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Scientists recently discovered a new micro-continent submerged under the Indian Ocean that was hidden by the islands of Reunion and Mauritius.
Scientists have named this brand spanking new continent Mauritia, and we are very excited to meet the inhabitants of this Atlantis-like place.
First and foremost, the Mauritians have been living on an underwater continent all of this time, so they have clearly developed ways to extract oxygen from water through natural processes. Imagine how many drowning suicides could be prevented! Moreover, their communities resemble the communist villages that the Smurfs live in but just underwater. So their communist world resembles Sponge Bob Square Pants, just without the pants.
Furthermore, they have been able to avoid detection from the wider race of human beings, but that is not to say that they have not interfered with some of our Earthling clan. After a botched attempt at kidnapping Karl Marx, in the hopes that he could set straighten out a rogue village called Port Said which declared itself an independent capitalist center bent on producing cheap goods by exploiting a surplus value off of the sweaty backs of the workers of the world, Mauritians reappeared centuries later to implant the idea of piracy in the heads of unemployed Somalis. Their intention was to frustrate Asian fisherman and prevent the mass extinction of their friends and closest allies the great tuna. But the best made plans of mice, men, and Mauritians often go astray. Instead, they are now eternally plagued by the guilt of making their home, the Indian Ocean, a place to be feared rather than loved and respected.
So what do these curious creatures look like? They are meretricious, mermaid-like creatures that can sail through the ocean with the agility of a seal but the presence of a nuclear submarine. Each Mauritians carries with him/her at all times a sharp cutting instrument that resembles an Omani khanjarwhich is an absolutely essential battle weapon during encounters with their mortal enemies, the dolphins. Many a brave Mauritian have died as a result of eternal bleeding resulting from being speared by the dreaded dolphins of the Indian Ocean.
Once upon a time, these species lived side by side. Mauritians used to force their pregnant women to give birth surrounded by seven dolphins (a practice later repeated by the grungy hippies that reside in the Florida region of the United States); however, the birth of the Mauritian warrior Karsku changed a once harmonious relationship. Before he was out of the womb, Karsku slaughtered all of the dolphins in a fit of rage that was predicted by the resident oracle. The dolphins never forgave, and the Mauritians didn’t forget. They were enemies ever since.
Be that as it may, there are plenty of things we can learn from the inhabitants of Earth’s newest continent. First, we should treat them with respect because having friends, even meretricious mermaids, is better than being alone in this world. Second, we can eliminate suicide by drowning if they teach us the ways to breathe under water. Finally, we can perhaps rekindle the old ways of dolphin births that created so many good souls one day long ago. | <urn:uuid:efe100f0-947a-4d2c-8e96-b14027d27640> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cairoscene.com/Buzz/The-Martians-of-Mauritia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.961862 | 647 | 2.125 | 2 |
Load disaggregation for the identification of specific load types in the total demands (e.g., demand-manageable loads, such as heating or cooling loads) is becoming increasingly important for the operation of existing and future power supply systems. This paper introduces an approach in which periodical changes in the total demands (e.g., daily, weekly, and seasonal variations) are disaggregated into corresponding frequency components and correlated with the same frequency components in the meteorological variables (e.g., temperature and solar irradiance), allowing to select combinations of frequency components with the strongest correlations as the additional explanatory variables. The paper first presents a novel Fourier series regression method for obtaining target frequency components, which is illustrated on two household-level datasets and one substation-level dataset. These results show that correlations between selected disaggregated frequency components are stronger than the correlations between the original non-disaggregated data. Afterwards, convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) methods are used to represent dependencies among multiple dimensions and to output the estimated disaggregated time series of specific types of loads, where Bayesian optimisation is applied to select hyperparameters of CNN-BiLSTM model. The CNN-BiLSTM and other deep learning models are reported to have excellent performance in many regression problems, but they are often applied as “black box” models without further exploration or analysis of the modelled processes. Therefore, the paper compares CNN-BiLSTM model in which correlated frequency components are used as the additional explanatory variables with a naïve CNN-BiLSTM model (without frequency components). The presented case studies, related to the identification of electrical heating load and lighting load from the total demands, show that the accuracy of disaggregation improves after specific frequency components of the total demand are correlated with the corresponding frequency components of temperature and solar irradiance, i.e., that frequency component-based CNN-BiLSTM model provides a more accurate load disaggregation. Obtained results are also compared/benchmarked against the two other commonly used models, confirming the benefits of the presented load disaggregation methodology. | <urn:uuid:bb5d9d5b-d288-45a4-a0d7-ccf7afcfa1e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=3f108b0f-33ab-4bac-a657-367a35c99c7c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.942811 | 445 | 2.125 | 2 |
Our company had hired John from a nearby competitor, and as he and I got to know each other, we discovered we knew some people in common, including Tom. I had met Tom a few times at industry events, but John had co-labored with him daily as managers for the same employer. “What I really respect about Tom,” John began, “is the fact that, no matter how many people are in a meeting, he is unafraid to admit that he doesn’t understand something, and he will continue to ask questions until he does.” Until this point, I could be counted among the timid souls who preferred to sit quietly in ignorance than to risk the embarrassment of revealing it, but I immediately decided to take courage from this story of Tom’s honesty and henceforth to pursue a matter until I understood it.
Encouraging His disciples in His final hours, Jesus said, “I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”1 We are left to wonder about the blank stares, the less-than-convincing head-nods, and the length of unknowing silence before Thomas audibly confessed what surely all silently wondered: “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”2 He had been one of the quiet disciples, but in this moment the world needed one willing to set aside personal pride for eternal truth—the world needed Thomas. For Jesus’ answer to his question has echoed for millennia a truth-claim that will never cease: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”3
We call him “doubting Thomas”—a moniker well-earned, though perhaps a bit judgmental—but I think we could just as easily think of him “honest Thomas.” Understanding and certainty were so vital to him that he stepped into the momentary leadership vacuum, speaking courageously and seeking clarity, not content to be without it. And aren’t we glad! Yet Thomas will learn more—much more—in the next two weeks of his life, for as important as it is for us to seek truth and understanding, we must also reach the point of trusting what we do not see or cannot fully comprehend. It’s called faith—not just any faith, but faith in Jesus, who, as we now know, is the way and the truth and the life. We come to the Father through Him. (Thanks for asking, Thomas!)
Father, thank you for hearing us when we seek to understand you and for speaking truth to our soul—your word is truth. Strengthen us to live this life by faith in your Son who loves us and gave Himself up for us. In His name we pray. Amen.
1 John 14:3, 4
2 John 14:5
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Today during lunch time I helped my students setup QR code readers on their mobile phones in preparation for an activity they will be completing in the coming weeks within my Outdoor Education class. In order to study the safety aspects and risk taking factors that need to be considered before completing outdoor activities, the students will be completing an orienteering course using their bikes as a form of transportation. However this is no ordinary course, here’s why…
- The students will be working in pairs using their mobile phones and their QR code reading software.
- The course will start with a single QR code, each pair will receive a different code so that they start at a different part of the course.
- Students will scan their codes which will then reveal the directions they need to dial into their compasses and a riddle that gives clues as to the location of the first marker and the next QR code.
- Half way throughout the course is a QR code with a difference, it contains a template for an SMS message that links directly to my mobile phone. Once scanned the students will send a text message that basically asks for the next clue, which will then be sent to them so they can complete the course.
- The final QR code links to a downloadable Microsoft word document that details the questions they need to complete around the practical experience as related to the course.
The kids are already super excited about this activity and are looking forward to the challenge of not only deciphering the QR codes but the riddles contained within them. To generate the QR codes I used the google generator then copied them into a word document that you can download here.
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- 2zke; SNAP-derived features in text and JSON formats;
- X-ray (2.6 Å)
- Crystal structure of the sra domain of mouse np95 in complex with hemi-methylated cpg DNA
- Arita K, Ariyoshi M, Tochio H, Nakamura Y, Shirakawa M (2008): "Recognition of hemi-methylated DNA by the SRA protein UHRF1 by a base-flipping mechanism." Nature, 455, 818-821. doi: 10.1038/nature07249.
- DNA methylation of CpG dinucleotides is an important epigenetic modification of mammalian genomes and is essential for the regulation of chromatin structure, of gene expression and of genome stability. Differences in DNA methylation patterns underlie a wide range of biological processes, such as genomic imprinting, inactivation of the X chromosome, embryogenesis, and carcinogenesis. Inheritance of the epigenetic methylation pattern is mediated by the enzyme DNA methyltransferase 1 (Dnmt1), which methylates newly synthesized CpG sequences during DNA replication, depending on the methylation status of the template strands. The protein UHRF1 (also known as Np95 and ICBP90) recognizes hemi-methylation sites via a SET and RING-associated (SRA) domain and directs Dnmt1 to these sites. Here we report the crystal structures of the SRA domain in free and hemi-methylated DNA-bound states. The SRA domain folds into a globular structure with a basic concave surface formed by highly conserved residues. Binding of DNA to the concave surface causes a loop and an amino-terminal tail of the SRA domain to fold into DNA interfaces at the major and minor grooves of the methylation site. In contrast to fully methylated CpG sites recognized by the methyl-CpG-binding domain, the methylcytosine base at the hemi-methylated site is flipped out of the DNA helix in the SRA-DNA complex and fits tightly into a protein pocket on the concave surface. The complex structure suggests that the successive flip out of the pre-existing methylated cytosine and the target cytosine to be methylated is associated with the coordinated transfer of the hemi-methylated CpG site from UHRF1 to Dnmt1.
- The contacts include paired nucleotides (mostly a G in Watson-Crick G-C pairing), and
amino-acids within a 4.5-A distance cutoff to base atoms of 5mC.
- The structure is oriented in the base reference frame of 5mC, allowing for easy comparison
and direct superimposition between entries.
- The black sphere (•) denotes the 5-methyl carbon atom in 5mC.
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Recently in the APC/ESSC office in Malaybalay, we shared about the Jesuit ministry to Indigenous Peoples. Many people are new while others have been long at the work, but the depth of human engagement and simply, the love experienced with the Pulangiyen community have moved all.
Grace Duterte has worked with ESSC for over six years and shared her insights during the discussion. Grace saw the neglect of the local culture and our role in alleviating the status of Indigenous Peoples and supporting them in their desire for equality and integration with broader society. This is a whole new dimension to her work, which she has not previously engaged with.
“I saw the presentation on responses to indigenous community needs and it opened my eyes. I realized that we can do much more in seeking quality life with Indigenous Peoples. It is a great challenge for me to find out how am I going to love the culture and understand further these people. By ethnicity, I am one of them, but my thoughts, deeds, and acts are not as theirs.
Getting to know their language will now be my goal so that I may be able to relate with them. Not even a single word can I speak and understand. My grandmother is a pure Lumad of the Bukidnon tribe but she didn’t even bother, though she had quite some time, to teach us her language. Maybe that was the effect of society on her; she thought it was better not to talk about her life and her people, even with her children.
Over the past decades, these people were oftentimes the discriminated ones. They were not given any place or importance; they were deprived of benefits that they ought to have. They were treated as unequal and so they do not have life they might be longing for, a life that anybody longs for. It is as if they do not belong to society; it has been too hard for them to attain, and it has gone too far out of their reach. They seem to be “kawawa” (unfortunate). Why have we done this to them?
I have come to realize how much time I have wasted in not making the effort of knowing more deeply what and who I am. I never thought of the people and the culture as important for me to know. Or maybe because I also do not have the will to know it since we were not taught about their culture, practice and tradition. If I could only bring back the time, when my lola (grandmother) was still alive, then I could ask her these important facts and realities.
Deep in my heart, I feel for these people. But I have never been able to understand the true value and meaning of their life, as I have never known how it feels to be one of them. It is not about who has done any good to them. Rather, it is all about valuing, respecting, understanding, and treating them the way we want to be treated. Pedro said that the work in Bendum is not about him or other Jesuits, it is not about the organization. Rather, it is about the willingness and courage to do good and help the Pulangiyen and others to alleviate their status so that they engage in society with equality.
Establishing programs and activities for the purpose of the community in developing their potentials, skills, knowledge, abilities and capabilities to be productive individuals – fully alive and sharing their lives – is what it is all about. It is about bridging the gap between Indigenous Peoples and local society, and thus, giving the former the opportunity to be emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, and economically stable so they can be confident and relate with society. With the close coordination, participation and engagement of different individuals and organizations, this human development can be realized. It’s a matter of getting involved and living within their means.
This could be the way that I may be able to grasp a better understanding of why I need to belong and be part of a culture. It doesn’t matter who and what we are but how we can be of help in attaining the goals of human development. It is a challenge for me to pursue a new beginning and examine my values and attitudes towards these people.
The institute has done much in accompanying them as they develop their potentials, gain an education and safeguard their rights. Despite differences in our perceptions, attitudes, values, character, religion, thoughts and ideals, we can still work together in harmony for peace, prosperity and equality with the intention of total human development.” | <urn:uuid:dc140ba3-22a0-4254-ad3f-960ee054986d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apupalamguwancenter.essc.org.ph/?p=715 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.984541 | 936 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Gyanvapi Mosque: Courts Must Remember the Purpose of Places of Worship Act
The courts must be vigilant about the effect, affect, and consequences of their orders in such delicate matters.
The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act ,1991 was introduced as a measure to provide and develop glorious traditions of love, peace, and harmony.
The object of the Act is to prohibit conversion of any place of worship – and to provide for the maintenance of the religious character of any such place as it existed on the 15th day of August 1947.
The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act
Section 3 of the Act extends prohibition of conversion of any place of worship.
Section 4 provides that "If, on the commencement of this Act, any suit, appeal or other proceeding with respect to the conversion of the religious character of any place of worship, existing on the 15th day of August, 1947, is pending before any Court, tribunal or other authority, the same shall abate, and no suit, appeal or other proceeding with respect to any such matter shall lie on or after such commencement in any Court, tribunal or other authority: Provided that if any suit, appeal or other proceeding, instituted or filed on the ground that conversion has taken place in the religious character of any such place after the 15th day of August, 1947, is pending on the commencement of this Act, such suit, appeal or other proceeding shall not so abate and every such suit, appeal or other proceeding shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1)."
This enactment was opposed vociferously by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on the floor of the Parliament as well as on public platforms with assertion that it is nothing but an effort to appease minorities.
The Supreme Court, however, in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, found this law as a great measure to protect the secular fabric of the Indian society.
The apex court also observed that in pressing the character of places of public worship, the Parliament has mandated in no uncertain terms that history and its wrongs shall not be used as instrument to oppress the present and the future.
The Suit in the Varanasi Court
A district court at Varanasi is now adjudicating a suit seeking the “restoration” of a temple at the site of the Gyanvapi Mosque.
The suit was filed on behalf of deities – Shiva, Maa Shringar Gauri, and Ganesh – by certain individuals who allege that the temple was destroyed on orders of Aurangzeb in 1699.
The court not only sought responses from the Centre, the Uttar Pradesh government, Varanasi district magistrate, Varanasi senior superintendent of police, the managers of the mosque, the board of trustees of the adjoining Kashi Vishawanath Temple, and the Uttar Pradesh Muslim Personal Law Board, but on an application, has now passed an order to have the mosque surveyed by a commission appointed by it. Report of the commission is to be submitted on 17 May.
The case appears to be a part of an agenda to raise and agitate the issues relating to the places of worship which were said to be converted centuries ago. This, and the efforts alike are causing serious injuries to communal harmony.
On the face of it, the legal course adopted appears to be in conflict with the provisions of the Act of 1991. The court before calling report should have decided the issue pertaining to the application of the Act aforesaid.
This issue is also pending consideration before the Supreme Court though no interim order has been passed staying the survey ordered, but the appropriate course even for the trial court was not to pursue for the survey till having a mandate on the issue by the apex court.
Why Courts Need to Be Vigilant
The courts must be vigilant about the effect, affect, and consequences of their orders in such delicate matters. In the instant matter, there is no such urgency that may warrant a report of survey at this stage.
Be that as it may, now it is for the Supreme Court to examine the entire issue. The verdict of the apex court will have far-reaching consequences.
The court, while dealing with the matter about application of the Act of 1991, should also keep in mind the purpose and object of this enactment, and the consequences, if such kind of litigation be permitted to be adjudicated by legal forums.
In entirety, the secular fabric of our country is at stake and that is to be protected in any case.
(Justice Govind Mathur is a former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed are the author’s own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for them.)
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Biomine search engine prototype
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Biomine: Predicting links between biological entities using network models of heterogeneous database. Lauri MA Eronen and Hannu TT Toivonen. BMC Bioinformatics 13:119, 2012.
Biomine project: Knowledge discovery in biological databases
Public biological databases contain huge amounts of rich data, such as annotated sequences, proteins, domains, and orthology groups, genes and gene expressions, gene and protein interactions, scientific articles, and ontologies. The Biomine project develops methods for the analysis of such collections of data.
Example problem: candidate gene analysis
As a motivating problem, consider gene mapping. Mapping of a disease can result in tens or hundreds of candidate genes. The next problem is then to identify the most promising genes for further research. The current state of the art consists largely of manual exploration of public databases, for instance to find connections between genes and phenotypes. The Biomine project develops methods for automated discovery and prediction of previously unknown and potentially biologically relevant connections. Our focus is on candidate gene analysis, and methods we develop help geneticists assess the potential relationship of their candidate genes to the disease under study.
Research approach: graph mining
In the Biomine approach, all information is handled as graphs: nodes correspond to different concepts (such as gene, protein, domain, phenotype, biological process, tissue), and semantically labelled edges connect related concepts (e.g., gene BCHE codes protein CHLE, which in turn has the molecular function 'beta-amyloid binding'; see a simple example graph). One central goal is to develop methods for establishing new, previously unknown connections between nodes, in other words, creation of biological hypotheses. We develop and use data mining algorithms for this. Predicted connections could be based, for instance, on discovered analogies between two concepts or their contexts, or on finding (strong) paths between concepts.
Applications for graph mining
Discovery of patterns in graphs have numerous potential applications in biology, including the analysis of metabolic networks, regulatory relationships, protein structures, and chemical compounds, as obvious candidates. Virtually any data could be described as graphs, and the developed methods can potentially be applied in other areas, too.
People and partners
Researchers in the project:
- Prof. Hannu Toivonen (contact person),
- Lauri Eronen,
- Petteri Hintsanen,
- Kimmo Kulovesi, and
- Laura Langohr.
- Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation,
- Jurilab Ltd,
- Biocomputing Platforms Ltd, and
- GeneOS Ltd,
and it co-operated with
- Prof. Juha Kere, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- CSC, the Finnish IT center for science and
- VTT Biotechnology.
Biomine: Predicting links between biological entities
using network models of heterogeneous database
Lauri Eronen and Hannu Toivonen. BMC Bioinformatics 13:119, 2012.
SegMine workflows for semantic microarray data analysis in Orange4WS
Vid Podpecan, Nada Lavrac, Igor Mozetic, Petra Kralj Novak, Igor Trajkovski, Laura Langohr, Kimmo Kulovesi, Hannu Toivonen, Marko Petek, Helena Motaln, Kristina Gruden. BMC Bioinformatics 12:416, 2011.
Fast Discovery of Reliable Subnetworks
Petteri Hintsanen, Hannu Toivonen, and Petteri Sevon. The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 104-111, Odense, Denmark, August 2010.
Fast Discovery of Reliable k-terminal Subgraphs
Melissa Kasari, Hannu Toivonen, and Petteri Hintsanen. The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Part II, LNAI 6119, 168-177, Hyderabad, India, June 2010.
Bisociative Knowledge Discovery for Microarray Data Analysis
Igor Mozetic, Nada Lavrac, Vid Podpecan, Petra Kralj Novak, Helena Motaln, Marko Petek, Kristina Gruden, Hannu Toivonen, and Kimmo Kulovesi. The 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-X), 190-199, Lisbon, Portugal, January 2010.
Finding Reliable Subgraphs from Large Probabilistic Graphs
Petteri Hintsanen, Hannu Toivonen. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 17 (1): 3-23. 2008.
Compressing Probabilistic Prolog Programs
Luc De Raedt, Kristian Kersting, Angelika Kimmig, Kate Revoredo, Hannu Toivonen. Machine Learning 70 (2-3): 151-168. 2008.
Subgraph Queries by Context-free Grammars
Petteri Sevon and Lauri Eronen. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics 5 (2): 100. 2008.
- Probabilistic Explanation Based Learning
Luc De Raedt, Angelika Kimmig, Hannu Toivonen. 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), 176-187, Warsaw, Poland, September 2007. Winner of the ECML-07 Best Paper Award.
- The Most Reliable Subgraph Problem, Petteri Hintsanen. 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), 471-478, Warsaw, Poland, September 2007.
ProbLog: A Probabilistic Prolog and its Application in Link Discovery
Luc De Raedt, Angelika Kimmig, Hannu Toivonen. Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2468-2473, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
Link discovery in graphs derived from biological databases
Petteri Sevon, Lauri Eronen, Petteri Hintsanen, Kimmo Kulovesi, Hannu Toivonen. 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2006 (DILS'06), LNBI 4705, 35-49, Hinxton, UK, July 2006. Springer.
The project is carried by the Discovery Research Group.
Contact: Prof. Hannu Toivonen, email [email protected].
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Water-responsive (WR) materials that strongly swell and shrink in response to changes in relative humidity (RH) have shown a great potential to serve as high-energy actuators for soft robotics and new energy-harvesting systems. However, the design criteria governing the scalable and high-efficiency WR actuation remain unclear, and thus inhibit further development of WR materials for practical applications. Nature has provided excellent examples of WR materials that contain stiff nanocrystalline structures that can be crucial to understand the fundamentals of WR behavior. This work reports that regenerated Bombyx (B.) mori silk can be processed to increase β-sheet crystallinity, which dramatically increases the WR energy density to 1.6 MJ m−3, surpassing that of all known natural muscles, including mammalian muscles and insect muscles. Interestingly, the maximum water sorption decreases from 80.4% to 19.2% as the silk's β-sheet crystallinity increases from 19.7% to 57.6%, but the silk's WR energy density shows an eightfold increase with higher fractions of β-sheets. The findings of this study suggest that high crystallinity of silk reduces energy dissipation and translates the chemical potential of water-induced pressure to external loads more efficiently during the hydration/dehydration processes. Moreover, the availability of B. mori silk opens up possibilities for simple and scalable modification and production of powerful WR actuators.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
Y.P. and Y.J. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by The Office of Naval Research (ONR) (N00014‐18‐1‐2492). R.T. and Y.J. thank the support of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1605904. The authors thank Haozhen Wang and Zhi‐lun Liu for technical assistance with AFM experiments, and Roxana Piotrowska, Scott McPhee, and Elizabeth J. Biddinger for helpful discussion about FTIR analysis.
© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Organic Chemistry
- Polymers and Plastics
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In any application, we need to add documents to our requests, and in some cases, it is interesting to manage versions of these documents. This is possible when using SharePoint to store documents. This article will focus on manipulating versions of a document in a SharePoint library.
K2 allow using SmartObjects, to manipulate the versions of a document with the method
(detail of a specific version of a document) and
(list all the versions of a document):
But K2 does not return a link to consult a specific version. We must call the web service
https: // [monURLSharePoint] /_vti_history/1024/DemoVersion/MonFolder/MonDocument.xlsx
This link is composed of:
- The URL of the SharePoint site where the file is stored
- The name of the document (
- The folder name where this document is stored (
- The name of the library (
- A version ID (1024)
This ID is the conversion of the version number into base 512 🤔
Are you lost? Do not panic, the way to get this ID is simple:
Version ID = ([Major Version] * 512) + [Minor Version]
🧐 For exemple, version 3.2 of a document, will give as version ID: (3 * 512) + 2 = 1538
In your forms, simply generate this URL to access all versions of a document stored in SharePoint.
🧐 Tip: A
method may be useful for restoring a previous version of a document.
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Note 1. If the first and second terms contain different denominations, they must both be reduced to the same denomination; and if the third term be a compound number, it either must be reduced to integers of the lowest denomination, or the low denominations must be reduced to a fraction of the highest denomination contained in it.
Note 2. The same rule is applicable, whether the given quantities be integral, fractional, or decimal.
EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.
5. If 6 horses consume 21 bushels of oats in 3 weeks, how many bushels will serve 20 horses the same time? Ans. 70 bushels.
6. The above question reversed. If 20 horses consume 70 bushels of oats in 3 weeks, how many bushels will serve 6 horses the same time? Ans. 21 bushels. 7. If 365 men consume 75 barrels of provisions in 9 months, how much will 500 men consume in the same time? Ans. 1024 barrels. barrels of provisions in 9 consume in the same Ans. 75 barrels.
8. If 500 men consume 1024 months, how much will 365 men time?
9. A goldsmith sold a tankard for 10 £. 12 s., at the rate of 5 s. 4 d. per ounce; I demand the weight of it.
Ans. 39 oz. 15 fwt.
10. If the moon move 13° 10′ 35′′ in 1 day, in what time does it perform one revolution? Ans. 27 days, 7 h. 43 m.
11. If a person, whose rent is $145, pay $12'63 parish taxes, how much should a person pay whose rent is $378? Ans. $32'925.
12. If I buy 7 lbs. of sugar for 75 cents, how many pounds can I buy for $6? Ans. 56 lbs.
13. If 2 lbs. of sugar cost 25 cents, what will 100 lbs. of coffee cost, if 8 lbs. of sugar are worth 5 lbs. of coffee?
14. If I give $6 for the use of $100 for 12 months, what must I give for the use of $357'82 the same time? Ans. $21'469.
15. There is a cistern which has 4 pipes; the first will fill it in 10 minutes, the second in 20 minutes, the third in
40 minutes, and the fourth in 80 minutes; in what time will all four, running together, fill it?
20 +20 + 0 +
cistern in 1 minute.
Ans. 5 minutes. 16. If a family of 10 persons spend 3 bushels of malt in a month, how many bushels will serve them when there are 30 in the family? Ans. 9 bushels
Note. The rule of proportion, although of frequent use, is not of indispensable necessity; for all questions under it may be solved on general principles, without the formality of a proportion; that is, by analysis, as already shown, ¶ 65, ex. 1. Thus, in the above example,-If 10 persons spend 3 bushels, 1 person, in the same time, would spend of 8 bushels, that is, of a bushel; and 30 persons would spend 30 times as much, that is, 18 9 bushels, as before.
17. If a staff, 5 ft. 8 in. in length, cast a shadow of 6 feet, how high is that steeple whose shadow measures 153 feet? Ans. 144 feet
18. The same by analysis. If 6 ft. shadow require a staff of 5 ft. 8 in. - 68 in., 1 ft. shadow will require a staff of of 68 in. or 8 in.; then, 153 ft. shadow will require 153 times as much; that is, 68 X 153 = 10404 — 1734 in. ⇒ 144 ft., as before.
19. If 3 £. sterling be equal to 4 £. Massachusetts, how much Massachusetts is equal to 1000 £. sterling?
Ans. 1333 £. 6 s. 8 d 20. If 1333 £. 6 s. 8 d. Massachusetts, be equal to 1000£. sterling, how much sterling is equal to 4 £. Massachusetts ? Ans. 3 £.
21. If 1000 £. sterling be equal to 1333 £. 6 s. 8 d. Massachusetts, how much Massachusetts is equal to 3 £. sterling? Ans. 4 £.
22. If 3 £. sterling be equal to 4 £. Massachusetts, how much sterling is equal to 1333 £. 6 s. 8 d. Massachusetts ? Ans. 1000 £.
23. Suppose 2000 soldiers had been supplied with bread sufficient to last them 12 weeks, allowing each man 14 ounces a day; but, on examination, they find 105 barrels, containing 200 lbs. each, wholly spoiled; what must the allowance be to each man, that the remainder may last them the same time? Ans. 12 oz. a day.
24. Suppose 2000 soldiers were put to an allowance of 12 oz. of bread per day for 12 weeks, having a seventh part of their bread spoiled; what was the whole weight of their bread, good and bad, and how much was spoiled?
RULE OF THREE.
The whole weight, 147000 lbs. 21000 lbs. 25.2000 soldiers, having lost 105 barrels of bread, weighing 200 lbs. each, were obliged to subsist on 12 oz. a day for 12 weeks; had none been lost, they might have had 14 oz. a day; what was the whole weight, including what was lost, and how much had they to subsist on?
Ans. Left, to subsist on, 126000 lbs.
2000 soldiers, after losing one seventh part of their bread, had each 12 oz. a day. for 12 weeks; what was the whole weight of their bread, including that lost, and how much might they have had per day, each man, if none had been lost? Whole weight, 147000 lbs. Loss, 21000 lbs.
14 oz. per day, had none been lost. 27. There was a certain building raised in 8 months by 120 workmen; but, the same being demolished, it is required to be built in 2 months; I demand how many men must be employed about it. Ans. 480 men.
28. There is a cistern having a pipe which will empty it in 10 hours; how many pipes of the same capacity will empty it in 24 minutes? Ans. 25 pipes.
29. A garrison of 1200 men has provisions for 9 months, at the rate of 14 oz. per day; how long will the provisions last, at the same allowance, if the garrison be reinforced by Ans. 6 months.
30. If a piece of land, 40 rods in length and 4 in breadth, make an acre, how wide must it be when it is but 25 rods long?
31. If a man perform a journey in 15 days are 12 hours long, in how many will he do it are but 10 hours long?
Ans. 62 rods. when the days when the days Ans. 18 days.
32. If a field will feed 6 cows 91 days, how long will it feed 21 cows? Ans. 26 days.
33. Lent a friend 292 dollars for 6 months; some time after, he lent me 806 dollars how long may I keep it to balance the favour? Ans. 2 months 5+ days.
34. If 30 men can perform a piece of work in 11 days, how many men will accomplish another piece of work, 4 times as big, in a fifth part of the time? Ans. 600 men,
35. If 1 lb. of sugar cost of a shilling, what will of a lb. cost? Ans. 4 d. 3481 4
Note. See T 65, ex. 1, where the above question is solved by analysis. The eleven following are the next succeeding examples in the same TT.
