3 (up to moderate disability in one function, or mild disability in 3 or 4 functions; no impairment to walking) and/or who were treatment naïve.
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The analysis showed that in treatment-naïve patients, ponesimod significantly reduced ARR (RR = 0.714; 99 percent CLs: 0.486, 1.049; p=0.0241) and MS-fatigue was significantly lower in the ponesimod group compared with the teriflunomide group at week 108, MD = -5.30 (95 percent CLs: -8.25, -2.35; p=0.0004).
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Results from this subgroup analysis for combined unique active lesions (CUALs) were consistent with the overall population. Patients significantly benefited from ponesimod compared with teriflunomide in both the EDSS ≤3 (RR = 0.424; 95 percent CLs: 0.329, 0.546; p<0.0001) and treatment-naïve (RR = 0.411; 95 percent CLs: 0.310, 0.545; p<0.0001) groups.
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“These data represent a significant contribution towards our goal of making a positive impact for people living with MS,” said Tamara Werner-Kiechle, M.D., Therapeutic Area Lead Neuroscience & Pulmonary Hypertension, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Janssen Cilag GmBH. “The further research on ponesimod is testimony to our commitment to support people living with MS, with a particular focus on improving the treatment landscape in relapsing MS, where medical unmet needs among the MS community remain.”
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About Multiple SclerosisMS is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in which immune cells attack myelin (the protective casing that insulates nerve cells), damaging or destroying it and causing inflammation. 3This affects how the CNS processes information and communicates with the rest of the body, causing the neurologic signs and symptoms of MS. 4Symptoms vary by person, but common symptoms include fatigue, balance and walking problems, numbness or tingling, dizziness and vertigo, vision problems, bladder and bowel problems and weakness. 4,5,6 About PONVORY TM ▼ (ponesimod)Ponesimod is a daily oral selective sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P1) modulator, indicated for the treatment of adult patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) with active disease defined by clinical or imaging features. 7,8Ponesimod is believed to work by keeping immune cells called lymphocytes out of the blood by trapping them in the lymph nodes and out of the central nervous system, where they could cause damage. 8
Ponesimod does not require genetic testing or first-dose cardiac monitoring for most patients. Because initiation of ponesimod treatment results in a decrease in heart rate, first-dose monitoring is recommended in patients with certain pre-existing cardiac conditions.
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It is not known if ponesimod is safe and effective in children.
On 19 May 2021, the European Commission approved ponesimod for the treatment of adult patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS) with active disease defined by clinical or imaging features.
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A member of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd is party to a revenue sharing agreement with Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd, which provides for certain payments to Idorsia related to the sales of ponesimod.
About the OPTIMUM trialThe Phase 3 OPTIMUM (NCT02425644) trial – a large pivotal trial and the first to compare an oral disease-modifying therapy (DMT) vs. another oral DMT – was a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, active-controlled superiority study. The trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of once daily oral ponesimod 20mg vs. once per day teriflunomide 14mg, an approved and widely-used first-line oral treatment, in adult patients with RMS. In total, 1,133 adult patients were randomised at 162 sites in 28 countries. 10
The primary endpoint of the 108-week study was the ARR (ponesimod showed a statistically significant rate reduction of 30.5 percent. The ARR for ponesimod 20mg was 0.202 vs. 0.290 for teriflunomide 14mg [p=0.0003]). Secondary endpoints included CUAL per year on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to week 108 (ponesimod significantly reduced the number of new inflammatory lesions on brain MRI by 56 percent [p<0.0001] at week 108 when compared to teriflunomide) and time to 12- and 24-week confirmed disability accumulation to end of study (ponesimod-treated patients also showed a numerical benefit in delaying disability progression compared to teriflunomide-treated patients, and had small improvements in the risk of new 3- and 6-month disability [17 percent and 16 percent lower risk, respectively, compared to teriflunomide], although the between-group difference was not statistically significant in either instance).
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The safety profile of ponesimod is consistent with the known safety profile of other S1P receptor modulators, although a head-to-head comparison, other than with teriflunomide, is not available. Overall, the number of treatment-emergent adverse events reported was similar between the ponesimod and teriflunomide treated groups, and the majority were mild/moderate and did not warrant treatment discontinuation. The most frequently reported adverse events in the ponesimod 20mg group vs. the teriflunomide 14mg group were Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) enzyme elevations (19.5 percent vs. 9.4 percent), nasopharyngitis (19.3 percent vs. 16.8 percent), headache (11.5 percent vs. 12.7 percent), upper respiratory tract infection (10.6 percent vs. 10.4 percent) and alopecia (3.2 percent vs. 12.7 percent).
10 ▼ Adverse events should be reported. This medicinal product is subject to additional monitoring and it is therefore important to report any suspected adverse events related to this medicinal product. About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & JohnsonAt Janssen, we’re creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We’re the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular & Metabolism, Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Hypertension.
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Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding ponesimod. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialise, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen-Cilag International NV, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV and/or any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; manufacturing difficulties and delays; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or regulatory action; changes in behaviour and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2021, including in the sections captioned “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” and in the company’s most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and the company’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
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warc | 202143 | The two-day online summit features keynotes from leading voices in life sciences, panel discussions, and product innovation showcases throughout the event
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ArisGlobal, the leading provider of a SaaS platform that automates core product development functions for over 300 global life sciences companies, today announced Breakthrough 2020. The virtual two-day event, set for October 28th and 29th, 2020, is designed to bring together members of the life sciences industry to discuss the innovation and digital transformation trends that are driving product development forward.
The life sciences industry has always played a vital role in society. With the global pandemic placing public health front and center, bringing the industry together to share ideas and innovations has never been more important. Breakthrough is one-of-a-kind event that's tailored for life sciences professionals across R&D, including drug safety, clinical operations & data management, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, procurement and IT practitioners. Featuring an array of carefully curated keynotes, panels and demos, Breakthrough 2020 will enable access to industry experts in the field and an on-demand library of valuable content. The virtual event also gives participants the opportunity to hear directly from some of ArisGlobal's top customers.
Day 1 of Breakthrough2020 is headlined by a keynote presentation by renowned futurist Dr. Daniel Kraft, Chair of Medicine at Singularity University and Founder and Chair of Exponential Medicine. The opening day also includes innovation-focused sessions led by Dr. Rob Scott, former Chief Medical Officer of AbbVie, Dr. Georgia Papathomas, former SVP and Global Head of Data Sciences at Johnson & Johnson, and Vita Cassese, former CIO of Pfizer's Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Group. The day 2 agenda dives deeper into specific domains with exciting conversations across Drug Safety, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs and Clinical development tracks. Breakthrough 2020 promises to be an inspiring, thought-provoking experience for all attendees.
Sankesh Abbhi, President and CEO of ArisGlobal and one of the key speakers at this year's event, is looking at the bigger picture. "The global pandemic has highlighted the key role that technology can play in accelerating the development of safer, more effective treatments. At Breakthrough 2020, we look forward to bringing together leaders from across the industry to discuss innovations that will improve the lives of patients around the world."
Registration for Breakthrough 2020 is now open to all life sciences R&D professionals. Attendance is complimentary.
ArisGlobal is transforming the way today's most successful Life Sciences companies develop breakthroughs and bring new products to market. Our end-to-end drug development technology platform, LifeSphere®, integrates our proprietary Nava® cognitive computing engine to automate all core functions of the drug development lifecycle. Designed with deep expertise and a long-term perspective that spans more than 30 years, LifeSphere® is a unified platform that boosts efficiency, ensures compliance, delivers actionable insights, and lowers total cost of ownership through multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
Headquartered in the United States, ArisGlobal has regional offices in Europe, India, Japan and China. For more updates, follow ArisGlobal on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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warc | 202143 | The Last 20 Cents; is often the best 20 cents
Most of you will be familiar with the image to the right. It shows that pasture grasses contain the most energy prior to seeding. As seeds develop and the grass dries out, the nutrient value continues to fall. Protein should be considered a type of energy. Without protein the cow cannot utilise other types of energy efficiently to produce milk. The protein percentage of pasture declines at a faster rate than metabolizable energy. Pasture tests show that on the first of October protein percentage is about 30.0%, falling to under 20.0% by the first of November, most likely 10.0% by the first of December, and 5.0% by the first of January depending on where you live and the types of pasture that you grow.
This means that a cow eating 15 dry kg of pasture in October ingests 4.5 kg of protein, 3.0 kg protein in November, 2.25 kg in December and only 1.5 kg of protein in January. To produce any amount of standard 4.0% fat and 3.2% milk a cow must first eat 1.0 kilogram of protein to stay alive and a further 80 grams of protein for every litre that she produces. That 1.0 kg of protein she must eat to stay alive remains the same regardless of how much milk that she is eating (we call this maintenance protein). Let’s see how the cow would go over spring eating pasture and 5 kilograms of low protein grain. A cow eating this diet should have enough energy to make 30 litres in every instance assuming that grass didn’t run out.
As the table shows unless you have irrigation then only in October does the amount of protein provided by pasture exceed that provided by energy. The sharp falls in milk production in November, December and January are almost entirely a result of declining pasture quality as the grasses go to head. Increasing fibre levels, declining sugar levels and possible availability don’t help either. | 1,896 | 927 | 3,836.996764 |
warc | 202143 | Central Area Services Help us to continue to provide specialised equipment to enhance the lives of those we support
We have a number of day and vocational services across the Forth Valley area, each offering a unique experience for autistic adults to learn and develop new skills, while participating in their local community.
Our Chrysalis service in Clackmannan opened 10 years ago and provides day support and vocational opportunities to autistic individuals. The service enables individuals to identify their own interests, skills, choices and desires which then shapes a programme of daily activities. 15 people currently attend the centre on a weekly basis, ranging in age from 17 years old to late 50’s.
The team at Chrysalis hope to provide an outdoor gym in the garden area for the individuals who attend. Due to the complex needs of some attendees, access to everyday community areas is sometimes not possible due to struggles within unfamiliar environments or anxieties of interactions with unknown people. For those people, the only time they spend outdoors is within the familiar centre grounds so the addition of an outdoor gym would provide beneficial activities.
As exercise is an excellent way for people to reduce anxiety and stress, we would be very grateful of your support in fundraising for this project. We have received £500 towards this project but hope to raise £7,000 to cover the full cost of the outdoor gym equipment, installation and shock absorbing matting on the ground for safety. We would love your help.
Kinnections Social Group
Within the Central area services, we have an established social group called ‘Kinnections’. This is a free group for autistic adults to meet in community locations and participate in social activities that may not normally be available to them. The group has been running successfully for several years already.
‘Kinnections’ is facilitated by Scottish Autism staff who enable and encourage friendships, new opportunities and the development of confidence and independence. As autistic people can sometimes become isolated and withdraw from social situations, everyday life can sometimes become difficult. Groups like this are a huge step towards tackling this all common issue.
Watch our video with Eddie McInnally, Senior Autism Practitioner, who facilitates the group to find out more about how your continued support makes a huge difference for autistic individuals to attend groups like this.
We hope to raise enough to cover the £6,885 annual cost of providing this beneficial social group. Would you be able to support us?
Please get involved and show your support by donating or taking part in your own fundraising activity for the Central Area services. How to raise funds
If you would like to organise a fundraising event check out our fundraising ideas or you can sign up for one of our Get Active events. Please get in touch with the Fundraising Team at fundraising@scottishautism.org or call 01259 720044.
How to donate
You can make a donation today or send a cheque payable to ‘Scottish Autism’ for attention of Fundraising, Scottish Autism, Hilton House, Whins Road, Alloa Business Park, Alloa FK10 3SA. Be sure to let us know which project your donation is to support.
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warc | 202143 | The move seems aimed at extending Amazon’s reach well beyond the comfortable upper- and middle class that underpins its business — right as the e-commerce giant intensifies its battle against a reinvigorated Wal-Mart.
Amazon.com is offering a discounted membership in its Prime loyalty program to some recipients of government assistance.
The move seems aimed at extending Amazon’s reach well beyond the upper- and middle classes that underpin its business — right as the e-commerce giant intensifies its battle against a reinvigorated Wal-Mart.
Shoppers who have an electronic benefits transfer card are now eligible for a $5.99 monthly membership. That’s down from the typical $10.99 monthly charge for Prime membership, and slightly less, on a monthly basis, than the $99 annual fee.
Many government-assistance programs — including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — use an electronic benefits transfer card to distribute funds.
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Amazon said it plans to figure out how people who qualify for government-assistance programs that don’t use an electronic benefits transfer card can also qualify for the Prime discount.
Although Amazon won’t say how many people subscribe to its Prime program, analysts estimate there are tens of millions of members — about half of all U.S. households.
The membership includes two-day shipping on many items and other perks, ranging from photo storage to books. Prime members tend to spend more money buying goods from Amazon’s site than those who don’t belong. Their dues also bring the company a tidy sum: in the first quarter, Amazon collected some $1.9 billion from retail-subscription services, a category that includes, and is likely dominated, by the Prime membership.
But unlike Wal-Mart, which built the planet’s largest retail empire catering to middle America and now is making major inroads into e-commerce, the Prime roster skews toward the well-off.
Last year, analysts with Piper Jaffray concluded that 70 percent of high-income households belonged to Prime. A Morgan Stanley survey gauged that the average annual income of Prime members was about $87,000.
That has raised concerns about “peak Prime,” the moment when the growth-addicted company’s gains in Prime membership halt.
Amazon’s latest move falls in line with recent strategies employed by the company to keep the Prime machine expanding. Last year it introduced the monthly membership that people can cancel at any point. The annual membership had been the only previous option.
The company has also sunk billions into producing or acquiring movies and series for the streaming video service that comes with Prime, which Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says lures people intro paying for a membership and keeps renewals coming.
Some of that strategy seems to be working. Analysts with investment bank Baird wrote in a report earlier this year that the adoption rate for Prime membership among households making less than $50,000 a year “is increasing the fastest,” a phenomenon that should concern discount retailers. | 3,583 | 1,687 | 7,374.141079 |
warc | 202143 | Demand for automation and robots is surging in multiple industries, including automotive, writes the CEO of Thomas.com.
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When visiting some machine shops I hear PM, most commonly known as preventive maintenance, referred to as “postmortem,” as in, “We just run the machines until they die.”
Tool presetting machines are a wise investment for machine shops that want to increase their machine utilization. Idle machine tools are often indicators of inefficient machining operations, and stopping a machine tool for any reason is synonymous to losing profits.
The first kilowatt-class fiber laser for material processing was introduced by IPG Photonics in early 2002. Since that time, the adoption of fiber lasers for production applications has grown at a rapid rate. Today, fiber lasers are becoming the choice for most major production laser applications as well as converting traditional welding and cutting processes to fiber laser technologies.
Claudia Jarrett, U.S. country manager at automation parts supplier EU Automation, explains why robots are more than affordable for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Although laser welding is a well-established manufacturing solution, many sheetmetal fabricators have been hesitant to implement the process at their shop.
There have been many process improvement trends in manufacturing over the decades, and none have had more significant ROI than machine monitoring. The increase in machine monitoring is owed in large part to the rise in popularity of the open and royalty-free interconnectivity standard MTConnect.
Today, laser technology in manufacturing touches all of our lives on a daily basis; lasers cut air bag material and weld air bag detonators for our in-car safety; lasers weld the batteries in many of our mobile devices; lasers drill aero-engine components for planes; lasers cut the glass for our smart phones and tablets screens; lasers weld the drivetrains in our cars and trucks; lasers cut medical stents that increase and enhance our lives, just to name a few.
Digitization of industry has become an established global trend. Despite all the enthusiasm of visionaries, the machine tool is, was and will remain the core element in production.
Contract manufacturers, aka job shops, are the heart and soul of US manufacturing. Their survival and success are imperative. | 2,522 | 1,278 | 4,913.755869 |
warc | 202143 | What's Your Value? It's Just A Phone, Stupid.
Recently, we had the exhilarating experience of undergoing a merger. In the interim, we were able to set up a fully functional intranet, a speech-based automated attendent, and a virtual Exchange server in one day. Take-away: this used to be hard, but things that are useful get commoditized.
If past is prologue, then consider the case of VocalTec Communications. VoIP veterans out there may gasp in nostalgia. Just eight years ago Vocaltec was an Israeli startup, beloved by Pulver, and in at the creation. It owned the equivalent of the media gateway, heck, tit was a media gateway, ('scuze me, still are). But back in the day, VocalTec was seen as the market leader, chased by other pure plays (Vienna, Clarent, Applio, some of which are still with us, some not).
Today, having given birth to the VoIP industry and with it's first-in advantage well behind it, VocalTec is a $15 million company. Its stock price as of this writing is around 50 cents.
Who sells the most VoIP ports now? Cisco is on the short list, Nortel and Lucent are up there. And there's a whole slew of new players feeding off of massive greenfield markets in China, India and elsewhere. That's the Rewind part.
Now let's hit Fast Forward, remember: past is prologue. By the end of this year, we predict both Cisco and Intel will be shipping really acceptable VoiceXML browsers, integrated with an incredibly rich mélange of fine-grained call control stacks, bundled as a middleware layer that sits on top of the industry's most ferociously cost-effective media server hardware at under $200 a port - make that $125. Protocols available (basically) for free include SS7, SIP, MRCP, and, when it's baked, CCXML. APIs for leading ASR engines will be there for the taking.
Because of MRCP, license managers will be a quaint anachronism. The word is commoditization. We all talk about it, we intellectually know it's as inevitable as Moore's Law, but all too often we still think like VocalTec. What are the symptoms? Well, if you use the term "ROI" more than once an hour, you probably have the disease.
Remember how much VoIP was going to save us in phone bills? Guess we missed the part about the PSTN getting commoditized. That is symptomatic of the conundrum facing the speech solutions provider today. Unlike the Web, say, five years ago, customers are not sitting around saying, "we got to get VoiceXML-based ASR up tomorrow, and we'll pay whatever it takes." Because if they were, they'd be taking out the checkbook to pay the phone equivalent of ATG or BEA or BroadVision ridiculous amounts of money for what today we all see as something we can get from Tomcat for very little money - a basic capability to run XML scripts.
There is no similar imperative with respect to speech, after all, it's just a phone, stupid. Nuance has been conducting awareness studies among enterprise respondents lately and finding that around 50 percent fail to understand speech-related ROI models. While I personally find this surprising, let's assume it's that bad out there. That means it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work, explaining the value of lower abandons, higher resolution rates, lower TCO on application maintenance -- right? Maybe. Or, maybe those customers just don't want to think that hard.
If the argument rests on business calculus (or at least algebra), it starts with an ROI formula. The numerator (revenue lift and cost savings) requires substantiation in the form of financial reports that may or may not exist within the call center. The denominator (investment) contains a dizzying array of speech components and capitalization of professional services. Clearly a simpler approach is called for. Therein lies the appeal of Intel or Cisco bundling it all up and delivering as part of a router, app server or media server -- real cheap. It's just a phone, stupid.
Closing note: Hopefully, I have enraged some readers out there. If so, let me know.
Mark Plakias is a partner and senior consultant for The Zelos Group. He can be reached at (212) 366-0895. | 4,116 | 2,243 | 7,512.663397 |
warc | 202143 | Are you looking for a weight loss service that can assist you lose overall body weight without removing your preferred foods from your diet? ReviewBioFit Pacific Palisades Europe
If yes, the BioFit may be the missing secret to your weight loss.
This sophisticated probiotic can assist people attain weight reduction around the midsection without Ab crunches, counting calories, or gastric coronary bypass.
In addition, BioFit probiotic supplements can help you lose overall body weight without extreme cardio routines like Insanity, P90X, or CrossFit.
Exceptionally, the BioFit brand name claim that you do not need to quit your naughty but favorite foods, consisting of brownies, chocolate, pizza, cheesecake, ice cream, and milkshakes.
The founders of BioFit say that this is made possible by the 7 probiotic ingredients, which help to improve your intestinal environment and increase digestion.
It is necessary to understand that BioFit is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or prevent any medical condition or disease.
This short article will give you an in-depth take a look at BioFit based on our own research study of this item.
What Is BioFit? ReviewBioFit Pacific Palisades Europe
BioFit is a natural weight reduction probiotic supplement from Nature’s formula.
BioFit includes seven clinically proven gut-healing and fat-burning probiotic strains.
The probiotic strains intend to help you acquire your wanted weight by resolving your digestive issues, boosting your immunity, and balancing your hormones.
According to Chrissie Miller’s video on GoBioFit.com, BioFit weight-loss probiotic assists you slim down naturally without removing your favorite foods.
How Do Probiotics Work?
You have countless bacteria in your body, especially in your gut, and large intestines.
This bacteria, which is likewise referred to as gut microbiota has numerous functions in your body.
It promotes your immunity, digestion, and other bodily functions.
Some of these micro-organisms or bacteria can cause disease, but others in fact help prevent disease.
That said, your body needs a good balance of good and bad bacteria to remain healthy.
Without this balance, you’re most likely to come across many health concerns. Probiotics assistance to bring the body back into balance by renewing and reinforcing your gut microbiome.
Probiotics can be discovered naturally in supplements and fermented foods. They contain good bacteria that live within your body, including in your gut, mainly in the large intestines.
The good bacteria in probiotics help your body work optimally and remain healthy. In addition, good bacteria helps to eliminate bad bacteria, and remove the nasties in the body that could lead to disease.
With that in mind, probiotics can enhance your immune function, brain health, in addition to your total gastrointestinal system.
Probiotics can likewise assist you lose total body weight, as well as stomach fat.
How Probiotics Assist You Slim Down Probiotics can assist you lose weight
Why?
This is due to the fact that they affect your hunger and energy use by producing butyrate, propionate, and acetate, which are fats.
In addition, probiotics contain the genus Lactobacillus, which prevents your body from absorbing dietary fats.
As an outcome, good quality probiotics assist to stabilize your system making it more efficient. As the digestive system begins to work more effectively it can, in turn, cause burning excess fat in the body.
Probiotics, to put it simply, help to prevent your body from saving excess fat from the food you consume. That is how specific bacteria from the Lactobacillus family function.
Probiotics battle weight problems by:
Launching hunger suppression hormones Boosting fat regulating proteins Improving gut health Are Probiotics Great For Your Gut?
Your gut microbiome can end up being imbalanced due to bad bacterial overgrowth, and an absence of good bacteria. This ‘good’ bacteria (and the appropriate balance of it) is vital to living a healthy life.
When bad bacteria accumulate in your gut, you’re most likely to suffer from gastrointestinal problems and inflammation due to the excess toxins that are developing within.
This can lead to undesirable weight gain, bloating, diarrhea, to name a few health problems.
With that in mind, probiotics work by preventing bad bacteria from surpassing and overrunning your good bacteria.
They stabilize the good and bad bacteria in your gut.
Probiotics are beneficial to your gut since they protect you from different gut illness, including irritable bowel syndrome, chronic bouts of diarrhea, and ulcerative colitis.
Who Developed BioFit?
BioFit weight-loss probiotic supplement is an item by Nature’s Formulas. The Nature’s Formulas brand name has actually been dealing with natural supplements for over 25 years.
The leaders of BioFit supplements are Chrissie Miller and her team of professionals. They have actually been studying body health and healthy nutrition supplementation for years.
However, Chrissie is the creation behind BioFit.
She’s the spokesperson for this product that promises to help you reduce weight without exercising, dieting, and even having gastric bypass surgery.
Before finding BioFit, Chrissie Miller had actually tried 19 various weight reduction supplements, which never helped her reduce weight.
She later discovered some research on probiotics supplements.
The research study highlighted benefits such as enhanced gut health, weight-loss, and ideal body health and wellness.
And, that’s how she has managed to remain relevant in the weight loss market after revealing BioFit weight-loss probiotic supplements.
BioFit probiotic is readily available specifically on the GoBioFit.com site.
BioFit Ingredients – What’s Inside?
Biofit includes 7 probiotic strains that work naturally to improve your overall body health, and accelerate your weight-loss.
The designated advantages of the 7 BioFit ingredients include:.
Enhanced gut health Increased metabolism Weight loss
Let’s dive a little much deeper into these ingredients and find how they work.
They consist of: Bacillus Subtilis: Assists to decrease your metabolism. In addition, it promotes gut health by increasing lactic acid. Bacillus Subtilis also decreases bad bacteria develop and avoids symptoms like diarrhea, irregularity, and irritable bowel syndrome. Lactobacillus Casei: BioFit also contains Lactobacillus Casei, which promotes digestion. Besides, Lactobacillus Casei assists to prevent weight gain, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, lactose intolerance, colic, along with ulcerative colitis. Lactobacillus Rhamnosus: This good bacteria promotes weight reduction in obese individuals. Lactobacillus Plantarum: Promotes weight-loss by avoiding the accumulation of toxins, which are typically related to weight gain. Increased toxins in the gut can result in microbiota imbalance. Bifidobacterium Longum: Promotes weight loss by decreasing oxidative stress. It regulates gut microbiota, which in turn, increases fat metabolism and weight loss. Lactobacillus Acidophilus: Contains lactase enzyme, which breaks down lactose into lactic acid. In addition, Lactobacillus Acidophilus assists to reduce cholesterol levels. It promotes gut health, hence avoiding diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome. Bifidobacterium Breve: Helps to promote the immune health. Other benefits consist of promoting healthy skin, respiratory health, and the avoidance of yeast infections.
It deserves keeping in mind that BioFit likewise includes triglycerides, maltodextrin, as well as vegetable cellulose.
Is BioFit Probiotic Formula Safe?
Since it does not contain synthetic chemicals or stimulants, BioFit probiotic formula is safe. It does not contain Genetically Modified Organisms, implying it’s likewise safe for vegans and vegetarians.
BioFit has been produced utilizing natural ingredients, which are fit for human consumption. In addition, BioFit undergoes rigorous screening, which helps to guarantee that pure and only high-quality ingredients are used.
Including BioFit if you have a medical condition then you ought to always seek your medical professional’s advice before taking any brand-new supplement.
In addition, if you’re on another weight reduction plan or supplement, it is essential to look for the assistance of an expert doctor prior to including BioFit into your regimen.
Ensure you buy BioFit probiotics from the official site to prevent counterfeits, which may be harmful to your health.
BioFit Side Impacts
According to the company’s Frequently Asked Question area, no one has reported any side effects after taking the BioFit weight-loss probiotic supplements.
This is due to the fact that BioFit has been made using purely natural ingredients, more specifically, probiotic strains, which happen naturally in the gut of healthy individuals.
However, possible negative effects of probiotics can include:.
Stomach bloating and gas Allergic reactions, although rare – it is essential to seek medical advice immediately if you identify a rash or experience itching on your face, throat, or tongue Dizziness Difficulty breathing
If you experience any of the above symptoms, consult your physician quickly.
In addition, probiotics are not advised for:
Lactating moms Pregnant women Individuals listed below the age of 18 years Anybody with a pre-existing medical condition Individuals going through immunotherapy and hormonal therapy Anybody that is on medication Anyone that is using supplements to treat a medical condition For How Long Does BioFit Require To Work?
The outcomes may differ from a single person to another. Why? Since our bodies are various.
In addition, it depends upon how consistently you take BioFit when you integrate it into your weight-loss strategy.
However, in her video, Chrissie Miller states that you might be able to lose as much as 3 pounds in a week. Chrissie also mentions that you can lose about 2 inches around your waistline in simply 7 days, and 6 inches in simply two weeks.
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warc | 202143 | In its home country of South Africa, USN has introduced an all-new supplement with Wholefood Gainer, and true to its name, it is a high macro nutrition product made with wholefood ingredients. The brand hasn’t wrapped it in its usual blue label design; instead, it’s given the supplement something more in line with its BlueLab Plant Protein.
Every two-scoop serving of USN’s Wholefood Gainer has a solid 30g of protein from pea and rice protein, 55g of carbohydrates from oats and sweet potatoes, and a low 1.5g of sugar. The product does have a few other notable features, including being high in fiber with almost 20g per serve, and it has no soy or dairy and is completely vegan-friendly.
As mentioned, Wholefood Gainer is for USN’s line of supplements in South Africa, not to be confused with the slightly different selection it has on offer in other markets such as the US and Europe. The brand’s latest product for its home country is already said to be rolling out to shelves at the pharmacy chain Dischem, and its total of well over 100 locations. | 1,085 | 606 | 1,890.693069 |
warc | 202143 | The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has commended the efforts of Nigerian government in the fight against maritime crime.
A statement on Tuesday, 28 September, 2021 by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Communications Associate, Ms. Olivia Ogechi Okorondu said Government of Nigeria, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Navy need to be commended for their sustained efforts in the fight against maritime crime.
The commendation was given during the opening of a four-day Inter-Agency Expert Consultative Dialogue Session in Lagos, on the implementation plan of Nigeria’s draft National Maritime Strategy organized with the support of the Danish Government.
According to the statement, the Government of Nigeria had in 2015 inaugurated a committee made up of several maritime stakeholders within the public and private spheres to work on drafting a National Maritime Strategy. The vision of the National Maritime Strategy is to support Nigeria’s economic prosperity, growth and development through the sustainable use of the nation’s maritime resources in a safe and secure environment.
The event hosted in Lagos is aimed at providing a platform to undertake a proper articulation of the implementation framework and to obtain practical consensus on the institutional arrangement for the operationalization of the National Maritime Strategy.
The Country Representative of the UNODC Nigeria, Oliver Stolpe in his opening remarks at the opening ceremony on Monday noted that according to the first six-month report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) for 2021 released in July, there has been an overall decline in reported incidents in the Gulf of Guinea which was attributed to the sustained and collective efforts of the regional and international navies, regional organizations as well as national maritime security agencies.
Stolpe commended in particular the efforts of the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure also called the Deep Blue Project being implemented by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) as well as the Nigerian Navy’s increased presence within the maritime domain.
He assured the Government of Nigeria of UNODC’S continued commitment and support in the process of ensuring that the maritime security strategy is in place and operational.
In his opening remarks, the Danish Ambassador to Nigeria, Sune Krogstrup, stated that under the Danish Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security Programme, the Danish Government is currently supporting programmes for longer-term institutional strengthening of maritime governance through intensified regional capabilities as well as capacities for maritime domain awareness and response.
He said that the development of national maritime strategies is key to long term maritime governance, noting that where security is guaranteed, cost is reduced, and economic development is enhanced.
The representative of the Minister of Defence, Utsu Peter Ashibel, Director Airforce, Ministry of Defence, stated that the maritime environment provides a critical pathway for international commerce and socio-economic interaction between many countries in the world.
