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warc | 202143 | The annals of Marketing Management have witnessed a tug of war between advertising and sales promotion since inception. But in the early phase of twenty first century this war has taken a new avatar in form of Above - The- Line and Below - The- Line activities, widening both scope and intensity of this war. Above-the-line propagated traditional marketing channels that strive to reach a mass audience with messages that reinforce a brand communicate general product information or inspire an emotional response. Below-the-line initiatives, by comparison, acts like traditional direct marketing efforts they aspire to establish targeted relationships between marketers and individual consumers, and offer comparable ease in measurability. With increase fragmentation and demographic along with the increased pressure to increase effectiveness of marketing communication soon BTL activities started substituting ATL activities and there has been a steady growth in BTL expenditure in this century. With its unique ability to personalize and customize communication this form of communication is slowly replacing the mass media advertising.
[...] Collectively, these practices speak to the active participation of consumers in the marketing process, a phenomenon made possible by the same innovations that many marketers expected would cement their authority in customers' daily lives. They demand marketing responses that are concise, relevant and universal across all media so that consumers who choose to interact via multiple channels (say, researching available products online and then completing the purchase in-store) are exposed to a consistent fundamental buying experience Widespread marketing “clutter” diminishes the impact of commercial messages that don't address specific and individually relevant consumer needs. [...]
[...] Heightened client pressure to deliver quantifiable value by evaluation of ROI of the marketing initiatives , forces marketing service providers especially agencies to re-evaluate services platforms 6. Growing effectiveness of “multi channel” campaigns (those that cross multiple media) reinforces demand for tactics that establish one-to- one relationships between marketers and consumers 7. Rapid technological advances allow for consumer/marketer interactions that are frequent, easier and more relevant than previously possible Trends Impacting BTL Marketing Budgets 1.) Changing consumer demographics decrease the influence of traditional mass- media (i.e. [...]
[...] Mail marketing: It involves creation of compelling branded Mail/email templates and campaign messages, and also our data driven services to develop precise targeting to reach the highest number of quality prospects Email marketing services include: 1. Access to responsive online consumers: Targeting the message to proprietary opt in consumer databases, which offers over unique consumer email addresses through: Carefully selected consumer profiles that fit their audience Predefined niche audience segments 2. Response analysis: On-going reporting and analysis to help clients assess results and make adjustments if needed. [...]
[...] Current Scenario in the field of BTL activities Despite general growth in advertising and marketing services expenditures as well as a one-year spike in broadcast television spending brought on by the quadrennial Olympics/ U.S. presidential election cycle market spending data suggest that above- the-line marketing is not fairing well compared to the industry at large. In 2006, ATL spending (encompassing such channels as television, radio, newspapers, magazines and yellow pages) is expected to grow 5.6 percent, a full 1.7 percent behind the industry as a whole. [...]
[...] Increasingly, savvy marketers are waking up to this essential need; according to the Direct Marketing Association, approximately 42 percent of marketers now sell via two primary channels, while another 40 percent sell via three. Marketers likewise are increasingly searching for service providers whose capabilities span more than one or two media providing both potential cost advantages and a uniform platform from which to launch cohesive, integrated campaigns Rapid technological advances allow for consumer/marketer interactions that are more frequent, easier and more relevant than previously possible. [...]
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warc | 202143 | Science and technology is the best thing society might ever ask for. The development of Science and technology allow mass communication right this moment so that we not only have the television, radio and newspaper, however even mobile phones which renders a multipurpose service; from long distance calls, listening to radio and music, taking part in games, taking pictures, recording voice and video, and searching the web.
Know-how has created employment for people who market their merchandise by the internet. Advances in medical know-how have contributed immensely in extending the life span of individuals. If that’s the case, an ad-hoc wi-fi network could be created between the 2 computer systems by configuring both terminals to ad-hoc mode.
Serving the national and European economic system and society, the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LISTING) is a Research and Know-how Organisation (RTO) located in the very heart of Luxembourg’s new Analysis and Innovation Campus on the former industrial web site of Esch-Belval.
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warc | 202143 | Pumps and filters these days are technologically superior to the equipment of the past. These days pool equipment advancements have helped make maintenance a breeze. Pool equipment does so much to make the life of a pool owner eaiser… until it stops working properly It’s a fact, you know. The weather and other factors beyond our control can have an impact if you live in a cold part of the country. If a water pipe has broken or the electricity has gone out due to weather, your pool’s pump, filter, and other automated equipment may be temporarily inoperable. In addition, with time, equipment degrades and eventually breaks down.
It’s possible to keep a pool clean and useful even if it’s no longer automatically maintained by your pool equipment by doing a few simple things like cleaning it regularly. Once your pool equipment is functional and running properly again, this increases its efficiency.
It’s not long before organic matter and other garbage and debris start to accumulate in the pool. A hurricane may have left behind more than simply film when it passes through. Debris can stain your pool’s surface if it’s not cleaned regularly. First, use a net/skimmer/raker, a pool vacuum, or a brush to skim and remove debris from the pool.
Chlorine is essential for keeping a swimming pool clear, sanitary, and fun. The only problem is that swimming in a chlorinated pool can make you feel queasy, especially if you’re not sure if it’s clean and safe. It’s advisable to concentrate on maintaining optimum chlorine levels rather than adding additional balancing chemicals while the pump and filter are being repaired.
It is recommended to keep the free accessible chlorine level between 1-3 parts per million (ppm) even without a pump or filter to avoid debris, algae, and other potential problems. For a uniform distribution of chlorine across the entire pool, choose fast-dissolving chlorine rather than one that requires the pump to move the water.
It won’t take long for heat-loving algae to start blooming in your pool if the pump malfunctions during the sticky, humid summer months. It doesn’t take long for the algae to take control once it starts growing. Anti-algae agents might help you get rid of algae quickly.
Consider how ponds frequently have scum, algae, and other growths, yet rivers seldom have any of these problems. One is a constant moving body of water, while the other is a stagnant body of water. Motionless water is an ideal environment for the growth of bacteria and other harmful contaminants. To maintain your pool clean, make sure the water is constantly circulating around the entire system.
Submersible pumps and robotic pool cleaners are both options for those with access to energy. When the electricity goes out, reach for your pool brush! Scrubbing the edges and bottom of the pool will not only assist to decrease or avoid algae growth, but it will also move and circulate the water, which will keep the chlorine level consistent throughout the pool.
Keeping the pool running for a few days without the automated aid you’ve come to rely on is possible, but no one wants to spend the entire summer scrubbing it with a brush and monitoring, adding, and balancing the chlorine levels by hand all summer. Contact a pool repair specialist to perform emergency pool repairs if the pump stops working due to something other than a power outage. To ensure the rest of your swimming season is hassle-free, they’ll assess the issue and give a recommendation for the best solution.
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warc | 202143 | If the academic pursuits of a student are to be secured, he/she needs the joint supervision of the teachers as well as the parents. With the objective to accomplish this point, the Ministry of Education, Malaysia had come up with the saps ibu papa seamakan that will enable the parents and teacher to monitor the students in close coordination.
Saps are the online portal that furnishes the necessary information, updates and announcements for the students, pursuing the academics in the primary and secondary levels in Malaysia. The portal acts as an interface of the Malaysian parents to have a track of the academic performance of their wards, the marks that their wards are scoring in the examinations as well as to explore the areas in academic wherein their wards would require more care and attention. Using the system, parents can analysis the performance of their wards in the examination as well as keep coordination with the school teachers. With few clicks of the computer mouse, parents can get the complete picture as to what extent their wards are prepared to appear at the saps 2016 examination as well as their performance in the trials and final examinations.
Apart from getting them the complete track of the academic performance, the system will enable the parents to stop their wards from hiding the bad performance or imitating the signature of the parents on the papers where they had put a very bad show. Thus, in the broader sense, the system is all about to promote the academic standard as well as values in the Malaysian students.
One of the parents states ‘the system will make it easier to have a constant watch on the academic performance and progress of my ward. I feel grateful to the authorities for developing such a wonderful solution”. For more details please visit http://www.beritasemasa.com.my/saps-ibu-bapa-semakan-peperiksaan
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warc | 202143 | Designing a reliable system that can recover from failures requires identifying the types of failures with which the system has to deal. In a distributed database system, we need to deal with four types of failures: transaction failures (aborts), site (system) failures, media (disk) failures, and communication line failures. Some of these are due to hardware and others are due to software.
1. Transaction Failures:Transactions can fail for a number of reasons. Failure can be due to an error in the transaction caused by incorrect input data as well as the detection of a present or potential deadlock.Furthermore, some concurrency control algorithms do not permit a transaction to proceed or even to wait if the data that they attempt to access are currently being accessed by another transaction.This might also be considered a failure.The usual approach to take in cases of transaction failure is to abort the transaction, thus resetting the database to its state prior to the start of this transaction. 2. Site (System) Failures:The reasons for system failure can be traced back to a hardware or to a software failure. The system failure is always assumed to result in the loss of main memory contents. Therefore, any part of the database that was in main memory buffers is lost as a result of a system failure.However, the database that is stored in secondary storage is assumed to be safe and correct. In distributed database terminology, system failures are typically referred to as site failures, since they result in the failed site being unreachable from other sites in the distributed system. We typically differentiate between partial and total failures in a distributed system.Total failure refers to the simultaneous failure of all sites in the distributed system; partial failure indicates the failure of only some sites while the others remain operational. 3. Media Failures:Media failure refers to the failures of the secondary storage devices that store the database. Such failures may be due to operating system errors,as well as to hardware faults such as head crashes or controller failures.The important point is that all or part of the database that is on the secondary storage is considered to be destroyed and inaccessible.Duplexing of disk storage and maintaining archival copies of the database are common techniques that deal with this sort of catastrophic problem.Media failures are frequently treated as problems local to one site and therefore not specifically addressed in the reliability mechanisms of distributed DBMSs. 4. Communication FailuresThere are a number of types of communication failures. The most common ones are the errors in the messages, improperly ordered messages, lost messages, and communication line failures.The first two errors are the responsibility of the computer network; we will not consider them further. Therefore, in our discussions of distributed DBMS reliability, we expect the underlying computer network hardware and software to ensure that two messages sent from a process at some originating site to another process at some destination site are delivered without error and in the order in which they were sent. Lost or undeliverable messages are typically the consequence of communication line failures or (destination) site failures. If a communication line fails, in addition to losing the message(s) in transit, it may also divide the network into two or more disjoint groups. This is called network partitioning. If the network is partitioned, the sites in each partition may continue to operate. In this case, executing transactions that access data stored in multiple partitions becomes a major issue. | 3,691 | 1,580 | 8,592.087342 |
warc | 202143 | Rare Rheumatology News
Disease Profile
Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome
Prevalence estimates on Rare Medical Network websites are calculated based on data available from numerous sources, including US and European government statistics, the NIH, Orphanet, and published epidemiologic studies. Rare disease population data is recognized to be highly variable, and based on a wide variety of source data and methodologies, so the prevalence data on this site should be assumed to be estimated and cannot be considered to be absolutely correct.
Age of onset
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ICD-10
E75.5
Inheritance
Autosomal dominant A pathogenic variant in only one gene copy in each cell is sufficient to cause an autosomal dominant disease Autosomal recessive Pathogenic variants in both copies of each gene of the chromosome are needed to cause an autosomal recessive disease and observe the mutant phenotype X-linked dominant X-linked dominant inheritance, sometimes referred to as X-linked dominance, is a mode of genetic inheritance by which a dominant gene is carried on the X chromosome.
dominant X-linked dominant inheritance, sometimes referred to as X-linked dominance, is a mode of genetic inheritance by which a dominant gene is carried on the X chromosome.
X-linked recessive Pathogenic variants in both copies of a gene on the X chromosome cause an X-linked recessive disorder
recessive Pathogenic variants in both copies of a gene on the X chromosome cause an X-linked recessive disorder
Mitochondrial or multigenic Mitochondrial genetic disorders can be caused by changes (mutations) in either the mitochondrial DNA or nuclear DNA that lead to dysfunction of the mitochondria and inadequate production of energy. Multigenic or multifactor Inheritance involving many factors, of which at least one is genetic but none is of overwhelming importance, as in the causation of a disease by multiple genetic and environmental factors. Not applicable Other names (AKA)
Triglyceride storage disease with impaired long-chain fatty acid oxidation; NLSDI; Neutral lipid storage disease with ichthyotic;
Categories
Congenital and Genetic Diseases; Eye diseases; Metabolic disorders;
Summary Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome is an ABHD5 [1] Symptoms
This table lists symptoms that people with this disease may have. For most diseases, symptoms will vary from person to person. People with the same disease may not have all the symptoms listed. This information comes from a database called the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) . The HPO collects information on symptoms that have been described in medical resources. The HPO is updated regularly. Use the HPO ID to access more in-depth information about a symptom.
Medical Terms Other Names
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HPO ID
80%-99% of people have these symptoms 0007479 Progressive proximal muscle weakness 0009073 30%-79% of people have these symptoms Abnormal circulating creatine kinase concentration
Abnormal levels of creatine kinase in blood
0040081 Abnormal granulocyte morphology 0001911 Alopecia
Hair loss
0001596 Areflexia
Absent tendon reflexes
0001284 0001251
Disease of the heart muscle
0001638 Difficulty walking
Difficulty in walking
0002355 Eclabion
Outward turned lips
0012472 Ectropion
Eyelid turned out
0000656 Elevated hepatic transaminase
High liver enzymes
0002910 EMG: myopathic abnormalities 0003458 Global 0001263 Hepatic steatosis
Fatty infiltration of liver
Fatty liver
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0001397 Hepatomegaly
Enlarged liver
0002240 Hypertriglyceridemia
Increased plasma triglycerides
Increased serum triglycerides
Increased triglycerides
[ more ]
0002155 Increased CSF 0002922 Increased intramyocellular lipid droplets 0012240
Involuntary, rapid, rhythmic eye movements
0000639
Drooping upper eyelid
0000508 Sensorineural hearing impairment 0000407
Decreased body height
Small stature
[ more ]
0004322 Shoulder girdle muscle weakness
Weak shoulder muscles
0003547 Small earlobe
Small earlobes
0000385
Cross-eyed
Squint
Squint eyes
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0000486 Subcapsular 0000523 5%-29% of people have these symptoms 0007009 Micronodular cirrhosis 0001413 Percent of people who have these symptoms is not available through HPO Abnormality of blood and blood-forming 0001871 0000007 Everted lower lip vermilion
Drooping lower lip
Outward turned lower lip
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0000232
Mental deficiency
Mental retardation
Mental retardation, nonspecific
Mental-retardation
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0001249 Microtia
Small ears
Underdeveloped ears
[ more ]
0008551 Muscle weakness
Muscular weakness
0001324 Myopathy
Muscle tissue disease
0003198 Learn more
These resources provide more information about this condition or associated symptoms. The in-depth resources contain medical and scientific language that may be hard to understand. You may want to review these resources with a medical professional.
Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) has a report for patients and families about this condition. NORD is a patient advocacy organization for individuals with rare diseases and the organizations that serve them. The Monarch Initiative brings together data about this condition from humans and other species to help physicians and biomedical researchers. Monarch’s tools are designed to make it easier to compare the signs and symptoms (phenotypes) of different diseases and discover common features. This initiative is a collaboration between several academic institutions across the world and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Visit the website to explore the biology of this condition. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Orphanet is a European reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Access to this database is free of charge. PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic. | 6,311 | 2,855 | 13,744.938004 |
warc | 202143 | Health benefits of multivitamins
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According to an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, over half of all adults in the United States take a multivitamin, even though there isn’t any evidence they prevent cancer or disease. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, M.D., discusses the article and shares her advice for patients taking multivitamins. | 410 | 288 | 570.868056 |
warc | 202143 | Invest the enough time to find a beneficial accountant, it may keep your business a lot of time, effort and money. In the issue that you run a small business or are then again self-employed, then having an accountant may bring many advantages. At most basic level, your accountant can pardon up more of your own time by handling key functions such as bookkeeping and tax returns. As your business grows, your accountant input will fall up progressively more significant, covering necessary areas following financial reporting, compliance, payroll, tax efficiency, business planning and much more like https://www.taxaccountant.co.uk. First and foremost, a beneficial accountant offers you the obedient financial information you need to support make key decisions, helping your online business to develop faster while helping you save money. It is essential to take times to do this carefully, and there are a few things you’ll like to consider first. You will compulsion to think about issues including the accountant’s location, the division of workload additionally the type of accounting software you will use. Consider just how much you’ll need to pay the accountant, and if they can help lessen your business taxes. It is in your company best interests to have a skilled, capable person handling probably one of the most important regions of your company – your finances. Just the right person can keep you money and time year after year. So check out things you should consider whenever you are choosing an accountant.
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Much can rest on the characters involved. There needs to be a professional, yet friendly and admission relationship involving the parties. A few years ago, the accounting given of that I’m a partner picked up an unbiased new client, who immediately referred us to her friend. The relationship with the first client soon broke down – we always appeared to be on another type of page. The girl she referred is still a happy client. Make clear to meet your accountant in person before engaging their services. You’ll be working next to together, so a personal connection is important. Inquire about their array of services to ensure they are adept to meet your entire needs. It is also a very good time to chat about their qualifications and experience. It isn’t a legal need for an accountant to keep any qualifications, you should make clear that yours is ascribed through one of many recognized UK bodies, e.g. ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA or ACCA. Also find out if they have been a chartered accountant – chartered status is an internationally recognized standard of professional standing. Most accountants will display their certificates in their offices. You may also double-check by contacting the relevant organization. It’s then advisable to discuss your accountant fees. An accountant job is always to save you money overall (while protecting you against certain risks), so inquire further to explain the ways in which their facilities will deal with value. Exactly how much you pay your accountant depends on the extent regarding the services they offer you with. Your method of paying may also vary. Some services (such as for instance annual accounts and bookkeeping) calls for an everyday monthly fee, while others (such as tax planning advice) may be charged per hour. The dimensions of your organization can be a factor, with larger businesses paying more. A professional and knowledgeable accountant can in fact add value to your business right from the start. In the thing that you expect your company to grow, it’s a wise decision to hire an expert accountant at the beginning rather than in the future. Needless to say, you’re adept to use accountants that aren’t chartered – or would not have an equivalent professional qualification – for bookkeeping, tax preparation or general financial management. However, you will most likely need those future qualifications in your corner if you go for a loan, or if you are audited.
PAYE, VAT, personal tax, business tax, year-end accounts, returns – tasks that numerous business owners find difficult or simply plain boring. Not everyone’s good with figures, while wanting to do it yourself could in fact prove much costlier than paying an accountant to reach it for you personally. From a tax perspective, the business is also properly administered, which provides little bit of mind and frees up the owner to complete other items. To make use of a medical analogy, what you ought to be to locate is a good ‘GP’, with associates to a ‘specialist’ if you need one. Consider carefully if the measurements of your accounting complete is right for your needs. Broadly speaking, you infatuation to match just as in like. Therefore, if you’re a contractor or sole trader then a small firm will likely suit you best, but if you should be a fast-growing startup with a huge vision, you’re going to be to locate a medium-sized firm to complement. You will need someone subsequent to experience preparing tax statements and financial documents for companies of an identical size and revenue to yours. In the event your company uses cloud-based software for most of its business, you’ll probably want somebody who is savvy behind cloud computing. It in fact is better yet should they’ve worked in imitation of companies in same market sectors to yours, as which will help them understand the unique needs of your business. You should check to see whether they have larger clients. When they do, it essentially is a great sign while you’ll know they must be able to handle your growing needs in the long run. You might afterward to ask them for a client list that details each company terrifying revenue and amount of employees. Discover how their clients have cultivated and developed over time, to have a feeling of if they will be accomplished to handle the evolving needs of your company. | 7,558 | 3,406 | 16,405.25367 |
warc | 202143 | The FDA said it took into consideration industry feedback after issuing its draft guidance in 2016. Ketchup, mustard and hot sauce, for example, were split up and now have different targets. Another difference: The final guidance does not spell out a time frame for reaching longer-term targets.
“It’s a huge disappointment that the 10-year goal didn’t come out at the same time,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
Mozaffarian said some food companies resisted reduced sodium targets, but that more scientific support has emerged for the federal guidance on sodium. In 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine tied the recommended limit to a reduced risk of chronic disease. A recent study in China also found lower rates of stroke and major heart-related events among people using a salt substitute compared with those using regular salt.
Whether the targets are effective in pushing the industry to lower sodium levels will hinge on how the FDA monitors progress and publicly communicates about it, Mozaffarian said.
In a statement, the National Restaurant Association said it provided feedback to the FDA’s draft guidance and that its member companies continue to provide options that address customer demand.
The American Frozen Food Institute said member companies have already been offering lower sodium options to meet consumer demand.
Even though the guidance is voluntary, companies might feel pressure to make changes to avoid stricter regulatory action, said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has called for mandatory sodium standards.
“If it turns out that the impact is not what we would hope, I think it’s back to the drawing board, and mandatory cuts are on the table,” he said.
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warc | 202143 | At Straive, we believe that a healthy workforce is a productive workforce, and as such, the health and wellness of our employees is a top priority. We constantly look for ways to ensure our employees are not just physically fit, but also emotionally and mentally well. Our regular programs, such as webinars on self-care, physical wellness and stressbuster activities help our employees keep a work-life balance, whether they are working from home or onsite. As all the activities are recorded, they are also made available so employees can access them in their own convenient time.
Under the banner of
“Self-Care”, our monthly webinars where healthcare professionals provide talks on health-related topics. Some of these include:
Our
Stressbuster activities allow employees to attend online fitness sessions that feature various forms of physical activities, such as home workouts, Zumba and yoga, ultimately encouraging employees to make physical fitness as a habit. Stressbuster talks on the other hand comprise a series of webinars to help employees de-stress and include topics related to interests, hobbies, learning, and other fun games and activities.
Through the
Employee Assistance Program, we provide short-term professional counselling to help employees manage their emotional needs. Support is available 24/7 and can be accessed in multiple ways, either via direct dial, email, the website or by downloading the app on a mobile phone.
Our employees are important to us and we believe that wellness and health programs at the workplace are an excellent way to take care of them and promote positive behavior at work. | 1,647 | 841 | 3,188.247325 |
warc | 202143 | The Beijing municipal government has a set of stringent eligibility criteria for those applying for a Beijing hukou, such as higher education qualifications and working in jobs serving the city’s development priorities. Yet these criteria are not well-publicized. On top of the formal eligibility criteria, the government applies yet another set of hidden rules, which give it absolute control over hukou transfers. Together, the eligibility criteria and hidden rules frustrate the efforts of uninformed hukou hopefuls. More transparency will go a long way toward addressing the mismatch between the expectations and the reality of applicants’ chances for hukou transfers.
In China, the household registration (
hukou) system shapes the life chances and choices of each and every citizen. It restricts access to social services, largely to the registered ( hukou) place. For migrants who have moved residence, but have left their (hukou) place unchanged, they are unable to access social services at their new homes. According to the Census of 2020, the number of such migrants stands at 493 million.
A
hukou transfer is essential for migrants to access local social services. Yet not every migrant who wants to transfer their hukou is able to do so. They need to make an application to the local government at their new destination.
However, the eligibility criteria and process of selection are often unclear. Rather, the specifics of both eligibility and selection are usually – and perhaps deliberately – elusive. This is especially true in mega-cities, which have both massive migrant populations and relatively high standards of social services. Among such cities, the ambiguity of this application process in Beijing remains unparalleled.
Who can apply for a Beijing hukou?
The application for a Beijing
hukou can be made via a family-based route or a work-based route. The eligibility criteria for the former is set nationally with clarity. In contrast, the eligibility criteria for a work-based route is established locally and can only be inferred from dozens of government documents.
We identified four criteria on who can apply for a Beijing
hukou via a work-based route. First, qualification matters. Prior to 2009, a bachelor’s degree was the minimum requirement, after which a master’s degree became necessary. Second, a job that serves the city’s development priorities is a prerequisite; a job that requires high skills or that is in the government is preferable. Third, a certain period of residence within the Beijing municipality is mandatory. The central government suggests this period to be five years. Yet the Beijing municipal government, which has the final say, has been ambiguous on how long this period should be.
Unlike the first three criteria, however, a fourth is not intended to limit eligibility. Rather it is meant to relax these criteria for migrants living in less-developed districts. For them, for example, a bachelor’s degree has remained the prerequisite.
The four criteria send a clear message. As the nation’s capital, Beijing needs to maintain its political and economic clout as well as balance intra-metropolitan development. A Beijing
hukou, and the social benefits attached to it, is possible only for those who meet Beijing’s requirements.
Most migrants in Beijing are not eligible for a
hukou in the city. Our estimate is that in 2010, only 13 per cent of migrants met the requirements on both qualification and job. What makes this even more startling is that these criteria are kept so elusive — they’re not well-publicized — and that most migrants are unaware of their own ineligibility. Instead, they remain hopeful of getting a Beijing hukou. But for the majority of them, hope eventually turns into disappointment. Who is granted a Beijing hukou?
Even if an applicant meets the criteria, acquiring a Beijing
hukou is not guaranteed. We estimated that in 2010, less than half of all migrants with a university education and a job that served the city’s development priorities had successfully obtained a Beijing hukou. Even for those migrants who have also lived in Beijing for over five years, only one-third of them had the city’s hukou.
Which of the eligible applicants are granted a Beijing
hukou is not random. By 2010, those with a postgraduate education were twice more likely than those with an undergraduate education to be granted a Beijing hukou. The government also gave preference to those who worked in the civil service over workers in other sectors, including prioritised economic sectors.
The different success rates across applicant groups reveal that, on top of the eligibility criteria, the Beijing municipal government also applies a set of additional rules in determining which applicants are granted a
hukou. This set of rules is not merely elusive; it is kept hidden. More transparency needed
The practice of adopting elusive criteria and hidden rules gives local governments in China absolute control over local
hukou transfers. However, for those migrants hopeful of getting a local hukou, there can be a mismatch between expectations and reality, shattering their dreams of acquiring resident status in their adopted cities. This can potentially lead to social unrest.
To avoid this, local governments must better inform migrants about the eligibility criteria and rules. More transparency is needed on who can apply for a local
hukou and on how applicants are selected. Hukou reforms should be formulated to meet this end, especially in megacities like Beijing. | 5,647 | 2,379 | 13,162.091215 |
warc | 202143 | Morrisons has signed up TV personal finance expert Alvin Hall to help its staff manage their money better and encourage them to sign up to a new “cash balance” pension scheme which, it claims, will make it easier for them to plan for retirement.
Morrisons said the new scheme, which launches in October, was better than the more common defined contribution schemes as it provided a predictable pension pot for employees and shared the risk of being in the scheme between Morrisons and the employees.
Employees’ contributions will be at least matched by Morrisons and held in the new scheme. The retailer will manage and underwrite the investment to produce a guaranteed fund upon retirement.
Such pension schemes are commonplace in the US but still rare in the UK, it added.
Hall will front Morrisons’ “Save your dough” campaign to encourage employees to sign up to the scheme, as well as providing more general personal financial advice.
“We are developing this innovative pension scheme because our aim is to build strong longer-term relationships with all our colleagues. Providing a trustworthy predictable pension is our way of showing our commitment to our colleagues throughout their career and into retirement,” said Morrisons group HR director Norman Pickavance.
“I believe this approach will set us apart and help ensure that colleagues will stay with us for the long term,” he added.
Morrisons said it was responding to a call from the government for companies to look into alternatives to defined contribution pensions. | 1,590 | 792 | 3,073.598485 |
warc | 202143 | Are you a fan of eggs? If so, this article is for you! We’ll tell you everything you need to know about duck eggs, the alternatives to chicken eggs that are growing more popular by the minute. These eggs are often touted as being healthier than chicken eggs, and many people also believe that they […]
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warc | 202143 | If you studied international relations, you know that students often come to the major with a variety of interests, including culture, travel, language, history, and politics—and continue exploring many of them through their courses and extracurriculars.
An international relations degree draws on so many fields and is so versatile and adaptable it’s “boundary-less,” says Karol Johansen, Associate Director of Career Education at the University of California, Irvine’s Division of Career Pathways. “That interdisciplinary perspective is really key, and 21st-century analytical skills prepare students for careers on a broad scale.” Johansen has seen alumni pursue economics, finance, marketing, entertainment, global politics, culture, history, public policy, international business, and more.
With few exceptions, “Students in this major can really do anything they want with so many transferable skills,” says Jonathan Byers, Director of Career Education from the Office of Career and Professional Development at Gonzaga University
On some campuses, programs that focus on this field can go by different names, like global studies, international studies, or international affairs. But even with the variation in title, they almost all share a commitment to cross-cultural awareness, geopolitics, and critical thinking. The interdisciplinary nature of international relations—with coursework spanning across subjects like history, political science, sociology, communications, economics, and more—can be a great way to acquire skills that will help you succeed in a wide range of jobs.
Top Skills International Relations Grads Have Honed
International relations majors gain many transferable skills and experiences as undergraduates, including:
Communication skills:Articulating clear arguments and precise points, whether it be in written or verbal form, and condensing information into digestible pieces that are meaningful for their intended audience are crucial skills for a range of fields. International relations majors can absolutely bring this to the table, thanks to papers, presentations, and projects they’ve completed. Analytical thinking skills:International relations, at its core, invites analysis, comparisons, and questions. One project could require you to draw connections between the economic trends and the laws of a region, or a paper could invite you to assess a region’s political strategy and global reactions. Grads bring the ability to assess and consider multiple layers of information, to process and synthesize that data, and to draw connections with broader themes and issues. Being able to think critically and analyze information is a skill that recruiters are recognizing more and more, Byers says, as these abilities help employees and their colleagues strategize and make decisions. Research abilities:Often, the key to figuring out next steps isn’t about knowing everything right off the bat, it’s about knowing how to look for the answers to the questions you have. The research skills required of an international relations major—their ability to immerse themselves in a subject matter with which they may or may not have direct experience—is a strength that will help them become independent and resourceful employees no matter which field they pursue post-graduation. Plus, asking questions and focusing on key themes, details, and trends is often crucial when entering and adapting to a new professional field or even setting. What do your coworkers tend to prioritize? What does your boss bring up first? How is your industry discussed online or in the media? Cross-cultural awareness and understanding:International relations graduates are in a great position to contribute to organizations that operate in different countries and regions, serve diverse populations, and want to stay in tune with diversity, equity, and inclusion best practices. Since they’ve researched how populations relate to and affect one another, identified the impacts of political structures and systems, and discussed local and regional issues—and may have studied abroad—international relations majors are well-equipped to offer a sensitive and nuanced perspective and help businesses operate with cultural respect and awareness.
Of course, these skills are only the first lines of an extensive list of strengths and abilities. But what sort of jobs is an international relations major best suited for? Here are a few examples, with salary information from PayScale (note that PayScale’s database is updated nightly, and these numbers reflect the latest as of October 2021).
1. Community Outreach Coordinator Average salary : $43,371
Community outreach is often a priority for nonprofits, educational institutions, and public sector entities where communicating with members of the public is essential. As a community outreach coordinator, you might operate as a point of contact and to balance both internal needs and external factors, which can require careful strategizing and planning, extensive communication, use of technology, and discretion. A typical day may involve attending public events, scheduling and calendaring for future happenings, posting social media updates, and responding to public inquiries.
International relations grads are especially well-suited for this work because they’re practiced with understanding different populations, groups, and sets of priorities; in order to perform community outreach effectively, it helps to know not only what should be communicated to a particular audience, but also how it can be communicated most effectively.
2. Market Research Associate Average salary : $49,994
If one of your favorite parts of your international relations coursework was analyzing trends and data as they relate to populations, then market research may be a great fit. You can work in-house for an organization or you can be employed with a firm that conducts market research for clients. In either role, the objective is better insight and understanding of their target audience.
Market researchers collect information in a variety of ways, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and observation. The research and analytical skills acquired during your studies will help you draw conclusions about relevant market segments, and your verbal and written communication skills will help you relay those findings to decision-makers and stakeholders. An interest in strategy and in long-term planning—which you may have gained studying the downstream effects of policies and events—can also help you process and prioritize your findings.
3. Nonprofit Program Assistant Average salary : $39,810
Nonprofit program assistants, sometimes called program coordinators, are often tasked with support or even oversight of a particular—you guessed it—program or function, such as event-planning, fundraising, or outreach. On any particular day, you might find yourself getting in touch with donors, checking in with board members, scoping out locations for benefits or other events, collecting supplies, or putting out a call for volunteers. And since lean budgets (and staffs) are one of the hallmarks of the nonprofit sector, you may find valuable opportunities to contribute beyond your job description and carve a path toward more senior roles.
If you can find yourself aligned with the mission behind a particular nonprofit, then working as a program assistant or coordinator can be a valuable experience in terms of applying your educational experience to the real world and in further developing your knowledge and proficiencies working on particular issues or with specific populations. Plus, the communication and analytical skills required of an international relations major will serve you well in this role, as will the time-management skills you honed juggling classes, extracurriculars, internships, and more as an undergrad.
4. Customer Service Representative Average salary : $39,746
Customer service representatives are among the first points of contact between a company and its customers, responding to customer needs via messaging, email, social media, or phone, and sometimes even in person. Depending on the type of organization you work with, you might field questions, concerns, complaints, problems, or general inquiries about products or services.
The role can serve as an entry point to a wide range of organizations—from multinational businesses to the federal government—so for recent graduates, it’s an excellent way to get a foot in the door and learn about an organization’s values and processes. Plus, it provides plenty of opportunities to flex the communication skills you honed in your international relations coursework. Technological proficiency helps too, since reps use various tools to interact with customers, pull up relevant information on internal systems, troubleshoot and suggest fixes, and keep records.
5. Public Relations Assistant Average salary : $39,260
The primary responsibility of a public relations (PR) assistant is to support efforts to promote and boost the reputation and public awareness of individuals, products, or organizations. PR assistants can also work in-house directly supporting a single brand or business or they can work at a firm or agency that handles multiple clients. Duties can include drafting press releases, putting together press kits, providing administrative or office support to more senior PR professionals, scheduling press appearances, and more. Strong communication skills, technological expertise, research chops, and an ability to manage multiple, competing responsibilities are crucial.
Identifying what makes a person or organization unique and communicating their strengths in effective ways are the core of PR work. International relations majors have solid transferable skills thanks to their experience studying and analyzing different groups, cultures, policies, events, and more; identifying how they’re distinct from one another; and effectively sharing their findings.
6. Policy Analyst Average salary : $60,096
International relations majors who want to work toward tangible change in their community may find policy work to be a great blend of their research, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
Policy analysts seek to understand how local, regional, and national policy affects constituents and groups. Their work allows them to assess proposed legislation and study political systems and other institutions to draw conclusions about the impact of certain decisions or changes. By the time a bill reaches any legislative body from the local all the way up to the federal level, you can assume that it’s been studied, reviewed, and analyzed by a team of analysts, and that they’ve compiled, written, and shared their results with various stakeholders. Policy analyst positions can be found within the government, in the nonprofit sector, and in private firms.
7. Business Development Representative Average salary : $48,409
Tasked with expanding a corporation’s customer base through outreach, networking, and relationship management, business development roles require savvy communication, comfort with critical thinking and strategy, and attention to detail. The ability to understand and empathize with a potential contact’s needs is key. The skill set gained in business development also lends itself to careers in strategy, sales, and marketing, so it can be a great start for those with long-term international business goals. Plus, while organizations of all sizes seek folks in this area, startups and growing businesses often have more need, and can give you exposure to other roles, departments, and procedures that can set you up for success in a variety of career paths.
8. Legislative Assistant Average salary : $41,077
The role of a legislative assistant, at its core, is to offer professional support to lawmakers, which often comes in the form of office management, schedule coordination, correspondence with constituents and members of the public, events management, speechwriting, bill tracking, and more. It requires strong organizational and communication skills, as well as political savviness and a passion for their community and public affairs. It’s also an excellent foray into politics, so for those with political aspirations, or who dream of careers in government and related fields, this role can be a great first step.
9. Recruiter Average salary : $52,318
As a recruiter, you need to attract desirable candidates to fulfill roles and needs within an organization and assess the skills and abilities of applicants to determine how they may or may not qualify for a particular position. Any given day might have you writing job descriptions, screening applicants, conducting interviews, and keeping diligent records.
Recruiting also requires balancing the internal needs of an organization with external industry standards and candidate expectations. Given that international relations majors spend considerable time studying how different countries, cultures, groups, and individuals within systems relate to and affect each other, they’re well-positioned to handle this balancing act and be attuned to diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything they do.
10. Travel Coordinator Average salary: $43,831
A travel coordinator turns the ideas and goals of an individual’s or a group’s travel plans into reality by researching, planning, and booking transportation, lodging, food, activities, and more. The job requires keen attention to detail, sometimes scheduling down to the minute, and the ability to seamlessly juggle competing priorities, like when available flights don’t suit a client’s schedule, or hotels are overbooked for desired travel dates. Some organizations or businesses employ travel coordinators internally. Otherwise, travel coordinators can work with travel agencies or even independently, planning trips and handling logistics for those on business or personal travel.
Travel coordinators must stay up-to-date on requirements of travel to a given area—like passports, health attestations, and other required documents—as well as understand the cultural norms of the region and communicate all of this information to travelers effectively. International relations majors who’ve studied or traveled abroad, as many programs require, also have direct experience as visitors in foreign countries, which gives them valuable perspective when planning for others to be in similar shoes. | 14,760 | 6,180 | 34,638.23301 |
warc | 202143 | With coronavirus inoculation programmes launching the world over, hopes began to rise that the end of the pandemic could be in sight.
But the emergence of new, more infectious variants and a surge in cases made it clear that the global fight against Covid-19 is far from won.
One strain, first identified in the UK (known as VUI 202012/01) is been blamed for a heavy increase in cases in London and other parts of England. A similar but separate variant found in South Africa (known as 501Y.V2) is also thought to be causing infections there to dramatically rise.
So what are these new strains and what problems could they cause?
The National explains. What is different about the new strains?
The strain first detected in the UK was traced to samples collected in London and south-east England in September. It has 23 mutations in its genetic material, 17 of which affect the virus’s proteins, and eight of these affect the spike protein – which the virus uses to attach to human cells.
Such mutations arise randomly as the virus replicates its RNA genetic material, but ones that confer a benefit to the virus are likely to become more common.
One spike protein mutation, N501Y, may make it easier for the virus to bind to and infect human cells, where it reproduces.
Other mutations in the UK variant are linked to increased infectiousness.
The South African variant has the same N501Y mutation, but researchers concluded that it arose independently.
Why are the new strains a problem?
Because of the mutations they contain, especially those that enable them to infect cells more easily, the new variants spread faster between people.
The UK form spreads as much as 70 per cent more easily, but is not thought to make people more ill.
But there are concerns that the South African variant might cause more illness among younger people, because the country has recorded an increase in severe cases among younger, otherwise healthy people.
How widely are they likely to spread?
The UK variant is becoming increasingly common there and has also been found in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Italy and the Netherlands, while the South African form has been detected in the UK. It may be more widely distributed, because only a small proportion of coronavirus samples have their genetic material sequenced.
Prof Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of East Anglia in the UK, said they would probably become the dominant strains globally, mirroring what happened with a variant, D614G, that appeared early this year and is characterised by a particular spike protein mutation.