36. If 7 lbs. of sugar cost ₫ of a dollar, what
37. If 64 yds. of cloth cost $3, what cost 9 38. If 2 oz. of silver cost $2'24, what costs
39. If 1⁄2 oz. cost $11, what costs 40. If lb. less by lb. cost 13 less by of 2 lbs. ? 41. If yd. cost $7, what will 40
d., what cost 14 lbs. Ans. 4 £. 9 s. 9 d.
42. If of a ship cost $251, what is
Ans. $59'062. of her worth? Ans. $53 785.
43. At 3 £. per cwt.what will 93 lbs.
Ans. 6 s. 3. d.
45. If yd. cost £., what will
44. A merchant, owning of a vessel, sold of his share for $957; what was the vessel worth? Ans. 1794'375. of an ell English cost? Ans. 17 s. 1 d. 24 q. 46. A merchant bought a number of bales of velvet, each containing 12917 yds., at the rate of $7 for 5 yds., and sold them out at the rate of $11 for 7 yds., and gained $200 by the bargain; how many bales were there? Ans. 9 bales. 47. At $33 for 6 barrels of flour, what must be paid for 178 barrels ? Ans. $979. 48. At $2'25 for 3'17 cwt. of hay, how much is that per ton? Ans. 14'195. how much will Ans. $5'55.
49. If 2'5 lbs. of tobacco cost 75 cents, 185 lbs. cost?
cost 12 lbs. ? Ans. $12
yds.? Ans. $4'269. oz. ?
Ans. $0'84. Ans. $1283.
50. What is the value of '15 of a hogshead of lime, at $2'39 per hhd. ?
51. If '15 of a hhd. of lime cost $0'3585, what is it per
96. It frequently happens, that the relation of the quantity required, to the given quantity of the same kind, depends upon several circumstances combined together; it is then called Compound Proportion, or Double Rule of Three..
1. If a man travel 273 miles in 13 days, travelling only 7 hours in a day, how many miles will he travel in 12 days, if he travel 10 hours in a day?
This question may be solved several ways. First, by analy
If we knew how many miles the man travelled in 1 hour, it is plain, we might take this number 10 times, which would be the number of miles he would travel in 10 hours, or in 1 of these long days, and this again, taken 12 times, would be the number of miles he would travel in 12 days, travelling 10 hours each day.
If he travel 273 miles in 13 days, he will travel of 273 miles; that is, 273 miles in 1 day of 7 hours; and 4 of 273 miles is 27 miles, the distance he travels in 1 hour: then, 10 times 273 270 miles, the distance he travels in 10 hours; and 12 times 2730 = 32760 360 miles, the distance he travels in 12 days, travelling 10 hours each day. Ans. 360 miles.
But the object is to show how the question may be solved by proportion:
First; it is to be regarded, that the number of miles travelled over depends upon two circumstances, viz. the number of days the man travels, and the number of hours he travels, each day.
We will not at first consider this latter circumstance, but suppose the number of hours to be the same in each case: the question then will be,-If a man travel 273 miles in 13 days, how many miles will he travel in 12 days? This will furnish the following proportion :—
13 days 12 days: 273 miles : miles which gives for the fourth term, or answer, 252 miles.
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Joint Hypermobility and Fibromyalgia Syndrome
There seem to be links between fibromyalgia syndrome and joint hypermobility syndrome – both can include symptoms of widespread pain, and hypermobility syndrome seems to be more common in people with fibromyalgia syndrome than in the general population.
What is Joint Hypermobility?People with hypermobile joints are able to move their joints, or bend or stretch their bodies, much further than the rest of the population. Joint hypermobility is often inherited, and about 5-15% of the population has hypermobile joints (this can increase to as much as 38% in Middle Eastern women).
In some people, hypermobile joints have no symptoms other than increasing their bodies' flexibility, and it can be used to an advantage, for example in dance or sport, or in playing an instrument. However, in people with joint hypermobility syndrome, the hypermobility of the joints can lead to pain and other symptoms after excessive or repetitive movement.
Other Symptoms of Joint Hypermobility SyndromeAs well as having hypermobile joints, people with joint hypermobility syndrome may also have skin that is thinner and more fragile than other people's skin, and they may bruise more easily. Young people with joint hypermobility syndrome may develop stretch marks on their skin during periods of fast growth.
Another symptom is known as ‘proprioceptive impairment’, where patients don’t ‘know’ where they are physically in space, which can make them less stable and prone to falls, and awkward or clumsy.
Some people with joint hypermobility syndrome (possibly up to half) are more sensitive to pain than the rest of the population, and have pain at a number of sites across their bodies. Other symptoms can include low blood pressure when standing up, light-headedness and fainting, tachycardia (fast heart rate), anxiety, panic attacks, tiredness and heat intolerance.
Joint Hypermobility Syndrome and Fibromyalgia SyndromeSome scientific studies have suggested links between joint hypermobility syndrome and fibromyalgia syndrome. A Canadian study showed that almost half of their patients with joint hypermobility syndrome also had widespread pain at multiple sites. A study in Spain also linked fibromyalgia syndrome and joint hypermobility syndrome - in the study, 27% of the women with fibromyalgia syndrome had hypermobile joints, in comparison with 11.4% of women with other rheumatological disorders. In a study in Israel in children, 81% of the children with fibromyalgia syndrome also had joint hypermobility syndrome, and 40% of the children with joint hypermobility syndrome also had fibromyalgia syndrome.
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I've been asked to provide a distribution that best describes the place a dart might hit on the dart board. At first glance I though it would be uniform, but that would be true if we were talking about someone throwing it with a blindfold on, then I thought a bivariate normal distribution might do a better job, but I cannot seem to give a reasonable explanation for it.
It depends on factors such as precision and accuracy. If the dart is precise but not accurate, you’ll get a bivariate normal but not at the center. If it is precise and accurate, you’ll get a bivariate normal at the center. If it’s accurate but not precise, you could get a bivariate normal with large variance, or a uniform if you wish. The same is with not accurate and not precise—the hits are centered outside the target but have large spread, so could be modeled using a bivariate normal or a uniform. | <urn:uuid:24a553f1-f5ec-4e22-a0aa-564215fde8f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4476742/what-probability-distribution-best-describes-the-place-of-a-dart/4476751 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.964176 | 198 | 1.765625 | 2 |
I won't have time to read, let alone think about, Nick Szabo today,
but and neither does Tyler Cowen, but Alex Tabarrok does:
Marginal Revolution: The security and productivity of farms : Nick Szabo has a superb post about the interaction between historical agricultural productivity and security. Most obviously, security increases the incentive to invest so agricultural productivity will increase with security. But what determines security? Geographic factors are one possibility:
...two large islands which have been largely or entirely protected from invasion for hundreds of years, Japan and Britain, also had among the highest agricultural productivities per acre during that period as well as the greatest cultivation of even marginal arable lands.... Contrariwise, this theory predicts agricultural productivity will be lowest in unprotected continental regions. Indeed, interior continental regions easily reached by horse tended to be given over to much less productive nomadic grazing. Security constraints were probably what prevented any sort of crop from being grown.
Security issues influence and can be influenced by a wide variety of other choices and institutions. Some crops will recover from a razing quicker than others, for example, so crop choice will be influenced by security. Primogeniture may have been an optimal institution to maintain economies of scale in land defense, as Adam Smith first discussed.
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Todai-ji Temple houses the largest metal statue of the Buddha in the world.
Todai-ji Temple is one of Japan’s most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. Todai-hi was established in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan. After passing through the Nandaimon (the main gate), a large wooden gate watched over by two fierce looking statues, you can see the big roofs of Daibutsuden (The Great Buddha Hall). This 57-meter wide and 47.5-meter high building is the largest wooden building in the world. It also represents the Tenpyo culture in terms of its scale.
The Great Buddha
Daibutsuden hall houses the Great Buddha, designated a National Treasure. The Great Buddha is roughly 15-meter tall, and is the largest metal statue of the Buddha in the world. Several smaller Buddhist statues are also on display in the Daibutsuden Hall.
Can you squeeze through this hole?
Inside the Daibutsuden, there is a pillar with a hole in its base that is the same size as the Daibutsu’s nostril. It is believed that those who can squeeze through this hole will be granted enlightenment in their next life.
At the north of the temple is Shoso-in (Imperial Repository), the end of the Silk-Road. The Shoso-in is a large storehouse constructed in the 8th century. It’s used to store the treasures of Todai-hi Temple and the Imperial Family.
In the west, there is Kaidan-in Temple, which houses statues of Shitenno (the Four heavenly kings, a National Treasure), masterpieces of Tenpyo Era sculpture.
Temple visitors will also encounter some deer from the adjacent Nara Park, begging for shika senbei, special crackers for deer that are sold for around 150 yen.
Address : 406-1 Zoshicho, Nara, 630-8211
Access : 30-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara station.
Bus : It can also be reached by bus from either Kintetsu and JR Nara station. Get off at Todaiji Daibutsuden.
8:00 to 16:30 (November to February)
8:00 to 17:00 (March)
7:30 to 17:30 (April to September)
7:30 to 17:00 (October)
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15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
(Mark 2:15-17 NIV)
We are in the middle of a two-part story about Jesus calling Levi (Matthew) as one of His disciples. In yesterday’s text, we learned a little about Levi – his occupation (tax collector), his lineage (son of Alphaeus), and his response to Jesus’ command to follow Him (Levi left his tax collector’s booth immediately).
In Mark’s typical fashion, he jumps from one scene to the next. Verse 15 fast forwards to the scene at Levi’s house, where there is a large dinner party going on. Jesus and His disciples are there, along with many of Levi’s friends. When we first read verse 15, we assume that since the party was at Levi’s house, Levi would be the host. In closer reading, however, scholars tell us that Jesus was actually the host, and the venue (location) happened to be at Levi’s house.
Mark makes the point that Jesus was having dinner with “many tax collectors and sinners”. Mark uses this same phrase three times in this story. So who were these people? Obviously, the tax collectors were others like Levi who were outcasts of Jewish society because of their choice of vocation. As we learned yesterday, to take up this profession would make a person rich, but would also automatically tag them as a traitor to their Jewish beliefs and customs. Their choice of trade would also exclude them from participating in Jewish community activities and social life.
Were these “tax collectors and sinners” guilty of breaking God’s moral code? For some, the answer was probably “yes”. However, the majority were probably only guilty of not following the strict ultra-legalistic traditions of the Pharisees. Since the Pharisees were the ones calling Jesus’ actions into question, we can assume that they were using their oral traditions as the basis of their judgments.
To the Pharisee, the person who committed murder was the same as the one who did not wash their hands the right way before eating; the one who was unfaithful to their spouse was the same as the one who did not count out the spice seeds they gathered from their garden and give a tenth of them to the Lord as an offering (tithe).
The Pharisees observed Jesus eating with these tax collectors and sinners, and questioned Jesus’ piety. Surely Jesus could not call Himself a teacher of God’s Law and associate with these dregs of society? The Pharisees prided themselves on living a separate life from the “common people” – those who did not or would not follow their strict oral traditions. They would not be caught dead associating with the likes of these commoners – they lived in both contempt of the “sinners”, and in fear that the sins of the sinners would be contagious and rub off on them, causing them to fall into sin.
But yet, here is Jesus, eating dinner with these outcasts of Jewish society. And to top it off, Jesus was likely laughing and teaching them and having a great conversation around the table! How could this be? The Pharisees asked Jesus’ disciples why Jesus would do such a thing as associate Himself with these “tax collectors and sinners”. Would this not ruin His reputation as a holy man? If Jesus keeps up this practice, He could never be one of them, a Pharisee, a member of their exclusive sect.
Jesus hears the murmurings and questions of the Pharisees. In true rabbinical fashion, Jesus answers their question with a saying or truth they would wholeheartedly endorse – a quote from the Pharisees’ own oral tradition: “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” The Pharisees were in complete agreement with Jesus’ statement, as it was a quote from a book called The Mekilta, which was a commentary on the book of Exodus that the Pharisees used as part of their oral traditions.
But notice that Jesus did not stop with the Pharisees’ quote; He continued with the rest of His statement: “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” The Pharisees could not refute Jesus’ statement. But to agree with Jesus would mean the Pharisees would have to give up their separatist ways, which was also unthinkable in their minds.
Let’s look at a few of the truths buried just below the surface of this story. First, we see Jesus using something as simple as a dinner party to teach willing listeners. The dinner party guests were eager to hear Jesus’ message of repentance and the kingdom of God arriving here on earth.
Second, when Jesus quoted the Pharisees’ oral tradition, He was telling the Pharisees that they were the sick ones but were too proud and self-righteous to admit it. The “tax collectors and sinners” knew they were in need of God’s love, grace, and mercy, and were willing to repent and humble themselves as Jesus was teaching. Only if the Pharisees humbled themselves like these dinner guests could they become well.
Third, let’s not miss the symbolism of Jesus eating dinner with sinners. As Jesus continued His message of repentance, His dinner guests accepted Jesus’ gracious invitation and the gift of forgiveness by their presence. Jesus was pointing forward to a day when there will be a great celebration in heaven when He will have dinner with all the redeemed sinners who have chosen to follow Him (Revelation 3:20 and 19:9). Jesus also gave His disciples and us a reminder of His life, death, and resurrection and promise of eternal life through the symbols of a dinner party – the bread and the cup of communion.
So who do we relate to in this story? The tax collectors and sinners, or to our dismay, the Pharisees? May we realize that like both groups, we are in desperate need of Jesus’ message of repentance and forgiveness. The question is whether we humble ourselves and admit our need, or we delude ourselves into thinking that we don’t need Him. | <urn:uuid:47e8b7e0-0c8f-4c43-9a2e-3410a6d66360> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kevinlotz.net/2017/01/17/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.983837 | 1,420 | 2.09375 | 2 |
New drug combination lengthened survival for some with lung cancer
A study conducted under the Lung Cancer Master Protocol (Lung-MAP) found that patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose cancer had progressed on previous immunotherapy lived significantly longer when treated with a combination of ramucirumab (Cyramza) plus pembrolizumab (Keytruda) than when treated with one of the current standard therapies for this type of cancer. The hazard ratio (with 80 percent confidence interval) for overall survival (OS) time for patients on the investigational arm versus the standard of care arm was 0.69 (0.51-0.92). Median OS times on the two arms were 14.5 and 11.6 months, respectively.
Results are being presented June 3 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 annual meeting in Chicago and are simultaneously being published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The study, known as S1800A, was run as part of Lung-MAP, the first lung cancer precision medicine trial supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and was conducted within the NCI's National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) and the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP).
The S1800A principal investigator is Karen Reckamp, MD, MS, director of the Division of Medical Oncology and associate director of clinical research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. Dr. Reckamp will present the trial results at the ASCO meeting.
"This is the first trial to show a survival benefit with ICI and VEGFR inhibition for patients with advanced lung cancer who have experienced tumor progression on prior ICI," Reckamp said.
Pembrolizumab is one of a class of immunotherapy drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), and ramucirumab is a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) inhibitor, a class of drugs that block an enzyme needed to form blood vessels.
The randomized phase 2 S1800A study enrolled 136 eligible patients with stage IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer. These patients had been previously treated with ICIs. In all cases, patients' tumors eventually became resistant to these drugs and grew or spread before the patient enrolled in the S1800A trial.
The trial accrued rapidly and with a diverse population, in large part because of the robust outreach of the Lung-MAP master screening protocol. Roy S. Herbst, MD, Ph.D., deputy director of Yale Cancer Center, Lung-MAP founding and principal investigator, and senior author on the paper commented, "The unique nature of the public–private partnership of Lung-MAP, supported by the expansive and diverse nature of the NCI's NCTN and NCORP, allowed us to bring these new therapies to patients with advanced lung cancer nationwide at no cost to patients—an important improvement in patient access."
Overall survival was the trial's primary endpoint. Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival time (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR). The researchers found no significant difference between the arms in PFS (hazard ratio [80 percent confidence interval]: 0.86 [0.66-1.14]; medians: 4.5 months on the ramucirumab plus pembrolizumab arm vs. 5.2 months on the standard of care arm) or in ORR (22 percent vs. 28 percent).
Grade 3 or higher adverse events (side effects) related to the treatment were recorded in 42 percent of the patients on the ramucirumab plus pembrolizumab arm and in 60 percent of patients on the standard of care arm.
Treatment on the trial's control arm was chosen by the physician and patient from among a set of four standard chemotherapy options: docetaxel plus ramucirumab, docetaxel alone, gemcitabine, or pemetrexed. Approximately two-thirds of patients on standard therapy received docetaxel and ramucirumab as the most active therapy approved in this setting.
The researchers note that S1800A's relatively small sample size means the trial's results cannot be seen as definitive, and the combination should be studied in a larger trial.
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Public speaking is rarely easy. Whether you’re inexperienced, talking to a large group of people or are presenting to high-profile executives, there are a number of factors that may have you especially nervous when public speaking.
Many speakers tend to become introverted in these circumstances and read mechanically from a prepared script and slideshow.
Here are five top tips for turning your run-of-the-mill presentations into public speaking masterpieces.
Audiences love stories, so using a specific example to outline the concept or theory you are trying to explain will go a long way in keeping the audience interested.
Whether it’s funny, tragic or inspirational, you should be able to evoke an emotional response, which can turn even the driest of subjects into a water cooler discussion point.
Finding it tough to come up with your own examples? Seasoned speakers often ask the audience if they have examples – this not only takes the pressure off you, it can provoke debate.
If you are covering a complex topic or a subject that is necessary but perhaps a bit dull, then try to liven it up with a demonstration.
Bring your own props, act out parts of the speech physically or even bring someone onto the stage to help you.
Getting the audience involved in this way prevents them from being bored and makes them feel a part of the presentation, even if they’re the lucky ones that escape your attention!
Any public speaker worth their salt will know their way around a PowerPoint presentation.
However, the difference between a vivid and exciting slideshow and something that sends the audience to sleep is a skill that not every speaker has mastered.
Let’s face it, many people claim that former US vice-president Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize for his slideshow on global warming!
When putting images in your slideshow, make sure they are high-quality, relevant to the issue and add something to the concept that you are discussing.
Ask questions, but avoid answering them!
Asking lots of questions during your presentation forces the audience to think, not least because they might be worried you are going to pick on someone to answer.
These can be rhetorical or actual questions, inviting people to pitch in and offer ideas and solutions to encourage debate among attendees.
Make sure you are knowledgeable on the subject so that you can highlight any inconsistencies in answers given or add extra value to audience contributions.
However, you should try to avoid answering questions where you can. These can disrupt your presentation and take you off on a tangent, particularly if the audience member is trying to catch you out with a toughie.
Either rebound the question back out into the audience to get them involved, or politely say that you are happy to answer questions … during a Q&A session in the speech.
People are often hesitant to make suggestions or contribute in a group – particularly if it’s a large conference or high-profile event.
It probably harkens back to being in school and being mocked for getting a teacher’s question wrong in front of everyone.
As such, make sure to acknowledge and thank people who throw caution to the wind and speak up – creating an inclusive environment helps people to feel more comfortable and will no doubt encourage greater audience participation.
If you’re really keen to have audience input, you can even ask them to brainstorm for the first five or so minutes of the presentation.
This scenario is particularly useful when you’re speaking on a problem-solving issue.
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Strip cultivation heading for third yearMarch 14, 2022
In 2020, Cosun started participating in a multi-year strip cultivation project under the supervision of HAS Den Bosch: the Natuurakker (nature field). On 12 hectares, research will be carried out for seven years on crop strips of 6 meters wide to see whether nature development can go hand in hand with the profitable cultivation of food products. Chicory is one of the crops and this innovative project is heading for its third year.
For 2022 we will make some adjustments to come closer to the optimal circumstances. We are still looking for an optimal combination of crops. Oats and rye have now disappeared and have been replaced by barley, wheat and rapeseed respectively. With this we now have two strips of barley and two strips of wheat. The other crops are: sugar beet, chicory, potatoes, capuchins and alfalfa. In addition, a strip of shrubs and a beetle bank have been integrated to allow natural enemies to hibernate.
There already appears to be a lower disease and pest pressure in the second year (2021). Biodiversity has also increased. In the third year (2022) we will do even more monitoring to further substantiate these assumptions.
Benefits of strip cultivation
The field with different crops, grown alternately in strips and surrounded by nature, must ensure, among other things, a rich biodiversity, high soil fertility and (economically) sustainable food production. Strip cultivation should lead to a more resistant crop and in time it limits the amount of crop protection products required. Above all, it provides a beautiful landscape.
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The rumors around Washington, DC say that President Barack Obama could overturn George W. Bush's 2001 federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research using lines that were derived after August 9 of that year as soon as next week. linkurl:Rick Weiss,;http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/WeissRick.html senior fellow at liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, wrote in an email to __The Scientist__ that, while he has no inside information, there is "a lot of buzz in the advocacy community" regarding a lifting of the ban. Weiss continued that the specifics of Obama's imminent announcement are unclear, but that "scientists are going to be happy." linkurl:__Scientific American__;http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=do-parents-of-embryonic-stem-cell-l-2009-01-28 quoted Harold Varmus, a key science adviser to Obama speaking at a meeting of the New York Stem Cell Foundation this week, saying that there is "reason to believe that there will be some executive order in the near future to reverse the Bush doctrine." Obama...
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Places worth visiting in the surrounding of Krakow
When it comes to visiting Lesser Poland, there’s a lot more to discover than just the city of Krakow – the region’s capital. Whether you’re interested in exploring medieval fortifications, admiring the beauty of nature, or learning about the everyday life and customs of people, who lived 100 years ago, the region of Lesser Poland has something for everyone to enjoy. In this article you’ll be able to read about several attractions in Lesser Poland that are guaranteed to stay in our memory for years to come!
The Ogrodzieniec castle
The Ogrodzieniec castle in the town of Podzamcze is a genuine treasure of architecture, located in the central part of the Krakow-Czestochowa Jurassic system, at its highest altitude – Mount Janowskiego. There is no other castle in the entire Eagle Nest Trail, that would be as impressive and attract as many tourists as the Ogrodzieniec castle. It is the largest fortress in the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland, dating all the way back to the days of king Kazimierz the Great – the early 14th century.
In the 16th century, the fortress was owned by the Boner family, who were one of the wealthiest clans in all of Poland. They constructed a magnificent, renaissance-styled residence, the splendor of which could be equaled with the Wawel Royal Castle.
Here’s an interesting fact – in 2019, several scenes to the Netflix series „The Witcher” were filmed here.
The „Wieliczka” Salt Mine
The „Wieliczka” Salt Mine is a rock salt mine located in the town of Wieliczka, not far from Krakow.From the 13th century to 1772, it was part of the Krakow saltworks along with the „Bochnia” Salt Mine. The origins of gathering salt in the area of Wieliczka are associated with the exploitation of the so-called „salt springs”. The origins of exploitation date all the way back to the middle neolithic period and are documented by numerous archaeological discoveries from research organized after World War II.
In 1289, prince Henryk IV Probus ordered the construction of a bathing house in Wieliczka, which also fulfilled the function of a working place of barbers, as well as a place of support for victims of accidents and also widows and orphans of miners. In 1697, Magdalena Bendzislawska became the very first female barber in the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
Zakopane is a town located in southern Poland, in the Tatra Mountains.
It was established as a settlement in the place of seasonal shepherds’ settlements. The first settlement privilege was supposedly published by Stefan Batory in 1578. It was later approved by king Michal Wisniowiecki with a location privilege in 1670.
In 1824, Zakopane and part of the Tatra Mountains was sold to the Homolacs family from Hungary. The major development of Zakopane began in the second half of the 19th century, when Tytus Chalubinski began to popularize the climatic properties of the town.
Nowadays, there is a museum in Zakopane dedicated to the life of Tytus Chalubinski. In this town there are also other attractions worth visiting, such as the museum of Karol Szymanowski, Myszogrod – home for 1000 mice, which will delight young children and Iluzja Park.
The Ojcow National Park
The Ojcow National Park was established in 1956. It is located in the region of Lesser Poland, approximately 16 kilometers away from Krakow.
In the 19th century, the nature of the Ojcow National Park was losing lots of money – local people were cutting off entire tree stands, digging out caves in order to gather dung and breaking off rock formations.
There already were attempts to protect the nature of the Pradnik Valley before World War II. The project of creation of a nature reserve in the Pradnik Valley and Saspowska Valley was created under the leadership of Wladyslaw Szafer in 1924.
However, the nature reserve was not created before World War II, and the fulfillment of the plan only began in 1953.
The area of the park is constructed out of limestones from the Upper Jurassic period, which came from skeletons of dead animals from the bottom of an ancient sea.
Zalipie is a small village located in the Lesser Poland, not far from Tarnow.
This village is renowned for its local custom of painting cottages. The tradition of decorating country houses originated from the late 19th century, when the women living in the village began to decorate the interiors of the cottages with flowers made from tissue paper, cutouts and spiders made from straw, which were hanging at the ceiling, as well as flowers painted on the walls. The local people also made paintings at the outside walls of buildings, wells and fences. Currently, there are approximately 20 painted houses in Zalipie.
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According to the American business magazine Forbes, get the list of top 10 richest in the world by this article. This wealthiest billionaires list is formed from the net worth of each world’s richest. All the listed billionaires are associated with one of the other giant companies of this planet with large market valuations.
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With so much net wealth, Elon Mask is now in the top ranking in the world’s wealthiest list. Let’s learn more names in this sequence from the below list.
1. Elon Musk
|Co-founder & CEO||Tesla|
|Net Worth||$207 billion|
Elon Musk, the co-founder of the most renowned electric car company Tesla, is the first wealthiest person in the world’s richest list. The value of this company is now about $800 billion, where his estimated net worth is about $207 billion. Musk’s owned another rocket company named SpaceX, which is now valued at nearly $100 billion.
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2. Jeff Bezos
|Co-founder & CEO||Amazon|
|Net Worth||$172 billion|
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com. He founded this company in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. His estimated net worth is about $172 billion, which ranked him in 3rd position in the list of the top wealthiest people in the world. In 2020, Amazon had revenue of $386 billion.
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3. Bernard Arnault
|Co-founder & CEO||LVMH|
|Net Worth||$135 billion|
Bernard Arnault is 3rd richest person according to the list of the top wealthiest men in the world. He is CEO of the world’s largest luxury goods company LVMH. His estimated net worth is $188.6 billion. Along with this, he is a businessman and served more than 70 brands, including Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Marc Jacobs, and Sephora.
4. Bill Gates
|Co-founder & CEO||Microsoft Corp.|
|Net Worth||$126 billion|
Bill Gates, the co-founder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, is the 4th richest on the earth today. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker, which had revenue of about 168 billion in 2021. Bill Gates’s estimated net worth is about $126 billion. Along with this, he is regarded as the American business magnate.
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5. Warren Buffett
|Co-founder & CEO||Berkshire Hathaway|
|Net Worth||$120 billion|
Warren Buffett is the fifth wealthiest person in the ranking of top richest man of the world. He founded Berkshire Hathaway, which runs about 60 companies. As a successful investor, his net worth is about $120 billion. From his youth, he was greatly interested in business and investing. He first invested in a textile manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway in 1962.
6. Larry Page
|Net Worth||$116 billion|
Lawrence Edward Page or Larry Page, the co-founder and CEO of Google, is ranked on 6 in the list of top 10 richest of worldwide. Along with this, he is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. In December 2019, he stepped down to become CEO of Alphabet Inc, which was created as Google’s parent company. Now he remains there as an Alphabet board member.
7. Sergey Brin
|Co-founder & Board Member||Alphabet|
|Net Worth||$115 billion|
Sergey Mikhailovich Brim or Sergey Brin is the 7th-richest person in the world. His estimated net worth is about $115 billion. Besides being an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur, he is best known as the co-founder of Google. Also, he is an American business magnate. Now he remains as the board member in Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.
8. Steve Ballmer
|Co-founder & CEO||Los Angeles Clippers|
|Net Worth||$104 billion|
Steven Anthony Ballmer is best known as Steve Ballmer, who is the 8th wealthiest in the world. He is the former CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. Now, he is the owner of Los Angeles Clippers, which is an American professional basketball team. His estimated net worth is about $104 billion.
9. Larry Ellison
|Co-founder, Chair & CTO||Oracle|
|Net Worth||$97.7 billion|
Lawrence Joseph Ellison or Larry Ellison is the 9th wealthiest globally, with an estimated net worth of $97.7 billion. He is highly known as the CEO, CTO, and co-founder of the Oracle Corporation. It is the world’s second-largest software company. Now, Larry owns Lanai, which is the sixth-largest island of the Hawaiian Islands.
10. Mukesh Ambani
|Chair & Managing Director||Reliance Industries|
|Net Worth||$87.7 billion|
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is a highly renowned face as an Indian billionaire businessman. He is chairman managing director of India’s most valuable multination conglomerate company Reliance Industries Ltd. His net worth is estimated at about $87.7 billion, leading him to the 10th richest people’s list.
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If you feel like you lack purpose and need a little something to inspire you then check out our Top 20 list of Inspirational Movies. Every one of these motivational gems tells a true story from real life, or at the very least are based on fact or true life incidents.
From heartbreaking to heartwarming, harrowing to uplifting, here are 20 tales to get you up off your backside and back in the game. Carpe diem!
20. The Ron Clark Story (2006)
Based on the true story of educator Ron Clark, the film tells the inspirational tale of an idealistic educator who abandons his comfortable, small-town job to teach troubled kids in a tough New York City school.
19. 42 (2013)
This gripping sports drama retells the true tale of how legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickley, signed Jackie Robinson as the first Afro- American to play in Major League Baseball and shows the bitter racism the pair faced by defying the notorious color barrier, which existed at the time.
18. We are Marshall (2006)
In 1970, 75 players, staff and boosters from Marshall University died in a tragic plane crash. This heart rendering drama tells how the new coach (played by Matthew McConaughey) arrives just one year later to rebuild the school’s football program and in the process, helps to heal the grieving community.
17. Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
This uplifting movie offers a poignant insight into the impact teachers can have on their pupils, both in and out of the classroom. Richard Dreyfuss plays an aspiring music composer who takes a job as a high school teacher to pay the bills. 30-years later he realizes that teaching, not music, is his true calling.
16. The Walk (2015)
On August 7, 1974, Phillipe Petite fulfilled his lifetime ambition of walking on a tightrope attached to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The film is a breathtaking account of Petite’s illegal feat and captures the unshakeable loyalty of the ragtag team of friends and family who helped him achieve what most people thought was thoroughly impossible.
15. Soul Surfer (2011)
A rising star in the world of surfing, teenager Bethany Hamilton’s ambitions seem utterly destroyed when she becomes the victim of a brutal shark attack. Soul Surfer tells the true story of how the love of Bethany’s family encouraged her to go on to win several surfing championships.
14. Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
German-Jewish Anne Frank and her family are forced to hide from the Nazis in an attic of an Amsterdam office building to escape the Holocaust. For more than two years they remain unnoticed, until one day they are discovered and transported to a concentration camp.
13. I’m Not Ashamed (2016)
A heartwarming biographical drama based on the journals of Rachel Joy Scott, the first victim of the shootings at Columbine High School. The film intertwines the fateful true story of the two gunmen and the girl who grew up knowing the love of her religious faith but who was not always ready to receive it.
12. Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
Liz Murray rose from the mean streets of New York to graduate from the prestigious Ivy League University and went on to become a renowned international speaker. This truth-based movie shows the atrocious conditions Murray grew up in, and how she escaped the dysfunctional love of her drug addict parents.
11. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
This inspiring movie retells the memoir of famous Jean-Dominique Bauby, the journalist who after experiencing a massive stroke, went on to become editor-in-chief of the world famous lifestyle magazine, Elle, despite suffering from ‘locked-in’ syndrome.
10. Won’t Back Down (2012)
Based on real-life events, Won’t Back Down is the story of two mothers, one a teacher, who unite to fight a dysfunctional school system. Their unconventional methods may not be to everyone’s liking, but we can all get behind their motives and admire the levels of guts and determination involved.
9. October Sky (1999)
Coalwood, West Virginia, is not a well-known town where boys would grow up eventually to be coal miners. And Homer Hickam is no different. But then one day a Soviet Sputnik satellite flies over the town and inspires Homer to build a rocket ship. Based on the memoir of Homer Hickam, author, Vietnam veteran, and former engineer at NASA, this movie is a must watch.
8. Mandella: The Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
The movie depicts the remarkable life of the South African icon, from herd boy in a tiny rural village to freedom fighter, and eventually to the first black president of his country. The movie shows Mandella’s epic struggle against apartheid and how he went on to found the African National Congress Youth. True history told at its best.
7. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A very human drama based on the real life of a brilliant but arrogant mathematician, John Forbes Nash Jr. The movie tells of Nash Jr’s fall from academic stardom to the dark, devastating depths of severe mental illness, and how he fought back to regain a semblance of normality.
6. Front of the Class (2008)
This biographical study depicts how Tourette Syndrome sufferer, Brad Cohen, was ridiculed and beaten as a child but overcame his condition to go on to win Georgia’s First Class Teacher of the Year Award.
5. The Great Debaters (2007)
A true-life drama set in 1935 Texas. Melvin B. Tolson is a teacher at Wiley College who inspires his pupils to set up their school’s first debating team and go on to challenge Harvard in the national debating championship.
4. Florence Nightingale (1985)
The actual historical account of how aristocrat daughter Florence Nightingale defies her family’s wishes and challenges Victorian norms by volunteering to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War. Not just an inspiration for potential nurses everywhere, Nightingale was a fierce pro-feminist that fought selflessly to usher in the age of modern nursing.
3. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The nail-biting account of Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu hotel manager that risked his life in protecting Tutsi refugees during the Rwandan genocide by allowing them to hide in his hotel after the departure of UN peacekeeping forces.
2. The Express (2008)
Ernie Davis was born into poverty and had to overcome many obstacles before being accepted into the football team at Syracuse University. The movie shows what a brilliant player Davis was, and how he became the first black player to win the celebrated Heisman Trophy.
1. Freedom Writers (2007)
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A new study from Juniper Research has found that online physical goods sales will account for 13% of global retail by 2020, or $3.8 trillion (€3.09 trillion) out of a global retail market of nearly $30 trillion (€24.37 trillion).
The new study, Mobile & Online Remote Payments for Digital & Physical Goods: Opportunities & Forecasts 2018-2022, found that traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ retailers are seeking to buttress their ailing offline-store activities with the development of integrated online engagement channels.
For more insights, download Juniper’s complimentary whitepaper, ‘Addressing the Pain Points in eRetail’
Home depot heads Juniper Retailer Matrix
Meanwhile, the Juniper Retailer Matrix assessed the online offerings and capabilities of 18 leading retailers in North America, China and Europe, categorising them in terms of the extent to which they are (and will be) able to compete in the online space.
Juniper Retailer Matrix, 2018 – leaders
- The Home Depot
- John Lewis
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According to research author Dr Windsor Holden, “Some retailers, particularly those with a strong dependency on grocery, believe that moving spend to online was counterproductive, given the high levels of marginal costs and the perception of reduced customer loyalty. However, development of a successful, integrated omnichannel offering can ultimately enhance loyalty levels and increase consumer-spend levels.”
The research pointed out that Wal-Mart – with annual sales of around $480 billion (€389.76 billion) across all its channels, but overwhelmingly instore – has demonstrated its commitment to facilitating an integrated experience.
The retailer has recently announced the creation of an ‘innovation hub’, Store No 8, to focus on technologies that can drive retail opportunities in future, including robots, virtual/augmented reality and AI (Artificial Intelligence).
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Groupware Software Vulnerabilities
The analysis of the timeline helps to identify the required approach and handling of single vulnerabilities and vulnerability collections. This overview makes it possible to see less important slices and more severe hotspots at a glance. Initiating immediate vulnerability response and prioritizing of issues is possible.
Identifying all affected vendors is a good starting point for an overview. This makes it possible to determine an homogeneous landscape or the most important hotspots in heterogeneous landscapes.
|Microsoft SharePoint Server||160|
|Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server||127|
|Microsoft Exchange Server||109|
|IBM Lotus Domino||102|
Grouping vulnerabilities by products helps to get an overview. This makes it possible to determine an homogeneous landscape or the most important hotspots in heterogeneous landscapes.
Vendors and researchers are eager to find countermeasures to mitigate security vulnerabilities. These can be distinguished between multiple forms and levels of remediation which influence risks differently.
Researcher and attacker which are looking for security vulnerabilities try to exploit them for academic purposes or personal gain. The level and quality of exploitability can be distinguished to determine simplicity and strength of attacks.
The approach a vulnerability it becomes important to use the expected access vector. This is typically via the network, local, or physically even.
To exploit a vulnerability a certail level of authentication might be required. Vulnerabilities without such a requirement are much more popular.
Some attack scenarios require some user interaction by a victim. This is typical for phishing, social engineering and cross site scripting attacks.
Our unique C3BM Index (CVSSv3 Base Meta Index) cumulates the CVSSv3 Meta Base Scores of all entries over time. Comparing this index to the amount of disclosed vulnerabilities helps to pinpoint the most important events.
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Affected Products (224): BEA Plumtree Collaboration, Cisco CollaborationTelePresence Collaboration Endpoint, Cisco Collaboration Server, Cisco Collaboration System, Cisco Desktop Collaboration Experience, Cisco Desktop Collaboration Experience Dx650, Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment, Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution, Cisco IP Interoperability, Cisco Prime Central for Hosted Collaboration Solution, Cisco Prime Central For Hosted Collaboration Solution Assurance, Cisco Prime Collaboration, Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning, Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Tool, Covide Groupware-CRM Covide, Cybozu Garoon, Cybozu Garoon Keitai, Dan Cahill NullLogic Groupware, Debian Horde, Denaliintranet BrightSuite Groupware, eGroupware, EGroupware, eGroupWare, egroupware, Egroupware, EGroupware Community Edition, EGroupware EGroupware Enterprise Line, EGroupware Premium Line, ESET Endpoint Antivirus, ESET Endpoint Security, ESET ESET Endpoint Antivirus, ESET File Security for Microsoft Windows Server, ESET Internet Security, ESET Mail Security for IBM Domino, ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition, ESET Security for Kerio, ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server, ESET Server Security for Microsoft Windows Server, ESET Smart Security, ESET Smart Security Business Edition, ESET Smart Security Premium, Group-Office Group-office Groupware, Handysoft Groupware, Handysoft Groupware ActiveX Module, Handysoft Handy Groupware, Handy Groupware, Hitachi Cosminexus Collaboration Portal, Hitachi Groupmax Collaboration Portal, Hitachi Groupmax Collaboration Web Client, Hitachi Groupmax Groupware Server, Horde, horde, Horde Accounts, Horde Application Framework, Horde Chora, Horde Forwards, Horde Gollem, Horde Groupware, Horde Groupware Webmail Edition, Horde Horde Application Framework, Horde IMP, Horde IMP Webmail, Horde IMP Webmail Client, Horde Ingo H3, Horde Kronolith, Horde Kronolith H3, Horde Kronolith H4, Horde Manager, Horde Mnemo, Horde Nag, Horde Nag Task List Manager H3, Horde passwd, Horde Passwd, Horde Turba, Horde Turba Contact Manager, Horde Turba Contact Manager H3, Horde Turba H3, Horde Vaction, Horde Webmail, Horde Groupware, Horde_Image, Horde IMP, Hummingbird Enterprise Collaboration, IBM Connections, IBM Connections Engagement Center, IBM Connections Portlets, IBM Deployment Services, IBM Domino, IBM Domino Server, IBM Domino Web Access, IBM iNotes, IBM Lotus, IBM Lotus cc:Mail, IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server, IBM Lotus Domino iNotes Client, IBM Lotus Domino R5, IBM Lotus Domino Server, IBM Lotus Domino Web Access, IBM Lotus Domino Web Server, IBM Lotus Expeditor, IBM Lotus Expeditor Client, IBM Lotus Foundations Start, IBM Lotus iNotes, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging, IBM Lotus Mobile Connect, IBM Lotus Notes, ibm Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Notes connector, IBM Lotus Notes Intellisync, IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security, IBM Lotus Quickplace, IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM Lotus Quickr for Domino, IBM Lotus Quickr Server, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Sametime Enterprise Meeting Server, IBM Lotus Sametime WebPlayer, IBM Lotus Symphony, IBM Lotus Web Content Management, IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management, IBM Notes, IBM Notes Diagnostics, IBM Notes Traveler, IBM Notes Traveler Companion, IBM SPSS Collaboration, IBM Web Conferencing, IMP Horde, IMP Horde Groupware, IMP Horde Groupware Webmail Edition, Intel Collaboration Suite for WebRTC, Ipswitch Collaboration Suite, Ipswitch Ipswitch Collaboration Suite, Joseph Engo phpGroupWare, Kolab Groupware Server, Kolab Kolab Groupware Server, Kolab Kolab Server, Kolab Server, Kopano Groupware Core, Lotus Domino, Lotus Domino Enterprise Server, Lotus Domino Mail Server, Lotus Domino R4, Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Domino Web Server, Marc Logemann More.groupware, Microsoft Business Productivity Servers, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange Srv, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Infopath, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Web Apps, Microsoft Outlook.com, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook Web App, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, Microsoft SharePoint Team Services, Microsoft Skype for Business Server, Micro Focus Novell Groupwise, Novell GroupWise, Novell Groupwise, Novell GroupWise Client, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Novell Groupwise Webaccess, Novell GroupWise WebAccess, NullLogic Groupware, Open-Xchange AppSuite, Open-Xchange Open-xchange Appsuite, Open-Xchange OX AppSuite, Open-Xchange Server, Oracle Agile Collaboration Framework, Oracle Agile Product Collaboration, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Pentest-Collaboration-Framework, Peters Collaboration E-mails Plugin, Philips Collaboration Platform, phpGroupWare, phpgroupware, Senokian Solutions Enterprise Groupware Systems, Simple-groupware SimpleGroupware, Software602 Groupware Server, Sophos PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, Synacor Zimbra, Synacor Zimbra Collaboration, Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Synacor Zimbra Mail Client, Synacor Zimbra Web Client, Telligent Systems Zimbra, Telligent Systems Zimbra Collaboration, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, Trend Micro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange, Ventia Collaboration Server, Ventia DeskNow Mail, Verba Collaboration Compliance, Verba Quality Management Platform, ViHor Vihordesign, VMware Zimbra, VMware Zimbra Collaboration Suite, VMware Zimbra Collection Suite, VMware Zimbra Desktop, VMware Zimbra Web Client, Zarafa Collaboration Platform, Zhiyuan G6 Government Collaboration System, Zoom Client for Meetings, Zoom Plugins for Microsoft Outlook, Zoom Plugin for Microsoft Outlook, Zoom VDI
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Why Taking Zinc and Probiotics May Benefit Immune Health
This blog has not been approved by your local health department and is not intended to provide diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice.
In this article:
- Are You Getting Enough Zinc In Your Diet?
- What Foods Provide You With Zinc?
- How Zinc and Probiotics Support Immune Health
- Other Health Benefits of Zinc
When it comes to support for your immune system, the nutrient that may first come to mind is likely vitamin C, which is often promoted as being a natural defender against common colds and other illnesses. But did you know that zinc is also an essential nutrient for supporting a healthy immune defense, as well as healthy digestion and more?
When coupled with probiotics, which are the “good guy” or “friendly" bacteria that live in your gut microbiome and help to crowd out harmful microbes, zinc is especially capable of supporting your body’s ability to absorb essential nutrients and to defend against pathogens.
Below we’ll look closer at foods in your diet that can provide you with essential zinc, as well as how the relationship between zinc and probiotics can promote overall health.
You’ll find zinc in foods, including red meat like beef, organ meats including liver, poultry, dairy products, eggs, quinoa, chickpeas, lentils, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews, almonds, plus some fortified foods like breads and cereals.
If you’re looking to boost your immune wellness routine, emphasizing the foods above can help you meet your zinc requirements. However, for some people, opting to take a zinc supplement is also wise, since it offers additional support for your immune system, gut, brain, and beyond.
Low levels of zinc can occur when someone doesn’t eat enough foods that contain this mineral, or if they have trouble absorbing and using it due to older age or compromised gut health.
If you eat a restrictive diet that eliminates certain food groups— for instance, if you’re a vegan/vegetarian and avoid all meat, eggs and fish — then supplementing can help you meet your zinc needs. You can also ask your healthcare provider if supplementing is a good option for you if you have trouble absorbing minerals for other reasons, or if you’re pregnant.
Probiotics are live microorganisms that have roles including supporting nutrient absorption and general gut health. While zinc and probiotics each offer support for your immune system and healthy digestion, when combined they are even more powerful.
- Support for healthy immune defenses and immune system activation.
- Support for normal microflora in the gut, and for generally healthy gut function and gastrointestinal lining integrity.
- Support for healthy respiratory mucosal immune responses.
- Promotion of normal digestion, including a reduction in issues like occasional constipation and gas.
If your diet is generally lacking zinc-rich foods, then adding a supplement to your routine can be a good way to fill in the gaps and help ensure you’re maintaining normal levels.
For the best results, opt for a high-quality zinc supplement, for example, one that features enzyme-activated zinc to help with absorption.
“Enzyme activated” zinc differs from elemental zinc or amino acid chelated zinc where it is bound to other compounds. When zinc is activated it is thought to be “body ready” and recognizable to the body so it’s more easily utilized.
Zinc supplements are typically taken in capsule form, often only once daily, and can be consumed with or without food. When combined with probiotics, taking zinc on an empty stomach is usually the best option, such as 30 minutes before a meal. This prevents stomach acid levels from increasing which can make it harder for probiotics to be absorbed properly.
In addition to building your immune defenses and supporting healthy digestion, zinc also positively impacts many other systems in the body, too.
For example, it plays a role in your body producing collagen, which is a structural protein that you can think of as the “glue” that holds your body together since it forms connective tissues and cartilage.
As an essential mineral that all humans require, some important roles that zinc generally has include:
- Facilitating the liver in mobilizing and releasing stored vitamin A into the bloodstream.
- Supporting normal DNA synthesis and cell division.
- Supporting normal macrophage functions, normal inflammatory reactions, and normal development of immune cells/natural killer cell activity.
- Growing and repairing connective tissues, including the skin.
- Having antioxidant effects and fighting oxidative stress.
- Supporting fertility, normal growth and development during pregnancy, and development in infants.
Zinc works with other minerals in the body, so it will have the most powerful effects when your diet includes a range of nutrient-dense foods, such as fresh vegetables, nuts, seeds, grass-fed meats, and healthy fats. And by eating fermented and high-fiber foods, such as cultured veggies, berries, yogurt, seeds, and whole grains, you’ll help probiotics to better thrive in your gut. | <urn:uuid:01b69d79-6b81-4fad-9c7a-afd764e0c5b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ke.iherb.com/blog/zinc-probiotics-immunity/1159 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.943578 | 1,071 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Gary Snyder wrote this short, accurate description of how poetry comes to a person. It is not an easy process.
It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the
Edge of the light.
Snyder spent time in Japan where he immersed himself in Zen Buddhism and poetry, some of which he translated and used to guide his writing. One of the poets he studied was Han Shan who wrote the following poem called LX.
I see similarities between the two poems. Snyder wrote about how poems wait for us at the edge of the just out of range of our campfire. Han Shan suggests, if we move during sunny times, we might not move at all. Like moving to the edge of the light, we move timidly to find what awaits us and searches for us. It takes being present and mindful to our world and others.
Han Shan has so many strange, well-hidden sights,
Every climber climbs a little timidly . . .
Moon shines in the dripping water;
wind brings the very grass alive.
Freezing trees flower with snow,
dead, bare trees leafed out in cloud.
Gored by cold rain, the liveliest soul turns away.
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The 25 years Morag has spent at BP to date have taken her to Glasgow and Houston, via Colombia and Venezuela. Today, Morag is responsible for making sure that BP is taking advantage of the latest emerging trends in digital technology.
She explains: “I studied mathematics, computer science and music at degree-level.
“There were 140 boys and 10 girls in my computing class and the top four were all girls. I use the skills and knowledge I gained there to understand the latest technological developments and how they might apply to BP. My role requires critical thinking to work out how to tackle some of BP’s opportunities and problems.
“I love finding new ways to do things; I created a three-dimensional immersive visual environment that subsurface teams can ‘walk through’ and that we are using very successfully in BP as a tool to help us find more oil. I work with leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. I get to see things going on in labs that most customers don’t ever get to see, such as artificial intelligence, robotics and augmented reality, things that can transform our company, our industry and the world.
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Rupert Darwall: The Political Science Of Global Warming: ‘The most revealing aspect is that none of the climate scientists involved seems embarrassed at this nonsense or protests at the manipulation of science for political ends’
The U.N.’s latest climate-change report should be its last.
“Human influence extremely likely to be the dominant cause of observed warming since the middle of the last century,” was the headline from Friday’s release of the first instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment report. “Extremely likely”—indicating a 95%-100% likelihood—was ratcheted up one notch from the 2007 fourth assessment report’s “very likely.” Yet compared to 2007, the IPCC widened its estimate of the responsiveness of the climate system to carbon dioxide by reducing the lower band to a 1.5°C increase from 2°C, qualifying the new estimate as only “likely.”
This is a glaring discrepancy. How can the IPCC be more confident that more than half the temperature rise since the mid-20th century is caused by greenhouse-gas emissions when it is less sure of the climatic impact of carbon dioxide? The explanation is that IPCC reports, especially the summaries for policymakers, are primarily designed for political consumption. And as if on cue, British Prime Minister David Cameron commented on the IPCC report, “If someone said there is a 95% chance that your house might burn down, even if you are in the 5% that doesn’t agree with it, you still take out the insurance.”
But poke beneath the surface of the IPCC’s latest offering and the confection is revealed for what it is. The IPCC’s quantification of the separate components of the warming since 1951 (greenhouse gases, cooling from aerosols, internal variability) is deemed only “likely” (66%-100% likelihood). Only at the IPCC could the sum of these components be given a greater likelihood than the individual building blocks. Perhaps the most revealing aspect is that none of the climate scientists involved seems embarrassed at this nonsense or protests at the manipulation of science for political ends.
This time around, the greatest difficulty faced by the IPCC was explaining the ongoing 15-year pause in atmospheric temperature increases. The body estimates that between 2011 and 2005, there has been a 43% rise in human-induced radiative forcing—the difference between solar radiation entering the atmosphere and infrared radiation leaving the atmosphere, whose balance is supposedly greatly disturbed by heat-trapping man-made emissions. But there has been little warming for 15 years.
Other than saying that short periods do not reflect long-term trends, the IPCC ducked out of a dilemma of its own making. One lead author, Jochem Marotzke, explained to reporters that the issue had come a bit late in the process. There was a tendency for each of the 14 teams to think someone else was working on it. Thomas Stocker, the working-group co-chair, said that the IPCC relies on peer-reviewed journal articles. “I’m afraid to say there is not a lot of published literature that allows us to delve deeper into the required depth of this emerging scientific question,” Mr. Stocker said, as quoted by the Christian Science Monitor. Is it plausible to believe that if the story had been temperatures rising faster than expected, the IPCC and climate journals would have remained silent? Evidently nature has embarrassed the climate-science consensus.
If climate scientists are really as confident in their understanding of the climate as the IPCC’s 95% confidence headline figure is meant to suggest, they would put a firm date by when the pause must end and temperatures bounce back to what the IPCC claims is the long-term upward trend. All too predictably, the IPCC avoids such a hard-edged test. It merely projects a likely temperature rise of 0.3°-0.7°C for 2012-2035 compared to 1986-2005, offered with “medium confidence.”
A better indicator of the evolution of what climate scientists really think can be found elsewhere. In the IPCC’s first assessment report of 1990, there was discussion of scientists’ then-inability to reliably detect predicted signals of global warming. The second report, in 1995, said the “signal” was still emerging from the noise of background variability. Have climate scientists at last unambiguously detected the greenhouse signal? The word is not mentioned once in the summary of the 2013 report.
Ever since the second assessment, controversy has surrounded these reports. It first erupted on these pages in 1996, when Frederick Seitz charged that he had “never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process.” An official in the U.S. State Department had ordered text to be amended “in an appropriate manner.” Justifying the intervention, Stephen Schneider, a leading IPCC climate scientist, argued that the Second Assessment Report was “fraught with political significance” as the Clinton administration was on the verge of announcing its acceptance of binding emissions cuts.
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©2000 Esther Derby www.estherderby.com
Originally published in STQE magazine, May/June 2000
As a manager, you want to increase effectiveness and improve the quality of software. Using measurement as a tool for accomplishing this, however, may be something you’re skeptical about. I’d like to encourage you to take another look at metrics, and show you how you can use observation, modeling and measurement to manage more effectively within your team.
If you’d like to see the figures associated with this article, read it on Esther’s site: www.estherderby.com/writings/designinguseful.htm
As a manager, you want to increase effectiveness and improve the quality of software. Using measurement as a tool for accomplishing this, however, may be something you’re skeptical about. Why? Perhaps you don’t have an established measurement culture, and implementing a measurement seems awfully daunting. Or maybe you’ve been around a measurement program that didn’t quite work as planned. I’d like to encourage you to take another look at metrics, and show you how you can use observation, modeling and measurement to manage more effectively within your team.
What makes a measurement useful? Here’s my definition: a useful measurement is one that helps you understand and make decisions. The cost of gathering the information can’t exceed the benefit it provides, and the measurement shouldn’t have lots of unintended side effects.
Let’s work from the basic premise that there’s a continuum of measurement. On one end is measurement to learn about what’s going on (to get information), and on the other is measurement to modify behavior. And there are lots of points in between that have some characteristics of both. (For more discussion on this read Tom DeMarco’s essay, “Mad About Measurement,” in his book Why Does Software Cost So Much?)
I might as well confess my bias up front: I’m not a fan of software measurement programs that aim to motivate certain behavior by tying metric results to performance evaluations or compensation. There’s a bunch of problems with this type of program, starting with the fact that the people being measured often figure out how to nudge the numbers to make themselves look better, or they neglect some important aspect of what they’re doing because it’s not being measured. This is not merely human nature — it’s a flawed measurement design.
I want to look instead at the other end of the scale: measurement to gather information so that you understand the current situation, and can make good decisions.
This isn’t part of a formal “official” measurement program. It’s the kind of observation, modeling, and simple data gathering that an experimenter does to learn something about the world around her. Measuring to obtain information assumes that you do not have a preconceived outcome in mind — you’re open to whatever the data tells you. The key is that you are looking to learn more about the environment so that you can manage more effectively.
Jerry Weinberg, in his series of books Quality Software Management calls this kind of metric first-order measurement: the sort of informal, “just enough” measurement that’s used to get a system working (versus second-order measurements, which are used to fine-tune a system). To illustrate the difference, consider two projects. Project A produced 200 lines of code (LOC) per programmer day. Project B cranked out 300 LOC. If you focus on LOC, Project B did better. But LOC is a second-order measure: it’s about tuning performance. First-order measurement is noticing that even though Project B produced more clean code, the project was cancelled after dragging on for six months after its original delivery date. Now you and I wouldn’t pronounce Project B more successful based solely on LOC, but it does make the point: Start with first-order measurements and the basics of getting the system working, and then worry about tuning it.
Measuring within a system
When you set out to gather information it helps to have some notion of how the system you are setting out to measure works. All measurement exists within a system, and can only be understood within that system. Designing, building, testing, and supporting software involves complex technical and human systems — and, like any complex systems, they are made up of multiple factors, any one of which might influence any other. Rarely are the relationships linear, or straightforward cause and effect.
You may not be an expert on modeling systems, but you probably are an expert on the system you work withyou just need a clear picture of it and some evidence of how it’s working.
Let’s examine an example of such a system, and how some simple guidelines can help you use measurement to your organization’s advantage.
Suppose for a moment that you work for Software Planet, a company that sells software, and that you manage the customer support function. You have a team of technical support representatives who take calls from customers who have questions or problems with the software. The agents may resolve the customer’s needs with a short answer, or they may work through a complicated problem with the customer on the phone.
One day your manager comes in and tells you that customers have been complaining about the length of time they spend on calls with your technical support representatives. Some customers have even cancelled contracts and gone to the competition.
Straight cause and effect would indicate that long calls cause decreased customer satisfaction. Simple, right? Reduce the length of the call, and satisfaction will go up. Figure 1 illustrates that model: When the length of call goes down, customer satisfaction with support services goes up. It’s an inverse relationship; when one value goes up, the other goes downor vice versa.
Figure 1. As the length of the call goes up, customer satisfaction goes down. (The dot with bi-directional arrows indicates an inverse relationship: as one factor increases, the other decreases.)
The phone system automatically tracks the length of calls, which you could use as a measure — but is it a useful measure? Will measuring the duration of calls help you understand what is really happening or help you decide how to go about increasing customer satisfaction?
First-order measurement can help you understand what’s going on and make a good decision, using the following steps.
First, model the system
You know that Software Planet’s system is more complex than what’s shown in Figure 1. Before you set out to drive down call duration, consider what other factors could be influencing the length of the calls, and what else might be causing customer dissatisfaction.
You can start by building a more robust model of your system to get some ideas about where to collect data. What factors could be affecting the duration of calls? What other factors might affect customer satisfaction? What other things can you observe about the system?
Maybe the reason customers don’t like being on the phone so long is that they spend half the time on hold while your team tries to get additional resources on the line. Perhaps they spend twenty minutes on the phone and don’t get a solution — but wouldn’t mind being on the phone for twenty minutes if they were getting results. Figure 2 shows how the system looks when you add in other factors that could influence call duration and customer satisfaction.
Figure 2. Call support system model with the addition of other factors that could be influencing call length and custoer satisfaction. (The dot with bi-directional arrows indicate an inverse relationship: as one factore increases, the other decreases.) Involve the team
Involving your team in a discussion about the problem and its possible causes will help build a more accurate model of the system. If you ask the people doing the work they may point you to other factors that are affecting their ability to solve customer problems quickly. Perhaps they can’t find the information they need in product manuals, or the network drops and they have to re-boot during calls. Add these to your model (as in Figure 3). Even though our Software Planet model is now more complex than what we started with (call duration goes down -> customer satisfaction goes up) the systems you work with are probably even more complex.
Figure 3. System model with additional effects suggested by the team
Now that you have a better notion of what the system looks like, you can think about gathering data. But before you start
Before you begin collecting data, talk with your team. They need to understand why you are collecting data, and how that data will be used. It’s critical that your team understands that they will not be blamed, ranked, or rated based on the data. Blaming the people for the data will produce measurement distortion — not because of a flaw in human nature, but because of the flawed measurement design. You are depending on the team to collect the data, and you want accurate data. Once you assure your team that you won’t be using the data to evaluate them, be sure you don’t. The first time you do, or your team thinks you do, you will lose a valuable source of information. If your team starts reporting the data in a way designed to make their performance look better, you will be relying on distorted data — and that can be worse than having no data at all.
Convincing people that data is being collected only for information can be a tough sell if employees have been evaluated or penalized by measurement programs in the past. One way to increase employee safety is to arrange the collection so that you (and other managers) only see aggregate data, not the results associated with any one employee.
Based on our Software Planet model (Figure 3), here are some things you might want to find out about:
- How many separate problems are addressed in the average call?
- How often does a solution require more than one call?
- How often do representatives have to put off answering a question because they can’t find the information in the documentation or product manual?
- How many problems are handed off to some other area within the company?
- How long does it take to find the correct person to solve a problem that the agent can’t answer?
- How long does the representative who first gets the call spend talking to the customer before she hands it off?
- How often does the infrastructure fail during a customer call?