He further stated that the maritime domain serves as a gateway for the importation of goods into Nigeria and other landlocked countries in West Africa. He mentioned the commitment of Nigeria and other Gulf of Guinea member states aimed at improving safety and security in the region; adding that the Deep Blue Project and the investment in the acquisition of more patrol vessels and aircraft for the Nigerian Navy were an attestation to this commitment on the part of Nigeria.
He expressed confidence that the Inter Agency Expert Consultative Dialogue Session will provide the deliberative platform for a clear articulation process for an effective implementation plan for the draft National Maritime Strategy, identify areas of collaboration among relevant stakeholders and further enhance its implementation framework.
The draft National Maritime Strategy was concluded in 2019. It is currently awaiting approval by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The UNODC remains committed to support the strengthening of strategic approaches to maritime security in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. | 4,406 | 1,869 | 10,292.453719 |
warc | 202143 | Today more than ever people are looking for ways to live healthy and stay active. They’re turning to personal fitness coaches to get the results they want. But going to the gym isn’t as easy as it used to be, so they’re looking online.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs as fitness trainers and instructors are on the rise. The work environment may be changing, though. Many potential clients are looking for ways to both have a fitness coach and work out at home. You can fill that need in a couple of ways. One of the most exciting, though, is by taking your personal training business out of the stuffy, crowded gym and putting it online to reach more clients than ever before.
Going online with your fitness coaching business helps you maximize your time and lower operating costs. In addition, as a business model, online personal training is scalable, meaning you can expand and reduce it as needed.
An online training service helps your clients achieve their fitness and health objectives while allowing you to reclaim that all-important personal and financial independence.
So if you’re wondering how to become a virtual personal trainer, consider the lessons I learned during my first year of working online.
How I got started as an online fitness trainer
A few years ago, I received an email from a woman I knew from college. We weren’t friends, but we had a few classes together and followed each other on Facebook.
She had seen my business page, read some of my blog posts, and reached out to me to see if I could help her lose weight. And just like that, I was able to get my first online fitness coaching client. The rest, as the tired cliché goes, is history.
10 tips for the online personal trainer
Since then, I’ve learned how to grow my online coaching business. My knowledge of both coaching and running an online business continues to grow. So if you’re thinking about moving your personal training services online, allow me first to share some key insights about making the jump.
1. Gain experience in a gym first
If you want to be a good online fitness coach, it helps a lot to have experience coaching in real life too. (But if that’s not possible, read this: “How to Train Online Without Any In-Person Experience.”) Frankly, I don’t like coaching in person as much as I do coaching fitness clients online, but the experience of working with real people in a professional environment taught me four things:
Coaching in person teaches you how to assess client movement patterns visually. This is a major advantage because everyone is going to move differently. Once I saw and coached several different people through a movement, it was a lot easier to recommend a squat stance and make adjustments. You get comfortable dealing with people. It’s one thing to chat with fitness clients online, but another when you’re talking to someone with whom you can connect face to face. You learn to sell yourself. Some gyms really require you to work hard to sell training sessions. While that may not be pleasant, you better understand what works and what doesn’t (building rapport versus being overly pushy). Being able to sell yourself and your service is critical to your fitness coaching success. Coaching in person made me realize what my time is worth.
If you start in a big commercial gym, take the time to learn as much as you can while you’re there.
2. Remember that online coaching is still a personal training business … and you’re in charge
If you’re working in a gym, there’s a team of people running all the operations, such as marketing, sales, and accounting. However, when running an online personal training business, you’re both the employee and the boss.
You need to learn how to manage expenses (Mint is a great, low-cost way to manage personal and business-related finances, by the way), do marketing, run a personal training website, manage your money, set up your programs, and all the other fun stuff that goes with having your own business.
Of course, it’s all trial by fire; you’re not expected to be awesome at it right away. You’ll probably make many mistakes, but learning what these mistakes are (or reading about them) will save you money and help you become a better decision maker.
When I was first starting out as a virtual personal trainer, I made a list of the others in the business I looked up to and reached out to them. Many were more than happy to share tips with me on how to get started.
Don’t be afraid to reach out and ask how online fitness coaching works. Be specific with your questions and offer a bit of value in return. For example, ask, “What was the first thing you did when you decided to be an online coach?” versus “How do I get started as an online coach?” Being specific will get you a more meaningful reply.
At the same time, don’t be offended if they don’t answer. They’re busy too.
3. Learn how to sell yourself online
Writing about your services is a big part of selling your personal training services. You need to convey your value and the benefits of your program in a way that connects with the reader.
Bad writing will clearly come off as bad, falling flat, and “too sales-y,” which many personal fitness trainers work hard to avoid.
Good writing, on the other hand, does more than just sell online fitness services. It takes the reader through a journey.
Your goal is to guide the customer through these five mental steps:
Awareness of a need or desire Picking the thing that will satisfy that desire Picking the source for that thing Accepting the price/value argument Finding reasons to act immediately
Back up your information with testimonials from previous clients, and then include a limited-time offer that gives the prospect a reason to take action. When they’re done reading, the customer should feel like your online fitness coaching may be the answer they need to get healthy.
4. Create a fitness client profile
A client profile allows you to get to know your target audience and define your specialty. Add as much detail as you can, as if you were describing a friend. You can include information like interests, personality traits, income, current career track, and so on. By finding who your ideal client is, you can focus on targeting this group of people.
Below is an example of one of my ideal clients, a 20-to-40something fitness professional who wants to take their physique to the next level. See how detailed it is?
Maybe your specialty is post-pregnancy women you help to shed the baby weight. Or maybe it’s 40-year-old men who want to get stronger and build muscle.
Whatever it is, having a clear picture of your ideal client will help you create a targeted business plan for your online personal training and become the “expert” or go-to professional for this group of people.
If you don’t know your client, start paying attention to the type of people who come to you or who you enjoy working with the most. Chances are, these people are your clientele.
5. The cream rises to the top
“The cream rises to the top” is a saying that implies a good or notable person cannot remain unnoticed forever—that is, if you put in the right amount of hustle.
You may think it’s easy: Just set up a blog and a coaching page, and watch clients flock to you. Nope.
The most successful online fitness coaches are the ones who produce results and consistently put out great content.
6. Find your writing voice
You need to learn to write—it’s worth repeating. This is about transmitting the ideas in your head to a written format. There’s no better way to show people your knowledge than putting out free, high-quality content, even if it’s just actionable and shareable Facebook posts. However, a blog with free, informative content is your best marketing asset.
Invest the time into finding your writing voice (which is basically the way you talk, but more refined) and hone this skill. The only way to do that is to keep writing and actively learning from people who do it well, even if you think no one is reading.
Over time, you can accumulate a large body of work and convince larger media outlets to pay for your writing. Very rarely will a site accept posts from people with no writing history, so build up your content and use it as your résumé.
7. Find your hourly worth
As an online personal fitness coach, you don’t have anyone setting prices for you, so you need to determine what your services are worth. What you charge is as much about your confidence and mindset as it is about ability or service.
A good place to start is by reading “How Much You Should Charge for Personal Training.”
If you can make people believe in your service—ideally through your sales process and how you demonstrate value—you can get them to pay whatever you want to charge. The three best ways to demonstrate value are:
Through the content you provide, show off your knowledge with informative blog posts, newsletters, YouTube videos, and any other medium that lets you connect with your customers. Creating effective sales copy makes your product pages stand out and show them what your service can provide. Getting results for your fitness clients—use testimonials to show potential clients you can deliver results.
I make more per hour with online fitness coaching than I did at my old gym. I can work with more people at one time, increasing my hourly worth. When working at a gym, they set the prices for you.
8. Don’t discount yourself
Don’t discount your services just to get clients. If you do, you’re telling potential clients that you’re not worth what you’re charging. Set your prices and stick to them.
Consider setting up three pricing packages: a low, medium, and high price when creating your personal training website, and present them side by side. The low one sets the baseline, while the high one makes the medium seem reasonable. When the client sees this, they almost always choose the medium middle option.
9. Learn how to connect
People pay for coaches, not coaching. Coaching is as much about creating a connection with people as it is about writing programs.
Some online personal training coaches only answer emails at certain times or limit how often their clients can interact with them. And while I can understand that, it’s not a practice I follow. If a client emails me, I’ll reply right away when possible. That’s just another layer of excellent customer service.
You need to empathize with your clients and show them that you understand their struggles, why they binge eat, and why they skipped their workout today. Ask questions, find common interests, and create a connection with them.
With regular communication, not only will you build better relationships with your online fitness clients, but you’ll help them get results.
This is infinitely more important online because you can’t personally hold your clients accountable, and you may not even see them (online) every week. By understanding what they go through, you can better help them address these issues head-on.
10. Remember that time is your number-one asset
Time is the one thing you can’t get back. The biggest reason for my switch to online fitness coaching is to get a lot more value for my time.
There are many trainers out there who scoff at the idea of coaching people online, but it may be because they haven’t recognized the value of maximizing their time. Spending 40 to 50 hours a week working in a gym for someone else does not help you toward that end.
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warc | 202143 | Seema Punia Writes to AFI: What is Hyperandrogenism & Its Rules?
Seema sealed her qualification for the Olympics with a throw of a 63.72m at the Inter-State Athletics Championships.
Even as India’s athletes go through the gears in the final weeks, ahead of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, there is a controversy brewing in the discus department of the contingent.
In a letter to the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), Seema Punia, who will be going for her fourth Olympics, has raised serious questions about a fellow athlete. She wrote, asking that a hyperandrogenism test be conducted.
The athlete in question had sealed the Olympic qualification in March during the Federation Cup.
Seema, however sealed her qualification for the Olympics, with a gold medal-winning throw of a 63.72 meters, on the concluding day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championships on Tuesday, 29 June.
What Did Seema Punia Say?
On the same day she secured an Olympic berth, Seema wrote to the Athletics Federation of India, demanding a hyperandrogenism test on another Indian athlete, whom she will compete alongside in Tokyo.
“Judging by her physical build and extraordinary improvement, (she) doesn’t seem 'normal',” Seema was quoted as having written in her letter by
Indian Express. “In my career spanning more than two decades, I have not come across such improvement in any athlete. Over the last four years, this 25-year-old has improved her performance by 12-14 metres, which is unusual. Hence, I request you to conduct a hyperandrogenism test on the athlete in the interest of a level playing field, sporting spirit, and meaningful competition. If the country is serious about getting good results at the Olympics and several foreign coaches have been hired towards that end, why are the other athletes denied the guidance of the coach of the national record holder? There’s a lot of anger and dissatisfaction among women athletes over competition with such athletes. Even though their voices are muted at the moment, the feelings are bubbling inside."Seema Punia “All complaints are looked into by the Grievance Committee. The Committee will look into it.”AFI President, Adille Sumariwalla, was quoted as saying by PTI when asked about the incident. What is Hyperandrogenism?
Hyperandrogenism is a condition that causes higher testosterone levels than expected in biological females. Blood tests are used to check different hormones, along with thyroid function among other things. It is considered an advantage for affected athletes over the non-affected ones.
There are of course various forms, but the one the IAAF was specifically concerned with in 2019 was hyperandrogenism in intersex women that led to them having testosterone levels that were much higher than the average for females.
Men and women produce testosterone, but men generally produce much more.
What Are the Rules?
According to the rule book used by the IAAF, the question surrounding hyperandrogenism and the sport does not apply to field events, which in turn could result in the AFI not doing too much about Seema’s request eventually.
If an athlete falls under the IAAF regulations for Female Athletes with Differences of Sexual Development, they are barred from events that range from 400m to 1 mile, including 400m, hurdles races, 800m, 1500m, 1 mile races and combined events over the same distances.
While hyperandrogenism is an area of concern in some event, the IAAF rules state:
Female athletes who do not wish to lower their testosterone levels will still be eligible to compete in:
(i) Competitions that are not international competitions: In all track events, field events, and combined events, including the restricted events; and
(ii) International competitions: In all track events, field events, and combined events, other than the restricted events
Hyperandrogenism and Athletics
This is not the first time an athlete has been questioned due to higher testosterone levels than normal. In recent years, the harrowing gender row has affected the likes of India’s Dutee Chand, who will be in Tokyo, and South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya.
While the latter forced the IAAF to bring about formal regulations with regards to testosterone levels, an incident involving Spain’s Maria Martinez-Patino, who was made to leave an Olympic team in the mid-1980s, led the IAAF to instead consider testosterone levels when deciding who was eligible to compete as a woman.
It was in 2014 that Dutee’s hyperandrogenism was first brought up by the AFI in compliance with the International Olympic Committee, leading to widespread criticism for them and also the IAAF, as this was seen as a breach of privacy and human rights.
Dutee, of course, appealed the decision and a year later in 2015, after the IAAF regulations had been suspended, she was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
South Africa’s Semenya too had a testing time with the authorities, as she went from court to court trying to make her point. From CAS to the European Court of Human Rights, her battle against world athletics has been nothing short of difficult.
With her, it all started off in 2009 when the IAAF asked her, the then teenager, to undergo a gender test after she won her first world title in Berlin. Plenty of back and forth happened on the matter between all stakeholders for the next decade before the sports world’s top court, CAS, ruled that Semenya and other female runners with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to compete in certain events.
The South African has changed events on the track in her career and even tried her luck with football, as she looked to keep her career on the right track. She however, failed to make the cut for Tokyo.
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warc | 202143 | The best home for your money
SAVERS are being urged to shun low-paying deposit accounts and make their money work harder by repaying mortgages faster.
The latest analysis from Norwich-based financial researcher Moneyfacts shows that the average savings account pays just 0.56% interest before tax - well below the 2.1% rate of inflation.
The roll of shame of banks and building societies with at least one account paying such a paltry rate includes big names such as Abbey National, Alliance & Leicester, Bradford & Bingley, Halifax, Lloyds TSB, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Experts say homeowners could put the money held in poor-paying accounts to far better use, while retaining easy access to the cash in case of emergency. Phil Kennedy, commercial director of Direct Line, says: 'Our research shows that nine out of ten people could do better by moving on from bad savings accounts and working on their mortgage instead. 'With today's flexible loans, several benefits are open to people with modest savings. Homeowners could save about £16 billion in total by taking advantage of them.'
Borrowers who put savings into a flexible mortgage can cut outgoings straight away by reducing their monthly interest payments, or aim for even bigger long-term savings. They can achieve this by keeping their monthly payments the same and shaving years - and thousands of pounds - off their mortgage term and overall interest bill.
While mortgage rates are low and most people can afford their current payments, the second option is usually recommended. James Duffell of mortgage lender Virgin One says: 'You can make a big difference to the life of your mortgage just by putting modest savings into the account and keeping the monthly payments the same. And you don't lose access to any overpayments as they can be withdrawn at any time.'
Carpenter Howard Nicholson, 33, from Sheffield, is one saver who has seen the advantages of a modern mortgage. When he moved last January he took out a flexible repayment home loan from Direct Line.
'I liked the fact that the rate was low and the way the loan was set up allowed me to pay it off sooner than normal,' he says. 'There doesn't seem any point in putting spare money into savingsaccounts or investments now as everything is so risky. If this sort of money goes into my mortgage instead, I am guaranteed the chance to clear the debt faster. 'I wish I had taken out this sort of loan years ago. I think I could have cleared it all by now.'
Borrowers who want to pay off their mortgages in the shortest possible time should not stop at just paying some savings into their accounts.
Linking the money in a current account, through a current account mortgage or offset loan, can speed the process. Wages paid into current account mortgages each month may be spent as normal. But for every day the account is in credit, the balance acts as a temporary extra reduction in debt, so borrowers who keep to the old monthly payments effectively pay far more than they need each month and shave even more time off the mortgage term.
Capital gains IF you have savings in a deposit account earning less than 3.5% gross interest, you can do better - especially if you are a higher-rate taxpayer with a mortgage.
Say you have a £90,000 interest-only mortgage at a typical 5.4% interest rate and £10,000 in a savings account paying 3% gross a year. At the end of 12 months you will have paid £4,860 in interest on your mortgage and earned £300 gross on the savings - worth £240 to a basic-rate taxpayer and just £180 to higher-rate earners.
But if you paid £10,000 into your mortgage account, reducing your debt to £80,000, your interest bill would fall to £4,320 a year, giving you an annual saving of £540. Compare that with the £240 or £180 that taxpayers can make in a savings account.
If you have a repayment mortgage and keep your monthly payments the same, even after paying some savings into your mortgage, you stand to do even better over the long term.
A borrower with the same £90,000 repayment mortgage due to last for the usual 25 years would start off paying £553 a month in interest and capital repayments.
If £10,000 was put into the account, cutting the mortgage debt to £80,000, the monthly payment would be only £492.
But if the borrower kept paying the old £553, the value of the monthly overpayments if credited straight away would soon add up and the debt would be cleared completely after just 20 years and one month. This would give a total saving of more than £18,000 in interest.
Many financial websites allow borrowers to type in different scenarios to see how fast they can pay off loans - This Is Money's Calculator is a good starting point.
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warc | 202143 | 340 Aristotle340 B.C Aristotle didnt think atoms could be constantly moving. He believed there were four elements only, water, fire, air and earth and that they would align into their rightful place and be at rest. 400 Democritus400 B.C The Idea of the atom were first proposed by the Greek philosophers Democritus and Leucippus around 400 B.C. At the time there was no real evidence to support the proposal. The atom was suggested to be what all matter is made of. Robert BoyleHe measured relationships between volume and pressure of gases. From his experiments he concluded that gases are made up of tiny particles that group together to make different substances. Antoine LavoisierAntoine created the idea of having a single language for all of science to use. For example when someone called a substance hydrogen, than everyone was to call it hydrogen. This allowed for science to advance and for chemists to learn new properties of other metals and know how to organize them without getting confused of different names from different languages John DaltonHe claimed the reason elements combined was because all elements are made up of atoms. He also published a three- part atomic theory. 1. All particles are made of atoms, they cant be divided or destroyed. 2.Atoms of the same elements are identical and different element's atoms are different. 3. Atoms join with other substances to create new and different substances. Johann DobereinerJohann Dobereiner noticed that the atomic weight of strontium fell midway between the weights of calcium and barium which were elements possessing similar properties, In 1829, after discovering the halogen triad composed of chlorine, bromine, and iodine and the alkali metal triad of lithium, sodium and potassium he proposed that the middle element had to be an average of the other two elements this was called the Law of Triads Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de ChancourtoisFrench geologist who arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic weights. He plotted the elements on a cylinder, which he called the telluric helix. Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois listed the elements on paper tape and wound them, spiral like, around a cylinder. Certain ‘threes’ of elements with similar properties came together down the cylinder. John NewlandsJohn having arranged the 62 known elements in order of increasing atomic weights, noted that after interval of eight elements similar physical/chemical properties reappeared. Newlands was the first to formulate the concept of periodicity in the properties of the chemical elements. In 1863 he wrote a paper proposing the Law of Octaves Dimitri MendeleevIn 1869, Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev produced a periodic table based on atomic weights. He found that the table showed similarities in vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. Elements with similar properties appeared under each other. He left room for elements that he knew where to be found. J.J ThomsonThomson used a cathode ray tube to infer that there are small particles inside of every atom. This inference proved Dalton's theory to be wrong. Particles can be divided. Through this experiment Thomson also inferred that atoms must be negatively charged.Thomson purposed the plum pudding model which allowed scientefic advances to occur. Hantaro NagaokaIn 1904, Hantaro Nagaoka developed an early but incorrect planetary model of the atom. He based his model of the atom around the rings of the planet saturn. However his model was not created properly. He explained that the rings are held there due to its massive orbit. Although this model was wrong it still allowed for the discovery of the atoms shells. Ernest RutherfordIn his expirament Rutherford shot a positively charged beam of particles through a sheet of gold foil. He thought if the particles were soft as J.J Thomson's plum pudding model had suggested than they would pass through and continue in a straight line, Which most did. However some did not this showed that the plum pudding model was somewhat false, so Rutherford created a new model. MoseleyMoseley arranged the elements according to increasing atomic numbers and not atomic masses, some of the inconsistencies associated with Mendeleev's table were eliminated. The modern periodic table is based on Moseley's Periodic Law Neils BohrNeil suggested that electrons travel around the nucleus in definite paths. These paths are always at a certain "level" away from the nucleus. He also stated that electrons cannot travel in between each path, however they can jump from one path to another. | 4,593 | 2,096 | 10,012.126431 |
warc | 202143 | Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul could be put into darkness as the winter sets in because the country’s new Taliban rulers haven’t paid countries that supply it with electricity or resumed collecting money from citizens who use it.
Electricity imports from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan provide half of Afghanistan’s power consumption nationwide, with Iran providing additional supplies to the country’s west. Domestic production, mostly at hydropower stations, has been affected by this year’s rain drought.
Afghanistan lacks a national power grid, and Kabul depends almost completely on imported power from Central Asian countries.
Tajikistan, whose relationship with the Taliban is rapidly deteriorating is the country’s main power supplier. It could decide to cut off its power supply for nonpayment of electrical fees, according to Reuters.
Unless addressed, the situation could cause a humanitarian disaster, warned Daud Noorzai, who resigned as chief executive of the country’s state power supplier, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, nearly two weeks after the Taliban’s takeover on Aug. 15.
“The consequences would be countrywide, but especially in Kabul. There will be blackout and it would bring Afghanistan back to the Dark Ages when it comes to power and to telecommunications,” said Mr. Noorzai, who remains in close contact with DABS’s remaining management. “This would be a really dangerous situation.” | 1,498 | 797 | 2,670.838143 |
warc | 202143 | 50 years ago, a battle over redistricting changed Texas
The recent Republican-dominated redistricting in Texas has proven to be another enterprise in drawing maps that sap voting strength from communities of color. This is despite Latino population growth being the overwhelmingly primary factor in Texas adding two new congressional seats. Texas also saw substantial population shifts to the urban areas which was not reflected in the state house redistrict map.
These discriminatory practices have sullied Texas’ redistricting efforts for decades. To remedy that, the offending maps frequently end up being challenged in the federal courts. Which is what happened in during the 1970s redistricting battle. The case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and result profoundly changed Texas.
In 1971, Democrats controlled Texas and intended to keep it that way. These were white, conservative Dixiecrats. That year, their redistricting scheme relied heavily on massive multi-member House districts to dilute the voting power of the state’s growing African American and Latino communities.
These multi-member districts were super-sized areas that elected at least two representatives. At that time Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, a Democrat, argued this was just an easier way to draw legislative maps.
“If we are going to go the individual districts route it’s going to take a great deal of staff work, getting census tracks in all the urban areas some of them have not even been made officially public yet,” said Barnes.
Then, like now, the Texas House had 150 house seats...but the plan Democrats' passed divided the state into 79 single member districts and 11 multimember districts. The map drew legal challenges, calling it unconstitutional. Eventually, in February of 1973, the case — “White v. Regester” — was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Now Texas is a large state as is known but it's not only a large one, but it also has a shape and it does not render it very easily susceptible to a division among districts,” said Leon Jaworski, the attorney arguing for the state.
He told the court that Texas doesn’t discriminate against voters based on race.
“It is untrue that there is any showing whatsoever that there has been any such happenings, any sort of racial violation with respect to the electoral process in our state,” Jaworski said.
One of the three attorneys arguing against the map was David Richards. He pointed out that Texas actually had a long and robust history of racial discrimination at the polls.
“I think the case has been — the poll tax, the case has been the substitution for poll tax, the annual registration system. I think the record will show other factors which in fact did deter black voting,” said Richards.
A central argument against the state’s multimember districts was that their size made it nearly impossible for non-white candidates to get elected. A candidate who ran to represent a minority-majority portion of the district had to win the majority vote of the entire district, which was majority white.
Jaworski said that argument didn’t hold true and used Bexar County to make his point.
“This is the County of San Antonio where a large segment of the population is Mexican American, actually 50% of them are. You don't have a minority there of Mexican Americans at all. The problem is been that less than 30% of more approximately 30% of them seek to exercise that privilege,” Jaworski said.
Ed Idar — representing MALDEF — The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund responded.
“So, in reply to that question why don't we vote, we need to assess a situation of the Mexican American actually has developed in the history of this country. In 1972 we cannot wipe out all of these hindrances and then overnight expect the injured group to be able to compete on an equal footing with those people who have never been hindered,” said Idar.
Idar said it was unrealistic to expect a group oppressed for generations to suddenly be able to fundraise, compete in an area of over a thousand square miles and win over white voters who were hostile to Mexican American candidates.
“Our minority in Bexar County has been totally submerged,” he said.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that multimember districts in Dallas and Bexar counties were unconstitutional and did improperly dilute the voting power of communities of color. Soon after, other urban multimember districts in Texas, and across the South, were broken up too.
Reflecting on the case, David Richards says White v. Regester dramatically changed how voting maps were drawn. But Richards, who is also the ex-husband of former governor Ann Richards, says that under today’s Supreme Court it’s being watered down.
“The notion of White v. Regester — that is fencing out minority voters or minimizing their impact — I assume is still a legal principle. The willingness at least at the Supreme Court level to apply it seems to have waned pretty seriously,” he said.
Which could explain why today’s arguments over racially unfair redistricting maps don’t have the effect they did 50 years ago. | 5,298 | 2,428 | 11,126.236409 |
warc | 202143 | 'It was a safe place for everyone to share their experiences as everyone remained anonymous.'
I would like to thank all the courageous women who shared their unplanned pregnancy journeys on our recent online discussion focus group. As Kiwis we need to talk more about sensitive and private topics and this anonymous online discussion methodology is a powerful research tool to do just that.
In this blog, I will lead you through a recent New Zealand market research case study, to reaffirm the validity and relevance of online discussion focus group methodology as a powerful way to have a real conversation with New Zealanders. The objective of these conversations to gain a better understanding and deep insights into private and sensitive issues facing New Zealand's society today.
Throughout this blog, participant feedback will highlight their views on the discussion and how they benefited from the experience.
'Thanks for this amazing opportunity. It was my first time saying / writing these things and sharing in a safe space. I would like more platforms like this discussion group where you can share your views.'
This online research study followed the journey of 30 women from the flurry of emotions when they first realised they were experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, through their challenging and sometimes heart-breaking decision-making stage, and finished with the support, or lack of support, they received following their pregnancy.
'It is a highly sensitive topic, that can have such a wide range of emotions and experiences, both positive and negative but its important for women to be able to share all of those things so that others know its ok to feel those things and they're not alone in doing so.'
The women were extraordinarily candid about their personal experiences and found the moderated online discussion platform a safe place to share their most private thoughts. From their shared experience of an unplanned pregnancy, although protected by anonymity, the women bonded with each other and were supportive and empathetic to other’s experiences.
'I actually really enjoyed myself, thank you so much for having me! I do wish I could have met some of these exceptional women in person, I really enjoyed hearing about their experiences!'
ANONYMOUS - UNBIASED - INCREASED CONTRIBUTION ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT - SUPPORTIVE INTERACTION
Compared to a traditional in-person focus group with 8 to 10 participants in one room, the online panel of 30 participants had many advantages:
'Thanks so much for allowing me to be part of this research group. It was extremely interesting to see how different the experience was for everyone... its not something that is openly discussed so to hear all the different situations was a massive eye opener in the respect of you really have no idea what is going on in someone's life.' 'It was interesting to compare and read responses and it showed the different challenges people faced. It was a fantastic and interesting discussion to be part of.'
Participants were all women of child-bearing age, living throughout New Zealand, and represented a broad range of socio-economic and ethnic groups. Some women had experienced extreme hardships in their lives whereas others were just teens or older women in secure relationships.
‘I really enjoyed it, I found that it was much easier to open up and talk about such a private matter because we were anonymous… To hear some courageous and amazing stories from other Kiwi woman was very inspiring and uplifting for me.’
The discussion included a mix of thought-provoking qualitative open text questions combined with quantitative multiple or single-choice polls. Once a participant answered a set question, they could see and respond to earlier responses. This created an interactive and encouraging environment with women opening up about experiencing similar situations or perhaps just showing they understood and cared.
‘It was very enlightening and comforting to know that many women found themselves in the same situation as I previously had. I love that we all had a safe space to talk about our experiences.’
The online discussion was actively moderated to probe for more in-depth responses as well as identify new threads for open discussion. To interact with new posts, using a secure login, participants logged into the online platform multiple times during the 3-day research period.
'I really enjoyed this discussion, in some ways it was therapeutic to openly speak on my experience and hardship without judgement, almost the same relief or satisfaction you would receive from a counselling session.'
This research study reiterated the immense value and appropriateness of the online discussion focus group methodology for the study of private and sensitive topics associated with social research.
'I can see great value and power in releasing through an online platform such as this.'
I have been told the insights from this research study are of global interest and far beyond a marketing report for one client. As a starting point, the findings will be published in medical journals with the hope they will trigger an ongoing conversation.
This study also highlighted as Kiwis we need to be able to talk and support each other through the challenges we face in life. Whether we need more moderated or unmoderated online platforms, better access to counselling, or both, the end-product needs to be a better support structure and greater understanding for Kiwis facing an emotional rollercoaster from life's challenges.
To learn more about online qualitative research methodologies, read about the 5 focus group methods available to New Zealand businesses.
This research study was designed, written and moderated by Rachel Wells, business owner, Trailblazer Research. As a woman and mother, Rachel had great empathy for the courageous women who shared their journeys as part of this research. This project has reaffirmed the validity and relevance of online discussion focus group methodology as an ideal platform for those important conversations Kiwis need to have around private and sensitive issues impacting today's society.
To find out if your next research project is suited to online forum methodology, please contact Rachel:
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warc | 202143 | 5 Reasons to Work with an EHS Partner
Whether you’re a large healthcare facility, a small research and development venture, or an industrial manufacturing powerhouse, an EHS partner can bring valuable benefits to your business. Third party delivery of EHS services allows an organization to focus on its core goals, all while leaving the demanding environmental, health, and safety programs to the experts. EHS partnerships have numerous advantages over hiring in-house EHS personnel. Here are 5 reasons to work with an EHS partner:
Your partner will ensure you are compliant
Environmental and waste regulations are always changing. With all the priorities your organization has to focus on, these changes can be hard to keep up with. With an EHS firm, you can trust that your dedicated EHS experts will stay on top of it. Additionally, a simple audit or gap analysis performed by your EHS team can pinpoint any compliance concerns and provide proper solutions moving forward, helping your company avoid fines and violations in case of a regulatory audit.2.