“[D614G spread] quite rapidly and came to dominate the variants globally. Almost certainly one or the other of these new variants will do that,” he said.
What will the variants mean for infection rates?
Prof Hunter described the new variants as “really bad news” for controlling the pandemic. Work he and his colleagues have done, but not published yet, suggests that during England’s national lockdown in November, the reproduction number (R) – the number of people an infected individual spreads the virus to – fell to about 0.7 at best. But the new UK variant adds at least 0.4 to R. So even measures such as the closure of non-essential shops, restaurants, cinemas and gyms, may not keep R below 1 and stop infections from increasing.
“We know that because it [the new UK variant] was growing during the lockdown,” Prof Hunter said. “Every other variant was in retreat except for this one. It does mean it’s going to be really difficult.”
Where did the new forms arise?
Although one strain is linked to the UK and the other to South Africa, researchers cannot say for certain that these countries are where they evolved.
The UK has done as much genetic sequencing of coronavirus samples as the rest of the world put together, so is more likely than other nations to detect new variants wherever they arose.
Similarly, it is possible the strain first detected in South Africa evolved outside the country.
Will vaccines still work?
The coronavirus vaccines cause people to produce antibodies that recognise numerous sites on the spike protein, so a single change is unlikely to have much effect on their effectiveness. However, researchers are carrying out laboratory analysis to confirm this.
Scientists may have to produce new vaccines in future in response to further evolution of the coronavirus, such as for seasonal influenza. But, for the moment, this is not thought to be necessary.
The vaccines based on messenger RNA, a type of genetic material, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine used in Dubai, and the Moderna vaccine, could be tweaked particularly easily. | 4,800 | 2,237 | 10,084.935181 |
warc | 202143 | If life on our virus-plagued, overheating planet is getting you down, a Finnish physicist has some good news.
The human race may be able to build itself a home elsewhere in the solar system. And it's not on the Moon or Mars.
What’s the big idea?
Visionaries have talked about colonising the solar system for centuries. Until now, most attention focused on setting up bases on the Moon and Mars. Elon Musk's SpaceX venture is testing its Starship rocket with the aim of settling both over the coming decades. But now a Finnish researcher claims to have found a much better place for our future home: Ceres.
Where on earth is that?
Actually, it’s a very long way from the Earth. Discovered in 1801, Ceres is a ball of rock in the asteroid belt, a region of cosmic rubble orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres once held the title of the biggest asteroid in the solar system, but astronomers now regard it as big enough to be called a dwarf planet, like Pluto. Even so, at barely 950 kilometres across – roughly the distance between Dubai and Riyadh – it is not huge.
So what’s the attraction of Ceres?
Part of it is precisely that – attraction. Both the Moon and Mars have a major drawback as long-term homes for humans: low gravity. Since the early days of space flight several health effects – particularly weakening of bones and muscle – have been linked to living in weightless conditions. While both the Moon and Mars have some gravity, it’s less than half that of the Earth.
The gravity of Ceres is far lower still, but now it’s being seen as the ideal place for a radically new type of home for humanity: a vast “megasatellite” orbiting the dwarf planet with inhabitable “spin driers” whose rotation creates artificial gravity. According to space technologist, Dr Pekka Janhunen, people could live and work on the inside walls of these gigantic spinning towers. Around 10 kilometres tall, each tower would be warmed by sunlight gathered and focused by vast mirrors, and landscaped inside with urban areas, parks and trees.
Is this for real? It sounds unbelievable.
Dr Janhunen is a scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, whose work on space technology has been published in research journals. His research on the Ceres megasatellite is still in preprint form, but is backed by detailed scientific arguments.
But giant spinning towers – really?
The idea of creating artificial gravity through rotation is neither outlandish nor new. German pioneers of space travel came up with simple designs in the 1950s, and it was even tried aboard US Gemini spacecraft in the 1960s. The biggest problem will be familiar to anyone who has spent too long on a twisty road: nausea. But calculations by Dr Janhunen show that if the cylinders are wide enough – like two kilometres across – they can spin slowly enough to stay within safe limits. He estimates that tens of thousands of people could live in each cylinder in spacious surroundings.
Why can’t all this be done around the Moon or Mars?
It could – and at first glance, it would make a lot more sense. Even at its closest to Earth, Ceres is more than 230 million kilometres away – around four times the distance to Mars, and 600 times farther than the Moon.
But according to Dr Janhunen, Ceres has two main advantages. Studies suggest it could be mined for much of the material needed to build and sustain the megasatellite – including water, oxygen and nitrogen. Ironically, the small size and low gravity of Ceres also help, by making it easier to get the raw material up to the mega-satellite from the surface using a space elevator.
That sounds like another wild idea
It's actually another idea that's neither new nor entirely unrealistic. First proposed more than 120 years ago, it involves anchoring one end of a cable to the ground and connecting the other end to an orbiting object to keep the cable taut. Elevator cars then travel up and down the cable, giving a far cheaper way of getting into space than using conventional rockets.
In the case of Ceres, Dr Janhunen estimates the cable would have to be around 1,000 kilometres long. Once in orbit, the cars would leave the cable and travel on to the megasatellite orbiting another 100,000 kilometres from the dwarf planet.
Surely this can never be a replacement for the Earth?
Dr Janhunen admits there are still some big questions to be tackled – not least how to transport thousands of people safely to Ceres and the megasatellite. But according to his research, there is nothing to stop the celestial city from growing over time to accommodate billions of people.
Whether this grand vision becomes a reality will depend on detailed costings – and just how badly people want to leave the Earth.
The UAE's Mars Hope probe's launch into space – in pictures Robert Matthews is Visiting Professor of Science at Aston University, Birmingham, UK | 5,024 | 2,425 | 10,110.152577 |
warc | 202143 | Parents always have the best intentions when it comes to supporting their child in football, however, sometimes it can come across as pushy and become too much for the child. This article looks at subtle ways parents can better support their children from the sidelines and at home.
1. Don’t always focus on winning
Of course, parents want their children to win games and improve their football but sometimes if a parent is solely focused on winning it can overshadow the child’s performance.
So parents need to support the ‘process’ not the outcome. In other words, they should focus on helping their child to develop their football, work well in the team and more importantly enjoy themselves instead of always focusing on the result.
2. Positivity from the sidelines
Parents should give praise and be positive towards their children during a game even if things are not going well. Acting the same way to the whole team is also a great way to show support as it can make the players work harder for said praise and positivity.
Remaining composed when watching a game helps players to stay focused on the game and not become embarrassed. So, not constantly yelling instructions at the child from the sidelines, but instead being calm and instructive is a much better way to be supportive.
In some instances, parents can get caught up in the heat of the game and argue with parents and coaches from the opposition team. Again not only will this distract the players but it's not a healthy way to support your child and doesn’t set a good example.
3. Encourage them to try different sports
A good way to support the development of young players is to encourage them to play different sports as well as football. Engaging in other sports may not develop the fundamental techniques of football but playing them can improve motor skills and general athletic ability.
Having other passions in sport can also help with the mental and social aspects of a child’s development. For example, with the more creative players, it can help with their decision making and pattern recognition. Also if children find success in these sports it can increase their overall motivation and confidence all of which can be transferred into their football.
4. Listening to them
Reflecting on a game with a child is such a key aspect of supporting them in their football journey. Having input in this reflection is important to support them, as parents see a different perspective on the game from the sidelines. However, it's key to let the child lead the reflection on what they thought went well, what they thought didn’t go so well, etc.
So it’s important for parents to listen to what their child has to say and then give their input and advice for how they think they should improve. Check out this really handy article over on The Coaching Manual that gives more advice on how parents can help their child to reflect.
5. Encourage practice at home
If parents are serious about wanting their child to improve, encouraging practice away from the training ground is a fantastic way for them to do so. Including games and training sessions, most young players only have 2-3 hours of contact time with their coaches in which to improve their game. So encouraging children to practice the fundamentals of football at home is vital.
This infographic from The Coaching Manual shows why practice at home is so important…
It’s not like asking a child to do their homework, they will more than likely enjoy the encouragement to play football at home and in turn when they see improvements in their game they will, of course, be glad for it.
“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.”
It’s not like asking a child to do their homework, they will more than likely enjoy the encouragement to play football at home and in turn when they see improvements in their game they will, of course, be glad for it.
TopTekkers is the perfect app to support your child in this way. The app is designed by Premier League academy coaches and specifically aimed towards keeping children active and giving them the tools to improve their game.
The tools on the app allow parents and coaches to set development plans for the players to complete at home and also provides the opportunity to track their progress throughout the season.
Download it here and get started today!
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warc | 202143 | Primer on large-scale assessments of educational achievement National assessments of educational achievement Format: Corporate Author: World Bank Author: Marguerite Clarke, Diego Luna-Bazaldua Publisher: World Bank
To improve their education systems, countries around the world have increasingly initiated national largescale assessment programs or participated in international or regional large-scale assessment studies for the first time. Well-constructed large-scale assessments can provide credible information on student achievement levels, which, in turn, can promote better resource allocation to schools, stronger education service delivery, and improved learning outcomes. The World Bank developed this Primer on Large-Scale Assessments of Educational Achievement as a firststop resource for those wanting to understand how to design, administer, analyze, and use the results from these assessments of student achievement. The book addresses frequently asked questions from people working on large-scale assessment projects and those interested in making informed decisions about them. Each chapter introduces a stage in the assessment process and offers advice, guidelines, and country examples. This book also reports on emerging trends in large-scale assessment and provides updated information on regional and international large-scale assessment programs
Extent xix, 139p. ISBN
9781464816598
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warc | 202143 | Unity Teaching School Hub is partnering with education charity Ambition Institute to deliver a fully-funded induction programme, Early Career Teachers, designed to develop the knowledge and skills of early career teachers and their mentors over two years.
The Programme
The Early Career Framework is the evidence base which underpins the entitlement for early career teachers’ (ECTs) professional development. It outlines the knowledge and practice ECTs need to learn and embed in their
first two years of teaching. Thinking builds on the Early Career Framework to help educators develop expertise, improve wellbeing and job satisfaction.
Structure
The programme covers the Early Career Framework through
three termly strands of learning, with a core thread throughout. They are:
Behaviour
Instruction
Subject
What you learn
All the ‘learn that’ and ‘learn how to’ content of the Early Career Framework
What effective teaching looks like, through specific examples and explanations
How to keep getting better, so you can continue to improve and thrive.
How you learn
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Children’s screen time is a common concern for parents these days. The rise of remote learning, along with the prevalence of cell phones, tablets, and laptops in homes has increased screen time exponentially.
As more and more of children's time is spent in front of digital screens, new health effects are arising. Two of the most common effects of increased screen time are:
In an effort to combat these symptoms, eyewear companies have started producing blue light filtering lenses.
Blue light blocking glasses have become popular among both people with prescription glasses and those without prescriptions.
According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AOA)
6 and multiple studies, 7, 8, 9 evidence shows that blue light is not correlated to digital eye strain symptoms. Current scientific evidence shows that blue light blocking lenses cannot help reduce symptoms of digital eye strain.
We'll cover the causes and remedies of digital eye strain in the "Other Ways to Keep Kids’ Eyes Healthy" section of this article.
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However, evidence shows that blue light does negatively affect the quality of sleep by interfering with the body’s production of melatonin. This can upset circadian rhythm, leading to poor sleep.
10, 11, 12 As a result, a number of problems such as antisocial behavior and depression, can develop. 5
Fortunately, early studies have shown that reducing blue light exposure before bed can improve sleep quality.
11, 12, 13 One study even provided evidence that suggests that blue light filtering glasses can improve work engagement and task performance. 14
All this goes to show that
blue light blocking glasses can help regulate your circadian rhythm and improve your sleep quality.
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Yes, blue light glasses are safe for children. Just keep in mind that blue light blocking glasses will not help alleviate digital eye strain symptoms in children.
Reducing blue light exposure can help regulate children’s circadian rhythm and improve sleep quality. The best way to do this is by limiting screen time. However, for many families, it's unrealistic to ban the use of mobile devices and televisions in the evening.
Blue light blocking glasses for kids are another way to help reduce your child’s exposure to blue light from digital screens. Wearing them for at least three hours before bedtime should help improve your child’s melatonin levels and quality of sleep.
Improved sleep quality can lead to several health benefits, including:
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In addition to wearing blue light blocking glasses before bed, there are several other ways to help protect your child’s health and reduce digital eye strain:
One of the biggest challenges parents face in today’s digital world is managing children’s screen time. There is very little scientific data to help parents determine what a “healthy” amount of screen time is. Plus, education is relying more and more on digital interactions.
The following guidelines are from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry:
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Every 20 minutes, look away from your screen. Focus on an object at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds. While performing this exercise, stand up and stretch your neck and back to relieve any stiffness or discomfort.
Set the computer so that the center of the screen is about 15 to 20 degrees below eye level. Put the computer screen an arm’s length away (~20 inches) from your child. Or 16 inches from a tablet or smaller device. If you see them leaning closer to see, try enlarging the font on the screen.
Place lubricating eye drops or artificial tears in your child’s eyes throughout the day to reduce dryness.
If your child needs vision correction, make sure they are using glasses instead of contact lenses when using screens. Contacts can increase eye irritation.
Anti-reflective coating is available on prescription and computer glasses. Matte screens or screen covers can also reduce glare from your digital device.
Avoid direct lighting on the screen to help minimize glare. Minimize competing lighting by closing blinds and curtains.
If you use an air conditioner or heater, the air in your home may be dry. A humidifier can help prevent dry eye symptoms.
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(9) Singh, Sumeer, et al. “Do Blue-Blocking Lenses Reduce Eye Strain from Extended Screen Time? A Double-Masked, Randomized Controlled Trial.” Elsevier, American Journal of Opthalmology, 9 Feb. 2021.
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(16) “Screen Time and Children.” AACAP.org, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Feb. 2020. | 8,648 | 3,717 | 19,438.805488 |
warc | 202143 | EARLY January can seem to be a very forlorn time of year. All the festivities are done and dusted, the decorations have been stowed away, and all we are left with is pine needles behind the radiator!
But it's possible to put a different spin on the January blues. On a positive note, winter sun is beautiful, casting a flatteringly soft glow on all it touches.
It's far more forgiving than the harsh gleam of summer sunshine, highlighting every defect in the home with its radiant beams.
Andrew and I like working on schemes with a few beams of winter sunlight filtering in - it helps you to see colours at their most natural. Artificial light can be very misleading, so if you are choosing fabrics, or paint, bear this in mind.
In fact, I'd suggest looking at colours in as many different lights as possible before making a decision. It's very easy to make the wrong choice if you just see something once - and mistakes are expensive and distressing.
At this time of year we need all the light we can get. Help let it in by pulling the curtains open as far as possible. Try using hold backs and tie backs to keep the curtains away from the windows.
I know I've mentioned the use of mirrors before. Yes, they make a room look bigger, but they also double the volume of light. A big mirror will allow sunlight to come cascading into every corner of the room.
I expect you're thinking, fine, but what about those all-too-frequent days when the sun never even puts in an appearance?
This is where accent lighting is essential. Carefully placed lamps add softness and warmth to a room.
I am no fan of overhead lighting. For one thing, it's makes pale winter skin look sallow, draining away any vestige of colour. Overhead lighting also tends to give out a cold, ugly light, that highlights defects.
Carefully placed lamps glow cosily, while neatly disguising the fact that a room might be in need of a repaint! As in January nobody has any money left, redecorating and purchasing new things will have to wait, so the only option is to disguise any nasties by making best use of what's already in the home.
Take a look about your house. Where are the gloomy corners that would benefit from extra lighting? Where are those grotty areas that are still on the to do list? Could you move a lamp from one room to another, and make better use of it? Could you move a bookcase to hide a mark on the wall? Can you put a throw on the sofa to cover up where it's worn?
If you haven't got enough lamps to create an intimate atmosphere, then light candles, they do so much for ambience, and won't break the bank. If you don't feel like splashing out on posh candles, just use the household variety or tea lights - afterall the overall effect is the same.
Greenery helps liven the place up too. If your existing plants are looking a little tired, give them a freshen up with leaf shine. It's available from all garden centres, and gives leaves a healthy gloss.
Splash out on some new plants if there's any spare cash floating around.
But if your cards are maxed out, just a simple bowl of hyacinths punches above its weight. The fragrance hyacinths give off is wonderful, and for very little outlay you can bring a breath of spring into your house.
Winter gloom can be dispelled with colour too. Warm russet tones and sunny yellows (steer clear of sharp acidic yellow), sunset reds and cosy blush pinks create a homely, welcoming effect.
If you need to replace the shade on a lamp, don't look at whites and creams but warmer colours such as orange. They don't cast such a bright light, but they do look snug. If you want to read, place a reading light close to you, rather than use the overhead light. You can switch it off easily if you settle down for a chat or want to watch the TV.
Rather than wish the days away until spring comes, just enjoy what winter offers - what could be more comforting than to draw the curtains, light the fire and cwtch down on a dark night?
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warc | 202143 | The library research at the University of Wales Swansea questioned 980 students and staff It found that:
8% visited the library several times a day;
One quarter used the university network several times a day;
13% went to the library at least once a day;
17% used the library once a day specifically to access the network.
The Justis Project at the university of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Northumbria, found that:
Higher education students were only slightly more likely to turn to a computer for help first rather than a book;
Half of the further education students asked said they went to the internet first compared to a quarter who went to books first, and
Both studies showed students wanted to be able to use libraries to access help electronically. | 781 | 421 | 1,430.287411 |
warc | 202143 | AFTER years of expansion and opportunity, we are now faced with formidable challenges as the global economy goes through its greatest turbulence for almost a generation.
And, while various fiscal and other financial measures are necessary to restart the cycle of growth, the underlying strategy for achieving competitiveness and sustainable prosperity must remain the same.
The success of our economy in Wales will still depend to a very large extent on the skills and knowledge we develop and on how we deploy our expertise in the marketplace.
Earlier this year I launched Skills that Work for Wales – a wide-ranging skills and employment strategy and action plan which sets out the One Wales ambition for a highly-educated and highly-skilled workforce, underpinning high employment and high value added businesses.
Although the strategy recognises the importance of improving skills at all levels in all sectors it highlights the particular necessity to raise the performance of our leaders and managers if we are to achieve our aspirations.
These skills are effectively the yeast in the skills mix; the X factor that translates all of the other training and market opportunity into the achievement of objectives and the creation of wealth.
Over the coming months I am eager to work with employers and individuals to create a new engine to drive forward the work of giving Wales a sustained supply of world-class leaders and managers.
I want to engage with a range of organisations interested in leadership and management, such as trade unions, the Federation of Small Businesses, CBI, the Institute of Leadership and Management, and the Chartered Management Institute to harness all the good work that is already being done and to boost leadership and management performance across Wales.
The current economic uncertainty is a testing time for many of us, and good leaders and managers are vital in helping to ensure that businesses survive and remain competitive.
Now is certainly not the time to delay training and development. Now is the time to invest in the skills and talent of our workforce.
The need for better management and enhanced leadership capabilities will increase in the face of mounting competitive pressures to reduce costs and improve profitability. International compliance and globalisation issues will also place a greater emphasis on leadership abilities.
To meet this challenge, we need to stimulate private sector demand for the development of higher-performing leaders and managers, through direct engagement and through the development of a more unified and cohesive approach to the delivery of leadership and management support in Wales.
This action will complement the leadership and management development activity already under way in the public sector via Public Service Management Wales and also link to the work being done in the higher education sector in Wales.
Recently I took the first step in a new process to address this challenge by inviting organisations to tender for a contract to create a Centre for Excellence for Leadership and Management in Wales. This will provide a centralised resource for businesses and individual managers and will improve and deliver the leadership and management policies set out in Skills that Work for Wales.
We see this centre as a vital resource for Welsh business, not only in responding robustly to current challenges but in building for a brighter long-term future in which our economy can become one of the most competitive in Europe.
Organisations interested in being involved in this exciting new project can find out more by e-mailing help@bravosolution.co.uk
John Griffiths is deputy Minister for Skills in the Welsh Assembly Government | 3,748 | 1,717 | 8,131.217239 |
warc | 202143 | Moderna is urging the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize a half-size booster of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to a briefing document posted Tuesday, ahead of a key meeting of the agency’s vaccine advisers.
The company is asking for authorization for a 50-microgram booster dose — half the size of the 100-microgram doses used in the primary series of the two-dose vaccine. The company says halving the dose increases protection against the coronavirus while helping the worldwide Covid-19 vaccine supply.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is meeting this week to consider booster doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines. The FDA previously authorized boosters of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for some adults.
Moderna is requesting authorization for a 50-microgram booster dose at least six months after the second dose for certain groups: people age 65 and older; people ages 18 to 64 who are at high risk of severe Covid-19; and people ages 18 to 64 whose exposure to the coronavirus in their settings or jobs put them at risk for Covid-19 complications or severe illness.
Antibodies have been shown to wane several months after people complete their Moderna or Pfizer vaccine series, but protection against severe disease and death remain strong after two doses. However, Moderna says, trial data and real-world evidence “support interventions to restore or enhance” antibodies that have waned over time.
“Clinical trial data breakthrough infections as well as real world evidence of reduced effectiveness against the Delta variant indicate that a booster dose of mRNA-1273 for those vaccinated more than 6 months previously could be beneficial to restore antibody titers to higher than post-dose 2 levels and reduce the number of breakthrough cases particularly against (variants of concern),” Moderna said in its briefing document.
Moderna’s authorization request includes results from a study of 171 people who received the authorized 100-microgram doses of Moderna’s vaccine and a 50-microgram booster dose at least six months later. Moderna also included safety data from another group of Moderna trial participants.
Efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 wasn’t evaluated among booster dose recipients, the FDA notes in its analysis released Tuesday.
Just as with Pfizer’s booster dose submission, the FDA did not take a position on EUA for a booster dose of Moderna’s vaccine in its VRBPAC briefing document.
“The expected benefit of booster vaccination will depend on the impact that booster vaccination has in reducing disease relative to the primary series,” the FDA’s analysis said. “If the primary series of Moderna COVID19 Vaccine is still effective in preventing important COVID-19-related outcomes, then the benefit of booster vaccination is likely to be more limited than if effectiveness following the primary series has waned substantially.”
It said factors to consider include effectiveness of the primary series over time and against variants in circulation, the effectiveness of a booster against outcomes such as death, hospitalization and long Covid, the dynamics of the pandemic in the United States and the risks of a booster dose.
“Some real world effectiveness studies have suggested declining efficacy of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine over time against symptomatic infection or against the Delta variant, while others have not,” the agency’s analysis said. “However, overall, data indicate that currently US-licensed or authorized COVID-19 vaccines still afford protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death in the United States. There are many potentially relevant studies, but FDA has not independently reviewed or verified the underlying data or their conclusions.”
Moderna booster safety
In addition to effectiveness, the briefing documents included some details about safety of booster doses of Moderna’s vaccine.
The two-dose mRNA Covid-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer have been linked to rare cases of heart inflammation, particularly among younger men. Studies have found such myocarditis and pericarditis cases are generally mild.
The FDA’s analysis notes that trials conducted before authorization might not be large enough to fully understand uncommon, potentially serious adverse reactions to a booster dose.
“It is currently not known if there will be an increased risk of myocarditis/pericarditis or other adverse reactions after a booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine,” the FDA’s analysis says. “These risks and associated uncertainties have to be considered when assessing benefit and risk.”
There was a higher rate of swollen lymph nodes after the booster dose when compared with the second dose in the primary Moderna series, but safety data didn’t otherwise show increased frequency or severity of reactions after a booster dose.
What happens next?
On Thursday, the FDA’s independent vaccine advisers are expected to discuss and vote on whether to recommend authorization of boosters for the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.
On Friday, the advisers are scheduled to discuss and vote on whether to recommend authorization of boosters for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine.
Both vaccines are already authorized for use in people age 18 and older.
VRBPAC members will also hear a presentation on Friday on “mix and match” booster doses.
The committee of independent advisers typically discusses and makes recommendations to the FDA about vaccine authorizations and approvals, and the agency then makes the final decision about whether to OK vaccines. If they’re authorized, the CDC’s vaccines advisers are scheduled to meet October 20-21 to discuss whether to recommend them for use.
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warc | 202143 | In the same place where state-of-the-art leading instruments such as digital phoropters, ophthalmological platforms and ultra-precise eyeglass lens designs are developed, experts at ZEISS also design digital products for healthy and clear vision in everyday life. The team at ZEISS Vision Care explains the challenges presented by this dual role and how these challenges are overcome, taking the ZEISS Online Vision Screening app as an example. The digital product cannot take the place of a visit to a specialist optician's store, but it can help to identify changes in eyesight and then establish contact with a local eye care professional.
The development of every product must have a clear objective right at the outset. In the case of the ZEISS Online Vision Screening, the objective was the development of what is called an "engagement tool" for consumers. We therefore asked the question: How can we make people aware of the need for an eye test by an optician? How can we involve consumers? How must we make a test of this nature in such a way that people lacking specialist knowledge can conduct the test? We therefore centered the development around the users. People were key when answering important initial questions such as: How is the product to be structured, which tests make sense, how should the sequence of tests look, how should instructions be formulated and structured visually, and what do we learn from the experiences we could gather with the former, successful Online Vision Screening?
In addition, a digital product has, of course, a different technical framework to those of the ultra-precise instruments in an optician's store. That, too, had to be included in the thinking right from the start. We developed an engagement tool which familiarizes people with the subject and provides preliminary indications of potential deteriorations in their eyesight.
Even though no expert uses the app, we can still make use of certain tests which comply with international standards. For example, we use the Landolt C for visual acuity and contrast sensitivity. Color vision is tested using a standard clinical test in which figures are presented in confusion colors. We must, of course, establish in advance which tests actually work. And the users need very good instructions. Otherwise, the app won't work. We can't check that during the tests. At the same time using the app should be fun. The entire interface must be structured in such a way that the demanding expectations of the user experience are met.
Then it's all about measuring and testing. We follow the principle of "build - measure - learn" – and improve in our work. There is no such thing as the finished app which has materialized in some quiet back room on a given day. We start off with a few functions, let different groups of people test it and look carefully for where there might be further potential. For example, can we expect users to calibrate the screen using a credit card? (Yes). The next step was to make a prototype available on a test market: build, measure, learn - and optimize. Even when the final version has been rolled out, the user data will tell us where further potential for optimization can be found. A further important point is that new technologies can make new forms of tests possible.
The product development starts with the consumer needs and the market requirements - and the market is huge if we consider the vast number of consumers, mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and so on. To consider all these requirements the knowledge and experiences of our experts from different corporate departments are extremely important. Future developments will also have to consider the technology and sensors etc. with which the individual devices are equipped. And what these could be used for.
Yes, the project management here looks quite different from that for classic hardware development. Diversity and agility are essential if first-rate and globally applicable results are to be achieved. Therefore, many experts from different fields have to get together - experts with the widest possible range of knowledge drawn from ophthalmology, project management, marketing, UX design, software development, data protection, academia and other areas. The range is huge - and we are scattered far and wide, in different parts of Germany as well as further afield. But we work together in agile teams and use such methods as scrum.
The prime benefit is that the app provides a simple first step in learning something about your own eyesight and potential problems. At the end of the ZEISS Online Vision Screening the user is always told where he or she can find the nearest optician. Users therefore are sensitized and have received an "early warning" about their eyesight - something which is a perfect starting point for the consultation with an expert. This is then immediately more customized and targeted to the individual's needs. In an ideal case, time is also saved, which is an advantage for all concerned.
Online research before making decisions or before purchasing something is becoming increasingly important in all areas of consumers' daily lives. We have been observing this for years, especially in the "Better Vision" section of our ZEISS Vision Care website. Here we offer tips and advice on everyday questions regarding eye care and vision. Here the ZEISS Online Vision Screening makes an important contribution and is already by far the most clicked page in the ZEISS Vision Care web worldwide. We see that apps are becoming increasingly popular in the healthcare sector. A German study showed that 63% of the app users surveyed stated that they are better informed about their body and health as a result of health-related apps. 1 Thus if the gradual process of the deterioration of eyesight is discovered by a simple online test which can be subsequently checked by an eye care professional, this must be a great advantage. The skilled correction of visual impairments and active screening of eye health contribute to the maintenance of good eyesight over a long period and the ability to recognize and treat possible impairments at an early stage.
1 Source: https://www.bitkom-research.de/system/files/document/Pr%C3%A4sentation_DigitalHealth2020.pdf // Population of 909 smartphone users over 16 years of age in Germany | 6,386 | 2,947 | 13,786.132338 |
warc | 202143 | 1.
Impact of sedentarism due to the COVID-19 home confinement on neuromuscular, cardiovascular and metabolic health : physiological and pathophysiological implications and recommendations for physical and nutritional countermeasuresMarco Vincenzo Narici
, Giuseppe De Vito
, Martino V. Franchi
, Antonio Paoli
, Tatiana Moro
, Giuseppe Marcolin
, Bruno Grassi
, Giovanni Baldassarre
, Lucrezia Zuccarelli
, Gianni Biolo
, Filippo Giorgio Di Girolamo
, Nicola Fiotti
, F. Dela
, Paul L. Greenhaff
, Constantinos Maganaris
, 2020
Ključne besede: COVID-19, sedentarism, neuromuscular system, cardiovascular system, glucose homeostasis, body composition, nutrition, exercise DiRROS - Objavljeno: 18.12.2020; Ogledov: 490; Prenosov: 101
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Independent infuence of age on heart rate recovery after flywheel exercise in trained men and womenDamir Zubac
, Nandu Goswami
, Vladimir Ivančev
, Zoran Valić
, Boštjan Šimunič
, 2021
Povzetek: The present study examined whether differences in the heart rate recovery following flywheel exercise cessation were associated with differences in maximal oxygen uptake (V%O2 max.), age and sex in trained adults. Eleven men (age range 22%49 years, V%O2 max.%=%43.6%%%7.6 mL kg min%1) and ten women (age range 20%53 years, V%O2 max.%=%38.0%%%5.7 mL kg min%1) were randomly assigned to complete a squat-exercise on the flywheel ergometer set at three different moments of inertia, while their cardiovascular responses were continuously monitored. During the flywheel exercise the mean arterial pressure rose by%~%35 to 40% (p%=%.001), and the increment was more robust in men than women. The cardiac index was two-fold greater across both sexes compared to the baseline (p%=%.001), while the rise in heart rate (~%144 bpm) was more pronounced in women to compensate for their load-dependent stroke index decline (p%=%.001). The load-independent time-course changes in heart rate recovery markers were comparable between the sexes. When these indicators were pooled, a stepwise regression revealed age as the only relevant predictor of both fast and slow components of the heart rate recovery (~%30% of the shared variance explained, p%=%.014). The present data suggest that the heart rate recovery declines with age, irrespective of sex, or well-preserved cardiorespiratory fitness in moderately-trained adults. Ključne besede: training, exercise, Yo-Yo exercise, flywheel, heart rate variability, total peripheral conductance, oxygen uptake kinetics DiRROS - Objavljeno: 11.06.2021; Ogledov: 190; Prenosov: 123 Celotno besedilo (1,64 MB)
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A randomized crossover trial on the acute cardiovascular demands during flywheel exerciseDamir Zubac
, Vladimir Ivančev
, Zoran Valić
, Rado Pišot
, Cécil J. W. Meulenberg
, Irhad Trozic
, Nandu Goswami
, Boštjan Šimunič
, 2021
Povzetek: In a randomized crossover trial, we examined whether age plays a role in the mean arterial pressure (MAP) response during a vigorous flywheel exercise of varying load. We hypothesized that the magnitude of increase in the MAP during the flywheel exercise would increase in proportion to advancing age, thereby imposing a significant challenge to the cardiovascular system. A total of 30 participants of both sexes (age range from 20%55 y, 37% women) underwent a detailed medical examination, and their maximal oxygen uptake was determined. They performed a squat exercise (2 sets % 7 repetitions) on a flywheel ergometer at three randomly assigned moments of inertia set at 0.025, 0.05, and 0.075 kg m2, while the cardiovascular response was continuously recorded via a Task force monitor. Compared to the resting values, robust rises in the MAP were observed during all three flywheel loads, reaching the highest value of 179 % 4 mmHg (p = 0.001) during the highest load. In parallel, the cardiac index (cardiac output normalized by the body surface area) was two-fold greater during all the flywheel loads compared to rest, and at a high load, exclusively, the total peripheral resistance increased by 11% (p = 0.001). The rise in heart rate compensated for a load-dependent drop in the stroke index (stroke volume normalized by the body surface area). In our study population, no correlations were observed between the relative increase in the MAP and the participants% age for the three flywheel loads. The present findings suggest that the larger moments of inertia impose a substantial burden to the cardiovascular system, without apparent associated age-differences of the relative magnitude of MAP rise throughout the exercise. Ključne besede: yo-yo exercise, oxygen uptake, muscles loading, blood pressure, krvni tlak, flow mediate dilation DiRROS - Objavljeno: 05.07.2021; Ogledov: 181; Prenosov: 124 Celotno besedilo (1,85 MB) | 4,859 | 2,217 | 10,401.810555 |
warc | 202143 | 1.
The efficacy, safety and tolerability of canakinumab in the treatment of familial Mediterranean fever : a systematic review of the literatureMark Kačar
, Sinisa Savic
, Jeroen CH van der Hilst
, 2020
Povzetek: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is the most prevalent genetic autoinflammatory disorder. In most patients, treatment with colchicine can prevent attacks of fever and inflammation. However, 5%-10% of patients are resistant to colchicine treatment, while a similar percentage cannot tolerate colchicine in doses needed to prevent attacks. For these patients, Canakinumab, a full human antibody against IL-1[beta], has been approved recently by the FDA and EMA. In this article, we present a systematic review of the long-term efficacy, safety, and tolerability of Canakinumab in FMF patients who cannot tolerate colchicine or who are resistant to colchicine treatment. Ključne besede: familial Mediterranean fever -- therapy -- review, monoclonal antibodies, canakinumab, anti-IL1 therapy DiRROS - Objavljeno: 08.04.2021; Ogledov: 404; Prenosov: 198 Celotno besedilo (463,72 KB)
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Cryoglobulins, cryofibrinogens, and cold agglutinins in cold urticaria : literature review, retrospective patient analysis, and observational study in 49 patientsKatharina Ginter
, Dalia Melina Ahsan
, Mojca Bizjak
, Karoline Krause
, Marcus Maurer
, Sabine Altrichter
, Dorothea Terhorst
, 2021
Povzetek: Introduction: Cryoproteins, such as cryoglobulins, cryofibrinogens and cold agglutinins, precipitate at low temperatures or agglutinate erythrocytes and dissolve again when warmed. Their pathogenetic and diagnostic importance in cold urticaria (ColdU) is unclear. In this study, we aimed to characterize the prevalence of cryoproteins in patients with ColdU. Methods: We conducted 3 analyses: i) a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data using an adapted version of the Johanna Briggs Institute's critical appraisal tool for case series, ii) a retrospective analysis of 293 ColdU patients treated at our Urticaria Center of Reference and Excellence (UCARE) from 2014 to 2019, and iii) a prospective observational study, from July 2019 to July 2020, with 49 ColdU patients as defined by the EAACI/GA2LEN/EDF/UNEV consensus recommendations. Results: Our systematic review identified 14 relevant studies with a total of 1151 ColdU patients. The meta-analyses showed that 3.0% (19/628), 1.1% (4/357) and 0.7% (2/283) of patients had elevated levels of cryoglobulins, cryofibrinogens, and cold agglutinins, respectively. Our retrospective analyses showed that cryoproteins were assessed in 4.1% (12/293) of ColdU patients. None of nine ColdU patients had cryoglobulins, and one of 5 had cold agglutinins. In our prospective study, none of our patients had detectable cryoglobulins (0/48) or cryofibrinogens (0/48), but 4.3% (2/46) of patients had cold agglutinins (without any known underlying autoimmune or hematological disorder). Conclusion: Our investigation suggests that only very few ColdU patients exhibit cryoproteins and that the pathogenesis of ColdU is driven by other mechanisms, which remain to be identified and characterized in detail. Ključne besede: urticaria, review, observational study, retrospective studies, cold urticaria, cryoglobulins, cryofibrinogens, cold agglutinins, retrospective analysis DiRROS - Objavljeno: 28.05.2021; Ogledov: 261; Prenosov: 184 Celotno besedilo (439,60 KB) | 3,452 | 1,627 | 7,256.201598 |
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Green is the land, Red is the brim, White is the sand, These are the colours of Heligoland.(Web site)
Green was a pioneer in the way the guitar is played in a big band setting.
Green is a retired fur trapper who is a poker pioneer in his home state of Alaska.
Green is the color for green parties, Islamist parties and Irish nationalist and republican parties in Northern Ireland.
Green, a former Busch Pole winner at Richmond, canÆt just look ahead of him.
Pouchong is allowed to wither for a longer period of time (than Green) before it is fired which places it between Green and Oolong.
Pouchong (China) - the least-fermented oolong, so it falls somewhere between green and oolong tea.
The least fermented of oolong teas, almost green in appearance, is called Pouchong.
Today, however, jasmine flowers are used to scent teas from all over the world, in black, white, green and oolong varieties.(Web site)
Flavored teas include Earl Grey, which is black tea with bergamot, and Jasmine, which is usually green tea with jasmine flowers.
Sapin Tea is a synonym to Jasmine tea, which is blended with Chinese green tea and jasmine flowers and it is one of the China's representative teas.
Using green energy is a great way to preserve the planet for future generations and save a nice sum of money at the same time.
Today it is a relatively simple process to start to convert to green energy.
Imperium needs to break ground before the end of 2010 to receive federal and state incentives meant to encourage green energy, Mowitz said.
We have a wide selection of the finest in black teas, green teas, oolong teas, flavored teas, and herbal tisanes.
Our loose tea selection is equally impressive ŌĆö green, black and oolong teas, in addition to herbal tisanes, are pre-packaged loose and ready to take home.
Features black, green, oolong and herbal tisanes.
Whether it is Black, White, Green, Oolong or Rooibos, the tea is all organic, all the time.
Sells black, green, white, rooibos and herbal teas.
Buy green tea, black tea, white tea, oolong, pu-erh, rooibos, chai, tea pots, kettles & much more.
Green, black, oolong, white and pu-erh teas.
Investigation on the components in green and black tea are reported elsewhere [ 6], yet few on those in Pu-erh teas.(Web site)
This study used the extracts from Green tea, Jasmine, Iron Buddha, Oolong and Pu-erh teas in examining their effects on hypercholesterolemia in rats.
The tea species Camellia sinensis produces all the varieties of tea: green, black, oolong, pu-erh and white.(Web site)
In fact it is only the different plucking and processing methods that produce the different types - green, black, oolong, white, yellow, Pu-erh or scented.
Available is a great variety of teas, including white, black, jasmine, oolong, pu-erh, green and Baozhong teas.
This is, in part because Jasmine has been used to scent and flavor every variety of tea: white, black, green and oolong.(Web site)
Jasmine (China, green) Logically enough, this tea is scented with jasmine flowers.
An extensive and unique selection of Green, Oolong, Pouchong, Jasmine, herbal teas and other related products.(Web site)
Jasmine Tea is a famous tea made from Green or Pouchong (Chinese Green) tea leaves that are scented with jasmine flowers.
While jasmine tea has traditionally been made from green tea, vanilla jasmine tea is found as often made from black tea as green.