You don’t have to have fancy automated data collection or an elaborate measurement program to do this. Since you’ll only be collecting data for a short period of time — a few days — a paper form and a pencil will do. It will be a little extra effort for the people taking the calls, and will require some effort to tabulate and analyze — but you will collect some useful, accurate (and therefore interesting) data. The benefits of having a better understanding of the problem before you attempt a solution should outweigh these costs.
Act on the data
Once the data is collected, your new information will help you steer the system in a way that will increase customer satisfaction with the service your team provides. The data we have collected for Software Planet, for example, might show that technical service representatives don’t have a good understanding of the system they support, and that they need more training. Or it could show that when reps try to bring additional technical resources into the call it takes twenty minutes to locate and get that person in on the call. Each situation calls for a different remedy. When you consider what action to take, use your system model to anticipate what effects your change will have. You probably won’t identify every unintended consequence — but you will increase your chance of success by thinking things through with the model and giving some thought to what could go wrong.
Check on progress
Now that you’ve done your research and implemented a plan to improve customer satisfaction, you’ll want to collect some data to know whether or not your intervention is working. But you probably won’t want to collect all the data you did in the information — gathering stage. Metrics should have a sunset clause: If there isn’t a good reason to keep collecting the data, stop.
What measurements should you continue? Customer satisfaction is worth measuring, but it’s a lagging measure — you may know there are problems only when customer satisfaction goes down. As a manager you want to know sooner than that, so that you can correct problems before they impact the customer. When you designed your intervention, you targeted some key elements in the system for change, with the goal of improved customer satisfaction. Gather data on how that change affects both the changed elements and customer satisfaction.
Suppose the intervention involved decreasing the wait between (a) when a technical rep identifies that the call demands additional expertise and (b) getting that expert person on the phone. Watch to see if that measure decreases. Once you are convinced that your intervention is working, continue to check on this measure. You may not track it all the time; you may just sample the data intermittently, as scientists do. If the number moves it’s time to observe, model the system, and gather data. Find out if there is some new factor in the environment that could be causing the number to move. Figure out if the metric is telling you about a trend, or if there was an isolated event or situation that caused the movement. If the indicator still holds, make a correction — before customer satisfaction takes a dive.
Keep your eye on the goal
It’s fairly common in organizations for the metric to become the goal, rather than a useful piece of information. The key to keeping measurements useful is to pay attention to the meaning, not just the number — if a number starts going up (or down), it’s time to gather data and tune the system, not just announce that the number needs to move in a particular direction.
This is especially important if the measure you’re using is of some aspect that contributes to the desired result but does not measure the desired result itself. In our Software Planet example, increased customer satisfaction with technical support services is the desired result; shorter calls are one factor that contributes to the result. Lengthy calls were an indicator of a problem — but focusing only on shortening the duration of the calls would not have increased customer satisfaction (and might have actually decreased satisfaction, had technical reps become adept at getting the customer off the phone but not solving the problem).
First-order measurement can help you understand what’s going on, make decisions, and improve results. Observation, modeling, and simple data gathering are things that you can implement in your work group without a big measurement program or big funding. Our Software Planet example looked at software support, but you can apply the same techniques and analysis to software development, software maintenance, testing, or project management. As practice, start by modeling your system and working out on paper how different measures will affect your system. Then involve your team, expand your model, and try some simple data gathering. This approach to measurement is one more tool in your toolkit, and it will move your organization toward better quality. | <urn:uuid:bc428efc-0060-462a-b6ed-adbdfabd1fe4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.humansystemsinaction.com/designing-useful-metrics-using-observation-modeling-and-measurement-to-make-decisions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.945808 | 3,180 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Have you ever been curious as to how web-based training could affect your company’s overall training program? Web-based training can also be called eLearning because it is online learning content that allows unparalleled flexibility that cannot be seen with in-person training.
A few important facts about web-based training:
- Web-based training is ideal to deliver training to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
- Like eLearning, there are two types of learning for web-based training: synchronous and asynchronous.
- It is an extremely cost efficient solution.
- Traveling is not necessary to take part of the training.
- Students must be self-motivated and able to keep up with the required coursework on their own.
There are a variety of ways that you can deliver your web-based training. You may need to research in order to find the right learning management system that will allow you to deliver the training the way you want. A few examples of the ways that you can deliver your training are:
- Hyperlinks to important information
- Screencasts demonstrating certain aspects of the training
- Streaming audio and video recordings
- PowerPoint presentations
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In 'Metropolitan Stories,' By Christine Coulson, A Private, Surreal Museum TourChristine Coulson has written her debut novel about the hidden life of the place where she worked for 25 years: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Every year, millions of people visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It holds thousands of years of art history: Egyptian temples, Renaissance sculptures, iconic 20th century paintings.
Admittedly, it's a little much.
"For the public this is one of those great and magnificent spaces that can be hugely intimidating," says Christine Coulson, standing in the museum's great hall. "But for me this feels like home."
Coulson worked at the Met for 25 years, often writing speeches or lectures for the museum's director to deliver. Now, she is writing in her own voice — and sometimes, in the voice of the artworks themselves.
Her debut novel, Metropolitan Stories, goes behind the scenes at the museum. It's a series of loosely connected stories about the people and objects that fill the galleries.
She gave NPR a tour of what she calls her "second home," featuring some of the objects that made their way into the book.
For example, the second chapter is told from the perspective of an 18th century French chair — a fauteuil made for European royalty.
"To me it looks different than the others," Coulson says. "It's got pink, saturated pink velvet and gilded trimming and wildly curvaceous legs. ... It just has some juice, this chair! But the thing about this chair that's different from every other chair in this room is that this chair has its original upholstery. And so that's incredibly rare. That fabric is the fabric that was dented when an 18th century butt sat in it."
The chair, of course, hasn't been used as a chair for over 200 years. ("And no one will ever sit in that chair again," Coulson says. "They're not allowed to!") Coulson imagines that it must long to be sat upon by someone, anyone — even a toddler escaping past the barriers and heading toward its velvet lining.
"Come on little guy! I thought from behind the gallery ropes. You can make it!
"The boy's plump hands extended forward, propelled by his thick, tumbling waddle, his shoes clomping on the gallery floor. I felt like I was hanging from a cliff waiting for him to grip my arm and save me. Then a breeze of moist heat floated past as his mother grabbed him at the very last second — just before he reached me."
"I do wonder: This chair lived a certain life," Coulson says. "And then: Do we kill it a little bit when we put it into this exquisite retirement home?"
In the garden
So yes, Metropolitan Stories does have a certain surrealist bent to it.
This sculpture of Adam, made by Tullio Lombardo in the late 15th century, fell and broke into several pieces when its pedestal collapsed in 2002. It has since been completely restored.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Coulson shows us a sculpture of Adam, of biblical fame. He's holding an apple, a fig leaf covering his private parts.
"One of the great tragedies of my time at the Metropolitan Museum was in 2002, when this sculpture fell off its pedestal and was smashed into thousands of pieces," she says. "You would never know that now. ... He has been conserved over a period of 11 years and he is back to his original grace.
"But I have to admit — in that moment in 2002, after we were getting over the trauma of losing a work of art — my other thought was: What did it feel like when the sculpture was in the air? ... This is a sculpture that's been standing in place for 500 years, and so there's this moment of airborne release before it hits the ground. But what did that moment feel like for this thing that by definition is never supposed to move?"
The question raised in the book: After five centuries, what would prompt Adam to seek the freedom of movement?
"It's not Eve, no," Coulson says.
How to visit a museum
Metropolitan Stories is a relatively slim book, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art enormous. So there's some curation here with the works and places featured in the novel.
"I write about the objects that I love and that speak to me and that do really provide kind of a comfort to me — and have always been part of my walking through the museum," Coulson says. "These are the places where I stop."
Coulson admits it's an idiosyncratic collection of items.
"I don't think any of these objects are on anyone's greatest hits list," she says. "But maybe now they will be."
In any event, Coulson encourages any visitor to the Met — or any overwhelming museum — to prize quality, or at least a specific personal experience, over quantity.
"I think the best advice I can give anyone in any museum is to simply walk around until a particular work of art stops you in your tracks," she says. "And then once that happens, just wait. Just spend time with it.
"And I'm talking about 15 minutes. It's a tremendous amount of time to spend with a work of art. Most people spend about 30 seconds looking at something. Look at every corner, every edge. Ask yourself why the artist made the choices that they did. And that's when your imagination will take flight; that's when the magic really happens. And then, walk out of the museum."
In other words: Don't feel guilty about not seeing it all.
"It's so satisfying to have that one rich encounter with an object that that'll sustain you," Coulson says. "There's no reason to 'conquer' these places, and I feel like that's what people are usually trying to do. I say, relax and enjoy yourself. And then leave! The most important thing is to not stay so long — because it's exhausting!"
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by Father Ryan Erlenbush
From The New Theological Movement
January 1st, Solemnity of Mary the Holy Mother of God
The generation of Christ was in this wise. When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph etc. (Matthew 1:18)
St. Matthew makes it very clear that Mary is truly the Mother of Jesus, and this is affirmed also in the other Gospels many times over. Throughout the Gospels and in the Church’s Tradition, Mary is called the Mother of Jesus. Indeed, we know that (because Jesus is one divine person) Mary is truly said to be the Mother of God.
However, given that Mary is the Mother of Jesus with respect to his humanity, why do we not call the Holy Spirit the Father of Jesus? Since it was by the power of the Holy Spirit that Mary conceived, and since Mary is called the spouse of the Holy Spirit, why does the Church refuse to say that Jesus is the Son of the Holy Spirit in his humanity?
Mary is truly the Mother of Jesus
A handful of times in the Gospels, St. Joseph is called the “father” of Jesus – by St. Luke (2:33), and even by Mary herself (Thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing, Luke 2:48) – but it is quite clear that the term “father” is not used literally in these cases. St. Luke himself specifies that St. Joseph was only thought to be the father of Jesus, since the Holy Family kept the mystery of the Incarnation hidden from the public and most thought that the marriage between Joseph and Mary was a natural one – [Jesus] being (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph (Luke 3:23).
However, when we come to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it is quite clear that the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament (as well as the prophecies of the Old Testament) present her as the true and natural Mother of our Savior. The Lord Jesus was truly born of the Virgin Mary, and this is affirmed also by St. Paul – God sent his Son, made of a woman (Galatians 4:4).
Christ’s body was not brought down from heaven, nor was it formed of the earth, but rather (by the power of the Holy Spirit) he took flesh of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Indeed, we ought to suppose that (on the part of the Woman) all was natural – St. Thomas Aquinas held that Christ was formed of the blood of Mary, but by that he meant that the Savior came from the normal reproductive material of his Mother (for, in those days, it was thought that the blood of the woman filled something of the role we assign to the egg). What is most important to hold is that Christ took his flesh from the body of his Mother Mary; accepting this, any explanation will suffice.
The angelic St. Thomas specifies that, in respect to what belongs to the woman, Christ’s conception was in accord with the laws of nature – hence the Blessed Mary supplied the matter just as any mother would. Now, in regards the working of the Holy Spirit, Christ’s conception was above the laws of nature – hence, he was conceived and born of the Virgin. [cf. ST III, q.31, a.5, here]
Now, all that is required for motherhood is that the woman supply the matter (i.e. the egg), and this Mary did. Further, she nurtured him through the process of gestation and gave birth to him – and, although this birth was miraculous (since it did not harm her virginal integrity, but rather Christ passed through her as light through glass), it was nevertheless a true and real birth. Therefore, the Blessed Virgin is truly Christ’s mother in relation to his humanity. [cf. ST III, q.35, a.3, here]
Further, though the birth of our Savior was miraculous, this can in no way be said to reduce the motherhood of Blessed Mary – indeed, a woman who brings forth a child through c-section is still called a mother; hence, the violent passage of the infant body through the birth canal is not necessary for motherhood. In any case, the virginal birth of our Lord is still a true birth, though it exceeds the laws of nature and is a most wondrous and unique miracle.
All that being said, Mary is the “Mother of Jesus” not simply because she gave him birth, but most especially because she conceived him in her most pure womb, nourished him with her body, and bore him for nine months in her virginal cloister.
Still, we must be very careful to point out that the Savior existed before his Mother, for he did not begin to exist when he was conceived, but rather assumed to himself a human nature in that moment – remaining what he was (God), he became what he was not (Man).
What “father” and “mother” mean
Before continuing, it will be helpful to briefly state what we mean when we employ the words “father” and “mother” as well as “son” and “daughter”.
These words, says the Angel of the Schools (St. Thomas) “result from generation; yet not from any generation, but from that of living things, especially animals. For we do not say that fire generated is the son of the fire generating it, except, perhaps, metaphorically; we speak thus only of animals in whom generation is more perfect.
“Nevertheless, the word ‘son’ is not applied to everything generated in animals, but only to that which is generated into likeness of the generator. Wherefore, as Augustine says (Enchiridion xxxix), we do not say that a hair which is generated in a man is his son; nor do we say that a man who is born is the son of the seed; for neither is the hair like the man nor is the man born like the seed, but like the man who begot him.” [ST III, q.32, a.3, here]
Jesus is the “Son of God”
Now, any man can be called the son of God in two respects: First, on account of the fact that man is created in the image of God; second, on account of the regeneration of the soul through grace by which the likeness to God is restored in man. And in this respect also, the angels are (in Sacred Scripture) occasionally called “sons of God” – for they bear the image of God in an even more excellent manner, and they have greater grace as being among the blessed than do we who are still on earth.
However, a man is called a “son [or child] of God” in an imperfect sense, for he is not a perfect image of God, but is a mere creature. Yet, a man is called the son of his natural human father in a perfect sense, for he is truly of the same nature as his human father.
But Christ alone is called the “Son of God” in the perfect sense, for he is equal and co-eternal with the Father, the two being of one nature. Hence, in respect of his divinity, Jesus is rightly called the Son of God, meaning the Son of God the Father – for the one Person (the Word) was begotten of the Father from all eternity.
The Holy Spirit is the author of Christ’s conception, but is not his Father
St. Augustine says (Enchiridion xl): “Christ was born of the Holy Ghost not as a Son, and of the Virgin Mary as a Son.”
Now, Christ was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, but we do not say that the Holy Spirit supplied male seed (such would be an impious blasphemy). Rather, by divine power, the Blessed Trinity took matter (i.e. the egg) from the Blessed Virgin and made it to become man (forming the matter by the infusion of the rational human soul), assumed at that very moment by the person of the Word.
But, in his humanity, Christ is not of the same nature as the Holy Spirit – for neither his body nor his soul is consubstantial with the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Holy Spirit cannot possibly be said to be the “father” of Jesus in the way that a man is the father of his son.
Further, since Christ is already the perfect Son of God the Father, we do not predicate of him a secondary sonship according to grace – while we are “sons” by adoption through grace, Jesus is “Son” by nature; since he is only one person (the Word and Son of the Father). Thus, not even according to grace, do we call Jesus the son of the Holy Spirit – since, he is already perfectly the Son of God.
Put simply, by St. Thomas
The Common Doctor states all this in the simplest terms [ST III, q.32, a.3, ad1, here]
“Christ was conceived of the Virgin Mary, who supplied the matter of His conception unto likeness of species. For this reason He is called her Son. But as man He was conceived of the Holy Ghost as the active principle of His conception, but not unto likeness of species, as a man is born of his father. Therefore Christ is not called the Son of the Holy Ghost.” | <urn:uuid:c7dc6dba-95bf-4866-94a9-32bf3dd3bd00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/if-mary-is-the-mother-of-jesus-why-isnt-the-holy-spirit-called-his-father/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.982501 | 1,998 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Pregnant WomenChanges to a pregnant woman’s immune system can make her more sensitive to the flu. You should get the flu vaccine as soon as it is available in your area.
- The flu shot is the only flu vaccine approved for pregnant women. You should not get the nasal spray.
- If you get the flu shot during your pregnancy it will provide some protection to your baby after he or she is born.
- Once the baby is born, breastfeeding will help your baby stay healthy during flu season.
- If you have flu-like symptoms, contact your health care provider as soon as possible.
Why does being pregnant put me at higher risk for getting the flu?Changes to your immune system during pregnancy can make you more sensitive to the flu. This can result in serious problems for your unborn baby, including premature labor and delivery. Additionally, fever in early pregnancy can lead to birth defects.
How can I protect myself and my unborn child from the flu?Get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available in your area. You will need to get the flu shot. The nasal spray flu vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women. If you get the flu shot during your pregnancy, research shows it provides some protection to your baby both while you are pregnant and after the baby is born.
In addition, follow our everyday steps to keep you and your baby healthy this flu season.
How can I protect my baby once he or she is born?Breastfeeding protects babies because breast milk passes your antibodies to your baby. The antibodies in breast milk help fight off infection. Studies show that babies who are breastfed do not get as sick and are sick less often than babies who are not breastfed.
If you get the flu, do not stop breastfeeding. Unless directed by your health care provider, continue to nurse your baby while being treated for the flu.
If I have the flu, what should I do?If you get flu-like symptoms, contact your health care provider immediately. If necessary, your health care provider will prescribe an antiviral medicine to treat you. If you have a fever you should take Tylenol® (or the store brand equivalent).
In addition, follow our treatment recommendations.
When should I get emergency care?Seek immediate medical attention if you experience:
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
- Sudden dizziness
- Severe or persistent vomiting
- High fever
- Decreased or no movement by your baby
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For the first time in 20 years, the Federal Trade Commission has reported an increase in annual cigarette sales, in today’s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Colorado and the District of Columbia.
- Colorado: The Denver Zoo on Monday confirmed that 11 lions at the zoo tested positive for Covid-19 after zoo workers noticed that the animals seemed lethargic, were coughing and sneezing, and had nasal discharge. “Fortunately, the vast majority have fully recovered, and the upside is that there’s an established knowledge base for us to draw from to help treat our animals,” said Brian Aucone, the zoo’s SVP for life science. (Oshin, The Hill, 10/26)
- District of Columbia: According to data from the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) most recent Cigarette Report, the number of cigarettes sold in the United States increased from 202.9 billion in 2019 to 203.7 billion in 2020. FTC also reported an increase in sales of smokeless tobacco products from 126 million pounds in 2019 to 126.9 million pounds in 2020. The report also showed that companies spent $7.84 billion on cigarette advertising and promotion in 2020—compared with only $7.62 billion in 2019. “Given the concerning trends highlighted in this report, including the first increase in cigarette sales in two decades, the Commission will continue to expand its approach in reporting shifts in the tobacco industry,” FTC said. (Doherty, Axios, 10/26)
- District of Columbia: The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the seizure of more than $31.6 million in currencies and 150 arrests as part of an initiative conducted by the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team to stop the distribution of drugs and other illicit substances on the dark web. The operation also seized 234 kilograms of drugs, many of which were counterfeit or contained dangerous substances like fentanyl. According to Associate Deputy FBI Director Paul Abate, “Those purchasing drugs through the dark net often don’t know what they’re getting.” He added, “Today we’re taking some of the most dangerous, unregulated drugs off the streets of America.” (Niedzwiadek, Politico, 10/26) | <urn:uuid:e796c0e3-9d48-42fa-8ea2-7ebd32307b48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://advisorynewshubb.com/around-the-nation-annual-cigarette-sales-increase-for-the-first-time-in-two-decades/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.88966 | 721 | 2.078125 | 2 |
What you sense about what you wear can be more important than what others see, Charlie Davidson believed.
“The lining is the most important thing,” the longtime Andover Shop proprietor told John Spooner when the investment adviser celebrated publishing his first book by ordering his first custom-made suit.
“But nobody will see the lining,” Spooner countered.
“Ahhh, that’s the point,” Mr. Davidson replied. “No one has to see the lining. But you’ll know it’s there. Style, not fashion. Remember that.”
Mr. Davidson, who was 93 when he died Dec. 2 in his Cambridge home, was more than just a Harvard Square institution, quietly holding court while selling menswear in his legendary Holyoke Street store.
He also dispensed wisdom — choice metaphors on how to live a refined life that he cloaked in the finery of men’s clothing advice.
For some seven decades, first at the shop’s original Andover location, then memorably in Harvard Square, he garbed an array of customers — some of whom became lifelong friends, especially if they were writers or jazz musicians.
Miles Davis and Chet Baker set down their trumpets to let Mr. Davidson improvise an outfit. Ralph Ellison became so close that the “Invisible Man” author wrote long letters to Mr. Davidson that are included in a just-published collection.
George Frazier, the late Boston Globe and Boston Herald columnist, used the Spanish word duende to confer an ineffable aura of class on people, places, and things he admired — among them his friend Mr. Davidson and the Andover Shop.
And the late Globe sports columnist Bud Collins, who sought Mr. Davidson’s assistance to create the unforgettably loud pants he wore to elite tennis tournaments, put a dazzling backspin on every compliment.
At various times, Collins wrote that Mr. Davidson was an “inimitable sartor,” the “maestro of Andoverian garb,” “the Baron of Bespoke.”
As precise with a phrase as he was crafting suits, Mr. Davidson repaid such accolades.
“Jazz musicians always know the melody. But they never play the melody. They’re always playing the improvisation. It’s different every time,” he once said while discussing Frazier’s writing. “George is like that. People keep searching for the melody, but there is no melody. George was always playing the improvisation.”
To longtime customers-turned-friends such as Spooner, Mr. Davidson’s mere presence turned the Andover Shop into a sanctuary.
“He ran a club,” Spooner said. “It was a club, not a store.”
And not everyone who passed through the door became a member.
“Money meant nothing to him, really. It was style,” Spooner said.
If Mr. Davidson sensed he was dealing with someone with whom he didn’t care to form a proprietor-customer relationship, he would “finally tell the person who came into the store, ‘You know, I don’t think we have anything for you,’ ” Spooner said.
That didn’t stop anyone from trying to become one of Mr. Davidson’s clients. Once admitted to his circle, they stayed.
Word got around. Even New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell could name-drop Mr. Davidson and know his reputation would strike a responsive chord.
“He was known all over the world. He was global,” said former Globe columnist and editor Sam Allis, who was 10 when he first met Mr. Davidson. “He’d send swatches to somebody in London about making a jacket. People would come from Europe. Everybody knew him.”
When Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosted the acclaimed PBS series “The African Americans,” Mr. Davidson’s wares merited a production credit for the Harvard professor’s wardrobe.
Jazz pianist Bobby Short once told the Globe that the Holyoke Street store was one only of three places in the world where he purchased his clothes (the other two were in London and New York City).
“As a matter of fact,” Short told the Globe in 1967, “Charlie Davidson at the Andover Shop is working up some new things for me right now.”
Born in Lawrence in 1926, Mr. Davidson was of Armenian descent. His father, Leon Davidson, was an entrepreneur who had co-owned the Andover Country Club. His mother, Agnes Ohanian, was “the most amazing cook and mother and housewife,” said Mr. Davidson’s daughter Casey Farley of Newport, R.I.
The second-oldest of four siblings, Mr. Davidson graduated from Andover High School and served as a gunner in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific at the end of World War II. He brought a dry wit to many stories, including about his military service.
“I asked him recently, ‘Wasn’t it dangerous?’ And he said, ‘Only if you got hit,’ ” Casey recalled.
After the war, he briefly attended Bowdoin College in Maine.
“He always said he never met a test he could pass,” Casey said. “But he was an incredible reader. He just loved knowing things and reading things — anything.”
Mr. Davidson initially ran the first Andover Shop in an Andover building his father owned. That store opened in 1948, and Mr. Davidson’s renown grew when he began running the Harvard Square shop, which opened a few years later.
As decades passed, he became “the last of a certain breed of American haberdasher from an age more golden than ours,” Christian Chensvold wrote in a 2012 essay for The Rake.
“Having a business like the Andover Shop meant I never once felt like I was going to work,” Mr. Davidson said in an e-mail to the Globe last year, when he sold his business.
Mr. Davidson was married twice — first to Elisabeth Kurth, with whom he had three daughters, and then to Terry Haller, with whom he had one daughter. Both marriages ended in divorce.
In 1993, Mr. Davidson and Joyce Comfort became companions, while keeping their separate homes — he in Cambridge, she in Nahant. They had known each other since 1960.
“He could make you feel like you were the most special person in the world,” she said by phone from his Cambridge residence, where she helped care for him during his time in hospice.
In addition to Casey and Joyce, Mr. Davidson leaves his three daughters from his first marriage, Stephanie Nicoll of Derry, N.H., Elisabeth of Andover, and Christine Anderson of Georgetown; a brother, John of Atkinson, N.H.; a sister, Rosemary Flynn of Brenham, Texas; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Family and friends will gather to celebrate Mr. Davidson’s life at 2 p.m. Sunday during an open house in his apartment at 19 Garden St. in Cambridge.
Along with Baker and Davis, Gates and Short, Collins and Frazier, he dressed the likes of Albert Murray, the novelist and critic, and George Wein, who founded the Newport Jazz Festival – a regular stop for Mr. Davidson, who kept a home in Newport, R.I., for many years.
In the early 1960s, surgery for cancer of the larynx meant the loss of vocal chords, and that his voice was soft.
“Part of the intimacy of knowing Charlie was you had to get close to hear him. And he loved to talk, so he never stopped talking.”
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[dns-operations] DNSSEC DANE testing
vjs at rhyolite.com
Fri Aug 24 04:06:10 UTC 2012
> From: Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca>
> >> http://people.redhat.com/pwouters/mozilla-extval-0.7.xpi
> > I see no queries for TLSA records for nohats.ca, fedoraproject.org,
> > or dane.rd.nic.fr from Firefox after installing the xpi file on
> > FreeBSD 9.0, Windows 7, Centos 2.6.32, or Ubuntu 11.10.
> I'll remake and re-release a 0.8 to ensure the version is the latest
> one and will get back to the list.
The previous announcement I saw said something about "Linux", but
didn't specify the flavor. Which brand and version of Linux will be
needed for the future xpi file? If any non-standard libraries are
needed, what are their full names and versions and where should they
> > is saying SERVFAIL about nohats.ca unless I set the CD bit.
> Yes, once again opendnssec and nsd interacted badly, and nsd's pid bug
> caused nsdc to not be able to reload nsd, which caused expired RRSIGs
> until I manually killed nsd and restarted it.
Nohats.ca now looks much better from here. I assume it's irrelevant
that one of the NS servers for nohats.ca, alpha.bebout.net still
refuses to answer requests about nohats.ca.
> > I hope I misunderstand, because that sounds to me like the error that
> > was in the Chrome support for its notion of a predecessor to TLSA.
> You misunderstand. Purple means "DNSSEC validated the hostname AND there
> was a TLSA record, which was also DNSSEC validated and matched the
> found TLS certificate".
Ok, my mistake.
> I do not know how browsers will treat the CA industry and EV certs in
> the future. My opinion will not carry any weight there.
I trust browser vendors will follow the clear language in RFC 6698.
Vernon Schryver vjs at rhyolite.com
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Port Erin is a seaside village on the southwest coast of the Isle of Man. The village sits within a horseshoe bay with two headlands that can on a windy day create a funnel onto the beach, but with the flip-side of this being a suntrap on calm days. Port Erin was a popular tourist destination and a lot of the old hotels still give this a Victorian charm. The original railway station still exists today and is a terminus on the Douglas to Port Erin line of 25km (15.5 miles). Due to the westerly location you can get some great views of the setting sun over the headlands.
Port Erin Rushen Map
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The Euglenoids were first identified by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in 16741. Since its identification, efforts have been underway to understand it’s biology and translational applications using genomic and non-genomic approaches. In the 1960s and 1980s and 1990s early works in Euglena were sufficiently documented2,3. Over the last two decades there have been a growing list of communities within the Euglena science aiming to uncover several aspects of the biology of Euglena as well as its biotechnological applications4-12. As the Euglena global community continues to grow, so is the need to bring the Euglena community together to better understand Euglena biology and harness it’s biotechnological potential.
The Euglena International Network (EIN) aims to galvanise the Euglena global community and provide a collaborative interface. EIN’s approach will be via the following stages: Assemble, identify, engage, implement, and update advances in Euglena science. EIN is currently aiming for a one-day inauguration event, which is the first phase; this event will help to assemble, identify, and engage with the Euglena global scientific community. The second phase, which will consist of the implementation and update stages, are expected to be fall-outs from the inauguration event. Therefore, the aims and objectives of EIN are to:
- Assemble, for the first time, international investigators working on Euglena. Create a collaborative platform for researchers, academics, and industry professionals working on Euglena globally, and introduce EIN to the international scientific community.
- Identify and form a committee who will be tasked with providing Consortium partnership models and deliverables. Drive the formation of the Euglena Genome Consortium (EGC) to sequence select Euglenoid species in collaboration with other projects such as the Earth BioGenome Project, Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Project, UK Darwin Tree of Life, etc. Facilitate a ranked list of species, designate sequencing priorities, and ensure provision of complete reference Euglena sequenced genomes.
- Engage the conversation for knowledge exchange between industry professionals (food, environment, energy and health) and academics working on Euglena globally. Identify and form committees who will be tasked with providing knowledge exchange and industry partnership models and scientific deliverables. This will lead us to the Implementation stage.
- Engage the conversation for annual or biennial Euglena conferences. Identify and form committees who will be tasked with organising the Euglena Conference. This will lead us to the Update stage.
- Implement recommendations and outcomes from the EIN inauguration event; one of which will be the formation of EGC (please see above).
- Update Euglena scientific community on advances in Euglena science through the organisation and hosting of conferences and knowledge exchange programmes with the industry (please see above).
- Dobell, C., 1932. Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his “Little Animals”: being some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and his Multifarious Discoveries in these Disciplines. Brace and company, 512 pp.
- Buetow, D.E., 1968. The biology of Euglena. Academic Press, 364 pp.
- Triemer, R.E., Farmer, M.A., 1991. An ultrastructural comparison of the mitotic apparatus, feeding apparatus, flagellar apparatus and cytoskeleton in euglenoids and kinetoplastids. Protoplasma 164, 91-104.
- Linton, E.W., Karnkowska-Ishikawa, A., Kim, J.I., Shin, W. , Ben-nett, M.S., Kwiatowski, J., Zakrys, B., Triemer, R.E., 2010. Reconstructing Euglenoid evolutionary relationships using threegenes: nuclear SSU and LSU, and chloroplast SSU rDNAsequences and the description of Euglenaria gen. nov (Eugleno-phyta). Protist 1614, 603-619.