Managing risk and reducing liability
EHS partners are dedicated to reducing risks and focusing on compliance and safety, reducing liabilities for your organization. By developing and implementing safety plans, providing training, conducting safety inspections, and more, your EHS firm can give you more time for customary operations. With a focus on safety and compliance, your EHS partner can help you avoid critical problems such as:
Compliance failures Failed inspections Fines Injuries Project challenges Bad press Shutdowns
3. Reduce costs and boost efficiency
An internal EHS department may be more costly than effective when you consider the resources required to maintain it. Ongoing employee training and retention, new systems and equipment, routine maintenance, and employee compensation all need to be considered when developing an in-house EHS program. Third parties deliver a well-qualified and trained team of experts equipped with all the resources needed for your EHS needs. They will work with you to tailor your program to meet the requirements of your organization.
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Ensure employee safety
Third party EHS delivery helps ensure the safety of your employees. Qualified EHS providers have the means and experience needed to develop proper safety protocols and procedures. You won’t have to worry about ensuring your EHS staff is properly trained, EHS firms come equipped with the required safety experience and equipment.
5. Focus on core competenciesEHS may not be a core competency of your organization, however it is for dedicated EHS service providers like Triumvirate Environmental. Our experts allow you to focus on the critical aspects of your business without sacrificing EHS integrity. Our complete environmental services provide solutions for waste management, chemical inventory, sustainability, training, and more. Consider the time your company saves by leaving EHS to the professionals. An EHS partner can help you lower costs and improve compliance and safety all while helping you focus on what’s most important to your business’s success. Our unique EHS program, EHSOne, provides all of the services needed for a successful EHS department and a safe and compliant site. From regulatory trainings to safety plans and facility services, our EHS specialists can support your business at every step. Learn more below or call
617-715-9055to speak with a specialist today. | 3,496 | 1,624 | 7,450.527094 |
warc | 202143 | Saving is important, and with a little effort it can become a healthy financial habit.
As well as helping you reach your financial goals, saving is proven to be good for your mental health.
Before putting money into savings, it's usually sensible to pay off high interest debt first.
Saving money takes effort, but setting savings goals, and reviewing them regularly, can help keep you on track.
Creating a budget will help you to establish your starting point, and how much you can afford to save.
Saving any amount of money, however small, is worthwhile. It can help you get into the habit of saving.
Remember the value of compound interest. The earlier you start saving, the more time you have for the interest you earn to compound.
Choosing where to put your savings will depend on your goals.
During times when interest rates are low, consider alternative ways to put your money to work, like overpaying on your mortgage, making investments or paying off debt.
The sooner you start saving for your retirement, the more you'll be able to save, and the more comfortable you will be.
Consider balancing savings and investments to meet your long term savings goals.
HSBC has partnered with Everfi to create a series of modules on a variety of topics, including Savings, Banking, Credit Cards & Interest Rates, Credit Scores, Financing Higher Education, Renting vs. Owning, Taxes and Insurance, Consumer Protection, and Investing, giving you the tools to better manage your financial future. We hope these interactive digital modules can support your choices.
Additionally, HSBC has created the YourMoneyCounts financial wellness program which is presented by HSBC staff to the community in a classroom setting. Participant workbooks covering Budgeting, Credit, and Identity Theft and a budgeting worksheet are found through the YourMoneyCount link above. This program was created in partnership with the national nonprofit Greenpath Financial Wellness, and they provide free individualized support focused on your personal situation and financial wellness. | 2,071 | 1,040 | 4,096.199038 |
warc | 202143 | This blog post examines the different components of the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. We will illustrate what the categories of innovation are and which categories have the most companies. We will also compare the categories in terms of their funding and maturity.
Let’s start off by looking at the Sector Map. We have classified 2497 AI startups into 13 categories. They have raised $60B from 3420 investors. The Sector Map highlights the number of companies in each category. It also shows a random sampling of companies in each category.
We see that Machine Learning Applications is the largest category with 943 companies. These companies utilize self-learning algorithms to optimize vertically-specific business operations. Examples include using machine learning to detect banking fraud or to identify relevant sales leads. Some example companies are Sift Science, SparkCognition, Sumo Logic, and BenevolentAI.
Let’s now look at our Innovation Quadrant to find out the funding and maturity of these categories in relation to one another.
Our Innovation Quadrant divides the AI categories into four different quadrants.
We see that both the Pioneers and Disruptors quadrants have the most number of AI categories at 6, each accounting for 46% of all AI categories. The Speech-to-Speech Translation category has the highest average age, and the Recommendation Engines category has the highest average funding. On the other hand, the Context Aware Computing and Virtual Assistants categories are low on both average funding and age.
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warc | 202143 | Wisconsin’s population rose to 5,893,718, a 3.6% increase from the 2010 census, retaining its position as the 20th most populous state. Its population growth rate ranked 34th among the 50 states. Altogether, the U.S. population rose to 331,449,281, the Census Bureau said, a 7.4% increase that was the second-slowest ever.
In Wisconsin, the census data show areas such as Dane County, Brown County (Green Bay) and Outagamie County (Appleton) gaining the most people, while Milwaukee County and 20 rural counties lost population.
Dane County added 73,431 people over the past decade, a 15% increase, making it the fastest-growing county in the state, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday.
The data show Milwaukee County lost 8,246 residents over the past decade, a decrease of 0.9%, for a 2020 population of 939,489, still the largest county in the state by far by population.
The county that shrank the fastest over the past decade was Richland County, in southwestern Wisconsin, losing 717 residents or 4% of its population. The next two biggest losers were in rural northern Wisconsin: Taylor County, which lost 776 residents and Rusk County, which lost 567 residents, both 3.8% declines.
State legislators will use the census data to ensure that Wisconsin’s political maps reflect how the state’s population has grown and shifted since the 2010 census. With a detailed understanding of where Wisconsin’s population resides in 2020, they can update the boundaries of the state’s eight congressional, 99 Assembly and 33 state Senate districts, and local leaders can redraw municipal and county board districts. | 1,668 | 844 | 3,233.232227 |
warc | 202143 | When I was at the Forrest Wood Cup this summer, I ran across a product that I didn’t even know existed. It may not be the sexiest product on the market, but it’s one of those things that I wish I would have invented. It’s an excellent solution to a very common problem; especially for co-anglers and bank anglers, in my opinion.
The Rapid Fishing Solutions Line Clips are a great idea and I’ve been using them for my pond-fishing endeavors ever since I discovered them. I’ll explain their purpose, application and my experiences with them thus far.
1of 5) Eliminates tangles
We’ve all been there at some point: You hook your lures to your reel, bunch up your rods and stack ’em in your front seat, truck bed or your buddy’s boat. When it’s time to unload everything and go fishing, your lures are hooked on everything. You’ll have hooks wrapped around other hooks, stuck in your Rod Gloves or even worse, the upholstery of your vehicle. Admittedly, I have a few tears in the front passenger seat of my truck from this very problem.
Rapid Fishing Solutions Line Clips solve this problem. When transporting your rods, you simply cut your lure off, slide the line through the line clip and reel it to the top of your rod. This allows you to stack nearly all of your rods into a tight space without any tangling.
2of 5) Saves your fishing line
Imagine it’s the dead of winter and you’re not going to be using your topwater rods for a few months. Instead of clipping your lures to your reels and stuffing them in the corner of your garage, you can use these Line Clips instead.
Here’s why I say that: If you leave your lures clipped to the reel for a while, it creates a crimp in your line where the line leaves the rod tip. This creates a weak spot that requires retying. Sure, retying a lure doesn’t take too long, but now you’re not wasting six feet of crimped, unusable line every time you re-rig your rods.
3of 5) Won’t damage your rod tips
The ball on these Line Clips isn’t made from hard plastic. I’m actually not quite sure what it’s made of, but it closely resembles some type of dense foam. You won’t have to worry about any damage on your rod tips while using this product. You can reel it straight to the tip without any issues.
4of 5) Also works for spare casting reels
I have a lot of spare casting reels laying around; I’ll do a lot of mixing and matching throughout the year when certain bites heat up. Normally, I would just unscrew the reel from the reel seat, cut my lure off and reel the excess line on the reel. When it comes time to put that reel back to use, I have to monkey around trying to thread the line back through the reel’s line guide.
It may not be a big deal to some, but I keep some of these spare reels in my boat and change them while I’m in the middle of a tournament. These Line Clips help me save a step when it’s time to make a spur-of-the-moment change. I can keep the line threaded through the line guide and attach a Line Clip to the end, which keeps my reels ready to use at a moment’s notice.
5of 5) Available at Tackle Warehouse
As I mentioned earlier, this product may not jump off the shelf at you; but it’s a darn good idea that makes a lot of sense for those wanting to be a bit more organized. I had never heard of them before I found them at the Forrest Wood Cup expo, but I’m glad I discovered them. I have a deep appreciation for simple products that solve problems for anglers. | 3,580 | 1,701 | 7,216.825397 |
warc | 202143 | Summary
The carrying capacity concept for bivalve aquaculture is used to assess
production potential of culture areas, and to address possible effects of the culture for the environment and for other users. Production potential is depending on physical and production carrying capacity of the ecosystem, while ecological and social carrying capacity determine to what extent the production capacity can be realized. According to current definitions, the ecological carrying capacity is the stocking or farm density of the exploited population above which unacceptable environmental impacts become apparent, and the social capacity is the level of farm development above which unacceptable social impacts are manifested. It can be disputed to what extent social and ecological capacities differ, as unacceptable impacts are social constructs. In the approach of carrying capacity, focus is often on avoiding adverse impacts of bivalve aquaculture. However, bivalve populations also have positive impacts on the ecosystem, such as stimulation of primary production through filtration and nutrient regeneration. These ecosystem services deserve more attention in proper estimation of carrying capacity and therefore we focus on both positive and negative feedbacks by the bivalves on the ecosystem. We review tools that are available to quantify carrying capacity. This varies from simple indices to complex models. We present case studies of the use of clearance and grazing ratio’s as simple carrying capacity indices. Applications depend on specific management questions in the respective areas, the availability of data and the type of decisions that need to be made. For making decisions on bivalve aquaculture, standards, threshold values or levels of acceptable change (LAC) are used. The FAO framework for aquaculture is formulated as The Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture. It implies stakeholder involvement, and a carrying capacity management where commercial stocks attribute in a balanced way to production, ecological and social goals. Simulation models are being developed as tools to predict the integrated effect of various levels of bivalve aquaculture for specific management goals, such as improved ecosystem resilience. In practice, bivalve aquaculture management is confronted with different competing stocks of cultured, wild, restoration and invasive origin. Scenario models have been reviewed that are used for finding the balance between maximizing production capacity and optimizing ecological carrying capacity in areas with bivalve aquaculture. | 2,578 | 1,129 | 5,866.148804 |
warc | 202143 | Carbofix is an all natural herbal dietary supplement for continual low-energy weight reduction and also enhanced metabolic price. As the cornerstone carb-blocker, this item efficiently tightens down blood sugar level levels to normalize on demand the power expense. Carbofix not only burns fat yet likewise helps to generate muscle mass. While the primary supplement targets as well as decreases excess sugar in the bloodstream, it also all at once puts in various various other wellness advantages on the body, which ultimately aid in long-term weight control. Nonetheless, like with all supplements, there are specific variables that influence as well as establish the cost of Carbofix, along with what it ought to cost. Price has nothing to do with the effectiveness or the quality of the product.
Maxi Cosi Cabriofix
Carbofix is offered in 3 versions, routine, pre-workout, and post-workout. The difference in between these variations is based on just how they are created. Normal describes the variant of active ingredients found in the formula. Pre-workout variant consists of a dosage of ephedra and/or caffeine. Post-workout has no ephedra or caffeine as well as is hence the most effective version. The distinction in between routine and pre-workout carbofix is just how their metabolic stimulants react with each other as well as how swiftly they reach the muscle mass to support as well as boost exercise performance.
Numerous on-line product markets use Carbofix at affordable prices. The key reason that Carbofix is cost a reduced price online is due to its ease of access. On top of that, unlike in local drug shops and also fitness centers, you do not need to drive a cross country to access a shop selling Carbofix. You can simply purchase Carbofix and have actually the pills shipped right to your door.
Other than being offered nearly all over, an additional reason Carbofix is sold less expensive online is due to the minimal number of active ingredients utilized in making the formula. Carbofix has just one significant component unlike the various other fat burning supplements that are produced by a number of business. Furthermore, the main web site stresses the effectiveness of Carbofix and also the reality that the business behind the development of this product is continually striving to make it extra efficient as well as efficient. Subsequently, more individuals are acknowledging the efficacy of Carbofix.
One of the most usual insurance claims about Carbofix is that it aids consumers shed stubborn fat faster than any other product on the market. What the official internet site states about Carbofix is that it contains all-natural active ingredients. One of the all-natural components found in Carbofix is eco-friendly tea essence. Although the effects of environment-friendly tea essence are yet to be established, lots of think that it can help reduce body weight because of its capability to decrease cholesterol degrees. On top of that, various other all-natural ingredients in Carbofix such as yerba companion, guarana, and also eco-friendly tea remove operate in synergy with the eco-friendly tea to help the supplement accelerate the price at which the body burns fat.
Another advantage of using Carbofix is that the ingredients discovered in this supplement to help raise the metabolic price of the consumer. What the metabolic price is generally, is how fast your body burns calories. If your metabolic price is high then you would naturally shed more calories daily than if your rate is low. In addition to assisting enhance your metabolic price, the active ingredients made use of in Carbofix likewise help raise the blood sugar degree of the customer, which subsequently increases the energy levels of the consumer.
When utilizing Carbofix, customers have reported boosted power levels, much better endurance, as well as boosted psychological quality. Because the Carbofix supplement does not have artificial ingredients, it can be utilized by virtually any person. In addition, users do not need to take the pills for a prolonged period of time like various other weight management supplements. Instead, the customer can experience the impacts of Carbofix in its most effective kind within three months of use. This implies that users are able to see outcomes and also transform their lives in an issue of simply three months.
Using Carbofix is absolutely one of the very best means to slim down as well as shed fat. In addition to offering the consumer with healthy and balanced benefits, making use of Carbofix additionally assists increase the power degrees of the individual. This consequently, boosts the metabolic rate, which promotes the burning of even more fat. Along with this, users have actually additionally reported really feeling extra stimulated and also better. These are just a few of the many health benefits that are gotten by using Carbofix. | 4,921 | 2,142 | 11,282.460784 |
warc | 202143 | Neuropathy can involve frustrating and uncomfortable symptoms like tingling, burning, pain and numbness. Unfortunately, it can also lead to serious health risks due to complications from injuries and infections. If you’re concerned about neuropathy and protecting your well-being long term, functional medicine can help.
The most common type of care individuals receive for neuropathy symptoms is medication. Pharmaceutical support may successfully help with pain relief, but this is not the only option for care, and it isn’t necessarily the best choice, either. Medications may effectively mask symptoms such as pain, but they do not address or manage the underlying cause of your condition.
Neuropathy is a symptom of an underlying health problem, one that needs to be investigated, uncovered and properly managed. This is the most effective way to help your condition physiologically. Something is causing the effect on your nervous system. A practitioner who is trained in functional medicine will utilize a variety of tests as part of a comprehensive evaluation to find that root cause.
A comprehensive evaluation is typically much more involved than most people who’ve sought medical care for neuropathy realize. Metabolic function tests, nutritional status evaluations, and tests of the immune system may be necessary. Thyroid function and adrenal function may also be assessed, and more. Neuropathy tends to be a complex problem, one that involves a variety of systems, glands and organs throughout the body.
Once the underlying reason for neuropathy is established, functional neurologists formulate a customized plan of care for the patient. This plan consists of safe, natural therapeutic support that can help restore normal function as fully as possible. Symptom relief occurs as the body begins to heal and balance is restored. Best of all, optimal wellness may serve as a lifelong solution to neuropathy symptoms. | 1,950 | 972 | 3,869.907407 |
warc | 202143 | Supplementary MaterialsAdditional file 1 HPLC profile of the decoction of em P. coli /em warmth labile toxin (LT) and cholera toxin (CT) and their binding to ganglioside monosialic acid (GM1) were analyzed by GM1-ELISA whereas the NOP27 production and action of em E. coli /em warmth stable toxin (ST) was assessed order Imatinib Mesylate by suckling mouse assay. Results The decoction of em P. guajava /em showed antibacterial activity towards em S. flexneri /em and em Vibrio cholerae /em . It decreased production of both LT and CT and their binding to GM1. However, it experienced no effect on production and action of ST. The decoction also inhibited the adherence of EPEC and invasion by both EIEC and em S. flexneri /em to HEp-2 cells. Quercetin, on the other hand, experienced no antibacterial activity in the concentrations used nor did it impact any of the enterotoxins. Although it did not impact order Imatinib Mesylate adherence of EPEC, it inhibited the invasion of both EIEC and em S. flexneri /em to HEp-2 cells. Bottom line Collectively, the full total benefits indicate which the decoction of em P. guajava /em leaves is an efficient antidiarrhoeal agent which the entire spectral range of its antidiarrhoeal activity isn’t because of quercetin alone. History Infectious diarrhoea makes up about 3 almost.2% of most fatalities globally [1] and may be the second largest reason behind many years of productive lifestyle lost because of premature mortality and impairment [2]. It really is a major wellness concern in developing countries and continues to be an important scientific problem also in created countries despite improvements in public areas health and financial wealth [3]. It’s estimated that during the following 20-30 years, diarrhoea and also other infectious illnesses shall remain a reason behind global wellness concern [4]. Diarrhoea can be an etiologically different condition unlike various other infectious illnesses such as for example tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria since it is definitely caused by a variety of enteric pathogens including bacteria, viruses and protozoa [5-7]. Oral rehydration therapy has been the key strategy for effective case management. However, it often fails in high stool output state. Moreover, symptomatic therapy with antimotility agents is contraindicated in infectious diarrhoea and there is an increasing threat of drug resistance to antibiotics [8]. Various attempts for developing vaccines against diarrhoea causing organisms have been made [6,9-11]. However, the responses to vaccines in developing countries have not been motivating [12-15]. Recently there were advances towards the treating infectious diarrhoea with supportive therapy like the usage of probiotics; but they are under development [3] still. Hence, therapeutic plants might assist in growing affordable substitute approaches for treatment of diarrhoea. Medicinal vegetation have recently obtained popularity as potential antidiarrhoeal real estate agents as could be judged by the amount of research which have been carried out. An online explore PubMed demonstrates a lot more than 200 research for the antidiarrhoeal activity of therapeutic vegetation have already been published within the last decade. Gutierrez em et al /em . [16] have reviewed more than 50 such studies conducted during the period 2000 to 2007. Whilst a few studies have reported antimicrobial activity, a majority of the studies have focused on the effect of the plants on intestinal motility in experimental models. Hence, though data is available on the effect of medicinal plants on physiological diarrhoea as studied in animal models there is a paucity of information on their mode of action on infectious diarrhoea. em Psidium guajava /em L., Myrtaceae, is used widely in traditional medicine throughout Latin America and the Caribbean for the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, order Imatinib Mesylate gastroenteritis, stomachaches, and indigestion [17]. It is also used for diarrhoea and dysentery in countries such as China, Philippines, Senegal and USA, as an antiamoebic in Congo, antispasmodic in India and Ghana, antiseptic in China and as an antibiotic in USA. However, this plant is not very popular in India as an antidiarrhoeal agent. An ethnobotanical study completed by. | 4,323 | 2,047 | 9,104.276014 |
warc | 202143 | Just like other smart home features, smart windows are designed to be intuitive. Imagine a world in which your home’s windows will be controllable via smartphone or even simple gesture. Heat-sensor window treatments will automatically close or open depending on a homeowner’s ideal temperature preferences. Not only will you gaze through your window to the outside world, but you will also be able to virtually interact with your home environment, pane by translucent pane.
Smart Windows
The newly designed “smart” windows consist of conductive glass plates outlined with metal ions that spread out over the surface, blocking light in response to an electrical current.
Windows that tint on demand already exist—one prominent class of them is known as electrochromic windows. Method involves using ions from two metals, like copper and silver, in an electrolyte gel on the window. The glass also needs to have indium tin oxide in it, a transparent conductor that’s ubiquitous in television and smartphone screens. By applying a negative electrical voltage, the window becomes dark because the ions form elemental, solid metal, which is opaque. A positive voltage causes the metal to dissolve back into ion form, allowing the light to come through.
Fast and durable
Commercially available smart windows are made of materials, such as tungsten oxide, that change color when charged with electricity. But according to McGehee, these materials tend to be expensive, have a blue tint, can take more than 20 minutes to dim and become less opaque over time.
The Stanford prototype blocks light through the movement of a copper solution over a sheet of indium tin oxide modified with platinum nanoparticles. When transparent, the window is clear and allows about 80 percent of surrounding natural light to pass through. When dark, the transmission of light drops to below 5 percent. It only takes about 30 seconds to change from transparent to dark or vice versa.
Smart windows change how they filter the sunlight based on the weather outside.
In cold weather, smart windows let more sunlight in, and in warm weather, they keep sunlight out. There are a range of technologies that enable the windows to do this.
Certain smart windows are powered by electricity and include a switch or button for changing the sunlight filter. Some electric-powered models can be programmed to automatically change based on outdoor weather. Electric windows use small amounts of energy to operate their controls, which detracts slightly from their energy savings.
Other windows use nanotechnology to change from transparent to opaque. For example, flexible thermochromic technology adjusts the incoming light based on the weather without the use of electricity. RavenBrick, the company’s manufacturer, claims that the windows can save up to 30% on the building’s energy use, and are twice as efficient as the leading energy efficient windows on the market. | 2,982 | 1,450 | 6,025.696552 |
warc | 202143 | F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shot for Higher-Risk People
Regulators said that people over 65 or at high risk of severe Covid-19 were eligible for an extra shot, setting up a staggered national booster campaign.,
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Regulators said that people over 65 or at high risk of severe Covid-19 were eligible for an extra shot, setting up a staggered national booster campaign.
WASHINGTON — After weeks of internal strife at the Food and Drug Administration, the agency on Wednesday authorized people over 65 who had received Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine to get a booster shot at least six months after their second injection.
The F.D.A. also authorized booster shots for adult Pfizer-BioNTech recipients who are at high risk of becoming severely ill with Covid-19 or are at risk of serious complications from the disease due to frequent exposure to the coronavirus at their jobs.
The authorization sets up what is likely to be a staggered campaign to deliver the shots, starting with the most vulnerable Americans. It opens the way for possibly tens of millions of vaccinated people to receive boosters at pharmacies, health clinics, doctors’ offices and elsewhere.
Roughly 22 million Americans are at least six months past their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About half of them are 65 and older. Millions of Americans who received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are still waiting to learn whether they, too, can get boosters.
The F.D.A.’s decision will be followed as soon as Thursday by a recommendation from the C.D.C., which issues guidance on vaccine policy for clinicians and public health officials throughout the United States. An advisory committee of the C.D.C. is now in the midst of a two-day meeting on the issue. But even if the C.D.C. takes a different stance, health care providers are now authorized to offer third shots to Pfizer-BioNTech recipients who meet the F.D.A.’s eligibility criteria.
The ruling followed weeks of internal disagreement at the F.D.A., where some vaccine regulators openly challenged the idea of offering booster shots to the general population. Public health experts and state officials have criticized what they said were confusing public messages from the Biden administration about who should be eligible for a booster shot and when.
Regulators have significantly slowed the booster rollout that top federal health officials drafted and President Biden announced in mid-August. At the time, Mr. Biden said that pending regulatory approval, he wanted to offer third shots to every American adult who had been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine at least eight months earlier, starting this week.
But so far the F.D.A. has cleared booster shots only for Pfizer-BioNTech recipients, and not all of them. Regulators are expected to take up whether to authorize the shots for recipients of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in short order.
Wednesday’s authorization made the United States the most recent wealthy nation to offer people booster doses, joining a list that includes Germany, France, Israel and Britain. Some public health experts say those doses should instead be directed to countries that have vaccinated far fewer of their residents.
At a virtual Covid-19 summit on Wednesday, Mr. Biden pledged an additional 500 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine to countries that need them.
The F.D.A.’s ruling could set off a spirited debate about who falls into the eligible subgroups, especially those who are considered at special risk because of their jobs.
At a meeting last Friday, members of the agency’s advisory committee of experts said that health care workers should be eligible for boosters because of their work, and a senior F.D.A. regulator said that teachers fit in the same category. There was also a push to include some inmates and staff at jails and prisons because of risks tied to incarceration. Those specific recommendations will be left to the C.D.C.
The F.D.A.’s decision to include those who are at high risk of severe Covid-19 captures another significant swath of the population. An estimated 60 percent of Americans suffer from obesity or other chronic medical conditions that heighten their risk of suffering from severe Covid-19, but not all of them might be included.
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Pfizer had asked the F.D.A. to approve a third shot for all recipients of its vaccine who were 16 and older, six months or more after their second injection. Regulators scrambled to collect and review safety and efficacy data fast enough to meet the administration’s goal of offering shots this week.
At a dramatic meeting last week, members of the F.D.A.’s outside advisory committee said the available data was too limited to justify additional injections for so many people and voted 16 to 2 against approving Pfizer’s request. Some of the committee’s experts were concerned that Pfizer’s clinical trial results on boosters included only about 300 volunteers, a point that was brought up repeatedly by the C.D.C.’s experts.
But the advisory committee voted unanimously for the narrower option reflected in the regulatory decision.
President Biden attends a virtual global Covid-19 summit on Wednesday from New York. He had hoped to offer a third shot more broadly to adults who had received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
The F.D.A. not only narrowed Pfizer’s request, but authorized the third shot on an emergency basis instead of fully approving it.
Understand Vaccine and Mask Mandates in the U.S. Vaccine rules. Mask rules. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in July recommended that all Americans, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks in indoor public places within areas experiencing outbreaks, a reversal of the guidance it offered in May. See where the C.D.C. guidance would apply, and where states have instituted their own mask policies. The battle over masks has become contentious in some states, with some local leaders defying state bans. College and universities. More than 400 colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Almost all are in states that voted for President Biden. Schools. Both California and New York City have introduced vaccine mandates for education staff. A survey released in August found that many American parents of school-age children are opposed to mandated vaccines for students, but were more supportive of mask mandates for students, teachers and staff members who do not have their shots. Hospitals and medical centers. Many hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get a Covid-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the Delta variant and stubbornly low vaccination rates in their communities, even within their work force. New York City. Proof of vaccination is required of workers and customers for indoor dining, gyms, performances and other indoor situations, although enforcement does not begin until Sept. 13. Teachers and other education workers in the city’s vast school system will need to have at least one vaccine dose by Sept. 27, without the option of weekly testing. City hospital workers must also get a vaccine or be subjected to weekly testing. Similar rules are in place for New York State employees. At the federal level. The Pentagon announced that it would seek to make coronavirus vaccinations mandatory for the country’s 1.3 million active-duty troops “no later” than the middle of September. President Biden announced that all civilian federal employees would have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to regular testing, social distancing, mask requirements and restrictions on most travel.
As a practical matter, since the F.D.A. fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as a two-dose regimen last month, physicians have had broad latitude to prescribe a third dose to people they deemed in need of one. Many Americans have already sought extra shots on their own, typically by finding a cooperative pharmacist or pretending to be unvaccinated.
“There’s anxiety about this public expectation that everyone should go get a booster,” said Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, which represents state health agencies. “If we pull back on that, then states are going to get left holding the bag.”
Dr. Jesse L. Goodman, a former chief scientist at the F.D.A., said that because of some uncertainty around the benefits of boosters, regulators were right to grant only an emergency clearance for the shots while continuing to study their safety and performance.
“A stepwise approach is very judicious,” he said.
Some state health officials greeted the F.D.A.’s move enthusiastically. Dr. Clay Marsh, West Virginia’s Covid-19 czar, said that his state’s success vaccinating older residents early meant that they were overdue for extra protection.
He also said that strained hospitals in the state could not afford to lose more staff, and that booster doses could protect frontline workers from milder infections that would require them to stay at home.
“Anxious would be an understatement,” he said of those waiting for extra shots. “We’ve asked them to be patient with us. We’ve gotten texts and emails from people saying they’re living like hermits again with Delta variant, asking when is it going to be safe.”
The decision is the latest in a series of important ones that the F.D.A. is expected to make in the next few weeks. Ahead lie complex decisions on whether to authorize booster shots for recipients of the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines, whether to authorize the use of Moderna’s vaccine for children ages 12 to 17, and whether to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11.
Top federal health officials have said they needed to publicly announce plans for a booster campaign so that states could prepare for a rollout. But some state officials said it was a challenge to sort out conflicting messages from federal officials.
For instance, the president said people should be eligible for a booster eight months after their second shot, but the F.D.A. set the interval at six months. Patrick Allen, the director of the Oregon Health Authority, said that the switch has thrown off the state’s planning and caused officials there to “scramble” to prepare for many more residents who now could be eligible.
“We thought at an eight month window we were going to be OK with supply and demand, with our core infrastructure being clinics and pharmacies. But if we have 350,000 people eligible at the beginning, we’re going to have some challenges,” he said, referencing estimates the state has made. At least one county is now preparing to reopen a fairgrounds site for booster doses, he said. | 11,494 | 4,814 | 26,791.477773 |
warc | 202143 | Maintenance payments are payments made by the taxable person to his or her former or separated spouse for the subsistence of that former spouse or children. To receive tax relief for alimony, one of the couples must have been born before April 5, 1935 and payments must be made by virtue. PPE can also help reduce the employer`s administration by removing the requirement to include certain taxable expenses/benefits for P11Ds employed and replace them with annual billing to HMRC. Pay settlement agreements (SAAs) are often used by employers to maintain compliance with personnel costs and delivery processes. By entering into this formal agreement, an employer can pay all taxes due on expenses and benefits made available to employees through an annual deposit and payment to HMRC. To obtain PPE, the employer should write to HMRC Business Tax Operations (see address below) and describe the expenses and benefits that the PSA must cover. Subject to agreement, HMRC will send two copies of a Form P626. These forms shall indicate all the elements to be included in the PPE and the date on which the calculations are to be made available to HMRC. Both forms must be signed by an approved officer of the employer and returned to HMRC, which then authorizes the agreement by signing both copies and returning one to the employer. Positions included in a PPE should not be reported separately, for example.B. on the employee`s pay slip or in the employee`s P11D.