For Jasmine tea (the oldest existing scented tea, invented in China), whole jasmine blossoms are added to green, black or oolong tea.
Green tea leaves are not fermented; they are withered and steamed.
Of the catechins, EGCG is the most abundant one in green tea leaves.
Jasmine isn't exactly a kind of green tea, but is a blended tea with green tea leaves and jasmine flowers.(Web site)
The critical difference between green and black tea is that green tea leaves are not allowed to ferment.
Both teas come from the carnellia sinensis plant but green tea leaves are steamed rather than fermented like black and oolong teas.
Because green tea leaves are barely oxidized they have less caffeine than most other types of tea.(Web site)
Green and black flag of Green Anarchism.
Green anarchism also involves a critique of industrial capitalism, and, for some green anarchists, civilization itself.(Web site)
I didn't know about the Green Power for a Green LA program either.
America isn't alone in seeking green energy; one of our neighbors is also spending significant money on green power.(Web site)
In addition to providing green power, the new green energy initiatives are also expected to generate a significant number of new jobs in Canada.(Web site)
When the race returned to green, Raikkonen pulled away again and cruised to his second win of the season.
At the end of that season, AFG left, and Green was left without a permanent ride.(Web site)
Green piloted the car in six more races that season, before departing for Keith Coleman Racing.
Green continues standings climb ģ David Green remains on a second-half hot streak.
Sauter is currently ninth in the points race, and his best finish this season came here in April as he led 22 laps and finished second to David Green.(Web site)
David Green and Ward Burton finished out the season for the team.(Web site)
Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album, A Hard Road.
Green was recently the subject of a biography by British author Martin Celmins, Peter Green, Founder of Fleetwood Mac.(Web site)
Clapton left the Bluesbreakers in July 1966 (to be replaced by Peter Green) and formed Cream, one of the earliest supergroups.(Web site)
He was even on the Rolling Stones album, "Black and Blue," but Harvey never moved me as much as guys like Peter Green or Mike Bloomfield.
Our diverse inventory includes black, green, rooibos, oolong, chai, herbal, decaf and fruit teas as well as flavored Yerba Mate.
Ideal for black, green and oolong teas, as well as herb and fruit teas.
AATea.com - Sells a variety of teas, including green, black, white, oolong, and herbal infusions.
They can be used to prepare any style of tea including black, oolong, green, white or herbal infusions.(Web site)
Herbal infusions are not to be confused with flavored teas which are prepared by adding another plant to actual tea (green, black or white).
Nephrite is more abundant than jadeite and has few color varieties, ranging only from creamy white to green.
Nephrite can be found in a creamy white form as well as a green color, while jadeite shows more color variation.(Web site)
The commoner and less costly variety of jade is nephrite, a calcium magnesium iron silicate of varying composition, white to dark green in color.(Web site)
The augite may be green, but more commonly is brown or violet; the olivine is usually pale green or colourless, but is sometimes yellow (hyalosiderite).(Web site)
Either of two distinct minerals, nephrite and jadeite, that are generally pale green or white and are used mainly as gemstones or in carving.(Web site)
Aragonite varies in color and can be white, gray, colorless, yellow, pale green, violet, or brown.
In other words, this oxidation process will determine whether the tea will end up as White, Green, Oolong or Black.
The bruised leaf edges begin to turn red through the oxidation process (fermentation) while the centers of the leaves remain green.(Web site)
It is the oxidation process, oxygen coming into contact with the enzymes in the tea leaf, that distinguishes black teas from green.
Green tea is steamed, baked, or pan heated to prevent oxidation and thus the leaves remain green.
Green Tea leaves are not fermented- instead they are withered and steamed, giving the tea a fresh flavor closest to the taste of the leaf itself.
Black tea leaves are fully oxidised, whereas the leaves for green tea are steamed and then dried.
Colors include brown, black, greenish-black, dark red, and pale bluish-green to emerald green.
Tsavorite Garnet: Green to emerald green in color.(Web site)
COLOR: shades of emerald green as well as white, gray, yellow, orange and violet.(Web site)
The added colors are the same of African National Congress 's flag, which is composed of three equal horizontal strips: black, green and yellow.(Web site)
The flowers are catkins 3-18 mm long, in range of colors from green to red.
Mold growth on surfaces can often be seen in the form of discoloration, frequently green, gray, brown, or black but also white and other colors.
White Tea comes from the bud of the plant rather than the leaf and is, like Green Tea, unfermented.
White tea is also unfermented, so it has the same anti-oxidants and health benefits of green tea.
Green tea is completely unfermented, Jasmine tea is mildly fermented, and oolong and Iron Buddha are semi-fermented.
They are neither green, black or Oolong teas, although they are often considered to be Oolong since they are semi-fermented.
Tea is semi-fermented, which means that it goes through a short oxidation period that turns the leaves from green to a red-brown color.
Oolong teas are semi-fermented, which places them mid-way between green and black teas.
Color -- Many colors, but the best known is deep green (chrome diopside), which derives its color from chromium impurities.
First, chrome diopside can actually suffer from too much green -- in larger sizes the tone can be very dark.
Chrome Diopside is colored green because it contains the mineral Chromium.
The gemstone looked a dark but livid green and our experts were quite sure that this was neither green tourmaline nor chrome tourmaline.(Web site)
It is a relatively rare mineral found in pegmatic dikes and usually associated with lithium bearing minerals such as pink and green tourmaline.
The frequency of Watermelon Tourmaline is connected to the heart chakra combining the energies of pink and green Tourmaline.(Web site)
Like most Chinese green tea s, gunpowder tea in the cup is really more yellow than green.(Web site)
Young Hyson, a Chinese green tea offered by Dragonwater.com, brews a more "darker" cup of green that is very similar to some oolong teas.
The low cost of living in China often results in affordable prices for many teas.Unlike black tea, Chinese green tea is made with minimal processing.
Rooibos (pronounced ROY-boss) appears to rival the health benefits of green, red and black tea.
Oolong tea combines the health benefits of both green and black tea.
Health benefits: Studies suggest that oolongs provide health benefits similar to green and black teas.
These additives not only impart a reddish, brown, or green colour, but also modify the taste and flavour of the liquor itself.
Chrysolite is a mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green colour.
Green tea is steamed to preserve the green colour of the tea leaves and in doing so prevents fermentation as the veins of the leaves are not broken.(Web site)
In a group of people, each person has a favorite colour--from the set of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, indigo, or violet.
Eventually, the Rainbow Flag evolved into a standard six-stripe form (from top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet).(Web site)
The Zircon is probably best known when colourless but it also comes in yellow, red, orange and shades of green and a sky-blue.
The change from blue to green is associated with the United Irishmen; green was a colour of rebellion in the eighteenth century [ 8].(Web site)
A change in colour from orange to green indicates the presence of volatile reducing agents such as methanol.
Button's team gambled and dove in first to change to soft slick tires on lap 6 as soon as the field went green.
Green energy sources are often considered "green" because they are perceived to lower carbon emissions and create less pollution.
Fortunately, we can change our ways and then shift our attention to green energy sources.
Water is also a viable participant of green energy sources.(Web site)
Green was able to drive the car to the attention of his team on pit road before being pushed behind pit wall.
Lap 69 -- Jimmie Johnson just spent extended time on pit road, and will restart 22nd when the race goes green.
We had a little miscommunication in the pits with the car in front of us pitting while we were on pit road during a green flag that hurt us both really.
Green, the 2000 NBS Champion, reached as high as third place in the running order during a round of green flag pit stops later in the 125-lap event.
On Lap 98, Hornaday the leader would come to pit road making the first of two stops, gets fuel and thus starts green flag pit stops.(Web site)
Bowyer maintained his lead during the next round of green flag pit stops and Allmendinger cracked the top 10 for the first time of the day.
The amount of caffeine in tea depends on several variables, all of which matter more than whether the tea is black, green, oolong, or white.
There is also considerably less caffeine in white tea than the other varieties (15mg per serving, compared to 40mg for black tea, and 20mg for green).(Web site)
A cup of green or white tea has about a third of caffeine as a cup of black tea.
Green tea leaves are steamed before they're dried, which prevents the breakdown of catechins and preserves their green color.
Both green and black tea infusions contain a number of antioxidants, mainly catechins that have anti-carcinogenic, anti-mutagenic and anti-tumor properties.
This process retains many of the polyphenols, catechins, and flavonoids that are associated with the health benefits of drinking green tea.
It can be used as a gemstone and is a gray, iridescent stone with flashes of blue, green, purple, red, or yellow.
The Tourmaline displays a natural range of black, pink, green, purple, and brown.
Sapphire is a form of Corundum, readily available in an array of other colors: Pink, Golden, Green, peachy Orange, Purple and Colorless.
Any tourmaline gem stone that contains lithium could result in colors that include red, pink, yellow, blue, and green.
For example, pure calcite, quartz and fluorite are colorless, but iron, zinc and other impurities can color them blue, green, pink, purple and yellow.
This is the only color I have seen, however, I would be sure that there are green, pink, purple, yellow, and the other colors you see in other painted fish.(Web site)
Green,semi fermented oolong or fully fermented (oxidized) teas.
Black tea has been fully fermented during processing, and green has not been fermented at all.(Web site)
Since they are the same teas; no matter the name they are semi-fermented compared to green tea (unfermented) and black tea (fully fermented).
Oolong tea comes from the same plant as green and black tea, but it is oxidized differently.
Generally, the leaves are oxidized or fermented to produce the distinctive reddish-brown color, but unfermented "green" rooibos is also produced.
Next the leaves are oxidized, which develops the characteristic black tea flavor and changes the color of the leaves from green to brown or black.
Oolong tea may be light and fragrant (known as "green" oolong) or deep and roasted (known as "dark" oolong) or somewhere in between.(Web site)
Oolong Tea falls somewhere between green and black teas because the leaves are only partially oxidized.(Web site)
Black, Green or Oolong Tea are processing methods of tea from the leaves of Camellia Sinensis.
Black and oolong teas are partially dried, crushed and fermented, while green and white teas are simply steamed.
And, the flavors of vanilla and jasmine blend so well with any flavor, this tea can be made from green, white, black or oolong teas.
Oolong teas are teas that have been partially fermented, somewhere between green and black.
Oolongs are a category of teas that are partially fermented and range from nearly green, such as our Tie Guan Yin, to some that are nearly black.
With a different flavor than black, green or white teas, oolongs are a rare treat.
These compounds are most prevalent in green and white teas, but are also present in varying degrees in Oolongs and black teas.(Web site)
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warc | 202143 | Prevalence And Socio-Demographic Factors Associated With Depression Among Patients With Tuberculosis Attending TB Clinic of Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital. DOI:https://doi.org/10.51168/sjhrafrica.v2i9.63 Keywords:Depression, Tuberculosis, Mental Health Abstract Background:
Depression is a major cause of the global disease burden, affecting an estimated 350-400 million people worldwide. This makes it the largest contributor to Years Lived with Disability (YLDs) globally
Methodology:
It was a descriptive cross-sectional study with an analytic component in which 82 patients already diagnosed with TB were recruited for the study using stratified sampling techniques and convenient sampling techniques. PHQ-9 was used to assess for presence and severity of depression, a score above 9 was considered to be depressed. The socio-demographic questionnaire was used to obtain the socio-demographic characteristics. Data entry and analysis were done using SPSS 23
rd version, Chi-square test, and T-test was used to find associations of socio-demographic factors to depression. Results:
The prevalence of depression was 54.9%, out of whom 22.2%, 66.7%, and 11.1% had mild, moderate, and severe depression respectively. Depression was more prevalent in patients from a nuclear family (34.1%), in the age group of 31 to 60 years (32.9%), treatment duration of 1 month (31.7%), among the females (29.3%), and patients who were unemployed 28%.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the prevalence of depression (54.9%) in TB patients is high, with most patients moderately depressed and this could be associated with multiple socio-demographic factors like being female, age of 30-60 years, unemployment, low education level, being in the intensive phase of TB treatment, HIV and TB co-morbidity.
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warc | 202143 | Aug 30, 2020 · Overall, the 309L stainless steel cladding was e ective in the corrosion resistance of the A36A36 welded plate because no pitting and intergranular were noticed in the A36 A36 Steel A36 Steel A36 Steel Plate Kloeckner Metals One disadvantage to A36 steel is that it does not have high corrosion resistance due to its low levels of nickel and chromium. Industries This steel grade is used in a number of industries, including infrastructure, construction, oil and gas, and the industrial manufacturing industry.
Elasticity is property of A36 steel indicating how it will restore it to its original shape after distortion. A36 steel Modulus of Elasticity, A36 steel Young's Modulus is 200 GPa (29,000 ksi). The A36 steel Poisson's Ratio is 0.26, and A36 steel Shear Modulus is 75 GPa (10,900 ksi). A36 steel is the most commonly used hot rolled mild steel. Aluminum, steel, and stainless plate grades - RyersonMay 10, 2021 · A36. A structural quality carbon steel, A36 is used in welded, bolted, or riveted construction of bridges and buildings, as well as general structural purposes. Engineering with a minimum yield point of 36 KSI, A36 steel plate can be used to design lighter weight structures and equipment while providing good weldability. Comparing Steel Plate GradesA36:This steel is produced using a minimum yield of 36,000 psi. It has all the qualities used in structural projects requiring weldments, bolting and riveting fabrications. You will find this grade of carbon steel used most often in the construction of buildings, bridges and oil rigs.
Dec 10, 2019 · On its own, A36 does not have very good resistance to corrosion. However, you can get a galvanized A36 steel, which is very common in construction. This is A36 steel that has been hot dipped into a zinc mixture to increase the metals strength and corrosion resistance. Disadvantages of a36 Steel GALVANIC CORROSION - COMPATIBLE METALS CHARTSE. The corrosion of the fastener is increased by the base metal. FASTENER MATERIAL STEEL Zinc Plated STAINLESS STEEL Type 410 STAINLESS STEEL Type 302, 304, 316 ALUMINUM BASE METAL Zinc Galvanized ZN/Al Coated Steel A C C B Aluminum A 1Not Recommended B A Steel / Cast Iron A,D C B A Brass, Copper, Bronze A,D,E A B A,E Stainless Steel 300 Just plain carbon steel What is it?Mar 09, 2010 · If corrosion resistance is a must, A36/SA36 is not a good choice. This material does not contain the elements, such as copper, chromium, or nickel, which produce corrosion resistance. In the past this material was available in a pickled and oiled form condition that was slightly more corrosion-resistant.
ASTM A36 is a carbon structural steel generally used in welded constructions and power plants [ 1 ]. In coal-fired and biogas power plants, ash can deposit on steel surfaces and cause severe corrosion [ 2, 3 ]. Study of the Corrosion Rate in the Couple of Steels ASTM A Jan 01, 2015 · In this work, laboratory tests were conducted to determine the corrosion rate in a system consisting of metal par ASTM-A36 structural steel and stainless steel AISI / SAE 304, commonly found in business management and production of petroleum coke. What Is A36 Steel? - EzineArticlesA36 is sometimes identified as ASTM A36. It is a low carbon steel, which means that it has a very small amount of carbon in it. This type of steel is extremely common and used as structural steel plate. It's also common for it to be galvanized as it will increase the resistance to corrosion. Since it is a low carbon steel, it is relatively easy
May 14, 2019 · Aluminized Type 2 steel was developed for superior environmental corrosion resistance and combines the strength of a steel substrate with the corrosion resistance of aluminum. It is produced by continuous hot dip coating of steel strip in a bath of molten, commercially pure aluminum. a516 gr 70 steel plate vs astm a36 - Steel Material SupplierApr 19, 2020 · The general corrosion resistance, stress corrosion cracking, crevice corrosion cracking, pitting and oxidation resistance is make it a best choice. Once the chemical composition of the A36 metal is achieved, its solidified in into a rectangular ingot. does a36 steel rust - CLG CPATo achieve maximal corrosion resistance the black oxide must be impregnated with oil or wax. Choosing a galvanized or plated carbon steel is a viable option to prevent corrosion. The low carbon also prevents heat treatment from having much of an effect on A36 steel. The sulfur found in these grades can cause weld solidification cracking to occur.
Corrosion Protection of A36 Steel with SnO2 caused by their generally very low resistance. For this type of steel, only ZnO [13], ZrO2 [14], and TiO2 | 4,737 | 2,255 | 9,862.62306 |
warc | 202143 | New targets for the treatment of obesity and related diseases The dangers of obesity
The persistent imbalance between energyintake and energy consumption results inobesity, which causes acommon disorder called metabolic syndrome, with various comorbidities. These include type 2 diabetes, hypertension, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH), cardiovascular diseases and cancer, which may lead to death. Worldwide, 1.9 billion adults are overweight and 600 million are obese, and 51% of the global population is predicted to be obese by 2030. Thus, obesity is a major global health problem with increasingly alarming incidence.
New targets for obesity treatment
Despite efforts to find safe, effective obesity treatments, current options are limited, mainly due to insufficient knowledge about the pathophysiology and mechanisms of fat accumulation. Moreover, many therapeutic agents have been withdrawn due to severe side effects. Bariatric surgical procedures are the most effective options for reducing body weight but are restricted to people with morbid obesity, due to risks of surgical complications, mortality and reoperation. Increased understanding of the mechanisms involved is urgently needed to find new drug candidates that boost weight loss and ameliorate metabolic syndrome.
1. Hepatokine Pregnancy Zone Protein Governs the Diet-Induced Thermogenesis Through Activating Brown Adipose Tissue
Intermittent fasting (IF), as a dietary intervention for weight loss, takes effectsprimarily through increasing energy expenditure. Inter-organ crosstalk of whole-body energy balance, especially of the BAT activation mediated anti-obesity, is a new frontier in the field. On 13 September, 2021, Wanzhu Jin from Chinese Academy of Sciences and his team published an article in "Advanced Science" that define a previously unrecognized crossorgan communication system that IF improves whole-body metabolism through liver-BAT interaction, which is critical for IF induced metabolic remodeling
[1]. Further, they found that fasting-refeeding signals induced the liver to produce and release PZP into circulation and followed by the translocation of GRP78 to the cell surface in BAT. Then PZP-GRP78 interaction promotes UCP1 expression via p38 MAPK-ATF2 signaling, promoting BAT thermogenesis(Fig 1). Future clinical studies are needed to explore the therapeutic potential of PZP for the development of precision medicine to treat obesity and related diseases. 2. Deficiency of Bmal1 prevents obesity induced by high-fat feeding
To unravel the pathogenesis of obesity and its complications, Eleonore Maury from UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium and his team investigate the interplay between circadian clocks and NF-κB pathway in human adipose tissue
[2]. The circadian clock function is impaired in omental fat from obese patients. NF-κB competes with BMAL1 for transcriptional control of some targets. Obesity relocalizes BMAL1 occupancy genome-wide in human omental fat, thereby altering the transcription of numerous target genes involved in metabolic inflammation and adipose tissue remodeling. Eventually, clock dysfunction appears at early stages of obesity in mice and is corrected, together with impaired metabolism, by NF-κB inhibition. In addition, Baojian Wu from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and his team published an article in "Nature Communications" on 7 September, 2021, which reported the role of intestine clock in energy homeostasis remains elusive [3]. They showed that mice with Bmal1 specifically deleted in the intestine (Bmal1iKO mice) have a normal phenotype on a chow diet. However, on a high-fat diet (HFD), Bmal1iKO mice are protected against development of obesity and related abnormalities such as hyperlipidemia and fatty livers(Fig 2). Mechanistic studies uncover that BMAL1 transactivates the Dgat2 gene (encoding the triacylglycerol synthesis enzyme DGAT2) via direct binding to an E-box in the promoter, thereby promoting dietary fat absorption. Moreover, small-molecule targeting of REV-ERBα/BMAL1 by SR9009 ameliorates HFD-induced obesity in mice. Altogether, these studies show that targeting BMAL1 may be a promising approach for management of metabolic diseases induced by excess fat intake. 3. Inhibition of the IL-17A axis in adipocytes suppresses diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders in mice
Nabil Djouder and his team from Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Spain, published an article in Nature Metabolism
[4]. They demonstrated that abolishing the interleukin-17A (IL-17A) axis in mice by inhibition of RORγt-mediated IL-17A production by digoxin, or by ubiquitous deletion of IL-17 receptor A (Il17ra), suppresses diet-induced obesity (DIO) and metabolic disorders, and promotes adipose-tissue browning, thermogenesis and energy expenditure. IL-17A produced in response to DIO induces PPARγ phosphorylation at Ser273 in adipocytes in a CDK5-dependent manner, thereby modifying expression of diabetogenic and obesity genes, which correlates with IL-17A signalling in white adipose tissues of individuals with morbid obesity(Fig 3). These results suggest that targeting the IL-17A axis could be an efficient antiobesity strategy.
Cloud-Clone can not only provide animal models of various metabolic disorders, including common diseases such as diabetes, hyperuric acid, hyperglycemia, and non-alcoholic fatty liver. It also has various metabolic disorders detection indicators and the above-mentioned new targets for obesity treatment (PZP, GRP78, UCP1, NF-κB, BMAL1, IL-17A, PPARγ) related products, which can help the majority of scientific researchers to carry out research related to the treatment of metabolic disorders.
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warc | 202143 | Teaching Journal 08-09
Day 14, September 25 With the 8th and 9th grade scholars out of town on class trips, I’ve spent the last two days grading essays in my classroom and substituting for various teachers -- and today I had a surprisingly peaceful adventure “teaching” a second-grade art class. I called for the students at their classroom and the little people dutifully and quietly followed me on the long trek to the art room. When we arrived, they went right to the table and sat calmly while I explained their regular teacher’s instructions. There was some chatter now and then, but as soon as I passed out the drawing paper and pencils, the room quickly subsided into almost total silence. I was no longer nervous about my new role as a second-grade teacher. I felt completely relaxed as I watched them work with seeming tranquility on their sketches. There was barely a sound in the room -- only the soft scratch of pencils on paper. ........................ Yesterday I took a very small step which seems already to be creating a rather large change in my approach to grading student essays. I decided to use a kitchen timer while grading, and I chose to set the timer for a fairly large number of minutes for each essay. I think I was looking for a way to make reading student papers more enjoyable – more relaxing, mainly. I have always felt somewhat stressed and tense when I’m grading writing, and I’ve had the feeling it’s because of the pressure of time – so I thought using a timer set at the number of minutes it might take to evaluate an essay in a completely relaxed yet thorough manner might ameliorate the situation. What I’ve discovered, happily, is that it seems to have thoroughly transformed the situation. I’ve graded twenty-two 9th grade essays in the last two days, using the timer and spending a good amount of minutes on each paper, and it’s been one of the most satisfying grading experiences of my career. With the timer ticking beside me, I had the feeling that there was plenty of time. I knew that the length of time I had set on the timer gave me way more time than I probably actually needed, so I relaxed, worked slowly, and thoroughly enjoyed reading the students’ hard won sentences and paragraphs. The ticking of the timer seemed more like a peaceful stream passing by than a steady clicking away of the minutes. I knew there was ample time, so I took it – and took pleasure in it. Of course, this means I will be spending even more time grading papers than in the past. I receive an average of 41 formal papers each week (usually 4 or 5 paragraph essays), so spending more minutes on each paper means that, together with classroom teaching and planning, a huge chunk of my week will be taken up with my teaching duties. However, when I factor in how many waking hours I have each week -- about 110 – I realize that I will still have many, many hours of free time -- way more than the great majority of people on earth. In fact, my teaching work usually seems like “free time” to me, so I guess I’m living a fairly free life most of the week. Lucky me. ……………………… | 3,241 | 1,533 | 6,560.223744 |
warc | 202143 | MESSAGE FOR THE YEAR 2021
GOD'S GREAT LOVE
"For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
St. John 3: 16 (ESV)
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AS we look out on our world at the beginning of this new year we cannot help but look out upon a world in turmoil from sickness, conflicts, troubles, and much more. We look on people urgently seeking happiness and rarely finding it in any enduring way. Our everyday experience is more often than not spoiled by reaction to daily experiences that leave us troubled, and perhaps depressed. We may well ask ourselves whether there is any hope of better things. This well known Scripture verse printed at the head of this sermon is a message for this new year that has a message of enduring strength as we face this new year and every year. It has often been called the gospel in a nutshell, and so it is, but only if we are given grace from God to understand and receive the depth of meaning encapsulated in the words.
There are three words in this verse of Scripture which are so often forgotten. In these three words we find understanding of the way this world is, and the way human experience evolves. The three words are 'should not perish'. These three words contain the secret of all the troubles of humanity. These three words tell us that all of us as we enter this world are born perishing. This is a truth that people deny and hate to hear. The fact is we read in Romans 5: 12 Paul telling us that through Adam, our first parent and father of all humanity, and his disobedience, that death came to all men, and all have sinned in Adam, and so inherited that death God pronounced upon Adam when he disobeyed God's one prohibition. Paul tells us in this passage in his letter to the Romans that death has reigned over all humanity from Adam. All humanity are born perishing. This means that although we live our lives in our bodies in this earthly life, we are progressing to eternal death in hell when this life is over. Jesus calls this walking on the road that leads to destruction. Because of this we live this life apart from God and his true blessing, and find ourselves under the rule and dominion of Satan, who is called the god of this world in the Bible, because of Adam choosing to believe his lie rather than God. Here is the reason for all the misery in the world that we see, and why the behaviour of humanity is so perverse.
Our message text is a glorious message of hope and salvation for us all who as human beings are born perishing. This verse tells us that there is an escape from this perishing and death. This verse tells us that we can be saved from this eternal death, and have eternal life. Eternal life is the entire opposite to eternal death we all suffer under. Eternal life is life that never ends, and although we have to experience physical death at the end of this earthly life, our soul lives on, and when Christ returns to the earth to judge the living and the dead, we will be welcomed in love by him, given a new resurrection body, and be brought to live with him in the mansion in his heavenly glory he has prepared for all who have believed on him as Saviour.
This eternal life begins in this earthly life because it is a gift of a new life where the soul, which Adam lost by death, is born again, and we have fellowship with God again, the fellowship Adam lost. Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesians in chapter 2 that we have been made alive in Christ and made to sit spiritually in heavenly places with Christ. This eternal life means also that we are adopted into the family of God, and become children of God where God is our heavenly Father, loving us with his pure and perfect love, and where we can truly come to God in prayer with the words 'Our Father, which is in heaven'. This eternal life means also that we have a life within us which Paul tells us in Ephesians 4: 24 is 'created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness'. Because of this new life within us our living is changed, and we hate everything that God hates, and by the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us we turn away from all that God hates, repent when we find ourselves obeying Satan rather than our heavenly Father, and loving what God loves, and where we follow Jesus and seek to please him in every way as we live. Where this spirit of Christ is there is blessing and true happiness, even in this life.
Our text for this year tells us that his blessing has been made possible because God so loved the world. There is a great deal of talk about God's love these days, but it is a sickly and sentimental idea of love where God seems to be thought of as patting us on the head and behaving rather like a father Christmas figure. No! This has nothing to do with God's love of the world.
After Adam's sin and disobedience God had no obligation to bless Adam or his progeny. In strict justice God could have given up on humanity and left us perishing in eternal death. We have offended against God. We deserve only to be rejected by God and left to suffer eternal damnation. God owes us nothing, and any idea that it is God's business to love and forgive is blaspheme. Yet this wonderful Scripture verse tells us that God so loved the world. God loves this world which lives in rebellion against him. God loves us who naturally do not love him, live with disregard of him, and do the things God hates. Let us truly contemplate this truth in these words 'God so loved the world', and realise how unworthy of his love we are, and wonder at this truth, that even when we have turned away from God in rebellion he still loves us.
Then in our sinful ignorance we imagine it is easy for God to love us in our wickedness and sin, and that it is his business to forgive. We imagine that God needs only to decide to forgive, and forgiveness his there. This is not true! God is holy. God is righteous. God cannot act against his character. Because he is holy and just, God must uphold his holiness, and can not behave in contradiction of his character. Before God is able to forgive he must satisfy his holiness and justice, and all that falls short of that holiness must suffer the just penalty of eternal death. So how can God's everlasting love be poured out on sinful human being when a just death is pronounced against them?
Here is the difficulty, I say this with reverence, God faced who loves this sinful world. The just sentence of death on sin must be carried out if God is to uphold his character of holiness. Either this judgement must fall on us who have sinned, or else there must be found a substitute to suffer the penalty of death in the place of the sinner. This substitute must be another human being because it is human beings who have transgressed against God's holiness. This substitute must be of high and infinite value in order to be sufficient to atone for the sin of all humanity. This was God's great dilemma. What did God do? In amazing love he took responsibility for our sin in our place.
Here we have the whole wonderful mystery of Christ. Christ, the eternal Word, co-equal with God, and one with God for all eternity, came as the rescuer so that God could be just when he justifies and forgives all who put their trust in Jesus. In obedience to the Father, Jesus accepted the humiliation of being born as a human being, and was born in the likeness of sinful flesh. This means he accepted in his humanity all the misery sin has brought on human life, yet without sin. He became the second Adam. Where the first Adam failed and plunged us all into the misery of sin and death by his disobedience, Jesus lived a perfectly sinless life, triumphing over all the temptations of the devil, facing victoriously all the measures of the religious leaders of his day to cause him to sin, and defeating all their efforts to cause him to sin. He suffered all the evil consequences of sin in his life and remained faithful to his Father, and was totally pure in every way.
In this way he made himself ready to be an undefiled sacrifice, and suffer all the just punishment for sin in the place of us who have sinned and rebelled against God. As the Lamb of God for sacrifice for the sin of the world, God laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53: 6). Because of this he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; the punishment due upon us was laid on him, and by his suffering we are healed. (Isaiah 53: 5). Paul in his letter to the Romans tells us that Jesus became the propitiation for our sins, which means the just wrath of God against our sin was diverted from us, and executed on Jesus. By his sacrifice, Jesus accepted the just wrath of God against our sin in our place. Jesus offered himself for this sacrifice freely in obedience to the will of God his Father. We feel the agony Jesus knew he would suffer of the cross when he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, where he said not my will but yours be done.
On the cross he submitted freely to all the degradation of being counted sin for us. He freely gave himself to be nailed to the cross, even though by his divine power he could have saved himself from this sacrifice. He suffered not only the dreadful physical suffering that had to be endured through the cruelness of crucifixion, but much more he suffered the eternal death and hell which is the punishment for sin. This suffering was symbolised by the miraculous darkness for three hours that covered the earth at that terrible event. The hell Jesus suffered for sinners is mercifully hidden from us, but we get a glimpse of it when Jesus cried out in pain and rejection 'My God, My God, why have you forsaken me'. All the pain of eternal punishment for sin was condensed upon Jesus when he hung on the cross for six hours.
Words are totally unable to express all the terrible suffering that Jesus endured, in obedience to the Father, in order to save us sinners from the consequence of our sin. But Jesus was victorious. He expressed this in his final triumphant loud cry before he died 'IT IS FINISHED'. He had paid the total price for all our sins. He had completely atoned for our rebellion and disobedience. He had completed the work God had given him to do so that God could be just when he forgives all who come as truly penitent sinner, and put their trust in Jesus as their Saviour.
This is briefly what it means in our text 'God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son'. Jesus was given by God to suffer all the terrible eternal pain of eternal death so that God could be able to justly forgive sinners. This is love indeed, and love totally unimaginable, except that it is revealed to us in the life and death of Jesus. God showed he had accepted the sacrifice of Christ for the sin of the world, because he raised Jesus from death, and welcomed him back into heaven, and set him at his right hand and placed all authority on him, so that Jesus could pour out this saving on sinners in our world. Jesus now ever lives to make intercession for us who believe, by presenting to God the Father the evidence of his sacrifice as our priest, and God seeing the evidence of that all-sufficient sacrifice in the wounds of Jesus' resurrection body, grants salvation to all who believe in Jesus.
There is a further wonder in this text which is our message for 2021. We are told that eternal life is given to 'whoever believes on Jesus'. There is no good work, merit, or work we can do which can merit our forgiveness. If there was anything given for us to do to win salvation, we would not be able to do it, and we would fail. God, in wondrous love, says just believe on Jesus as the one who has suffered in your place, and by faith become obedient to him as your Lord.
It is important that we understand this free offer of salvation. It is not sufficient for us to believe that Jesus died for sinners. We must understand and confess our own sin and sinfulness, we must understand that we deserve in ourselves divine retribution. We must come to God and to Jesus with empty hands pleading for mercy, and cry to God for his mercy. It is then by revelation of the Holy Spirit we are given to understand and see Jesus suffering on the cross for us, and by so doing purging us from sin, and cleansing us in his precious shed blood.
Head knowledge is not enough. We must truly come as a sinner to Jesus like the tax collector which Jesus saw praying hidden in a corner of the temple, whose prayer was simply 'God me merciful to me a sinner'. The Pharisee who thought he was accepted by God for all his religious observances had his prayer rejected, but Jesus tells us in this gospel incident that the tax collector was justified before God. Why because Jesus died for sinners, and whoever believes on Jesus has eternal life.
With what a glorious love has God so loved this world. May I ask you as you read this message for 2021 whether you have availed yourself of this love of God, and as a penitent sinner come to Jesus and put your trust in Him? If you have, rejoice and go into this new year rejoicing in your salvation and that God has loved you in Christ with an everlasting love. If you have not truly come as a sinner to Jesus pleading for his mercy, I would urge you to do so now and to do so without delay, so that you may enter this new year safe and at peace with God. | 13,405 | 5,556 | 32,282.019438 |
warc | 202143 | Huge Revenue Jump Expected in Essential Oils Market in Future
A number of factors such as the booming demand for aromatherapy, surging customer preference for natural products, and increasing consumption of essential oils in the cosmetics and food and beverage industries are expected to drive the essential oils market growth during the forecast period (2021–2030). According to P&S Intelligence, the market generated a revenue of ~$11 billion in 2020. In recent years, the escalating use of essential oils at spas has become a prominent market trend, owing to the rising public awareness of skincare treatments.
The burgeoning demand for aromatherapy is one of the primary growth drivers for the market. Aromatherapy refers to an alternative treatment process that utilizes naturally harvested essences to support, harmonize, and balance the mental and physical health of patients. This treatment process uses essential oils as they activate the smell receptors in the nose, which convey information to the brain through the nervous system. The oil is also used to treat anxiety or chronic stress, fatigue, skin problems, depression, and respiratory infections.
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At present, the essential oils market is fragmented in nature, due to the presence of few companies such as Frontier Co-op, dōTERRA International LLC, PublicGoods, Plant Therapy Inc., Organic Aromas, Rocky Mountain Oils LLC, REVIVE Essential Oils LLC, Young Living Essential Oils, NOW Health Group Inc., Edens Garden, Majestic Pure Cosmeceuticals, and Vitruvi. These market players are mostly focusing on product launches to gain a competitive edge. For instance, in August 2020, Young Living Essential Oils announced a series of new products, such as Ecuadorian oregano oil and cassia oil.
Categories under the essential oils market are orange, eucalyptus, cornmint, peppermint, citronella, lemon, lime, clove, spearmint, rosemary, lavender, and others. Among these, the orange category generated the highest revenue in 2020, as the consumption of orange oil helps in improving the skin, hair, nail, and hair quality. The oil is used to treat stretch marks and acne, improve skin blood flow, rejuvenate skin, and loosen up nearby tissues. Moreover, the vast availability of oranges in India, Mexico, and China will also support the growth of this category in the foreseeable future.
Geographically, the European region is expected to hold the largest share in the essential oils market during the forecast period. This can be primarily attributed to the growing public awareness of the health benefits of such oils in the region. Moreover, the increasing preference for natural products in Europe will lead to the high-volume consumption of essential oils in the cosmetics and food and beverage industries in the region. Both these industries are using such oils in innovative ways to develop better products for their customers.
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Whereas, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) essential oils market is expected to showcase the fastest growth during the forecast period. This will be due to the surging availability and rising affordability of essential oils in the region. Additionally, the improving lifestyles of people and mounting awareness about such oils will facilitate the market growth in the region in the foreseeable future. Besides, the escalating awareness about the outcomes of aromatherapy and the booming number of patients suffering from chronic diseases will also augment the demand for essential oils in the region in the coming years.
The major players operating in the global essential oils market are dōTERRA International LLC, Plant Therapy Inc., Rocky Mountain Oils LLC, Young Living Essential Oils, Edens Garden, Vitruvi, Frontier Co-op, PublicGoods, Organic Aromas, REVIVE Essential Oils LLC, NOW Health Group Inc., and Majestic Pure Cosmeceuticals.
Market Size Breakdown by Segments By Type Orange Eucalyptus Cornmint Peppermint Citronella Lemon Lime Clove Spearmint Rosemary Lavender By Method of Extraction Distillation Carbon Dioxide Extraction Cold Press Extraction Solvent Extraction By Application Food & Beverages Cosmetics & Toiletries Aromatherapy Home Care Health Care By Region North America U.S. Canada Europe Germany France U.K. Italy Spain Asia-Pacific (APAC) Japan China India Australia South Korea Latin America (LATAM) Brazil Mexico Middle East and Africa (MEA) Saudi Arabia South Africa Market Segment Analysis of Countries Further breakdown of 16 listed countries will be provided as per below segmentation: By type By method of extraction By application Browse Other Related Reports Aromatherapy Market Report – In the near future, the Asia-Pacific aromatherapy market will exhibit rapid expansion, as per the estimates of the market research firm, P&S Intelligence. This is ascribed to the growing awareness amongst the masses about the various benefits offered by aromatherapy in the treatment of different ailments and health conditions and the large-scale production of essential oils in several APAC countries. Cosmetic Chemicals Market Report – Currently, Asia-Pacific is the largest cosmetic chemicals market, as it is the most-populous region in the world. This creates a huge demand for cosmetic products and, in turn, of the chemicals that go into them. Moreover, loads of regional and Western chemical companies have manufacturing plants here. These companies are undertaking research studies for better ingredients and focusing on low-cost raw material procurement.
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warc | 202143 | From transactional to transformational leadership, today’s business owners must be a step ahead of others. Different leadership styles shape the corporate culture inside organizations. The Global Spiritualist Association has amassed a great deal of crucial information regarding this topic. They work to assist business leaders so they can build their dreams. Below are a few important topics that business leaders are concerned with.
The Future of Employment
Many are speculating about whether the current economic trends will continue and how long. The most positive viewpoints say that things have already turned around and are improving daily. Whether this is true or not, it’s important for everyone to realize that today’s major companies want more out of their employees. Things will most likely never go back to being like they were ten years ago.
Organizing Your Workday
This involves leaders that focus on organizing work and accomplishing the tasks at hand. When a business leader is organized, they get important projects completed on time. Those who aren’t, usually just struggle through a day doing whatever tasks that come along.
This sort of leadership as a recipe for mediocrity. Another issue with this leadership style is that it could eventually become counterproductive. Transformational leadership actively involves employees and considers their interests, generates purpose and a mission for the group, and guides employees to investigate the good of the group, not just the good of the individual employee.
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The Global Spiritualist Association, founded by Zhang Xinyue, has numerous resources that can help business leaders build their dreams. TGSA is there to teach, mentor and assist. For more information about this organization, please visit their website. | 1,820 | 938 | 3,475.074627 |
warc | 202143 | The ideal time to take your BBT is first thing in the morning when you wake up. Do it as soon as youre awake and before you do anything else. Have your thermometer next to your bed on the nightstand. When you wake up, just reach over to get your thermometer and take your temperature while still lying in bed.