- Dobáková, E., Flegontov, P., Skalický, T., Lukeš, J., 2015. Unexpectedly streamlined mitochondrial genome of the euglenozoan Euglena gracilis. Genome Biology and Evolution 7(12), 3358–3367.
- O’Neill, E.C., Trick, M., Henrissat, B., Field, R.A., 2015. Euglena in time: Evolution, control of central metabolic processes and multi-domain proteins in carbohydrate and natural product biochemistry. Perspectives in Science 6, 84-93.
- Yoshida, Y., Tomiyama, T., Maruta, T., Tomita, M., Ishikawa, T., Arakawa, K., 2016. De novo assembly and comparative transcriptome analysis of Euglena gracilis in response to anaerobic conditions. BMC Genomics 17, 182.
- Schwartzbach, S., Shigeoka, S., 2017. Euglena: Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology. Springer International Publishing, 303 pp.
- Ebenezer, T.E., Zoltner, M., Burrell, A. et al., 2019. Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis. BMC Biology 17, 11. | <urn:uuid:40639a13-49a3-4d05-bc1d-da4f85c9de98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://euglenanetwork.org/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.808697 | 1,157 | 2.765625 | 3 |
One hand can give shelter to another.
Do you know? India has 86.8 million individuals living in outrageous destitution, making up ~6% of its absolute populace as of mid-2021. As of 2020, the poverty rate in India has increased significantly.
Additionally, in comparison to other countries, India is one of the ranking countries in terms of poverty, which further means we have been dealing with massive destruction for many years. However, this year it has been increased in bad shape.
For years, it is one of the well-known facts about volunteering that the government has been taking several methods and approaches against the annihilation. However, it is not enough. Being a responsible native, the responsibility comes over our shoulders to assist the government in our way. Today, in 2020, there have been many NGOs, Foundations, and the company’s who have been volunteering for the antagonism of Poverty.
Large enterprises and companies and we as an individual can initiate volunteering to bring out our services’ best outcome. Before going ahead, let’s know what volunteering exactly is and what the facts are about volunteering.
Volunteering in Simple Terms
Volunteering, in simple terms, is a deliberate act of an individual or gathering uninhibitedly, giving time and work for local area administration for free. It is an action where you help the needy by offering them some part of privilege. For instance, educating poor children for free. Giving them your old books and so on.
Volunteering does not end up helping poor people. It means helping senior citizens, initiating the protection of animals and the environment, supporting hungry or homeless, volunteering to promote safety and promote community enhancements.
Facts about Volunteering
When it comes to Volunteering, many of us are fixed up to a vision that volunteering without money is worthless. Volunteering leads to time consumption, or it may give you happiness but for a certain period.
However, this is just a myth, which why we have gathered facts about volunteering that will surely turn you up to being a volunteer.
1. Upgrading Skills on Both Sides
Teaching someone or stepping into a new work gives you the power of learning new skills happening around you. For instance, teaching a child will enhance your as well as the child’s knowledge. Also, getting yourself into a new environment will help you acquire new skills.
Volunteering can truly be nearly anything. That implies that when you engage in cause work, a great deal of the time, you will confront difficulties similarly as you would in a new position. What’s more, through conquering these, you learn and begin to dominate new abilities. Hence, it claims to be one of the best facts about volunteering.
2. Strengthening Resume
If your job chances are seen below, then volunteering can fill the gap between you and your desired job. How?
Nowadays, strengthening resumes is one of the major concerns for job seekers, especially the new comes or freshers. Volunteering with NGOs or foundations builds your resume with new skills and a set of experiences, which can be further used in your working experience. Isn’t upgrading your CV is one of the best facts about volunteering?
3. Enhance your Social Skills
Volunteering somewhere connects to being social and coming in front of society. People who lack social skills such as public speaking, dealing with social situations, meeting new people can take up volunteering as a challenge for themselves. Becoming a volunteer will be more advantageous for them as they will get a chance to change their introverted personality.
4. New Contacts
It may not be surprising, but one of the pros of volunteering, that it gives you a chance to make new connections and friends. Also, you meet an exceptionally wide kind of individuals.
What could be better facts about volunteering? Rather than taking a gander at it in a contrary light of meeting individuals you don’t share a great deal practically speaking with, consider growing your organization. You’re becoming more acquainted with individuals associated with various strolls in life that you wouldn’t have had the chance to meet in any case.
5. Self Satisfaction
This can be very boring but the best feeling. Helping someone without any cause, without any reason, and without taking back something gives a sense of happiness you’ve never felt. It gives you the satisfaction of wiping someone’s tears and turning them into a big smile.
6. Relax your Mind and Body
Spending time with someone and doing something special helps you calm and relax your mind and body. Working with pets and animals or a child can help to reduce your stress and anxiety. Meeting someone special is one of the best facts about volunteering.
Volunteering keeps you in standard contact with others and helps you build up a strong, emotionally supportive network, thus ensuring you against depression. It also gives you a sense of self-confidence and makes you feel happy.
7. Completes Your Life with Fun
Accomplishing humanitarian effort, you discover significant and fascinating can be an unwinding, stimulating break from your everyday daily schedule of work, school, or family responsibilities. It also gives you recharged inventiveness, inspiration, and vision to continue into your own and expert life.
Numerous individuals volunteer to set aside a few minutes for pastimes outside of work too. For example, if you have a work area work and long to invest energy outside, you should seriously mull over electing to help plant a local area garden, walk canines for a creature-safe house, or help out at a kids’ camp.
Impact of Volunteering on Poverty
How will volunteering impact poverty? One of the major facts about volunteering and unforgettable facts. Volunteering may have numerous pros; however, besides everything, it gives a path to diminishing poverty in the country.
Poverty has been a major concern for India overtimes. Undoubtedly, our government is also initiating several steps. As of 2020, amongst all the countries, India ranked 107 out of 117 in poverty. As said earlier, it’s not necessary to work with a huge enterprise to take part in volunteering. A single individual can also make a huge transformation around himself or herself. All you need is a will to implement.
We, as an educated individual, can take the following measures to deal with poverty-
- We can help unserved kiddies by providing them education and donating books.
- We can create a donation box in our society; wherein all the society members can donate something according to their will.
- We can serve them fresh food and clean clothes.
- If possible, then we can also arrange a small shelter for them.
- There are several NGOs and foundations where you can donate.
- You and your circle of friends can initiate volunteering by feeding stray animals and making a shelter.
If measured both (volunteering and poverty), volunteering can impact a massive difference towards poverty. Volunteering by serving the underserved with humans’ essential needs, that is, food, clothes, and shelter, can decrease the number of poor people in the nation. Besides all three needs, the government provides employment services, which will further help run the household.
As read above, there are and could be endless ways you can volunteer, wherein you don’t even need to invest money to begin.
Since you understand what the facts about volunteering are, you can find the accompanying ways to begin getting included:
Look Over Your Inclinations
Know your area of expertise. Which means in which type of volunteering you appear to be generally interested? Is it safe to say that they were similar to kids or the climate for the most part in one specific classification? Assuming this is the case, that is a decent beginning spot for picking explicit associations to contact.
Figure Out How Long You Can Commit to Local Area Support
Are you accessible for two hours consistently? Is it true that you are not free consistently but rather can chip in for a whole end of the week at this point and afterward?
Consider transportation well and how you’ll have the option to get to various areas. Realizing this data will help you pick which local area administration ventures to seek after, and it’s useful facts about volunteering organizers to know.
Do Some Exploration to Perceive What Projects You Can do Locally
Check at your school, a spot of love, or city center for more facts about volunteering. You can likewise contact where you’d prefer to play out your local area administration, like a specific creature asylum or nursing home, and inquire as to whether they take volunteers.
This rundown goes from little activities that you can finish all alone in a couple of hours to a lot bigger ventures that will take additional time and individuals. If you discover an undertaking you can begin your own, do it!
If you need to do a task where you’ll require more assets or individuals, check around your local area to check whether a comparative program as of now exists that you can join. If not, don’t be hesitant to begin your own! Numerous associations invite new volunteers and local area administration projects.
So, how many facts about volunteering did you like?
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ARI SHAPIRO, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Steve Inskeep is on vacation. I'm Ari Shapiro.
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
And I'm Renee Montagne. Zimbabwe's opposition leader has withdrawn from that country's presidential runoff election. Morgan Tsvangirai of the opposition Movement for a Democratic Change, or MDC, says he's willing to negotiate with the government, but he blames President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party for creating what he calls, quote, "a violent, illegitimate sham of an election process." Mr. Tsvangirai joined us to talk about that. Good morning.
Mr. MORGAN TSVANGIRAI (Leader, Movement for a Democratic Change, Zimbabwe): Hello.
MONTAGNE: Now your supporters have been killed in great numbers - dozens. They've been beaten. They've been arrested. You have also been detained on a number of occasions. Why drop out now when so many have paid such a price and the election is so close?
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: Well, this is not an election. Our assessment is that it will actually be the betrayal of those who have sacrificed so much to go in a so-called election when it is impossible to assess the will of the people because they've all been frog-marched into this kind of a process. So our assessment is that the MDC will do itself a lot of harm, and its supporters, if we were to legitimize by its participation at this stage.
MONTAGNE: This decision, though, to withdraw from the election, in doing this, aren't you guaranteeing that Mugabe will be declared the next president?
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: Well, there's nothing that is going to change the outcome. What he wants is to go through a process of so-called participation, and then declare himself the winner. He has already declared that he will not accept the opposition victory. He is not going to hand over power, and that he is going to go to war if he lost. So under those circumstances, Mugabe has determined that he wants to stay in power forever and ever.
MONTAGNE: Now your withdrawal has already moved the head of the Southern African Development Community - which is a very powerful group there in Southern Africa - to challenge Mr. Mugabe and the legitimacy of this election. Is your move designed to force Zimbabwe's neighbors and the international community to take a stand - or a firmer stand, that is - to force Robert Mugabe to give up power?
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: Well, it's not about giving up power. It's about SADC taking an initiative...
MONTAGNE: SADC being the Southern African Development Community.
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: ...Community. It has placed the onus of this crisis on SADC to make sure that either the election is postponed and conducted under SADC norms and standards, or to (unintelligible) Mugabe to concede that in the first round, he has lost the election and that he must give up power. This is not about an election. This is about ambition. This is about convincing Mugabe's denial attitude that the people no longer support him.
MONTAGNE: Do you think that the Southern African Development Community will apply that kind of pressure, and do you think at this point President Mugabe is vulnerable to that pressure?
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: My assessment is that if there is a collective position by all SADC leaders, that will be sufficient pressure. That voice is essential to actually have a collective consensus as to what Mugabe's doing or not.
MONTAGNE: The US and Britain are taking this matter today before the UN Security Council. Do you think that the UN can have any influence on Mugabe, given that it has not managed to move him up to now?
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: The convening of Security Council on Zimbabwe has one outcome that we will expect. This is one - to appoint a mission to investigate the level of abuses that have taken place: rape, torture, murder and the various human rights abuse that has taken place, sanctioned and supported by the state. So I think it's very important to come out with that resolution, because that has got a direct impact on individuals in the state machinery of ZANU-PF, or else they will have to deal with the consequences of what they've done. That's number one. Number two, Security Council resolution must also forecast that the elections are null and void, and that a fresh round of elections be convened under international supervision, in order to have a legitimate outcome.
MONTAGNE: Do you think that your supporters will go to polls this coming Friday if you have withdrawn?
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: They will not. They will not go to the election. Besides, there will be no election. I'm proceeding formally on Wednesday to withdraw my candidature and to say to ZANU-PF they have failed to conduct an election, and therefore Mugabe cannot be declared or sworn in as president because he never won an election.
MONTAGNE: Although that is what Mugabe's government says will happen exactly, that if you withdraw, as they put it, chicken out...
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: ...it will be illegitimate. As ZANU-PF in the past, they have no respect for the law, and it will further demonstrate that they have total disregard of the national/international opinion.
MONTAGNE: Mr. Tsvangirai, thank you for talking with us.
Mr. TSVANGIRAI: Thank you.
MONTAGNE: Morgan Tsvangirai is head of Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe. He announced he's withdrawing from this Friday's runoff for the presidential election there.
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says there is no evidence of plastic rice on the Ghanaian Market.
The Authority’s comments comes on the back of videos making rounds on social media about the existence of plastic rice on the Ghanaian market.
The Authority explained that the same claims were made in 2017, for which samples were subjected to laboratory tests.
“Results from the analyses showed that all the samples were in fact authentic rice and not plastic as perceived by the public,” FDA said in a press release on Thursday, June 9.
It emphasised that the physical and chemical properties of plastics make them not suitable to be cooked into edible food.
“This is because plastic cannot absorb water and does not mix with water,” the release further stressed.
It, therefore, pointed out that “the videos on the alleged plastic rice are false and must be ignored”.
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JPMorgan Chase is contributing $1.55 million to three new small business investments taking part in a conference for black businesses in Detroit.
The banking giant planned to announce the investments during Detroit Startup Week, which runs from June 18 to June 22. The free five-day event gives entrepreneurs a chance to network, learn, hear speeches, and take part in activities to help them flourish. This year marks the event’s third year after being launched in 2016. Detroit Startup Week, recently re-named Techstars Startup Week Detroit, is expected to attract 8,000 to 10,000 attendees, organizers say.
The latest overall investment by JPMorgan Chase is part of the bank’s $150 million investment in Detroit’s economic recovery that includes helping women, minority, and veteran entrepreneurs.
Here’s a glimpse at the bank’s latest investments:
-$780,000 for TechTown. Called Detroit’s most established business accelerator and incubator, TechTown helps entrepreneurs who want to open a business but don’t know where to begin. It provides an intensive, eight-week training program to prepare entrepreneurs interested in opening a new retail establishment in a Detroit neighborhood. During the next two years, TechTown aims to assist 250 small businesses and attract additional outside investment. TechTown, will use the investment to grow revenues for the existing retail businesses they serve. It also will assist businesses to ensure they are ready to receive capital and able to leverage additional resources in loan and grant support to grow.
-$410,000 for Accounting Aid Society. This society helps improve access to capital for small businesses and helps individual families better prepare financially for their futures. It aims to assist 400 small businesses especially in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods. The society will use the investment to offer entrepreneurial services for both technology and neighborhood enterprises.
-$360,000 for Great Lakes Women’s Business Council. The council helps women-owned small businesses grow and expand in Detroit. It plans to use the investment to help about 20 additional small businesses through its Detroit Business Growth Initiatives. That help will include offering classroom training, business counseling, and coaching to help small businesses boost their sales growth, the business owner’s income, and the ability to hire more staff. Other efforts will include guiding participants toward desired growth goals and providing financing connections, including with U.S. Small Business Administration lending and the Entrepreneurs of Color Loan Fund. | <urn:uuid:c34c74ba-15d5-4f57-ace6-124693b34b9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dev.blackenterprise.com/investment-black-businesses-in-detroit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.95195 | 498 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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The purpose of this study was to explore critical incidents of moral problem in nursing practice and
the actions of moral courage which were demonstrated in dealing with those moral problems. In this study,
fifty participants were selected to be interviewed. The interviews were transcribed to develop relevant themes
using the critical incident analysis technique. Trustworthiness was established following Lincoln and Guba’s
criteria. The results included five themes of moral problems of critical incidents in nursing practice 1)
Compromised patient safety, 2) Substandard quality of care, 3) Lack of adequate information, 4) Lack of
concern for the patient’s needs, and 5) Privacy and confidentiality violation. The participants demonstrated
their moral courage in various ways; 1) Providing information in respecting patient’s rights, 2) Intervening to
prevent further harm to the patients, 3) Declaring own mistake, 4) Encouraging quality of care, 5) Notifying
health care team about patient’s needs, 6) Responding to the patient’s need in accordance with patient’s rights
and 7) Taking action to maintain patient privacy and confidentiality. The results of this study will increase
awareness of the importance of teaching moral courage in nursing education.
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It is difficult to generalize about the painting style of Le Minh in a few words. If so, sudden inspiration and diversity of his works may be clearly expressed. Perhaps, a strange aesthetic passion and indulgence externally exist in works of artists and therefore, as for each landscape, his aesthetic patterns are in different directions. Starting the painting with a realist’s observation and highly polished penmanship, the artist quickly converted into transcendent scenes in his mind. Opposition of green and complete red of a countryside landscape created an extraordinary attraction. A bridge corner seems to be bulky by the strong strokes and natural colors, presenting certain feelings on the surface of the painting. Thatched cottage in a village is surrounded by green lotus pond in which human is only a small spot. It is seemed that houses and human is surrounded by the lake surface or it is only reflection under the water shade in reality and in dreams of the artist. It may be realized that the misty and passionate feeling covers Le Minh’s works. And landscape is only a cause for the artist to freely express his inspiration in the play with fine arts. Each stop of the artist’s steps is particularly interesting for arriving a new destination/shore.
Le Minh was born in 1964 in Hanoi. He graduated from Sai Gon College of Stage in 1992. He offered many exhibitions in Vietnam and in foreign countries and his works were included in collections of individuals and organizations in Vietnam and in the world.
1964:Born in Ha Noi, Viet Nam
1987–1992: Graduated from Sai Gon State and Movie College.
Member of Vietnamese Young Painters Club
Private Collections in the Country and Overseas
Designer of D.T.P / Art and Advertising Co
1997: The first solo exhibition in New Window Gallery in Ho Chi Minh city
2000: Spring exhibition – Group Young artist in Hanoi.
2005: Solo exhibition at Dragon Gallery, Hanoi
2006: Group exhibition in Japan
2006: Group exhibition at the Gallery 39 Ly Quoc Su
2007: Group exhibition at the Red Gallery in DuBai.
2010: National exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
2012: Group exhibition with Korean artists in Vietnam.
2012: Group exhibition in Roma, Italy.
2013: Group exhibition in Venice and Milan, Italy.
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China successfully sent a new remote-sensing satellite group into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Friday.
The satellites were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:30 p.m. Beijing time. This is the ninth group belonging to the Yaogan-30 family.
Also aboard was Tianqi-14, a satellite belonging to the Tianqi constellation.
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- Identification and Creation
- Object Number
Binding attributed to Sultan Muhammad, Persian (16th century)
- Illustrated Manuscript of a Divan of Hafiz
- Work Type
- c. 1530
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz
- Safavid period
- Persistent Link
- Physical Descriptions
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper; binding: lacquer on paper with leather
- 29.21 x 19.05 x 3.5 cm (11 1/2 x 7 3/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
- Arthur Sambon, Paris (by 1914), sold; to Louis Cartier Collection, Paris, (1914-1958), sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warner, NH, (1958-1964), gift; to Fogg Art Museum.
- Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Welch, Jr.
- Accession Year
- Object Number
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
- The enormous wealth and attention directed to the arts of the book in sixteenth-century Iran can be seen in this elaborate book binding and the elaborate illustrated pages, which were removed long ago from its text block. A heightened interest in illustrations, particularly of poetic texts, drove the development of a distinctive art form popularly known as Persian miniature painting. In Islamic books, figural representation had usually been confined to the inside of a manuscript, where it could be enjoyed privately. As this beautiful book cover demonstrates, artists in the early Safavid period pushed figural imagery to the outside as well.
Here Safavid courtiers—recognizable by the red baton of their turbans—enjoy refreshments, while winged angels carry covered trays. The cover is executed in a medium known as Persian lacquer, an extension of the miniature-painting technique of opaque watercolor and gold on a paper substrate. The painted cover was completed with a coating of clear lacquer.
This manuscript and the lacquer binding was created in the early sixteenth century for the Safavid prince and bibliophile Sam Mirza, brother of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524–76), the dynasty’s second ruler.
- Publication History
Laurence Binyon and J. V. S. Wilkinson, Persian Miniature Painting: Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931, exh. cat., Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (London, England, 1933), page 128
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art From Prehistoric Times to the Present, Soroush Press (Tehran, Iran, 1977), page 972, 977
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), page 83/figure 88
Studies In Islamic and Later Indian Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), page 11 & 12/figure 3 & 4
Jon Thompson, ed., Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501 - 1576, exh. cat., Skira (New York, 2003), p 185, fig 7.1
Robert Hillenbrand and Firuza Abdullaeva, ed., Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. Studies in Honor of Charles Melville., I. B. Tauris (London, 2013), p. 337; plate 26
Selseleh: Artistic Lineages in Persian Painting, Hadeeth ad-Dar (Kuwait, 2014), Vol. 28, pp. 12-17, fig. 1
Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., p. 71, ill.; p. 240, ill.; pp. 292-293, no. 4a
- Exhibition History
The Heavenly Court: Persian Poetry and Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/1985 - 03/31/1985
Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987
Geometry of the Spirit: Islamic Illumination and Calligraphy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/30/1988 - 06/26/1988
Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990
Eyes to the East: Indian, Persian, and Turkish Art Given by Harvard Graduates, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/1990 - 11/25/1990
Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/1993 - 01/30/1994
32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/14/2015
Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 10/21/2021 - 02/20/2022
- Subjects and Contexts
Google Art Project
- Related Works
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- By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities.
- Migration will continue to drive urban population growth. As such, city leaders are uniquely placed to address the challenges and opportunities that this population growth creates.
- Cross-border cooperation between cities in Africa and Europe, like the Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity, can help states progress on global goals and inform national policy on migration and beyond.
This year must be the time to reset the relationship between Africa and Europe. With the blow dealt by COVID-19 to both continents and the inequalities highlighted, forging a stronger partnership between Africa and Europe has never felt more critical. We need to find common solutions to global challenges, from pandemics and climate change to migration; new forms of cross-border cooperation are needed – and fast.
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Yet, while African and European states struggle to find common ground, cities on both continents are already working together to build back better.
Cities matter: by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Cities offer opportunities and benefits, such as access to services and infrastructure; and jobs for individuals and their families, leading to more choice and higher wages. It is, therefore, not surprising that 20% of migrants already live in the world’s major cities. The pandemic has highlighted the essential contribution of these migrants in sustaining the cities in which they live as key workers, from healthcare and sanitation workers to supermarket cashiers, truck drivers and more.
Human mobility can create opportunities for those who move and those who stay. It also helps connect people across borders and continents. Yet the movement of people from Africa to Europe has become a charged and contentious topic with narratives of fear, control and lost sovereignty fuelling nationalist movements in Europe and eroding public trust. Governments are under enormous pressure with distrust in national institutions at an all-time high.
We city mayors can help change the narrative on migration, restoring trust in the ability of institutions to address the reality of migration and the forces that drive it. We know that changing the narrative starts with changing realities on the ground. Together, we are working to find practical ways to address the reality of people moving into and between our cities. Cooperation with governments must be the rule if we are to achieve lasting change.
We are already collaborating on a sector important to both Milan and Freetown: fashion. We are creating opportunities to open export markets for women entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone in the fashion and textiles industry; and the opportunity for Milan’s fashion industry to explore the West African market, investigating sustainable dyes, textiles and ethical-sourcing options in Sierra Leone.
Other cities are considering housing finance options for residents and exploring new approaches for managing and upgrading informal settlements. Mayors are working with national governments to engage in inter-state processes, such as 2021’s African Union/European Union summit. Through the Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity we are working to increase local access to financing from international and regional development banks, connecting cities with national interlocutors.
Cities can reinvigorate the partnership between Africa and Europe by making progress in areas where cooperation between states is stuttering with migration a sticking point. This year offers a window of opportunity for change with the long-awaited AU-EU Summit set to kickstart a new chapter for relations between our two continents. Cities must play a central role and represent the voices and needs of our residents, while sharing good practice, knowledge and ideas on how to bring our communities and societies closer, emphasizing the myriad connections that exist between our cities, countries and continents.
Our practical approach to cooperation across borders has much to offer policy-makers at the national and regional level. Cities are a decisive level of government and to achieve global goals it is necessary to work with and support action at a local level.
Ahead of this year’s summit, we are asking for others to join us in giving cities a seat at the table to create a different future for our communities and societies. We are asking national governments to have their cities participate in delegations as allies in achieving national goals. We are keen to work with the international system to reinforce the voice and agency of cities (via access to financing so that we can deliver results on the ground). We also call on public and private actors willing to invest in practical experiments that test innovations between and within cities so that those which are successful can be brought to scale. The Mayors Dialogue offers a platform to turn all this into reality, building on many decades of collaboration between African and European cities.
Collaboration between our cities is driven by a shared belief that every person has the right to pursue happiness and a sense of achievement at home, wherever home is. The biggest challenge to achieving this vision is political: countering a zero-sum politics of fear that pitches us against them. Instead, more than ever we need a politics of solidarity that brings people, cities and societies together. The current pandemic is not the last crisis we will face. We must learn lessons fast and focus on cooperating more and better across borders. It is here that states have a lot to learn from us cities.
The Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity is a city-led initiative that will deliver innovative and practical solutions for human mobility in African and European cities. It aims to improve the lives of all urban residents, including migrants, and help redress the power imbalances that persist between the two continents. The Dialogue is led by the cities of Freetown and Milan. Other cities participating include Accra, Agadez, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bristol, Dakar, Durban, Helsinki, Kampala, Kanifing, Kigali, Lisbon, Mannheim, Maputo, Paris, Tunis and Zurich. The Dialogue is supported by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Mayors Migration Council (MMC), Robert Bosch Stiftung and Open Society Foundations (OSF). | <urn:uuid:17ac4d68-e829-4f07-acf5-bfa1d7d83cb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weforum.org/global_future_councils/gfc-on-cities-of-tomorrow/articles/africa-europe-cities-lead-post-pandemic-recovery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.943763 | 1,228 | 2.734375 | 3 |
By Cecil Hoge
At the end of part 2 of this history, our Sea Eagle boat business had already been in business for 30 years and gone through many changes. By 1998 we had re-built our Sea Eagle boat business and had found new ways to sell more inflatable boats through our new Sea Eagle website. In doing so, we expanded our range of products to include transom boats, whitewater & camping kayaks, fishing boats and a new kind of inflatable catamaran kayak called the Sea Eagle PaddleSki.
From our earliest beginnings in 1968 to the present, our goal was always to produce the best inflatable boats of their kind. In doing that, we always tried to offer products that were different and better from what was on the market, whether it be a kayak, a fishing boat or a transom boat.
So, for example, when I developed the FastTrack shown above, it had several unique features not found on inflatable kayaks. Its most unique feature was the patented outside drop stitch inflatable keel. That gave the FastTrack special paddling benefits. As the name implies, it paddled faster and tracked better than other inflatable kayaks.
There were other differences in the FastTrack that made it unique: it had a drop stitch inflatable floor inside, on top of an outside fabric floor. That provided rigidity and great puncture protection. It had an asymmetric shape – tapered at the bow, wider at the stern. This allowed the kayak to go through wind and waves easier and still hold the weight of two people comfortably. It had an outside removable skeg to further improve tracking. These design features made the Sea Eagle FastTrack our best paddling inflatable kayak for open water ever.
As we moved into the internet age, the goal of the company remained the same: produce the best inflatable boats of their kind.
Unlike our Panther Martin fishing lure business, which had enjoyed continuous growth from 1958 to 1998, Sea Eagle Boats had both up and down years from 1968, the year we started in the inflatable boat business, through 1998. These ups and downs were mostly caused by external factors such as suppliers going out of business or big swings in foreign currencies or dramatic price rises in the price of petroleum. The price of oil was always a major factor in our business because inflatable boats are made from petroleum based fabrics and parts.
I have to point out that we have always worked with foreign suppliers to make inflatable boats because there has never been an inflatable boat industry in the United States. We did make two experiments with production of inflatable boats in the U.S. We had a Michigan company produce some transom boats for us for a short period and a Delaware company produce some kayaks for us. The transom boats made in Michigan were actually pretty good and almost succeeded, but we were defeated when the company went bankrupt, primarily because they had grossly miscalculated their true costs.
The kayaks made by the Delaware company were an interesting case since that company happened to produce the space suits that were used for the first trips to the moon. I assume this company was and still is an excellent producer of space suits. I believe they are still the main supplier of space suits to NASA. Unfortunately, they proved to be a terrible producer of inflatable kayaks.
The Sea Eagle Explorer Kayaks that they made for us in the late 1970s turned out to suffer from slow seam leaks. Admittedly, the leaks were so slow that it took weeks for a kayak to become soft. And it actually took some time after receiving the first kayaks to understand that there was a slow seam leak problem. We probably could have solved that problem in future productions, but another more difficult issue arose.
This particular company was used to selling to the government and within a few weeks of starting production of our kayaks, they found making kayaks took far longer than they thought. So, they did what they always did with the government. They announced to us the necessity of immediately increasing the price. They had a hard time understanding why we were unable to accept a 60% price increase mid-production during the first run of 200 kayaks. They also had a hard time calculating the time, labor and material costs involved in inflatable boat production.
That is because inflatable boat production requires an extensive manufacturing experience and the local availability of parts, materials and machinery. The inflatable boat industry, which first arose in Europe and then migrated to Asia, has a long history of manufacturing and extensive infrastructures in Europe and Asia to support it. To duplicate a factory in the United States capable of making inflatable boats would require an inherent understanding of manufacturing techniques that are unique to the inflatable boat industry and a network of supplier companies to provide parts and materials needed for production.
As a small family owned company, we have always wanted to produce our boats in the United States, but every time we researched what was necessary to create an inflatable boat factory here we came to the conclusion that the startup costs were far more than potential sale of boats that we could expect.
Why is it so difficult to manufacture inflatable boats in this country? First, and this is a pretty big first, there are no real producers of inflatable boat material in the United States. Yes, there are a couple of companies producing fabrics that say their materials are suitable for inflatable boat production, but the cost of the hull material is usually 5 to 6 times a similar hull material in Asia or Europe and the actual characteristics of the material are not suitable for inflatable boat use. For example, PVC/Polyester, the most used material for inflatable boat production, the U.S. version of the material had a tendency to be too rigid to easily roll up. An interesting alternative material, Urethane/Polyester, tended stick to itself and be 10 times more expensive than PVC/Polyester.