Instead of being imposed on the employee through the P11D procedure, they are imposed by this annual statement on the employer. Instead of being due to the Class 1A NIC through P11D(b), the value of benefits is subject to Class 1B social security contributions (NCI). To manage its resources, HMRC requests the calculations, which are submitted annually until a specific date, which may vary depending on the agreement, but which is usually July 31 or August 31. It should be noted, however, that there is indeed no legal deadline for submitting calculations, so no penalty can be imposed for non-submission of your calculation until that date. You must submit annually to HMRC a calculation of the income tax due and Class 1B NIC. HMRC will verify the calculation and confirm approval if the basic calculation appears to be correct. PPE must be in force until July 6 following the end of the fiscal year to which it applies. Until recently, an employer had to apply for a new agreement every year, but today PPE are permanent agreements and exist until they are cancelled or amended. If you don`t have a PSA agreement yet, our team of labour tax specialists can help you set them up and work with HMRC to ensure the agreement contains everything you want to include now and in the future.
The deadline for filing PSA calculations of income tax and NCI with HMRC is set out in the agreement and generally expires on 31 July following the end of the fiscal year. The deadline for the payment of PSA`s liabilities is October 22 following the end of the fiscal year or October 19. October if the employer does not pay electronically.. . . . | 3,103 | 1,457 | 6,599.997941 |
warc | 202143 | Linking abuse and recovery through advocacy (LARA) - an observational studyAims: High numbers of psychiatric service users experience domestic violence, yet limited interventions exist for these victims. We piloted a domestic violence intervention for community mental health services to explore the feasibility of a future cluster randomised controlled trial.
Methods: Quasi-experimental controlled design within five community mental health teams (3 intervention and 2 control teams). The intervention comprised domestic violence training for clinicians’ and referral to domestic violence advocacy for service users. Clinicians’ (n=29) domestic violence knowledge, attitudes and behaviours were assessed before and six months post-training. Service users’ (n=34) safety behaviours, unmet needs, quality of life and frequency/severity of abuse were examined at baseline and three months follow-up. Process evaluation data were also collected.
Progress: Study complete and paper submitted for publication
Principal investigator: Louise Howard, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry
University of Bristol collaboration: Gene Feder | 1,187 | 650 | 2,129.295385 |
warc | 202143 | These documents contain guidelines and guidelines for the management of benefits by CBS members. SCS performance agreement form and guide to added HR practitioners. Public servants in grades 4 or older, including directors (SCS) and administrators, receive an annual assessment of individual and departmental benefits, as well as work performance qualifications and skills. After setting performance targets and indicators in consultation with the evaluator, the official signs a performance agreement on individual and departmental tasks and is evaluated on the basis of this agreement. The results of the performance evaluation are reflected in the salary rating based on annual performance and are used in various human resource management processes, such as promotion and review of deadlines. OECD (2017), Skills for a High Performing Civil Service, OECD Public Governance Reviews, OECD Publishing, Paris, doi.org/10.1787/9789264280724-en civil servants of grade 5 or lower receive a semi-annual assessment of work performance and professional skills. The evaluator arranges a personal interview with the official to be assessed, regularly verifies and records the status of the work done and evaluates it on the basis of the results. The results of the performance evaluation are reflected in the performance-related performance review and rating and are used in various HR operations, such as transfers and job training. Depending on the results of the performance evaluation, civil servants of grade 5 or higher receive an annual salary (cumulative) and civil servants in grades 6-9 receive a bonus (at least once a year, lump sum). Definitions of the public service and centrally managed organizations vary widely. In this investigation, civil servants are only civil servants under a specific public legal framework or other specific provisions.
Executives are D1 and D2, also known as « Senior Civil Servants » or « Top Managers. » The term « senior » refers to a rank and is not a reference to seniority or seniority in terms of the length of the career or term. Executives may be younger and have less experience than, for example, middle managers. The D1 and D2 directors, for whom the data are presented here, are adapted to the International Standard Classification of Professions (CITP-08) developed by the International Labour Organization. Detailed definitions of the different levels are available online in Appendix D. A performance agreement is an agreement between a staff member and their supervisor on objectives to assess the employee`s performance. SCS members receive compensation based on performance evaluation results (including performance agreements), while directors receive annual salaries based on various evaluation factors, including performance agreements. Compensation for benefits is divided into 4 evaluations (S, A, B and C). For officials in grades 6-9, the work performance score is used to determine performance bonuses. Each department has autonomy in defining the evaluation system (minimum three) and the percentage of employees who receive bonuses and bonuses as a percentage of the total payroll. 2 documents have been updated: Performance Management Arrangements for the Senior Civil Service (April 2020) and Managing Poor Performance Policy Procedures for the Senior Civil Service (April 2020). | 3,379 | 1,509 | 7,492.46786 |
warc | 202143 | For registered bonds, the issuer records the details of the sale, which allows the issuer to sue the owner in the event of loss of the account. Unregistered bonds are not traceable to the extent that the company does not register the persons to whom it sells its bonds. Companies or governments can issue bonds for specific projects or through special purpose companies. These obligations are linked to a particular project, for example. B to the construction of infrastructure. The proceeds of the loan will then be used to finance this project and the coupons and capital will be paid through the project revenues. The U.S. Treasury bond is a highly valued loan, so the yields of these bonds when performing financial calculations, such as. Β the calculation of own capital costs, such as.B. The return on equity (ROE) is a measure of a company`s profitability that divides a company`s annual return (net income) by the value of total equity (i.e.
12%). RoE combines the income statement and the balance sheet, because net profit or profit is compared to equity. Under capmCapital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is a model that describes the relationship between the expected return and the risk of a security. The CAPM formula shows that the return of a security corresponds to the risk-free return, plus a risk premium, based on the beta of that security. A maturity bond can be compared to a serial bond that periodically sets different timelines until the issue is withdrawn. A loan term refers to the issuance of bonds that are repaid simultaneously. Long-term bonds can be short-term or long-term, with some having a longer term than others. In addition, they are tax-exempt and relatively risk-free, with a low return on interest rates. In contrast, serial bonds have different maturities and offer different interest rates. For example, a company can issue a loan of $US 1 million and spread its repayment of $250,000 over five years.
Companies tend to issue long-term bonds in which all these debts are due at the same time. On the other hand, municipalities prefer to combine serial and temporary issues, so that some debts are due in a single block, while the payment of others is levied. A serial bond structure is a common strategy for communal yield bonds, as these bonds are issued for pricing projects built by states and cities. Suppose a city builds a sports stadium funded by parking fees, stadium concession revenue, and rental income. If the bond issuer considers that the facility can generate income consistently each year, it may structure the bond for serial maturities. With a decrease in the total amount of outstanding bonds, the future risk in the event of a bond issue in default also decreases. Forward bonds with an appeal function may be repaid on a specified date earlier before the maturity date. A call function or call provision is an agreement that bond issuers enter into with investors.
This agreement is contained in a document called Indenture, which explains how and when the loan can be called, including multiple call data over the entire term of the loan. Thus, the issuer of a searchable loan can repay the loan at a predetermined price at certain times before the maturity of the loan. . . . | 3,286 | 1,553 | 6,931.703799 |
warc | 202143 | 25 Nov Puddle and Lake
I want to point to the disorientation that loss of memory can have on our mental landscape. Loss of memory can create mental fog and confusion. Things may not be quite as they seem. For me, it can be as if I have forgotten a vital key in a chain of events.
Loss of memory can be a normal part of the aging process. It may be a symptom of hormonal changes, or be as a result of a variety of health conditions. It can be affected by nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes, the body needs to prioritise other more essential functions. In my case it may be a legacy that remains post having had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I have a sense that the holes in my ability to remember are growing at an alarming rate. The spectre of dementia hangs just out of sight, but lurks. It’s disconcerting to find that something essential has been lost from my inner view. Giving myself the benefit of the doubt, I imagine my capacity to remember is like the ‘muddle drawer’ in the kitchen. It keeps on having things stuffed into it at random, until there’s no more room, and things are forced to slip down the back out of sight.
I have strategies. I keep lists, type notes, add even small things to the calendar, keep things in logical places and set timers. These adaptations work well for life admin tasks. More strategic intentions are often harder to stay on track with. It’s easy to find that something important has disappeared, submerged without trace. The undertow of persistent low-level stress may be making it more difficult to stay with previous levels of efficiency.
I stand wondering why I am in this room. I forgot the one thing I went to the shop for. I have no recall of the film we saw last night. Today I am glad that I found my keys, and I finally put that letter in the post. Now what was that urgent task I wanted to add to my to-do list? Things may fall out of my head, but I trust that if they are really important, they will return later. | 1,995 | 1,053 | 3,719.074074 |
warc | 202143 | Health Course
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The five ways to identify the quality of the oil are seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, and inquiring. First of all, pure vegetable oil is colorless and transparent,and if added by some pigment or impurity during production process, its color and transparency will be changed.
Secondly, each type of oil has its unique smell. If there is a slight foul smell coming out, it might be the "gutter oil" because the normal cooking oil will only send out slightly faint scent. And it is more likely to be "gutter oil" if it smells stinky after being heated.
Moreover, you may taste the oil using chopsticks. If it has slight sour or strange taste, it probably is the “gutter oil”
In addition, you may identify the sound when you light up the oil. It will be the qualified oil if there is no sound coming out. If it is with “creak” sound and abnormal combustion, the water content in the oil must exceed the standard. And if it has explosion sound, the oil must contain much higher water and probably mixed with fake products.
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warc | 202143 | Ok- who is trying their best to stay home during this quarantine but keeps running out of something and needs to go to the store?? In my efforts to find toilet paper I have forgot Half & Half, Coffee Filters and a couple other things. Here is a list of ways to eliminate multiple shopping trips throughout the week that will keep you out of the stores AND help you save money!
I used to hear from people that they just don’t have the time to do some of these things, but if you do take the time now while you have it- it gets EASIER. Then when this quarantine is all over you will have developed some money saving habits that will last!!! If you have ANY questions or need someone to walk you through menu planning, budgeting, online grocery ordering just email me Diana@pantryoverflow.com I would love to help you!!
How is your shopping going? So much has changed- but there are still some great deals out there!! This week I was able to find everything I needed to shop for my menu at Grocery Outlet! I was able t o go through what I had at home- stick to my $50 Budget and having a great trip!!!! Here is my 2 minute video with my shopping tips and what I bought this week!!
Okay- Who grabbed all the coupons from the newspaper on Sunday!! It was a great day with 3 inserts!!!
There are 2 ways to organize them-and NO it is not piling them up on the counter!! Here is a quick video to get you started organizing your coupons!!!!!
Want to start couponing, but don’t know where to get the coupons from?? There are many different resources for finding coupons. #1 Sunday Newspaper. Each Sunday (excluding holidays) there are inserts filled with coupons. They are the Smart Source, RetailMe Not, monthly Procter and Gamble. Buying multiple copies of the paper, will get you multiple coupons to be able to buy more of what is a really good deal. #2 Printable Coupon Websites There are websites that are specifically for printing out coupons from home. You can usually print 2 of each coupon-per computer. Here are some of the most popular coupon printable sites; These are good ones to start with. #3 Manufacturer Websites If there is a specific brand or item that you use, or are planning on buying, then visit their website and they will usually have a tab that says ‘offers’ , ‘promotions’, or ‘coupons’. Sometimes you have to enter your email address or sign up, but this can be helpful because they will email you when they have more coupons for you to print! #4 Coupon Books While shopping in your local grocery store, look for coupon books. Sometimes manufacturers put out coupon books by their products. Also, some stores, like Safeway, put out their own coupon books of manufacturer coupons every month, bi-monthly, or for holidays. So keep your eye out because they go pretty fast. #5 Peelie Coupons, Blinkie Coupons, and Tearpad Coupons These are all coupons found in the grocery store during your shopping trip Peelies are coupons attached to the actual item you are buying. These coupons need to be ‘peeled off before you pay to get the savings. So if you are buying something, see if any of the items have a coupon attached and buy those. Blinkies are the coupons that come out of a small mounted machine with the blinking lights. usually the ones kids can reach and pull out a whole bunch of.. Tearpad Coupons are usually attached to the shelf or display next to the product that the coupons are for. It is good coupon manners to NOT take the whole thing!! (Even though it could be tempting!) #6 Online Clipping Services If you don’t have the time, or want to make it a bit easier, you can order coupons already clipped! There are coupon services that offer the same coupon in the paper, plus other regional coupons that you can buy for a small fraction of the coupon amount. This is convenient if you are buying large amounts of an item, or if you work a lot and still want to coupon. Once you start looking for coupons, you will find them everywhere! The key is knowing what to do with them after you find them! If you are just getting started, you can read more about that HERE! If you have been to one of my coupon classes, read my article Where Do I Find Coupons?, or have piles of coupons laying around-you might want to know ” Now What??”” The Binder Method– I recommend this for those who want to start a stockpile of food, that are not used to all the products, or that are unfamiliar with products that you have coupons for. With this method, you will cut out your coupons, put them in baseball card holders, and keep them in a 3 ring binder (a large one!). Then use dividers to sort your coupons into categories. This way you can see the pictures on the coupon and will be able to find them quicker. You will need A 3 ring binder (3″ or larger) Baseball card holder inserts-found in a 30 pack at Target in the baseball card section-around $5 Page Dividers-usually 1 or $2 each, I used 3 packs Filing Method With this method you do not cut your coupons until you are going to use them. If cutting coupons seems like a lot of work, you aren’t a really frequent shopper, or you don’t really want to start stockpiling, I would suggest this method for you. How this works is when you get your coupon inserts you keep them whole. Write the date on the front of the insert and file them in a sheet protector in a binder, a hanging file crate, or a way you can keep them together for quick reference. Then, when you are going shopping you can check the internet (pantryoverflow.com!) for the best deals for where you are shopping. There you will see the date of the coupon and which insert to find it in. Then, you just go and cut the ones you need for that trip. The only downfall of this is that if you are at the store and see a really great deal you won’t have your coupons with you and you would have to go home and figure out where it is and have to come back another time. If you have some other way of keeping organized use that! Too many times I have heard people just letting their coupons pile up, getting frustrated and throwing them away. THEY ARE LIKE MONEY!! You wouldn’t just leave your money laying around in piles would you, or throw it away because you didn’t want to organize it? The important thing is to just find what works best for you. You may try one way and find out the other works better, or come up with something different, and this is great. Once you get started you will find out what is the best for YOU! Once you get started and get organized is when the fun really begins!! Email me Diana@PantryOverflow.com if you have ANY questions or need any more help!! …I wrote this blog post back in 2011- and I just wanted to repost it now for any couponers who are thinking about whether or not they should give, sell or keep their stockpiles during this time. I am very greatful for the items that I have been able to stock up on- and honestly there are some items I amnot parting with. BUT- many items I have stocked up on are items that I KNOW I will be able to replenish when this is all over- so I can freely share (and save people from going to the stores where they are sold out anyways!)
How You Can Stockpile
AND Give at the Same Time?
One of the most fun things about couponing is being able to GIVE out of the items I buy with my coupons! I remember when giving away food, household, and beauty items would have seemed CRAZY because I could barely figure out how to get all of it for my own family. Well, thank God that isn’t true anymore!
It is possible to stockpile food for your family, save money, AND give to others.
Everyone has their own story of how much they give, how much they save or stockpile, I will just share with you mine-
I started couponing and it was just such a fun challenge to be able to get so much for so little. I would get 20 boxes of cereal, we would eat some and give some away. Then, when it would be almost gone I would think-“Maybe I shouldn’t have given away all of our cereal” Then before the cereal was gone, it would be on sale again, and using coupons I could get a really good deal and stock up again. Because I had been through times of not enough, I started thinking maybe I am giving away too much, maybe it won’t go on sale again, maybe I will run out before the next sale.
Maybe you are thinking the same thing- I can assure you, that if you stay organized and focused, you will NOT run out, and you will still be able to give. You know the saying-you reap what you sow? It is true. If you are taking care of others, you will be taken care of.
I am not a ‘hoarder’, but in the beginning I would get deals on items like high priced hair products, make up, name brand body washes and things that I could not justify spending money on before-those things I would store in a cupboard separate from the things I would give away. Well, 2 months later when they would go on sale again, I realized how silly that was! Then, I gave away what I had, and replaced it with the new purchase. As time went on, I started to see that this was common for just about everything I was buying. So then, I started giving more and more. At any time I could completely stop buying some things, and I have enough to last a long time, but I really enjoy couponing, so I have to give most of the stuff away so I have room!
I know people who just buy and buy stuff and just keep it all to have it, maybe because it is fun, it honestly does feel good to have full cupboards and pantries. I also know people on the other end who for example buy a lot of things, give it away, and then they run out for themselves! I know someone who got some really good diaper deals-gave a bunch of diapers away, and then had to go pay full price when they ran out!
You can have full cupboards, pantries, and a stockpile that will keep you from needing to buy things. The way I keep things balanced is doing a combination of giving and stockpiling. Balance is the key!
Your percentage CAN keep going up! Don’t feel bad at the beginning if you are keeping more than you are giving. Once your expenses decrease and your stockpile increases, you will need less and less and you are setting yourself up to be able to give at a greater level. When you are giving away some portion of what you are getting for cheap or free, it will keep you from hoarding, or from the feeling of ‘I don’t have enough for myself so I need to keep it’.
So have fun with couponing, keep stockpiling, keep giving, and stay balanced!!!!!!!! If you want to learn more about stockpiling, go HERE BOGO, WYB, PG, SS, What do all these abbreviations mean??? Well. couponers have our own language really!. When you follow coupon blogs and get most of your coupon information online, you will see lots of abbreviations and terms that only make sense to couponers! Here is a list of common terms and their definitions- SS=Smart Source-the name of one type of coupon insert in the newspaper. You will most likely see 7/31 SS, which means the Smart Source coupon insert from July 31. RMN=Retail Me Not-Retail Me Not is another coupon insert that comes in the paper. PG=Procter and Gamble=Coupon insert that comes monthly in the newspaper with Procter and Gamble brand items. wyb=when you buy-sometimes coupons are $1 off 2 items, so the price shown will be wyb 2(when you buy 2). BOGO=Buy one get one free-this means you have to buy 2, and one is free. You can only use your coupon on the one you are paying for. OOP=out of pocket-after coupons, rewards and discounts, oop is what you actually will spend in cash wyb=when you buy-there are sales where you get the sale price by buying multiple items, buy 4 and pay $1.99 each. =$1.99 wyb4 MIR=mail in rebate-sometimes products have promotions where you can mail your receipt and a form in to get a rebate. Ymmv=your mileage may vary-this means someone found a great deal, but it may not work at every store, so you have to determine if you want to try it for yourself Drugstore Terms ECB, EB-CVS has Extra Care Bucks as part of their reward system. In coupon blog scenarios, they will often be referred to as ECB or EB, and they are just like having cash to spend in CVS. RR-Register Rewards-Walgreens offers Register Rewards as part of their reward system Overage-if an item is $1 and you have a $1.50 coupon, $.50 is considered overage. This is a VERY happy word for Target and Walmart shopping! If you are just starting out couponing, following coupon blogs will give you LOTS of examples to get you started. To avoid being overwhelmed, start with one store at a time, one deal at a time and once you get the hang of it you can increase your stores, deals, and savings. | 12,817 | 5,627 | 28,786.43078 |
warc | 202143 | Panelists at this year’s No Nukes Asia Forum (NNAF) in Taipei yesterday highlighted the risks posed by nuclear energy and its rapid expansion despite the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster three years ago.
NNAF Japan coordinator Daisuke Saito told the forum that three years after the meltdown in Japan, about 140,000 displaced residents still live in shelters.
Despite spending ￥10 trillion (US$91.7 billion) to remove a 10cm-thick layer of soil contaminated by nuclear radiation, the Japanese government has yet to succeed in purging the land, he added.
Photo: CNA
The hope to abolish nuclear energy is a universal one, Saito said, citing as an example Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, where discussions on the reactivation of Sendai Power Plant are taking place, prompting about 16,000 Tokyo residents to take to the streets last week to protest the plan.
An additional 8,000 Kagoshima residents rallied in their hometown — a remarkable display of public opinion in the rural prefecture, he said.
Saito also apologized in his capacity as a Japanese national on behalf of Japanese companies Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp for exporting nuclear reactor modules to Taiwan that were used in the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮).
Mari Takenouchi, a Japanese reporter from Okinawa Prefecture, accused the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation of publishing false studies that claim nuclear radiation is “harmless” to the human body.
Calling the committee’s move “criminal,” she said that the UN might appear to show concern over threats posed by nuclear power, but it is lobbying for development of the high-risk energy.
She said the chance of contracting thyroid cancer in Fukushima used to be one in 1 million, but after the nuclear accident, the figure rose to one in 3,000.
Takenouchi said the nuclear radiation emitted in the aftermath of the accident not only affected Fukushima residents, but spread across a vast area.
“My family and I were in Tokyo on March 15, 2011, when a nuclear cloud [generated from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown] passed over the city. During the several weeks that followed, my son developed fever 12 or 13 times, lost weight and had rashes all over,” she said.
Since the accident, many Fukushima residents reported symptoms including vomiting, abnormal nosebleed and loss of body hair, Takenouchi added.
Daniel Tam (譚棨禧), a member of the Hong Kong Alliance Against Nukes, warned of the rapid pace at which China is constructing nuclear plants in its coastal provinces, saying that it has least 20 operating plants and is planning to build 28 more.
“Countries all over the world have been more cautious with their nuclear energy policies after the Dai-ichi disaster. Yet, China is building nuclear plants at a speed unprecedented in human history,” he said.
“Hong Kong has been using nuclear energy for more than 20 years. Therefore, many Hong Kongers feel obligated to monitor the operation of power plants. I hope that the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong can have more interactions by disseminating information on this issue,” he said.
‘SMEAR CAMPAIGN’: The ‘Global Times’ accused the DPP of offering politicians in Somaliland bribes and promoting Taiwanese independence by funding US think tanks The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday denounced China’s Global Times for disseminating disinformation about Taiwan, after the Chinese state-run newspaper claimed that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been bribing Somaliland politicians. Taiwan in August last year inaugurated the Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland, which is the nation’s only representative office whose title uses just the name “Taiwan.” The East African country also established a representative office in Taipei, despite the absence of formal diplomatic relations. The Chinese-language Global Times on Monday accused the DPP of offering Somaliland politicians and their families considerable bribes, citing anonymous sources. The International Cooperation
Phase 2 clinical trial results of the Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday were published on the Web site of The Lancet: Respiratory Medicine, in an early preview before publication. The study paves the way for other nations to issue emergency use authorizations or produce the Medigen vaccine, given The Lancet’s credibility as a highly respected medical journal with a rigorous peer-review process, Medigen’s international affairs director Lien Chia-en (連加恩) said. Lien said that the study is important as it proposes methods for converting international units for efficacy comparisons. The methods have been used for correlating the efficacy of hepatitis B
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday in his Double Ten National Day message accused the Democratic Progressive Party government of inciting fear and anti-China sentiment, while making an appeal to Beijing to accept Taiwan’s existence. After attending the morning celebrations outside the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, Ko, who is chairman of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), wrote on Facebook a “happy birthday” message to the Republic of China (ROC) in which he reflected on the nation’s values, and condemned partisan politics and Chinese aggression. In the 110 years since Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙) founded Asia’s first democratic republic, the ROC on Taiwan
Ambassador Theaters on Tuesday announced that its Breeze Center cinemas in Taipei’s Songshan District (松山) would close late this month after screening thousands of major Hollywood movies and local favorites over two decades. Ambassador Theaters, one of the largest cinema chain operators in Taiwan, said that Oct. 25 would be the last day the Breeze Center cinemas screen movies, adding that its lease expires on that day. “We sincerely appreciate the support and recognition from audiences in Taipei over the past 20 years,” the company said. “We look forward to seeing you again in the future.” The cinemas started operating in 2001, upon | 6,361 | 3,109 | 12,419.192666 |
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warc | 202143 | NEW YORK – Within the darkest occasions of the previous 12 months, Stephanie Dua, co-founder and president of HOMER, a New York Metropolis-based on-line studying program, drew on the primary classes about onerous work and optimism she discovered. together with his father’s almond and walnut. farm.
From about four years previous, Dua labored like a “nut” on the farm in Waterford, California, gathering nuts after a machine pulled them out of the timber.
“You at all times knew loopy folks as a result of your fingers have been going black from all of the walnut shells you have been selecting up,” mentioned Dua, 50, who was paid 5 cents a bucket.
“I discovered lots about onerous work, drawback fixing, and easy methods to hold doing it till it is performed,” mentioned Dua, who now lives in Coconut Grove, Florida, together with her husband and three daughters, ages 11 to 16. . “Even when issues are unsolved or unstructured, there may be at all times a solution to go.”
To assist educators and households affected by faculty closings, HOMER gave educators free entry to its packages and moved to supply boards and ideas for folks who all of a sudden wanted recommendation on homeschooling their kids. .
Dua spoke to Reuters about studying by way of a pandemic. Edited excerpts beneath.
Q. How has your enterprise modified up to now 12 months?
A. When Covid-19 and homeschooling began, we realized that we had been engaged on this for 10-15 years. It’s my life’s work to assist present a high quality schooling for everybody, no matter zip code.
Within the first weeks of March, we launched a “Ask the Professional” collection led by our VP of Baby and Household Growth. We created an exercise middle to supply high-quality actions that oldsters might do with kids that have been simple, resembling utilizing objects or components within the kitchen to strengthen simple arithmetic ideas like counting.
Q. What methods to coach and contain your daughters have labored properly?
A. We actually do concentrate on a couple of fundamentals, like baking and gardening.
Pinterest is an unbelievable supply of actions. For instance, in gardening, my Pinterest confirmed us easy methods to make a dust mattress. And my children did the analysis to seek out out which one is finest for this local weather. They developed a mattress of flowers and herbs that we are likely to all through the spring and summer season.
Q. What essential lesson are you making an attempt to show your kids?
A. A way of company: they belong and are a part of a group, ensuring they’ve values that transcend abilities and information.
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My 16-year-old daughter, Anya, is now a thought chief in her personal proper – she based Gen Z Id Lab, an area for Gen Z to debate identification in a non-divisive means. And through Covid, my youngest daughter, Isla, co-founded a motion, Miami Robust. She was making masks and handing them out to these in want.
Q. What recommendation would you give dad and mom making an attempt to dwelling faculty proper now?
A. Fulfill a double perform. When you’re cooking, take into consideration how one can flip it right into a math lesson. In case you are taking a stroll, take into consideration how one can take the chance to pay attention and listen to what is occurring along with your baby.
We’re all so busy. We’re hungry for time. Take what you’re doing anyway and make it an awesome expertise for your loved ones.
Q. What’s your greatest problem in work life?
A. Not permitting my very own fears and anxieties to have an effect on my household. In the course of the early days of Covid, we did not know what to anticipate. My husband and I had a dialog through which we mentioned, even when we really feel anxious about well being issues, household, the financial system, we can not convey that into our youngsters’s lives.
Q. What has been the optimistic facet of the previous 12 months?
A. My husband and daughter obtained Covid 4 days earlier than Christmas. We determined that nobody might go away their rooms.
I used to be the nurse, so I needed to carry a tray from room to room and drop off drinks, meals, and Tylenol. Fortuitously, they have been all advantageous, but it surely was very scary.
I actually discovered a whole lot of love and assist round us: folks would go away meals on the door, video games that kids might play.
We’re new to Miami. We’ve solely been right here two years. This was a time to get to know our neighbors higher. It has additionally introduced us nearer to family and friends. | 4,687 | 2,375 | 8,959.570526 |
warc | 202143 | While CBD and its near sibling THC have many of the same therapeutic effects, the two chemicals function in the body in completely different ways. CBD, unlike THC, does not impair mental or physical function in the majority of users, even at very high doses. CBD works with the body functions to refresh, repair, and rejuvenate the body.
The Endocannabinoid System is a biological system found in all mammals that plays a critical role in our ability to respond to illness and injury while also maintaining overall health. The human body is full of endocannabinoids and their receptors. CBD works through regulating the activity of the ECS, as well as various other bodily systems.
How CBD Benefits the Body
What are some of the benefits of CBD you ask? Well, all kinds of different options! For starters, CBD is by far the most popular because of its pain-relieving properties. It can assist with everything from physical pain like arthritis to neuropathic pain-like multiple sclerosis. If you have an inflammatory condition that is causing you pain, take some CBD oil and the discomfort should disappear quickly as CBD works as a natural anti-inflammatory
However, CBD doesn’t help with just pain! According to the World Health Organization, depression affects approximately 300 million people worldwide. Anxiety affects a significant portion of these people. These are two utterly horrible mental illnesses that have the potential to wreck a person’s life. Several medical experts, on the other hand, have discovered that CBD can help patients with depression and anxiety. It also aids in the reduction of social and public speaking anxiety.
Public speaking is an interesting benefit of CBD because it is not necessarily an ailment. Fear is a common type of anxiety. It can range from a bubbly nervousness to paralyzing fear and panic. Most people with this fear avoid public speaking altogether, or they suffer through them with shaking hands and a quavering voice. Try 10mg-20mg before your next public speaking event. It also helps to prepare yourself before the big moment by getting a feel for the room prior to the big event.
Heart disease, strokes, and heart attacks are all caused by high blood pressure. If you took one dose of CBD oil each day, your blood pressure could be reduced. That indicates you’re less likely to suffer from one of these conditions. Not only that! But CBD is also thought to protect pancreatic beta cells from a disease known as insulitis. Because insulitis is a major cause of Type I Diabetes, avoiding it can also help you avoid diabetes. CBD, on the other hand, can help patients with diabetes manage the disease’s side effects, such as memory loss and neuroinflammation.
CBD can be also be used to treat epileptic seizures in some cases.
In 2018, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of CBD for patients aged 2 and up to treat seizures caused by Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome, two rare forms of epilepsy.
The FDA’s conclusion is based on the findings of three well-researched studies.
How CBD Works For Sleep
Well, what about sleep? For example, can CBD help someone with insomnia?
CBD was studied in 2019 to see whether it could help people sleep better and feel less anxious. The study included 72 participants, 47 of whom had anxiety and 25 of whom had poor sleep. Every day, the participants were given 25 milligrams (mg) of CBD in pill form. Patients reported decreased anxiety levels and improved sleep in the first month, with 79.2 percent reporting lower anxiety and 66.7 percent reporting better sleep.