What is the most comfortable temperature to sleep in?
60 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit The best bedroom temperature for sleep is approximately 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18.3 degrees Celsius). This may vary by a few degrees from person to person, but most doctors recommend keeping the thermostat set between 60 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit (15.6 to 19.4 degrees Celsius) for the most comfortable sleep.
What is the most healthy room temperature?
The most comfortable room temperature will vary based on your personal preferences, the season, and which areas of the home you are living in. Most people can agree that a healthy range will go from 20 – 24 degrees Celsius (68 – 76 degrees Fahrenheit).
Does sleeping in a hot room help you lose weight?
Sleep in a cooler and darker environment. According to a small study published in the journal Diabetes, people who keep their bedrooms at a steady temperature of 66 degrees for one month increased the amount of calorie burning brown fat in their bodies by up to 42% and boosted their metabolism by 10%. | 1,367 | 703 | 2,623.162162 |
warc | 202143 | Nanomedicine Market To Reach USD 435.08 billion by 2028 | Top Key Players Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Bio-Gate AG
The global nanomedicine market is expected to reach USD 435.08 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Reports and Data. Increased global incidence of cancer coupled with growing prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is likely to be the key factors governing market growth. Based on the WHO statistics, in 2018 around 18.07million new cases were registered for cancer in 2018. Additionally, cancer accounted for around 9.5 million deaths in 2018. The incidence of cancer was significantly high and lied around 48.4 percent in Asia Pacific.
Nanomedicine is being increasingly adopted for the treatment of various diseases including cancer and cardiovascular disease. Apart from improved efficacy and safety, factors such as bio-availability and ability to deliver diagnostic and therapeutic agents to targeted sites are expected to stimulate market growth.
Asia Pacific is expected to be a key revenue generating region in the forecast period. The market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 13.8% in the forecast period. This can be mainly associated with increasing incidence of cancer in the region. Based on estimates, along with high incidence of cancer as compared to other regions, the mortality rate of cancer in Asia is also significantly high. In 2018, the mortality rate was around 57.3 percent for Asia Pacific while it was around 20.3 percent for Europe. Increasing number of deaths of cancer patients is likely to lead to a rise in the adoption of nanomedicine in the region. Moreover, success of nanomedicines in the treatment of heart diseases is also expected to be a major factor affecting demand in the region.
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Increasing development of on-demand, digitally enabled, and seamlessly connected clinician-patient interactions to manage patient base is expected to drive pharma and healthcare market in the coming years. After the COVID-19 outbreak there has been a number of foundational shifts in the healthcare system. Some of the examples include increasing consumer involvement in health care decision-making, the rapid adoption of virtual health & other digital innovations, increasing focus on utilization of interoperable data & data analytics, and increased public-private collaborations in therapeutics and vaccine development. The increased public-private collaborations for vaccine development has arisen due to high pressure of regional governments. Health care providers, and other stakeholders have invested heavily to quickly pivot, adapt, and innovate therapeutics.
Further key findings from the report suggest
Dendrimers are expected to grow at a significant CAGR in the forecast period. These nano-devices have emerged as a powerful class of nanomaterials owing to their unique features. These nanoparticles are being opted as an efficient therapeutic strategy in the treatment of various neurological disorders. Asia Pacific market is forecasted to grow significantly in the coming years. Nanomedicines are projected to be opted for the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease in the region. Furthermore, efforts by government as well as medical institutes of the region are also anticipated to foster market demand. For instance: Recently in 2018, the Indian Council of Medical Research announced launching nano-medicine task force. The main aim of the scheme is to explore as well as convert nano-enabled technologies towards clinical applications. Key participants include Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Bio-Gate AG, Celgene Corporation and Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson is a key player in the nanomedicine market. Under its subsidiary NanoMedical systems, the company offers silicon-based medical nanotechnology products which are utilized for providing improved biomarker detection for research, microbial surveillance, and diagnostics. The company has manufacturing facilities located across the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa. As of 2017, while the company’s Pharmaceutical segment accounted for around 36.3 percent of the revenue of the company, the medical devices segment accounted for 26.6 percent of the total revenue. Request a discount on the report @ https://www.reportsanddata.com/discount-enquiry-form/1048 For the purpose of this report, Reports and Data have segmented global Nanomedicine Market on the basis of products, drug delivery system, application and region: Product Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2018-2028) Therapeutics Regenerative Medicine In-vitro diagnostics In-vivo diagnostic Vaccines Drug Delivery System Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2018-2028) Nanobots Nanoghosts Nanoclusters Nanobubbles Exosomes Injectable Nanoparticle Generator Dendrimers Liposomes Carbon nanotube Graphene Others Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2018-2028) Oncology Infectious diseases Cardiology Orthopedics Others Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion, 2018-2028) North America Europe Asia Pacific Latin America MEA Request a customization of the report @ https://www.reportsanddata.com/request-customization-form/1048 Major Highlights of the Nanomedicine Market Report: The Nanomedicine market analysis report offers an in-depth study of the potential market growth opportunities and challenges. The report dives deeper into the market and explains the dynamic factors bolstering market growth. The report deeply assesses the current, historical market size, market share, and revenue growth rates to offer accurate market projections for the forecast period. The report analyzes the Nanomedicine market presence across major regions of the world. It determines the production & consumption capacities and demand & supply dynamics of each regional market. The report further illustrates the intense competition among the key market players and highlights their effective business expansion plans and strategies. It provides company overview and SWOT analysis of each of the market players.
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warc | 202143 | With their headquarters located in Hertfordshire, RWB Group employs over 50 staff and provide a range of commercial and industrial services, including rail services, utility surveying, insurance repairs, and drainage and wastewater services.
Highlights, Specialties & Features Utility Surveying Rail Services Drainage & Wastewater Services Insurance Repairs Contact Details
Website www.rwbgroup.co.uk City Borehamwood Postcode WD6 4PJ Address Kinetic Business Centre, Theobald Street Elstree Phone Number 0800 488 0658 Products & Services GPS-GIS Utility Services
Our data collection and mapping service can be leveraged for small rural and mid to large-size urban electric, gas, sewage, water, and telecommunications projects. We allow you to securely put the same authoritative geographical data in the hands of field operatives and office workers. By working in unison, your teams will be able to reduce errors, save money, boost productivity, make informed decisions, and meet deadlines.
With efficient project design and asset management, you will aid support operations by promoting spatial awareness of their surrounding area. This context and understanding are essential, whether you are responding to a natural disaster or performing an inspection. Our GIS mapping service will document vital underground assets, allowing your teams to view and track trends and eliminate or reduce your use of outdated paper and system maps. With digital transformation, your workforce will be able to make data-driven decisions to improve productivity, coordinate their daily workflows, and, most crucially, work safe Topographical-surveys
RWB Specialise in topographical surveys and land surveys that provide supporting data for utility laying or proposed construction of housing or commercial developments. Whether for the construction industry, transportation systems, or utility companies themselves, topographical surveys are essential before planning, design excavations, building, maintenance, or service begins.
Inform your utility services route planning To support your engineers and architects Minimise the risks to contractors by making well-informed decisions Identify buildings, boundaries, drainage, flora, service access points, and ground conditions Planning across all environments with urban and rural surveys Aid pipeline and cable laying Identify volumes and levels Drainage Investigation & Mainline Surveys
RWB works with a variety of businesses and organisations across many sectors allowing them to manage their asset through CCTV pipeline and float surveys effectively. We work with local authorities, highway authorities, utility companies, and a broad range of commercial and industrial companies.
We give you a clear understanding of your drainage assets’ condition with vital information, such as the location and depth of your pipelines. When you need to reduce or prevent flooding damage to your company or the surrounding environment, it is essential to get the right diagnosis so you can take action and choose the right solution. Ground Penetrating Radar Mapping
RWB Specialise in GRP underground utilities, providing an accurate and detailed plan of all detectable underground services. Utility mapping surveys provide critical information on below-ground conditions.
Ground-penetrating radar can be combined with other technologies and surveying tools to expand and gain further understanding of subsurface utilities, obstacles, and hazards. We have an extensive fleet of fully-equipped vehicles with state-of-the-art surveying technology and software. Our qualified surveyors have years of experience, putting expert knowledge and know-how in your hands. GPS Inventory Surveys
RWB Group UK provides extremely accurate GPS satellite asset mapping of your utility inventory. We create geographical data you can trust, capturing the precise information you need for computer-based mapping systems that manage electric, water, sewage, gas, oil, and telecoms utilities.
Our surveyors collect mapping-grade GPS field data in a cost-effective and timely manner. We accurately acquire geographical coordinates to meet your organisation’s spatial data needs, with more than a decade of experience working with complex utility systems, such as those used in electrical distribution systems or telecommunications. Our GPS data can be used to create accurate GIS base maps for small, mid, and large-size projects. | 4,456 | 2,090 | 9,449.278469 |
warc | 202143 | The Times They are a Changin’! We are at the precipice of exponential change in healthcare due to the rising convergence of advances in technology, medical science, and an increasing demand for health-related products and services. The idea of consumerism isn’t new to healthcare, but never has it been a more crucial time for providers to react to this shift in power as patients evolve from those that are suffering to those that are empowered.
Well Healthcare, you’ve held off change as long as you possibly could. You kept patient records on paper in filing cabinets. You made patients wait months to get an appointment. Once they secured that coveted appointment, you made them wait forever in a boring, beige waiting room. There were very few ways for patients to get the care they needed, so you controlled everything and you weren’t too worried about
a complete customer experience.
So, healthcare, it’s time to realize these changes are here to stay. Are you ready? We hope you can join us at HealthSpaces October 24th – 26th to be informed on the ever-expanding industry and discover these 5 ways it’s changing for good. | 1,170 | 657 | 2,012.328767 |
warc | 202143 | By Rev. Kevin Slayton
The General Assembly is hard at work and has already taken major steps forward for Marylanders. Overriding the governor’s vetoes of the digital ad tax and the Kirwan Commission’s blueprint for education reform were huge moments, as was passage of a critically needed COVID-19 relief bill.
All of these items are built on what I would call obligatory moral legislating. In a political climate where we rarely consider the moral lens of public policy, I have not lost hope that our leaders will rely on the moral aspects of their policy making on a more consistent basis.
That should apply especially to how the state raises and spends money. Budgets stand as the defining moral documents of our society. Where we spend our resources and how we generate revenue are two of the most important decisions state leaders make.
With that understanding, I urge Marylanders to keep an eye on bills that have important moral underpinning. That includes a bill sponsored by Senator Paul Pinsky, a longtime legislator from Prince George’s County, that would bring greater fairness to our tax system by leveling the playing field for our local businesses.
His legislation would require major corporations who benefit greatly from public resources generated in our state to pay their fair share in taxes. The idea of companies paying what is deemed fair is at its core a moral obligation. When corporations seek to avoid those obligations, many of us tax-paying citizens and smaller businesses are left holding the bag. In fact, the Maryland Center on Economic Policy estimates that our state could have raised an additional $2.8 billion in revenue between fiscal years 2014 and 2018 by eliminating corporate loopholes, ineffective tax subsidies, and other special interest tax breaks.
Pinsky’s bill, SB 511, would close a major corporate tax loophole that has allowed many of these large corporations to avoid paying any Maryland taxes. Many of those companies would argue that they are only doing what the law allows them to do. By requiring them to use combined tax reporting we can fix the law, so they can no longer hide huge profits in other states allowing them to avoid our state tax.
Closing this loophole would put smaller Maryland businesses on a more equal tax footing with competing corporations that are operating in other states, as well as Maryland. The local businesses that we frequent simply don’t have access to these tax loopholes. But their large competitors do and they use them.
We send our elected officials to Annapolis to be our voice and to fight for our best interests. But far too many of them pay more attention to large corporations than to us. They believe they can only raise campaign resources by making business interests happy.
The reality is that working people are busy and can’t pay attention to everything the General Assembly does regarding tax policy. That’s why we have to trust our legislators to have our backs and vote to uphold the moral values that undergird our communities.
Most of my neighbors don’t have the ability nor the desire to have their checks deposited in Florida or some other state where we don’t live. We don’t have extra income to place money in places where we can claim that we didn’t earn it in Maryland. If we did, that would be dishonest and of no benefit to our state and local government. So why should corporations be allowed to do so?
My hope is that the members of the legislature will have the courage and moral fortitude to close this corporate loophole this year. We could use the revenue generated to invest in our children’s education, more reliable transit, and our neighbors who are living on the margins of society as a result of the pandemic.
In this time of racial reckoning it would be a great way to begin dismantling the economic barriers that too often hold back Marylanders of color. Legislators must do what is morally right.
The Rev. Kevin Slayton is coordinator of the Maryland Fair Funding Coalition. The opinions on this page are those of the writers and not necessarily those of the AFRO. Send letters to The Afro-American • 1531 S. Edgewood St. Baltimore, MD 21227 or fax to 1-877-570-9297 or e-mail to editor@afro.com | 4,303 | 2,081 | 8,732.133109 |
warc | 202143 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications continue to expand opportunities for humankind’s progress and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. UNESCO is working to harness these opportunities in its fields of competence and has been leading reflections around pressing concerns related to AI’s rapid development, from a Human Rights and ethics perspective. These range from AI’s role in the futures of education to the omnipresent challenges of disinformation and hate speech online.
This article was originally published on UNESCO website. Please follow the link to read more. | 602 | 386 | 910.797927 |
warc | 202143 | However, opposite to predictions, threat compensation behaviors have not been significant at a population level, being outweighed by increased safety in each case (a hundred, 102⇓⇓–105). Polling and observational knowledge from the COVID-19 pandemic have proven masks carrying to be positively correlated with other preventative measures, together with hand hygiene , physical distancing , and lowered face touching . Three preprint papers reporting observational information recommend that masks could also be a cue for others to maintain a wider bodily distance. In a scientific review sponsored by the World Health Organization, Chu et al. checked out physical distancing, face masks, and eye safety to prevent particular person-to-particular person transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
A tea cloth masks was discovered to filter 60% of particles between zero.02 μm and 1 μm, the place surgical masks filtered seventy five% . Simulation research usually use a 30 L/min or higher challenge aerosol, which is round about three to six instances the ventilation of a human at relaxation or doing mild work . As a result, simulation studies may underestimate the efficacy of the use of unfitted masks locally in apply.
Medical And Material Masks: Who Wears What Mask When?
C and D plot the estimated average treatment results, that is, average discount within the cumulative variety of COVID-19 circumstances over time joint with ninety% confidence intervals for the 2 samples. Confidence intervals are constructed on the premise of pseudo P values as proven in E and F for the first 20 d after the beginning of the treatment. These (one-sided) P values are adjusted for the pretreatment match quality . Inference has been conducted on the premise of a randomly drawn pattern of 1 million placebo averages.
For each mask bought, the corporate donates a masks to frontline health care staff and farmworkers. The experimental clothes model Outlier just lately branched out into face masks, and WIRED picture editor Phuc Pham likes the Mask 001, which makes you seem like a cool city cowboy. It has a linen insert, an inside nostril bridge, and a simple-to-use magnetic closure to hold it flush and securely against your face.
Car mechanics who change brake linings after which clean the brakes with air pressure are particularly at risk. Many fibres get into the air in the workshop, which is a life-threatening hazard. Corrugated asbestos should not be sawed, reduce, drilled, floor up or damaged. As long as it’s not touched, there isn’t a danger of fibers being launched into the air. Anyone who tries to take away the moss with a excessive-strain cleaner can be committing crimes towards the surroundings and endangering their very own well being. Visible here are asbestos’ signature tiny fibers, some of which are solely three micrometers thick.
How Children Can Put On Fabric Masks
I recommend these for heavy rain—for light drizzle, you might as nicely stick with a lighter masks made from artificial wicking materials. If I’m operating or climbing, I like light, breathable, artificial masks. For some people, that sensation of material flapping against your face is usually a distraction. Outdoor Research’s Adrenaline Sports Mask has a structured form that holds the masks off your face. It’s created from a light-weight mesh materials and comes with adjustable ear loops, and a clip that turns the ear loops right into a head strap. I don’t double-masks outdoors, as a result of I even have the ability to go operating or walking in locations where there are only a few individuals.
The applicable use of face masks and selling compliance with their use when beneficial as public well being measures are key to the effectiveness of the measure and may be improved through training campaigns. Based on the assessment of the out there scientific evidence, no suggestion may be made on the preferred use of medical or non-medical face masks locally. Evidence for the effectiveness of non-medical face masks, face shields/visors and respirators locally is scarce and of very low certainty. And carrying out supply and make contact with tracing is tougher when large numbers of people have gathered collectively in teams. Leave if you notice a spot is busy and it’s troublesome to maintain a distance of 1.5 metres.
SARS-CoV-2 is present in exhaled breath , but it’s not identified to what diploma this route is responsible for transmission. A examine of influenza suggests that vocalization could be crucial for creation of an infection breath particles . m) in a position to attain into the respiratory bronchioles and alveoli within the lungs and medium-sized ones (as much as 10 μm to fifteen μm) able to deposit within the “the trachea and large intrathoracic airways” . Normal speaking produces thousands of oral fluid particles between 1 μm and 500 μm , which can harbor respiratory pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 . Many of these emissions will then evaporate and turn into aerosolized particles which are threefold to fivefold smaller, and may float for 10 min or more in the air (fifty four⇓–56). Speech is known to emit up to an order of magnitude more particles than respiration .
Masks ought to completely cowl the nose and mouth and fit snugly against the sides of face without gaps. Until 1989, car brake linings nonetheless contained asbestos – in high concentrations. It’s attainable that some of these brake pads are still in use in old cars today. | 5,597 | 2,772 | 11,024.393939 |
warc | 202143 | by Alice Murray @Dawgatty
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29.11 (NIV)
The small green lizard perched on the top of a picture frame on my office window ledge. His gaze was focused outside where bushes, trees, and grass beckoned to him. The poor creature had been camping out in my office for a few days. I had originally spotted him on top of my filing cabinet, but he had disappeared behind my computer desk without reappearing until now. His little had was cocked to the side as if he was thinking, “I can see where I want to be, but how do I get there?” The lizard’s plight touched my heart, so I resolved to set him free from his office prison.
Cautiously I approached the window and picked up a glass bowl beside the picture frame on which the small creature was sitting. I gently moved the picture frame to knock the lizard down to the ledge where I could trap him under the bowl and take him outside to freedom. My efforts terrified him. His tiny clawed feet skittered around the ledge as he attempted to avoid the large glass object coming down on top of him. Once trapped underneath the bowl, he ran around the edge of the bowl looking for an escape. Gently, I slid a clipboard under the bowl and carried the trapped lizard out the front door of the office where I set him free in the big outdoors he had longingly gazed at out my window.
The poor lizard just did not get it. If he looked up at me as the bowl was descending over him, he saw only a giant bent on doing him harm. But my trapping him did not spell the lizard’s doom. It may not have been pleasant to be under a bowl for a brief time, but his capture allowed the lizard to achieve his greatest dream—to be outside where he was meant to be.
Aren’t we like that poor little lizard? Sometimes God has great things in store for us right up ahead, but we cannot see beyond our difficult circumstances–the scary glass bowl descending from above.
Earlier in my life, I lost a job I really needed to support my family. But because I was trapped in that difficult position, I sought and began the job of my dreams. Once I looked past the descending glass bowl of my job loss, I recognized that the giant placing the bowl over me was my loving Heavenly Father. That bowl was a part of His plan to put me in the position to give me a wonderful future, i.e., a job I longed to have.
Humans tend to focus on the cover of their current circumstances. We need to move beyond that cover and look into the Good Book itself. It assures us that our Heavenly Father is in control and has a plan. He is not bent on doing us harm; He only wants to give us hope and a future even if we cannot see that blessing beyond the glass bowl of our current situation.
About the author: is a Florida adoption attorney by profession and a writer by passion. Alice writes a weekly blog at www.aliceinwonderingland.wordpress.com, is a staff writer for www.adoption.com, has had her work appear in the compilation Alice H. Murray Short And Sweetbook series (available on www.amazon.com), and has been published in a Chicken Soup book. In her “spare” time, Alice volunteer teaches ESL as a church outreach ministry. Join the conversation: Has there been a time in your life when you could not see past your circumstances? How did God work things out for you? | 3,483 | 1,716 | 6,917.286713 |
warc | 202143 | Potatoes are considered to be the second bread, because the diet of almost every family includes dishes made from potatoes or with potato content. Due to the starch content, potatoes have a huge nutritional value, as well as their tubers are endowed with a group of vitamins - A, B, C, PP and contain a significant amount of minerals.
It's no secret that to get a decent harvest, the plant needs to be properly fertilized, potatoes are no exception.
One of the most priority and frequently used fertilizers is Kemira Potato-5. Kemira is a fertilizer specially designed for potatoes, so the content of useful elements is selected specifically for this vegetable. The fertilizer does not contain chlorine, which has a very detrimental effect on plant growth and development. Also, the positive aspects of kemira are contributing to an increase in tuberization, an improvement in the starchiness of potatoes and an increase in storage stability.
In the technology of growing potatoes, there are three main stages: preparation, planting and care during the growing season.
During the preparation period, the soil on the site is properly dug up and fertilized with the main dose of mineral fertilizer (per 1 sq. M. 60-80 g. Of kemira)
During the planting stage, potato tubers are planted at a distance of 30 cm between themselves in furrows, which are located at a distance of 70 cm from each other. The fertilizer rate per plant is 15-20 g.
During the growing season, plants loosen the soil. The feeding rate during this period is 30-40g. for 1 sq.m. soil.
The plant should be fertilized evenly, carefully distributing the mineral components in the planting area. The most promising is the application of fertilizers to the soil, thereby establishing the desired ratio of nutrients. | 1,787 | 890 | 3,569.98427 |
warc | 202143 | The purpose of this study is to measure effect of organizational justice concept on job satisfaction of individuals. The concepts of "organizational justice" and "job satisfaction" have very important places for organizations in reaching to their objectives. Job satisfaction levels of employees are affected either positively or negatively due to their perceptions on organizational justice regarding practices in their organizations and how fairly they are treated. Employees whose job satisfaction levels are affected positively are motivated by their work and add value to their organization. The concepts of organizational justice and job satisfaction become even more important when strategic importance of human resources is taken into account in a competitive business environment. This study consists of two parts. In the theoretical part of the study, organizational justice and job satisfaction concepts are explained in detail together with their dimensions. While the concept of organizational justice was considered as the independent variable in the study, the concept of job satisfaction was considered as the dependent variable. Afterwards, the research model was formulated and implementation part of the study was introduced. This study was carried out with the participation of 165 people working in various sectors in Turkey. Throughout the study, survey technique, one of the data collection techniques, was used. Findings of the study showed that organizational justice affected job satisfaction of the individuals positively. | 1,555 | 687 | 3,506.106259 |
warc | 202143 | Soil salinization has been a topic due to the widespread recognition of the food crisis and the shortage of cultivated land resources in arid regions. Unfortunately, the evolution of soil salinization under the background of landscape dynamics is rarely addressed due to the lack of spatial coupling techniques. Recent developments in soil science and remote sensing technology provide the possibility for accurate management of land resources. This study aims to explore the spatiotemporal variations of soil salinization by coupling the spatial distribution of soil salinization and landscape patterns in the irrigated northern slopes of Tianshan Mountains. We graded soil salinization levels based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. The results indicated that the proportion of salinized cultivated land in 2014 (32.11%) was higher than that in 2005 (28.11%). We argue that simply quantifying the changes of soil salinization can neither accurately reflect the effectiveness of salinized cultivated land management nor meet the need for land resource planning. In response to these shortcomings, the evolution of soil salinization was explored in three categories, i.e., "stable cultivated land", "increased cultivated land", and "decreased cultivated land". We found that the proportion of soil salinization in stable cultivated land has dropped considerably from 38.11% in 2005 to 29.22% in 2014. This number in the increased cultivated land (59.11%) is much higher than that of the whole study area. These results are expected to benefit local authorities and assist in alleviating the food crisis in arid regions. | 1,637 | 782 | 3,410.067775 |
warc | 202143 | Technology for safety and traffic management projects address the city’s capability to implement and respond to technology that improves safety, traffic flow, and traveler information, and other emerging technology, such as connected and autonomous vehicles. The technology is often referred to as Intelligent Transportation Systems, or ITS. Project descriptions, project costs and levy funding are subject to change. The following projects, along with all Levy-funded projects, can be found on an interactive map.
Projects completed Eastgate Park and Ride Mobility Hub Concept Design:The City of Bellevue and King County Metro partnered to develop a concept for the Eastgate Park and Ride that would better support integration with all travel modes to and from the park and ride and provide enhanced rider services to reduce additional stops or trips needed by the average commuter. This concept, called a mobility hub, looked at how the space on the park and ride property and along the west frontage could be modified to improve the safe and efficient movement of people by different modes of travel. Amenities envisioned for the park and ride included, but were not limited to, food trucks, common carrier lockers for package and carry-out food pickup, a café and public restrooms. ITS — Communications Upgrade: Upgrades to provide additional network capacity and redundancy for city’s Intelligent Transportation System. Also included planning, design and system integration to install citywide travel time system. Completed November 2018. ITS — Communication Upgrade Phase 2:As part of upgrading the city’s Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), continue the expansion of 10GB network to the remainder of the traffic signals in Bellevue. Completed December 2019. ITS — LED Street Light Upgrades: Replace existing high pressure sodium lights with light emitting diode (LED) light fixtures at Richards Road, from Lake Hills Connector to SE 32nd Street; Bel-Red Road/NE 12th Street, from Bellevue Way to 130th Avenue NE. Completed February 2018. Projects in progress Bellevue/Overlake Connect First-Last Mile to Transit Project:The City of Bellevue, in partnership with King County Metro, Hopelink and Spare Labs launched an innovative transit service for the East Bellevue, called Crossroads Connect. Crossroads Connect provides on-demand rides for the service area with the goal of providing a reliable means of connecting with fixed route transit, such as the RapidRide B-Line. Crossroads Connect provides a free transfer to other King County Metro buses, through integration with the regional ORCA payment system. This pilot project started in fall 2020 and concluded in October 2021. Transportation for America Curb Space Management Partnership:Bellevue was selected, along with the Cities of Boston and Minneapolis, to serve as pilot cities for the study of new technology to manage curb space in an urban environment. This partnership builds upon similar work being done with the UW Urban Freight Lab and the federal Department of Energy. This project will deploy additional devices to monitor activity at the curb and will pay for consultant services to perform a comprehensive evaluation of all products tested for curb space monitoring. This project will help Bellevue and its partner agencies understand the functionality of the existing curb space monitoring technology and the potential uses for improving the management of this limited resource in an urban environment. UW PacTrans Grant Partnership:The Cities of Bellevue, Seattle and Boise, along with Ada County Idaho have partnered with the University of Washington and University of Idaho to study ways to improve mobility in dense urban environments by increasing our understanding of existing curb usage and providing new solutions for managing this scarce resource. This study will develop innovative curb space designs to maximize the efficiency, safety and reliability of urban street systems. UW Urban Freight Lab Department of Energy Grant Partnership:The Cities of Bellevue and Seattle partnered with the UW Urban Freight Lab and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on a Department of Energy Funded project to study the behavior of delivery vehicle drivers and develop a mobile application that predicts the availability of a load zone near their destination. The goal of the project is to reduce circling and illegal parking of delivery vehicles. The City of Bellevue has installed sensors near 10 load zones to provide real-time information regarding occupancy of the load zone. Projects in planning/design
The
Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Strategic Visionis a planning document that is intended to help the City of Bellevue prepare for automated mobility. The plan will evaluate the state of the AV industry, technology readiness, deployment risks, City of Bellevue’s role in enabling AV technology and identify deployment scenarios. Communication System Infrastructure Upgrades:This project builds and expands the city’s fiber optic network to improve system reliability and provide more high speed connectivity to facilities across the city. Fiber optic connectivity improves operations of the traffic signal system and enables traffic data collection systems, traffic camera systems, and smart city projects. Curbspace Management:This project deploys new traffic data collection systems and provide data analysis techniques to better understand existing curb activities and behaviors. Data from this project will help advance the city’s Curb Management Plan, which will serve as a guiding document for curbside planning in Bellevue. Mobile CCTV Camera System:This project will purchase and deploy a portable Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera that will provide city staff with a mobile resource for viewing roadway and traffic conditions where an existing camera does not exist. The camera can be redeployed to any location in the city where needed. Traffic Operations Performance Monitoring Phase 2:Phase 1 of this program is procuring a software program that can provide intersection level performance data out of the signal system that synchronizes traffic lights in Bellevue for optimal traffic flow. Phase 2 will integrate intersection data into a dashboard for monitoring that will include arterial performance information. Travel Time System:This project will deploy a travel time system along key arterial corridors in Bellevue. Travel time data provides city staff with a performance indicator which support transportation operations and planning needs. Winter Weather Response Map:This is a public-facing tool that will provide information on roads that have been cleared or treated during a snow and ice event. The map build upon the city’s investment in Automatic Vehicle Locator technology equipped on the city’s winter weather response vehicles. | 6,917 | 2,999 | 15,803.695899 |
warc | 202143 | Employee Benefits Jobs
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"Health care spending in the United States is unevenly distributed, with the sickest 5 percent of patients causing more than 60 percent of health care costs.... [L]ack of coordination of super-utilizers' treatment often leads to 'repeating really expensive diagnostic tests such as CAT scans,' which dramatically drives up the cost of their care." (The Washington Post; free registration required)
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'Behavioral' Hazard in Health Insurance: Those Who Tap Health Care Too Little Rather Than Too Much
"In the traditional model, people who are insured overuse low value medical care because of moral hazard. There is ample evidence, though, of a different inefficiency: people underuse high value medical care because they make mistakes.... With only moral hazard, raising copays increases the efficiency of demand by ameliorating overuse. With the addition of behavioral hazard, raising copays may reduce efficiency by exaggerating underuse. This means that estimating the demand response is no longer enough for setting optimal copays; the health response needs to be considered as well." (National Bureau of Economic Research; purchase required)
Health Insurance Choices Become Complicated Amid Rising Costs
"Insurers expect that on average, premium increases will remain in the single digits. But consumers will feel a bigger hit to their pocketbooks, since more and more companies are looking at so-called consumer-driven plans that shift more costs to workers. So it's more important than ever that employees understand what they're getting into when they pick their options[.]" (St. Petersburg Times)
Disability Insurer Was Proper Party in Claim Under Fully Insured Long-Term Disability Plan
"Acknowledging that [generally] an ERISA suit must be brought against the plan, the court noted that an exception is recognized under applicable Seventh Circuit case law where an entity, like an insurer, is closely intertwined with the plan itself. In concluding that the insurer here was sufficiently intertwined with the plan for this exception to apply, the court emphasized that the insurer controlled eligibility for and payment of benefits, and had sole discretion to interpret the terms of the plan, noting that it appeared that only the insurer could provide the benefits allegedly due under the plan." [Ayotte v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, 2012 WL 4580316 (N.D. Ill. 2012)] (Thomson Reuters / EBIA)
Health Plan's Subrogation Provision Not Enforceable Against Participant's Attorneys, Leaving Plan With No Remedy
"This plan sponsor was in a tough spot. The plan document language was clear, and twice during the accident litigation the law firm acknowledged the plan's reimbursement right in writing. What more could the plan sponsor have done? It could have joined the accident litigation and pursued its right to subrogation (i.e., direct recovery from the third party) rather than reimbursement -- but that's a costly approach probably not justified by the amount at stake. Case law in this area continues to evolve[.]" [Treasurer, Trustees of Drury Indust., Inc. Health Care Plan & Trust v. Goding, 2012 WL 3870585 (8th Cir. 2012)] (Thomson Reuters / EBIA)
Large Employers Look to On-Site Health Clinics to Reduce Costs and Absenteeism
"A study this year ... found that only 8 percent of employers across the country currently have such clinics. But among big companies -- where large numbers of employees mean a clinic can more easily amass enough patients to justify its cost -- these facilities are becoming more common. A recent study ... found that 46 percent of large employers offered at least one on-site clinic, up from 37 percent the previous year." (The Washington Post; free registration required)
Watch Out for Fly-by-Night Health Insurers
"[R]ising health-care costs ... may push organizations into poor decisions when purchasing insurance. 'There is a risk for American businesses in finding a package that looks financially attractive with health insurers that aren't as well known as the major ones,' [says attorney Elliott Kroll] .... 'the more that companies deal with fringe players in the health-care market, whose numbers will increase in the next few years, the more these types of situations will arise.'" (CFO)
Spending on Health Insurance Exchanges Surpasses $2 Billion
"Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia are the latest to receive Exchange Establishment Grants, and that combined $224 million is what pushed the new overall total spent on HIX to approximately $2.2 billion.... [I]t was only 5 months ago when the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had hit the $1 billion mark[.]" (American Journal of Managed Care)
Dump 'Use It or Lose It' Rule for Flexible Spending Accounts, Commenters Tell IRS
"Members of the public who responded to IRS Notice 2012-40 regarding health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) have asked the government to eliminate the 'use it or lose it' rule, according to Treasury attorney-advisor Kevin Knopf.... Knopf, from the Treasury's Office of Benefits Tax Counsel, and Stephen Tackney, IRS deputy associate chief counsel (Employee Benefits), Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division, [recently] provided an update on some of the IRS guidance issued under the [ACA]." (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business)
Determining if Disability Insurance Coverage Is Worth It
"The first thing anyone who has looked into buying disability insurance has probably been struck by is the cost.... [T]he cost for coverage in a group policy runs about $16.30 per $1,000 of coverage with a waiting period of 30 days and a maximum benefit of $15,000 a month. For individuals buying their own policies, he said, the cost is $18.60 per $1,000 of coverage but with a 90-day waiting period." (The New York Times; free registration required)
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'Transitional Reinsurance Program' in ACA Is Unfair to Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
"Self-insured employers will be assessed a per-participant fee -- likely in the $60 to $90 range -- to help fund the $25 billion program. For a big self-funded employer, with say 100,000 people enrolled in its health care plans, its first-year tab for the three-year program could be about $10 million. And where will all that money go? The beneficiaries will be commercial insurers who will receive the money as partial reimbursement for writing coverage for those in the personal lines market with the highest health care costs." (Business Insurance; free registration required)
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ISS Releases 2013 Draft Policy Changes for Comment; Executive Compensation Affected (PDF)
"In the compensation area, the most significant U.S. policy changes pertain to (1) a new approach to peer group selection for evaluating pay-for-performance alignment in connection with advisory Say-on-Pay proposals, and (2) new problematic pay practices for evaluating Say-on-Golden Parachute proposals. A third compensation policy change is the extension of ISS' quantitative pay-for-performance test to Canadian companies, similar to the new test implemented in the U.S. in 2012[.]" (Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc.)
NASDAQ Issuers Face Heightened Requirements Under Proposed Dodd-Frank Rules for Compensation Committees
"As a result of the changes, NASDAQ listed companies, depending upon their current compensation committee policies and procedures, potentially face bigger changes than their NYSE counterparts. This is primarily because the NYSE rules prior to the Dodd-Frank Act were more developed and closer in line with the Dodd-Frank Act standards. Additionally, though the rules of both exchanges are subject to SEC approval, certain provisions of the NASDAQ rules are effective immediately while the NYSE's rules are effective in 2014. Therefore, NASDAQ listed companies should be aware that time is of the essence in reacting to the new rules." (Dechert LLP)
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warc | 202143 | Depth within the health club is without doubt one of the three key constructing blocks to a terrific physique- the opposite two being good diet and satisfactory relaxation. Nonetheless, within the quest to attain the utmost depth within the health club, some athletes sacrifice type or vary of movement, in addition to danger damage. It is essential to coach with unbelievable energy and keenness – however to do it intelligently as effectively. Listed below are three ideas, which ought to at all times be adopted to maximise.
Strict type
Utilizing heavy weight is unquestionably the way in which to go- so long as type is strict. Utilizing leverage to maneuver the load requires the muscle to name tendons, leveraged joints, and ancillary muscular tissues into play, which defeats the aim of lifting to maneuver blood into the muscle group. Should you discover you can’t obtain appropriate vary of movement (type) utilizing free weights, use machines (with a hard and fast vary of movement) till you study the method.
Max out hardly ever
Any time your repetition vary for a motion dips under 5 reps; you’re not making bodybuilding progress. You’re then making powerlifting progress- strengthening the tendons and sinew of the muscle, however offering minimal bodybuilding stimulation whereas neglecting slow-twitch muscle fibers fully. Moreover, maxing out can result in accidents, which can fully halt your bodybuilding progress.
Vary of movement
Muscle teams obtain probably the most attainable stimulation of nutrient-rich blood when as lots of their fibers are stimulated as attainable. Sloppy, half-reps do not stimulate the big selection of muscle fibers. That is solely achieved by shifting fully by the motion on every rep, from the highest to the underside. Go away your ego on the door, and decrease the load whether it is too heavy to maneuver by the complete vary.
You may by no means obtain a terrific bodybuilding physique with out lifting weights which are very heavy. Nonetheless, you may additionally by no means obtain a terrific bodybuilding physique by lifting heavy weights incorrectly. | 2,138 | 1,058 | 4,261.854442 |
warc | 202143 | PET owners take more than three months on average to get to grips with a new puppy or kitten, research has revealed.
But 78 per cent now regard their arrival as their new best friend, according to a study of 2,000 UK adults who had bought a puppy or kitten over the past 12 months.
In the early days of welcoming their new pet, more than half of puppy and kitten owners (58 per cent) struggled with their furry friend so much that they worried whether they had made the right decision, and one in five argued with their family or partner due to the stress.
Despite the hard work involved, an overwhelming majority (87 per cent) said welcoming a new puppy or kitten into their home was one of the best decisions they’d made – and they are so happy they did so.
Six in 10 even said they sometimes prefer spending time with their puppy or kitten over their partner.
The research was carried out by pet care specialists, Pets at Home, which offers new puppy and kitten owners free access to expert advice and tailored offers during their pet’s first year through its VIP Puppy & Kitten Club.
Karen Heskin, Head of Pets at Pets at Home, said: “When it comes to welcoming a new puppy or kitten into the family, there’s a lot to love and a lot to learn.
“While we know it’s one of the most rewarding experiences people can have, taking care of a puppy or kitten doesn’t come without its challenges.
"From the day they come into our lives, to their first birthday and beyond, there are bound to be ups and downs, and it’s essential that pets and their owners have the right support throughout – ensuring both they and their pets are healthy, happy, and able to enjoy the amazing moments that becoming a new puppy or kitten owner can bring.
“Having somewhere to turn for reassurance and expert practical advice is key, whether that’s guidance on training, help with choosing the right food, or getting to grips with vaccinations.
"That’s why we set up our VIP Puppy & Kitten club, to give owners support and encouragement every step of the way.”
The research also revealed two thirds (65 per cent) of pet owners had underestimated the cost of their puppy or kitten during the pandemic, while more than half (54 per cent) found house-training their pet harder than they expected.
And 46 per cent of the parents surveyed said the first six months with their new pet was even more difficult than the first year with their baby, with 13 per cent also confirming their new puppy or kitten had difficulties with sleeping.
A third (35 per cent) reported scratched furniture, chewed shoes or slippers (33 per cent), and wee stains on rugs or carpets (32 per cent).