So, problem number 1 is finding a U.S. company able to produce a suitable hull material at an economical price and as far as I know that does not exist.
The second problem is finding parts suitable for inflatable boat production. And that is also an almost impossible problem, because there are no companies making the valves, the grommets, the carry handles, the multitude of fittings you need to outfit inflatable boats. Again you need all those parts and fittings in order to make an inflatable boat. An inflatable transom boat, for example, without the molded parts to glue the wooden transom on, is not an inflatable transom boat. It is like a fishing lure without a hook.
This is also the case with inflatable kayaks, where for example, D-rings and drain valves are important parts, or inflatable standup paddle boards (SUPs), where drop stitch material is necessary in order to achieve the required rigidity of a SUP.
Drop stitch construction is a particularly interesting example. It is a relatively new development in inflatable boats, kayaks and SUPs that allow you to make flat, rectangular shapes with high pressure. This new material greatly widens the shapes and kinds of boats, kayaks and SUPs that you can make.
Drop stitch material consists of two layers of fabric with hundreds of thousands of threads going from the bottom layer to the top layer. When inflated the threads prevent the material from becoming a round shape. Without the hundreds of thousands of threads between two layers of fabric, the fabric, when glued together, will want to become a round shape when inflated, which while very useful for many purposes, limits the shapes you can make. Thus, the advent of drop stitch manufacturing technology is an important advance in inflatable boat production because it allows you to create unique new shapes previously not possible. This type of construction permits much higher air pressures making drop stitch products far more rigid than other inflatables.
This technology is not very new. I first saw it being used in France about 45 years ago. At that time, the technology was quite unreliable and subject to defects…so having a basketball shape suddenly appear in the middle of what was supposed to be a flat shape is not very good. In the last 10 years the technology of making drop stitch materials has advanced enormously and today it is probably the greatest innovation in inflatable production in the last 50 years. As such, it is pretty necessary to have the ability to produce drop stitch constructed inflatable products.
Unfortunately, there is no American producer of drop stitch material. If you want to use this type of material and make boats in the U.S., you must import the drop stitch material. The only countries that can make drop stitch hull fabric for inflatables are Germany, Japan, Taiwan & China. Of these countries, China produces both the best quality drop stitch material and best priced drop stitch material. Sad but true.
So, for the above reasons, we have always worked with foreign companies to produce inflatable boats and as time went on, those companies were generally located either in Korea or China.
By the late 1990s, as mentioned above, we were producing Korean and Chinese made inflatable boats made to our specifications and design. Our supported fabric boats were made in Korea – those boats use a fabric re-inforced PVC/Polyester material. Our unsupported PVC boats were made in China – we use a special formulation, extra thick PVC material we call PolyKrylar™ for our Sea Eagle 330, 370, 9 and PF7.
By the late 1990s, because of the advent of the internet, our inflatable boat sales assumed a steady and growing pattern of increases year after year. So unlike our early sales from the 60s to the mid 90s, where sales on any given year could be up or down, sales from 1997 on went in just one direction: Up.
Our website, SeaEagle.com, and the internet introduced many new possibilities. As mentioned in Part 2 of this history, we started very simply on the internet in 1996. Just a few display pages and an 800# that customers could call. It did not take us long to realize that having an order cart was important, both for orders during the day and for orders at night. By 1998 we had an order cart and internet sales, along with overall sales, were growing rapidly.
The internet allowed us to also explain products in ways previously not possible. Not only could we put far more content on the internet about a given product, but we also could show videos. This was a giant jump for us because for the first time customers could actually see our boats in motion.
Previously we had made various videos, but they were to show on a TV program or in TV 60 second commercial or on a TV screen at a boat show. There were limited places we could use these videos. But now that we had a website, we could post videos permanently on the website and those videos would stay up as long as we were selling the product. And, given our history, that turned out to be a long time.
The background of increasing sales was a new and wonderful aspect of our business. It meant then that we could introduce many new models, put them up on the internet and have sales of new products pretty much as soon as they arrived in this country. And, because we still were making and printing catalogs showing the same products, this in turn supported the new and additional side of the business coming from the internet.
So after successfully introducing transom boats (our Sea Eagle 10.6, 12.6 and 14 models), we went on to design and introduce FoldCats and PaddleSkis. These were two truly unique boats. The FoldCat being a patented two man fishing boat that could be set up in less than 10 minutes and the PaddleSki being a catamaran kayak that could be motored, sailed, paddled or rowed. Each of these new models did extremely well, selling hundreds and then thousands.
In addition to introducing new models, we also were able to bring back older classic sellers such as our Sea Eagle Explorer kayaks. These were great whitewater, camping, all around kayaks that I had first developed in the late 1970s. Because our Korean supplier had access to better materials and new manufacturing techniques, we could remake this series, improving both the original design and the original materials.
By the 2000s, we had fallen into what I would call a “virtuous circle”. We could grow sales of our products with print advertising, catalogs and the internet and when we added new products we could add new sales to existing sales. This meant that in those years we basically quadrupled our sales.
Through these marketing techniques, we were able to become the first company on Google when you typed in “inflatable kayaks” and generally in the first five companies when you typed in “inflatable boats.” All of our marketing efforts were tied together, so print ads listed an 800# and our website, catalogs gave our in house order telephone # and our website and our website also gave our in house order telephone number and had a place to request printed catalogs.
So you can say our success was a combination of constantly introducing interesting and unique new products and then using print advertising to tell the public about those new products, and then using the internet and catalogs to show those new products and being able to take orders night or day on the internet and being able to answer any and all customer questions or take orders on our in house 800 phone number. It was indeed a virtuous circle.
As we got into the 2010s, things got a little more muddy, a little more complex, but basically the same situation pertained. Sales grew. We advertised and promoted products and sales grew more. We introduced new products, some patented, some not, but all unique and filling what I would call holes in the market.
Some of the new products took a lot longer than others. It took me about 5 years to develop the first FastTrack kayaks and I tried an ungodly number of experiments to make better tracking, better paddling kayaks. For example, I made a kayak with an aluminum frame inside instead of an inflatable floor. I found that to be heavy, hard to assemble and a general pain, even if it did paddle pretty fast.
After making and selling a few thousand of the original shape FastTrack (shown above), I decided it could be improved. So I made a slimmer and more tapered version. See below:
Another really difficult kayak to develop was our Sea Eagle RazorLite, which is surprising since the final product is so truly simple. But not for me. I went through 14 prototypes and 5 years of testing before I ended up choosing the final product, which, in the end, was quite simple. Along the way I had tried a lot of weird and wonderful solutions, none of which worked the way I wanted. I made it into a fabric covered kayak with two side zippers so you could use the kayak enclosed or open. It worked well, but there was not enough room for your feet to be upright, something I thought pretty important. I made a drop stitch top deck for the RazorLite – that looked great, but was heavy, 3″ thick and also did not allow enough space for your feet.
I knew of course that I could increase the height of the sides, but that would make the kayak more susceptible to high winds. I can say modestly that I went through about 6 prototypes deciding on just how high the sides had be – my choices ranged from 5″ to 12″ before settling on 8.5″ for the solo 393rl model and 10″ for the tandem 473rl. Most sides were either too high or too low. If it was too low, water would come in over the sides. If it was too high, the sides would act like a sail, allowing the kayak to be blown around.
I tried the kayak without bow molds and with bow molds. It quickly became apparent that the bow molds made a huge difference in the paddling performance.
In the end the solution was simple and elegant. An open kayak with 8.5″ high drop stitch inflatable sides at the center and sharp pointed molds at the bow and the stern. And the result was great, we created a true high performance inflatable paddling kayak. I am extremely proud of the RazorLite kayaks. Recently, thanks to a design my brother made, we were able to add adjustable footrests for both our 393 and 473 RazorLites. Those footrests provide really secure footing and adjust to most humans on the planet. Sometimes, things that look simple are the hardest to develop.
In the last 20 years, we have developed many new inflatable boat designs. Our 285 Frameless Pontoon Fishing Boat for one angler, our StealthStalker fishing boat for two anglers, and our Sea Eagle PackFish 7 for one angler. All of these small fishing boats had distinct differences and advantages over other inflatable craft on the market.
As time has gone on, the design of boats has become more of a collaborative activity. Today, my brother shares with me many of the design responsibilities. He is fluent in a design application called Fusion 360, allowing him to make very precise 3D drawings for new products. I make my drawings on iPad Pro using Graphic, a simpler, but very fast and easy drawing program.
In the case of our Sea Eagle FishSkiff 16, Dan Dejkunchorn, one of our employees and a fanatical fisherman, came to me and showed me a 14′ solo fiberglass skiff that was made to take a 5 hp motor. I had seen this particular boat a couple of months before at a trade show. I had thought it was an interesting design, but had done nothing about it.
Dan thought this kind of a boat had a number of advantages for fishermen and it would be great if we could come up with some inflatable alternative. After all, a fiberglass skiff, even one just 14′ long, is quite heavy and does not fit into a car trunk. So, we embarked on an effort to create an inflatable fishing skiff that had the good features and advantages of a small fiberglass skiff without the weight and difficulty of transport.
Dan knew what he wanted as fisherman and I knew how to make an inflatable boat with the features he wanted. Dan is my go to consultant on anything to do with fishing. It took only 6 months to develop the FishSkiff and unlike some other products we were able to come to a final design with a minimum of prototypes (3) and within a year, this skiff became our second best selling product.
So, developing new products can be fast or slow. Perhaps, the fastest example of developing a product is our Sea Eagle NeeddleNose Standup Paddle Board. I was at the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City. We had already developed a couple models of Standup Paddle Boards and I happened to pass by a booth with a rigid fiberglass board using what they were calling a “wave piercing” design – it had a straight pointed V bow. I thought that was an interesting concept and I wondered how we might make a inflatable SUP with the same abilities.
I went back to my booth, pulled out my iPad and made a drawing in about 20 minutes. I realized a round bow at the front would not work, so I drew a drawing of a sharp wave piercing bow mold that could fit over the rounded inflatable bow. That was to achieve a “wave piercing design”. It so happened our Korean supplier was present at the show. A few minutes later, when he came by the booth, I showed him the design and asked if he saw any problems with the idea. He said he thought it was all practical. Accordingly, I e-mailed the drawing to him and the production manager of the company immediately.
Within 3 weeks they made up a prototype. Within two weeks of that we had received, tested and approved the prototype. Within 3 months we were in production and had started our first NeedleNose SUPs. Within 6 months we had sold our first several hundred units. This is not the typical case of design, but sometimes things do work right from the first moment and sometimes things do go smoothly.
As we got into the 2010s, the internet began to change the world around it. Print advertising, and generally the small or medium size print ads that we used to explain the virtues of a new product, began to work less and less. Simply put, people began to read magazines less and less. This caused something of a crisis for us because print ads had been our best medium to explain and introduce new products. Now that medium was being closed off to us or at the very least becoming less and less effective.
This meant pursuing other avenues of promotion, but nothing immediately replaced the function of being able to explain a new product in print. Of course, we could still explain new products in our catalogs and on our website, but that was limited by the number visitors to our website and by the number of people we sent catalogs to. That universe was not so small. We have over one million visitors to our website each year and we mail 50,000 to 70,000 print catalogs 3 to 5 times a year. Nevertheless, this is still a limited universe.
We are, like many other companies, active on Facebook and Instagram. We use different search engines such as Google and Bing. But there is a downside to all of the channels of media that we use and that that is that each is fundamentally limited. The world does not necessarily beat a path to your website or request a catalog or find out about you in Google, Facebook, Bing or Instagram, even if you do have a better mousetrap. This caused us some hard thinking and has resulted in us making many marketing experiments, many of which failed.
Of course, advertising, marketing, multi-channel promotion is always a mixture of failures and successes. The trick is to have more successes than failures.
Today, as we are entering the 2020s, I can say that we are finding new ways to present and explain our products…through FaceBook, Instagram, Google, Bing etc. We are also finding new ways to use e-mails, digital ads, catalogs. And I can say there are still some print media that are effective. For example, some of the coastal fishing magazines, some RV and Motorhome magazines are still healthy. Those publications have dedicated groups of readers and some people still respond positively to print ads.
It seems to me for a company to be successful, there are many important pillars to a business and they must all work together. A method of promoting and explaining products is important, but that is totally meaningless unless your products do not live up to your promotional abilities. And having good promotion and good products is also meaningless unless you have a good system to buy, receive and ship the products you have. Many businesses have good promotion, many businesses have good products, but if they are not able to deliver those products, it serves them nothing.
I can say that because of our family background in previous businesses, we understood from our very beginning, the need for good promotion and for having good products and for having inventory of those products and for shipping promptly. Our father, Cecil C. Hoge, Sr., had a long history in business that dated back many years before he had gotten into the inflatable boat business. Those businesses covered a wide array of different kinds of products. To name a few…art painting courses, dance lessons, pocket adding and subtracting machines, paint brushes, fishing lures, fishing rods, fishing reels, garden and lawn fertilizer, TV repair books…the list goes on and on.
When I first started working in the business, my father had just bought an inflatable boat company that had been failing. At that time, we were still selling pocket adding and subtracting machines, paint brushes, fishing rods, etc. It was still the early years of our Panther Martin fishing lures, but that business was gradually growing while the other businesses were gradually failing. By this time, my step-mother had married my father and she, being German, had instilled into our little business the importance of earning a profit on all goods and the importance of shipping goods precisely and on time.
So, by the time, I came into the business, we had already established a culture (if you can say that a little business of about 25 people could have a culture) of good promotion, good products, of keeping all goods in stock and of shipping all orders out precisely and on time. So this was already the history I and my brother inherited.
After I came into the business, I added a few weird products myself…good luck bracelets, outdoor hats, exercise equipment, fly and mosquito repellent and several other kinds of products, many of which failed, but some of which we sold hundreds of thousands of. In every case, it was always important that the product was good, that we had excellent methods of promotion, that it was in stock and that we shipped it out promptly.
As I have mentioned in Part 1 of our Sea Eagle History, early on, my father stepped back from the business and gave full ownership of the business over to my step-mother and me. In 1971, my brother John was born, and ultimately he would become my partner. But that was in the future. What I can say is, from the very moment I came into this business, it was always important to have good promotion and good products. And it always was important to keep goods in stock and ship products out promptly.
In my time at this business, we have seen multiple recessions, multiple booms, stock market crashes, new stock market highs, weather calamities, oil crises, inflation, deflation, new highs in unemployment, new highs in employment and various epidemics. Through it all we have survived and thrived. That is not to say it was easy. It was not.
As mentioned at the beginning of this blog story, our goal is to make the best inflatable products of their kind in the world. The world is too complex, I think, to produce or claim you can make the best of everything, but it’s still obtainable to make products that really are the best of their kind. So, whatever model of inflatable boat, kayak or standup paddle board we make, I would like to think it is the best of its kind.
I cannot say what the future history of Sea Eagle shall be. We are trying to branch out into new fields of endeavor. For example, one of our new focuses will be flood control boats. We have already sold 500 or 600 boats for use in fire/rescue/flood work. Now we are developing new models to to be used specifically as flood rescue boats. We think these boats will be, yes, the best inflatable boats of their kind. Those products are shown on Rescue.SeaEagle.com.
I am also thinking of new kinds of inflatable transom boats…new kinds of fishing boats… new kinds of paddle kayaks…new kinds of standup paddle boards. Products that will be lighter and easier to assemble, boats that will motor faster, boats that will have a smoother ride through waves, kayaks that will be easier to transport or paddle, paddle boards that can be better used in the surf.
One of the great features of inflatable boats is there is not a huge mold cost to pay for before you can make something. With inflatable boats you can start with an idea. That idea may be good or bad, but it does not cost a lot of money to find out. And sometimes, just sometimes, you create something truly great.
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Ageing of the population, together with population growth, has brought along an ample increase in the number of older individuals living with dementia and disabilities. Dementia is the main cause of disability in old age and promoting healthy brain ageing is considered as a key element in diminishing the burden of age‐related disabilities. The World Health Organization recently launched the first risk reduction guidelines for cognitive impairment and dementia. According to recent estimates approximately 40% of dementia cases worldwide could be attributable to 12 modifiable risk factors: low education; midlife hypertension and obesity; diabetes, smoking, excessive alcohol use, physical inactivity, depression, low social contact, hearing loss, traumatic brain injury and air pollution indicating clear prevention potential. Dementia and physical disability are closely linked with shared risk factors and possible shared underlying mechanisms supporting the possibility of integrated preventive interventions. FINGER trial was the first large randomized controlled trial indicting that multidomain lifestyle‐based intervention can prevent cognitive and functional decline among at risk older adults from the general population. Within the World‐Wide FINGERS network, the multidomain FINGER concept is now tested and adapted worldwide proving evidence and tools for effective and easily implementable preventive strategies. Close collaboration between researchers, policy makers, and health care practitioners, involvement of older adults and utilization of new technologies to support self‐management is needed to facilitate implementation of the research findings. In this scoping review, we present the current scientific evidence in the field of dementia and disability prevention and discuss future directions in the field. ...
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Additional information about fundingAcknowledgments This work was financially supported by Juho Vainio Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation, Jalmari and Rauha Ahokas Foundation; Academy of Finland (grant numbers 334419 and 317465); EURO-FINGERS, an EU Joint Programme - Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) project (supported through the following funding organisations under the aegis of JPND - www.jpnd.eu Finland: Academy of Finland (grant number 334804); Sweden: Swedish Research Council (grant number 2019-02226); Alzheimerfonden Sweden, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Center for Innovative Medicine (CIMED) at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Region Stockholm (ALF grant), Sweden; Stiftelsen Stockholms sjukhem, Konung Gustaf V:s och Drottning Victorias Frimurarstiftelse ...
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In this tutorial, we will look at how to get the min value and its corresponding index in a tuple in Python with the help of some examples.
How to get the min value in a tuple?
You can use the Python built-in
min() function to get the min value in a tuple. Alternatively, you can also iterate through the tuple to find the minimum value.
Let’s look at the two methods with the help of examples.
The Python built-in
min() function returns the minimum value in an iterable. Pass the tuple as an argument to get its minimum value.
# create a tuple t = (2, 7, 5, 1, 4) # get min value in tuple print(min(t))
We get the minimum value of the tuple
To get the index corresponding to the min value, you can use the tuple’s
index() function. This function returns the index of the first occurrence of the element inside the tuple. If the element is not present, it raises an error.
# create a tuple t = (2, 7, 5, 1, 4) # find min value min_val = min(t) # display its index print(t.index(min_val))
We get the index of the min value as 3.
Get min value using iteration
Alternatively, you can iterate through each value in the tuple and keep track of the minimum value to find the min value in the tuple. You can use an additional variable to keep track of the index of the minimum value.
Let’s look at an example.
# create a tuple t = (2, 7, 5, 1, 4) # find min value using loop min_val = t min_val_idx = 0 for i in range(len(t)): if t[i] < min_val: min_val = t[i] min_val_idx = i # display the min value print(min_val) # display its index print(min_val_idx)
We get the minimum value and its index in the tuple.
Note that if your tuple contains more than one occurrence of a value, the
index() function will only return its first occurrence. To get all the indexes of occurrence, you iterate through the elements in a list comprehension.
# create a tuple t = (1, 7, 5, 1, 7) # get all indexes of 1 idx = [i for i in range(len(t)) if t[i] == 1] print(idx)
We get all the indexes of occurrence for the value
1 in the tuple
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Sample videos from Excel Trainer
Can you learn through watching videos alone?
Yes, but there are caveats:
- content of video matches learners needs
- learners are focused on finding out how to do something specific
- learners have a strong motivation
- learners have the time or capability to “work things out”
Videos can also work very well in support of live learning, before or after the live session.
While there are many Excel videos on YouTube, there are very few structured playlists that are anywhere near comprehensive. I am addressing this with a series of around 80 Excel videos which I am structuring into an easy to navigate YouTube playlist – due for completion by May 2021. Please click on any of the videos below and then click on YouTube.
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U.S. Air Force
Air Force Cross
April 20, 1967
By the time 1st Lieutenant Karl Wendell Richter lifted off in his F-105 Thunderchief from the runway at Khorat Royal Thai Air Force Base on April 20, 1967, he was already a bona fide hero. Holder of several decorations for bravery, youngest pilot to shoot down a MiG over Southeast Asia and veteran of some 175 combat missions, Richter was widely considered by his peers to be among the most experienced, capable and aggressive fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force. And he was just 24.
Born in Holly, Mich., on Oct. 4, 1942, Richter only discovered his passion for flying after graduating from high school. A self-confessed mediocre student, he was casting about for some sort of career when his sister, Betty May—a flying enthusiast—recommended he apply to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Richter did so and, much to his own surprise, was accepted. Though he didn’t excel at academics, he came to love the academy and the Air Force and was determined to become a fighter pilot. Upon his graduation in June 1964 he started on the road to that goal by winning assignment to flight school, where he proved a natural pilot. He polished his skills during advanced training in the F-105 and put those skills to the test within days of arriving in Southeast Asia in early April 1966.
Flying with the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Khorat, Richter quickly showed himself to be an exceptional combat pilot. Within a few months he was named an element leader, and thereafter was routinely tapped to introduce far more senior officers to the rigors of flying “Downtown”—to Hanoi, Haiphong and other heavily defended targets in North Vietnam. Though normally tasked with defense-suppression and ground-attack missions, on Sept. 21, 1966, Richter used his “Thud’s” internal 20mm cannon to down one of two MiG-17s that had attacked the lead pair in his four-plane element.
But the greatest achievement of his career was yet to come.
Richter’s mission that April day in 1967 was to lead his flight of F-105s against anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missile sites protecting an important North Vietnamese railroad facility. Once they had suppressed the defenses, successive waves of U.S. fighter bombers would pound the rail hub. But when Richter and his flight arrived in the designated target area, they found it shrouded by clouds that completely hid both ground reference points and, more important, the enemy defenses.
Demonstrating what his commander later called “great professional skill and undaunted determination,” Richter led his flight in repeated attacks on the enemy defenses. Braving concentrated heavy-caliber gunfire and multiple SAMs, the F-105 pilots used 750-pound bombs and 20mm cannon fire to destroy several of the sites and heavily damage others. When the aircraft of the main strike group arrived, they encountered only light enemy fire and were able to completely destroy the target.
Richter’s commander recommended the young pilot for the Air Force Cross —the service’s second highest award for valor in combat—for his actions that day. Sadly, by the time higher headquarters had approved the decoration, Richter was dead. On July 28, 1967, during a relatively easy mission—Richter’s 198th, by most counts —enemy anti-aircraft fire struck his F-105. Though the young pilot successfully ejected from his crippled aircraft, the wind dragged his parachute across a ridge of jagged karst outcrops. When a rescue helicopter arrived, its crew found Richter severely injured and unconscious; he died en route to a hospital.
In addition to the Air Force Cross, Richter also held the Silver Star, four Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Bronze Star, 21 Air Medals and the Purple Heart. In 1969 the Air Force Academy posthumously awarded him the Jabara Award for Airmanship, and in tribute to his professionalism and dedication, both the academy and Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., home of the USAF Air University, erected statues of Richter in full flight gear.
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Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
October 1, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
In this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind, particularly those whose parents, children, siblings, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE), Liu-Song (420-479 CE), Southern Qi (479-502 CE), and Liang (502-557 CE). I will do so by asking three questions: how did the families recover the migrants in a time of conflict? How did they repatriate the remains of the migrants across political divides and spatial distance? How did they cope with the consequences of their husbands or fathers’ dual marriages on both sides of the border? The talk highlights the agency of the left-behind families in the migration process, their changing relationships with the migrants, and the shifting meaning of home. Examining the roles of the state in the split-families issue, it also seeks to illuminate the state’s influence on migration at the private, familial scale. | <urn:uuid:faa45165-31db-4037-967f-21748893ef0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.941205 | 281 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Stravato: Supreme Court made mistake overturning Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court not only took away a constitutionally protected right last week, they unequivocally punished women, making them nonconsenting incubators. They took away the most personal of all rights, the right to privacy to control one’s own body.
They based their opinion on the fact ‘abortion’ is not found in the constitution! Neither is the word woman found in the constitution! Nor, for that matter is the word God or black, white, slavery, all men are created equal, pursuit of happiness, or separation of church and state! What a pitifully weak way to take away a right just to satisfy their own personal, religious beliefs. They are attempting to turn us into a theocracy, their theocracy. We have always been a secular nation and we should remain that way.
Over 50 nations have legitimized abortion in recent years. International criticism of the Supreme Court ruling came quickly. Yet, even Poland, who made abortion a criminal act, made exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the mother’s life. Our court was merciless in its ruling.
No doubt those who would take away a constitutional right have never seen a 9-, 10-, 11- or 12-year-old girl pregnant. Nor have they seen a mentally challenged girl pregnant, neither of whom got pregnant on their own volition. A significant number of women have congenital conditions that make pregnancy dangerous if not fatal. Women who experience spontaneous miscarriages are also now subject to critical scrutiny.
The “right to privacy with respect to intimate practices,” was established in Supreme Court case Griswold v Connecticut, which legalized contraception in the United States, and established this right as “protected from governmental intrusion.” This ‘right to privacy’ was the basis of the rulings in Roe v Wade to protect abortion, in Lawrence v Texas to decriminalize homosexual sex, in Obergefell v Hodges to support same-sex marriage, and in other important cases. These rights are now at risk. Justice Clarence Thomas made that clear in his separate decision.
As a democratic nation, we should expand rights, not remove them. It is clear from numerous polls that the majority of Americans support abortion generally, and a majority support exceptions even when they do not support abortion. Thus, we now have rule by the extremist minority!
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A TownHall Gathering on Childhood Trauma and Resilience
After a recent 60 Minutes segment on treating childhood trauma, I had the opportunity to attend a virtual screening of KPJR Films award-winning RESILIENCE: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope. This film chronicles a rising movement to build collective strength by using trauma informed practices to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction, and disease.
Following the virtual screening, I participated in a live Twitter Townhall Q&A, along with Redford and other leading youth building experts.
Some highlights from the Twitter Townhall
Now that you’ve watched @DocResilience, what can you do today to build #resiliency? Resilience can be developed at all ages! We just need to take the time to practice strategies that work. There are “internal” and “external” factors to be aware of: The Heart of the Matter ~@jred5562 [Film Director, James Redford, who alongside Executive Producer Karen Pritzker, has been the force behind the film – a true visionary and pioneer for this and future generations.]
Part of what I love so much about this science is that it is HOPEFUL! Parents and caregivers can be the best antidote to #ACEs. Learn more about how parents can help prevent or even reverse the impact of toxic stress in their children. ~@DrBurkeHarris [Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, founding CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness and author of The Deepest Well, is a leader in the movement to transform how we respond to early childhood adversity.]
The U.S. spends $3 trillion on healthcare and 5 percent of that goes to prevention? What would we save if we spent 10 percent on preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences?#ACEsScience ~@ACEsConnection [Curator of online ACEs platforms and great resource for actions to take to get more involved in growing initiatives in your community.]
Trauma-informed communities are inherently connected communities! Relationships are critical to not only buffering the effects of trauma but to preventing it in the first place. ~@PCAAmerica [Prevent Child Abuse America produced the Resilience Viewer’s Guide. Connect with your PCA State chapter if you need help organizing a film screening.]
To understand ACEs is to understand our own self regulation and how it impacts our students when a dysregulated adult is interacting with a dysregulated student. It starts with us understanding that we have to become the calm adult that represents safety, trust, and connection. ~@SporLin [Jim Sporleder, former high school principal featured in Paper Tigers documentary for leading trauma-informed efforts that reduced out of school suspensions and increased graduation rates and other positive outcomes.]
Action Time: Simple Steps
- Read this blog and watch the referenced 60 Minutes and Resiliency Matters segments as in introduction to trauma informed care.
- Arrange to watch the RESILIENCE film, ideally with a screening in your community or organization, and use other KPJR Films resources
- Connect to resilience leaders highlighted above on Twitter for additional resources. If you are not on Twitter, go here to view the #ResilienceReset conversation.
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As a song writer and a china based musican sing,(ife na eme na china),that was when things were begining to happen.Now the things has gone beyond control even nature went against us.what is happining?who is doing this to us.i start from this point,when i was in a younger age,when people travel abroad to work or study,it took it so hard to hear a bad report from them,instead good report and good living.things were working so well that everybody wants to live abroad because of the same nature ana situatiton of our country nigerian. Life was sweet and admiring.the sitiuation of nigerians in china need aborsolute prayers. A country that never knew God,needs stronger men and women to live in has become the land of all,and the powers has overcome all due to the weakness of the men in the land.such indication need vital information before departing from nigeria.every land has its own believe and powers,we forget where we came from and start to live like kings in another mans land rather been the strangers we are.there are always a boundary in every doings in life ,i think we have pass our boundaries thats the we suffer the wrath of the land.sudden death and infestion disease,madness,and robbery,such things never happens in other nigerian based countries.You can image where the highest numbers of the africans in china is a particle number of a country and also known as high crime rated, death and other related problems are also from the same people.the highest numbers of prisoners in crime note is from also the same people.is now that things are happing in china.this information is been pas to you from the office of the NIGERIA COMMUNITY IN CHINA,led by president OJUKWU EMMA.
The issue of intermarriage is becoming the pain to some nigerian whom fall into the hand of the despirate chinese ladies.many people has been deny the right of the children from their wivies and families.alot of nigerian has alos lot huge amount of money from the chinese ladies in the name of marrigae and also send back to nigeria never to come back to china without any good reason.why all this problems coming from?.what do we do to solve this situation?ask by OJUKWU EMMA.