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warc | 202143 | During the last decade, thousands of people have taken to “living in the country.” Dissatisfied with the crowded conditions of city life, families have sought out the freedom of the suburban way of life to raise their children.
At first, they felt uncertain, they would easily commute to the downtown church where they have been members since childhood, but as the traffic on weekends increased, and babies grew to school age, life became more complicated and excuses were easily found to limit their church attendance, and virtually bring participation in activities to a sudden halt.
This trend must be brought forcefully to the attention of the Church of Jesus Christ. Something MUST be done to meet the need. This suburban trend must be looked upon as a great challenge. It is an open door of evangelism.
God’s will and command has ever been, “to go everywhere preaching the word.” We are nowhere encouraged to colonize our people, and just hold our ground. We must expand. We must advance now with the message of Christ.
Eternity could well reveal that this was part of the program of God to spread the gospel into new communities. Church of God, let us take up the challenge and take to gospel to these districts, opening Sunday Schools, Bible Clubs, Gospel Services, using our suburban church members to blaze the trail of evangelism in their local neighbourhoods.
God’s will and command has ever been, “to go everywhere preaching the word.” We are nowhere encouraged to colonize our people, and just hold our ground. We must expand. We must advance now with the message of Christ.
The suburbs today will be the city tomorrow. Will these cities have strong gospel churches testifying of the grace of God, or are we going to be satisfied to let your couple with their precious children join themselves to modern churches and lose their youth from the glorious truths that we enjoy in our established assemblies of the Full Gospel.
Our churches must take serious inventory of their “enlargement program” and redeem every opportunity to open these areas for Jesus Christ.
Perhaps someone is reading this article who lives in such an unevangelized area. You see homes springing up all around, families moving in, schools being built, shopping centers erected, but no one is building a Full Gospel, Bible-preaching church.
Why not begin to pray for this need yourself. Consult your pastor in your home church, and seek to get him to see your vision and have the burden shared in the assembly prayer meeting. God will direct you from there, and lead you as to what should be done. The “field is the world” and the door is wide open. The grain is ripe already to harvest. Put ye in the sickle, for there are multitudes in the valley of decision.
“Pray ye therefore that the Lord of the Harvest will send forth labourers into His Harvest.”
—By A.E. Sheppard in The End Times’ Messenger August-September 1961
I often get asked the question, “where is the best place to plant a church?” My answer is always the same. “Step out on your front deck and have a look around and see if there isn’t somebody broken and lost in your neighborhood or your community!”
The truth is that we have been called to be salt and light in a broken and needy world. There are three fundamental realities in play today.
First, the gospel never changes. It is the power of God. Paul said it is the only thing that brings about life and change and hope in humanity. What is the intent of the gospel? It is that people’s lives would be liberated, that they would be transformed, and that they would be restored.
When it comes to planting churches, it really comes down to how do we engage the world around us with the gospel? Our focus is to help people discover a life-changing experience with Jesus and then walk with them, helping them become disciples of Jesus.
Church planting, therefore, becomes a matter of establishing disciple-making communities more than an attractional gathering as we have understood it in the past. It changes how we think about what a church might look like.
Second, though the gospel never changes the world has changed. It has changed socially, it’s changed generationally, it’s changed culturally, it’s changed ethnically, it’s changed economically, and it’s changed politically.
Our values have changed, there are just so many things in the world right now that are different even in the last ten years or so. Understanding how the church engages in those changes becomes a critical question when anticipating what a church planting movement will look like.
Third, if the gospel never changes but the world has changed the reality is that the church has to change. My conviction about what the “Newchurch” movement will look like is going to be considerably different than what we have done up to this point.
To be clear, I am not critical of the local church as we currently understand it. God is clear about not being judgmental of the local church in its many and varied forms, not attacking it, or being negative about it.
The local church model as we understand it serves a valuable role in caring for people and for supporting and nurturing people. However, when it comes to our missional engagement I think we are coming up short.
The future of church planting comes down to: what are we going to do? And how are we going to focus our efforts in reaching the lost and the broken in our world?
—Rev. Cal Ellerby, Church Planting Catalyst & Rocky Mountain Regional Director | 5,661 | 2,538 | 12,236.503546 |
warc | 202143 | Contact Details Address: 500 Ccc Road, Belzoni, MS, 39038 GPS: 33.182603,-90.470181 Phone: 6622471821 Website: http://www.medicarelist.com/nursing-home/humphreys-co-nursing-center-belzoni-ms/ Opening Times Monday 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Tuesday 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Wednesday 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Thursday 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Friday 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday Closed Sunday Closed Send To A Friend Get Directions
This page includes contact information about the Humphreys Co Nursing Center like street address and directions, phone number, inspections, penalties and other useful information.
This facility address is: 500 Ccc Road, Belzoni, MS, 39038. Humphreys Co Nursing Center is ranked 1 out of 1 total Nursing Home Facilities in the city of Belzoni, 115 out of 520 facilities within 20 mile radius and 22 out of 206 facilities within the state of Mississippi. They have 49.0 Residents in Beds and 60.0 Medicaid Beds.
About Nursing home and Assisted living 60 certified beds Participates in : Medicare and Medicaid Automatic sprinkler systems in all required areas :Yes Not in a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) Not in a hospital Has a Resident and Family Council Cost and Pricing Information
Facility Private Room Monthly Cost Non-private Room Monthly Cost Humphreys Co Nursing Center* $5,566 $5,414 State Average Cost $6,586 $6,357 On Medicaid it may be possible to to have the full cost of care covered, less the income of the individual receiving care. Online services Inspection Results
Each year, an inspection is carried out by the Regional Liaison Officers to ensure that the services offered by a nursing home meet the official requirements. The Department of Social Development brings in the inspecting officers. The examinations are usually a surprise, and their completion can take a couple of days. Besides yearly evaluations from the Department of Social Development, they can also make an extra visit if there are contentions about the well-being of nursing home residents. For evaluating the situation and taking suitable action, a follow-up visit can be made.
Moreover, yearly inspections are performed by the Department of Health Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health (Public Health) and the Department of Public Safety inspection services, including the Office of the Fire Marshal as well. As the checks take place annually, they should always be updated before the issuance or renewal of licenses of nursing homes.
Overall rating: 4 (Above Average).
Quality of resident care: 4 (Above Average). Long-stay quality of resident care: 5 (Much Above Average). Health inspections
The health examinations page of Nursing Home Compare has the following information:
Info on a nursing home’s health inspections Complaints filed Resulting citations
Nursing homes, which are certified by Medicare and Medicaid, are investigated annually. Health care specialists thoroughly examine a nursing home for any present health and safety citations. The rating on a health examination page is rewarded according to a nursing home’s most recent and the last two health assessments. Results of the preceding three years of complaint files and inspection revisits are also accounted for in the star rating.
Health Inspection rating: 4 (Above Average). Total number of health citations: 2 Average number of health citations in Mississippi: 4.2 Average number of health citations in the U.S.: 8.3 Fire safety inspections
Medicare or Medicaid-certified nursing homes should always meet the official safety standards set by government authoritiesto guarantee the safety of the residents. Fire safety experts check the nursing homes for the LSC (Life Safety Code) bar,fire safety, and emergency readiness set of CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services). These are intended for preventingfires and protecting residents in unfortunate cases of emergency like a fire, tornado, flood, hurricane, gas leak, or power failure.
Automatic Sprinkler Systems in All Required Areas: Yes Total number of fire safety citations: 0 Average number of fire safety citations in MS: 0.5 Average number of fire safety citations in the U.S.: 3.0 Staffing rating
Data in the Staffing Rating section mentions any present licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/LVN), registered nurses (RN),nurse aides, and physical therapists (PT). Note that physical therapists are not counted in the “all staffing” rating. Additionally,the staff-resident health ratio is also considered in the “staffing” star rating. A nursing home that houses residents of lower and averagehealth might need more staff as compared to a nursing home where the average health condition of the residents is better.
Staffing rating: 2 (Below Average). Average number of residents per day: 52.2 (the state of 78.3 and a National average of 86.1). Total number of licensed nurse staff hours per resident per day: 1 hour and 13 minutes (the state of 1 hour and 40 minutes and a National average of 1 hour and 34 minutes). RN hours per resident per day: 28 minutes (the state of 37 minutes and a National average of 41 minutes). LPN/LVN hours per resident per day: 45 minutes (the state of 1 hour and 3 minutes and a National average of 52 minutes). Nurse aide hours per resident per day: 2 hours and 36 minutes (the state of 2 hours and 23 minutes and a National average of 2 hours and 18 minutes). Physical therapist staff hours per resident per day: Less than 1 minute (the state of 2 minutes and a National average of 5 minutes). Registered Nurse staffing rating
These are certified healthcare workers responsible for coordination, management, and general delivery of care to the residentsof a nursing home. The rating of RN staffing depends on the staff-sick resident ratio. Some residents of a nursing home are not ashealthy as other residents might need more care, so nursing homes with more RN staff will be better equipped to fulfill the caring needs of such residents.
Registered Nurse staffing rating: 2 (Below Average). Average number of residents per day: 52.2 (the state of 78.3 and a National average of 86.1). RN hours per resident per day: 28 minutes (the state of 37 minutes and a National average of 41 minutes). Penalties
If a nursing home receives a severe citation and is unable to improve on it for long, a penalty may be imposed. This penalty can be either a fine or a canceled payment from Medicare.
Federal fines in the last 3 years: 1 Amount(s) and date(s): $90,081 on 09/21/2017 Payment denials by Medicare in the last 3 years: 0 Popular questions at Humphreys Co Nursing Center How much does Medicare pay for nursing home?
Medicare does not cover the full cost of staying in a nursing home. Medicare does cover the first 100 days in any skilled nursing facility, but after that point you will need to rely on savings, long-term care insurance, Medicaid, or another solution to pay your nursing home expenses.
What happens when one spouse goes to a nursing home?
Medicaid has spousal protection rules in place, which vary from state to state. These rules are in place to ensure that the spouse can keep the assets and income they need to live comfortably. In most cases, spouses can continue to use the entirety of their own income. They may be able to access a portion of their spouse’s income, depending on the situation. The spouse will also be able to keep 50 percent of the couple’s total joint assets.
How much does it cost to stay in a veterans nursing home?
Every state has state veterans’ homes, which are nursing homes that are subsidized by the state government and the VA. These homes are priced on a sliding scale depending on the veteran’s current income. The VA also offers stipends for long-term care costs. These stipends are often over $100 per day.
How can I pay my nursing home expenses with Social Security?
If you’re a senior who is receiving Social Security income, you can use it to help pay for your nursing home expenses. However, it’s important to note that Social Security usually isn’t enough to cover the cost of living in a nursing home. You’ll need to use another form of income, whether that’s long-term care insurance or savings you may have, to pay for Social Security in its entirety. It’s also important to note that if you are using Medicaid to pay for your nursing home costs, you may need to forfeit some or all of your Social Security income, depending on how much you receive.
How to get a dementia patient into a nursing home?
Caring for someone who has dementia or Alzheimer’s can be very challenging. While every situation is different, there are some key signs that a dementia patient should be moved into a facility with care available around the clock. Some of these signs include:
Frequent wandering Difficulty moving around No caregiver available locally Family caregivers are stressed and unable to maintain a balanced life | 8,968 | 3,644 | 21,782.592755 |
warc | 202143 | Among the members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 110 countries examine the central bank’s digital currencies (CBDCs), revealed the fund’s president and CEO Kristalina Georgieva at an event hosted by Bocconi University in Italy. Speaking externally to the public, she noted that the key challenge for monetary authorities now is to guarantee the interoperability of these currencies.
According to Georgieva, a major consideration is whether state-sponsored digital currencies can serve as a means of exchange that the public trusts, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Other questions that politicians need to answer are whether CBDCs can contribute to domestic economic stability and how they would fit within the international regulatory framework introduced by organizations such as the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
The BIS Innovation Hub is leading several projects to test the use of government-issued digital currencies in international transactions, such as a collaboration between the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the South African Reserve Bank. These also include joint trials conducted by China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the UAE as well as a wholesale CBDC test conducted by the Banque de France and the Swiss National Bank.
Referring to cooperation between international financial organizations and national monetary authorities concerning CBDCs, Kristalina Georgieva further stated:
“It is very impressive how much the international community, central banks, institutions like ours are now actively involved in ensuring that money in this fast-paced world of digitalisation is a source of confidence and helps the economy to function rather than [being] a risk “.
The head of the IMF stressed that she considers digital currencies issued by central banks as the most reliable form of digital money, while noting that she has difficulty thinking of cryptocurrencies as money. “De facto assets” such as bitcoin are not supported by assets that keep their value stable and can rise and fall sharply, Georgieva elaborated and insisted:
p style = “box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;”> “In the history of money, it’s hard to think of them as money”.
In his speech at the Italian academic event, the IMF chief also spoke about Europe’s efforts to address the challenges posed by the proliferation of Covid-19. Kristalina Georgieva noted that the old continent is now more prepared to avoid another debt crisis like the one with Greece after the last global financial crisis. However, she stressed that governments need to plan their course carefully when switching to fiscal consolidation in the medium term so that they can erase the debt burden associated with the pandemic. | 2,852 | 1,452 | 5,466.333333 |
warc | 202143 | Abstract
Distribution channel decisions involve long-term commitments with other firms that are very difficult to change or replace. In particular, marketing channel decisions in emerging markets are much more complicated due to unfamiliar conditions and problems such as lack of market data and distribution systems. Therefore, when a company considers changing or introducing a marketing channel in an area, it is much more difficult to judge its effectiveness in an emerging market than in a developed market. In this study, we investigate the development process of a new direct marketing channel of Hongfu Fertilizer Company (hereafter Hongfu), a medium-sized Chinese fertilizer manufacturer, and propose an approach to test the feasibility of this new marketing channel in the Chinese rural market. We measure the effectiveness of Hongfu`s new marketing channel from two perspectives: i) from customers` perspective through direct responses of farmers, which showed that a new channel can increase the convenience and lower the purchasing costs for the farmers, and ii) from the company`s perspective, by calculating the incremental profit of the company using the expansion factor (T/Q) method, which suggested that the execution of Hongfu`s strategy to expand a new marketing channel will result in an increase in profits. The results of this study contribute to the development of a methodology to test the feasibility of a new direct marketing channel in the emerging markets such as the Chinese rural market. Traditional and indirect distribution channels in emerging markets are generally not very efficient and difficult to change. Especially, in emerging markets, like the Chinese rural market, the methods of testing channel feasibility must be different from that of developed markets. Considering market situations, market experiments can be more effective then systematic market surveys in testing channel feasibility in emerging markets. This study implies that managers must learn to cope with a transition from the traditional marketing channels in emerging markets. With the development in farmers` understanding of marketing concept, the transition from traditional marketing channel is unavoidable for all firms. Farmers in China are generally very conservative, however, their buying behaviors are changing. Therefore, fertilizer companies should try to adjust in accordance with farmers` demand characteristics that the efforts to meet the economic needs of farmers with new marketing channels as well as trust building are critical in the near future.
Recommended Citation
Li, Dao Sheng and Hong, Jin Hwan (2013) "Development of a New Direct Marketing Channel in the Chinese Rural Market,"
Asia Marketing Journal: Vol. 15 : Iss. 2 , Article 2. DOI: 10.53728/2765-6500.1517 Available at: https://amj.kma.re.kr/journal/vol15/iss2/2 | 2,864 | 1,314 | 6,224.949772 |
warc | 202143 | Myth as a style of discourse is radically misunderstood by the literal-minded. Literal-mindedness, unfortunately, is a habit to which rational people above all are inclined. In this post, I present excerpts from a book by Chicago scholar Wendy Doniger entitled
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). The excerpts adumbrate a positive view of myth. Page numbers are given in brackets.
One way to begin to define myth is to contextualize it on a continuum of all the narratives constructed of words (poems, realistic fiction, histories, and so forth) — all the various forms of narrations of an experience. If we regard this textual continuum as a visual spectrum, we may use the metaphor of the microscope and/or telescope to epitomize the extreme ends of this narrative vision. The end of the continuum that deals with the entirely personal (a realistic novel, or even a diary), the solipsistic (“This never happened to anyone but me”), is the microscope; this is where I would situate a dream or the entirely subjective retelling of an experience. Some novels on this end of the continuum may be contrasted with myths in several respects. These novels depend on the individual; character is all important; these novels say, this could only happen to this one person or at least only did happen to this one person. In most myths, by contrast, character, except in the broadest terms (young or old, wise or foolish), doesn’t count at all; myths say, this could happen to anyone. [p.7]
On this continuum between the personal and the abstract, myth vibrates in the middle; of all the things made of words, myths span the widest range of human concerns, human paradoxes. Epics too, so closely related to myths, have as their central theme the constant interaction of the two planes, the human and the divine, as the gods constantly intervene in human conflicts. Myths range from the most highly detailed (closest to the personal end of the continuum) to the most stripped down (closest to the artificial construct at the abstract end of the continuum); and each myth may be rendered by the scholar in its micro- or macro- form. If prose is general and translatable, poetry particular and untranslatable, myth is prose at its most general, which is one of the reasons why Lévi-Strauss was able to claim that the essence of myth, unlike the essence of poetry, is translatable. [p.9]
Myth is cross-culturally translatable, which is to say comparable, commensurable. The simultaneous engagement of the two ends of the continuum, the same and the different, the general and the particular, requires a peculiar kind of double vision, and myth, among all genres is uniquely able to maintain that vision. Myth is the most interdisciplinary narrative. [p.9]
Every time we listen to a story with mythic dimensions, about human beings in crisis, and really listen and think about the ways in which it is telling us the story of our own lives — and not the story of our own lives — we see for a moment with the double vision of the human microscope and cosmic telescope. [p.25]
Doniger, Wendy.
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. | 3,271 | 1,561 | 6,762.022422 |
warc | 202143 | FALSE: Unfortunately, no. Spending too much time in the ocean is not recommended when it comes to your lashes. This is because salt can break the bond of your extension, causing it to detach from your natural lash prematurely.
Does salt water ruin fake lashes?
That’s because both chlorine and
salt are known to damage the bond created by lash glue to hold natural and fake eyelashes together. When you spend a long time soaked in chlorinated or saltwater, they can lead to premature loss of your extensions. Does the beach ruin eyelash extensions?
Aftercare advice is important for your eyelash extensions. … Furthermore, the glue that bonds every fake lash to your natural lash requires about 24 hours to dry. After a day, you can swim, surf, shower, or get into the hot tub (with great care still, of course) and your brand-new lashes won’t fall off on their own.
Can you cry after getting eyelash extensions?
Lash extensions are water-resistant. It is
very important to not cry during the process as crying can spread the glue/vapors causing irritation. Crying during the process will also make it very difficult for the glue to dry and bond the extension to your lashes. Do and don’ts for eyelash extensions? Lash Extensions: Do’s and Don’ts According to an Expert DON’T get your extensions wet for 24-48 hours after application. … DO make sure your lash artist uses individual lashes, NOT clusters. … DON’T use oily products near your eyes. … DO take care of your natural lashes. … DON’T forget to brush your lashes. Can you swim with hair extensions?
The hair that extensions are made of can be treated just like your regular hair. …
It’s OK to go swimming, of course, but don’t allow extensions to soak in water for too long, and dry them as soon as you get out of the pool or ocean. Can you swim with magnetic lashes?
Because the lashes are held on with magnets, this means that
they are unaffected by water. They will remain attached even if they get a little wet. This doesn’t mean you can go swimming in them though. If they get thoroughly waterlogged, the weight will pull the lashes out of position. How often should I brush my lash extensions?
To take care of your eyelash extensions, brush your
lashes daily to prevent crisscrossing. A simple 15–20 second sweep through your lashes in the morning will put stray lashes in their place. Do you tip for lash extensions?
In short, yes, receiving a tip for eyelash extension services is customary. Usually
somewhere between 15-20% of the service cost is typical. Just like with any beauty service – getting your hair and nails done, getting a wax, massage, or facial. Can you sleep on your side with lash extensions?
A:
Not necessarily! Most eyelash technicians will highly recommend sleeping on your back in order to protect your eyelash extensions from getting tugged at or pulled off in your sleep. See, when you sleep on your side or on your front, your face usually ends up rubbing against your pillow or bedcovers. What ingredients to avoid with lash extensions?
Avoid anything with PEG (Polyethylene Glycol), Hexalene Glycol, Butylene or Propylene Glycol), which are often found in oil-free removers—they can break down the lash adhesive. | 3,326 | 1,578 | 6,757.386565 |
warc | 202143 | ON PERSONS AND ELEMENTALS: LATE-SOVIET SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY FROM MARXIST HUMANISM TO THE IDEA OF HOMO SOVIETICUS
Sergei Alymov
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
32а Leninskiy Av., Moscow, Russia alymovs()mail.ru
Abstract: The article considers the ideas of personality, humanity, and society in the works of four prominent Russian philosophers and sociologists: G. Batishchev (1932–1990), A. Zinovyev (1922–2006), Yu. Levada (1930–2006), and M. Mamardashvili (1930–1990). The main argument of the article is that the social philosophy of these thinkers evolved along similar lines, which the author describes as an evolution from Marxist humanism to the idea of the society of “Homo Sovieticus”. Comparing the notions of personhood and society expressed in the works of these thinkers, the author traces the shift in their conceptualization. Its starting point was a vision of a harmonious relations between the interests of the person and (Soviet) society. The endpoint was quite the opposite — the idea of their incompatibility. In the late period of their work, the philosophers developed a highly pessimistic view of social life in general. They saw it as a suffocating “communality”, while the people that inhabited it were perceived as semi-illusionary macabre creatures who lived by “natural” social laws. They viewed “civilization” as an antidote to “natural” sociality. At the same time, they developed survival strategies for presumed highly-spiritual “persons” in this harsh environment. The author argues that this intellectual trajectory might be a result of the institutional marginalization and ideological critique aimed at these philosophers. The article also analyses the discussion about the subject matter of philosophy in the late 1960s to early 1970s. It demonstrates that the discussion resulted in an unsuccessful attempt at realizing the development of Marxist humanist anthropology in the USSR. The article is based on fresh archival material which also includes an analysis of the criticism expressed against G. Batishchev and Yu. Levada for their “ideologically incorrect” understanding of the notion of the “person”.
Keywords: personality, humanism, social philosophy, Soviet philosophy, Soviet sociology, Homo Sovieticus, Batishchev, Zinovyev, Levada, Mamardashvili.
Acknowledgments: The research for this paper was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), grant no. 19-09-00126 “Personality and Collective in Provincial Russia: Transformations of Culture and Historical Memory”.
To cite: Alymov S., ‘O lichnostyakh i elementalakh: pozdnesovetskaya sotsialnaya filosofiya ot marksistskogo gumanizma k idee Homo sovieticus’ [On Persons and Elementals: Late-Soviet Social Philosophy from Marxist Humanism to the Idea of Homo Sovieticus], Antropologicheskij forum, 2020, no. 47, pp. 11–52.
doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2020-16-47-11-52 URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/047/alymov.pdf | 3,119 | 1,629 | 5,694.233272 |
warc | 202143 | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps identify how beliefs and thoughts influence feelings and behaviors (and vice versa).
CBT is grounded in the idea that a person’s perception of events –
rather than the events themselves – determines how they will feel and act in response. Likewise, a person may detect a bodily sensation, then have faulty secondary beliefs about the sensory experience (such as in panic or health anxiety), leading to exacerbated sensations, feelings, and thoughts.
With CBT, you’ll be able to define, evaluate, and adjust thoughts that directly influence your emotions and behavior. Studies have shown that changing the way we think can develop new neural pathways in the brain.
Some CBT techniques: Challenging beliefs Radical acceptance Cognitive Restructuring Mindfulness Social, physical, and thinking exercises Journaling Behavioral experiments at home
Cognitive behavioral therapy is more than just talking about whatever comes to mind during a session. CBT sessions are structured to ensure that the therapist and client are focused on specific goals of each session, which the client sets. This ensure that each session is productive.
If you would like to learn more about how CBT can help you or someone you love, contact me for a complimentary consultation. | 1,357 | 755 | 2,388.67947 |
warc | 202143 | Biden rushes to address global computer chip shortage via latest executive order
>> Reuters
Published: 24 Feb 2021 04:53 PM BdST Updated: 24 Feb 2021 04:53 PM BdST
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at addressing a global semiconductor chip shortage that has forced US automakers and other manufacturers to cut production and alarmed the White House and members of Congress, administration officials said.
The scarcity, exacerbated by the pandemic, will be the subject when Biden meets a bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss the issue.
Administration officials said Biden's executive order, to be signed at 4:45 pm EST Wednesday, will launch an immediate 100-day review of supply chains for four critical products: semiconductor chips, large-capacity batteries for electric vehicles, rare earth minerals and pharmaceuticals.
The order will also direct six sector reviews - modelled after the process used by the Defence Department to strengthen the defence industrial base. It will be focused on the areas of defence, public health, communications technology, transportation, energy and food production.
The United States has been besieged by supply shortages since the onset of the pandemic, which squeezed the availability of masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment, hurting frontline workers.
The chip shortage, which in some cases is forcing automakers to take employees off production lines, is the latest example of supply bottlenecks hurting American workers.
"Make no mistake, we're not simply planning to order up reports. We are planning to take actions to close gaps as we identify them," the administration official added.
The chip scarcity has quickly grown into a major headache for the White House.
Ford Motor Co recently said a lack of chips could cut the company's production by up to 20% in the first quarter while General Motors said it was forced to cut output at factories in the United States, Canada and Mexico and would reassess its production plans in mid-March.
US semiconductor firms account for 47% of global chip sales but only 12% of production, because they have outsourced much of the manufacturing overseas, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. In 1990, the US accounted for 37% of global semiconductor production.
Biden has been under pressure from Republican lawmakers to do more to protect American supply chains from China by investing in domestic manufacturing of next-generation semiconductor chips.
"I strongly urge Biden administration to prioritise protecting emerging and critical technologies, like semiconductors, from the grasp of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)," said US Representative Michael McCaul, in a recent letter to the White House from Republicans on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
Under Biden's order, the White House will look to diversify the United States' supply chain dependence for specific products such as rare earth minerals from China.
It will look to develop some of that production in the United States and partner with other countries in Asia and Latin America when it cannot produce such products at home, the official said.
The review will also look at limiting imports of certain materials and train US workers to ramp up production at home.
The supply chain executive order will add to Biden's vow in January to leverage the purchasing power of the US government, the world's biggest single buyer of goods and services, to strengthen domestic manufacturing and create markets for new technologies.
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warc | 202143 | It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention. More than any other development in the recent past, COVID-19 has driven home the need for self-serve/automated assistance to improve customer experience through various digital channels. It has created a sense of urgency that’s driving organizations to explore new tools/solutions that facilitate instantaneous interactions and enable them to respond proactively and meet the ever eluding goal of delivering the highest possible customer satisfaction. As call centers and customer support functions collapse, unable to handle increased call volumes, with long wait times and dropouts leaving frustrated customers fuming, businesses are left with no choice but to desperately explore options to serve customers with immediate assistance.
70% of companies either have a digital transformation strategy in place or are working on one.
Below is a sample of the rage customers are reacting with over their contact center experience - clearly indicating that things need an immediate fix.
Could digital deflection pave the way for a better communication experience?
Let’s retrace a bit and try to construct the journey of a customer seeking redressal or support. The first choice of any customer seeking help during a financial or medical emergency is the contact center. When they connect to the hotline, it is with the expectation that the issue would be resolved quickly or the concern addressed appropriately. But as the call centers operate at a regional or state or national level, it is highly possible that many more customers may have a similar experience, so there are all waiting virtually in the IVR queue, struggling to get an audience with the agent. This scenario is quite the case across the industries and businesses; for example:
1. When a Bank’s Customer tries to reach out to the call center for a resolution on his failed transaction and
2. An Insurance agent trying to register his complaint on behalf of his customer with the Insurer
3. A healthcare back-office employee trying to mediate with TPAs to get funds credited to the hospital for the patient's claim
The end result, in most cases, is bitter experience and unhappy customers. On top of it, the sudden rise in the volume of inbound calls at contact centers is making life hell for agents and companies managing them.
“ 80% of companies believe they are delivering a superior experience to their customers, while only 8% of customers agree”
Given these trends, one interesting solution in sight is SmartAssist.
SmartAssist facilitates you with a user-friendly dashboard to set up and deflect your calls within a short span of time. Developed with a feasibility to integrate with your IVR/s it enables you to manage and divert calls to alternative channels dynamically with predefined business rule intelligence methodology ensuring customers get the right responses faster.
In addition to right channeling, it helps you interact with customers through multiple channels to increase the first call resolution percentage. With In-built capabilities, it gives you access to chat and call logs which a traditional call monitoring software cannot. This enables you to work uniquely on scenarios that suit customers without having to engage them with agents all the time.
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warc | 202143 | A few days ago the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) published its Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy. This policy mostly aims at greater standardization across the desktop environments to help contain costs.
This is certainly a worthwhile objective and, in all fairness, the policy provides a good balance between the need for standardization and the need for customization that agencies might have.
However, there is one potentially controversial statement, where the policy states (page 10) that
the Office Productivity Suite must support the Office Open XML file format as defined by ECMA-376
This can be read as a defeat for Open Document Format (ODF) supporters and more in general for all those who have been fighting hard against even considering OOXML as an open format.
Irrespective of whether they did a good choice or not, and of the fact the policy provides ground from deviations if well justified, what is interesting is that protests are emerging now, but they did not when AGIMO published a draft which was pretty close to the final version, including the OOXML orientation, back in July 2010.
Interestingly enough, they received no comment online, as they highlighted in a subsequent post on their blog. Now, reactions are already appearing on Twitter (see here and here), and I am sure there is much more to come.
What does this tell us about the present and future of online consultations? That they may not always add much value to institutional consultation performed through more traditional means, especially when they are limited to creating a consultation page and expecting that interesting parties find out about that. The alternative would be to actively seek for online places where interested stakeholders might be gathering, and post there the link to the consultation page or even engage in a discussion there.
AGIMO executives are doing that now, reacting to comments on Twitter. But this case shows that a different engagement approach is required much earlier in the process, if government organizations really want to get value out of social media. | 2,142 | 1,125 | 4,059.328 |
warc | 202143 | So I could lay the existence of the God issue to bed once again. (Concerning arguments about multiple gods, that is for another time and place).