And a quarter (26 per cent) found their new pet had been in the garden digging up the grass or plants.
Despite these teething issues, 85 per cent say the arrival of their new pet has positively impacted their mental health.
Nine in 10 (88 per cent) have loved the way they have bonded with their new pet, and they now feel like part of the family.
Karen Heskin added: “Training your new puppy or kitten is no easy task, and we’d encourage all new pet owners to seek as much help and guidance as they need – it really can make a difference.
"For example, for puppies who might be struggling with sleeping, it’s important that they exercise their brain as well as their body.
"So, while out on a walk, try letting them stop to sniff new smells – it stimulates their mind which can help them sleep better at night.
“With the right support, the rewards of welcoming your new canine companion or feline friend into the home are boundless."
Top 10 most anxious moments for new pet owners in the first 12 months
First time leaving their pet for a few hours
Meeting other animals
First night’s sleep
First trip to the vets
Knowing how much to feed them
First time away for a night
Understanding how much exercise they should be getting
Trying to work at home whilst caring for them
Organising pet sitters
First groom
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warc | 202143 | Traveling by the rural part of the US, you might have noticed tires on top of some mobile homes. Why do people put tires on their roofs? Let’s find out.
Whenever you cross a rural area, you may have come across many homes that have tires on their roof, but have you ever wondered what the reason is?
Of course, most mobile homes have tires on their top, but even stick and brick homes have the same concept.
So what is the purpose of tires for homes, and how do they benefit the residents? In this guide, we will provide you with detailed information about houses with tires on the roof.
In this article, you will learn:
What are mobile homes? Pros and Cons of Rubber Roofing Why do residents put tires on their roofs?
What are Mobile Homes?
Mobile homes are commonly known as trailer houses; they are prefabricated houses built in a factory and kept on a trailer chassis so that you can easily move them as and when you want. Mobile homes are the most affordable option of living. Most of the time, people in mobile homes live on leased land or parks.
Mobile homes are a lower-cost option than having a stick-built home. In addition, they are environmentally friendly houses.
Why Do People Put Tires On Their Mobile Home Roof?
In rural areas, you can see many houses with tires on their roofs. Tires are heavy objects, and they are great for holding down a roof that is not nailed down.
Bowstring Design
In rural towns, the roofs are in a bowstring design, which means that they have a bow-shaped truss in the center, arched towards the center and flat at the sides.
Now, to hold the roof in place, wooden trusses are nailed to the sides of the house, and the sheet metal plating is nailed on top of it. But nothing is holding the sheet metal plate to the center of the truss.
This is done because wood and metal will expand differently during summers, and if the sheet metal roof is nailed down to the wooden truss, there will soon be holes leaking rainwater in it.
Roof Rumble
The flip side of this is that the roof tends to rumble every time a strong wind blows by it, so to keep the roof from vibrating like this, you need a strong weight to hold it in place.
This is where old tires come in. In places like Texas, rocks are harder to find than old tires. So it’s easy to get some old tires and put them on the roof, just like a paperweight holds down paper when the wind blows.
Why Use Tires? Price
One of the biggest advantages of using tires for roofing is its price. As per other types of roofing, this is the cheapest option.
Easy Installation
There is no special skill or technique required to install tires on the roof. You don’t need to nail down anything; hell, you may not even require a ladder if you are strong enough.
Durability
Rubber Tires are long-lasting; they can stay in single pieces for many years.
Less Maintenance
Rubber-tired roofs do not require frequent maintenance.
Greenest Choice
The tires are made up of recycled materials and take less energy to produce than other roofing materials.
About the only drawback of the tires on the roof is their dark black color, but really who cares about that stuff! The only thing you need to remember is to keep the tires in a straight line, and that’s it.
You might also like to read :How Long Can I Drive With A Bad Alternator How Do You Keep A Mobile Home Roof From Rumbling?
The two common ways to stop roof rumbling are explained below:
Using Tires
The old school remedy is using tires, and you must have seen many mobile homes have tires on their roof; this is because it is considered as one of the affordable and long-lasting ways to avoid roof rumble.
The tires keep the wind away from the tunneling under the metal, dampening the sound. Using tires can fix the problem permanently.
Sealing and Coating
Another best way to stop the wind from entering the metal is sealing and coating. Sealing the seams and edges and then coating the entire roof with an elastomeric layer is a wise decision to stop roof rumbling. But, again, it is important to pay attention to the edges of the roof.
Causes of Mobile House Roof Leaks
Here are some common causes of mobile home roof leakages:
# Snow and Rain
Snow and rain is the most concerning cause of roof leakage. The major problem of a flat-surfaced roof is snow, as it allows snow to sit on the roof and melt away slowly. This is a cause of concern.
Remedy: Sealing and coating or having a pitched or slanting roof. # Debris
Debris from the nearby yard or tree branches can cause leakage. Although it is tough to cut the nearby trees to stop flying debris, you should look into hiring a professional tree cutter.
# Condensation
Condensation due to moisture is the common problem of leakage in old mobile home roofs. It has to be treated as soon as it is seen to avoid further damage. The best way to treat condensation is by having tires on the roof.
# Material Breakdown
We all know that roof coatings or tin sheets have a tendency to be cracked down or stretched away that can allow the water to enter the metal; in that case, there are high chances of leakage. The best way to deal with material breakdown leakage is by installing tires on the roof.
You might also like to read :Headlights Dim When Turning Steering Wheel
Signs of Mobile Home Roof Leakage
Ideally, you will get visible signs that show there is some leakage on the roof. However, whether you have tires or other ways of roofing, it is important to look inside and outside of the house for leakage. Here are a few things you must look for when locating a leakage on your mobile home roof.
# Sagging And Dark Spots
The most common indicator of leakage of your mobile home roof is dark spots. It shows there is some moisture on the roof. Even when your wallpaper or wall panels start peeling off, it is a sign of leakage. These signs may show there is a problem of leakage or condensation.
# Light Peeking
If you see some light coming from the roof, some crack could have to be sealed immediately.
Top States In the US With Maximum Mobile Homes
Nearly 20 million people live in mobile homes. The following states have the maximum number of people who prefer to live the mobile home life.
South Carolina North Carolina West Virginia New Mexico Alabama Ohio Michigan Why Do People Put Tires On Their Roof? To Prevent Roof Rumble
Given the vast number of people who live in mobile homes in the US, especially in the southern states where the countryside is very big, it is not unusual to see people who have tires on their roofs.
Tires are a simple and cost-effective way of keeping the roof from vibrating whenever a strong wind blows. They keep the sheet metal roof in place and protect the residents from a terrible noise whenever they face a windstorm.
So next time you see tires on someone’s roof, you can explain to your friends why they have done so! | 6,925 | 3,103 | 15,264.904931 |
warc | 202143 | Your grass needs extra treatment from time to time, as well as with proper grass care services it can be maintained year-round. Exactly what is the distinction between Landscape design as well as Yard treatment? Landscape design essentially describes keeping the health, elegance and also vibrancy of present grass throughout the years without the interference of maintenance. Some solutions that fall under landscape maintenance consist of soil screening, seed selection, fertilizer, oygenation, deep-root fertilizing for plants and also hedges, mulching and also seeding. These solutions guarantee that your grass preserves its abundant elegance. Lawn edging is a significant element of landscape upkeep. Although some people incorrectly assume that edging is merely the boundary around a lawn, it actually involves a variety of activities.
Edging provides a secure walkway for pets as well as kids, maintains icy roadways from melting in the summertime, keeps website traffic relocating efficiently on the roads as well as keeps yard bordering upkeep business active! A variety of bordering items such as block, pavers, turf trimmings, grass trimmings, rubber, plastic as well as wood edging materials are offered. There are a number of solutions offered by yard care solutions. Cutting grass is another service. With a grass care solutions firm, you can cut your mowed grass in 2 to 3 square feet rather than just preserving a solitary rectangle backyard. This is due to the fact that the yard cut needs to fulfill the requirements of the landscaping of the whole lawn. If the trimming lawns are not appropriately preserved, you could wind up with unevenly cut turf that will not look right when you sufficed. You’ll have an attractive yard yet if the landscaping is not balanced, the turf will certainly lack interpretation. Landscaping with products such as mulch, bark, pea gravel, newspaper, as well as straw, is known as landscape design with natural materials. Fundamental grass care services likewise consist of reducing yard turf that drops below the surface, repairing damaged or torn yards, mounting attractive blossom beds, as well as bordering. These are just a few of the tasks that a lawn treatment solution can carry out. As a matter of fact, a lot of lawn care solutions concentrate on landscaping, not just maintenance.
Various other services used by yard care solutions include planting therapy strategies, growing thermometer programs, feeding yards, as well as re-seeding lawns. Planting therapy plans involve numerous kinds of plant foods to boost the development of the lawn. Planting thermostat programs entails producing growing programs with an aim of promoting the advancement of healthy and balanced plants. Fertilizing lawns involves distributing fertilizer uniformly over the yard; however, some grass require even more fertilizer than others. Landscape design, which includes the setup of ornamental blossom beds, bordering, mulching, and oygenation, is normally carried out by a yard service provider. A yard solution business might also hire a landscape designer for personalized landscape projects. Oygenation assists to improve dirt fertility. A lot of house owners work with a yard treatment service provider for these jobs because the property owner has little expertise or training in landscape design.
The majority of homeowners do not wish to take the time and effort needed to develop beautiful landscapes from the ground up. Consequently, several house owners choose to utilize the solutions of a yard treatment service provider that currently understands what she or he is doing. | 3,635 | 1,684 | 7,824.747625 |
warc | 202143 | Dear customers!
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Is it always necessary to remove the breast?
few years ago the world flew news - the first beauty, model and actress Angelina Jolie resorted to mastectomy because of the high risk of developing cancer. Genetics found that Angelina is the carrier of the hereditary BRCA1 virus, which often develops breast cancer.
The question arises: was this justified and is it always inevitable in such cases?
In the middle of the 80s of the last century the hereditary predisposition to the disease was proved. This fact provoked panic in America and a real epidemic of mastectomies. Sometimes absolutely healthy women insisted on carrying out the operation.
Nowadays the disease is more studied, therefore the operation is carried out only on special indicators.
Even if the risk of the disease is high, this does not mean that you can get sick. Breast cancer never develops instantly, much less reaches the last stage in a short time.
If to exclude provoking factors (reception of hormonal preparations, action of an ultraviolet, smoking) and is regularly surveyed, the probability of falling ill considerably decreases and the woman does not fall ill.
Required examinations
Every woman, even if she does not have anything to worry about, must go through the examination. Make ultrasound of the mammary glands or mammography, as well as pass blood tests for prolactin.
Self-examination of the breasts should be done regularly, every time after menstruation.
For any, including minor signs of discomfort (separation from the nipples, sensation of tension, pain), consultation of the mammologist and a more thorough examination are necessary.
Risk group
In the risk group, those who have or have breast cancer along the female line. In these cases, the probability of developing the disease in women rises several times. In modern laboratories it is possible to make a genetic study to identify possible risks. This will allow you to fully control the situation and prevent the development of oncology.
Each woman herself must make the final decision and each has a choice - to make a mastectomy for the purpose of prevention or to save her breast without resorting to surgery. | 2,384 | 1,236 | 4,561.618123 |
warc | 202143 | Infertility Factors Female Infertility Factors
The most common female infertility factors include:
Ovulation disorders About one quarter of infertility cases are due to ovulation disorders. If a woman has an ovulation disorder, she may ovulate infrequently or not all. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common disorders impacting ovulation. Other causes of ovulation disorders include ovarian insufficiency and hypothalamic amenorrhea. PCOS Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - is a very common endocrine condition in reproductive-aged women. It affects approximately 5-10% of young women and often leads to difficulty conceiving. Women with this condition can experience irregular periods, abnormal hair growth, acne, and can have ovaries containing multiple small cysts.
PCOS negatively impacts fertility because women with the condition do not ovulate, or release an egg, each month due to an overproduction of estrogen by the ovaries. Because ovulation does not occur regularly, periods become irregular and increased levels of hormones such as testosterone can affect egg quality, inhibit ovulation, lead to insulin resistance, and increase the risk disorders such as gestational diabetes.
Age Infertility due to age is one of the most common causes of female infertility. As a woman gets older, the number of her eggs decreases rapidly. Additionally, the quality of her eggs also decreases increases the chance of chromosomal abnormalities. Studies have shown that approximately 70% of miscarriages are due to chromosomal abnormalities. Tubal Factor Tubal factor fertility is when there are problems in the fallopian tube(s), which prevents the sperm from fertilizing the egg.
Tubal factor infertility is when a woman’s fallopian tube(s) are blocked or damaged which prevents the sperm from reaching and fertilizing the egg, or the fertilized egg from reaching the uterus. One or both fallopian tubes may be impacted. In instances of partial blockages, this can increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy. Tubal factor infertility is responsible for 25-35% of infertility cases in women.
Endometriosis Endometriosis is when the tissue of the uterine lining grows outside of the uterus. About 10% of reproductive age women are affected by endometriosis.
Endometriosis is a condition that affects approximately 5-10% of reproductive-aged women and up to one third of women with infertility. Women with endometriosis can experience painful periods that often are not relieved with over-the-counter pain medications. Women with this condition may also suffer from pain with intercourse and/or bowel movements. Endometriosis is caused by cells from the lining of the uterus found in various locations in the abdomen and pelvis, commonly on the ovaries. Surgical visualization of endometriosis implants is the mainstay of diagnosis of the condition.
Endometrial Polyps Endometrial polyps are growths found in the uterine cavity. Large polyps or multiple polyps can impact fertility by interfering with the ability of embryo to implant and should be removed. The impact of small or single polyps is more controversial. Uterine Fibroids Fibroids are noncancerous growths in the uterus. They are very common (approximately 40% of women have them them). However, the presence of fibroids alone doesn’t necessarily cause infertility or predispose a woman to pregnancy loss. Fibroids that distort the uterine cavity have an impact on the ability of an embryo to implant and should be removed surgically. The impact of fibroids located elsewhere in the uterus are controversial and do not always require surgery. Male Infertility Factors
The most common female infertility factors include:
Obtructive azoospermia occurs when a man’s testes produce enough sperm, but there is a plumbing problem that prevents the sperm from traveling out of the testes and entering the ejaculate in the urethra/penis. Non-obstructive azoospermia is a set of disorders that cause a man to produce abnormal sperm. All of these disorders either decrease production or cause no sperm production at all. Oligospermia is a medical condition found in men, which is characterised by a low sperm count in their semen. To impregnate a woman, a healthy amount of sperm in a man's semen is usually necessary. Varicocele A varicocele is a common cause of male infertility, and can lead to low sperm production and decreased motility and quality. Similar to a varicose vein in the legs, blood pools within veins in the scrotum, resulting in swelling and dilation. | 4,565 | 1,922 | 10,778.340271 |
warc | 202143 | Tissue engineering has long-depended on geometrically static scaffolds seeded with cells in the lab to create new tissues and even organs. The scaffolding material — usually a biodegradable polymer structure — is supplied with cells, and the cells, if supplied with the right nutrients, then develop into tissue as the underlying scaffold biodegrades. But this model ignores the extraordinarily dynamic morphological processes that underlie the natural development of tissues.
Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago led by University of Illinois Cancer Center member Eben Alsberg have developed new 4D hydrogels — 3D materials that have the ability to change shape over time in response to stimuli — that can morph multiple times in a preprogrammed or on-demand manner in response to external trigger signals. | 848 | 478 | 1,463.598326 |
warc | 202143 | The Carceral Geographies Working Group and Advisory Board are pleased to announce the winner of our inaugural Undergraduate Dissertation Prize:
Georgia White (University of Nottingham) for “ ‘There’s a particular thing about the pregnancy ought to be and how it is for some women’: The experience of pregnancy for refugees and asylum-seekers in the UK.”
The selection panel was impressed with the dissertation’s nuanced methodological approach and theoretical sophistication, and especially with the originality of the topic and analysis. Not only did White complete an impressive dissertation during a difficult time, but they developed a careful, original approach to the carceral geographies of the UK asylum system that pushes current literature in novel directions. Congratulations, Georgia!
We wish to congratulate all nominees for producing excellent dissertations under very challenging circumstances. The selection panel was impressed by the depth and care with which these students treated their research, their engagement with carceral geography literatures, and the insights they drew from their rich empirical research. These dissertations presented us with the best of undergraduate research and the decision was a difficult one.
Dissertation abstract:
This paper looks at the challenges faced by pregnant refugee and asylum-seeking women in the UK, along with their ability to utilise social capital to build resilience to these. It discusses the findings of a qualitative study consisting of 17 interviews between 25 and 90 minutes with individuals who work with refugees and asylum-seekers in charitable organisations, which is supplemented with secondary data. The analysis discusses the challenges which participants identified among their clients along with the extent to which these can be resisted through vertical networks of charitable organisations and horizontal networks of friends and family. A theoretical framework is implemented with Bauman’s (2004) wasted lives used to understand the treatment of the state in terms of detention, dispersal and destitution. Galtung’s (1969) structural violence is then used to show how this implicates the health of individuals resulting in a pregnancy outcome whereby the actual realisation is far from the potential realisation. Finally, Putnam’s (1993) social capital is used to show the importance of charitable organisations along with strong kinship ties in improving access to antenatal care and experiences of pregnancy.
This concludes that research must more critically understand refugee and asylum-seeking experiences to appreciate their agency (Nguyen 2012). Whilst this research attempts to do this, there is a need to use creative methodologies which work alongside these individuals and form research outcomes that can educate healthcare providers, the general public and this group to have a significant effect on overcoming these challenges. Furthermore, although Putnam’s (1993) social capital is useful in enabling this agency to be recognised this framework does need some re-evaluation to recognise the negative implication that strong social capital can have on healthcare access. | 3,226 | 1,517 | 6,736.959789 |
warc | 202143 | Jaipur is one of the first planned city of northern India based on the principles of “Shilpa Shastra”, in fact “Jaipur clearly represents a dramatic departure from extant medieval cities with its ordered, grid-like structure – broad streets, criss-crossing at right anglese, earmarked sites for buildings, palaces, havelis, temples and gardens, neighbourhoods designated for caste and occupation” (UNESCO, 2015).
During the planning of the city, special attention was given to the water supply system. With half of the city surrounded by the hills, the city took advantage of various rain catchment areas that were available for storage direct response to local geophysical conditions.
The ruler built 16 miles long canals from the nearby river streams and brought water to the city through aqueducts, As the city grew with increased demand for water, a dam across the river of Dhravyavati was constructed in 1844 along with a canal which runs east to west of the city, wide enough for 5-7 horsemen to ride abreast. This covered canal would then distribute the water through various channels and wells across the city and open at some places for direct access. However, after the construction of the metalled roads and new pipe system of supply, the canal got buried within the markets and its deep walls got filled up.
Typology 1
These stepwells have direct access to the water storage reservoir through a series of steps. There is no presence of well and water sources from a natural spring.
Typology 2
This typology has steps on one side which lead down to a reservoir connected to a well. During the periods of monsoons, the rise in well water reaches the reservoir through openings in the wall which separates the well from the stepwell.
Typology 3
Similar to typology 2, but it has an added layer of single semi-open rooms or arcades which run along the walls of the stepwells.
Typology 4
With access steps on one side, surrounded by arcades or habitable rooms on others, these structures are mostly found near temples.
Typology 5
The fifth type has steps on all four sides which lead down to the water storage. There is no presence of a well and water is fed from natural spring. The form is essentially squared, forming a symmetrical elevation on all sides.
Water has a special significance in Hindu mythology, believed to be as a boundary between heaven and earth. For centuries, stepwells and stepped ponds, also known as Bavdis, Bawadis, Baolis or Vavs, have not just played a significant role in functioning as traditional water systems, serving the community through generations but also as hotspots of social, cultural and touristic interactions. “While various water structures such as tanks, cisterns, paved stairways along rivers (ghats) and cylindrical wells are found elsewhere in India, stepwells and stepped ponds are indigenous to semi-arid regions of Gujarat and Rajasthan” (Livingston & Beach, 2002).
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warc | 202143 | Consisting of 8 cities (Bell, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Maywood, South Gate and Vernon), and roughly 440,000 residents (90% identifying as Latinx), stretching along the 710 freeway, Southeast Los Angeles has been one of the hardest hit by COVID-19, as many of its residents being the essential workers of our region. Prior to COVID-19, Southeast LA has long faced environmental challenges, given its location adjacent to a major freeway; has had less access to green space than the rest of the county; and have less access to grocery stores and fresh produce. As South Gate Councilmember Denise Diaz has noted, “We are the doughnut hole of LA County. Funding tends to go to our neighboring cities and not here.”
Founded on the belief that “community problems must be solved by the community itself,” CivitasLA is pleased to be joined by Andy Carrasco, VP, SoCalGas and Emma Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer, of Southeast Community Development Corp. (SCDC) two civic leaders working to elevate the collective voice of the Southeast LA region. Hear how SCDC has continued to engage local stakeholders and funding sources to invest in the area and transform the region. To learn more about SCDC, please visit: https://www.scdcorp.org/about-us/history/. | 1,297 | 767 | 2,154.338983 |
warc | 202143 | How Heat Pumps Compare To Hydrogen Heating | Clade Blog
If we want to decarbonise our economy (which we do), then we have to decarbonise the way we heat our built environment.
In the effort to find ways to do this, policymakers have looked at various technologies, from biomass to solar to hydrogen gas to heat pumps. All of them have potential merits, but not all are viable or desirable. In order to validate whether a technology can truly aid our efforts to reach net zero by 2050, we need to consider three primary parameters:
-Availability. Is the technology going to be widely available quickly enough? We’re behind the pace if we want to decarbonise our energy supply, so we can’t go for a technology that is not yet fully ready, or does not work across different sizes and scales of buildings. -Cost. How difficult and costly will it be to deploy the technology widely enough to have the desired impact? -Effectiveness. How does it compare to what we have now, and will it truly aid us in reaching net zero?
Heat Pumps are at the heart of this debate. Any discussion about green heating and cooling will feature heat pumps prominently, and for leading experts and researchers they’re widely considered a ‘no brainer’ solution. Heat pumps are not new (they were first invented in the mid 19th century, and first deployed commercially in the mid 20th century) but due to improvement in the technology and in the renewable power supply, they are now an extremely viable way for us to heat our buildings efficiently, and with zero carbon emissions.
But there are alternatives, and foremost in terms of press coverage and policymaker discussion is hydrogen gas.
What is hydrogen heating?
When we talk about hydrogen in the context of green heating, we are essentially referring to burning hydrogen instead of methane in natural gas boilers.
The idea is rather than have to drastically change the way we build, as well as enhance the buildings we have, we put hydrogen through the existing system. Burning hydrogen does not release carbon into the atmosphere, provides instant heat, and because it comes from water it can essentially be considered ‘unlimited’.
How does hydrogen compare to heat pumps?
Hydrogen has been promoted heavily as the energy source of the future by lobbying interests (the major oil and gas companies). It’s found its way into public conversation, and into the UK government’s policy agenda, but its usefulness in hitting net zero is heavily disputed by UK climate scientists and energy experts. Let’s go back to our three parameters: availability, cost and effectiveness.
Availability. Hydrogen boilers are not currently commercially available, other than in small scale localised experiments like the H21 project in the North of England. A LOT of work would need to be done to make hydrogen heating a viable option – some of the current pipes and infrastructure are suitable but there would need to be significant network upgrades. We would need to increase network capacity because there is a lot less energy in hydrogen compared to methane, we would need to change the pressure management equipment in the system, and everyone would need a new gas meter, boiler and potentially internal piping. We would also need to build a huge amount of hydrogen production capacity, and plan for area-by-area complete switches from methane to hydrogen (you can’t just gradually change the supply from methane to hydrogen). That’s not to say installing heat pumps at the volume required will be easy – it will also be difficult and hugely resource-intensive. But so would hydrogen roll-out, and potentially more so. Cost. The most cost effective way of producing hydrogen, blue hydrogen, creates residual emissions. If we were aiming for an 80% reduction in carbon emissions, that wouldn’t matter so much. But we’re aiming for 100%, so those residual emissions simply won’t do. And there is currently no carbon emission-free method of producing hydrogen that is at all cost effective (more on this in the next section). What’s more, the costs of getting the network ready for hydrogen would be substantial. Analysis for the UK government done by Element Energy suggested that the cost to make the existing gas network suitable for hydrogen would be in the region of £22bn. All net-zero solutions will have short term costs associated with them, but hydrogen will cost more in the short and long term. Effectiveness. Okay. So we’ve established hydrogen deployment would be difficult and expensive. But the goal is saving the world – so how sustainable would hydrogen heating be? Would it be worth the cost?
The most common way of producing hydrogen is ‘blue hydrogen’. This process turns methane into hydrogen and ‘captures’ the waste carbon and stores it in the ground or under the sea. This process has problems associated with it – you still need to source methane, which would most likely be imported or fracked, and there are significant emissions associated with the production and transportation of methane. Once you have the methane, there are still residual emissions in the carbon capture process.
The alternative is ‘green hydrogen’. This is the process of passing electricity through water to split it. But that process is inefficient – one unit of electricity used to split the water produces around half a unit of hydrogen. Heat pumps are FAR more efficient, and the end result is you need about 6 times more energy from electricity for green hydrogen production than you do to run heat pumps. If we heat our homes with hydrogen produced this way it’s likely energy bills would double, triple or more. Plus, if we are trying to use only renewable electricity to split the water, we’d need six times the number of wind turbines or solar panels or or nuclear power stations than we would to power heat pumps.
Even in terms of emissions, hydrogen just can’t compete with heat pumps. Even if we were able to produce all the hydrogen needed using the ‘green hydrogen’ process, the inefficiency of the system and the carbon emissions in the electrical grid mean that any hydrogen boiler installed today would be responsible for 50% more carbon emissions than a conventional methane boiler. They wouldn’t drop to the same level as conventional boilers until 2030 at best.
That’s astonishing when you consider that heat pumps, right now, drop emissions by 75% when compared to conventional boilers. And they’ll only get better as the power grid becomes greener.
Conclusion
Heat pumps are the future and hydrogen isn’t. Hydrogen just can’t compete in terms of availability, cost or effectiveness. You might wag your finger and say ‘ you make heat pumps, you would say that’. Well, you don’t need to take our word for it. Jan Rosenow, Principal and Director of European Programmes at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), modelled the least cost pathway to net zero emissions in the heating sector, as you can see below. The main tools are heat pumps, district heating and energy savings.
Figure 1.
As you can see in the chart, widespread heat pump deployment, along with district heating networks and energy savings, would get us to net zero by 2050. But at the current rate of heat pump deployment it would take 700 years to hit net zero.
So, we need to invest in our future by building more heat pumps. Clade’s mission is to do our part to achieve a carbon neutral world, and that means heat pumps. You can read more about our heat pumps for commercial buildings or get in touch to talk to us directly. | 7,766 | 3,380 | 17,298.879882 |
warc | 202143 | November, 2019 now browsing by month How can state and federal agencies protect the United States borders while simultaneously protecting United States citizen freedoms?
Please use professional journals, reputable newspapers, books, government documents, interviews, magazines, internet, monographs, etc., but no encyclopedias. Do not simply copy from a friend, book, journal or internet. There is a strict plagiarism policy. Use references to support – or detract from – your own position. Use Times New Roman, 12 point, one inch margin all around, double spaced, 10 pages ( including bibliography & cover), 6 scholarly sources minimum. If you quote 5 lines or more, indent and single space. If less, put quotes around it and footnote – or bodynote – it. Choose MLA or APA citation format, indicate which format you are using on the cover page and stick to it throughout the paper. There are tons of help on the internet in this area. If you take an idea without quoting it exactly, it must still be attributed. Unless it’s common knowledge, such as “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” it must be attributed. Content – Main themes are identified and compared/contrasted with tremendous depth and completeness. All conclusions are supported by effective reasoning or through references to cited sources and assigned readings and class discussions. Writer provides Context for all new ideas that appear. Organization – Writing demonstrates a unified and consistent organization. The order and structure of the essay, paragraphs, and sentences are compelling and move the reader through the text easily to a logical conclusion. Convention – Grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and vocabulary usage are correct and appropriate for graduate level work. The tone is consistent and appropriate to the assignment. (Non-native English speakers may be given latitude here if pursuing ESL.)
Your goal is to produce a research proposal (with a bibliography) which provides clear evidence of your growing understanding of the field of cultural anthropology, its concepts and research methods. Clearly your work must show a scholarly familiarity within the discipline of cultural anthropology focusing on a specific area or set of issues of concern in a specific area of study. In following the course syllabus students should note that we are covering a variety of issues within anthropology which give rise to a number of questions ranging from the ethics of doing fieldwork around the globe, to understanding the lives of others within their own cultural contexts (cultural relativism). Students are asked to write a proposal within the topical areas listed on this handout. If you are passionate about other ideas come and see your Professor in office hours to discuss other options
The paper should be about the Great depression from its start and cause its recovery to the end. Please give an outline on the first page, for example, 1. introduction; 2, The causes of the great depression; 3, The light monetary policy: The drastic decline in Norminal money supply. In each section, you should at least include:The bank failures, New York stock exchange, the decline in autonomous, consumption and investments, The trade restrictions, import tariffs, Nationalism and economies, The collapse of the gold; (Recovery from the great depression): Exparoinary monetary policy Roosevelt, Exparisionary Fiscal policy, The New Deal, The restructure of banks, The creation of the FDIC; (The lesson to learn): The mixed economy socialism capitalism, Peace leads to prosperity, War leads to economic depression; (Conclusion): personal opinions.
To evaluate the students’ understanding of the arts produced along the African trade Routes To cultivate excellent research and essay writing skills Select an artifact from the Caravans of Gold exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum and discuss its significance as an example of the arts produced along the Trans African Trade Routes. How does the artifact exhibit multiple influences of the global network of trade? Place the art within a historical context and discuss how the artifact of your choice exemplifies the values, politics and other impacts of that particular time and place.
Describe how hip-hop culture has a negative impact on teens.We should divide the ranking of hip-hop culture. Like film and television works, different levels correspond to different groups of people.Can focus on the impact of hip hop music
1. Compare and contrast western and East Asian systems of law and justice 2. explain Confucian moral theory a practice explain the five constant virtues and the concept of ren 3. explain Confucian political economy and its lasting legacies 4. explain Confucian law 5. explain Confucian ritual theory 6. explain the characteristics of modernity and apply them to Confucian East Asia
Select 40 lines from the novel (Kafka on the Shore) that simplified the global issues and explain
A circle economy being a great was to solve the waste management problem. The paper should identify ideas that others feel would be a better solution and then explain why the circular economy is best.
Imagine you are an HR Manager and your boss has given you the project to conduct a 2-day intense training program for a group of (20) new manager-level employees at a large company here in Houston (you pick one). Then 2 managers per department have been hired…..(You must identify at least 10 different departments these managers will be reporting to and include their job titles). You need to prepare a proposal for the Vice-President of HR outlining your strategy for the 2-day training program. The interviewing and hiring is done, you need to onboard and train
Explain how the company started. Identify how long you have been in business. Identify the owner(s) of the business. Identify your management team. Explain what each will be doing for the company. | 5,982 | 2,874 | 12,301.189979 |
warc | 202143 | Yau Yue Commercial Bank Ltd (YY) of Hong Kong agreed to sell 140 packages of galvanised steel durzinc sheets to Herminio G Teves for USD 32,458.26. The agreement provided that: (a) the purchase price would be covered by a bank draft paid by Teves in exchange for the corresponding bill of lading to be deposited with a local bank, the Manila branch of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank; (b) upon arrival of the goods in Manila, Teves would be notified and would have to pay the amount called for in the draft, after which the bill of lading would be delivered to him; and (c) Teves would present the bill of lading to the carrier's agent, American Steamship Agencies Inc (American), which would then issue the corresponding permit to deliver imported articles to be presented to the Bureau of Customs to obtain the release of the articles.
YY shipped the goods through Tokyo Boeki Ltd at Yawata, Japan, on 30 April 1961, on the
SS Tensai Maru, belonging to Nissho Shipping Co Ltd, whose Philippines agent was American, under a bill of lading consigned 'to order of the shipper with Herminio G. Teves as the party to be notified of the arrival of the 140 packages of galvanized steel durzinc sheets in Manila'. The bill of lading was indorsed to the order of, and delivered to, YY by the shipper. YY drew a demand draft, together with the bill of lading, against Teves through the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. When the articles arrived in Manila on or about 9 May 1961, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank notified Teves of the arrival of the goods and requested payment of the demand draft. Teves, however, did not pay, prompting the bank to make a protest. The bank returned the bill of lading and demand draft to YY, which then indorsed the bill of lading to Domingo Ang.
Meanwhile, despite non-payment of the purchase price of the goods, Teves was able to obtain a bank guarantee in favour of American, to the effect that he would surrender the original and negotiable bill of lading duly indorsed by YY. On the strength of this guarantee, Teves succeeded in securing a permit to deliver imported articles from American, which he presented to the Bureau of Customs, which in turn released the goods to him. Subsequently, Ang claimed the goods from American by presenting the indorsed bill of lading, but was informed by American that it had already delivered the articles to Teves.
On 30 October 1963, Ang filed a complaint in the Court of First Instance of Manila against American for having wrongfully delivered and/or converted the goods covered by the bill of lading belonging to Ang. American filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that Ang's cause of action had prescribed under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA), more particularly s 3(6), which provides:
In any event, the carrier and the ship shall be discharged from all liability in respect to loss or damage unless suit is brought within one year, after delivery of the goods or the date when the goods should have been delivered.
American argued that the cargo should have been delivered to the person entitled to the delivery (meaning Ang) on 9 May 1961, the date of the vessel's arrival in Manila, and that even after allowing a reasonable time after such arrival within which to make delivery, the action commenced on 30 October 1963 was filed beyond the prescribed period of one year. The lower Court dismissed Ang's action on the ground of prescription. Ang appealed directly to this Court on a question of law: has Ang's cause of action prescribed under s 3(6) of COGSA?
Held: Appeal allowed. The decision of the lower Court is reversed and set aside and this case is remanded to the Court for further proceedings.
Section 3(6) speaks of 'loss or damage'. There was no damage caused to the goods, which were delivered intact to Teves, who did not file any notice of damage. What is to be resolved here is whether there was 'loss' of the goods. Nowhere is 'loss' defined in COGSA. Therefore, recourse must be had to the Civil Code, which provides in art 18 that: 'In matters which are governed by the Code of Commerce and special laws, their deficiency shall be supplied by the provisions of this Code.'
Article 1189 of the Civil Code defines the word 'loss' in cases where conditions have been imposed with the intention of suspending the efficacy of an obligation to give. The contract of carriage under consideration entered into between American and YY (which later endorsed the bill of lading to Ang), is one involving an obligation to give or to deliver the goods 'to the order of shipper', that is, upon the presentation and surrender of the bill of lading. This being so, art 1189 of the Civil Code can be applied to the present controversy, more specifically para 2 which provides that 'it is understood that a thing is lost when it perishes, or goes out of commerce, or disappears in such a way that its existence unknown or it cannot be recovered'.
As defined in the Civil Code and as applied to s 3(6) of COGSA, 'loss' contemplates merely a situation where no delivery at all was made by the shipper of the goods because they had perished, gone out of commerce, or disappeared such that their existence is unknown or they cannot be recovered. It does not include a situation where there was indeed delivery - but delivery to the wrong person, or a misdelivery, as alleged in this case. The distinction between non-delivery and misdelivery has reference to bills of lading. As this Court held in
Tan Pho v Hassamal Dalamal, 67 Phil 555, 557-558:
Considering that the bill of lading covering the goods in question has been made to order, which means that said goods cannot be delivered without previous payment of the value thereof, it is evident that, the said goods having been delivered to Aldeguer without paying the price of the same,
these facts constitute misdelivery and not nondelivery, because there was in fact delivery of merchandise. We do not believe it can be seriously and reasonably argued that what took place, as contended of by the petitioner, is a case of misdelivery with respect to Aldeguer and at the same time nondelivery with respect to the PNB who had the bill of lading, because the only thing to consider in this question is whether Enrique Aldeguer was entitled to get the merchandise or whether, on the contrary, the PNB is the one entitled thereto. Under the facts, the defendant petitioner should not have delivered the goods to Aldeguer but to the Philippine National Bank. Having made the delivery to Aldeguer, the delivery is a case of misdelivery. If the goods have been delivered, it cannot at the same time be said that they have not been delivered.
According to the bill of lading in this case, the carrier was under a duty not to deliver the merchandise mentioned in the bill of lading except upon presentation of the bill of lading duly endorsed by the shipper. (10 C.J., 259)
Hence, the defendant-petitioner Tan Pho having delivered the goods to Enrique Aldeguer without the presentation by the latter of the bill of lading duly endorsed to him by the shipper, the said defendant made a misdelivery and violated the bill of lading, because his duty was not only to transport the goods entrusted to him safely, but to deliver them to the person indicated in the bill of lading. [Emphasis added by the Court.]
Here, the goods cannot be deemed 'lost'. They were delivered to Teves, so that there can only be either delivery, if Teves really was entitled to receive them, or misdelivery, if he was not so entitled. It is not for this Court now to resolve whether delivery of the goods to Teves was proper, that is, whether there was rightful delivery or misdelivery. The point that matters here is that the situation is either delivery or misdelivery, but not non-delivery. Thus, the goods were either rightly delivered, or misdelivered, but they were not lost. There being no loss or damage to the goods, s 3(6) of COGSA does not apply. The reason is not difficult to see. The one-year period of limitation is designed to meet the exigencies of maritime hazards. In a case where the goods shipped were neither lost nor damaged in transit but were, on the contrary, delivered in port to someone who claimed to be entitled to them, the situation is different, and the special need for the short period of limitation in cases of loss or damage caused by maritime perils does not obtain.
It follows that for suits predicated, not upon loss or damage, but on alleged misdelivery (or conversion) of the goods, the applicable rule on prescription is that found in the Civil Code, namely, either 10 years for breach of a written contract or four years for quasi-delict: arts 1144(1), 1146 of the Civil Code. In either case, Ang's cause of action has not vet prescribed, since his right of action would have accrued at the earliest on 9 May 1961, when the ship arrived in Manila, and he filed suit on 30 October 1963. | 8,936 | 3,662 | 21,759.233206 |
warc | 202143 | India the worlds most preferred destination for world class healthcare delivery
Our health is undoubtedly the most important element of our lives and when it comes to ensuring the most renowned healthcare services, India comes out as the most sought-after destination. Read on to find out why.
World-class healthcare delivery - Our health is undoubtedly the most important element of our lives and when it comes to ensuring the most renowned healthcare services, India comes out as the most sought-after destination. Read on to find out why.
In today’s
Among various industries of India, the medical tourism industry in the nation has shown some excellent signs of growth in recent times. Medical tourism is all set to become the next big foreign exchange aggregator for the country due to an increasing influx of foreign patients. Medical tourism, which is thought to be the next driver for Indian healthcare growth, is considered as one of the rapidly growing sections in marketing ‘Destination India’ at present. India with next-gen healthcare services combined with superior levels of compassion has become a paradise for medical tourists.
The success of medical tourism in India can be understood from the fact that the country has transformed itself into a medical outsourcing agent where subcontractors are providing services to the heavily-loaded healthcare systems in western countries.