These sounds as good warning to everybody living and coming to china to beware of local prositute from east and north africa,that parade them self along with some nigerians as girlfriends or sexmate.china is very far to nigerian the expenses to transport corpes back home is costly and the process too.Many dead bodies are also in the moutuary either no money,nor cannot send back due to the diesese that kills the person.More information we also comes to you as you are becoming careful,thanks.
the situation am taking about is the suffering our fellow brothers are facing in china.your relation can be affected if not proper sorted out.the other side of the it is the situation of nigeria is worst when somany people are out in the country and is still like this,how about when everybody is at home what will happen to you and i?.we have many chinese in our country well treated,and well respected,so why must we face the hatered?is it becauce we are black people.Don"t neglect our pride,even when we are not at home.equal right and justice is what we need.we have educationist, political and also have business relationship.So we have the right to shout when we bad treatment,both people outside and people in the prison.even when they are there,they must be a right for them to live as human beings. | <urn:uuid:d7822bf4-352f-4b8c-a761-047b3a22f4fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community.vanguardngr.com/forum/topics/the-situtations-in-china | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.967545 | 808 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Going to Purchase Whole House Water Filters? Here’s a Guide for You!!Filter For Fridge
In any household, one of the most essential things is a water filter that values its overall health. Today, the market is filled with different models and makes to select from. But the question haunts everybody’s mind is ‘why do you require water filters?’ The source of your water is the municipal water feed. But do you know that your water distribution pipes are filled with microorganisms, debris, and dust? So, will you get the best drinking water solution? No, not at all! If we talk about water distributed by the municipality, it contains chemicals like fluoride and chlorine. Here comes the significance of using water filters. Such systems come equipped with one of four materials such as Ion Exchange, Distillation, Activated carbon, and Reverse Osmosis.
Should You Go with Water Filtration or Purification?
Most people prefer to boil water for purification. In most survivalist exercises and campsites, boiling water is considered as the most efficient system to eliminate contaminants. But the drawback is that it can’t remove higher boiling-point liquids and heavy metals. Today, most people opt for water filtration to filter the water of impurities.
Whole House Water Filters
Today, whole house water filters are considered as the most viable solution for your water needs such as cooking, bathing, showering, brushing the teeth, drinking, etc. They are available in two versions – standard capacity cartridge and heavy-duty filtration.
A) Standard Capacity Cartridge
If we talk about Standard Capacity Cartridges, they are basic cartridges which are either active carbon filters or ion exchanges that are placed as a unit by every individual outlet. Such filtration systems are needed to be changed on regular basis.
B) Heavy-duty Filtration
On the other hand, heavy-duty filtration units come with numerous membranes (RO) and filters and a 50-foot tank. Such units provide 5 to 7 years of purified as well as filtered water before changing the media.
When it comes to the installation of a heavy-duty filtration unit, you require a professional or a plumber who will visit your place and check out the requirements. Thereafter, he will suggest you which system will suit best for your place and budget/options offered. Keep in mind that heavy-duty water filters will be installed at the source of the water – the mains just after the meter.
If you are considering to install a standard capacity cartridge, it is something that you can place of your own or with the help of a plumber under every faucet at your home.
Important Factors that You Should Consider When Water Filter Systems Installation
When installing a water filter at your home, you should keep in the mind various factors.
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• Flow Rate
• Port Size
• Filter Life
Water Filtration Systems Brands
However, there are so many companies available that offer such systems. But amongst all, top companies are:
The Aqua-Pure AP110 is the perfect model for all those who are budget-conscious homeowners and don’t want to make any compromise on quality. Its cartridge filters rust and dirt in addition to other contaminants. This model comes in an economical two-pack and should be changed in every 6 months.
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God's Plan In Action: The Early Church L5
Paul Trusts God's Strength
Big Idea: God gives you His strenght to be bold for Him.
Scripture: Acts 9:20-31
Memory Verse: “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." -Romans 5:8 ESV
Word Up!: God is strong!
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Is it safe to sponsor a child in Uganda?- Uganda is a landlocked country which is located in the eastern part of the horn of Africa.
It has a population of 45 million people and it is one of the fastest growing countries in Africa. The country has the world’s youngest population with a median age of 15.7 years.
Uganda is blessed with the longest river (River Nile) in the world on top of the other entire beautiful physical feature. 70% of Uganda’s land is used for farming and agricultural work.
However, Uganda is one of the developing countries in the world which are struggling to make sure that her people stop living below the poverty line.
Poverty is elevated by factors like high fertility rates which mean a woman gives birth to an average of 5 children and this brings about incidences such as Child neglecting and abandoning, increased numbers of street kids, unsafe environment, to mention but a few.
This leaves most of Ugandan children in a state where they cannot afford being in a safe environment for shelter, education and also cannot meet other day to day basic needs. These and many more reasons is why there is need for child sponsorship in Uganda today.
Have you been questioning your self “Is it safe to sponsor a child in Uganda?” and wondering why there is need for you and I to sponsor children in Uganda now? Well, here are a few reasons as to why you may need to sponsor a child.
Surely you can sponsor more than one child. It could even be a whole family depending on your wish and pockets. Your sponsorship caters for the child’s education, health facilities, shelter, clothes, food and water.
Your sponsorship ends the moment your sponsored child is done with his/her education and is ready to join the employment world.
You can still have a stable relationship with this child/children as you continue guiding him/her about the principles of life in the work place. | <urn:uuid:1fed2123-287e-4d8b-954d-a1b89c6255c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.milelefoundation.com/is-it-safe-to-sponsor-a-child-in-uganda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.970158 | 406 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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New research on preventing the spread of norovirus
The Food Standards Agency has published research carried out by Ipsos MORI, Food handlers and norovirus transmission: 'Social science insights'.
This study aimed to help stop the 'Winter vomiting bug' norovirus from spreading, by understanding and improving food handler behaviours.
The literature review identified 5 strategies for controlling norovirus:
* Personal hygiene
* Food handling
* Washing and cooking food
* Surface and uniform cleaning
* Fitness to work
Visits to food catering establishments involved in-depth interviews, surveys, and structured environmental and behavioural observations.
Strongest evidence was found for:
* inadequate hand washing;
* not washing hands before gloving;
* using bare hands when preparing food;
* not regularly changing gloves;
* food handlers instead of trained staff cleaning areas where people vomited;
* not washing uniform correctly;
* and returning to work too early after being ill
Data analysis and behavioural theories were used to rank behaviours which risk spreading Norovirus in relation to the control strategies, according to the strength of evidence that food handlers were expressing these behaviours.
Several behavioural interventions were recommended based on the findings. Just as one example: strong evidence indicated inadequate knowledge of how to stop Norovirus spreading, so educational training for food handlers was highly recommended.
FSA is exploring the design and delivery of future interventions.
Read the full report at:
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The Level I/Aspiring Leaders Program (ALP) is district professional learning that is designed to prepare participants for the potential role in the position of assistant principal and to assist them with application procedures related to pool placement.
- Gain a clear understanding of the job expectations for the role of an assistant principal in the district.
- Gain a clear understanding of the screening and selection processes for assistant principals in the district.
- Identify experiences in leadership to become an effective assistant principal.
- Assess themselves in the job expectations, screenings and selection process and leadership experiences for the role of assistant principal.
- Make a career decision appropriate for their goal(s) related to school-based
- Experience specific job functions and tasks related to the role of assistant principal.
- Document behaviors consistent with the Florida Leadership Standards
- Experience the support of a mentor relationship with an experienced assistant principal. | <urn:uuid:706d22d9-9921-4251-b142-9220cbeafaa3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thehub.polk-fl.net/pd/aspiring-leaders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.919295 | 189 | 2 | 2 |
Should the Olympics be international basketball's marquee event?
IN 1992 professionals from the National Basketball Association (NBA) played for the United States’ Olympic team for the first time. The so-called Dream Team cruised to gold in Barcelona, outscoring their opponents by an average of 44 points. Given the meagre standard of competition, it was the team’s closed-door practices—pitting scratch teams led by Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson against each other—that generated the most headlines, going down in basketball lore as the greatest games ever staged.
Every American squad since 1992 has been compared with the all-conquering Dream Team. This year’s edition came closest in terms of talent, with stars like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant at or near the height of their powers. The Americans once again won gold with little fuss, recording a 32-point average margin of victory along the way, although Spain gave them a decent game in the final on August 12th.
Despite America’s recent dominance, the rest of the basketball world has closed the gap over the past 20 years. Team USA's unexpected bronze medal in 2004 proved the Americans were vulnerable, even though lopsided blowouts have remained common. The current scope and popularity of professional basketball give it a case as the world’s second-most popular team sport, behind football. And like football, there is talk that basketball’s premier international tournament should stand on its own, instead of sharing the Olympic spotlight with dressage and water polo.
Earlier this summer, NBA officials dropped hints that they were pushing for a dedicated World Cup for international basketball, and making the Olympics an under-23 tournament like it is for football. Fittingly, from 2014 the International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) quadrennial tournament will be rebranded as the Basketball World Cup. The days of top NBA players competing under the Olympic banner seem numbered.
The change is unlikely to happen before the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, according to FIBA. David Stern, the NBA's commissioner, also suggests that the league is not in a hurry to introduce new rules. The owners of NBA teams, however—particularly Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks—have long resented their players taking part in the Olympics. The recent swirl of stories about an under-23 rule in the Olympics clearly comes from owners lobbying the NBA to push for changes in the international game.
As the vast majority of top players ply their trade in the NBA, the league can exert much more influence on international basketball than, say, the English Premier League can on world football. As the primary supplier of talent, Mr Cuban wants the revenues from international basketball competition to flow to the NBA instead of the International Olympic Committee. He thus believes the league should stage its own international tournaments. This is akin to the World Baseball Classic, a tournament created by Major League Baseball (MLB) that features club-friendly rules like a limit on the number of players that can participate from each MLB team, as well as enforced rest between appearances and pitch counts for pitchers.
Mr Stern appears to favour a partnership with FIBA instead of an outright takeover of international competition by the NBA. This would give the NBA a cut of the World Cup’s revenues, but not total control over its organisation. For the integrity of competition, this is preferable to an NBA-run tournament, in which team owners would surely restrict the participation of their biggest stars. Commercially, too, a World Cup unhampered by club-imposed restrictions would attract bigger audiences and sponsorship revenues.
This assumes, of course, that players go along with the plan. When asked about the Olympic under-23 proposal, players in London werenotkeen. As long as the Olympics represent the premier international competition in top players’ minds, alternatives will struggle to gain traction. The legend of the Dream Team looms large.
Of course, NBA owners are not shy about standing up to players, as they proved during acrimonious negotiations over a new labour agreement last year. For this reason, changes to Olympic basketball should be expected, if not in time for 2016 then shortly thereafter. And even if the Basketball World Cup flops at first—a distinct possibility, given the ill will that an Olympic age restriction might generate among the current crop of players—the NBA will not be affected at home, so team owners will not lament its failure. For fans, however, the potential loss of a vibrant international competition is galling, especially as other countries slowly but surely catch up with America (thanks in part to the internationalisation of NBA rosters).
A bona fide World Cup is ultimately in the interest of everyone in the game, as football makes clear. Even so, basketball’s domination by a single league and its complicated relationship with the Olympics will make the transition difficult, and fallow years for international competition may lie ahead as players, clubs, leagues and associations work out their differences. The birth of the football World Cup was protracted and messy, in part due to conflicts between football’s international governing body and the Olympics. The NBA’s push for changes to Olympic competition, so far conducted via the media, is only the opening salvo in what could become a long-running battle over the nature of international competition. Basketball’s growing global popularity is a boon, but with it comes the less appealing features recognisable to any football fan, not least the tiresome bickering between club and country. | <urn:uuid:90edaf2f-9db8-4d7a-b103-0ce7dca415e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.economist.com/game-theory/2012/08/15/the-dream-tournament | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.95831 | 1,134 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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helping individuals and organisations return to the core educational values of sharing knowledge freely in a sustainable way. We:
- Coordinate the international OERu network who will provide free learning opportunities for all students worldwide with pathways to achieve formal academic credit.
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has joined the Open Education Resource Foundation as an Open Source Technologist. A group of the OERu partners have contributed to support increasing our technical capability. Dave is currently the President of the New Zealand Open Source Society and brings 21 years of open source development and leadership experience to the OERu network,
Building on the previous year's launch of the OERu
, representatives from the partner institutions met at The University of Tasmania
on November 6th and 7th, 2014.
The OER Foundation organised a successful planning meeting of the OERu founding anchor partners
in Dunedin on 9-10 November 2011. Support from UNESCO allowed the open planning meeting to be streamed live on the web, allowing active participation from those that couldn't attend in person.
OER Foundation, leads a global education collaboration
. Otago Daily Times publishes an interview
with Wayne Mackintosh
, founder of WikiEducator and member of the OER Foundation's board of Directors.
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What’s the difference between mobile and web app testing? What kinds of things are involved, and how to do you it? Read on to find out.
Application testing comes in many shapes and sizes. For example, testing an internal app for your company’s network is going to be a much different process than testing a mobile app that could reach thousands, if not millions of end users. In other words: The actions a quality assurance team or group of developers will take to work on the company intranet will diverge significantly from what would be needed to, say, push a working update to the mobile game “Pokémon Go.”
There are some specific, fundamental differences between mobile and web app testing that deserve more attention. Let’s dive into how these two realms of testing differ in terms of requirements, common practices, and useful technical tools.
Drawing the Line Between Mobile and Web App Testing
Let’s start with the most obvious differences between mobile app testing and web app testing. Mobile apps are usually meant for larger numbers and more diverse ranges of devices than web apps, although that gap is closing as more web apps become available in mobile forms. A mobile application might run on a phone, tablet, smartwatch, etc., in addition to a desktop service that it corresponds to. Many messaging platforms such as Facebook Messenger, Viber and LINE fit into this category, as do apps like Instagram and Snapchat that are only fully usable on mobile.
In contrast, a web app is often something that was tailored specifically (at least at first) to a laptop or desktop screen. After all, web browsers were first created for desktops, with the World Wide Web itself developed on a workstation NeXT Computer that also served as its main server. Many of the central features of classic web apps, such as mouse cursors and landscape orientations, are either non-existent or less than ideal to implement on mobile.
The variety of mobile devices and the closer relationship that many end users have with their phones and tablets (i.e., compared to their Macs/PCs) ultimately means that testing must account for issues not applicable on desktop. For instance, a mobile device is likely going to have constant connectivity — either WiFi or cellular — as well as internet accounts (Google, Facebook, etc.) that are always signed-in. Notification management as such becomes a more pertinent matter than it ever would be on desktop. Another challenge is syncing and managing these apps with instances across multiple platforms, such as a messaging service that is available for both macOS and iOS.
“In the past it wasn’t too common to have more than one station,” Erdal Tuleu of messaging platform imo told TechTarget in 2013. ‘People usually logged into their laptop or desktop and closed it before going home and logging in again there. Now it’s fairly common for people to have more than one station. For example, you can have it open on your laptop and again on your phone. I don’t think it’s that common anymore to sign out and sign back in all the time. People want to always be online and always reachable.”
Digging Into Some More Technical Differences in Mobile and Web App Testing
We can already see that there are some broad differences between mobile app development and desktop app development in terms of their general usage patterns and typical device types. At a more granular and technical level, there are several areas in which the divergence between mobile and web is pronounced:
- RAM and storage limitations: Many mobile device still ship with a mere 1 or 2 GB of RAM, along with their relatively paltry 16GB SSDs. These are severe constraints, especially compared to the vast amounts of memory and storage that virtually any modern desktop web browser is going to have access to. Services such as advertising platforms can severely slow down a mobile browser, meaning that porting your web app to a phone or tablet should account for such particular bottlenecks.
- Different types of user interaction: Desktop/laptop input has essentially been solved for more than 30 years, with the mouse and keyboard combo still the standard for everything from browsing Facebook to playing a PC game. On mobile, there are many more options. In addition to the wide variety of touch actions — swiping, pulling, pinching, and so on — there are voice assistants such as Siri and Google Now and device-specific innovations such as hand wave gestures on some Samsung headsets.
- Behavior with and without connectivity: A web app running on a Mac or PC is going to be useless without an internet connection. Ditto for a mobile web app. A native or hybrid mobile app, however, might have some offline functionality. Some games can be played without connectivity (albeit with some features missing) and document editors may also retain functionality while in airplane mode or out in a remote location. Mobile apps also have to be vetted for their behavior when switching between connections or relying on unstable networks such as EDGE.
There is some overlap between web and mobile apps, to be sure. Many mobile apps are at least in part web apps themselves, and you will still pursue some of the same testing regimens and techniques with either type, perhaps as part of an agile development cycle. Having test management software is a key building block as you shape your overall testing strategy and look to account for the wide range of workflows, inputs and possible problems associated with both mobile and web apps. | <urn:uuid:cac464d4-054f-4347-97c5-bc8330a3e0b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.towardsqa.com/mobile-vs-web-app-testing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.9623 | 1,235 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Do you currently have an ISO-based management system implemented? Are you keeping up with the necessary compliance obligations? Do you understand the risks to your business by not meeting compliance obligations?
Read on to find out how to maintain compliance obligations for your ISO-based management systems.
If your business is currently operating with an ISO-based management system (ISO 14001:2015 for environmental, ISO 45001:2018 and/or OHSAS 18001 for occupational health & safety), then it is important, at a minimum, to maintain compliance obligations for your business to succeed. Compliance obligations refers to mandatory legal requirements that your business must comply with and other requirements which your business chooses to comply with. Examples of compliance obligations include applicable laws and regulations, industry standards, corporate requirements, codes of practice, agreements with non-governmental organizations, and other voluntary commitments.
One of the basic requirements of both the ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards is maintaining compliance with legislation and regulations. Here is an overview of the steps to ensure that your compliance obligations are on target.
1. Identify applicable compliance obligations.
2. Ensure your business have access to the applicable legal and other requirements.
3. Periodically check for updates in legislations and regulations in order to maintain your prepared list of compliance obligations.
4. Ensure that proper processes, activities and procedures are implemented in order to comply with the identified legal requirements.
5. Periodically evaluate compliance with applicable legal requirements.
IDENTIFY RELEVANT LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
One of the key elements of the ISO standards mentioned above is identifying applicable compliance obligations. The identified legislation and regulations that are applicable to your business must also relate to the environmental and/or OHS aspects of your business. Identifying all relevant legislation and regulations involves extensive database searches that cover federal, provincial and municipal requirements. Don't forget the other requirements that must be identified, including corporate policies, customer standards, industry standards, agreements, etc.
KEEPING UP TO DATE WITH COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS
A list of compliance obligations for your business must be maintained and kept up to date, especially when regulatory authorities publish changes to legislation and regulations. It is therefore, important to keep track of these changes and evaluate how they may affect processes and activities. Identify a person (in-house or out-sourced) to keep track of legislative and regulatory changes, who can assess the applicability of the legislation and regulations to your business, and communicate the changes to other staff members. Tracking changes can be conducted periodically (monthly, quarterly, annually).
The person responsible for keeping track of and evaluating the legislation and regulations must be competent to do so. A strong knowledge of regulatory requirements within all government levels is necessary to successfully identify the legal requirements applicable to your business.
LINKING COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS TO YOUR ACTIVITIES AND PROCESSES
Upon identification of your compliance obligations, it is important to link compliance obligations with the environmental and/or OHS aspects of your activities and processes. This connection will help to prepare a proper operational procedure outlining who is responsible for overseeing the compliance obligations related to the environmental and/or OHS impacts on the business.
EVALUATION OF COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS
Another important element of the ISO-based standards is the periodic evaluation of compliance obligations. The frequency and timing of conducting an evaluation can vary depending on level of importance, operating conditions, changes in compliance obligations, and past performance of your business. The evaluation includes a review of all relevant documented information and/or records that has been retained as evidence of compliance. The evaluation can be in the form of a compliance audit.
MANAGEMENT OF RISKS
Maintaining a current list of compliance obligations for your business is one way to help reduce environmental and/or OHS risks. Some of the risks can be in the form of environmental impacts such as air pollution, major spills of hazardous liquid materials, financial costs in the form of environmental fines and penalties, or OHS risks such as injuries to a worker. An evaluation of compliance obligations is a method to manage and potentially lower the risks of non-compliance.
Maintaining compliance obligations and conducting periodic evaluation of compliance are necessary to ensuring your management systems are effective. Of course there are other key elements of the ISO Standards that are required for a successful management system, which were not the focus of this article and it is strongly encouraged to refer to the ISO Standards for further details.
Are you struggling to find the time to keep up with your compliance obligations list? Envirolum Consulting Inc. can help! Contact Connie Lum at [email protected] for a complimentary consultation. | <urn:uuid:c178352d-030a-46f8-ace6-f4c67782001d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.envirolum.com/ehs-compliance-news/how-to-maintain-compliance-obligations-for-your-iso-based-management-systems-an-overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.924231 | 985 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Natural hair is becoming mainstream and popularized. We saw an entire movement dedicated to the trend during fashion week, and now the movement has taken a new shape in the form of dolls. I remember playing with Barbie dolls as a kid and I had one dark-skinned African-American doll who had jet-black straight hair down to her waits. I never questioned why she didn’t have coarse spirals like me. I just accepted as a child that straight hair was the definition of beauty, which followed me into adulthood as I looked for every way imaginable to straighten my hair. Fast forward to the future, and although I do straighten my hair on occasion, I’m proud to show of my ringlets in a variety of different styles.
For young girls growing up, there’s hope that they adopt a positive mentality about their hair type with the introduction of Naturally Perfect Dolls. Founded by Angelica and Jason Sweeting the dolls were created to tear apart society’s misrepresented of beauty while setting a new standard for girls who don’t see themselves represented across mainstream media. The dolls all have dark skin, big, beautiful eyes and kinky hair textures. Additionally, they all have a job, and I mean a very professional something-to-aspire-to type of job, ranging from engineer to business entrepreneur. Yasss! The dolls retail for $ 84.99. Visit the company’s website to learn more. | <urn:uuid:2a5a9871-7fcf-4a8a-8d51-efe2c08574b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mixedego.com/2017/01/18/multiethic-kids-can-now-have-dolls-with-natural-hair/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.96843 | 301 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Senator-elect Kirsten Gillibrand's victory speech on Nov. 2, 2010, after winning the special election to fill the seat of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who resigned to serve as secretary of state in the Barack Obama administration.
Thank you, Chairman Jay Jacobs, for your leadership, your kind introduction, and all you've done for our great state.
This election is all about who we fight for. [applause]
Over these last two years, I've spent time with our families all across our great state. I know how families are struggling. I've seen hard-working New Yorkers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and I've heard how small businesses are struggling. I understand how working parents are worried about the economy and what kind of state this will be in the future.
But it doesn't have to be that way. New York has always been first. We can lead a new economic revolution in high tech, biotech, and green energy. [applause]
I want to see "Made in America" again, right here in New York State! [applause]
And we need to start by cutting taxes for small businesses so they can get loans, so they can grow. We need to invest in infrastructure, like high-speed rail and new electric grid and rural broadband.
We need a new commitment for research and development for renewable energy and New York-based technologies to unleash the entrepreneurial, innovative spirit of New Yorkers.
And we need to end policies that ship our good American jobs overseas. [applause]
I haven't been in Washington very long, but I can tell you – it's broken. And the challenges we face have never, ever been greater.
We need a new vision for New York. A greater promise for solutions that help for the middle class. And that vision starts with helping the middle class, with tax cuts for middle class families.
We need more transparency, more accountability. We need to eliminate the corrosive influence of the special interests.
And we need to create equal opportunity, so that every child has access to a quality education, after-school programs, and [unintelligible] summer.
We need to protect – no privatize – Social Security so that our seniors will be financially secure.
And we have to fight for our military families and our veterans, including incentivizing to hire young veterans, who 1 out of 5 are unemployed right now.
And we must protect civil rights for all Americans. [applause] That means full marriage equality, and men and women can serve in our military and not be dismissed for who they love.
It's time for a new approach, time to end business as usual, and put middle class New Yorkers ahead of special interests. And focus on solutions, not partisan politics.
Renewing America cannot be done by one person, or even one party. It will take leaders of good faith, ready to work together as Democrats, Republicans, and independents, who set politics and ideology aside, to fight for families as they represent a bright future for all.
I want to thank my opponent, Joe DioGuardi. He is a true New Yorker who wants what's best for his state. I wish him and his family well.
I have great appreciation for all of the New Yorkers in every part of this state who made their voices heard on this election.
I'm grateful for the trust and the opportunity that you have given me, because I will fight for your families as hard as I fight for my own. [applause]
Many thanks to all the friends and volunteers who worked so hard, knocking on doors, stuffing envelopes, and waving signs for our cause. YOU made the difference in this election.
And I want to give special love and gratitude to my family, who are all here, and to my wonderful husband, Jonathan, and my six-year-old son, Theo, and to my little boy, Henry, who better be in bed.
So I want to thank you all, for everything you've done.
And a special thank you to someone who's in my heart, and that's my grandmother, Polly Noonan. She was a trailblazer among women, who inspired a generation of women to care about politics and to be heard and to fight for their values and their priorities.
I'm also reminded of all those who came before me, who served this state in this Senate seat, and made such a difference in the lives of so many New Yorkers. From Senator Robert F. Kennedy to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to my role model and mentor, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It was Secretary Clinton who first inspired me to enter public service, and I'm so thankful to her for her extraordinary leadership. We only have 17 percent women in Congress, and so we need more women to serve, building consensus and taking this country forward.
And a most important and special thank you to Governor Patterson, who gave me this opportunity to serve these last two years.
We have a lot of work to do, and it will not be easy. But if we've learned anything from the last two years in Washington, we know that we can make the difference. Yes, we can. [applause]
But together, with my partner and extraordinary friend, Senator Chuck Schumer, and our soon-to-be, new great governor, Andrew Cuomo [applause], we can rebuild New York and renew America's promise for freedom, opportunity and prosperity for all.
God bless you. Thank you, New York!
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Troopergate. Filegate. Bridgegate. Travelgate. There’s even a Gategate. Wikipedia lists more than 130 scandals involving words ending in “gate,” and that’s just on the political side.
It all stems, of course, from the original — Watergate — named after the Washington office complex where President Richard Nixon is said to have ordered operatives break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters that ultimately led to his resignation.
The naming convention suggests that you’ve experienced one government scandal, you’ve experienced them all. Just different situations and different players.
As humans, we have an almost natural instinct to seek out something familiar, and we do that by continuously drawing comparisons to something else we already know. Maybe that’s why there are so many comparisons drawn not to Watergate, but instead something far different.
How often have we heard someone compare a person to Adolf Hitler, or maybe even made the comparison ourselves? Or compared some action — especially a government one — to Nazism or the Holocaust? These comparisons aren’t limited to any particular ideology, sharing such sentiments universally.
But here’s the thing: No matter who says it, there is no comparison to the monster Hitler was, to the atrocities committed by the Nazis, or to the outright horrors of the Holocaust itself, where 11 million people — including 6 million Jews — were murdered.
If we don’t like someone, they’re Hitler. If we don’t like what someone is doing, they’re just like the Nazis. And if we really want to get attention, we’ll invoke the Holocaust itself. But it’s wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Rob Astorino, a Westchester County Republican looking to become governor, challenged Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz’s very public — and very correct — stance on vaccinations by staging a rally in front of the lawmaker’s Kingsbridge office last weekend.
One demonstrator — not far from where Astorino spoke — held a sign with a swastika on it, comparing COVID-19 vaccine mandates to other “crimes against humanity,” including presumably what happened during the Holocaust.
Astorino claims he didn’t see the sign. But based on photos provided by Dinowitz’s office, how could he not?
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Since then we’ve urged customers to bring their own re-usable shopping bags, asked vendors not to put out single-use plastic bags, and encouraged food vendors to switch to all recyclable or compostable containers and drinkware.
Starting this week, Natural Born Juicers makes the change to paper straws. Did you know 500 Million plastic straws are used every day in the United States? Those plastic straws are one of the top contributors to our landfills and to polluting our waterways worldwide.
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For students of the Western Tradition, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, who wrote under the pseudonym “The Unknown Philosopher,” is one of the most profound and illumined mystical philosophers available to the student. His words reach deep into the head and the heart. While much can be said about him, there is little more powerful than […]
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26 April 2002
Letter to His Excellency, Mr Meles Zenawi
The Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
The Afars and Issa conflict
writing to express deep concern about the consequences of
the present armed conflict between Afars and Issa in Afar
Region of eastern Ethiopia.
like to inform Your Excellency that this war is not motivated
by the economic or cultural considerations but merely by the
territorial ambitions of Issa who wish to occupy Afarland.
It is not an internal conflict between two communities of
Ethiopia; rather it is an external aggression and an invasion
carried out by Djibouti soldiers of Somali-Issa origin and
soldiers of the Somali regime of Mogadishu in cooperation
with Issa and Somali Regional State militias (Ogaden).
sources say that the Issa terrorist group has been and is
still receiving financial support, training facilities, and
military equipment from the tribalist undemocratic regimes
of Djibouti, Iraq and Somalia and from Al Qaeda and Ittihad
the following factors are self-evidence of the Issa ambition
to occupy Afarland:
map of the Somali Regional State includes big areas of Afar
2 The Somali Regional State’s flag is raised over all occupied
areas of Afar country by the Issa.
3 Settlement in Adaytu, Qadaytu, Ounda Fo’ou, Qunda foqo,
4 All historical or archeological statues or properties representing
and history have been destroyed in all occupied areas.
5 Collectively organized operations of war by Issa militia
and responsible States
and organizations mentioned above.