Still, I wanted to hear much more from the other side of this topic. I wanted to minimize confirmation bias as much as I could on this issue, after all, I want to know what is actually true, or is the closest approximation to it.
Also, there was the issue of my Christian faith still firmly hanging in the balance. For me to settle a belief in God at an intellectual level was still a million miles away from the belief that Jesus was God and I was not at all certain where this path might lead in that regard. When your worldview gets upended, you can end up questioning everything you ever believed, were taught or believe you already know.
One of the more easily accessible ways to find the counter arguments for both God and Christianity is from a popular quartet of atheist apologists often referred to as “the four horsemen”, a parody from the four horsemen mentioned in the book of revelations. These four intellectuals: Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris began spearheading a movement against religious fundamentalism after the 9/11 attacks.
To be honest, I was afraid to watch their videos and debates at first because I was fearful that they may end up decimating my Christian faith to a point of no return which was already in a state of crisis. Nevertheless, I pressed forward, wincing at the possibility of the beginning of the end of my faith, ironically in search of the truth.
An interesting sidenote, I found them surprisingly likeable; mainly Hitchens, Dennett and Harris; Dawkins less so. I also found that they make a number of fascinating points and observations that should be deeply reflected upon and considered instead of ignored and discarded. Equally surprising however is that I did not find the smoking gun argument and evidence against faith in God or Jesus from any of them that I was afraid of or expected to find.
Having heard from them, I decided I would turn my attention more directly toward psychology to see if it might not shed more light on the subject, specifically social psychology. In social psychology I found more compelling arguments for alternative explanations of the existence of faith and belief in general such as terror management theory (a different angle not dissimilar to Freud’s wish fulfillment idea). Jordan Peterson and to a lesser degree, Jonathan Haidt also has some fascinating insights on this matter from a psychological perspective, though I do think psychology, as a whole, can be too one dimensional in its approach to attempting to answer these types of questions.
Without going into more elaborate detail here, I concluded from my time reviewing the different points of view, that the case for evolution driving religious belief and potentially all other social, economic, and political factors of life to be compelling and convincing.
Here is the pressing question then. Setting my own personal experiences aside, sure, it appears evident or self-evident to me there is a God, but is there any compelling reason to believe that any religion in the world truly represents God? Does God actually speak through a religion or any religion? On a more personal level, does God care anything about me as I was raised to believe and experienced profoundly in the Charismatic world I was raised in?
I remember asking this same question about God caring about me (in a far more simplified manner) as a child and I think it was a fair question even then.
I have concluded that I do not believe there is any reason to believe God cares about us, let alone me when viewing reality through a purely naturalistic lens.
And what about the rest of the thinkers within the Christian world that wrestle with the evolution question? What’s trending with them?
One of the most noticeable trends is a growing movement within progressive Christianity that is embracing elements of post modernism, abandoning traditional constructs, and attempting to pave a new path forward in different ways. Some try to keep as much Christianity as they can while re-evaluating aspects of the traditional faith, they no longer find reconcilable. Others almost categorically reject most or all the premises of traditional Christianity, reinventing them to fit a new perspective. It is hard to say where the majority view sits in this respect. There are certainly plenty of believers from layman to professional theologians who fall on the spectrum between these two.
For instance, there is no small amount of energy expended in Christian intellectual circles among those who, from my assessment, are accepting or are open to evolutionary theory yet resist any broad categorizations, instead embracing a sort of incrementalism approach, arguing that evolution explains this, but not that. This is happening in the secular domain as well.
There is one idea which posits that when a creature evolves to a greater complexity, it essentially does not play by the same rules as its lower evolved predecessors played by. The idea is called emergence where the sum is viewed as being greater than its parts. Evidence for this is seen by examples such as humans forming belief systems, languages, civilizations and moral frameworks that do not exist in other, lower evolved creatures.
Traditional fundamentalists meanwhile reject all of this as heresy, and I am sympathetic to their position for feeling that way. I can’t much blame them for wanting to protect the status quo. I found that was something I could not do.
Having considered these different points of view and others, I still found the evolutionary framework to make the most sense. I found the idea of Christians doing patchwork to shore up loose end aspects of the Christian faith determined to be obsolete to be foundationally problematic.
For me I wanted something more compelling than nuanced, accommodating approaches to new information. I wanted to know, is there anything truly revolutionary about my Christian faith that did not fit the evolutionary theory paradigm?
I was already familiar with the intellectual arguments for the resurrection of Christ. The prophecies that uncannily foretold Christ’s sacrifice and the historical reliability of the Gospels, including the resurrection. Historian and professor Bart Ehrman, a former evangelical turned agnostic put it bluntly when he said that it is clear from an historically reliable perspective that Jesus was a real person, his crucifixion really happened, and they (his disciples) really believed they witnessed Jesus risen from the dead. He also claims Jesus promised to return and judge the world and when he didn’t, the church changed the story to accommodate the absence of a quick departure from earth. (At least it wasn’t an “it’s a cookbook!” scenario 😂)
Was there anything truly unique though about Jesus and Christianity that separated it from every other religion in the world that could possibly serve as compelling evidence for uniqueness of its claim? I couldn’t readily see one from an intellectual perspective.
The answer to this question came from a book I had read many years before by Philip Yancey called “What’s so Amazing about Grace?”
In that book Yancey tells the following story of professors at Oxford attempting to answer this same question.
During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods’ appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death. The debate went on for some time until C. S. Lewis wandered into the room. “What’s the rumpus about?” he asked and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing Christianity’s unique contribution among world religions. Lewis responded, “Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.” After some discussion, the conferees had to agree. The notion of God’s love coming to us free of charge, no strings attached, seems to go against every instinct of humanity. The Buddhist eight-fold path, the Hindu doctrine of karma, the Jewish covenant, and the Muslim code of law — each of these offers a way to earn approval. Only Christianity dares to make God’s love unconditional.” (Yancey, 1997) Ah now we were getting somewhere. Now we have a question that goes to the heart of the Christian faith, pitted against the reigning championing of explanatory power in the natural world. Can evolution explain grace?
Thank you for taking the time to read. If you would like to ask me any questions or interact concerning any of these topics, feel free to comment or visit the Borderland Faith discussion board for more in-depth conversation and interaction.
References
[Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace?, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997), 45.] | 9,178 | 4,225 | 19,539.907692 |
warc | 202143 | CONCORD, N.H. (CBS) – New Hampshire health officials are reporting two cases of the Chikungunya virus in people.
Both people had recently traveled to the Caribbean, where outbreaks of the mosquito-borne illness have been occurring.
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The virus was first identified in Tanzania in 1952. It first showed up in the Americas last year, but has yet to be detected in the continental U.S.
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warc | 202143 | (1) Content is kingCreating interesting and useful content for your website can be a great way to show your audience that you understand them and that you’re an expert in your field. If your site sells clothes, then just publishing information about the products will make you an also-ran. But if you run a blog that highlights the latest fashions and gives visitors help and advice on choosing the best items for their wardrobe, that will elevate your site to the next level. (2) Make your site work on all devicesThe web isnt just used by people on desktop computers. For many types of site, the dominant visitor is a mobile user. In all, 42 per cent of UK online sales are made via a mobile or tablet device, with three out of five visits to retail websites made via mobile, according to figures from IMRG and CapgeminI published in August 2015. So by ignoring or actively discouraging the mobile audience, you’re effectively cutting your audience and revenue potential by 50 per cent. Additionally, you could also be affecting your ranking with Google. The search engine has revealed that a site’s mobile-readiness is one of the few criteria that it admits to using in the way it ranks sites, with download speed being the other. (3) Digital doesnt mean an end to the personal touchIn the past, shop staff would know their audience. They would know whod bought what and when, and tell their best customers when new stock that they may like would be available. There’s no reason why you shouldnt continue that personal service online. A well-targeted, personalised email, a direct message on Twitter or a text message to your best customers will make them feel that you’re thinking about them and that they’re not just another email address. (4) Understand your digital audience’s needsContent may be king, but understanding context also goes a long way to making a sale, especially on mobile websites. Mobile users want different things to desktop users. A PDF of a restaurant menu is easy to read on a desktop, but it’s just another reason for a mobile user to click elsewhere. Likewise, if you’re looking for a company’s details on a mobile phone, then a key contact method will be a phone number, not an email address or a web form. So make sure phone numbers are displayed prominently on your mobile site. Maps, addresses and directions for locating the business are also essential. (5) Act global but keep localAdvertising on the web gets your message worldwide, but if you’re a restaurant or a garage then any marketing spent outside your core area is wasted. Make sure your digital marketing is targeted to your region. Search-engine key phrases and website content should reflect that local aspect, and reference local awards and other local media, for example: voted best garage in Horsham by listeners of BBC Radio Sussex? or best supermarket in Acton. (6) Become part of a digital communityCommunities can be one of the most effective ways of creating a buzz and sending traffic to your site. From Facebook groups for your local area to LinkedIn groups for your type of business, communities can take many forms. Find the right groups and follow them, then once you’re confident enough, contribute to discussions and start your own topics. If a community doesnt already exist, then launch your own. it’s easy to do, but remember that communities are like gardens they need tending and they like attention. If they’re neglected, theyll end up as an eyesore and work against you. (7) Be creative | 3,580 | 1,759 | 7,139.647527 |
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This is a question lurking in the minds of many seed-buyers and the ‘cannabis curious.’ Theoretically speaking, selling and buying cannabis seeds is not illegal. However, because cannabis seeds are related to cannabis, there is going to be some murky grey areas when it gets to real life situations. Let’s take a look at what really happens if your seeds get stopped by customs.
Remember, possessing cannabis seeds may be legal, but the moment the seeds becomes a plant, you could be in trouble. It is illegal to germinate, cultivate, possess and sell cannabis in the UK. But yes, purchasing the cannabis seeds is legal. The reasons could be the following:
Have your Seeds been Stopped at Customs?
If you have had your seeds stopped at customs, then you should expect a ‘friendly’ letter to arrive in the mail. It could come with the empty package in place of where your seeds used to be, or it could arrive without the original packaging altogether. Either way, further action usually does not follow this letter. The letter will usual detail that the seeds have been confiscated, but no further action is generally taken. In non-EU countries, there are some cases where you may be in deeper trouble, and you may have to be taken in for an interview for further investigations. You can find out more information about the strictest countries here. If you want to find out more information about the legal status of cannabis and cannabis sees in Europe, you can find out more here.
Currently, cannabis seeds are legal to possess. They are also legal to trade, meaning that it is legal to buy and sell cannabis seeds. Before you get too excited, there is something that you should know with regards to this legality. It is not legal to germinate, grow, or cultivate those seeds in any way. Therefore, the grey area is born.
Now, if seeds are legal to have, shouldn’t they be permitted at customs? Not necessarily. Customs can stop seeds if they suspect that there is an intent to germinate, cultivate and then sell the cannabis plant. And if this intent to grow and then sell is proven, then harsh penalties can follow suit.
Alternatively you may find the tracking reference in your account dashboard if you opted for account creation during checkout.
If your order does not arrive, or gets seized, we will in all fairness ship your seeds again. For free! We have the following reshipping conditions:
Do I get a shipment tracking reference?
Delivery of your order is guaranteed by us no matter where you live.
Seedbanks have been shipping seeds to the USA and other countries for more than two decades now. In rare cases customs sends you a notice of interception letter. If you get this letter, there are no legal, or other, consequences for you. This is based on over a decade of shipping experience.
Shipments to Australia and New Zealand require a shipping fee due to the extra measurements we take for successful arrival. | 3,681 | 1,774 | 7,513.472943 |
warc | 202143 | By Laura Hollinshead (Learning Technologist-Curriculum Development)
As technology develops, embedding itself within business and processes, it is crucial that the skills development of employees keeps up with the evolving digital landscape. There is a recognised digital skills gap within the UK, and it is important that our students have the opportunity to engage with the technologies of their subject area and develop the digital skills necessary to enter the workplace.
One key digital skill is that of the digital creation of media. At the Festival of Learning 2021, Matt Gilooly, Learning Technology Media Advisor, and Barbora Horackova, Campaigns Marketing Intern, explored the creation of digital media for learning and teaching purposes, including enabling students to create their own content. Barbora provides a student perspective on why digital skills and opportunities within her course have been beneficial not only in an academic atmosphere but a professional one, sharing her own experiences of the workplace.
The session looks at all levels of digital media creation, current tools and practice, as well as the opportunity to think about how you can get your students interacting with digital tools.
UoD staff, students, and staff at partner institutions can watch the recording on Panopto (click link to view in a new tab). | 1,349 | 708 | 2,558.908192 |
warc | 202143 | For those of us who love to travel, we embrace the new and the different in what we see and do. We ask questions, learn, and seek out new places, different foods and interesting activities. We often travel far away to do so.
What if we showed up in our daily life with an adventurer’s perspective–a heightened sense of awareness in the everyday things we do?
Bringing in something new or even doing a routine task in a new way challenges our thinking and energizes us.
So…what can you do? Go somewhere local you’ve meant to, but never been. That local little restaurant; a trail in the nearby park or open space; or visit an local arts museum. Play tourist in your own neighborhood. | 707 | 445 | 1,083.537079 |
warc | 202143 | Federal Reserve officials could begin reducing the extraordinary help they’ve been providing to the economy by as soon as mid-November, according to minutes from the central bank’s September meeting released Wednesday.
The meeting summary indicated members feel the Fed has come close to reaching its economic goals and soon could begin normalizing policy by reducing the pace of its monthly asset purchases.
In a process known as tapering, the Fed would reduce the $120 billion a month in bond buys slowly. The minutes indicated the central bank probably would start by cutting $10 billion a month in Treasurys and $5 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities. The Fed is currently buying at least $80 billion in Treasurys and $40 billion in MBS.
The target date to end the purchases should there be no disruptions would be mid-2022.
The minutes noted “participants generally assessed that, provided that the economic recovery remained broadly on track, a gradual tapering process that concluded around the middle of next year would likely be appropriate.”
“Participants noted that if a decision to begin tapering purchases occurred at the next meeting, the process of tapering could commence with the monthly purchase calendars beginning in either mid-November or mid-December,” the summary said.
The Fed next meets Nov. 2-3. Starting the tapering process in November is on the aggressive side of market expectations.
The minutes said members’ estimates “were consistent with a gradual tapering of net purchases being completed in July of next year.”
“If they announce [tapering] in November, I don’t see why they would wait. Just go ahead and get going,” said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab. Jones said she was a bit surprised by a notation in the minutes that “several” members “preferred to proceed with a more rapid” tapering pace.
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“That would be pretty aggressive,” she said. “There must be some outspoken people who are pretty concerned that they need to move even faster.”
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard is one such member, telling CNBC on Tuesday that he thinks tapering should be more aggressive in case the Fed needs to rate interest rates next year to combat persistent inflation.
At the September policymaking session, the committee voted unanimously to hold the central bank’s benchmark short-term borrowing rate at zero to 0.25%.
The committee also released the summary of its economic expectations, including projections for GDP growth, inflation and unemployment. Members scaled back their GDP estimates for this year but upped their outlook for inflation, and indicated they expect unemployment to be lower than earlier estimates.
In the “dot plot” of individual members’ expectations for interest rates, the committee indicated it could begin raising interest rates as soon as 2022. Markets currently are pricing in the first rate hike for next September, according to the CME FedWatch tool. Following the release of the minutes, traders increased the likelihood of a September hike to 65% from 62%.
Officials, though, stressed that a tapering decision should not be seen as implying pending interest rate hikes.
However, some members at the meeting showed concern that current inflation pressures might last longer than they had anticipated. Traders are pricing in a 46% chance of two rate hikes in 2022.
“Most participants saw inflation risks as weighted to the upside because of concerns that supply disruptions and labor shortages might last longer and might have larger or more persistent effects on prices and wages than they currently assumed,” the minutes stated.
The document noted that “a few participants” said there could be some “downside risks” for inflation as long-standing factors that have kept prices in check come back into play. The majority of Fed officials have been holding to theme that the current price increases are transitory and due to supply chain bottlenecks, and other factors likely to subside.
Inflation pressures have continued, though, with a reading Wednesday showing that consumer prices are up 5.4% over the past year, the fastest pace in decades.
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warc | 202143 | When hiring professionals to handle your water cleanup and damage restoration, there are some things that you’ll want to look for to ensure that you are getting everything that you need. Here are some simple questions you can ask when attempting to hire a water cleanup company.
How quickly can you get here and get to work? Water damage shouldn’t wait. It needs immediate and prompt attention and it’s going to be important that your water damage restoration crew can get to work as soon as possible. A 24-hour service is ideal because water damage can happen anytime. You also may want to ask if there is additional charges for service calls outside normal business hours. How long have you been in business? Although some newer companies can be just as good as the seasoned pros, there’s something to be said for experience when it comes to reputation and quality. Choose a provider that has the experience that you deserve to get the best results. Is your company licensed and insured? You are having people come into your home to clean up serious damage. It’s in everyone’s best interest to make sure that those people are properly trained, licensed, and insured to do the job. That way, you can trust that there will be no legal issues or difficulties in the cleanup process that can create unnecessary headaches. What kind of warranty do you provide? Structural repair may be necessary when dealing with water damage. Ask if a guarantee or warranty is proved with their work. What kind of equipment and methods do you use? There are several different kinds of water restoration equipment and tools out there today. Commercial equipment is much more effective than what you can find for DIY use. Ask your damage restoration team what kind of cleaning and repair methods they use. You may also want to ask how they assess the damage. Will you work with my insurance company? If you’ve got a water damage situation that can be claimed on your insurance, you’ll need to ensure that your water damage company will work with the provider. They may require you to pay and then be reimbursed by insurance later. Ask ahead of time so that you know what to expect either way. What should I do next? This is perhaps the most important question to ask your water cleanup company. Once you’ve contacted them and gotten their assistance, you’ll want to know their professional opinion on how to proceed. For example, they may tell you to leave the home if there is sewage backup or electricity in standing water. If you’re dealing with a minor ceiling leak, they may suggest buckets and towels until they arrive. Follow their advice so they can do their job when they arrive.
If you keep these questions on hand, you’ll have no trouble hiring the best water damage cleanup company for your needs. | 2,853 | 1,329 | 5,987.221219 |
warc | 202143 | COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols All plans are current as of August 18, 2021, and are subject to change. Testing and Vaccination
COVID-19 vaccines will be required for all students. We will accept all CDC- and WHO-approved vaccines. Proof of vaccination must be included in health forms. International students who have not been able to get a vaccine at home will be assisted in getting it upon arrival at CA. Students completing their vaccination process will follow the following protocol:
Arrive with a negative PCR COVID-19 test; Test upon arrival; Wear masks indoors until fully vaccinated (unless eating, showering, or in their room); Be part of a rapid antigen testing protocol three days a week until they are fully vaccinated.
COVID-19 vaccines will be required for all CA employees. We will continue to notify families if someone in one of their student’s classrooms, boarding houses, or athletics activities has tested positive.
Mask and Physical Distancing Protocols
In reviewing CDC, DESE, and DPH guidance, and in discussion with our local health partners, we will begin the year with masks required indoors for all members of our community as well as visitors, regardless of vaccination status. We will continue to monitor the evolving guidance around masking and transmission, and will remain flexible and responsive.
All students, faculty, and staff should bring masks to campus, and we will continue to have a supply of masks on hand.
We do not anticipate needing to observe physical distance protocols.
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Concord Academy follows guidelines from state and local officials, including the Concord Department of Public Health and our school physician Dr. Patricia Birgineau, with whom our Health Center staff is in regular contact. In addition, Concord Academy is being advised by Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc. (EH&E), a consulting firm that has developed COVID-19 response guidelines for independent schools in the Boston area.
COVID-19 Cases On Campus
If a CA community member tests positive for COVID-19, they will be required to isolate for 10 days after the onset of their symptoms or positive test. Unfortunately, CA will not be able to care for students on campus who require isolation. We will promptly notify a parent/guardian, who will need to make arrangements for their child(ren) to be safely picked up from CA within 8 hours. The student will not be allowed to return to school until they have been cleared by their physician and the CA Health Center.
In accordance with current guidance from Concord DPH, you will need to quarantine if you have been in
close contact (within 6 feet of someone for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period) with someone who has COVID-19, unless you have been fully vaccinated.
People who are fully vaccinated do NOT need to quarantine after contact with someone who had COVID-19 unless they have
symptoms. However, fully vaccinated people should get tested 3-5 days after their exposure, even if they don’t have symptoms, and wear a mask indoors in public for 14 days following exposure or until their test result is negative. Managing Potential COVID-19 Symptoms
This year, the Health Center is changing its protocol so that
any student or adult entering the health center needs to be masked. This is a standard procedure now in most medical spaces, and we will be instituting the practice this fall.
Any student experiencing COVID-19 symptoms while on school property should go to the Health Center. The nurse will place the student in a private room and administer a 15-minute rapid antigen test if symptoms are not otherwise explained by the nurse’s assessment (allergies etc.)
Any day student who is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms before they arrive at school
should stay home, contact their medical provider, and also call the Health Center at (978) 402–2333 to report the illness to the CA nurse. | 3,964 | 1,877 | 8,282.795951 |
warc | 202143 | How To Illuminate Your Living Room Ceiling
The living room is certainly the most noticeable room in a house.
It is then no wonder that it should be kept as immaculate and good looking as possible.
The most obvious idea for lighting your living room is probably having a simple fan for the ceiling.
This is great but far too common. There are many other ways of lighting up your living room ceiling, and this is what we are all about.
Decorative lighting
First, you can use decorative lighting on your living room ceiling.
Ignore the practical bit of lighting and make it fun by incorporating decorative lighting.
You may, for example, use a pendant with paper shade that is stylish to make the place look gorgeous.
This will not only illuminate your living room but also brighten the mood of the place.
How then do you incorporate decorative lighting?
Giving priority to style over function in decorative lighting, it is noteworthy that something as simple as a chandelier would completely change the outlook of your living room.
Decorative lighting is meant to attract attention rather than perform lighting functions.
It also sets a whole new mood for the room and so is worthwhile.
Apart from chandeliers, you may want to consider hanging pendant lamps in areas where there are open spaces and wall-mounted fixtures and scones in areas where there are tighter spaces such as hallways.
Decorative lighting can be found in many varied forms including traditional, mid-century, modern and even contemporary.
You may also want to consider using the rattan trend.
Cove lighting
Cove lighting is basically lighting that is put around your vaulted ceiling in perimeter style.
It is not so common, but is a great way of illuminating your living room.
It makes the place look special and unique, like one that took a lot of time and detail to be put together.
Multi functional lighting
Here you may want to consider something like farmhouse ceiling fans.
Farmhouse ceiling fans are made of rustic wood and traditional lines. They are stylish and at the same time functional.
They therefore remain trendy through time.
Farmhouse ceiling fans are good for summer as they keep a living room cool.
Besides, they come in various designs and shades, complementing almost any aesthetic.
They also have the ability to give a living room a homespun look, which makes it even better.
Finally, they create a casual and comfortable aesthetic for your space, making the home look cozy and comfortable.
Use a dimmer
Dimmers help in regulating the amount of light you wish to have in your living room.
Dimmers generally reduce the electrical current being supplied to the source of light, hence dimming the light that is produced.
Decreasing the brightness of the light also conserves energy and increases the life span of the source of light.
Dimmers generally work with most light fixtures, but it is important to evaluate it first before installation of a new fixture.
First, you should find out whether or not the light fixture is dimmable.
As stated earlier, most light fixtures work with dimmers, including the traditional incandescent and halogen, and the compact fluorescents (CFLs) and LEDs.
Ensure you have the right bulb before you select a dimmer.
For LEDs and CFLs, you may need a bit of technological assistance before installing the dimmer.
You must ensure that you purchase a dimmer that is compatible with the bulbs you have.
You also need to determine whether your fixtures use low or line voltage.
Line voltage basically means that the lighting uses the home line voltage while low voltage means that it uses a transmitter to decrease the electricity voltage.
Two dimmer types are used for low voltage; electronic and magnetic dimmers.
Before purchasing a switch, make sure that you confirm the requirements of your voltage.
Drop-down lighting
Another form of creativity when it comes to lighting up your living room ceiling is by using drop-down lighting.
This makes the room look elegant and nice.
Skylight
This may require a bit more time and commitment, but is totally worth it.
It is good if you want natural lighting.
To make a skylight shade, you require a tape measure, a sewing machine, fabric, 2 tension rods, sewing shears and iron.
The first step is to measure the skylight opening and record it somewhere.
Next, add the width (double) of the tension rods, and six more inches to the length of the vertical side.
You should then add half an inch to the skylight width in order to accommodate hems.
You can now cut the fabric, taking care not to fray the fabric. Iron the folds so that they will stay in place.
Next, sew the edges that are folded to create hems and then using a sewing machine, create a straight stitch.
Having folded the edges, create two pockets at the fabric’s ends.
Finally, you can now slide tension rods into the pockets and compress them until they fit in the opening of the skylight.
The shade should be flat and taut.
Pendant lights
You can also consider using a pendant light in your living room.
Who said pendant lights are only meant for the kitchen?
They can make your living room look spacious and elegant, yet simple at the same time!
Track lighting
Track lighting can also look lovely in the living room.
It does not have to appear clinical and cold.
You can use bulbs that make it look warm and homely, and it will surely make your living room bright.
It is however not so common. This makes it look unique when used in living rooms.
Flush mount lighting
Flush mount lighting is simply using a flush mount light in your living room.
They come in simple fashions but are just as elegant as most other living room ceiling lightings.
Besides, you can easily change the bulb of a flush mount light all by yourself.
Semi-flush mount lighting
The difference between these ones and flush mount lighting is that they hang slightly lower than the former, but they still maintain their elegance and simplicity.
Their bulbs can also be changed easily like the flush mount light ones. | 6,095 | 2,596 | 14,122.274653 |
warc | 202143 | Our latest edition to the “Notes from the Field” comes from Dr. Duncan Earle, an anthropologist and the director of Global Studies at Marymount California University. Dr. Earle also serves as consultant for Jadora International, whose mission is “to mitigate climate change, preserve biodiversity, and improve livelihoods through an innovative and economically sustainable approach to forest preservation.” His essay examines the linkages between forests and climate change mitigation, specifically in the U.S. | 532 | 345 | 786.434783 |
warc | 202143 | It’s amazing all the different kinds of buildings that can be improved by applying an epoxy floor coating. From new construction to restoring an old building, epoxy does it all. It’s great for warehouses, chemical plants, homes, manufacturing plants, automotive shops, grocery stores — just about any structure.
Advantages of Epoxy Floor Coating
Owners of construction companies have known for decades that the toughest floor finish is an epoxy floor coating Chicago. It can stand up to heat, shock, heavy machinery, and just about anything else that happens to floors. It won’t crack and it won’t show wear and tear.
Besides being tough, epoxy floor coating in Chicago is resilient. It withstands heavy traffic and harsh chemicals. Epoxy floor coatings bond to the floor beneath them, so it won’t detach from the concrete. Epoxy floor coating also fills in defects in the concrete. If the original floor had pit marks and other defects, they will be gone.
Another advantage of epoxy floor coating in Chicago is the beauty of the finished product. People think of epoxy floors as just a dull gray warehouse floor. They used to be that way. But now you can have decorative chips of mica or quartz that make the floor sparkle, look great and improve traction.
In addition, businesses and homeowners don’t have to remove their current flooring material. This saves time and money. Once they are installed, epoxy floors in Chicago are easy to maintain. Plus they are very cost-effective because they last so long. Business owners and homeowners don’t have to spend the money to refinish their floors frequently.
Where Epoxy Floors Can be Installed
Technically, epoxy floor coating in Chicago can be installed over any type of flooring. But it’s more practical to install it over concrete. Other types of flooring will require more complicated installation, but a concrete floor will be a snap.
Homeowners often enter the house through the garage. They come home, park the car in the garage, and walk into the house. Most garage floors are concrete. This is where an epoxy floor coating in Chicago truly shows its value. The oils and chemicals that leak out of cars aren’t easily cleaned off of bare concrete. People getting out of their cars track the grime into the house.
But with an epoxy floor coating in Chicago, the dirt and oils can’t penetrate the garage floor and can easily be wiped up.
Industries like warehousing and chemical manufacturing are great places for epoxy floor coatings. If the production floor in a chemical plant is bare concrete, any chemicals that get leaked onto the floor will penetrate the floor and damage it. But with an epoxy floor coating, the chemicals can’t damage the floor.
In warehousing, a bare concrete floor will suffer a great deal of damage from forklifts and falling products. With an epoxy floor coating, the floor will withstand all this abuse just fine. The forklifts won’t bother it and anything that falls on it can’t harm it. | 3,056 | 1,350 | 6,729.991111 |
warc | 202143 | What is art or painting therapy? Art/painting is a therapy – regardless of whether you decide to make it yourself or notice and appreciate it – is an unwinding and motivating movement for some individuals. In any case, the specific advantages of creative articulation go a lot farther than unwinding and satisfaction. Studies say that art treatment can be truly important in treating issues like sorrow, nervousness, post-horrible pressure problem, and surprisingly a few fears. Advantages of art or painting:
Normal exercise and good dieting are realized approaches to age effectively, yet additionally having an inventive leisure activity, such as painting, keeps your brain solid and may improve your general personal satisfaction. Here are some extraordinary advantages of painting that may improve your psychological and actual wellbeing and demonstrates to you that
art/painting is a therapy
1-Mental-medical problems and stress or high tension frequently goes together
. Art/painting is a therapy that permits an individual’s brain to unwind and relinquish every one of the issues that add to high anxiety.
2- Painting comes even more normally to imaginative, right-cerebrum individuals; however, left-brainers that are more logical can invigorate and sustain their inventive development by working on painting also.
3- Helped diminish torment, decline indications of stress, and improve personal satisfaction in grown-up malignancy patients.
4- Its Improve capacity to manage torment and other terrifying manifestations in kids
5-art/painting also reduced stress and nervousness in kids with asthma.
6- art/painting Stimulated mental capacity in more established grown-ups with dementia.
7- It indicated a decrease in despondency in Parkinson’s patients.