The foremost reason for India’s emergence as a preferred destination is the intrinsic advantage of its healthcare amenities. Today Indian healthcare is professed to be on par with worldwide standards. Some of the top Indian hospitals and doctors have a strong international reputation. But the most crucial aspect that brings medical tourism to India is its low-cost advantage and chivalrous services.
According to a recent study done by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), India is unique in itself as it offers all-inclusive medicinal services. With a wide range of services around the concepts like yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, allopathy, and other disciplines of medicines, India offers a distinctive pool of services to a person that is hard to match by other destinations.
Besides, clinical results in India are at par with the world’s best avenues, along with having globally certified and experienced medical experts.
As per a report with the title ‘India: Building Best Practices in Healthcare Services Globally 2019’, the country is considered one of the most preferred destinations for MVT, holding the fifth position among 41 major medical tourism destinations as per Medical Tourism Index Overall ranking, 2016.
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Kolkata are the most sought after destination cities for medical travelers coming to India. Around 27 percent of India's medical tourists move to Maharashtra, out of which 80 percent go to Mumbai. Chennai gets almost 15 percent of the influx of foreign patients while Kerala manages around 5 percent to 7 percent.
According to the latest report, India welcomes nearly 5 lakh medical value travelers every year from various source countries. Major markets for India are the South-East Asian nations, the Middle-East, Africa and SAARC countries. Over 50 percent of medical travelers coming into India are from Bangladesh.
# Why India is the best choice?
Reasonable treatment cost of treatment is a major aspect that gives India an edge in the list of destination cities among medical travelers. In comparison to medical care and treatment in the Western nations, patients can choose to save up to as much as 50 percent. For a foreign patient needing treatment in India, regular travel costs would account for around $31, as compared to the $223 in the US, a whopping saving!
India has almost 38 hospitals certified by the Joint Commission International (JCI), which is thought to be a top-rated authority on global health care practices. It also has 619 hospitals qualified by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH). Moreover, the post-operative mortality rate in India is nearly 1.4 percent as compared to 1.9 percent in places like the US.
In addition to the given factors, India has a wide range of tourist attractions, thereby promoting medical-related travel. It, therefore, gives a package that encompasses quality healthcare services, combined with the option to discover a large number of tourist attractions across the nation. | 4,505 | 1,983 | 10,116.371659 |
warc | 202143 | The American public has expressed mounting disillusionment with the nation’s institutions for years — and that pessimism now appears to extend to the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to a new Gallup poll, just 4 in 10 Americans say they approve of the nation’s highest court, which represents the lowest rating on record. Poll reveals downward trend
Over the course of the more than two decades that Gallup has tracked the number, approval of the court has had plenty of ups and downs.
The latest result represents a dramatic shift from just a year ago, however, when 58% of respondents said they approved. That was just a few points off of the highest point ever — 62% as recorded in 2000. Even as recently as July, Supreme Court approval stood at 49%.
As for the cause of the recent dip, it likely stems at least in part from the ire of progressives upset over the conservative majority’s decision to allow a strict abortion ban in Texas to remain in place. The Gallup survey was taken a short time after that ruling was handed down.
Approval dipped to nearly the same depths once during the George W. Bush administration and two times during the Obama years.
While partisan rifts continue to widen in most aspects of American life, the Supreme Court has generally remained above the fray. Gallup’s results, however, suggest that might be changing.
Partisan divisions
The public appears to be growing more cynical regarding the court, seeing justices more as a type of unaccountable policymaking body rather than impartial interpreters of the Constitution.
Court-related battles in recent years have apparently taken their toll on its reputation. Political divisions erupted ahead of the confirmation of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, both of whom were nominated by former President Donald Trump.
More recently, liberals unhappy with the conservative-leaning court have threatened to add additional seats to the bench in an effort to restore an ideological balance.
The Gallup poll found that 37% of respondents said the court is too conservative, compared to 40% who said the makeup is about right and 20% who believed it is too liberal.
Despite Trump’s ability to appoint three justices to the court, some conservatives have expressed disappointment over decisions they found more moderate than expected. | 2,371 | 1,226 | 4,490.588907 |
warc | 202143 | The date was October 15, 2016 – exactly 48 hours from
Anty Dayo’s 51 st birthday. The venue was Bolingo Hotel and Towers, Central Business District, Abuja. The event was the 3 rd Motivators International Youth Organization Annual Conference. And I was there. Live! comes up next. For now, glean the following 12 lessons from her profound wisdom … Who is Anty Dayo? Beautiful = Be-you-to-the-full
A second look at the word
beautiful reveals that it is actually be-you-to-the-full. This revelation is striking, especially in a world where people seek beauty in cosmetics and cosmetic surgery. The best that can be got from beauty products and care is ‘agreeable or pleasant looks.’ But beauty calls for more. It demands that you be original and authentic. It insists that you explore your potentials to the fullest. It requests that you devote your time and energy to the mastery of your craft and the perfection of your art. The beautiful one is the genuinely attractive one. Create a legacy
Since we’re sojourners here on earth, the best we can do for ourselves, the human community and Mother Earth, is to leave a legacy – footprints on the sands of time. With this, generations yet unborn will know we were here once upon a time. However, legacy is not a chance occurrence; it is created. How? Simple:
give yourself to every single thing you do. Make it singular, make it distinctive
Since Jack of all trades is usually a master of none, make it singular; choose one thing. Just one! And then deplore all your talents, creativity, uniqueness, originality, and authenticity into it. That is, make it distinctive. Make yourself into your own brand. It may not be better than the rest, but it will be astonishingly and breathtakingly different from the rest. Leave a signature of excellence in whatever you do. This is a duty you especially owe yourself.
Celebrate your teachers
The human mind at birth, contends John Locke, is a tabula rasa upon which nothing is written. Then, whence comes all our knowledge? Our teachers! Beginning from the informal to the formal teachers, we owe all else to them. And so we must celebrate them. Always. This is right and just, especially those teachers who singled us out and pushed us into the incredible people we’re today.
Excellence is not there; it’s in you
Schooling abroad is good, but that’s not where excellence is resident. Excellence lives in you – and in all of us. There are people who entirely schooled here [Nigeria] and turned out into some of the bests the world over. How did that happen? They took it upon themselves to become global citizens; they resolved to leave a dent on the planet.
If you believe it enough…
The measure of believe is important. You have to believe it enough to achieve it – whatever! In medicine, only the prescribed dosage will effect the needed cure. While overdose may send one to the grave, ‘underdose’ will not get the job done. In the same way, believe has to be ‘enough’ – not less than that. Wondering if there is ‘over-believe’? Of course. We call them fanatics. The point is:
if you believe it enough, you can have it more than enough. The greatest tragedy of any opportunity is that you missed it
So, prepare. Someone said it best, “I will prepare and wait, my time will come.” Adequate preparation and proper positioning will ensure that you embrace every opportunity that comes to town. Opportunity, they say, comes but ones. This is hardly true. But the greatest tragedy of any opportunity, which should give you cause for concern, is that you missed it.
Never sit on the sideline
Never be undecided. Never sit on the fence. Don’t drown your inner voice; speak out. Don’t submerge yourself in the crowd. Don’t align with the backbenchers. Always dare to stand up to stand out. Take a position and stand by it.
A good name is better than all else
The Bible particularly says that it (good name) is better than silver and gold, and to be desired than riches. In a materialistic and consumerist society such as ours, many people have traded their good names for fat bank accounts, and will do it over and again if given a second chance. This must not apply to you. The very first legacy everyone gets to leave is their name. Ask yourself: What readily comes to mind at the mention of my name – good person or bad person? If bad person, then today is a good day to start redeeming that name.
Not demons, but decisions
The eventual outcome of our life is the sum total of the decisions we’ve made. Ours is a society where the devil takes all the blame and absolves the actor of all responsibilities. You must take exception to that. Truth be told, quality decisions make for a quality life. Why not take your time to ensure that you make sound judgments and decide correctly. And if your decision backfires, keep the accusing finger at the face in the mirror and not the devil and his demons.
Obliterate every negative trait
Give it a chance and it will gun for chances; leave it a foothold and it will assume a stronghold. And that’s how it works! The way out is this: obliterate every negative trait. Crush every bad habit to the finish. Better still, nip it in the bud.
Get yourself a coach
The farthest you can go alone is ‘far.’ Alone you can’t go ‘very far.’ If you aspire to go very far, then a coach has got to step in, to especially help you refine your content and get you set for world class exploit. Remember that world best athletes and Olympic champions still use the services of coaches. If they do, what makes you think you don’t? | 5,731 | 2,757 | 11,505.652884 |
warc | 202143 | Preparing for fireplace installation in your home? You should at least consider a zero-clearance fireplace. This is a type of premanufactured fireplace that can be installed against or close to other combustible materials.
Here’s a look at some of the benefits of having a zero-clearance fireplace in your home:
No buffer needed:With a zero-clearance fireplace, there’s no need for a buffer zone. This means you can fit the fireplace into a more compact space than many other types of heating units, providing you with some more versatility for how you will create your layout in your room. Lower costs:Zero-clearance fireplaces do not need any masonry work to protect combustible materials from the heat of the fireplace. This results in significantly lowered costs of installation, as masonry work is often one of the largest expenses associated with such a project. Efficient:Most of the warmth created by a traditional, open masonry fireplace will exit the house through the chimney. Zero-clearance fireplaces are designed to be much more efficient, with as much as 70 percent of the heat remaining in the home. This means they’re more than just aesthetically pleasing—they’ve also got functional benefits. Versatility:Because these types of fireplaces are premanufactured and well insulated, with no clearance needed, they can be used in just about any environment. Mobile homes, for example, can have these fireplaces installed when a traditional fireplace would not be an option. If your home was built without a fireplace, you don’t need to worry about adding nearly as much infrastructure to get the fireplace installed. Sometimes all you need are pipes for air ventilation coming out the back of the unit. Options:There are a wide range of options for you to choose from—different models, sizes and styles. This means you can find a fireplace that will perfectly complement the décor and architecture of your home and give you the look you need. You can always find a fireplace in the right size and shape for any room of your home. Low maintenance:Zero-clearance fireplaces require little in the way of maintenance and are quite easy to operate. This cuts down on the amount of work associated with using the fireplace. Other types of fireplaces require regular cleaning and inspection to ensure their long-term safety. Fuel options:There are many different types of fuel that can be used in zero-clearance fireplaces, allowing you to take your pick. Examples include natural gas, wood logs and wood pellets. You can even choose zero-clearance fireplaces powered by electricity.
These are just a few examples of some of the main benefits associated with zero-clearance fireplaces. If you’re interested in learning more about this option or about the various other fireplace options available to you when you’re planning a new installation, we encourage you to contact the team at Custom Fire Art. We’d be happy to answer any questions you have about our services and our capabilities when it comes to creating custom fire features for your home.
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warc | 202143 | With the outbreak of COVID-19 coupled with a reduction in face-to-face interactions, call centers have gained an immense amount of importance. Calls from customers have shown a steep rise during the pandemic. Let’s elucidate on the motive and ingredients of a call center.
What is a Call Center?
A
kuttekeskus is a department or a business that welcomes inbound and outbound calls. They have become a renowned way of serving customers specifically with automated prompts called Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems on calls wherein a person is asked to press 0 for this, 2 for that, etc. They were designed initially to handle voice calls being made out of or coming in the centers.
Call Center: Structure and Functions of the Team
Call centers are designed with respect to the key functions of a responsive and well-organized team. Hence having an effective Call Center team is very crucial. Hereafter explained briefly are the usual functions performed by the team members of a
kuttekeskus: Contact Center Team Leader:
Required to handle escalations from agents that they were unable to solve themselves.
Contact Center Agent:
Doing outbound calls or answering calls coming from the customers.
Quality Management Team:
Preparing scorecards, monitoring every interaction, recommending corrective actions and agent training, etc.
Contact Center Manager:
Responsible for the contact center’s overall management.
Management Information System Team:
Responsible for preparing performance reports (Daily, monthly, and yearly), call volume reports, dashboards, etc.
Workforce Management Lead:
Preparing holidays and leave bookings, staff schedules, etc.
“Be loud; thousands of them are there to help you out. “ Thousands of companies over the world put their faith today in an operational call center to answer calls from their customers or to tell them to make profits. It is a responsive system that must be tried to interact effectively. | 1,979 | 1,002 | 3,829.621756 |
warc | 202143 | Top Quality Dental Care for free dental care in Seminole, FL. Phone 727-639-7078 We are an expert team of professionals providing individual attention and premium service. Teeth Cleaning Teeth Whitening Tooth Extraction Get in touch with us today 727-639-7078 Why should you pick us?
At Dental Care Consulting in Seminole, FL our group will help guide you through all your dental care programs. We can also deliver urgent dental treatment to make sure that your smile problems are fulfilled swiftly throughout our daily business hours.
In the case of an urgent situation, you will certainly have confidence that specialists are assisting you promptly and skillfully. 727-639-7078 We are devoted to making sure you are taken care of at all times. Below is a little overview of the services we offer to help you comprehend exactly what our company provides and what we are able to do for you and your teeth. We Love To Welcome New Patients Allow us to help you smile! Services We Offer From effortless teeth cleaning to the more intrusive tooth extraction, our clinic has the ability to work with all your dental requirements. Look below for a concise explanation of just some of our professional services here at Dental Care Consulting. Teeth Cleaning
The core area of oral care. Teeth cleaning is an easy, pain-free method to keep your teeth healthy.
Teeth Whitening
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Pediatric Dentistry
Commencing oral care young ensures excellent brushing and flossing practices and can serve to help keep smiles strong for life.
X-Rays
X-rays really help us observe the interior working of your mouth and gum tissues. Amongst the most valuable and essential devices in the oral industry.
Filling Cavities
Filling cavities is an useful, straightforward treatment performed to revive teeth harmed by decay so it may go back to its normal shape and purpose.
Our paramount purpose is to make sure every single individual, big or small has a healthy smile. From babies to our seniors and everyone between, we here at Dental Care Consulting want to make sure you are able to smile for a many years to come. By finding complications early and treating them quicker, we help avoid significant health problems in individuals of all ages. FAQ
It has been the overall consensus for years now that people should receive a checkup every six months. That will fluctuate though depending upon the health and wellness of your teeth. Some folks with excellent brushing and flossing routines may not have to come in as frequently, and others could need to come in far more frequently.
As a result of dental x-ray innovation we can see the overall health of your teeth and gum tissues internally. These x-rays permit us to view the inside of your teeth which allows us analyze exactly what form of dental care you require. That being said, kids often need more regular x-rays as their teeth are much smaller and it is a lot easier to get tooth cavities between their small teeth, but it is essential for all ages.
This is generally done by a dental hygienist just before seeing the dentist and is the process of scaling, debriding and also polishing the teeth. Many different tools are utilized throughout a professional cleaning to loosen up and eliminate cavity enducing plaque build-up and allow the hygienist to get to and clear locations you are not able to carry out at home. It is not an unpleasant process whatsoever and will certainly leave your teeth feeling awesome.
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More Information About Seminole, FL
Seminole is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The population was 17,233 at the 2010 census,[5] up from 10,890 in 2000. St. Petersburg College has a campus in the city.
We Can Also Connect You With Reputable Dental Services In These Cities One Step-by-Step Self-help guide to Choosing a Reliable Dentist with your City 1) Does the dentist worry about your overall health?
Throughout the initial consultation, you should observe if the dentist is concerned about your whole body health rather than just your teeth. Your dental health has a significant affect on the rest of your body. A respected dentist takes the time to inquire regarding your health past and educate yourself on how your gums and teeth affect other regions of the body.
2) Is definitely the dentist part of a specialist organization?
It’s always a plus when you work with a dentist who is associated with a specialist organization. These organizations may have members worldwide, and all are held for the same standard. They share valuable knowledge particularly in the latest methods in dental treatment. Many organizations also focus on offering education courses to help the abilities and knowledge of their members. Don’t hesitate to ask what organization the dentist is owned by and seek information regarding it.
3) Where does your insurance provider point you?
Many individuals pick a dentist depending on what their insurance carrier tells them. Of course, this is an make an attempt to save all the money as possible. There are cases, however, by which you really should choose a different dentist, specifically if you need specialized care. It is possible to ask your enterprise whether you possess an from network option. This reveals more opportunities for choosing the right dentist to suit your needs while still saving money.
4) Ask recommendation from family, friends, and workmates
Word-of-mouth works wonders when choosing products, but it can also be applied when evaluating a dentist with your city. Ask your friend, members of the family, and colleagues for recommendations. There’s a high probability that they’ve already worked with an established dentist. Just be sure how the dentist they may have dealt with focuses on the kind of service you will need. This is probably the guidelines on how to instantly define your list.
5) Check out the dentist online
The best dentists will often have some measure of online presence. As an alternative to flipping from the phone book, go online and discover how many other individuals have to say concerning the dentist. Keep in mind, though, that does not all reviews might be trusted. Some are only manufactured, so make sure to use reliable sources. A great indication of an authentic review is when it goes into information regarding the precise dental procedures performed by the dentist. This is similar to getting recommendations from people you understand, however it offers the main benefit of getting good feedback from past clients.
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warc | 202143 | NTT Ltd. released recently the 2021 edition of the Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report (GCXBR), its highly influential annual survey assessing the global state of play for CX. Now in its 24th year, the latest GCXBR arrives at an important juncture to help organisations calibrate their rapid adoption of customer experience (CX) technology, revealing a significant gap in perceptions between organisations and consumers.
This year, NTT interviewed 1,359 professionals across 34 global markets and 14 different sectors. For the first time, the research also included a voice of the customer (VoC) survey, supplementing evidence from professionals with opinion from a consumer panel of 1,402 respondents.
Resounding Positive Signs for CX
In the context of a disrupted CX environment, responsibility for CX has been elevated to a significantly more senior level and confidence in CX has followed suit:
75% of organisations now have ultimate accountability for CX held at the board level, up from 35% in 2020. The rate of organisations with ‘well advanced’ or ‘complete’ CX strategies has more than doubled to 71%, up from 28% in 2020. The rate of organisations reporting being ‘very satisfied’ with their CX has risen to 45%, up from 10% in 2020.
Organisations now expect that the majority of CX will be automated in 12 months’ time, with workloads handled by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics rising to 51% from 32% today, and over a fifth of interviewees reporting that their use of AI or robotics is delivering beyond expectations.
Keeping Track of Consumer Perception
Tellingly, the positive outlook from the industry was only partially echoed by the new VoC survey. Encouragingly, 87% are happy to continue using digital channels at the increased levels triggered by the pandemic, while 38% said that the quality of automated CX systems had improved over the course of the pandemic.
In other areas, the research found warning signs about the amount of progress yet to be made to fully meet consumer expectations:
52% of consumers report digital channels failing them due to limited capabilities or services. 44% experience failures due to digital channels misunderstanding their queries. Just 35% say they are ‘very satisfied’ with automated CX solutions.
With forecasts for next year showing high rates of organisations expecting to have implemented voice-activated AI assistants (52%), robotic process automation (48%), web-based AI assistants (45%) and other new technologies, these developments hold a lot of potential for businesses to differentiate themselves by more effectively solving customers’ challenges.
“The addition of VoC data this year has shone a spotlight on a really interesting situation”, said Rob Allman, Vice President, Customer Experience at NTT Ltd. “It’s allowed us to spot a potentially growing disparity between how businesses assess their own performance and how consumers perceive CX. The fruition of new technology in the CX space is exciting, but the ultimate focus always needs to be on people”.
The Need for the Human Touch
When asked about human-led support, 94% of CX decision-makers agreed that it remains critical, but less than half agreed that they have the technology in place to fully support remote CX employees. Meanwhile, 38% in the VoC panel stated that their biggest reason for avoiding digital channels is that they would rather speak to a human.
“Of course, technology has always augmented human capabilities”, concludes Allman. “This year, the key message of the GCXBR is to empower customers and employees through the use of data and AI-driven technology. People need to be at the center of any CX strategy, with technology in the service of superior customer and employee experiences that create value”.
Further details of the research, together with an in-depth analysis and recommendations for industry, can be found in the 2021 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report.
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warc | 202143 | B2B sales and marketing leaders must evaluate adopt 5 new B2B strategies to achieve their goals:
Provide commercial insight
The Challenger ™ marketing model challenges traditional models to align marketing and sales, creating collaborative marketing strategies and sales that create cohesive and refined customer trips without termination of marketing and sales.
The Challenger ™ model combines the marketing and sales team to increase the efforts of both teams and provide insight at all touch points, both human and digital. Building a cohesive strategy between the two teams not only helps produce quality directives, but move customers through the buyer’s stage that produces brand loyalty and increased income.
Collaboration between B2B Sales and Marketing
We all know communication is the key to improving any relationship in your life; That’s right while communicating with your marketing team and sales. Consistent communication between the two teams is needed not to only produce quality leads, but to provide valuable insights throughout the buyer’s journey.
“No matter how the CRM industry develops, getting a sales and marketing team for Sinergize is the number one goal. Every success grows from their collaboration and exchange ideas, because you cannot serve customers correctly when the best people work blind.”
Marshall Lager.
Encouraging tin alignment sessions around customer travel with marketing and sales leaders will help produce high-quality directives and maximize income growth.
B2B sales and marketing platform joins
The most effective way to integrate marketing and sales teams is to utilize the platform that connects leading leading with sales opportunities. More specifically, a platform that captures marketing leading with campaign sources and then smoothly, qualifying, and reminding representatives of appropriate business development. By integrating and configuring your marketing automation and CRM platforms, marketing and sales teams can provide customer experience at every touch point along the road.
Maintain synchronous lead with buyer’s journey
When the B2B sales and marketing strategy deals with customer expectations when they travel buyers, there is a larger volume of quality leads that will run from the awareness to buy.
However, when there is a gap between these teams, there is a termination and usually generates lost income. For example, “Leads originating from online marketing material is closed around 25% of the time, and the lead coming from sales – without the help of marketing – close at a 1.5% level”. When traditional sales funnel are exchanged for sales and marketing travel, there is room to improve the prospects of ready sales.
Consistent purpose & metrics
Without a clear and joint purpose defined, the most challenging alignment. Required commitment to collaboration, defines shared goals and needed hard work.
Start with how you will define and measure:
Score inbound
Marketing Lead Qualification (MQL) Sequencing human and digital touch points Level of service to respond to the lead Marketing contribution to close Won Opportunities Understanding changes in the journey of buyers and how to adjust B2B’s sales and marketing strategies is very important to develop in our constant interference world. | 3,358 | 1,543 | 7,122.964355 |
warc | 202143 | Polio was once a disease feared worldwide, striking suddenly and paralyzing mainly children for life. Rotary is a partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the largest private-public partnership for health, which has reduced polio by 99%. Polio now survives only among the world's poorest and most marginalized communities, where it stalks the most vulnerable children. Our goal is to eradicate polio from the world. Here are ten facts about polio. 1. Polio continues to paralyze children. While polio is a distant memory in most of the world, the disease still exists in the wild in Afghanistan and Pakistan, usually affecting children under five. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Among those paralyzed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio . This year, since January, there have been only two cases of wild polio in the world - one each in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 2. We are 99% of the way to eradicating polio globally. In 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was formed, polio paralyzed more than 350,000 people a year. Since that time, polio case numbers have decreased by more than 99%. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 3. There are now just two countries which have never stopped transmission of polio. The two countries are Afghanistan, and Pakistan. They face a range of challenges such as insecurity, weak health systems and poor sanitation. Polio can spread from these 'endemic' countries to infect children in other countries with less-than-adequate vaccination. This year, since January, there have been only two cases of wild polio in the world - one each in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 4. Unlike most diseases, polio can be completely eradicated. There are three strains of wild poliovirus, none of which can survive for long periods outside of the human body. If the virus cannot find an unvaccinated person to infect, it will die out. Type 2 wild poliovirus was eradicated in 1999. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 5. Cheap and effective vaccines are available to prevent polio. There are two forms of vaccine available to ward off polio - oral polio vaccine (OPV) and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Because OPV is an oral vaccine, it can be administered by anyone, even volunteers. One dose of OPV can cost as little as 11 US cents. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 6. The global effort to eradicate polio is the largest public-private partnership for public health. In fact, it is the largest-ever peacetime mobilization of people. It involves four spearheading partner organizations (the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF, polio-affected and donor governments, private foundations, development banks, humanitarian and non-governmental organizations, corporate partners and more than 20 million volunteers. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 7. Large-scale vaccination rounds help rapidly boost immunity. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative assists countries in carrying out surveillance for polio and large-scale vaccination rounds. In just one round of the national immunization days in India there are 640 000 vaccination booths, 2.3 million vaccinators, 200 million doses of vaccine, 6.3 million ice packs, 191 million homes visited and 172 million children immunized. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 8. Every child must be vaccinated to eradicate polio. This includes those living in the most remote and/or underserved places on the planet. 'Days of Tranquility' are negotiated so that vaccination teams can reach children living in conflict zones. All manner of transport is used – from donkeys to motorbikes to helicopters – to reach children in remote areas or difficult terrain. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 9. Polio-funded staff, strategies and resources are also used to advance other health initiatives. Strategies to find and map every child can be applied to other public health initiatives. While a vaccination team is in a remote village, they can, for little additional cost, provide other health interventions while they are there. For example, vitamin A has been given alongside polio campaigns. Since vitamin A gives a general boost to immunity, it allows children to fend off a range of infections, thus averting more than 1.2 million deaths. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio 10. The WHO Western Pacific Region was declared polio free in 2000, WHO European Region in 2002, India in 2014, and Africa in 2020. The world could soon be freed of the threat of polio - with everyone's commitment, from parent to government worker and political leader to the international community. Find out more, here: Home | End Polio.
In 2020, the GPEI launched a revision of the strategy for polio eradication. The new strategy, which will take effect in January, 2020, is called
Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026: Delivering on a Promise.
Partners and stakeholders collectively identified remaining obstacles to polio eradication, in order to inform a revised and strengthened plan. They then developed optimal approaches to reaching the goal, adapted to the global health context and based on lessons learned.
The strengthened plan aims to achieve and sustain a polio-free world through a focus on implementation and accountability. Emphasis will be on cutting outbreak response times; increasing vaccine demand; transforming campaign effectiveness; working systematically through integration; increasing access in inaccessible areas; transitioning towards government ownership; and improving decision-making and accountability.
Many of the new tactics and strengthened approaches outlined in this plan are already operational, and the plan will officially replace the current Polio Endgame Strategy in January 2022.
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warc | 202143 | An optical device is a device that uses light waves to manipulate and analyze objects, either for viewing or for research and study. Typical examples include optical microscopes, binoculars, cameras, and computers. Optical devices are used in many scientific disciplines and research such as biomedical, astronomy, chemistry, and physics. However, optical devices are also used in other areas as well such as art and electronics. Many of the typical optical devices are used in conjunction with one another. For example, an optical microscope is often used in conjunction with an optical device that produces images from the light that has been passed through a sample.
Optical technology deals with using light from an optical source in a highly reflective and electromagnetic environment called an optical medium. There are different forms of optical technology. One example is through laser light which passes through a fiber optic cable to a mirror. The mirror acts as a lens, which enables images to be seen by the eye through the fiber optic cable. This is very similar to the way that our eyes view objects when we look at them through the eye; the light passes through a thin membrane called the cornea of the eye and passes through the pupil into the lens.
One form of optical device which is commonly used is a pinhole camera. The pinhole camera projects an image onto a surface depending on the optical path. The image is projected by the eye onto a digital display screen. In the past, this type of device was used to create a black and white film that was viewed by a person. Today, the use of pinhole cameras is often applied to improve the quality of a computer’s display. These digital displays are often referred to as “LCD” displays.
Another optical device that is used in the field is the eyepiece lens system. An eyepiece lens system projects an image onto a sphere depending on the optical path. The optical lens system projects an image through the eye to form the desired optical reading. This type of optical device may not offer the best visual acuity but it can provide an effective method for improving the visual acuity of the display.
An optical prism is another common optical device used in the field of vision correction. The optical prism consists of a single image plane, which is passed through a very small hole. When this type of optical device is used, there are two possible outcomes. One outcome is that the image that is passed through the hole is blurred because the hole is so small. The other outcome is that the image that is passed through the hole appears sharp because the hole is so large. The optical prism has been found to be most useful when used with lenses that correct nearsightedness or farsightedness; therefore, it is often used together with eyeglasses in order to correct these problems.
One of the most commonly used optical devices is the electromagnetic radiation analyzer. Many medical imaging devices use the electromagnetic radiation analyzer to determine the extent to which an image has been compromised by exposure to radiation that was emitted from an external source. The most common sources of electromagnetic radiation are x-rays and gamma rays. Another type of electromagnetic radiation analyzer is the Emitting Diode Analyzer (EDA). A doctor may also use an EDA when it is necessary to evaluate the level of electromagnetic radiation in a patient’s blood. | 3,458 | 1,450 | 8,182.343448 |
warc | 202143 | Laws shuts regulating loopholes, caps finance interest rates, and supplies sessions other claims
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This concise analyse exactly how Virginia reformed its legislation to create a much more modern-day, brilliant, and consumer-friendly small-loan market. Virginias victory offers replicable coaching for policymakers some other reports struggling with high-cost, expensive loans. A related concept page summarizes key elements on the guidelines.
Introduction
After years of legal initiatives to foster a safe and feasible market for little lending products, Virginia lawmakers in 2020 passed bipartisan legislation—the equity in loaning work (S.B. 421/H.B. 789)—to prohibit funding with huge last obligations, known as balloon money, and reduce cost. Regulations rationalizes just what were a disparate regulatory structure, regulated by a patchwork of statutes that helped pay check and vehicle subject financing with unaffordable charges and unjustifiably big bills, and uncovered debtors to monetary damage, including repetitive borrowing from the bank and large charge of auto repossession. Previous investigation by The Pew charity Trusts showed that ahead of the reforms, employers consistently billed Virginians thrice much more than subscribers in lower-cost countries. 1
Virginia lawmakers stabilized concerns about the availability of small-dollar loans by using the situation of ending unsafe credit ways, challenging that officials in other countries do have struggled with. Virginias evidence-based tactic builds on profitable reforms before passed in Colorado and Ohio that kept widespread use of financing and measurably enhanced customers issues by finalizing loopholes, modernizing out-of-date statutes, and prohibiting inflate obligations. Legislators created the operate to reflect three crucial tenets of liable loaning: reasonably priced payments, reasonable rates, and reasonable time to pay. 2
Pews study belonging to the act established that, under the guidelines, lenders can beneficially provide affordable payment personal loans with architectural precautions, keeping the average buyer a lot of money in fees and fees with probable complete market discount exceeding one hundred dollars million every year. (Notice Dining Table 1.) This concise analyse how Virginia rebuilt its rules to get a far more contemporary, vibrant, and consumer-friendly small-loan market place. Virginias successes offers replicable course for policymakers some other claims struggling with high-cost, unmanageable financing.
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Virginias Small-Credit Evaluation Results In Noticeable Customers Discounts
Finance tips from pre and post change
Information: Pew investigation of market records; Virginia comeliness in financing function (2020), lis.virginia/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1258
2020 The Pew Charity Trusts
The issue: Outdated law permitted rude tactics, prevented less risky, lower-cost credit
Virginia had been surely 35 reports that granted payday advance loans and the other of 22 that allowable high-cost vehicle subject personal loans secured by a customers means, financial products that supply largely to people with stressed credit ratings who are in need of let having to pay standard expenditures or costs. However, these financing options need well-documented problems, such as excessive charges, unreasonably small compensation provisions, and unaffordable funds that consume a lot of consumers earnings they must continually re-borrow or exposure shedding the company’s autos and the finances as part of the evaluating accounts. 3 as stated by regulatory facts, the average name loan of $1,116 requested an overall compensation in excess of $2,700 over year. 4
Virginia, like many says, have a patchwork of market financing statutes which had been introduced or changed at differing times. This piecemeal tactic developed an uneven competitive marketplace for loan providers and meant that high-cost credit score rating maybe issued as stated in any one of four statutes, properly during the financial institutions prudence. (read Table 2.) lots of pay check and name lenders granted open-end money, which in fact have limitless compensation consideration like credit cards, at yearly fraction charge (APRs) of 299percent or more. Moreover, the states account work company Act consisted of words that high-cost lenders have got relied on to justify recharging brokerage charge that if not staying prohibited under say monthly interest hats. Furnished Vermont auto title loans Virginias range of inconsistent laws, revising just one at once probably would not are adequate to guard clientele; creditors could have been in a position to basically switch to working under another law.
On the other hand, Virginias outdated plans managed to get extremely hard or unprofitable for lower-cost creditors, particularly non-bank installment loan providers and economic technologies businesses, to offer you reasonably priced small-dollar payment personal loans and compete into the commonwealth with typical pay check and name financial institutions. 5 Case in point, before improvement, a lender could cost cost that lead to APRs of greater than 300% for a balloon-payment payday loan, but installment creditors, whose prices are three or four periods decreased, are effortlessly prohibited from giving a similarly sized financing. As a consequence, payment and various other lower-cost financial institutions cannot work profitably in Virginia, so they couldn’t do business during the state.
The most effective solution: popular statutes well established effective securities, permitted economical payment finance
The Virginia comeliness in Lending work got sponsored by Senator Mamie Locke (D-Hampton) and Delegate Lamont Bagby (D-Henrico), had much more than 50 legal co-patrons from each party, and been given help from different stakeholders, most notably shoppers recommends, society communities, confidence management, lower-cost payment creditors, plus the status lawyers regular. 6 High-cost loan providers compared the campaign, declaring they would not be able to operate at needed affordable prices, despite contrary facts from other market segments, but both chambers in the long run passed the legislation on a bipartisan base. 7 Governor Ralph Northam (D) closed the operate into regulation at a ceremony on Aug. 3, 2020; it is efficient Jan. 1, 2021. 8
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Virginias Small-Dollar Assets Markets Improvement Resolves Typical Problems
Important highlights of the Fairness in Lending operate
Evasion. High-cost loan providers controlled applying their collection of four statutes or without a state permission. No regulation governed rates of interest for release loans above $2,500 or personal lines of credit. Duplicate on the web financing controlled readily via statutory loopholes with no control controlled costs which can be recharged for brokering money.
All high-rate loan providers must obtain a certificate under Virginia statutes (Chapters 15, 18, or 22). These permits are available to all creditors, if they operate through shops or on the web or problem protected or quick unsecured loans. Funding supplied in infraction of state law is regarded uncollectible, reinforcing administration against escape.
Expensive lending products. Short term balloon-payment personal loans ingested twenty percent on the typical Virginia borrowers paycheck, causing recurring borrowing. | 7,504 | 3,543 | 15,798.006209 |
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Family Planning 2020 or FP2020 was launched in 2012 as a measure to support women and girls worldwide in their decisions when to have and when not to have children.
The initiative is a global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls, and allows them to decide when they should have children and when not to. With population growth rising each day, the initiative aims to reach as many women and girls to reach the target of 390 million by the year 2020.
According to a published review on ‘Population Growth Is Still the Biggest Problem Facing Humanity’, nearly 220,000 people are added to the planet every day. This means the number of births per day continues to increase.
In an effort to also help control population growth, the FP2020 aims to encourage more women and girls to engage in using modern contraceptives to help them with their health while control birth and population.
So far since its launching in 2012, the past four years has seen an additional 30.2 million women and girls use modern contraceptives. This significant increase in the number of women using modern contraceptives was made in sub-Saharan Africa according to the report by Family Planning 2020.
Based on the progressive outcomes of the initiative plus areas to improve, paves way for further expansion and improvement of the program.
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According to FP2020’s Executive Director, Beth Beth Schlachter, the richness of the data now available from the past four years, will enable them (initiative) to study the situations on a country-by-country basis, and also help them to reach out to the places that are hardest to reach. Places hardest to reach include the young people, the poorest, the marginalised and the most vulnerable, and also to ensure the programmes and policies of the initiative are grounded in the principles of agency, access, availability and quality of care.
With positive progress witnessed from its operations since its launching, UN’s Department of Economics and Social Affairs predicts that the high rate of contraceptives used in Africa, will help cut the global population growth by 1 billion over the next 15 years. | 2,250 | 1,091 | 4,565.9945 |
warc | 202143 | Health Benefits of Emu Essentials Emu Oil…
This extraordinary product has hidden benefits over and above its moisturizing capabilities.
Clinical trials and research have shown that emu oil assists in the treatment of many serious and frustrating conditions. You can use emu oil as a topical treatment or carrier oil. Mixing it with lotions and creams may help your skin absorb the ingredients better.
Once you experience the difference, you may never use anything else! 1. Dermatitis, Eczema & Psoriasis
It is second to none in its ability to penetrate the skin barrier and help soothe and moisturize even the worst case of dry skin. Moistures the skin and reduces the itching, redness, cracks, and scaling associated with stubborn skin conditions. As an occlusive moisturizer, emu oil does a fantastic job of improving hydration and preventing water loss. In fact, a lotion with emu oil as a base may penetrate and help your skin better than pure emu oil. Studies also suggest that emu oil may have fewer side effects for people with dermatitis and eczema.
2. Sunburns, Radiation Burns, and other burns
Reduces irritation and inflammation, accelerating healing, and reducing scarring.
3. Surgery / Wounds
Healing is facilitated while soothing wounds and reducing scar inflammation. The linoleic acid in emu oil has positive effects that may even:
increase hair follicles in wound areas offer protective benefits from scarring decrease acne scars 4. Blisters & Calluses
Softens skin and helps to heal from within.
5. Rashes
Helps to control irritation. Great for diaper rashes on babies.
6. Insect Bites
The sting and itching are greatly reduced due to anti-inflammatory properties. Not recommended to
prevent mosquito bites – it is not a repellent. 7. Stretch Marks and Nursing Aid
Excellent for preventing marks from pregnancy. Either use alone or mix with other lotions. New mothers can use an emu oil-based cream after delivery to improve hydration around their nipple and areola. This can help decrease nipple pain or trauma due to breastfeeding. One study looked at this treatment and found that the oral or topical use of emu oil containing high quantities of polyunsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants seems to have potent anti-inflammatory effects emu oil didn’t affect the pH, temperature, or elasticity of the areola. If you try this treatment for nipples, be sure to use a warm cloth to remove residual oil before breastfeeding.
8. Chemical Peels
Relieves irritation and inflammation in minutes, and helps to soothe raw skin and promote healing by 50%. Emu Oil is recommended by Esthniticians worldwide.
9. Anti-Aging
Heals the skin faster. Designer Donna Karan now uses emu oil in her skincare line. Studies have found that dry, aging skin increased in thickness by 2-3 times when treated with emu li age spots and wrinkles diminished noticeably, and new tissue and skin growth is promoted. Offers superior protection, day and night, and helps revitalize the body to the beauty of healthy smooth skin.
In addition to its moisturizing capabilities, emu oil has positive effects on collagen production. Collagen is one of the compounds that keep your skin elastic, plump, and wrinkle-free. Emu oil’s antioxidant properties can also target any signs of aging caused by oxidative stress. It can even lighten age spots!
10. Help Hair Generation and Nail Growth
Hair follicles become more robust, with 80% becoming thicker and beginning to grow. Apply emu oil with a few drops of peppermint oil to your scalp and massage to help hair growth. Early studies suggest that emu oil can promote new hair follicles.
11. Joints, Muscles & Arthritis
Reduces inflammation and pain in joints. Currently in use by 85% of NBA teams. Professional football and baseball teams are using emu oil for sports injuries. They recover more rapidly from muscle strains and bruises by using emu oil for massage in their training rooms.
Side effects of emu oil
There is no known danger of using emu oil over a long period of time. It’s recommended to avoid putting emu oil on areas of skin that have been exposed to poisonous substances, including poison ivy or poison oak. Emu oil is a carrier oil that will penetrate the skin fully and as such may delay the healing of skin exposed to poisons.
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warc | 202143 | The harms that are prompted at the hands of students via cyber actions embody marring the status of lecturers and administrators, harassing different students and threatening the security of testing and different educational data. Similarly educators usually trigger harm by means of their very own cyber actions by utilizing online boards in an inappropriate manner to the detriment of their college or district. These actions could compromise the protection and morals of their students and affect the integrity of the academic system itself. Yet any restriction on these actions runs the risk of violating constitutional rights of free speech and privacy. Needless to say, there is a cautious and ever-evolving balancing process that must be maintained in this space of law. And the selections of our courts and enactments of our legislatures must be monitored and influenced by educators and schooling law experts.
To alleviate yourself of the uncertainty of your financial condition and to get the appropriate information, it would be higher for you in case you met up with a chapter attorney who’s well reputed and has had prior experience in working with chapter circumstances. Discussing your issues with him shall be a good suggestion as he might be in a position that will help you with the legal formalities pertaining to your specific chapter case. It is possible for you to to achieve a greater understanding of your monetary situation and what laws you need to concentrate on which will enable you to to regain your online business as soon as you’re free from money owed.
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Really, inside the US, chapter is usually a legal downside in the Structure from the nation. The law governing chapter is effectively spelled out from the Article 1, Section eight, and Clause four on the United States Constitution. Here, the US Congress enacts uniform laws governing chapter in all of the States of America. This enacted law by the Congress is generally identified as Chapter Code and it’s properly situated within the Title 11 on the fantastic United States Code. You have to to grow to be effectively informed in regards to the a number of kinds of bankruptcy acknowledged from the Code.
Listed below are a few facts about motorbike accidents.
The admission course of usually works on location. There’s a catchment area with pupils in concept allotted locations relying on which catchment area they fall within. There are nonetheless many points although, particularly in areas the place there are many colleges, similar to in massive cities and cities. The process has often been referred to a lottery.
If you do not dwell in a no fault state, it’s possible you’ll wish to file an auto accident civil suit if you really feel the insurance firm of the responsible motorist is not making an affordable negotiation provide. You’re entitled to recover for your damages including healthcare bills, lost pay, ache and suffering, and generally in your psychological misery or punitive damages to penalize the accused if he acted willfully or egregiously. In these states, you get to decide on if you wish to go to courtroom and when your injuries are serious enough to make a authorized motion worthwhile.
Conclusion
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warc | 202143 | Each year, 10 million people are arrested and charged with crimes in the U.S. and nearly 600,000 return to their communities from incarceration. Low-income households and communities of color are the most impacted by the U.S. criminal justice system today. For individuals returning home post-incarceration, there are a number of barriers to successful reentry, including reduced employment opportunities and lack of access to financial health tools.
Financial Health Challenges and Justice-Involved Individuals
Financial Health Network research found that many justice-involved individuals are poorly served by the financial system both before and after incarceration. Twenty-nine percent of justice-involved respondents were unbanked prior to incarceration. Sixty-two percent did not attempt to borrow from either a bank or a nonbank lender in their first three years post-release, reflecting challenges accessing credit.
The financial health impact of insufficient access to financial products and services can be further exacerbated by a lack of employment opportunities for justice-involved individuals, as jobs are often limited for returning citizens. A 2018 study found that formerly incarcerated people are unemployed at a rate of more than 27%. For those who are able to find employment, median earnings for formerly incarcerated individuals are $10,090 in their first year of release, with only the top 20% earning more than $15,000.
The Financial Health Network’s recently released report, “Financial Health and Criminal Justice: The Stories of Justice-Involved Individuals and Their Families,” reveals that some individuals could not go back to their prior line of work upon release. Others found that certain professions were closed off to them. One individual explained that he used to work for two large entertainment companies and had extensive time in the industry, but after his conviction and release, he could not return because of the employer’s strict background checks. Another person interviewed had worked to obtain her teaching certification to pursue a higher-paying job, but was turned away because of her record.
Meet the Teams Working to Reduce These FinHealth Challenges
Together with advisory partner Credit Builders Alliance, the Financial Solutions Lab solicited applications from nonprofit-fintech partnerships working to improve the financial health of justice-involved individuals. We received applications from partners working on a range of financial challenges across the country, which were reviewed by a panel of experts in reentry and grant-making.
To help lower barriers to financial health and improve employment outcomes for returning citizens, the Financial Solutions Lab has awarded grants to five nonprofit and fintech partnerships working across the United States as part of our 2021 Exchange cohort. These partnered organizations will work together to promote financial health by connecting returning citizens with tools and resources to build resilience and thrive. The Lab will capture learnings from each project and share them at the close of the grant term.
The grantees include:
Justine PETERSEN Housing and Reinvestment Corporation and LaunchCode (Missouri)
The Justine PETERSEN and LaunchCode partnership seeks to address the financial health of incarcerated individuals and returning citizens in Missouri. The partnership will engage incarcerated Missourians in co-designing training around credit and entrepreneurship, while providing one-on-one credit building and business planning counseling for those within six months of release. Upon release, clients will continue to receive credit-building support via customized credit action plans and services, easing reentry and increasing access to entrepreneurship among returning citizens who face barriers to traditional employment. Consumer and business lending products are available for those who successfully reenter the workforce and gain access to stable income.
Justice and Accountability Center (JAC) of Louisiana and DaisyDebt (Louisiana)
Through this project, Justice and Accountability Center (JAC) of Louisiana and DaisyDebt plan to work together to adapt DaisyDebt’s existing debt dispute technology (designed for attorneys and counselors) to make it accessible to formerly incarcerated individuals and incorporate it into JAC of Louisiana’s existing Reentry Legal Clinics. The project will result in a fintech tool that will empower formerly incarcerated individuals to navigate the debt dispute process on their own, without the need for an attorney or counselor, and allow attorneys and credit counselors working with formerly incarcerated individuals to improve their services.
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) and Stretch Finance collaboration aims to expedite access to checking accounts and remove barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated people. This is accomplished by providing ARC members with a free Stretch Finance checking account and debit card, combined with employment opportunities tailored to individuals with conviction histories. By incorporating the benefits of a checking account into relevant ARC support forums, Stretch Finance provides members unfamiliar with financial services with a more trusted and targeted account opening experience. The personalized employment opportunities, which are integrated into the digital banking experience, make finding a job more efficient.
Through this partnership, finEQUITY will manage marketing, partnership referral, and outreach, while IRC’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) will provide integrated small-dollar loans and a decade of experience helping refugees to integrate financially. Together, they will reach formerly incarcerated community members who are either concerned about their credit status, don’t know their credit status, or know that they are credit invisible.
The Urban League of Essex County is partnering with Mobility Capital Finance, Inc., (MoCaFi) to offer a fully-featured mobile banking solution to assist returning citizen clients and their families. This financial product will provide credit building and bill payment capabilities at no cost to the user, alongside Urban League of Essex County’s wraparound services. The Urban League of Essex County is a comprehensive social service and community development organization providing integrated services to help families advance economically. MoCaFi’s platform also offers users resources to help them reduce bad credit, incentivize building savings accounts, and improve their economic stability over time.
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In collaboration with Credit Builders Alliance, we look forward to working with these grantees over the course of the grant term and to sharing insights from their projects next year. To connect with our Exchange team or with one of the grantee organizations, please email exchange@finhealthnetwork.org. | 6,975 | 2,942 | 16,372.994562 |
warc | 202143 | The government will require mandatory vaccination for any flight departing from a Canadian airport (if it really goes ahead as promised; making Canada one of the only countries in the world—possibly the only one even—to ban the unvaccinated from leaving). But from October 30 to November 29, there will be a grace period that allows for a PCR test instead of vaccination.
Some people were worried that the test alone wouldn’t be enough, so Flytrippers checked with Transport Canada.
Cause of confusion
As we told you in our post about Canada’s new travel requirement, it was clear from the beginning that the vaccination requirement would apply to any flight departing from a Canadian airport.
That’s what we told you since day 1. But many thought it would only apply to domestic flights, although I’m not quite sure why. Not so surprising, almost nobody really understands travel rules, unfortunately.
Yet for once (which is rare with this government), this requirement was very clear from the beginning. They always said it would be for all flights.
(Is it really going to be that way on the 30th? That’s a whole other topic…)
But last week, when they announced the start date for this measure, they announced something new that had never been mentioned:
A one-month grace period.
What they announced in the press conference was very clear: For one month, instead of being vaccinated, it would be possible to fly by simply showing proof of a 72-hour negative PCR test.
But when the official government website was updated, there was this turn of phrase (emphasis is mine):
For travellers
who are in the process of being vaccinated, there will be a short transition period where they will be able to travel if they can show a valid COVID-19 molecular test within 72 hours of travel.
This has caused confusion for some of our readers, even though there was never any mention of having to prove anything about vaccination being in process.
Here is what Flytrippers wrote about that:
We interpret that sentence’s wording more as yet another form of political marketing: The government probably want to appear to be giving an exemption only to the “good guys” who are in the process of getting vaccinated and not to the “bad guys” who are not the process of getting vaccinated.
Punishing the unvaccinated wins many political points these days, almost as much as punishing travelers did for most of the pandemic. So being tough on the unvaccinated who want to travel? That’s a double-whammy of political points to score, a real no-brainer for politicians!
Transport Canada’s response
Since many were concerned, Flytrippers reached out to Transport Canada’s media relations department to double-check.
They quickly and kindly responded and confirmed that indeed,
the test is all that will be required to take advantage of the exemption during the grace period.
They rephrased the sentence (that’s what should have been on the government website, but it wouldn’t have scary enough for the unvaccinated I guess):
All travellers are encouraged to be vaccinated as soon as possible as they must be vaccinated to travel as of November 30. To allow travellers to become fully vaccinated by that date, there will be a short transition period starting October 30 where they will be able to travel if they can show a valid COVID-19 molecular test within 72 hours of travel as an alternative to providing proof of full vaccination. That transition period will end on November 30. If you have not already started the vaccination process, or do not start soon, travellers risk not qualifying for travel as of November 30.
In short, it’s simple: You can fly with a test up to and including November 29.
Starting November 30, if the government really goes ahead with this, you could be stuck in Canada for a long time.
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Nothing at all is required to board a plane until October 30 (same as since day 1) and those who are not vaccinated will be allowed to fly until November 29 with a 72-hour PCR test.
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warc | 202143 | Confronting Violence in Ukraine
Freedom House seeks to improve Ukraine’s response to hate-motivated violence and ultimately to decrease its incidence.
United to Confront Hate-Motivated Violence in Ukraine
Freedom House seeks to improve Ukraine’s response to hate-motivated violence and ultimately to decrease its incidence. Freedom House and its partners work to unite a wide array of communities targeted with hate-motivated violence and convene a broad coalition of civil society groups to monitor, document, and analyze violent incidents and dynamics in Ukraine. By connecting broad and inclusive networks with high-quality documentation and analysis, FH and partners are establishing an authoritative record of hate-motivated violence and its perpetrators for use by policymakers, the public, and the media. Freedom House and partners also support the systematic engagement of civil society and government stakeholders to identify, develop, and adopt concrete policies to address hate-motivated violence.
Key Initiatives Monitoring and Reporting Network
Freedom House partner Truth Hounds (TH) is the primary coordinator of the documentation process for incidents of hate-motivated violence, collecting data from around the country in a centralized database. Community partners Nash Mir, the Roma Human Rights Protection Center, and The Congress of Ethnic Communities of Ukraine contribute to this effort.
Freedom House partner ZMINA Human Rights Information Center, which operates the Humanrights.org.ua portal, leads partners’ collective campaigning and media engagement efforts. Communication activities share the results of project partners’ documentation and analysis and educate the public about the impact of hate-motivated violence on affected groups in order to pressure policymakers to adopt solutions to hate-motivated violence.
Freedom House, in partnership with independent experts, operates Reportingradicalism.org, a platform providing high-quality reporting and analysis on the groups and individuals connected to hate-motivated violence and hateful ideologies in Ukraine.
In addition, Freedom House and partners publish an annual report and a quarterly Hate Monitor detailing the results of our monitoring and documentation of hate-motivated violence. The methodology of the Hate Monitor is viewable
here.
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Advocacy for Reform
Freedom House and partners facilitate advocacy initiatives focused on analyzing and improving national-level policy to prevent and respond to hate-motivated violence. Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation (ULAF) focuses on improving law enforcement’s policy and practices addressing hate-motivated violence by studying existing instruments and practices for combatting hate-motivated violence and identifying the root causes of law enforcement’s poor response as well as opportunities for reform.
Expert Center for Human Rights works with ULAF to implement targeted regional interventions to understand the roots of hate-motivated violence in a local context, identify and advocate for local-level policy solutions, and improve the response of law enforcement and local authorities.
Partners Related Programming Ukraine: Human Rights in Pandemic
Freedom House is working to document and address human rights abuses connected to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ukraine: Expanding Allies for LGBT+ Rights
Freedom House works to improve respect for the human rights of LGBT+ people in Ukraine by strengthening and growing broad-based civil society and allies’ engagement.
Civic Oversight in Ukraine
Freedom House supports Ukrainian civil society in providing effective public oversight of the activities of the Ukrainian government law-enforcement and security services. | 3,924 | 1,610 | 9,427.349068 |
warc | 202143 | In the course of study, you learned how current and emerging technologies have been transforming clinical practice, nursing administration, and nursing education. In your practice, you will search the WGU Library and the Internet for information on current and emerging technologies that have the potential to enhance nursing and/or healthcare. Create an annotated bibliography with at least five sources on this topic that you reviewed. (See Sample APA Annotation) This can be used to educate your nursing colleagues on the impact that current and emerging technologies has on healthcare delivery.
From your review of relevant sources, and the interviews you conducted, select five technologies you believe have the potential to transform nursing and enhance health-related outcomes either directly or indirectly. Summarize the information for the five technologies you selected by completing the Technology Summary document.
For this phase, you will use descriptive statistics to analyze hypothetical survey data provided to you in the Barriers to Research Utilization in Nurses spreadsheet. Open the Barriers Data Analysis Instructions file for step-by-step instructions for this phase. Then, open the Barriers Codebook file in Excel and follow the instructions to analyze data and create the evidence for this phase.
Continuous Variable Analysis: Analyze data measures of central tendency (Mean, Median, Mode) and measures of dispersion (Standard Deviation, Minimum, Maximum, and Range) using the instructions. Create your own summary of the data using the Continuous Summary (Example) tab in the worksheet as an example of how to write your own analysis of RN and Tot_Scores. Save the Summary Yrs_RN and Summary Tot_Scores each as a screenshot.
Categorical-Nominal Variable Analysis: Analyze data with the COUNTIF Excel function using the instructions.Enter your results with a summary interpretation on the Summary_Demographics worksheet. Save the worksheet as a screenshot.
Categorical-Ordinal Variable Analysis: Analyze data using the Mode function using the instructions. Write an interpretation identifying high-scoring and low-scoring items on the survey. Save the Summary_Responses worksheet as a screenshot.
Count the Educational Level by Work Setting participants and for each Age Group by Race by using a Pivot Table by following the instructions.
Save the two Pivot Table worksheets each as a screenshot.
Open the Barriers Data Visualization instructions file. Follow the instructions to visually display the data by creating the following charts and graphs using the data in the Barriers Codebook file used in Phase 2. Save all graphics as screenshots by following the instructions, for your e-portfolio.
1. Bar Chart of the Mode on all questions on the Barriers Survey
2. Pie Chart of Age Group 3. Sunburst Chart of Sex 4. Column Chart of Education Level 5. Funnel Chart of Race 6. Treemap Chart of Work Setting. | 2,942 | 1,273 | 6,771.45326 |
warc | 202143 | As a homeowner, mowing your lawn is one of the many tasks done to maintain your property. Although it may seem like a simple concept, there are various ways you can mow your lawn for the ultimate result.
However, if done incorrectly, such as cutting too low, you could cause issues such as sun damage. In this article, we will go over the many different ways to cut your lawn to keep your grass looking great.
Why Mow Your Lawn?
Although it may be counterintuitive, mowing your lawn increases its growth rate and overall health. Grass, like many other types of plants, participates in the process known as photosynthesis. Hence, cutting the top off a grass blade leads to larger intake of carbon from the air, promoting healthy growth.
Due to photosynthesis, cutting your lawn allows it to grow back thicker and greener than before. Grass clippings can also offer nutrients to your landscape, helping aid growth.
When to Mow Your Lawn
We recommend that you break out the lawn mower weekly during the warm months. If not, at least, bi-weekly. However, this could vary greatly due to your specific climate. If you live in a dry area, the grass will not grow as quickly, and you should not mow frequently. Let’s check out the different types of grass and which period throughout the year it experiences the most frequent growth.
Warm-season grass like St. Augustinegrass and Bermudagrass, which is present in the south, usually grows the most between April and July. It then begins to taper off afterward. Therefore, in late Spring and mid-summer, you will likely have to mow once weekly.
Cool-season grass, commonly seen in the northern United States, such as Kentucky Bluegrass often grows rapidly between March and April, before its growth stunts in the summer. It then begins growing again when it becomes cooler, such as in September and October.
In short, when the grass does not grow, lawn mowing isn’t required, as too much mowing could cause your grass to burn up and become brown. As previously stated, your mowing pattern will depend on your climate and overall air temperature.
Grass Height
It is important not to cut your grass too low, as this could result in burnt grass that will turn brown over time. However, this ultimately depends on which type of grass you have.
Lawn care professionals have implemented the ⅓ rule to determine the height of your grass. This means that you should not cut more than 1/3 off the top.
This is applicable even with taller grass, as you should not cut it all at once. Instead, make multiple passes to adhere to the ⅓ rule. It is important to learn how to use the height adjustment feature on your mower.
With the right mowing height setting on your push mower, you can ensure you are cutting at the correct height and not risking brown patches. Or, you might opt for a cylinder mower for a closer, more cleanly groomed cut.
Best Time to Mow Your Lawn
Often, the best time to mow your lawn is either in the early morning or around dusk. These are the two points throughout the day when the sun is at its lowest peak, and you have a reduced chance of damaging your lawn and causing avoidable brown patches throughout.
However, if mowing the lawn in the morning, try to avoid morning dew as this could cause stress to your machine and the mower blade. Of course, if you opt for a reel mower, wet grass may not be an issue.
In either case, however, it’s essential to avoid a dull blade. You’ll need a sharp blade no matter the mower type. And dry grass is preferable overall because it’s less likely to clog the discharge chute of your mower.
Final Thoughts
Your lawn is one of the first aspects people notice about your property. That lawn striping offers significant curb appeal. It is important to take great care with your lawn mowing habits so that you can maintain a healthy lawn. The good news is that you don’t need a riding mower or lawn tractor to achieve a great result. You just need elbow grease and a game plan. | 4,030 | 1,915 | 8,350.412533 |
warc | 202143 | By DR ANIL P JOSHI
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the only measure in the country to assess the growth of the Nation for the given year. Initially, this measure was developed by the Europeans in the 19th century after the escalation of industrial revolution by determining GDP as a measure of national development and progress of the country. Eventually, this measure was adopted widely by most of the nations in the world. Today, GDP is considered the most imperative growth indicator of any given country, globally. Unfortunately, ever since the development of GDP, multiple observers have pointed out limitations of using it as the overarching measure of economic and social progress. This measure does not take into account the status of forest, air, water and soil. This is the basic reason that we have not been aware of the ecological growth and its reciprocating impact on the environment in whole. This measures converse ecosystem growth in place of ecosystem services. Here, ecosystem growth depicts the growth of forests, quality and quantity of soil, air and water and so on. A movement has been initiated in 2010 to assess ecological growth measure in the form of Gross Environmental Product (GEP), parallel to GDP in the State of Uttarakhand. It was initially accepted by the former Governments of Uttarakhand and, simultaneously, a petition has been approved by the High Court also supporting the concept of GEP. The State has also been directed by the High Court to follow this appeal of Dr Anil P Joshi Currently, the state is working under Anand Vardhan, Principal Secretary, Uttarakhand, to explore the possibilities of Ecological Growth Measure in the country. Besides this, a roundtable meeting for initiation of a blueprint for measuring Gross Environment Product (GEP) is being collectively organised by Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) – Wildlife Institute of India (WII)- State Government and PSA office on 5 March, 2020, at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. Prof K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India will preside over the meeting and conduct the discussion with the dignitaries of various participating institutes like Dr Dhananjai Mohan, Dr Shailja Vaidya Gupta, Arun Singh Rawat, Dr Kalachand Sain and Dr Sanjeev Chopra. The discussion will focus on two major issues: Indicators of Ecosystem growth and forming the strategies for taking the same across the states and nationwide. A Glance at the concept of Gross Environment Product (GEP)
Why: The current growth measure is totally lopsided. It focuses upon economic growth only. It does not take into account the status of various resources depleted or added annually. The latter is equally important for survival and sustainable growth. Unfortunately, we do not have any mechanism to assess periodical status of different natural resources parallel to Gross Domestic Product. GDP indicates economic growth, but does not explain ecological status. GEP can become one such measure that can update us about the status of forest, soil and water in any given year, parallel to GDP. It is high time now to explore a measure that focuses on growth of soil, water and air so that balance can be established between economy and ecology. Fast deteriorating ecosystems demand such attention. Moreover, a strong economy will only be possible when there will be robust ecological growth. GEP is concerned with this only. Environmental degradation has gone beyond an acceptable limit causing severe losses unaffordable by humans. The status of periodical ecosystem growth/loss can be measured through GEP. Due to striking depletion of different natural resources, it is the high time that we think seriously about ecosystem status and growth parallel to current development pattern. It can also help us analyse the development causing degradation and the extent we can afford it. Moreover, it is also important to sustain the long term economy of the state, as it is a fact that a stable economy can be obtained from natural resources. Currently, we are unaware of how long these resources will be able to support us in the future. GEP will help in ascertaining ecosystem support for an aggressive economy. What: Currently, we have been working on ecosystem services which allow us to be acquainted with the services of various available resources and the benefits in terms of the economy. Destruction of natural resources will continue in future, also, therefore it is significant to point out the need for constant improvement of natural resources especially forest, soil, air and water for the ecosystem growth and health. Such a growth measure can acknowledge the periodical growth of different resources in terms of volume. It is the expression of the volume of resources added in a particular year parallel to the economic growth. How to measure GEP There is a simple way to assess annually the growth of the ecosystem. For instance: Forest: Trees planted every year by quantity and quality can be one of the factors that highlight the value and addition to forest in any given year. The different categories of tree planted will have particular ranking like local, indigenous, broad leaves, etc. Available State Agency: Forest Department Soil: Soil enrichment through various inputs in the form of organic values and mitigation of soil runoff due to heavy rains in a given year should be the quantified value. State Agency: Agriculture and Soil Conservation Department Water: The measures undertaken to enhance the quality as well quantity of water in the various water bodies should be outlined. Currently, the water bodies encompass rivers, glaciers, ponds, lakes, wells and so on. The analysis is to be undertaken to figure out the amount of water derived from nature in the form of rain. The annual precipitation and its store will be the criteria for quantification of recharge. To assess measures to ensure the quality of water and the results like pH, turbidity, etc., department serving water needs must be accountable. State Agency: Water supply/conservation Air: Status of quality of air can be analysed periodically and efforts can be undertaken to improve the same. Such quantification will be possible to analyse the efforts taken to improve the quality of air like use of CNG, encourage the use of public transport and any other control measure to check the pollution in the air. In addition to this, air quality can be measured through rise and fall of PM values in any given year and its value will be the factor. | 6,601 | 2,866 | 15,182.760642 |
warc | 202143 | By Our Staff Reporter Dehradun, 11 Oct: ‘World Mental Health Day’ is observed on 10 October every year. The aim is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and it provides an opportunity to talk about it with different stakeholders. The theme for this year is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’. Oxford School of Excellence and The Poly Kids hosted a webinar on 10 October on the subject. The topic was ‘Transition from online mode to offline mode: Challenges and Precautions’. The panel was headed by Dr Pawan Sharma, who is an NLP practitioner and Dr Pratibha Sharma, Child Psychologist. Various children related psychological, behavioural and medical issues were discussed with parents. They also provided beneficial tips on good parenting. The parents discussed various issues such as mood swings, poor sleep, a gradual reduction in work output, aggressive behaviour, etc. The ongoing stress, fear and uncertainty created by Covid -19 has weighed heavily on children and teens. Many are having a tough time coping emotionally. It was stated that pandemic related stress and traumas may have lasting effects on the developing minds of children and teens. Parents were instructed to continue checking on their children often and to watch and listen for signs and changes in behaviour, keeping in mind that younger children may not know how to talk about these feelings, but may act out in other ways. The panel emphasised that family must spend time together. They should reduce screen time and indulge in indoor games, group discussion, cooking, gardening together. Expert guidance on ways to best support the child and help them to build resilience was given by the Psychologist. The webinar was highly interactive and more than 500 parents and teachers attended with great enthusiasm. It was organised under the guidance of Director Capt Mukul Mahendru. Present on this occasion were Ranjana Mahendru, Principal Rachana Srivastava, Co-coordinator Pomilla Narula, etc. | 2,024 | 1,086 | 3,712.530387 |
warc | 202143 | In an address to a conference on the Covid-19 crisis held in Budapest, Hungary this past August Robert Kennedy gave a preview of his research results to the participants. His “Historical and Legal Perspectives of the Pandemic” takes an unusually wide view of the context in which the past 18 months unfolded.Continue reading The Military and Intelligence Origins of Public Health
The authors and researchers have relied upon primary source documents whenever possible. These include official government documents and official statistics, scientific papers, original corporate documents, and direct accounts or statements by officials preserved in video.Continue reading Timeline & Early Chronology of Covid-19 “Pandemic”
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There are some things that bring joy to my soul. My pleasures are simple ones. Peanut butter on toast (the food of gods), witnessing Macron getting a slap, and this…
The awesome thing here is that what is taking place is that our competition on bidding for coal assets has disappeared in a cloud of woke smoke.
This will quickly become geopolitical, and the question is this: can BlackRock, Citi, Prudential, HSBC, and their other woke mates decide the fate of nations?
They are already affecting the fate of nations. Witness Canada and all of Western Europe.
I found a live shot of their respective energy policies:
But will they do the same to China? Will they do the same to Russia?
The answer to that will only be fully revealed in the due course of time, but we don’t really need any crystal balls here as we just watch actions, not words.
“China put 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity into operation in 2020, according to new international research, more than three times the amount built elsewhere around the world and potentially undermining its short-term climate goals.”
Nearly all of the 60 new coal plants planned across Eurasia, South America and Africa — 70 gigawatts of coal power in all — are financed almost exclusively by Chinese banks”
We see all of this on the ground, and while it is taking place, formerly reputable media outlets such as the FT, Reuters, and Bloomberg tell us that:
“China’s belt and road initiative creates a problem for China with respect to their climate goals.”
Really?
There is no conflict or problem. Let me explain. Here is what is transpiring.
They will keep paying lip service to the woke ideology while capturing the bulk of the energy market, and by the time we all wake up, they’ll control the world’s energy and logistics chains. And once they’ve done that, they’ll be able to control the reserve currency and once they’ve done that… well, they will be the dominant power. Game over. At this rate they’ll get there in a frighteningly rapid period of time. No more than a couple of decades.
Every week I find myself saying to myself “I just can’t believe this sh**t I am reading.” It is the same old story. The West see themselves as above the East and that the West (North America and Europe) can dictate to the rest of the world what they must do.
From the BlackRock article:
“BlackRock Inc. and other major financial institutions are working on plans to accelerate the closure of coal-fired power plants in Asia in a bid to phase out the use of the worst man-made contributors to climate change.
“The world cannot possibly hit the Paris climate targets unless we accelerate the retirement and replacement of existing coal-fired electricity,” Don Kanak, chairman of Prudential’s insurance growth markets division, said in a statement. “This is especially in Asia where existing coal fleets are big and young and will otherwise operate for decades.””
So shut down coal fired power stations, and pray tell, what are you going to replace them with? How will this affect their standards of living?
Let’s put some numbers behind this to understand probabilities. China has a massive industrial sector. So massive it currently consumes 4x more primary energy than its transport sector and more primary energy than all of the US and European industrial sectors COMBINED. So, it’s big.
Will the CCP willingly negatively impact this sector whereby it threatens China’s growing lead in the global economy and, hence increasing global political influence? I’ll let you be the decider.
In contrast to the US, China uses 10x more coal than natural gas. In 2020, China built over 3x as much new coal capacity as all other countries combined, equal to one large coal plant PER WEEK. In fact, in 2020 alone China’s fleet of coal fired power plants was expanded by a net 29.8 GW.
Think that’s a lot? In 2020 they commissioned
73.5 GW of new coal plant proposals, which is over 5x that of the rest of the entire world combined.
Editor’s Note: The 2020s will likely to be an increasingly volatile decade. More governments are putting their money printing on overdrive. Negative interests are becoming the rule instead of the exception to it.
One thing is for sure, there will be a great deal of change taking place in the years ahead.
That’s precisely why legendary speculator Doug Casey and his team released an urgent new report titled
Doug Casey’s Top 7 Predictions.
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Agenda ID2020 – is hardly mentioned by any media, let alone the mainstream. Agenda ID2020, if carried out, is the ultimate control by a small elite – of the One World Order (OWO), also called the New World Order (NWO) – over the world population.
It is a mechanism that would allow controlling every movement of each one of the 7.9 billion people of planet earth, including everyone’s health records, cash flows, bank accounts, as well as our behavior in this ultra-controlled society – which I refrain from calling civilization anymore.
Sounds crazy. Yes, but that’s the plan. No conspiracy theory.
That is the absurd dream of a few multi-billionaires, including
Bill Gates. And the tool for such a control is a universal covid vaccine.
“What is the infamous ID2020? It’s an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. … The program harnesses existing birth registration and vaccination operations to provide newborns with a portable and persistent biometrically-linked digital identity.
Let
describe in simple terms the mechanisms that mankind – you and me – might be confronted with, if the super power elite, the NWO has its way. Watch this 10- min. video Dr. Vernon Coleman on controlling the people – vaccines, microchips and electromagnetic fields (EMF) – an old science turned new…
Wikipedia describes Dr. Vernon Coleman as
an English author, columnist and former general practitioner. He has written over 100 books, including works about human health, politics, cricket, and animal issues, and a range of novels.
It is High Noon, but never too late to Act in solidarity, despite covid-dictated
‘wanton social distancing’, and prevent this human disaster. The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”. Vaccination as a Platform for “Digital Identity” What is the infamous ID2020? It is an alliance of public-private partners, including UN agencies and civil society. It’s an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. On January 29, 2021, The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament ratified the implementation of Agenda ID 2020. It still needs to go through the German Federal Council, The Bundesrat: little chance they will reject it. .
In Switzerland the same – Agenda ID2020 – all electronic ID – linking everything to everything of each individual will come to a vote on 7 March .And that’s not all, the Swiss government wants to outsource the management of Agenda ID 2020 to the private sector — unbelievable!!! And now it’s the European Parliament. … .Can you imagine a bank or insurance company dealing (and selling) your data!! — just imagine what will happen with our data – unthinkable. .But living in a country of sheep, it is very possible if not likely that the Swiss government’s proposal will be accepted.Then, some of us, can only dream of fleeing — but where to?
It seems, the more there is written about the causes of the Coronavirus – the more the written analyses are overshadowed by a propaganda and fear-mongering hype. Questions for the truth and arguments for where to look for the origins and how the virus may have spread and how to combat it, are lost in the noise of wanton chaos. But isn’t that what the “Powerful financial elites” behind this intended pandemic want – chaos, panic, hopelessness, leading to human vulnerability – a people becoming easy prey for manipulation?
Today [March 11, 2020] the WHO declared the coronavirus COVID-19 a “pandemic” – when there is not the slightest trace of a pandemic. A pandemic might be the condition, when the death to infection rate reaches more than 12%. In Europe, the death rate is about 0.4%, or less. Except for Italy which is a special case, where the peak of the death rate was 6% (see below for further analysis).
China, where the death rate peaked only a few weeks ago at about 3%, is back to 0.7% – and rapidly declining, while China is taking full control of the disease – and that with the help of a not-spoken-about medication developed 39 years ago by Cuba, called “
Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec)”, very effective for fighting viruses and other diseases, but is not known and used in the world, because the US under the illegal embargo of Cuba does not allow the medication to be marketed internationally.
WHO has most likely received orders from “above”, from those people who also manage Trump and the “leaders” (sic) of the European Union and her member countries, those who aim to control the world with force – the One World Order.
This has been on the drawing board for years. The final decision to go ahead NOW, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors, of course. The Gates, GAVI (an association of vaccination-promoting pharmaceuticals), Rockefellers, Rothschilds
et al, they are all behind this decision – the implementation of Agenda ID2020 – see below.
After the pandemic has been officially declared, the next step may be – also at the recommendation either by WHO, or individual countries,
“force vaccination”, under police and/or military surveillance. Those who refuse may be penalized (fines and / or jail – and force-vaccinated all the same).
If indeed force-vaccination will happen, another bonanza for Big Pharma, people really don’t know what type of cocktail will be put into the vaccine, maybe a slow killer, that acts-up only in a few years – or a disease that hits only the next generation – or a brain debilitating agent, or a gene that renders women infertile …. all is possible – always with the aim of full population control and population reduction. In a few years’ time, one doesn’t know, of course, where the disease comes from. That’s the level of technology our bio-war labs have reached (US, UK, Israel, Canada, Australia…).
Another hypothesis, at this point only a hypothesis, but a realistic one, is that along with the vaccination – if not with this one, then possibly with a later one,
a nano-chip may be injected, unknown to the person being vaccinated. The chip may be remotely charged with all your personal data, including bank accounts – digital money. Yes, digital money that’s what “they” are aiming at, so you really have no control any more over your health and other intimate data, but also over your earnings and spending. Your money could be blocked, or taken away – as a ‘sanction’ for misbehavior, for swimming against the stream. You may become a mere slave of the masters. Comparatively, feudalism may appear like a walk in the park.
It’s not for nothing that Dr. Tedros, DG of WHO, said a few days ago, we must move towards digital money, because physical paper and coin money can spread diseases, especially endemic diseases, like the coronavirus. A precursor for things to come? – Or for things already here? – In many Scandinavian countries cash is largely banned and even a bar of chocolate can be paid only electronically.
We are moving towards a totalitarian state of the world. This is part of
Agenda ID2020 – and these steps to be implemented now – prepared since long, including by the coronavirus computer simulation at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on 18 October 2019, sponsored by the WEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates, one of the chief advocates of vaccinations for everybody, especially in Africa – is also a huge advocate of population reduction. Population reduction is among the goals of the elite within the WEF, the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Morgens – and a few more. The objective: fewer people (a small elite) can live longer and better with the reduced and limited resources Mother Earth is generously offering.
This had openly been propagated already in the 1960s and 70s by Henry Kissinger, Foreign Secretary in de Nixon Administration, a co-engineer of the Vietnam war, and main responsible for the semi-clandestine bombing of Cambodia, a genocide of millions of unarmed Cambodian civilians. Along with the CIA-Kissinger engineered coup on 9/11, 1973, in Chile, killing the democratically elected Salvador Allende and putting the military dictator Pinochet in power, Kissinger has committed war crimes. Today, he is a spokesman (so to speak) for Rockefeller and their “Bilderberger Society”.
Two weeks after the computer simulation at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, that “produced” (aka simulated) 65 million deaths (!), the COVID-19 virus first appeared in Wuhan. By now it is almost certain that the virus was brought to Wuhan from outside, most likely from a bio-war lab in the US. See also this and this.
What is the infamous ID2020?
It is an alliance of public-private partners, including UN agencies and civil society.
It’s an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. The program harnesses existing birth registration and vaccination operations to provide newborns with a portable and persistent biometrically-linked digital identity. GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, identifies itself on its website as a global health partnership of public and private sector organizations dedicated to “immunization for all”. GAVI is supported by WHO, and needless to say, its main partners and sponsors are the pharma-industry.
The ID2020 Alliance at their 2019 Summit, entitled “Rising to the Good ID Challenge”, in September 2019 in New York, decided to roll out their program in 2020, a decision confirmed by the WEF in January 2020 in Davos. Their
digital identity program will be tested with the government of Bangladesh. GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and “partners from academia and humanitarian relief” (as they call it), are part of the pioneer party.
Is it just a coincidence that ID2020 is being rolled out at the onset of what WHO calls a Pandemic? – Or is a pandemic needed to ‘roll out’ the multiple devastating programs of ID2020?
Here is what Anir Chowdhury, policy advisor of the Bangladesh government program, has to say:
“We are implementing a forward-looking approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over their own personal information, while still building off existing systems and programs. The Government of Bangladesh recognizes that the design of digital identity systems carries far-reaching implications for individuals’ access to services and livelihoods, and we are eager to pioneer this approach.”
Wow! Does Mr. Anir Chowdhury know what he is getting into?
Back to the Pandemic and the panic. Geneva, the European seat of the United Nations, including the headquarters of WHO, is basically shot down. Not unlike the lock-down that started in Venice and later expanded to northern Italy until a few days ago – and now the lock-down covers all of Italy. Similar lock-down may soon also be adopted by France – and other European vassal states to the Anglo-Zionist empire.
Numerous memoranda with similar panic-mongering contents from different UN agencies in Geneva are circulating. Their key message is – cancel all mission travel, all events in Geneva, visits to the Palais des Nations, the Geneva Cathedral, other monuments and museums. The latest directives, many agencies instruct their staff to work from home, not to risk contamination from public transportation.
This ambiance of panic and fear – outstrips any sense of reality, when the truth doesn’t matter. People can’t even think any more about the causes and what may be behind it. Nobody believes you (anymore), when you refer to Event 201, the coronavirus simulation, the Wuhan Military Games, the closing last August 7, of the high-security biological war lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland…. what could have at one point been an eye opener for many, today is sheer conspiracy theory. The power of propaganda. A destabilizing power – destabilizing countries and people, destroying economies, creating hardship for people who may lose their jobs, usually the ones who can least afford it.
Also, at this time it becomes increasingly important to remind people that the outbreak in China was targeting the Chinese genome. Did it later mutate to transgress the ‘borders’ of Chinese DNA? When did that happen, if it happened? Because at the beginning it was clear that even the infected victims in other parts of the world, were to 99.9% of Chinese descent.
What happened later, when the virus spread to Italy and Iran, is another issue, and opens the way to a number of speculations.
(i) There were various strains of the virus circulated in sequence – so as to destabilize countries around the world and to confound the populace and media, so that especially nobody of the mainstream may come to the conclusion that the first strain was targeting China in a bio-war.
(ii) In Iran, I have a strong suspicion that the virus was an enhanced form of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, man-made, broke out first in Saudi Arabia in 2012 , directed to the Arabic genome) – which was somehow introduced into government circles (by aerosol spray?) – with the goal of “Regime Change” by COVID19-caused death. Its Washington’s wishful thinking for at least the last 30 years.