8- The most prominent advantage of the art treatment is giving you a solid source for communicating and giving up the entirety of your sentiments and fears. Complex feelings, for example, bitterness or outrage at times cannot be
9- Can help create a cheerful mindset in the artist, yet besides in individuals around them. | 2,118 | 1,077 | 4,098.339833 |
warc | 202143 | “Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.” Amy Jo Martin
Smartphones have taken this to another level to allow users share their experiences online with high quality photos that are engaging and entertaining. But how does a business express its social life online? Digital marketers will tell you on benefits of content generation and part of the content are photographs on your business goods and services. They will also tell you that a photography that is creatively taken will generate more engagement and generate leads.
A good photography is conversational and has life. It should portray the product as it appears naturally but with a creative touch. Professional photographers around the world and more so in Kenya understand photography as the best tool to communicate. At designhub we understand commercial photography as the best tool for Marketers in Kenya, Sales persons in Kenya, Brand ambassadors and Chief executive officers to advertise online and offline.
But today’s market is shifting more online compared to conventional way of selling goods and services. To ensure you have content to drive your online presence, plan on photography as a priority. Engage a designhub photographer to get efficient services at customer friendly rates. We have positioned ourselves to practically shot for business and business related activities. This includes; Product photography, Food photography, Cars photography, Property photography, Seminars, Exhibition, Team Building, Launches and any other need that is business centered. We accelerate your online campaigns
Currently we are the best Commercial Photography Kenya pioneers with ample knowledge and partnerships that will help you canvas images that are authentic and engaging.
Try our services for a return on investment. To book a Commercial Photography session kindly email to ; brand@designhubconsult.com or call 0707 624 629. | 2,107 | 1,058 | 4,152.263705 |
warc | 202143 | TIP!Fiber is key to a healthy diet. When you get enough fiber it helps keep your weight under control, and you don’t feel as hungry.
Nutrition is all about fueling your body so that it can function at its fullest. A vital component of health and longevity is solid nutrition. Thankfully, there is a lot of information surrounding this topic. What’s the best way to weed out the myths and mishmash of bad information? It is usually best to do the basics. To get started you should read the article below to find out where you are as far as your level of knowledge so that you know what your next step should be.
TIP!Every sound dietary plan must incorporate riboflavin. Riboflavin is needed to release the energy from carbohydrates, fats and proteins that the body needs.
Salads have long been thought of as health foods; however, the dressings many people use are unhealthy. Creamy dressings are high in fat and low in beneficial nutrients. Vinegar or olive oil based dressings are much healthier. Walnuts can also inject taste into your salad, along with other fruits and vegetables.
TIP!Sneaking healthy foods into your regular foods is the stealth approach to eating better. This works extremely well with kids, but there is nothing stopping you from being sneaky with your own ingredients, too.
One helpful approach to nutrition and health has been the idea to not deprive yourself of foods you enjoy, but rather to swap them out for similar foods that will provide more or better nutrition. Understanding nutrition is key. The job of doing this has become easier these days, since many restaurants are offering nutritional information about their menus.
TIP!Do not deprive your body of sweets when you are on a diet. You should learn what nutrients the foods you eat contain, and if necessary, find alternatives that are better for you.
Whole grains are a healthy food to add to your diet. Whole grains pack a much more nutritional punch than processed grains that have had most of their nutrients refined out of them. Include 100% whole wheat bread, brown rice, and whole wheat pasta in your daily food intake. This will give you the fiber and nutrients your body needs which refined carbohydrates do not have.
TIP!Breakfast should be a part of any diet plan. Breakfast is a great way to kick-start your metabolism.
Eating organic food is an effective method for getting more nutrients into your diet. Organic food are thought to have more nutrients and less nitrates than other foods. Organic foods are more like what Mother Nature intended them to be. Take one taste and you will understand.
TIP!There’s no such thing as encouraging your family to drink too much water in the course of a day. It is acceptable to serve milk or fruit juice once or twice daily, but water is still the best choice.
When choosing a diet based on nutrition levels, cut down on microwaveable items. Microwave dinners contain lots of unhealthy fat and sugar. For best results, prepare your own lean meats and veggies to ensure that you get everything you need and nothing you don’t.
TIP!If you have sleeping disorders, you may need to alter nutrition levels. There are foods that facilitate relaxation and others able to provide a boost of energy.
A great rule to remember is to make your plate as colorful as possible when you fill it. Fruits and vegetables with bright colors are good for you, and usually low in calories. Every meal that you eat should contain a fruit or vegetable at least. Eating the edible skin of fruits is nutritionally beneficial, as they contain a lot of antioxidants.
TIP!Use whole wheat flour instead of white flour in order to increase your baked goods’ nutritional value. Whole wheat is higher in fiber and nutrients.
It is assumed that highly processed grains taste better than whole grains, and that is supposedly why they are used so much. It might hold true that some bakery products work best with white flour. Overall, though, whole grains have an earthier, more satisfying taste and enable your body to digest foods better because of the fiber.
TIP!Stock your freezer with crisp, frozen veggies to have on hand at a moment’s notice. These vegetables make for easy preparation and then they’re ready to eat.
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warc | 202143 | Art deserve to use light to convey eactivity, conceptual assumed, or make a statement; it transcends language.
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Artists have actually always offered light to emphasize particular elements of their functions of art. How light bathes a basket of fruit, for instance, or shines on a pearl earring, deserve to accentuate an art work’s characteristics. The comparison of darkness through lightness can be alluring. Chiaroscuro, for example, is a techniqueusing a stark comparison in between light and also dark to create dramatic compositions, many famously supplied by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Goya. In modern-day and modern art, just the tool has changed.
Light can be supplied to light works of art. Some artists use light itself as art. Light art, as it’s involved be recognized, can take multiple media forms, consisting of sculpture, installation, and performance. Artists canuse colors, angles and shadows to develop their job-related. You might have seen more of what’s dubbed light art than you realize; neon indications, holographic imeras projected on a building, abstract light fixtures or light sculptures. Light art dominates museums as well as commercial and residential spaces, making it a prominent and available art form.
Background on light art
The light bulb was created in 1879. Yet it’s thought that an artist named El Lissitzky is the initially to have provided electric light in his job-related — 60 years later.One of the first object-based light sculpture was made by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in the 1920s.
But using light in art goes back to ancient society.
“The interplay of dark and light has been a layout running from Greek and also Roman sculpture to Renaissance paint to speculative film,” explained art doubter Hilarie M. Sheets. “As innovation progressed from the glow of the electric light bulb to the computer system monitor, artists have experimented with actual light as material and topic.”
From bulb to projection
Light art as it’s known this day originated in the 1960s as kinetic, or Lumino kinetic, art. In later forms, some artists offered light to develop psychedelic experiences. From that activity came minimalism, with artists such as the late Dan Flavin, that operated through fluorescent light tubes, playing via light as it relates to sculpture, motion and also miscellaneous spaces.
Neon took the light art scene in the 1980s. During this decade, electric neon lights resurged as part of the arts scene. Artists began utilizing neon in interior architecture and sculpture in an initiative to press boundaries.
The newest light art trend is forecast mapping, which tasks video onto an item, or wall. When presented versus three-dimensional objects, a projected video employs color, light and also motion to give the appearance of transforming a static object right into somepoint nearly lifelike.
LED creation in light art
Another current trfinish in light art is the introduction of light festivals utilizing LED lights. LED lights enable low-power, very visible tasks to be showcased in modern cities. The low-power LED activity traces to 2009. Today, major cities put on outdoor light exhibitions featuring bright, low-powered lights.
Light Artists
Many artists have actually obtained notoriety using light as an artistic medium. From public space exhibitions to museum showcases, light art uses daily encounters to expush an suffer, a believed or an emotion. Among artists making use of light:
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly was an Amerihave the right to painter, sculptor and printmaker in Spencertvery own, New York connected with Color Field paint and minimalism. His techniques emphasize line, shade and develop. Kelly frequently provided bappropriate colors.
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum’s Terra Infirmacomprises even more than 30 sculptures and also installations. Hatoum’s work regularly referrals residential and day-to-day objects with themes of residence and also displacement, global instcapability and political upheaval.
Adela Andea
Romanian-born artist Adela Andea supplies LED light and also area, magnifying lenses and also functional neon tubes to immerse viewers in a sensory suffer.
Lucio Fontana
This aerial sculpture — 100 feet of neon tubing looming overhead — currently hangs in the Museo Novecento in Milan, Italy. Giant home windows tempt you to look out onto the well known Duomo, yet, your eyes are drawn to Fontana’s
Structure in Neon for the nine Milan Triennial at the Palazzo dell ’ Arte, Milan 1951 titled after the area where it was originally mounted. Fontana’s light art merged what he described as ‘spacial concept” and “spacial environment.”
James Turrell
Amongst James Turrell’s pieces is this installation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, wbelow Turrell supplied shape and also light to immerse the visitor in purple. Turrell demonstrated here that light doesn’t have to be static or displayed on a wall — he reflects that light deserve to simply be part of an endure.
Jenny Holzer
In this piece, Jenny Holzer renders a statement around power by using light on words from declassified U.S. government files. Her piece was shown in the Whitney Museum, but Holzer’s occupational has actually showed in many kind of places, including Times Square.
Gunda Foerster
Gunda Foerster strays from post-minimalistic light, evoking a feeling of awe and also aliecountry. This item, shown in Berlin, is dubbed TUNNEL. Fluorescent yellow bulbs light and also surround the hallway, emphasizing shade, neon and also unorganic light.
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Ben Rubin
By spelling words via light, Ben Rubin made a note on the light art scene. With a multimedia background, Rubin offered vacuum-fluorescent bulbs to screen text from a chat room in real time. By utilizing dark and light from within a devoted light bulb, he produced a distinctive piece. | 6,122 | 2,994 | 12,190.836339 |
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warc | 202143 | Xinjiang's raisins are famous at home and abroad. Raisins are dried in the sun or in the shade, which are easier to transport and preserve. They are suitable snacks for all ages. So the question is, is the nutritional value of raisins the same as that of grapes? Let's get to know.
Nutritional value of raisins:
1. Raisins are rich in iron and calcium. They are the best tonic for children, women and the weak and anaemic.
2. Raisins contain a lot of glucose.
3. Raisins also contain many minerals, vitamins and amino acids.
Nutritional value of grape:
1. The nutritional value of grape is very high. Grape juice is known as "plant milk" by scientists. The sugar content of grape is 8% - 10%, mainly glucose. Most of the sugar contained in grape is glucose which is easily absorbed by human body, so grape becomes the ideal fruit for those with weak digestion ability.
2. The grape contains minerals such as calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, various vitamins B1, B2, B6, C and P, as well as various amino acids for human body.
3. The grape contains more tartaric acid.
4. The water content of raisins is relatively low, about 17%, and the content of sugar and iron is relatively increased. Raisins are the best tonic for children, women and anemia. Most of the nutrients in grapes are concentrated in raisins.
5. 95% of the components of grape seed is procyanidin, whose antioxidant effect is 18 times higher than vitamin C and 50 times higher than vitamin E.
Grapes are widely used, in addition to raw food, they can also be dried, brewed, juiced, brewed vinegar, canned and jam, etc. For cooking raw materials, it is required to have large grains, crisp meat, no kernel and good flavor; raisins are used as auxiliary materials for snacks.
Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermentation of fresh grapes or grape juice. Usually, there are two kinds of bonus wine and white wine. The former is made of red grape by steeping and fermenting with skin, and the latter is made of grape juice.
The above content is very detailed to introduce the difference between the nutritional value of raisins and grapes, and the friends who have seen it believe that they have a more clear understanding. It can be seen that grapes contain all kinds of nutrients that we need for human body. Regular eating of grapes can help us to have a good look, while the nutrients in raisins are concentrated from grapes. | 2,418 | 1,143 | 5,079.28084 |
warc | 202143 | With thousands of service stations running dry, the government announced a series of emergency measures over the weekend to address the fuel crisis, including issuing temporary work visas for up to 5,500 foreign truck drivers and suspending competition law to allow suppliers to deliver fuel to rival operators.
UK media reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would consider calling in the army on Monday if the situation shows no sign of improving.
“We have no plans at the moment to bring in the army to actually do driving but we always have a civil contingencies section within the army that’s always on standby should they be needed,” Environment Minister George Eustice told reporters on Monday. “We don’t judge that’s necessary at the moment.”
The Automobile Association (AA) appealed for calm on Friday after BP ( was forced to temporarily close some of its stations for the second time in as many months because of the driver shortage. Yet many Brits paid little heed, flocking to service stations in hopes of securing fuel for the week ahead. )
The Petrol Retailers Association, which represents independent fuel suppliers, told the BBC that as many as two-thirds of the 5,500 service stations operated by its members were out of fuel, with the rest of them “partly dry and running out soon.” Social media users have reported long lines at stations across the country, and some motorists on longer trips have been forced to abandon their cars after running out of fuel.
Companies including ExxonMobil ( and )Shell ( said in a statement released by the government on Sunday they wanted to “reassure the public that the issues that have arisen are due to temporary spikes in customer demand, not a national shortage of fuel.” )
Worker shortages are a growing problem in Britain, which has a record 1 million job vacancies. The shortage of truck drivers has been exacerbated by the pandemic and Brexit, which resulted in tens of thousands of EU nationals leaving trucking jobs and other occupations in the United Kingdom.
According to the Road Haulage Association, the United Kingdom is short around 100,000 truck drivers. Last month, the UK government said that “most of the solutions” to the crisis would be driven by industry, and that it did not want to rely on workers from outside the country.
‘Serious damage’
Ruby McGregor-Smith, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the decision by the government to offer 5,500 temporary visas to foreign truck drivers was insufficient, comparing it to “throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire.”
“Without further action, we now face the very real prospect of serious damage to our economic recovery, stifled growth as well as another less than happy Christmas for many businesses and their customers across the country,” she said in a statement.
Johnson is preparing to deploy hundreds of soldiers to help address the fuel crisis, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The troops would be used to drive trucks, the newspaper said, under contingency planning known as “Operation Escalin.”
Brian Madderson, chair of the Petrol Retailers Association, said that calling in the military alone won’t be enough to resolve the crisis because soldiers may not have the training needed to refill storage tanks at service stations.
“It’s not an absolute panacea,” he told BBC Radio. “There is no one single lever which is going to be pulled by government and industry together which is going to sort this situation.”
BP said in a statement on Sunday that it was seeing “intense demand” and that roughly 30% of the 1,200 sites its supplies across the UK did not have either of the main grades of fuel. The company said it was “working to resupply as rapidly as possible.”
Shell welcomed the government’s action on Monday, saying it’s “been seeing a higher than normal demand across our network which is resulting in some sites running low on some grades. We are replenishing these quickly, usually within 24 hours.”
Sainsbury’s (, which operates service stations at some of its supermarkets, said “we’re experiencing high demand for fuel. We’re working closely with our supplier to maintain supply and all our sites continue to receive fuel.” )
Supermarket chains Morrisons and Tesco ( said they were also working hard to keep customers supplied. )
— Anna Cooban, Chris Liakos and Hanna Ziady contributed reporting.
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warc | 202143 | If you’ve ever had a problem accessing a service on the internet and have then had to seek out help, you might have been asked to supply your IP address.
See your current external IP address ➡️ whatismyip.com What is an IP address?
An IP address is a unique string of numbers that identifies a device or network of devices on the internet. Whenever you’re connected to the internet, your device – computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, whatever – will have an IP address.
An IP address is made up of 4 segments of numbers, each separated by a full stop. Each segment can take any value from 0 to 255.
If you ever go looking on your computer to find your IP address, what you might find is your
internal IP address. But if you’re making a technical support enquiry and are ever asked for your IP address, what’s really being asked for is your external IP address. Internal and external IP addresses Internal IP addresses are those inside your local network. They’re dished out by your broadband router and most commonly take the format
192.168.xxx.xxx. If you look at your computer’s network settings, you may well come across your internal IP address. There’s very little point in giving this to anyone who’s trying to help you fix an access problem.
External IP addresses are those outside your local network. When your broadband router is connected to the internet, it will have an external IP. This is the address that every other device on the internet can use to reach you online.
Here’s an easy way to think about the differences between internal and external IPs:
Internal IPs are like the rooms in your home External IPs are like your home address
If someone were trying to write you a letter, they’d need only to know your home address.
When tech support asks for your IP address, you should provide your
external IP. How do I find out my external IP address?
The easiest way to find out your external IP address is to use this free service:
What is my IP?
Go to whatismyip.com to see your current external IP address.
View more system information
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warc | 202143 | #evolutwellness
10 Easy Tips For a Healthy Holiday season
After a long and challenging year, everyone is looking forward to a happy and celebratory Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays!
The holiday season is associated with warmth, comfort, family, joy, celebrations, delicious food and fun. Food and festivities often go together, and it can be quite hard to control temptation at the sight of the tables laden with all sorts of a delicious feast. The widespread laid with mouth-watering dishes and tempting pastries is a real challenge even for the most dedicated health advocates to be healthy during the holidays. That's why Evolut offers an alternative way of eating healthily during the holidays so that you can lead a healthy lifestyle and your celebrations with your family and friends are cherished without health worries. 1. Choose plenty of plant-based options - fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, seeds and nuts, are always great for your health. 2. Choose fresh and ripe fruits and vegetables over frozen or canned variants. Fresh fruits and vegetables are high in vitamins, minerals and easily digestible add them to your high protein breakfast. Eat them whole, boil, steam or saute them for added flavour. 3. Start the day with fresh juices from fresh fruits and vegetables. Juices are best digested in the morning on an empty stomach. Choose fruits with low glucose levels. Citrus fruits are always a great option. 4. Have a fibre, fatty meal. Unrefined foods are rich in fibre. This includes brown rice, green buckwheat, millet, ragi, bajra, quinoa, oats, beans, lentils, chickpeas, mung dal etc. Fibres help us better eliminate food waste, help maintain adequate cholesterol levels. It is also great for the detoxification of our body. 5. Stick to an eating guide, choose whole-grain bread made from whole grain flours (rye, spelt, barley), with no added fat, but with seeds and nuts for flavour and texture. For those with gluten intolerance, we recommend whole grain gluten-free tortillas from corn, rice or millet flour. 6. Add flavour to your food with various spices such as fenugreek, celery, mint, oregano, basil, paprika, turmeric, dill, parsley and a few chilli spices such as white pepper, red pepper, ginger. Be careful with the salt; use it in small quantities for flavouring. 7. Eat only when you are starving. Only then, your body can work to digest and absorb nutrients. This enables weight loss, makes food more enjoyable, high in nutrients and energy. 8. Avoid sugar. The holiday season is a miss without desserts, so choose a healthy variant like a chia pudding over a chocolate fudge brownie. 9.. Eat-in a pleasant and healthy atmosphere with close friends and family at a beautifully arranged table with dishes. 10. Consult a fitness coach. Exercise as much as possible for your physical health is 50% based on blood circulation. Take regular short walks and do a few yoga asanas as well as more intense workouts and aerobics to achieve weight loss. Try to spend the weekends outdoors in nature; biking, in particular, is very good for your physical and mental health. | 3,120 | 1,600 | 6,074.25 |
warc | 202143 | Article content
Oil’s collapse is deepening.
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Just a day after U.S. crude futures for May delivery plunged below zero for the first time ever, June futures plummeted 43 per cent to close below US$12 a barrel in New York. A massive supply glut brought on by the pandemic and a worldwide shortage of storage space have touched off an relentless rout that has shifted the entire forward curve for oil.
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The meltdown spreading across global oil markets has already wiped out tens of thousands of jobs and frozen billions of dollars in capital spending. Its deflationary effect threatens to further cripple economies around the world already reeling from coronavirus-fueled lockdowns. Storage tanks, pipelines and tankers have become overwhelmed by a vast oversupply brought on by an unprecedented plunge in global fuel demand.
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Oil is a “dangerous market to trade in right now,” said Pierre Andurand, founder of Andurand Capital Management LLP, in a Bloomberg TV interview. The market needs oil production to fall immediately for prices to recover, he said.
The price crash spilled into the ETF market, with the biggest crude-tracking fund, the United States Oil Fund LP, moving some of its WTI contracts into later months, according to a regulatory filing. The June/July WTI spread rallied more than US$1 a barrel on the move.
Oil Ministers from the OPEC+ coalition held an unscheduled conference call on Tuesday to discuss the collapse without settling on new policy measures. The Texas Railroad Commission, meanwhile, opted to put off a decision on whether to impose oil-production quotas.
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In London, the immediate contract for Brent crude was at the biggest discount to the following month in data since 2008. U.S. marker WTI’s June contract was halted three times early in New York to manage the volatility, CME Group Inc. said.
“If you start to look at the actual supply-demand situation for oil, it’s not so obvious that by the time those contracts expire, the storage situation around Cushing will be very different than what it is in May,” said Martijn Rats, Global Oil Strategist at Morgan Stanley, in a Bloomberg Radio interview. “The prices of these futures will need to connect to the physical reality, and they are likely to crack lower.”
WTI for June dropped 43 per cent to US$11.57 a barrel in New York. The thinly traded May contract closed at US$10.01 a barrel.
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Brent crude futures for June slumped 24 per cent to close at US$19.33 a barrel.
The collapse is reverberating across the oil industry, with prices trading below zero across America on Monday. WTI Midland in Texas — a flagship marker for the U.S. shale industry — was at -US$13.13 a barrel, while crude in Alaska was at -$US46.63.
There are signs that these stunningly low prices are here to stay as tanks across the globe fill up. Royal Vopak NV, the world’s biggest independent storage company, said almost all of its space is sold.
Crude stockpiles at Cushing — America’s key storage hub and delivery point of the WTI contract — have jumped 48% to almost 55 million barrels since the end of February. U.S. nationwide inventories are estimated to have increased another 14 million barrels last week, according to a Bloomberg survey.
The Dated Brent benchmark, a global reference for nearly two thirds of the world’s physical flows, plunged to US$13.24 a barrel on Tuesday, its lowest since 1999, according to price reporting agency S&P Global Platts. That means that key European and African crude streams, including Urals from Russia and Bonny Light from Nigeria, would sell now under $10 a barrel, as they trade at a discount to the Dated Brent benchmark.
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warc | 202143 | When you’re dealing with neuropathy, you know that every lifestyle choice you make can impact the way you feel. This is especially true when it comes to your diet, as the wrong foods can aggravate the body and cause symptoms to worsen. With this in mind, it’s important to understand which dietary choices are the worst so you can avoid them.
– A Diet Rich in Sugar
Donuts for breakfast, chocolate bars in the afternoon, and dessert after dinner can wreak havoc on your body. While increased fat and calories from this can lead to obesity, it will also spike your blood sugar. Once this happens, the blood vessels can weaken, and the nerves can become damaged, especially if blood sugar levels are spiking throughout the day. All of this combined can surge neuropathy pain and leave you in discomfort.
– A Diet Rich in Junk Food
Pizza, fast food, pasta, and baked goods are all forms of junk food that most people are tempted by on a daily basis. While these can be a “once in a while” treat, eating them regularly can cause surges in blood sugar and lead to excess weight gain that enhances nerve pain. Most junk food also contains gluten, which can aggravate neuropathy symptoms such as pain.
– A Diet Rich in Vegetables, Lean Proteins, and Unprocessed Foods
A diet like this is one that individuals who have neuropathy want to adopt into their everyday life. When your diet is packed full of truly healthy foods, the vitamins and nutrients that are in those will fuel the body and help each system work at a more optimal level. These foods will also keep your blood sugar balanced to help prevent more nerve damage.
What Does Your Diet Look Like?
If you’re eating an unhealthy diet, chances are that it’s impacting your neuropathy in a negative way. Change your diet for the better and you’ll see what a difference it can make. What’s even better is that a healthier diet can prevent more nerve damage, so your health doesn’t continue to deteriorate. | 2,023 | 1,020 | 3,873.45 |
warc | 202143 | John Quiggin at
Crooked Timber wrote a very interesting article last month, Macroeconomics Made Easy? In it, he discusses a new book by Kartik Athreya, Big ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View. Athreya is a “freshwater” economist, which basically means that he’s a conservative who doesn’t believe that recessions are caused by a lack of demand. I’m being mean, but Quiggin is actually rather nice to Athreya and his book. That doesn’t mean that I’m wrong, however.
Back in 2010, Athreya wrote an article called “Economics Is Hard.” He attacked people like Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong as being the “patron saints of the ‘Macroeconomic Policy is Easy: Only Idiots Don’t Think So’ movement.” His point was then that “real” economics is about teasing out aggregate behavior based upon individual actions. Now this is what statistics does and no one feels the need to run around complaining that lay people use concepts like means and standard deviations.
In order to back up his argument, Athreya seems to have written his book where he discusses what sounds like a lot of interesting economic concepts. And according to Quiggin, it is really well written. But it is not what we normally talk about in terms of economics, because it is highly theoretical. What we talk about is what might be called “practical economics.” And it is in this distinction that Quiggin thinks he might have found how all those very intelligent and learned freshwater economists could spout such rubbish:
I’ve seen this in a lot of academic fields—most notably climate change science, although the problem is nothing like it is in economics. The freshwater folk are so focused on the intricacies of their models that they don’t really care that they have little relationship to what is going on in the real world with its real markets. As Quiggin says, “[I]t’s OK to assume full employment, and ignore inflation, but not to omit rigorous microfoundations for your model.” That is: it is fine to make assumptions that render your models useless, as long as they are built on first principles.
That would all be fine and noble academic work. There is no doubt that such work does increase our understanding of economic systems. The problem is that people who think in this very limited way also want to be taken seriously in the policy debate. But when it comes to actual people who depend upon having useful results—people at the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office and Goldman Sachs—they use Keynesian models. They do not use these freshwater models because they can’t assume full employment; they can’t ignore inflation.
But the total practical uselessness of the freshwater economists’ models does not make them irrelevant to politics. Politicians who want to push policies for totally different reasons (for example, enriching the rich at the expense of the poor) are more than happy to use these economic theories. And all too many freshwater economists like Greg Mankiw and Ken Rogoff are more than willing to help out. This seems to be because they are political ideologues first and foremost. So at least Kartik Athreya is being honest: his economics is hard and mostly useless on the macro-scale. His work for the Richmond Fed is, after all,
microeconomics, not macroeconomics. But why he thinks he should be talking about macroeconomics is unclear to me. The point seems to be to define actual macroeconomics out of existence so that we are all forced to bow down to the freshwater folks and believe in the faith-based ideology of expansionary austerity and other freshwater fantasies. | 3,748 | 1,790 | 7,525.313966 |
warc | 202143 | IT’S NOT A MAN’S WORLD . . . ANYMORE!
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HISTORY BY THE NUMBERS
There’s something sad about Women’s History Month and African American History Month and all the other special interest history months. It’s sad because history has not celebrated everyone’s history equally. Some populations really have been overlooked. So we end up with a Polish American Museum in Winona, Minnesota, to help capture a piece of hidden history.
The following excerpt from a petition presented to the Commissioner of Patents in April 1890, on the occasion of the Patent Office Centennial, laments the fact that, at the time, less than 1% of U.S. patents included the name of a woman. Charlotte Smith requested
...that a room be set aside in the present Patent Office, to be used exclusively for the benefit of Woman Inventors, that there be exhibited models of the woman inventors only, that the same be properly labeled, giving full particulars of each invention...; that...a catalogue describing said inventions be published by the United States Government... A room was not set aside in 1890; models of women's inventions were not exhibited. Sixty four years later, in 1954 a Senate Committee, based on sampling techniques, reported that 1.5% of patents granted in 1951 were awarded to women and that, on average, women’s patents were earning higher royalties. By 1990 I was invited by the Commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office to respond to that 100 year old request. We prepared an exhibit, "A Woman's Place Is In The Patent Office," which became the centerpiece of the bicentennial celebration of the U.S. patent system and which remained in the nation's capitol for a full six months. As the cigarette commercial suggests, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” By 1990 Buttons to Biotech, a special study prepared by the USPTO, reported that during the prior year 6% of patents granted to U.S. residents included the name of a woman. That number increased to just over 10% during 1998. Perhaps we can extrapolate that 2003 figures will approach 15%. Perhaps we haven’t come such a very long way yet.
While the percentages are shockingly small, one can safely guess that, since the 1790 inception of the U.S. Patent system, perhaps some 500,000 to 600,000 U.S. patents have been granted to American women. Who are they? What human stories do they hide?
WHY HAVEN’T MORE PATENTS BEEN GRANTED TO WOMEN?
Surely women are as creative as men and the U.S. Patent Office has never knowingly discriminated against women. Then why don’t women receive more patents?
First, patents are expensive. Women have historically had less access to money. Further, at some periods in American history women could not own property—and, of course, a patent is a form of property that can be sold or rented. Consequently, When, in 1831 Ann Harned Manning invented her Mowing Machine, New Jersey, state law did not permit women to own property. Ann had no money to pursue the patent process nor could she have profited from the invention had the patent been granted to her. Consequently, she showed the idea to her husband and the patent, which was the forerunner of the McCormick reaper, was granted to Ann’s husband, William, who then went on to produce and sell the device.
Further, it would appear unseemly in many 19th century settings for women to be as visible as inventors need to be. It was surely easier to tell their ideas to a father, brother or husband who would then apply for a patent in his name.
Second, women have historically had little access to scientific or technical education. Nor have they learned to be skilled with the tools needed to build prototypes—often referred to as “boy toys.” Consequently, women were not adept at turning ideas into prototypes. Of course, it has always been acceptable for women to ask others to build models. Tennessee inventor Monta Lea Kramer received a 1987 patent for a “Frame for Tensioning and Supporting Textiles for Needlework.” The device comes in several sizes and is now quite popular in shops that sell quilting supplies. In a letter, Mrs. Kramer describes how she conceived the idea, drew a picture and then “sent my husband out into the garage to build one for me.”
Now that women have access to scientific education they can more easily become inventors or patent examiners. Gertrude Elion has won a Nobel prize and has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame because her creativity combined with her scientific education has led to at least 45 pharmaceutical patents including drugs that control leukemia, herpes, and gout. She found the drugs that blocked the immune response which triggers rejection of foreign tissue. That discovery was immediately applied to successful kidney transplants. "When you meet someone who has lived for 25 years with a kidney graft," says Elion, “there's your reward.” However, Elion paid a price. She chose not to marry, instead selecting a career. She assures her friends that she had several proposals and jokes that “I could not find a wife.”
WHAT DO WOMEN INVENT?