(iii) In Italy – why Italy? – Maybe because Washington / Brussels wanted to hit Italy hard for having been officially the first country to sign a Belt and Road (BRI) accord with China (actually the first was Greece, but nobody is supposed to know that China came to the rescue of Greece, destroyed by Greece’s brothers, the EU members, mainly Germany and France).
(iv) The hype about the high death to infection rate in Italy, as of the time of this writing: 10,149 infections vs. 631 deaths = death rate of 6.2 (comparatively Iran: 8042 infections vs. 291 deaths = 3.6 death rate). The death rate of Italy is almost double that of Iran and almost ten-fold that of average Europe. (Are these discrepancies the result of failures in the establishing reliable data pertaining to “infections”, see our observations pertaining to Italy below).
Why? – Was Italy being affected with virus panic? Was there a much stronger strain introduced to Italy?
The common flu in Europe in the 2019 / 2020 season, has apparently so far killed about 16,000 (in the US the death toll is, according to CDC between 14,000 and 32,000, depending on which CDC website you look at).
Could it be that among the Italian coronavirus deaths there were also common flu victims, as the affected victims are mostly elderly with respiratory preconditions?
Also, symptoms are very similar between coronavirus and the common flu, and nobody questions and checks the official authorities’ narrative?
Maybe not all the coronavirus strains come from the same laboratory. A journalist from Berlin of Ukrainian origin, told me this morning that Ukraine is host to some 5 high security US bio-war labs. They test regularly new viruses on the population – yet, when strange diseases break out in the surroundings of the labs, nobody is allowed to talk about it. Something similar, she says, is happening in Georgia, where there are even more Pentagon / CIA bio-war labs – and where also new and strange diseases break out.
All of this makes the composite picture even more complicated. Overarching all is this super hype is profit driven, the quest for instant profit, instant benefits from the suffering of the people. This panic making is a hundred-fold of what it’s worth. What these kingpins of the underworld, who pretend to run the upper world, perhaps miscalculated,
is that in today’s globalized and vastly outsourced world the west depends massively on China’s supply chain, for consumer goods, and for intermediary merchandise – and, foremost for medication and medical equipment. At least 80% of medication or ingredients for medication, as well as for medical equipment comes from China. The western China dependence for antibiotics is even higher, some 90%. The potential impacts on health are devastating. During the height of the COVID-19 epidemic China’s production apparatus for everything was almost shut-down. For deliveries that were still made, merchandise vessels were regularly and categorically turned back from many harbors all around the world. So, the west has tricked itself into a shortage-of-everything mode by waging a de facto “economic war” on China. How long will it last? – Nobody knows, but China’s economy which was down by about half, has rapidly recovered to above 80% of what it was before the coronavirus hit. How long will it last to catch up with the backlog?
What is behind it all? – A total crackdown with artificially induced panic to the point where people are screaming “
help, give us vaccinations, display police and military for our security” – or even if the public despair doesn’t go that far, it would be easy for the EU and US authorities to impose a military stage of siege for “health protection of the people”. In fact, CDC (Center for Disease Control in Atlanta), has already designed harshly dictatorial directives for a “health emergency”.
Along with forced vaccination, who knows what would be contained in the cocktail of ‘’mini-diseases” injected, and what their long-term effects might be. Similar to those of GMOs, where all sorts of germs could be inserted without us, the commons, knowing?
We may indeed be just at the beginning of the implementation of ID2020 – which includes, forced vaccination, population reduction and total digital control of everybody – on the way to One World Order – and global financial hegemony – Full Spectrum Dominance, as the PNAC (Plan for a New American Century) likes to call it.
A windfall for China. China has been purposely targeted for “economic destruction”, because of her rapidly advancing economy, an economy soon to overtake that of the now hegemon, the US of A, and because of China’s strong currency, the Yuan, also potentially overtaking the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency.
Both occurrences would mean the end of US dominance over the world. The coronavirus disease, now in more than 80 countries, has crashed the stock markets, a decline of at least 20% over the last few weeks – and rising; the feared consequences from the virus of an economic slow-down, if not recession, has slashed petrol prices within about two weeks almost in half. However, without China’s central bank interference, the Yuan’s value vis-à-vis the dollar has been rather stable, at around 7 Yuan to the dollar. That means, the Chinese economy, despite COVID-19, is receiving still much trust around the globe.
Advice to China – buy all the US and European corporate shares you can at current rock-bottom prices from the stock markets that collapsed by a fifth or more, plus buy lots of oil futures. When the prices recover, you have not only made billions, probably trillions from the west, but you also may own or hold significant and influence-yielding amounts of shares in most of the largest US and European corporations – and will be able to help call the shots of their future endeavors.
There is however, one little silver lining oscillating at the horizon full of dark clouds. It could miraculously be an awakening of consciousness of a critical mass that could put an end to it all. Although, we seem to be far from such a miracle, somewhere in a hidden corner of our brain, we all have a spark of consciousness left. We have the spiritual capacity to abandon the disaster path of western neoliberal capitalism, and instead espouse solidarity, compassion and love for each other and for our society. That may be the only way to break the gridlock and doom of western egocentric greed. | 33,588 | 14,772 | 73,178.729488 |
warc | 202143 | DEFRA is working hard to identify where we can reduce the need to travel, through the use of video conferencing and other alternatives, and when travel is necessary, to encourage staff to make the most sustainable choices.
We are working with our IT strategic supplier IBM and Tandberg to install the infrastructure necessary to make available the next breed of video conferencing services based around IP rather than ISDN telecommunication protocols and fixed v/conf studios. This will improve the availability, quality and mobility of the v/conf service and make it a more attractive alternative option for staff to choose when travelling to meetings would normally be required.
But we recognise it is not a panacea for all meetings. Initial contacts and team building often require physical, face-to-face meetings to ensure good team relationships are built before moving to electronic meeting spaces. We also recognise that there are other technologies that can impact on the need for meetings—e.g. a quick teleconference session can often be appropriate and sufficient if there is a single issue to resolve among a small number of people.
We will also be setting up SharePoint team spaces to provide a repository of shared resources, discussion threads and wikis etc. that should reduce the need for meetings in the first place and support the move of the core department to a more project-orientated structure.
DEFRA is looking to these new technologies to assist in meeting its new travel targets to:
reduce carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles by 15 per cent. by 2011-12 (from a 2005-06 baseline)
achieve a new fleet emissions average of 130g/k by 2010
reduce carbon dioxide emissions from air travel by 5 per cent. by 2008-09 (from a 2006-07 baseline)
achieve an overall reduction in the amount of travel undertaken across the core-department
More specifically we will look to see an increase in take-up and use of the new v/conf services following implementation of the new IP infrastructure, though a target has yet to be set.
You may also wish to know that DEFRA worked with IBM to produce a White Paper on methods and techniques for assessing and reducing the carbon footprint of office IT services entitled “Environmentally aware governance of the distributed IT infrastructure”. This has now received two awards—a Gold Award from BCS link:
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.16275
and the European Green IT Summit Infrastructure Project of the Year award, see link:
http://www.lansdown.com/green/awards.php
at the same event IBM also won the award for European Green IT Supplier of the Year. So we are at the forefront of work taking forward the Green IT agenda. | 2,725 | 1,375 | 5,329.109091 |
warc | 202143 | Health Opportunity Costs and Expert Elicitation: A Comment on Soares et al Download full text from publisher
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warc | 202143 | If I had to distill Blindsight down to a single, central theme, it would be that of self. What is the concept of self? How does it relate to the concept of what is human? What is the origin, function, and cost of self-awareness? How does it relate to free will, and does free will exist, or is it merely an illusion? Watts seems to have created the entire novel as a thought experiment to explore these concepts, and he leverages two lenses to accomplish that: the various neuro-atypicalities of his characters, and the distinctively intelligent but unaware aliens. Either of these ideas alone could have easily been the foundation of a compelling novel. Combining them together made this one both more compelling, and more challenging, and is in many ways at the core of my personal dichotomy over Blindsight.
Rather than lamenting the decline of science fiction, we should probably spend time talking about how wonderful Rocheworld is, and why you should absolutely go find a copy as soon as possible. Granted, that may be a little difficult, because it's no longer in print. However, I was able to find a lightly used copy without much difficulty, so I imagine you can, too. Just be sure you look for the complete Rocheworld, and not one of the earlier versions, sometimes titled Flight of the Dragonfly. The book is from back in the days when many science fiction novels were published in short, serialized form in magazines, so Flight of the Dragonfly is about a hundred thousand words shorter than the complete Rocheworld.
If I had to describe this story, I would probably say that it's whimsical surrealism in a science-fiction context, with elements of horror and metaphysics. It is, most certainly, weird. Whatever else it is, that last might be the only completely accurate descriptor, and it is still a really compelling story. Whatever meaning you decide to take, or not take, from The Hunt, I hope that you consider giving it a read soon. Available right here at IGCPublishing.com.
The world is a dangerous place. That's true any time, and at any point in history, but certainly this year the point has been emphasized repeatedly. Although it is often easy to imagine that either it is hubris to think that we live in important times, or alternatively that what is happening right now must be a matter of grave and unprecedented significance, the objective truth is that this year has already seen more uncertainty and tumult than usual. So, naturally, I read a book written to scare people.
I love classic, hard science fiction (we've talked about the difference between hard and soft science fiction before). Verne, Wells, Asimov: I've read most of what they wrote. These stories, exploring scientifically rigorous possibilities and ideas, hold a unique place in the huge volume of work classified as science fiction. To use the MICE quotient, these are idea stories, through and through. I'd heard about Ringworld in a few different places, and decided that this was something I needed to read. | 3,016 | 1,512 | 6,004.074074 |
warc | 202143 | Wellness and wellbeing is front of mind for everyone right now. In our latest Thriving Voices podcast (recorded before lockdown) Megan spoke with Shaun Philp (Chief People Officer) about Chorus’s award-winning programmes to support employee wellbeing.
Emissions Reduction Plan update
In light of the move to Alert Level 4, the Government has delayed the release its draft Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP), responding to the recommendations of the Climate Change Commission. We don’t have a new date yet, but it is likely to be in the next week or two. We will update you as soon as we hear more.
Zespri responds to changing climate
Zespri’s new Climate Change Strategy identifies the climate risks it faces, outlines the targets it has set, and the actions it is taking to invest for the future.
DB switches to electric forklifts
DB has transitioned from LPG to electric forklifts at two of its largest production sites, Waitemata Brewery and DB Draught Brewery, reducing carbon equivalent to 350 return flights between Queenstown and Auckland.
Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
FairtradeANZ had an extremely successful Fairtrade fortnight (6 to 19 August), including working with seven Instagram influencers to reach over 250,000 people and increase awareness of the Fairtrade brand and products.
Donate your e-waste
Tripping over your old tech in level 4? Save them for when it's safe to donate again. Recycle A Device is working with members like Spark to close the digital divide by bringing laptops and tech engineering skills to students and young people while at the same time reducing e-waste.
New member profile: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners NZ employs over 1000 people and are one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of ready-to-drink beverages. They are striving to help solve the packaging problem the world faces and are committed to water, energy and carbon reduction.
CoGo - new CLC signatory
CoGo offer a free app which helps consumers and businesses to understand, reduce and offset their carbon footprints, and align their spending with their environmental and social values.
Network Sustainability Lead role
Do you want to shape the sustainability future of NZ by building the capability of business? SBC is partnering with BusinessNZ to establish a new role to champion sustainability within the BusinessNZ network.
Diverse board members wanted
To help ensure New Zealand boards reflect our country’s superdiverse talent, The Superdiversity Institute are seeking nominations for their new initiative to highlight the value diversity can bring to governance
We are monitoring Covid-19 developments closely and will advise of any changes to upcoming events.
The Business of Human Rights: in conversation with Meng Foon
Auckland and online | Wednesday 15 September
Join us in conversation with Meng Foon, NZ Race Relations Commissioner, who will discuss how economic and material wellbeing remains the key to the realisation of human rights in Aotearoa, the new National Action Plan on Racism, and the important role of business in improving inequality so that people, business, and communities thrive together. Register here.
Climate Change and Business Conference
May be rescheduled pending Covid developments Aotea Centre, Auckland | Wednesday & Thursday, 13 - 14 October
SBC, CLC and EDS are partnering to deliver the Climate Change and Business Conference this year, focused on the concrete action business is taking to accelerate the pathway to net zero by 2050.Registration is open now.
Other events
2021 Asia Pacific Cities Summit (2021 APCS Special Edition)
Online | 8 - 10 September
Virtual and in-person gathering of city and business leaders from across the Asia Pacific and beyond, providing opportunities for connection, learning and relationship-building between civic and business sectors who are all facing the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Register by 31 August. | 3,969 | 2,014 | 7,721.222443 |
warc | 202143 | The right definition of a breakup isn’t only when a couple, who were romantically involved, split up. Breakup at its essence is the breaking of your heart into a bazillion pieces. When you want something from all your heart, mind, and soul, whether it’s a person or a thing or a goal, and you fail to procure it or you lose it, that’s essentially a breakup.
When you yourself leave a person or a desire then that’s not a breakup, that’s more of a relief. But when the person or that desire becomes out of your reach for whatever reasons, then that’s when your heart eviscerates.
Here I am not trying to deny the reality and say it’s all well and good. I am not even gonna charge you up with hollow motivational one-liners. A Breakup of any kind sucks donkey ball. Really yeah! There’s no denying that.
I am simply gonna help you understand that while there’s all the pain and agony, there are also some positive sides to a breakup nevertheless. In no way, I am trying to tell you to forget about the pain, or even ask you to undermine the suffering, but simply assisting you to look at a breakup in a potentially more rewarding manner.
Breakup Creates an Energy
Anger, frustration, desperation, and sadness are some of the emotions that spike up whenever we go through a breakup. Now, the thing to understand here is that these all are just emotions aka energy in motion. Emotions in themselves don’t carry any meaning, it’s we who assign a meaning to these emotions.
Energy isn’t either positive or negative, constructive or destructive. Energy is energy. Fire is fire, you can either use it for your gain or burn yourself. Electricity is electricity, you can again go either way with it.
Similarly, all these emotions which we have labeled as ‘negative’ aren’t actually negative if we can look at them from a broader perspective. You can use the very same energy into a different dimension to create something meaningful out of it.
In fact the bigger the breakup, the more profound will be the energy and the bigger actions one is capable of taking. One can either totally become devastated and do all kinds of crazy things or can use that energy to completely rebuild oneself from the ground up and forge a totally new identity.
Think of a scale that stretches from -infinity to +infinity. The energy that was generated as a result of any kind of breakup, is neutral until we decide to use that energy to either go to the positive side of the scale or the negative one. The choice is always ours.
Love VS Breakup
When you are in a state of love with a person or a goal, the kind of energy you experience is passive and relaxing. You are completely at peace and feel a sense of calm. It almost seems like the world has come to a halt.
When you fall in love with a person or with your work or with a vision, you’d feel deeply connected to it, as if it’s actually a part of you only. Purely from the energy intensity perspective, this kind of energy is scattered and uniformly spread throughout your body. You will the positive sensations in your entire body.
But when your heart breaks, then the intensity of energy grows multiple folds. It becomes concentrated at a single point, generally around your chest, and the impact it can bring with it is simply massive.
A ton of great artists in history used this particular energy only in some way or the other to break the shackles and transcend the normal to create something totally magical. This kind of energy is so strong and infectious that even if you want to, you can’t really distract yourself that easily from the clutches of this power as it’s so unidirectional and concentrated.
You might feel distracted from time to time even when working on the projects you love where then you have to forcibly shift your focus back onto the work. But one of the positives of a breakup is that you simply can’t take your mind from the pain and the void it created. You have to
try real hard to keep your mind distracted.
Interesting, isn’t it? All I am saying is, why not use that razor-sharp focus you developed into something constructive? I mean you are already hurting because of the breakup, so why now let that drag you further down the soul-sucking black hole.
The energy that is accumulated will either come out constructively or destructively. So, if it has to come out one way or the other, it might as well come out creating something good. And only you can channelize that energy to experience the positive side of a breakup.
Head VS Heart
Under normal circumstances when you create something from your head or your mind, it can be outdone by someone with more caliber or experience or skills in the same field. But, when you do something with your heart, then that’s beyond the realm of comparison altogether.
The pain, the energy emanating from the heart after a breakup, when put to good use in such a way, that you totally lose your own self during the process, then that’s when you establish something that’s beyond good or bad, positive or negative, success or failure. Your creation becomes love itself.
Whether it was the Taj Mahal of Shah Jahan or Van Gogh’s masterful portraits, Shakespear’s literature or Adele’s music, or the hundreds of other timeless artists who made themselves immemorial through their craft, the sole reason they were able to do what they did is because of the thing I am rambling about for the past 10min.
A real entrepreneur transferred his energy into building something revolutionary, a musician into creating an elixir for our ears, an artist into turning a canvas into a masterpiece, and a sportsman into something worth drooling over again and again.
You Become Fearless
A real heartbreak can really be deplorable. You can literally feel your heart being chopped off into a bazillion tiny little pieces. The pain is insurmountable and the effect isn’t worn off that easily. The positive side of heartbreak or the silver lining is that you eventually become fearless.
I am suddenly reminded of Tyler Durden who famously said, “It’s only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything.”
You no longer fear going broke when you are already a beggar, you no longer fear losing a job when you are already unemployed, you no longer fear about your health when you are already in a hospital. When you are in the worst of scenarios, the word ‘fear’ instantly vanishes into thin air.
Now, that you went through a breakup already, you no longer have all those trivial and pesky fears left swirling in your mind, that used to suck up your energy. You no longer care about the small things that would earlier eat you up without adding any value to your life.
And I don’t know if you’d realize it at the moment, but there is this sense of freedom that you’d experience, which can turn out to be a gamechanger if leveraged in the right way.
Time to Introspect
You might be the busiest person on the planet, but when you meet a breakup of any kind or when life throws a sneaky uppercut punch that literally turns your life upside down, your mental space suddenly expands in an intriguing way.
There suddenly is a lot of time for you to think and ponder about yourself. What went wrong, how did it happen, what could you have done differently, what lessons can you keep in mind from the next time onwards, and so forth.
Essentially, you get time to ask the right kind of questions, get to know more about yourself, and rebuild yourself inside out. That’s possibly the biggest positive of a breakup. The emotional energy trapped in you—if given the right direction—will help you discover dimensions you had no idea existed.
Measure Yourself in the Truest Sense
Another amazing positive of a breakup is that you get to know how strong you are from the inside. You’d have no idea about how firm and bold you actually are when everything is going smoothly and according to you.
It’s only when something you never even imagined in your wildest of dreams becomes your reality can you actually measure what you are truly made of.
You won’t realize exactly how talented and skilled you are until you are fired and are looking for a new job, you won’t realize just how profound your business skills are until you are forced to build from the ground up after going bankrupt, and you won’t acknowledge how emotionally strong you are until your heart is broken.
Being able to consciously observe and test yourself after any kind of breakup and seeing your true character is indeed a silver lining. You’d be able to see how much pain can you actually bear. And that fun part is that this is the only way to actually transcend the breakup phase.
If you try to run away from it, suppress it, deviate your attention from it, or reject it, then you are just gonna aggravate the whole issue even more. Only when you face it to see your limit, can you actually hit two targets from a single arrow.
Say this to yourself, “Ok, let me see how much worse can this get and how much agony and affliction can I actually face? Let me see if this pain is fatal or not, let me see what kind of destruction is this torture capable of, let me see what’s the upper limit of this suffering. I am not afraid of it!”
When you say this, you are taking the first step to becoming one with the pain, which indeed is the only permanent way to grow out of it. You will also come to terms with the fact that psychological pain is purely subjective and it varies greatly from person to person. Two entirely different reactions can be expected from two people of different backgrounds for the exact same situation.
Not bad for a breakup to help you realize so many things, eh?
Becoming More Self Aware
This is actually an extension to the previous positive of breakup only. You must have noticed that whenever you hurt yourself unconsciously, whether it is biting your tongue, or stepping over a banana peel or burning yourself while cooking, you become all the more aware of these scenarios.
You’d chew your food with more attention, you’d observe more while walking into unchartered territory, and you’d take all the necessary precautions to keep yourself safe while in the kitchen. And the reason is simple, you don’t want to hurt yourself again, at least not intentionally.
Now, when it comes to breakups of any kind, you will simply become more self-aware of what kind of people or situations to steer clear from to avoid future potential heartbreaks. Your analytical skills and your measuring abilities to evaluate the current scenario will go up multiple folds.
So, it is actually possible that you might avert an even bigger heartbreaking situation in the future because your previous breakups helped you prepare for that and made you wiser than before. That’s another positive of a breakup. See, I told you it’s not all blue.
Sparks Inner Motivation
Whenever we are hurt or fail, then one of the two things happens. Either we are so brutally tormented by the breakup that we simply give up hope altogether, or we get so charged up from the inside that we simply become unstoppable until we change the status quo.
This isn’t an absolute positive of a breakup as it’s highly subjective. But hey, the opportunity is there. It depends on you and you alone as to what kind of a response you wanna make.
The interesting thing about this kind of motivation is that it stays for a longer period of time. Most kinds of external motivation don’t really persist and it’s utterly temporary. But, when it comes to a breakup, the silver lining is that the pain it brings with it kinda sparks the inner inspirational lamp which never really runs out of fuel.
It Might Actually Free You
Well, this is one of those things which you don’t realize instantly but eventually. Sometimes some people you are in a relationship with, some goals and dreams you envisioned, or simply any desire that grew in you just aren’t healthy for you.
Instead of pushing you to become better and help you discover something new and amazing in you, they kinda become the reason for your hindrance.
You won’t even realize it until it’s too late as on the surface you might think it’s all well and good as long as you are able to extract positive and feel good emotions out of it. But what you might miss out on is the fact that those temporary positive feelings might be leaving a permanent scar on your soul.
Anything, be it a person or a dream, if they are not helping you grow from the inside, support your core beliefs and values, and aren’t contributing in any way to strengthen your soul, it’s better to cut them off. That’s another positive of a breakup right there, addition through subtraction.
Empathy and Self Love
When Life lands a solid punch, you kinda realize your position and become humble and grounded. Whatever you thought you were in your mind, no matter how high you were in the ego ladder, life would take just a jiffy to throw your egotistical ass down to the ground and drag you through hell.
The positive side of this is that you will discern what being empathetic actually looks like. You will be able to understand the pain of others in a more realistic and relatable manner, helping you form deeper bonds with the people who have gone through the same.
Essentially, it’d also help you rekindle that self-love in you, in case it was lost somewhere. When you are hurt and you have no one by you, you will have to console yourself and be there with you more than anyone else.
No one can possibly understand the myriad of emotions you are going through but you yourself. So, I think it surely is a positive side of a breakup, if it can help us fall in love with ourselves all over again. At the end of the day, you only have you yourself who you can count on unconditionally and unabashedly.
It’s very easy to pat yourself on the back when you do something amazing, but it’s not exactly a walk in the park to place a hand on your heart and say ‘it’s gonna be alright’ when you are not too sure yourself. A breakup can surely help us accelerate the process.
Life Goes On
You will finally get to know more about the nature of the life we have been bestowed with. The simple mantra of life is that it will keep on progressing, and it won’t wait for anyone. It doesn’t matter if it’s your heart that is broken or an asteroid that’d kill all the giant lizards, a person that betrayed you or a world war that’d wipe half the population, life simply doesn’t give a shit.
You can either get on board with it and learn to move the hell on, or be stuck forever in the past which is actually dead and non existent.
So, now that we talked about what you can or should do with the energy that arose due to the breakup, it only makes sense to shed some light on how to make that transition as smooth as possible.
It’s Ok to Feel Bad
Remember that at the end of the day, you are only human after all who is filled with emotions and feelings up to the brim, so it’s natural to feel bad after an ugly breakup, or after your dream shatters into a million pieces.
You wanna cry? Cry. You wanna mourn? Mourn. You want support from your friends and families? Please do. Wanna show your vulnerability and open up? Don’t wait. Don’t act like a superman who’s gonna remain impervious to anything and everything happening around him.
You are only gonna be delaying the whole healing process, which will ultimately abstain you from all the goodies waiting for you after you overcome this hurdle. Don’t try to fight off your natural reaction or impulses. You are just wasting your energy trying to get rid of your ‘negative emotions’.
Like I said earlier, there is no negative or positive. Emotions are simply energy in motion. The more you try to suppress an inflow of energy the more it will pester you. You just gotta give it a new direction.
The quote “What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger” seemed apt to end with. The quote “What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger” seemed apt to end with. | 16,463 | 6,758 | 38,804.250814 |
warc | 202143 | OBJECTIVES
: Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has accrued a growing evidence-base for a wide variety of psychological difficulties. Given that ACT promotes broad and flexible repertoires of behaviour as well as neutralizing the ubiquitous psychological processes theorized to be responsible for much human suffering, such an approach may hold promise. The use of ACT-informed parenting interventions offers another alternative to solely behavioural approaches but it remains relatively understudied and in need of further exploration.
DESIGN
: The current systematic review, which searched four databases, aimed to collate all ACT interventions that included parental therapeutic components in the treatment of various child presenting difficulties. The review also rated the methodological rigour of the ACT evidence-base for this type of treatment format.
RESULTS
: Twenty-seven individual studies covering a broad spectrum of presenting problems were included, comprising of 1,155 participants. A large proportion of studies were within-group designs with a smaller number using randomized controlled trials. The majority of studies reported improvements on either parent report symptoms regarding child physical or psychological functioning as well as parent-reported measures of stress, depression, and anxiety. Similar improvements were noted on a number of ACT mechanisms of change outcomes, including mindfulness, acceptance, and cognitive fusing. These gains were evident for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, chronic pain, and significant physical health difficulties. Maintenance or further treatment gains were often reported at follow-up. These positive findings are tempered by low levels of methodological rigour common in some of the studies included.
CONCLUSIONS
: Despite these limitations, ACT holds promise as a transdiagnostic intervention that can help with the parenting of children with a range of psychological and physical difficulties.PRACTITIONER POINTS: ACT has accrued a relatively strong evidence base for a range of psychological difficulties. Despite some methodological shortcomings, ACT shows promise as an intervention to help parents manage stress and difficulties especially in relation to children with autism, chronic pain, and physical health needs. Further research is required in comparing ACT to more established treatments and helping consolidate initial positive findings.
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warc | 202143 | Majority of IT security professionals find patching overly complex
A resounding majority - 71% - of IT and security professionals found patching to be overly complex, cumbersome and time consuming, according to a new report from Ivanti.
In fact, 57% of respondents stated that remote work has increased the complexity and scale of patch management.
Today's speed of business has shifted user expectations with new impacts on IT. And the rapid shift to remote work has accelerated digital transformation by seven years. In the Everywhere Workplace, employees connect with various devices to access corporate networks, data and services as they work and collaborate from new and different locations, so patching has never been more challenging.
In fact, unpatched vulnerabilities remain one of the most common points of infiltration for ransomware attacks, which have increased in frequency and impact to businesses of all sizes.
Ivanti says the WannaCry ransomware attack, which encrypted an estimated 200,000 computers in 150 countries, remains a prime example of the severe repercussions that can occur when patches are not promptly applied. A patch for the vulnerability exploited by the ransomware had existed for several months before the initial attack, yet many organisations failed to implement it.
Even now, four years later, two-thirds of companies still haven't patched their systems. Yet organisations around the world are still being targeted by WannaCry ransomware attacks; there was a 53% increase in the number of organisations affected with WannaCry ransomware from January to March 2021.
Patching to mitigate vulnerability exposure and ransomware susceptibility is contending with resource challenges and business reliability concerns. The survey found 62% of respondents said that patching often takes a back seat to their other tasks and 60% said that patching causes workflow disruption to users.
In addition, 61% of IT and security professionals said that line of business owners ask for exceptions or push back maintenance windows once a quarter because their systems cannot be brought down.
At the same time, the speed of vulnerability weaponisation continues to increase. It's the perfect storm of poor visibility due to the recently decentralised workforce and the growth of sophisticated threat actors targeting critical vulnerabilities.
As threat actors are maturing their tactics and weaponising vulnerabilities, especially those with remote code execution, organisations are struggling with attack surface risk and ways to accelerate patch and remediation actions. IT and security teams simply cannot respond fast enough; 53% said that organising and prioritising critical vulnerabilities takes up most of their time, followed by issuing resolutions for failed patches (19%), testing patches (15%) and coordinating with other departments (10%). The myriad of challenges that IT and security teams face when it comes to patching may be why 49% of respondents believe their company's current patch management protocols fail to effectively mitigate risk.
"These results come at a time when IT and security teams are dealing with the challenges of the Everywhere Workplace, in which workforces are more distributed than ever before and ransomware attacks are intensifying and impacting economies and governments," says Srinivas Mukkamala, senior vice president of security products at Ivanti.
"Most organisations do not have the bandwidth or resources to map active threats such as those tied to ransomware, with the vulnerabilities they exploit," he says.
"The good news is that the combination of risk-based vulnerability prioritisation and automated patch intelligence can bring to light vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited and have ties to ransomware.
"With unique patch reliability, IT and security teams can seamlessly deploy patches and solve for common challenges that are putting organisations at risk."
Top industry leaders, practitioners and analyst firms recommend a risk-based approach to identify and prioritise vulnerability weaknesses and then accelerate remediation. The White House recently released a memo encouraging organisations to use a risk-based assessment strategy to drive patch management and bolster cybersecurity against ransomware attacks. Furthermore, Gartner listed risk-based vulnerability management as a top security project that security and risk management professionals should focus on in 2021 to drive business value and reduce risk. | 4,536 | 2,080 | 9,839.630769 |
warc | 202143 | Javnost - The Public, Vol. 18 - 2011, No. 3 When “Small” Is “Beautiful”: A Comparative Analysis of Local Radio Policies In Europe
In this article, the focus is on how policy makers in Flanders (Belgium) can be inspired by the implementation of local radio development strategies in three neighbouring markets (the Netherlands, Great-Britain, the Frenchspeaking Community in Belgium). More specific, the article concentrates on the questions of which options policy makers have at their disposal in supporting local radio and what lessons they should learn from foreign experiences in boosting the sector’s development. The final aim is to come up with policy recommendations for reorganising local broadcasting and strengthening its economic and social value. To do this, document analysis was combined with seventeen local radio expert interviews in all markets involved. Next, a cross-country analysis was performed to identify structural conditions and propose policy options for a proactive media policy regarding small-scale radio. | 1,064 | 631 | 1,746.916006 |
warc | 202143 | Preventing Personal Injuries at Fall Events in Portland
Fall is a favorite time of year. In Portland, the season brings a variety of fun local events for people of all ages and interests. It also brings some potential hazards. Between crowds, increasingly wet weather, and earlier sunsets, it is important to take precautions to prevent personal injuries from happening. Our Portland personal injury attorneys share some of their favorite activities and helpful tips for staying safe.
Portland Hosts An Abundance Of Fall Events
Recent news reports by Oregon Live warned of cooling temperatures and increased chances for rain, a sure sign that summer is waning and that fall is headed to Portland. While we will miss the warm weather months, the city hosts an abundance of fall-themed activities to look forward to. Among our favorites include:
The Portland Film Festival:Running throughout October, the Portland Film Festival was named as one of the ‘coolest film festivals in the world by Moviemaker Magazine, it offers a full schedule of films, workshops, networking events, and other fun at theatres throughout the city. Portland Open Studios:Portland is home to a vibrant local arts scene. Each fall, Portland Open Studios allows you to watch the creative process unfold. Running from October 9th through 17th and focuses on more than 100 artists. The Underhill Haunted House and Fearlandia:The Underhill Haunted House held each year at the Moda Center is a highlight of the season. If you act quickly, you may even be able to secure a spot as one of the monsters. The Maize At Sauvie Island:If getting scared out of your wits is not your idea of fun, the Sauvie Island Pumpkin Patch runs through early November. It offers eight acres to roam and two 16-foot observation bridges that provide picturesque panoramas of the island and Mount Hood. Protecting Yourself At Portland Fall Events
Whatever events you opt to attend, bear in mind that Oregon still has a statewide mask mandate in place. In addition to pandemic precautions, follow these tips to prevent personal injuries:
When driving to events, give yourself plenty of time and avoid aggressive driving behaviors that increase car accident risks, such as speeding, tailgating, and failing to yield. Whether walking in the city to local art studios and theatres or crossing parking lots to get to the pumpkin patch, make pedestrian safety a priority. Wear light, bright colors, use designated walkways, and never assume a driver sees you or will stop. Much of the focus in fall is enjoying the change in weather and walking is high on the list of activities. Again, stick to designated paths, wear the appropriate shoes, and be aware that rainy weather and falling leaves increase the risks of slip and fall injuries. Contact Us Today for Help
At the Johnston Law Firm P.C., we help you get the compensation you need to recover when accidents happen. To request a consultation, reach out and call (503) 546-3167 or contact our Portland personal injury attorneys online today.
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warc | 202143 | Subjective health literacy among school-aged children
Paakkari, O., Torppa, M., Villberg, J., Kannas, L., & Paakkari, L. (2018). Subjective health literacy among school-aged children.
Health Education, 118(2), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1108/HE-02-2017-0014 Published inHealth Education Date2018 Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited 2018. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Emerald. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
Purpose The aim of this study was to explore Finnish adolescents’ subjective health literacy (HL) in association to school achievement, learning difficulties, educational aspirations, and family affluence. Design/methodology/approach Nationally representative data were collected in Finland as part of the international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. The respondents consisted in total of 3,833 adolescents (7th and 9th graders) from 359 schools. The Health Literacy for School-aged Children (HLSAC) instrument was applied to measure adolescents’ subjective HL, while the Family Affluence Scale (FAS) was used to measure adolescents’ socioeconomic status. Information was gathered on school achievement, learning difficulties, and educational aspirations. Findings Approximately one third of the adolescents manifested a high level of HL, around 60% had a moderate level of HL, and about one tenth had low HL. The HL level was lower for boys than for girls, and lower for 7th graders than for 9th graders. In the total sample the strongest explanatory variables for HL were school achievement in the first language, and educational aspirations. Originality/value This study provides the first Finnish nationally representative examination of adolescents’ subjective HL levels, and how these vary across age and gender groups. In drawing conclusions and presenting suggestions for HL interventions, it is important to verify the nature of the HL examined in any given study, and how it was researched. ...
PublisherEmerald Keywords Publication in research information system MetadataShow full item record Related funder(s)Academy of Finland Funding program(s)Research post as Academy Research Fellow, AoF Additional information about fundingThis study is funded by National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland and Academy of Finland (No. 276239). Related items
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warc | 202143 | Paracetamol is one of the best-selling drugs today. It is usually prescribed to treat mild-moderate pain or to treat fever generally. And it is precisely for this reason that we usually find doses of paracetamol in other medications.
Paracetamol is considered a very safe drug, as long as the recommended dose is respected. However, despite being a safe drug, there are some
contraindications of paracetamol as well as side effects to consider. Contraindications of paracetamol
Paracetamol is one of the few drugs that can be consumed in almost any situation, it is even suitable during pregnancy and lactation, as long as the dose is followed recommended. Taking this medicine also does not influence driving cases as it does not cause drowsiness. Even so, there are situations in which paracetamol is contraindicated:
If you have a liver disease it is not recommended take paracetamol. If you are allergic to any component of the drug.
Likewise, before taking this medicine the following contraindications should be taken into account:
Do not exceed the dose recommended by the medical specialist. Do not consume without medical supervision. Its free use is contraindicated. In case of persistent pain or fever of more than three days, interrupt the treatment and consult the doctor again . Side effects
Al Like all medicines, paracetamol can cause some side effects, especially if you take more than it should or follow any of the contraindications that we have indicated. What are the side effects of paracetamol?
Allergic reactions: although paracetamol is a drug very safe, it can cause some kind of allergy to a 0, 01% of people who consume it. Overdose: the maximum recommended dose is 4 grams per day. A higher consumption of this drug is totally contraindicated, unless the specialist has assessed it. Taking paracetamol regularly and in large doses can cause overdose in liver problems, kidney damage, digestive problems, heart attacks, strokes and cardiac arrests.
So, in order not to suffer from these contraindications, it is always advisable to follow the instructions of the doctor or the package insert to the letter.
Why is paracetamol combined with other drugs?
Due to the great tolerance that most of the population has to paracetamol, despite the contraindications, it does not cause great interactions and, paracetamol is a perfect drug to combine other types of active ingredients in the same pharmaceutical form with, that is, in the same medicine. This is a great advantage since, in a single shot, the expected results can be achieved. You can combat more than one symptom at the same time.
It is common to find a great variety in the market of anti-flu, which combine paracetamol with an antihistamine and a decongestant, reducing the symptoms of colds, flu and, such as sneezing, nasal congestion, general malaise, pain and fever, specifies Alicia de Toro, pharmacist at the Information Center of the Drug from the Official College of Pharmacists of Zaragoza.
So, being very careful with contraindications and side effects, it is a very safe drug, like others such as, for example, ibuprofen. | 3,135 | 1,429 | 6,844.786564 |
warc | 202143 | This Financial Management for Projects and Contracts training course explores the financial metrics that are commonly used and also examines the less frequently thought of financial impact of typical operating decisions and actions. Building on your competencies, you will examine the inner mechanics of how finance and accounting can impact your project.
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warc | 202143 | We all have a higher authority to answer to. While voters spoke in November by reaffirming divided leadership, the government must ultimately answer to whoever finances our debt and deficits.
In August 2010, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen declared that our debt is our largest national threat. Standard and Poor’s brought the issue back into focus when they downgraded the country’s credit rating in August of 2011. But with the cost to borrow money for 10 years at 1.65 percent, the market doesn’t appear worried about our national debt.
Eventually, the market may force the government to a workable solution by increasing interest rates on our debt.
We owe 1.6 trillion dollars to China, 1.1 trillion to Japan, 242 billion to Brazil, 191 billion to Taiwan, and 165 billion to Switzerland. For now, these countries are eager to own a large amount of our debt paying nearly zero interest. While lawmakers have legal and moral obligations to citizens, they have a financial obligation to debt holders.
These countries are the bull elephants that could easily start a Greek-like stampede out of Treasury debt. Stampedes are irrational, binary events. They happen fast and are unpredictable. Lawmakers must act rationally now to prevent an irrational market force.
Aging demographics in Japan and China will eventually force them to dip into their respective reserves (3 trillion dollars in China). As their citizenry ages, Japan and China will likely need to offer some sort of social safety net to their citizens. In 10 years, Japan will move from a net saver to a net spender, forcing them to sell their U.S. Government debt to finance these expenditures.
We need a plan to pay off our debt ahead of these massive demographic shifts.
What will work? Our one-trillion dollar annual deficit cannot be closed by higher taxes alone. We have to cut discretionary spending, which accounts for around 35 percent of the Federal budget. The rest is defense and entitlements. The right solution is one that shares the burden on both the spending and tax side.
Healthcare advances are extending our longevity, and the work we typically do is more service-based than the back-breaking manual labor jobs of the industrial revolution. Our long-term debt solution will likely mean we work until 70 or longer before receiving government benefits.
As the largest economy on the planet, we have more time to find a solution than Greece or Spain, but we need to do so quickly. Without compromise by both parties, we will not fix the debt problem. | 2,573 | 1,331 | 4,923.689707 |
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