For inventors the problem is everything. Inventors—men and women—create solutions to problems they experience. Hence, Marjorie Joyner, while working in the beauty industry, was granted two patents related to hair care. Her 1928 patent for a “Permanent Waving Machine” became a huge success because it expedited the tedious process of using curling scissors which allowed for working only one curl at a time. Joyner’s machine allowed for generating a whole head of curls at once. It generated enormous profits for herself and for her employer, the Madame C. J. Walker Company.
Pam Ryan is typical of an inventor who experiences a problem. As a softball coach for her daughters’ teams she noticed that helmets did not fit well on girls who wore pony tails. This problem impacted their safety and their running ability. Her 1996 and 1997 patents for “Protective Helmet with Hair Entraining Aperture” have led to the manufacture of girl-specific softball helmets and will soon impact helmets for other sports, thus providing more opportunities for girls to participate safely and successfully. Her company, Designer Sports, markets these helmets as well as other sports equipment for women and girls.
The bedpan story is quite telling. In the 213 year history of the USPTO a total of roughly 8% of patents granted to Americans have included the name of a woman. Approximately 46% of bedpan patents have been granted to women. Shocking? Consider that people find problems in their immediate environment. Women have traditionally cared for the sick in clinics and had primary responsibility for aging parents.
Most 19th century women’s inventions relate to the household because that’s where women lived, worked and saw problems. Ironing, for example, was done by women—usually on Tuesday. Mary Cook responded to a specific problem of her period.
The first numbered patent for a sad iron was granted to Mary Ann B. Cook of Boston on December 5, 1848 (#5,590). Ms. Cook lauds her improvement as especially useful "for smoothing and polishing shirt bosoms. . . ." Mary Cook had a special knowledge of the problem: "Common...sad irons . . . have only one flat ironing or plane surface. They are not well adapted to polishing or glazing starched shirt-bosoms or other articles." She also had special knowledge to provide a solution: "Experience has taught me that a very high gloss or polish can only be successfully or practically effected by a small curved convex surface, one capable of retaining a suitable polishing-heat while being used."
Social history teaches us that housewives were responsible for ironing the "false front" that was attached to a man's shirt using button studs. The culture of the time demanded that this "shirt-bosom" be heavily starched and polished--a procedure that few modern housewives would tolerate. Judging from the number of Cook irons still available at antique auctions, there must have been many sold—and little wonder. Imagine the joy of owning an improved tool to make this onerous task a bit more tolerable!
Modern women who work in sophisticated scientific settings are confronted with sophisticated scientific problems—and they solve them with sophisticated scientific solutions.
Carol Ford's 16 high tech patents (between 1987 and 2001) deal mainly with extending the useful life of the laser gyro to give Honeywell a competitive advantage for more programs, and to allow the use of the gyro in systems, like space stations, that can not be maintained. Prior to Ford’s inventions gyros had a limited life, thus limiting the time of space flight. Carol Ford developed a solution smaller than previously thought possible with a projected lifetime beyond 250,000 hours. Insight into the basic hollow cathode process led her to design an additional, slightly more complex, cathode that matches the hollow cathode discharge contour and which can achieve over one million hours of life (114 years!). To achieve this "miracle", she had to invent new technologies, new materials, and new accelerated testing methodologies.
Honeywell's laser gyros have become one of the corporation's major products with a financial impact significantly in excess of one billion dollars. Additionally, new specialty contracts made possible by the new technology invented by Carol Ford include
$400 million for Space Station Freedom and $200,000 for MSX satellite application.
BLATENT PREJUDICE
Women have faced many obstacles in addition to the many challenges all inventors must overcome. Perhaps the most serious obstacle for women has been blatant prejudice.
Margaret Knight was a professional inventor with at least 26 patents between 1870 and 1915. The most famous of her inventions was machinery for the manufacture of square-bottomed paper bags patented in 1870, ’71, ’79 and 1880. This machinery significantly changed American shopping behavior. Knight was on the winning side of serious litigation. However, during the trial, opposition lawyers tried to convince the court that Knight, being a woman, could not possible have enough knowledge of machinery to design such a sophisticated device.
Subsequently, Knight and a Newton, Massachusetts businessman set up the Eastern Paper Bag Company in Hartford, Connecticut, to profit from the machine. When she was invited to help install the machine in the factory where the bags were to be made, the workers would not listen to her advice, saying, "What does a woman know about machinery?"
Catherine O’Connell Ryan received six patents for self-locking nuts and bolts between 1904 and 1918. She hoped to license them for use on railroad and trolley tracks. Ryan found herself in litigation with such formidable adversaries as U. S. Steel Corporation, Carnegie Steel Company and Illinois Steel Company. The infringement litigation lasted from 1916 into the early 1930s because Ryan would not agree to a handsome out-of-court settlement without acknowledgement by the steel companies that the patent rights were hers. Ultimately she ran out of funds. In later years Kingsley Ryan, a lawyer and the youngest of Catherine’s six children met one of the attorneys for the steel industry. This lawyer admitted that all the steel attorneys knew that Ryan’s patents had been infringed but were not permitted to say so because it would be embarrassing to the company and also because U. S. Steel "shall not encourage any women to exceed their limitations of the kitchen."
In 1890, when Charlotte Smith presented her petition to the Patent Office she argued that although women had been granted less than 1% of patents to date, we should celebrate that women have had so much success, given their circumstances. Smith argued that it is a credit to women that they have invented at all, and that they have developed interesting and useful inventions—indeed, often labor-saving devices to ease their own labor. Truly, circumstances have changed and we can celebrate women’s ever growing success in the patent sphere. Yet, until we achieve a reasonable balance we will continue to need Women’s History Month as a reminder.
Fred M. B. Amram is Morse Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Creativity and Communication. He is author of African American Inventors published by Capstone and, with Ellen Showell, is author of From Indian Corn To Outer Space: Women Invent In America published by Cobblestone. | 12,712 | 5,992 | 26,338.364486 |
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22 Fredericksburg Parent and Family • February 2018 22 Fredericksburg Parent and Family • February 2018 Fighting Your Children's 'Tis the season for germs and the spread of viruses that cause the common cold and flu. So what can families do to keep illnesses away during the winter? "Sometimes we get coughed or sneezed upon and contract a cold virus that way," says Dr. Richard G. Erwin, a pediatrician with Mary Washington Medical Group Pediatrics. "Other times, we pick it up from touching everyday objects like keyboards or eating utensils that viruses can live on, and then the virus enters our system after we touch our mouths or noses." The best prevention is, of course, frequent handwashing, as well as keeping your hands away from your face. Erwin also advises not to share any food or drink with others, and always sneeze into a tissue or the crux of your arm instead of the open air. A cold virus will typically give your child "some combination of a stuffy or runny nose, sneezing, coughing, watery eyes, sore throat, fussiness, decreased appetite, and also perhaps a mild fever," Erwin says. "Colds usually last seven to 10 days." Children are likely to become sick quicker with the flu, which may also be accompanied by a fever and body aches. Colds can come on anytime of the year, while influenza strikes during the winter. Keeping a cool-mist humidifier running can help alleviate some cold symptoms. Nasal congestion can become a big issue for infants who are fighting a cold. "The best thing to do is to use nasal saline drops with suction," says Erwin. "The salt helps draw out the mucus." Over-the-counter medications such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen may also provide comfort. "Keep in mind that the fever itself isn't harmful," Erwin notes. "In fact, it is beneficial and means the body is fighting the infection." The American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend using over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for infants and children younger than 2 years old due to a risk of life-threatening side effects. "Several studies have also shown that cough and cold products don't work in children younger than 6 years old and can have potentially serious side effects," Erwin adds. Natural medications like Zarbee's and Hyland's may help a child's cough, or even honey, which is a natural cough suppressant. Remember not to give honey to a baby less than 1 year old, as this may cause botulism. "Also, never underestimate the importance of drinking lots of fluids, as this helps thin mucus, prevents dehydration, and generally helps the body recover faster," Erwin says. Resting and letting the cold ride itself out is the best option. As your child recovers, watch for signs of respiratory distress and troubles with breathing, dehydration, or lethargy. "If any of these were to occur, you should have your child evaluated by a medical provider immediately," Erwin says. WRITTEN BY BRANDY CENTOLANZA COLDS and FLU Dr. Richard G. Erwin is a pediatrician at Mary Washington Medical Group. | 3,097 | 1,587 | 5,975.434152 |
warc | 202143 | Your wisdom teeth erupt only in later life and tend to be exposed to a range of dental problems. Most people have four wisdom teeth, one in each corner of the mouth. Due to their late eruption and space related issues in your mouth, these wisdom teeth can grow in an abnormal position. For instance, they can grow part out of the gum or grow into a neighbouring tooth. A tooth that grows in this way is also known as an impacted tooth. An impacted tooth results in various dental problems such as pain, infection, cysts or crowding of your teeth.
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warc | 202143 | There are so many factors to consider when making a decision. Sometimes, it’s difficult to balance all the scenarios. Lots of people make decisions too quickly, often without much thought. Others, spend hours deliberating on every possible outcome. The key to making better decisions, is to make the whole process more efficient. Now, you can fine-tune your decision-making and find the best option in a shorter time frame.
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16 Sept 2021
Working capital finance facilities are designed to help businesses improve their working capital and encourage growth but just like other loans, there can be varying interest rates associated with these types of loans. We explore interest rates and why working capital is a great business loan option to consider.
When it comes to choosing the right finance product for your business, there are a few key things to consider before applying such as how long you’ll be committed to repayments and what the interest rate would be.
Any type of business loan comes with an interest rate set by the lender so when you’re considering which loan works best for you, it’s important to understand what the terms are of the loan too.
Working capital is a finance product created to be flexible business finance, helping businesses develop and grow. Its name ‘working capital’ means it will work however you need it to, giving your business more capital to invest in improving your products or services.
All kinds of businesses use
working capital finance for a variety of reasons, but all have the same goal, to free up capital within the business to help reinvest in the business.
A working capital loan is a short or medium-term loan created for flexibility. Depending on how big your business is, will depend on how much you can borrow. The lender you choose will consider all your business facets before giving you a loan. Working capital loans are designed to free up capital, helping your cash flow and allowing you to grow your business.
Like all business loans, working capital loans have an interest rate associated with them and the rate will vary from lender to lender. Usually, the interest rate on a working capital loan can be between 16- 35% depending on the type of business you’re running and how much you borrow.
If you’re considering a form of working capital, it’s important to know the options and understand what might be best for your own business. The most common types of working capital loans available for small businesses are:
Revolving credit facilities - These are like overdrafts in that they’re an agreed amount of funds a business can use as and when they need. They're set up so you only pay interest on outstanding funds making them good for businesses who need capital for operational cash flow and only need to borrow a certain amount. Invoice financing - A great option for businesses who invoice a lot, invoice financing allows you to free up capital that is owed to you by lending a % of an invoice owed until it is paid to the business. - Great for businesses using credit or debit card transactions and need a short-term loan option. MCA’s offer a percentage of the sales recorded through your card terminal which is great for hospitality, although lenders will want specific terminal readers and other requirements. Merchant Cash Advance Overdrafts - Much like revolving credit facilities, overdrafts are a pre-approved amount of funds businesses can quickly access when they need. The issue with overdrafts is they’re becoming far less accessible to anyone as bankers become stricter with lending. Asset refinance - Another good option for businesses with big assets like machinery or vehicles as asset refinance uses a business's assets to free up capital.
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warc | 202143 | Let’s be genuine: in the Photo voltaic Process, there genuinely is no superior place for individuals that isn’t really Earth. But that isn’t going to mean all poor places have been produced equivalent and Venus is about as inhospitable as a temperate-zone rocky exoplanet can get.
In modern yrs, proof has been mounting to advise that this was not constantly the situation. That, when upon a time, in its wild, wayward youth, Venus could have been habitable, with a attractive local weather and even liquid oceans.
Well, maybe we need to fail to remember all that. According to new research modelling the local weather of Venus and of Earth in their early a long time, Earth’s so-called sister world would under no circumstances have cooled adequately to enable the condensation of drinking water into liquid.
At the time a poisonous hell-earth, always a poisonous hell-planet, it appears.
Venus is a whole lot like Earth in numerous approaches. It’s a related size and composition, and the moment, when the Sunlight was youthful and cooler, it need to have experienced a much more temperate local weather.
Now, it is something but temperate. Venus’s sky is crammed with thick clouds of sulfuric acid, and its atmospheric tension at altitude is practically 100 times increased than Earth’s. If that weren’t bad plenty of, it can be lander-meltingly sizzling, with an average floor temperature of 471 levels Celsius (880 levels Fahrenheit).
But for the reason that of the similarities amongst the two planets, experts feel that Venus could be a indicator of what’s in Earth’s long run, as the Sun’s brightness carries on to rise.
This is specifically appropriate if Venus was once additional like Earth, with liquid oceans, and earlier investigate has identified proof that this could have been the case, specifically when the Sunlight was close to 30 per cent dimmer (and thus cooler) than it is currently.
This faint, younger Solar, on the other hand, provides a paradox: At people temperatures, Earth should have been a frozen ice ball, still we have evidence that liquid water was current comparatively early.
A crew of researchers led by astronomer Martin Turbet of the University of Geneva in Switzerland has now not only demonstrated that Venus was by no means like Earth, but identified a resolution for the faint, younger Sunlight paradox.
“We simulated the weather of the Earth and Venus at the really commencing of their evolution, far more than 4 billion yrs in the past, when the area of the planets was even now molten,” Turbet explained. “The involved significant temperatures intended that any h2o would have been existing in the kind of steam, as in a gigantic force cooker.”
In get for this steam to condense into clouds and rain down on the floor, Venus would have had to have cooled for quite a few thousand a long time. This could only have occurred if clouds formed to block solar radiation from the Venusian surface.
The team’s local weather modelling showed that clouds could have formed on a little one Venus – but only on the cooler evening facet of the earth. Not only would this not avoid solar radiation from achieving the working day aspect, it would have built the world hotter by building a strong greenhouse impact on the night aspect.
This would suggest that drinking water vapor could never ever have condensed in the atmosphere, let alone in sufficient portions to rain down on the world to fill complete oceans about millennia. This validates the idea of “steam Venus” that was to start with proposed in 2013 utilizing more simple modelling.
Interestingly, while, the team’s do the job confirmed that “steam Earth” could also have occurred, even with a weaker Sunlight. In simple fact, if the photo voltaic radiation had been any stronger, Earth could have finished up like Venus.
Somewhat than freezing a liquid Earth, the analysis confirmed, the faint younger Sunlight would have permitted our steamy earth to amazing more than enough to allow for drinking water to condense into liquid.
Specifically how Earth and Venus finished up on these different evolutionary paths is much from confirmed, on the other hand, and a thriller that planetary researchers would enjoy to clear up. Even if it would not have implications for our upcoming, it may possibly assistance us obtain other habitable worlds, out there in the broader Milky Way galaxy.
“Our benefits are based mostly on theoretical types and are an essential making-block in answering the issue of the record of Venus,” mentioned astronomer David Ehrenreich of the University of Geneva.
“But we will not be equipped to rule on the make a difference definitively on our desktops. The observations of the 3 future Venusian house missions will be necessary to affirm – or refute – our work.”
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warc | 202143 | What Is the Health Consequences of Smoking an E-Cigarette?
The vapors and the emissions from electronic cigarettes are known as vapes, and these cigarettes are most often produced in stainless steel, although they can be made in other materials. The only problem with this is that it makes them difficult to handle properly, just how can vapes help you avoid the possible health risks of electronic smoking? There are a few ways. First, you might have noticed that electric cigarettes sometimes come with cute little pearls or gemstones. The reason behind that is that the heating element that’s used to vaporize the liquid nicotine creates toxins that are inhaled. The toxins are not absorbed through the skin, but instead are absorbed into the bloodstream.
As a high school student, you likely didn’t have exposure to these types of toxins. However, we realize that the vapors which are produced are very dangerous and also have been shown to cause many different health problems. We also know that electronic cigarettes do not work the same way that traditional cigarettes do. This is exactly why so many adults are switching back to using e-cigs. They are becoming less risky to use than regular cigarettes, while at exactly the same time still providing the same high level of pleasure.
There’s one particular group that should be aware of the potential vaping health risks. This group consists of those people who are using e Cigarettes to give up smoking. If you are a adult who are trying to quit, but have not yet succeeded after using a few cigarettes, you should look at the vapor that is produced by the electronic cigarette. It is the group that should be alert to any potential dangers.
The vapor that’s created is approximately four times more toxic than what you will breathe in if you were to you need to in a few cigarettes. In fact, many experts have said that the vapor that is created is approximately five times more toxic than what you will breathe in. It isn’t known if there are any published studies that confirm deaths from vapour or if they are just uncorrected accidents. No one is certain of the cause of death in terms of quitting smoking, nonetheless it is suspected that long-term smokers are more likely to develop lung injury over time than someone who only uses e Cigarettes for a brief amount of time each day. There have also been no published studies that confirm the twenty-year-old reported deaths from vapour; however there’s an increasing number of people who are dying from lung injury every year as a result of long term smokers.
The problem with the Vaping health risks is that they are not just the result of someone having an accident with their lungs. Additionally it is possible to suffer from illnesses after being exposed to the chemicals and toxins that are present in the vapor that’s created from the electronic cigarettes. Many of these illnesses are preventable, nonetheless it is hard to say how much the risk could be reduced by avoiding these illnesses. Some illnesses include throat irritation and also gum disease. If you do not avoid the illnesses you can suffer from such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. If you are already suffering from one of these illnesses then it will be harder to avoid the complications and the lung injury you may suffer due to this fact.
A number of the illnesses which were reported in the usa include cancer, respiratory infection, nicotine poisoning, vitamin acetate poisoning, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. It has been reported that the E-Cigarette does increase the risk of certain types of cancers including esophageal cancer and bladder cancer. Additionally, it may lead to certain forms of respiratory illnesses including asthma, JUUL Pods bronchitis and pneumonia. Nicotine is really a stimulant that can cause cravings for cigarettes. It has additionally been linked to vitamin acetate poisoning, that may lead to outward indications of weakness, dizziness and also seizures.
According to the American Cancer Society there were a significant number of reports of cancer due to the ingestion of vapors from E-Cigarettes. Prochnow states that it is very likely that this is why the cancer rate is increasing among users of electronic cigarettes. There are more than twenty different kinds of chemicals that can be found in Electronic Cigarettes in line with the American Cancer Society. Nicotine is the main chemical that is contained in them and is estimated to be fifty times more toxic than normal tobacco. It really is believed that the vapors emitted by E-Cigarettes are much more dangerous to health than the smoke from the traditional cigarette.
One of the other health consequences connected with E-Cigarettes is they can cause damage to the respiratory system. Many E-Cigarette users have problems with irritation to the respiratory system due to the residue that remains after they have finished smoking. It is this residue which could contain toxins and carcinogens that can go undetected by E-Cigarette users. Prochnow states that E-Cigarette users should be made aware of medical consequences of smoking an E-Cigarette because of the prospect of them to cause cancer or other health consequences. E-Cigarettes are not recognized to cause cancer in non-smokers. | 5,322 | 2,232 | 12,582.524194 |
warc | 202143 | The energetic cost of protein synthesis is thought to account for a significant proportion of total metabolism. However, attempts to estimate the energetic cost of synthesizing proteins have resulted in surprisingly variable results, particularly for the small number of polar organisms studied, where cost estimates vary by two orders of magnitude. Much of this variability is probably the result of differing methodologies and experimental designs. Here we have used two different, carefully validated methods to measure the costs of protein synthesis in Antarctic limpets. One method, which utilized a specific protein synthesis inhibitor, was used to measure the cost of protein synthesis at two temperatures to test the hypothesis that the cost of protein synthesis varies with temperature. The cost of protein synthesis measured using the inhibitor cycloheximide was 13.95 ± 0.77 µmol O2/mg protein, while correlation of absolute protein synthesis with oxygen consumption suggested the cost of protein synthesis was 19.58 µmol O2/mg protein. Water temperature did not alter the cost of protein synthesis in Nacella concinna (Student’s t-test, P = 0.849, t = 0.19, df = 12). In a meta-analysis of literature values for the cost of protein synthesis there was no significant effect of temperature, but there was a significant relationship between the concentration of cycloheximide used to inhibit protein synthesis and the measured cost. | 1,464 | 697 | 3,028.82066 |
warc | 202143 | Eight years since my last college class wrapped at Williams College, I still have to remind myself continually that the academic world I was introduced to in 1965 and that shaped my intellectual and professional development no longer exists. At the same time, I literally cannot pick up a single issue of the
New York Times or the Boston Globe without seeing the impact of the ideas that first surfaced on campus in the late 1960s and now, four generations later, have become mainstream among the intellectual elite. These ideas--or customs--include an emphasis on various forms of identity, a preference for emotional over rational responses to difficult issues, and above all, the belief that modern western civilization is an oppressive conspiracy that needs to be "re-imagined." Yet I still look at the web site of the Harvard Crimson once or twice a week to see what is going on. My last discovery is this article about Hispanic student activism at the Law School, entitled, "In Decades-Long Push to Diversity Harvard Law Faculty and Course Offerings, Students Seek to Amplify Previously Unheard Voices." I will quote the first few paragraphs.
"In 2015, Juan A. Espinoza, a current third-year student at Harvard Law School, spent his summer participating in one of the Law School’s enrichment programs. Espinoza recalled walking through a famous hall where the portraits of professors were displayed. He remembers asking himself how it was possible there was so little representation.
“'How crazy is it that there isn’t a single Latino up on these walls?' Espinoza said. 'I remember having a very visual image of custodial staff — two Latino immigrants — cleaning the portraits of these professors and yet, there being no one from my community or any Latino immigrants represented on the faculty.'
“'They just don’t represent us here,' Espinoza said. 'It’s true in the curriculum, it’s true in the classrooms, it’s true in the faculty, it’s true across all course offerings, it’s true in every resource office — we’re not represented here. We just are not, and they know it.'"
Now let me contrast that with the way in which law school students, including those from minorities (and I knew one such very well in the mid-1960s, and met others through him), thought about their status as law students way back then. They, like every other educated person, were intensely aware of civil rights issues in the nation at that time, and how the law related to them. We were all living through an era of extraordinary civil rights legislation. They were also alert to signs of racism in individual faculty members. But they were focused on their educational experience, as their training as lawyers, in courses like contracts, civil procedure, constitutional law, administrative law, commercial transactions, etc. etc. Those are the legal issues that lawyers need to understand to help society function--regardless of their race, gender, or sexual orientation. And learning about them was a very demanding task. In their first two years, many of them studied six to eight hours a day, and I saw them agonizing over their exams. The faculty, in short, had no doubt that they were offering all their students a very important and worthwhile product, and the students understood that they had implicitly accepted that assumption by applying, enrolling, and paying their tuition. Of course, many of the students had big long-term financial goals as well. That is one thing that certainly has not changed.
47% of Harvard Law School students are now listed as "students of color," which means that somewhere between 50 and 100 of the entering class of 502 students are probably Hispanic. I am sure that they are, in the traditional sense of the word, a diverse group, with different backgrounds, intellectual interests, attitudes towards their identity, and career goals. I do not believe, in short, that all of them think just like Mr. Espinoza by any means. Yet his concerns about "representation" are the concerns of ethnic activists and of large bureaucracies at most of the colleges and universities in the country. They have arrived at their college, university or professional school angry and they keep themselves angry for their whole time there. Rather than focusing on really learning how law and justice work in America, they criticize the makeup and curriculum of the school because it doesn't support
their idea of justice. The whole long article includes many more details. They have no compunction about doing this because they believe their background gives them insights into these issues that the less diverse faculty cannot have.
Critical race theory--originally developed at Harvard by Law School professor Derrick Bell--holds that the legal system is just one of many power structures designed to oppress nonwhites. The article also quotes activists demanding that the theory be mainstreamed into the curriculum. Like the student radicals among my contemporaries--who in 1968-9 persuaded the Social Relations Department at Harvard to let them offer a fully accredited course on student radicalism--they have no doubt that they, not the faculty, know best. Again I quote:
"Zoe Russell, a founding member of the Law School’s Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory alongside fellow law students McKenna and Olivia M. Castor ’17, said her organization is hoping to 'implement more institutionalized spaces,' including co-education groups where students can teach and learn various aspects of critical race theory.
“'We’re hoping that this model will let HLS know that critical theory is something that is valuable and important to every part of legal practice and application, regardless of whether you’re going into a firm or you’re dedicating your life to public interest,' Russell said. 'That this is something that they need to invest more in.'
"[Law School spokesperson Jeff] Neal wrote that the Law School was 'committed' to teaching courses about race and racial justice, 'subjects that are woven into the fabric of countless courses.'
Castor, a second-year student and steering committee member of the Law School’s Critical Race Theory conference, said that Harvard should introduce more 'context-rich courses,' unlike many of the standard classes where professors actually instruct students to disregard background information and personal experiences when approaching a case.
"'That is not at all how the law works,' Castor said. “You have judges who are deciding the law, you have legislators who are writing a law — all these people are human beings. The idea that they go in and they’re able to somehow strip themselves of context when they’re deciding which way they want to enshrine doctrines makes absolutely no sense.'”
Castor, in short, wants to throw out the idea of law as an impersonal, rational institution that can try to treat everyone equally. Granted that such law never works perfectly, many of us still believe that it is our only realistic option, especially in a diverse society. Similar ideas have done enormous harm to the humanities--in which I worked--over the last five decades. The disciplines of history and literature bear the responsibility for their own decline, I know, because they now produce so little work, and so few courses, that deserve genuine intellectual respect. I don't know if there has been a decline in legal instruction parallel to what has taken place in the humanities, but such a decline might have created the intellectual vacuum that some student activists are trying to fill. Higher education has many problems,. most of them related to money. Because it has too many administrators and faculty, it costs much too much. Students inevitably resent the cost, and the cost also has helped make higher ed--led by institutions like Harvard Law School--the training ground for our most powerful and richest institutions, which in turn tends to make them still richer. I do wish that just a few institutions might react to the current crisis they face by returning to the values, institutional structure, faculty-student ratios, and minimal administrative structure of another era. Unfortunately I see no sign of this happening. | 8,353 | 3,866 | 17,704.211588 |
warc | 202143 | Do not write out the data in sentence format. Use a table or chart and highlight the data if you are using data. Formatting and style guide is APA include references please
The articles for the case brief details Consumerism in the Healthcare (HC) setting. Smart consumers in every industry want to get the most and the best for the least. That is the theme in Healthcare as well. Since WWII there has existed this drive to get and be the best. Through the 1950s and 60s, the start of recognizing that HC was and is going to drive the economy brought many changed in the way we provide care to patients. HMOs in the 70s, Managed care in the 80s, 90s and into this century. The “educated consumer is our best customer” (coined from an ad for a clothing store) is now at odds for a new type of HC delivery system!
Questions to answer :
Is the rise in Consumerism good for this industry, not only now, but the forecast for patient care (both on the delivery AND on the payment side) is indeed changing. Will consumerism keep pace with these changes and be sustained at the current level? Will care be ‘convenient’ enough for patients?
References to use : (I have also attached two other references)
Zeckhauser, R., Sommers, B. (Nov, 2013), Consumerism in Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities. AMA Journal of Ethics. Retrieved from
PwC Health Research Institute. (Apirl 2020). The Covid 19 Pandemic is Influencing consumer health behavior: Are the changes here to stay. Retrieved from
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/covid-19/covid-19-consumer-behavior.html (Links to an external site.) | 1,618 | 906 | 2,837.750552 |
warc | 202143 | Technical difficulties; The heart of the Jackson trial; Rx for ID theft
Technical difficulties
“Taming your tech” [MARCH 14] gave me great relief that I am not a lone techno-klutz but that I am among legions of similarly exasperated people who stumble through the maze of obstacles created by geek-speak. Your article may cause geeks themselves to look up and notice the armies of dissatisfied customers out there.
PHILIP M. RIDEOUT
Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Your issue had great tips for “Taming Your Tech,” but I am bewildered as to why consumers put up with poor tech support, the blame game, and faulty products. I had hoped to read about a trend that companies were finally addressing the frustrations of average consumers and were making their products, tech support, and other customer services easy and welcoming to consumers. I am infuriated that for many technology companies, poor service for their products is still the norm.
MARISSA WAGNER
Lafayette, La.
In “Taming your tech,” cognitive psychologist Kent Norman suggested using a heavy ax or sledgehammer on an old keyboard to relieve stress. Five years ago I took several sledgehammers, dressed them up a bit, and called them “universal high-tech tools.” I even prepared illustrated safety instructions to save the user from flying glass and other sharp objects. When I showed the tools to my friends, they all thought I was crazy. Now your article makes me feel vindicated. Maybe I was just ahead of the times.
JACK BAILEY
Erskine, Minn.
“The skinny on mini” notes that Mac Mini add-ons drive the price up to “$1,100 or more” and that “an iMac is still the best bet.” But for budget-conscious people who want to try Apple, your story might have suggested the lesser-known eMac. It is less expensive and comes with the iLife features, a mouse, a keyboard, and a built-in 17-inch monitor. And eMac is in keeping with the “simplicity” theme of your cover story.
WILLIAM MILLER
Orlando
The heart of the Jackson trial
Thank you for the article “Jackson’s Troubling Trial” [March 21]. Parents should tell their children to report any abuse that occurs and that someone will believe them. Thanks for exploring the issue, not the celebrity, at the heart of this trial.
SOFIA HOLLUM
Santa Maria, Calif.
Rx for ID theft
The national ID theft scourge discussed in “Gimme Your Name and SSN” [March 7] will only get worse. It’s time for a federal law that prohibits the sale and distribution of sensitive consumer data until the consumer has given positive permission. How about a “check the box” statement sent to each consumer (along with the monthly statement, perhaps)? Only after checking “Yes” could the institution or company disseminate consumer information.
ROBERT SHERMAN
Klamath Falls, Ore.
The solution to identity theft is simple if you change the rules. Put the burden of proof on creditors, and watch how quickly they tighten their security and stop handing out credit cards like penny candy.
BOB MONTGOMERY
Tampa
“Gimme your name and SSN” doesn’t name what I think would be the best way to prevent identity theft: a class action lawsuit. The outcome of a lawsuit against the collectors, sellers, and distributors of private information could require them to delete their files and not collect billions of dollars. Let’s hit them in the pocketbook and shut them down. When these companies spend more money defending themselves than they make selling personal information, then they may abandon data collection and sale altogether, even without a law.
GINA MORELLI
Lancaster, N.Y.
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