6 The Ethiopian Somali Democratic Movement officially proclaimed
ownership of "Weeqaytu" Awash River in its economic
and social programme. It says that "their whole life
is generally linked with the land and to Awash, Shebelle,
Wabi, Gannale, Fafam and Daaw rivers which flow over the Somali
Ethiopian Territory, therefore, complete recognition must
be accorded that the Ethiopian Somali territory and the rivers
that flow on it are the property of the people and the right
to utilize this natural wealth belongs only to the Somali
acts of aggression against Afars and objection to peaceful
settlement of the problem is also further evidence.
have always expressed a sincere desire for a fair pacific
peaceful solution for this problem with the assistance of
your government, which played a very important active role
to settle it by peaceful means by offering its good offices,
advice and proposals to settle this problem. But unfortunately,
all these efforts, attempts and negotiations have been unsuccessful
and reached a deadlock because the Issa failed to meet their
obligation and respect negotiation agreements.
the Issa terrorist group committed crimes against humanity
by inhuman and uncivilized treatment of innocent Afar people
in different areas of Afar Region. This war has already resulted
in the deaths of hundreds of innocent people, mostly elders,
women and children, wanton destruction of thousands of homes,
and villages, displacements of hundreds of Afar people, organized
thefts and pillage of thousands of Afar animals (camels, cattle
and goats) by the Issa.
these terrorist operations are not only limited to the Afar
people, but also reflect badly on all Ethiopian’s interests
and politics. These terrorist activities may lead to a very
serious threat to law and order, human rights, democracy,
economic and social developments of Ethiopia, friendship of
all Ethiopian nationalities and peaceful conditions of the
civil populations of democratic Ethiopia.
very important to know that political stability, peace and
security of the region would be endangered if this conflict
is not stopped and the Issa withdraw from Afar territory as
soon as possible.
the Afar people have no choice but to take all necessary measures
to meet the danger in order to defend their land and protect
themselves from this externally organized military invasion.
The action now taken by the Afars is neither a reprisal nor
revenge but it is a pure self-defense based on the principle
of self-defense and on Article 51 of the UN Charter. This
internationally recognized right must not be denied to the
Afars by anyone.
We call upon the government of Ethiopia to take necessary
steps to stop this war, to withdraw the Issa from all Afar
territory in order to prevent further aggression, and to restore
law and order of Ethiopia and maintain peace and security
in the religion.
We clearly condemn the acts of war and acts of provocation
committed by the Issa against Afar civil populations in their
We call upon the government to condemn the unlawful acts of
war committed recently by the Issa against innocent Afar population.
We demand that Issa terrorist groups cease their terrorist
acts of war immediately and withdraw at once from Afarland
to their traditional boundary, which originally lay 30 kilometers
from the Railway.
We demand that the Issa return in full all Afar animals, public
and private goods or belongings pillaged forcibly.
We demand that Issa leaders and the Ethiopian government bring
to the Afar Criminal Court of Justice those who are responsible
for crimes committed against humanity in Afarland, as currently
applying by the International Criminal Tribunal to the former
Yugoslavia under Articles 2, 3, and 5 of the UN.
We demand that Guelleh’s regime of Djibouti and the Somali
Regional State (Ogaden) ‘Issa’ pay a full compensation for
the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians, destruction
of hundreds of homes and dislocations of hundreds of families
and damage to the environment caused by their acts of aggression,
and it is estimated 655 million US $ approximately.
We demand that Ismael Omar Guelleh’s regime of Djibouti, the
Somali regime of Mogadishu and the Ittihad fundamentalist
organization cease war against Afars, cease their financial
and military assistance to Issa terrorists to killing Afars
and destabilizing Ethiopia’s political stability.
We hold the Ismael Omar and Somalia regimes responsible for
the consequences of their physical and material involvement
in combat operations in cooperation with the Issa and breaches
of international law and conventions of human rights prohibiting
the illegal use of force.
We demand that Mr Ismael Omar, the President of Republic of
Djibouti to condemn the Issa’s terrorist activities in an
official manner and apologize for its wrongful acts lately
committed against Afars in Ethiopia.
We call upon all freedom and peace-loving people of Ethiopia
to stand behind Afars in this critical situation and support
their legitimate right for self-defense against terrorist
actions. The Afar would like to have friendly relations with
all neighboring nations or nationalities of Ethiopia on the
basis of equality, of mutual respect and of solidarity toward
in the struggle for common goods and advantages.
for all human societies to enjoy sharing freedom, peace and
friendship instead of unjust endless conflicts.
Son of a former sultan of Dawe Region of Afarland (now zone
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15 essential rules when working with real estate agents
‘A house is made of bricks and beams, a home is made of hopes and dreams’ – Popular saying
The success of a real estate transaction doesn’t only depend on your real estate agent, it depends on you as well. As a client, you have a lot to say and there should be no doubt about this. However, you must know and study in advance the rules you need to follow in order not to interfere with the process, in a negative way.
Once you have found ‘the one’, your ideal real estate agent, you need to know how to build the relationship in time, it’s a street with two sides, as some may say!
The quality of your business relationship has a direct result in the outcome of the transaction. Otherwise said, if you maintain a healthy relationship, everything will go smoothly.
Finding the right pieces of the puzzle has a lot to do both with the feeling of trust, but as well with the level of transparency between you and your agent. Knowing how to find and work with a real estate agent is also of utmost importance. Be honest with your real estate agent! This will only benefit you!
How to build a relationship that lasts!
‘Keep calm and listen to your Realtor!’ – Popular saying
Finding the right real estate agent may mean more to you, than you might initially think – you get a counselor, an adviser, an expert, and last but not least a ‘mate’ who will guide you and who will struggle to get the best deal for you.
You build your relationship on faith, hope, trust and confidence, there is no other way. If you don’t believe that your agent can do a great job from the beginning, then your transaction will never work out the way you wanted. Trust your agent, you need to be on the same page! But remember: this implies time and effort too!
Success or failure?
Knowing how to handle the relationship with your agent results either in a fruitful transaction, or in a genuine loss of time and money. You need to communicate efficiently and fully understand each other! This usually depends on the moment you pick him/her! You need to find the one with the right set of skills and characteristics for your own case. Find out more here!
However, let’s talk about the most important rules you need to follow when working with a real estate agent! Find out what you need to be careful of:
- Trust your agent
In any type of relationship first comes trust. Without trust you can never get to accomplish anything, and this includes a real estate transaction too! Believe in your agent, he/she is there to support you and to provide the optimal solution for you. Give him/her credit and thus you’ll make the first step towards success!
- Show appreciation and consideration
Don’t hesitate to show your agent how much you appreciate his/her efforts. Your Realtor needs to be aware that you respect his/her work and that you notice and value any step forward. Feedback is essential for motivation, or let’s say the way you interact with your real estate agent influences the transaction. Take it like this – it doesn’t cost you to offer a smile or a ‘thank you!’ as a reply, but it weights a lot!
- Respect is a must
If there is no respect, there cannot be any long lasting relationship going on. Respect is a must, for a ‘win-win’ relationship! There is no rocket science to state that when it comes to working with a professional you need to value his/her knowledge, experience and background!
- Stay on the right track
Allow your agent to do his/her job, remember you are not the expert! Real estate agents are usually happy to listen to their clients and use their ideas too, however don’t exaggerate! Maintain that open communication, but let them use their expertise and know-how!
Moreover, don’t take out your anger or frustration on your agent because a bidding went wrong! It’s not their fault!
- Maintain contact, but don’t be too pushy
For sure, you need to be aware of everything that happens with the transaction, but have no worry he/she will let you know. From another point of view, don’t hesitate to call for whatever problem or worry you might have! They will clarify it all for you!
- Be punctual
Time is money! It’s not pleasing at all to wait for someone, so put yourself in their own shoes and never make them wait for you. Usually the schedule of a real estate agent is really busy, they probably have other clients to see, or properties to visit, so try to be punctual. After all, it’s just a matter of courtesy!
- Listen, listen, listen
When you have an appointment, try to be there on time and in person. Don’t waste your time and your agent’s time, not listening or not paying attention. It’s an entire world for you to know, so you need to be present from the beginning till the end. Getting feedback, means you are willing to understand and hear out your agent’s advice.
- Be transparent
Speak up your mind, your Realtor needs to fully understand your point of view, your expectations and your requirements. Don’t ever be afraid or too shy to tell him/her your life principles and expectations. It’s better to say from the early beginning what you need. But, be ready to compromise as well! There is no perfection out there!
- Be open-minded
Some of today’s real estate customers start with expectations too high. Try to see the broad picture! Listen carefully to your agent, he/she knows the market’s actual conditions and possibilities much better than you. Adjust your demands if necessary!
- Maintain the chemistry
If you have a bad day, try not to ruin your relationship with your agent. Be patient and have faith – at a certain point your wish will come true! You just have to wait…
There will be times when your agent will test your patience, but this is how things are in real estate: no one can predict when your dream house will appear on the horizon! The answer is patience, patience, patience! Don’t rush things, let them go smoothly! It’s better this way!
- Communicate effectively
Before hiring a Realtor make up your mind and sketch a short list with your wishes and priorities. It’s never a good idea to hire a real estate agent and not be sure you want to sell/rent/buy a property. Make your decision and think thoroughly!
- Clarify your expectations
Never break trust and get a real estate agent to listen to your dreams. Don’t get upset if he/she tells you upfront that this is never going to happen. Face reality as it is and not how you wish it were. Bring your expectations down to the level of reality!
- Clarify your inquiries
There is no place here for doubts! If you have something that bothers you, speak up! Ask questions no matter how stupid they might sound to you. No one will get offended by your newbie questions. It’s absolutely normal to have inquiries and concerns. Good news – you have your agent by your side!
To sum it all up, in order for you to enjoy a successful transaction, there are two major things you need to do: find the perfect real estate agent for you and then learn how to nurture that relationship. Chemistry and communication are other factors, not to be ignored!
Any way you take it, a fact is certain – the more information you can provide to your real estate agent, the easier it will be for him/her to find the place you can call home. Do your homework and have a lot of patience, you’re going to need it!
Make the most out of your time spent together, follow these steps and maintain a great relationship with your agent! Thus, you’ll both attain your aim – you get the home you have ever wanted, and he/she another satisfied client!
‘There is no place like home! Call your agent!’ – Popular quote
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Waste kitchen foil yields hydrogen. Image: By Stu Spivack, via Wikimedia Commons
With water, light and waste metal, you can turn greenhouse gases into rock. With light, you can turn water into hydrogen, a useable fuel.
Scientists in Britain have tested a way to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into rock, using seawater, sunlight and scrap metal – and one of the waste products is hydrogen, potentially a useable fuel.
Researchers in Japan have devised an even simpler process to make hydrogen: they have worked out how to use natural light and a new kind of catalyst to turn water into hydrogen.
Each process is still at the research stage. But both are examples of the extraordinary levels of ingenuity and imagination at work in the world’s laboratories and research institutions, as scientists around the planet try new ways to sidestep the use of the fossil fuels that release ever greater levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, to drive global warming and precipitate dangerous climate change.
In the past 12 months, researchers have worked out how to generate jet fuel from air, sunlight and water; how to exploit the evaporation of water as a new source of renewable energy; and how to use “bionic” foliage to make a precursor to liquid fuels that could drive a tractor, and even the fertiliser that the tractor would spread.
Researchers everywhere are using new ideas, new technologies and new materials to confront the great energy challenge, and their message is clear: it should be possible to power the world without burning coal, natural gas or oil.
The latest experiments start from two points. One is that the carbon dioxide now pumped as waste from factory chimneys and car exhausts is a potential industrial resource that could be recycled as fuel, or at least taken out of the atmospheric cycle altogether and safely stored somewhere.
The other is that solar, wind and water power technologies have already been developed in ways that could yield ever more sophisticated answers to carbon dioxide disposal or the replacement of fossil fuels.
Scientists from the UK report in the journal ChemSusChem that they loaded an aluminium reactor with sea water and waste aluminium in the form of kitchen foil and other wrappings.
“Our work demonstrates the potential for efficiently and cheaply producing hydrogen from water”
They then pumped a mix of nitrogen and carbon dioxide into their reactor and ran electricity from solar panels through the mix. And the process turned the waste aluminium into a harmless crystalline mineral called dawsonite.
“Tens of millions of tonnes of waste aluminium are not recycled each year, so why not put this to better use to improve our environment? The aluminium in this process can also be replaced by iron, another product that goes to waste in millions of tonnes,” said Michael North, a professor of chemistry at the University of York. “Using two of the most abundant metals in the Earth’s crust means this process is highly sustainable.”
He and his colleagues reckon that such technologies could account for 850 million tons of carbon dioxide every year: a gas that would otherwise escape into the planet’s atmosphere could be neutralised as rock. And one of the byproducts from the process is hydrogen: the York team have yet to devise ways to exploit the gas.
But Japanese and Chinese scientists report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that they can work the same magic without any metal.
Challenge of cheapness
They have developed a photocatalyst based on phosphorus and graphitic carbon nitride that can generate hydrogen from water: unexpectedly, it can do so even with low-energy, near-infra red light.
Hydrogen as a fuel already powers buses and cars: the big challenge is to find ways to deliver the gas as cheaply as petroleum fuels.
“The hydrogen economy faces a great many challenges, but our work demonstrates the potential for efficiently and cheaply producing hydrogen from water with a photocatalyst based on widely abundant elements,” said Tetsuro Majima of Osaka University, who led the study.
“This is an important step toward making other hydrogen-based technologies economically and environmentally viable.” – Climate News Network
About the Author
Tim Radford is a freelance journalist. He worked for The Guardian for 32 years, becoming (among other things) letters editor, arts editor, literary editor and science editor. He won the Association of British Science Writers award for science writer of the year four times. He served on the UK committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. He has lectured about science and the media in dozens of British and foreign cities.
Book by this Author:
Science that Changed the World: The untold story of the other 1960s revolution
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The Oslo Manual published by the OECD defines four types of innovation: product innovations, process innovations, marketing innovations and organisational innovations. This classification maintains the largest possible degree of continuity with the previous definition of technological product and process innovation used in the second edition of the Manual. Product innovations and process innovations are closely related to the concept of technological product innovation and technological process innovation. Marketing innovations and organisational innovations broaden the range of innovations covered by the Manual as compared to the previous definition. Data on firm level innovation is collected by all OECD Countries every two years using a standardised survey instrument which enables comparisons between industry Sectors and OECD countries. Some but not all of these innovations become intangible assets.
What happens to the innovations that don’t become intangible assets? The answer is that much of it becomes knowledge which can be re-used in other circumstances. Economics uses the concept of Adaptive Capacity to identify knowledge that makes firm more able to adapt to environmental challenges. More recent research identifies a new class of firms which are known as Knowledge-Intensive Innovative Entrepreneurship (KIE). These firms both create, combine and sell knowledge-based products and services across a wide range of sectors.
The third driver is the combination of innovation, knowledge and new business models. Manufacturing Firms have long taken advantage of Wrights Law (1936) to reduce costs by doubling production, but new firms are combining Wrights Law with Moore’s law (1965) which is the founding example of a technology cost curve. Moore’s law stated that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit could double every 18 months. The impact of Moore’s law is seen in every IPhone and Laptop. To these two ‘laws’ we can add Gates’ Law which states that whilst software is expensive to create, the distribution costs of software once written tend to zero. The Combination of Intangibles, Innovation, Knowledge enables Entrepreneurs to create disruptive innovations which turn existing industries upside down. | <urn:uuid:5ca0a0e2-180d-4408-9912-c00df2714a2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://opag.io/why-do-intangible-assets-drive-growth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.924925 | 418 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Robin Hood Wor A Yorkshireman by
Av often wundered wen t'tales been told
Abart Robin Hood an is men of old
An ar the cem ta join im an is merry band
Wen t'word gor abart thar i cud do wi a 'and
But fowk oo tell t'tale ev gor it all wrong
An' t'words that ther singin, dooant fit reight wi t'song
A knaw fowk fra dahn theea'il sey "Rubbish, 'od thi gam"
But truth is Robin Hood ed nowt ta do wi Nottingham
E wor a Wakefield lad from t'Merry City
E'd an acre in Alverthorpe off DeWarren - oo ed na pity
Cos DeWarren owned land fer many miles round
An t'poor fowk ed ta pay im rent fer a bit on is ground
Nah t'fowk fra Nottingham 'll find this a bitter pill
Wen ya tell em owd Robin lived at Newton Hill
An afta DeWarren ed squeezed im abart dry
E thowt "A'll go an work for missen, A s'll etta try
Ya knaw i them days t'Manor o Wakefield wor t'bigist I t'land
Its greenwoods went - well not reight inta Nottingham but very gain 'and
So Robin tuk is ook inta t'Outwoods, weear DeWarren unted boar
An 'e pinched brass frum t'tich an gi sum on it ta t'poor
At 'Top at Wood'* e let on a big fella crossin Bushy Beck
E sez "Tha nooan crossin theear till tha pays me, by heck..
It's thee that pins t'cattle wen t'fowks cum ter tahn
Na tha'd better pay up "George a Green" ~ cum on afe a crahn"
An t'merry pinder o Wakefield sez "Tha gerrin nowt off me
An if tha puts one foot on this bridge tha'll get one i t'ee"
So the fowt fer an 'our - kickin, bitin an scratchin
Till Robin sed "Wo, lets giv ovva, Av ed enuff a this fratchin
Why dunt ta cum an join uz an ferget thi Pinderfields - cum on,
Tha'il bi welcum in t'band an we'll call thi little John"
Ya knaw we've got Robin Hood village an Robin Hood brig
An Kirklees Priory i Mirfield weear e wor bled like a pig
T'owd Prioress did im in, an she wor a relative ya knaw
So bi wary ov 'elp from yet sister-in-law
Yer'll bi thinkin "E knaws sum stuff" well ther's no misteree
Ya can go an read it fer yersen in Wakefield's History
* Note from the author: 'Top at Wood ' is Kirkhamgate (Top at Outwoods)
T'Holly Puddin by Bert Greensmith
A et too much a this puddin' last Christmas
A got stumack ache fit ter bring tears
A thowt A'd better nip rahnd ter see t'doctor
It wor t'fust time A'd seen 'im in years
'E sez " Tha seems t'ev poisoned thi sisten 'owd lad
An' it cud even move rahnd ter yer 'eart"
A sed "By gum, it sahnds bad fer mi, wot can A do"
'E sez "Fust off we'll 'ave all yer teeth aht"
A sez "Yer doant mean all on 'em d'ya"
"Aye" 'e sez "Ivry last one while tha'r able"
A thowt wey 'e means well dust lad an A suppose it's fert best
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The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is just one essential piece of the vaccination puzzle. While it is an important piece of the puzzle, in reality, without the ability to fill vials at a faster rate, store the vaccine (both individually and in mass quantities) and administer the vaccine to the population (needles and syringes), the vaccine itself is just a formula that can cure a disease.
This is where ASA comes in. ASA has played a vital role in the supply chain by assembling the components used in the manufacturing process to package the COVID-19 vaccine into vials for distribution to communities across the United States. ASA originally began working on vaccine production equipment assemblies for COVID-19 in May of 2020. Due to the critical time and sensitive nature of the project, ASA employees assembled different components that would later be combined to create the final product once the vaccine was approved.
To date, ASA has completed six shipments of machines that will allow for increased production and packaging of the vaccine.
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The attempt through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to grant equal rights to women. The Equality4women website, the EqualRightsAmendment website are two resources of many to reference in learning about the ERA.
The ERA: A Brief Introduction
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
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More Denver Public Schools students are graduating from high school and going to college, according to figures released Thursday about the Class of 2009.
DPS’ overall graduation rate climbed 3.2 percentage points, to 52.7 percent – the biggest jump in graduation rates since 2003, according to district statistics. In 2008, DPS graduated 2,879 students out of 5,818 who started high school four years before and in 2009, the district graduated 2,893 students out of 5,494.
In addition, the number of spring 2009 graduates enrolling in a college or university this fall increased by 7 percentage points, to 49 percent.
“This is the critical issue for the Denver Public Schools – to be dramatically increasing the number of our students who are graduating high school prepared for college and career,” DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said during an afternoon press conference at North High School.
“These are the most significant increases we’ve seen in many years,” Boasberg added. “However, we’ve got much, much work to do.”
North’s graduation rate increased by 12.1 percentage points, to 58.2 percent, making it the district’s top high school in growth. In sheer numbers, that represents an increase in graduates from 142 in spring 2008 to 189 in spring 2009.
Johnny Alvarado, a May 2009 North grad, attended Thursday’s press conference and credited the Denver Scholarship Foundation’s Futures Center at the school with helping him get to Regis University this fall.
The Futures Center assists students and families in learning about colleges, filling out applications and applying for scholarships and other financial aid.
The foundation, seeded with a $50 million gift from Denver oilman Tim Marquez and his wife Bernadette, also provides scholarships to DPS graduates.
“I wasn’t even thinking about going to college when I first came here,” Alvarado said. “But after I found out about the many opportunities I have here, I just took them and ran forward with them.”
But even as Boasberg praised the progress made, he also said the pace of growth needs to accelerate. He termed a 53 percent graduation rate as “not acceptable.”
“I don’t believe modest changes are what we need if we’re going to have dramatically different and dramatically better results,” he said, “and we need to have dramatically better results.”
The district’s goal is to increase its graduation rate by 5 percent each year – this year’s 3.2 percent growth falls short of that goal.
Boasberg said the district’s intense focus on college-readiness has resulted in other gains, including:
- The number of students taking college classes while still enrolled in high school increased by 56 percent this year.
- The number of students taking rigorous Advanced Placement or AP courses increased by 32 percent this year.
- The number of students taking AP courses and passing the final AP exam, which earns them college credit, increased by 23.5 percent this year.
- The percentage of high school juniors scoring a 20 or better on the ACT college-entrance exam increased by 2 points, to 28.2 percent.
Those indicators show the level of rigor in high school is increasing as the high school graduation rate increases, Boasberg said.
That’s important because, in years past, as some Denver high schools have seen their graduation rates increase, they’ve also reported a higher number of graduates requiring remedial classes in college. (See story here.)
For example, Abraham Lincoln High School’s graduation rate increased by 20 percentage points between 2006 and 2008. But the number of Lincoln grads requiring remedial work in college grew by 35 percentage points during those same years, according to state documents.
“It’s something we see as a central challenge – graduating students prepared for college and that means no remediation,” Boasberg said.
Lincoln’s graduation rate dropped slightly this year, down 3 percentage points to 64.9 percent. Montbello and South high schools also saw slight declines in their graduation rates, with each down 1.9 percentage point. South’s graduation rate was 67.4 percent for the Class of 2009 while Montbello’s was 57.4 percent.
West High School had the lowest graduation rate, at 50.9 percent, but that figure represents an increase of 3.6 percentage points over spring 2008.
The Denver School of the Arts had the highest graduation rate, at 97.3 percent, an increase of 2.3 percentage points, followed by the Denver Center for International Studies at 90 percent, a decline of 5.7 percentage points from 2008.
North, with its 12.1 percentage point gain, led all other high schools in growth.
Principal Ed Salem credited initiatives such as the school’s three-year partnership with the Denver Scholarship Foundation and the addition of web-based “credit recovery” classes that allow students to make up failed courses on their lunch hours, after school and on Saturdays.
Next fall, North will begin offering an AP course, human geography, to freshmen in an effort to get them on the path to college. Salem said he wants to enroll all freshmen in the course by fall 2011.
“It’s motivating,” he said of Thursday’s data as he stood in front of a wall covered with colorful banners showing where North students are going to college. “It really validates the work we are all doing here.”
Nancy Mitchell can be reached at [email protected] or 303-478-4573.
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It truly is the little things in life that make a big difference, especially when working with kids who want to be just like their friends.
Madison is a 9-year-old sweet, friendly, adorable young girl who underwent a hemispherectomy at 7 years of age due to a cancerous tumor growing in her brain. She lost all function in her left hand aside from being able to use it as a stabilizing assist.
Madison is a motivated young girl and is doing all of her bilateral skills independently: cutting, stringing beads, dressing…..but she can’t do her own ponytail, a goal that she strongly stated when we first met.
I pulled up some you-tube videos that day and together we watched one handed techniques for ponytail making. Most kids would have seen those videos and given up. They were hard. But not Madison.
Together, week after week we created different types of adapted pony holders and tried numerous techniques. One day Madison came into therapy with a big grin on her face, telling me she had a surprise. She then proceeded to use one of our adapted pony holders and made herself a beautiful one handed ponytail.
She told me that it was the best day of her life because now she is truly independent, and she can make her own ponytail after gym class!
Madison is just one of the many inspirational children I am fortunate to work with every day!
Karen Gibber, OTR/L works at Janna Hacker & Associates. Please visit their website @www.jhatherapy.com and their blog @ https://jhatherapy.wordpress.com/
To read the previous post in the "little things" series, click HERE!
Karen Gibber received her Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy from Columbia University in New York City. She began her experience in pediatric rehabilitation at Staten Island University Hospital in NY, and then married and moved with her husband to Baltimore. There, Karen worked at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a private pediatric practice for 9 years. During that time, she attended Drexel University in Philadelphia and obtained her Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice in the Hand and Upper Quadrant.
Karen has experience working with a variety of pediatric diagnoses, with a special interest in children with orthopedic and neuromuscular impairments including brachial plexus injury, congenital hand deformities, cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, and upper extremity fractures. She also enjoys providing therapy for sensory integration and fine motor delays.
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Other names: Edward John
Locations in this story: Tisbury, WiltshireShaftesburyMotcombe, DorsetLeigh Farm, Teffont Evias, Tisbury, WiltshireEnmore Green, ShaftesburyPortsea, HampshireTollard Royal, Wiltshire
Story: Edward John Harnett was born on 26th January 1882 at Tollard Royal, Wiltshire. He was the son of Sidney Harnett, a farmer, and Cecily Harnett (née Green). The family lived at Leigh Farm, Teffont Evias, Tisbury, Wiltshire. His father died in 1903. Edward enlisted as a regular in the Royal Navy on 27th March 1906 for 12 years but was discharged early whilst serving on HMS Invincible on 21st October 1910 only to immediately re-sign and begin a new engagement on the same day and on the same ship (Service No. K9456). The 1911 Census shows him living as boarder in Portsea, Hampshire, but as a Royal Navy stoker. On 2nd December 1914, whilst serving on HMS Ghurka, by then as a Petty Officer, 1st Class, he was invalided out of the Navy suffering from anemopthsis (a form of rheumatoid gout). Regrettably he died on 26th February 1915 at Motcombe and was buried in Motcombe Churchyard. He was awarded Victory, British War and 14 Star medals. He is remembered on the war memorials at Motcombe and Enmore Green, Shaftesbury. | <urn:uuid:675e6df4-4d48-49f7-999d-1b2c07054a12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shaftesbury-remembers.goldhillmuseum.org.uk/story/edward-john-harnett/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.970448 | 335 | 1.726563 | 2 |
I’m watching Olympic cycling this morning, laptop clicking away with quick glances at the big screen trying to get a glimpse of Box hill Road. If you didn’t know, this month is talk like a Brit month at the garden center. We will be calling basil (known as “bay zell”) “bah zill”, cotoneaster (known as “ko-tony-aster”) “cotton-easter”, and our friends “blokes”. When watering we will be referring to our irrigation system as our “lovely gubbins”, and our daily work will be “easy peasy”. While you’re at the nursery, be sure to check our horse chestnut tree where we will be fervently watching it grow so we can get some horse chestnuts this fall and play a game of “conkers”. Maybe I can play conkers in my yard with the spruce cones that will be dropping soon.
The English are to me the ancestors of garden lore. What is an English Garden like and how does it differ from an American Garden? The English Garden is more of an “Outdoor room” an extension of the house that should be just as attractive and comfortable as a room in the house. We call the front of our house the “yard”, whereas the Brits call it the “garden”. It is seen less as somewhere to “produce” things – food, flowers for cutting, but more as an outdoor living space.
In designing an English garden, create your framework through the use of hedges and borders. Taller hedges include holly, escallonia, or even clipped cedar trees. Softer hedge lines can be created using hydrangeas or even grasses such as Miscanthus “Adagio”. Perennial flowers are a major part of the inner color of an English garden. In our area, try Rudbekia, Shasta daisy, Crocosmia “Lucifer”, or Lobelia “Cardinalis”. Unknown but worthy perennials for taller lest windy areas of your garden can include Rodgersia and perennial Phlox. Be sure to include herbs and vegetables in a sunny well drained corner; try Rosemary “Arp” or Lavender “Silver Edge” for larger herbs, creepy Elfin Thyme for your pathways. Colorful Swiss Chard “Neon Lights” is a great edible border addition.
No EnglishGarden is complete unless it includes a rose. Disappointed with hybrids teas? Try a hardy shrub rose such as the Knockout roses or the very hardy Rugosa rose.
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|High-income country confirmed dose total:||5.9 billion|
|Upper-middle-income country total:||1.8 billion|
|Lower-middle-income country total:||961 million|
|Low-income country total:||270 million|
|COVAX total:||2.4 billion|
|Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines:||11.3 billion doses|
Is vaccine tourism ethical?
Author: Blen Biru
According to Our World in Data, 1.78B people are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 across the world. About 16% of the fully vaccinated (289M people) live in the US, which has a very high rate of vaccination, especially compared to neighboring countries in Latin America. The abundance of available vaccines in the US has attracted foreign travelers from South America and other parts of the world looking to get vaccinated, referred to as vaccine tourism. An estimated 70,000 people from Peru alone have traveled abroad in search of COVID-19 vaccination.
Vaccine tourism in the US is becoming more prevalent with Houston, Dallas, Miami, and Las Vegas being the most visited destinations. States such as New York are also promoting vaccine administration in popular tourist destinations. This presents an opportunity for travel agencies to promote tour packages to wealthier countries such as US and UK, complete with vaccination.
In Europe, Serbia had excess doses of supply which attracted individuals from neighboring countries: Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Albania although it has temporarily suspended access to foreigners as of April 09, 21 to prioritize Serbian citizens.
The primary reason for vaccine tourism is the delayed vaccine distribution in the travelers’ home countries. Many countries around the world still face dire shortages of vaccine, and some have none at all.
People are also traveling in order to get access to the vaccine of their choice, particularly those in LMICs, where mRNA based vaccines (such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) are not readily available,
The legality of vaccine tourism seems to be ambiguous. In the US, the CDC has stated that there are no citizenship or residency requirements to receive COVID-19 vaccine, which is largely to ensure that requirements for identification do not hamper vaccine uptake, particularly for marginalized communities in the US.
While the policy is designed to promote vaccine equity within the US, vaccine tourism certainly does not; the wealthiest people in poorer countries are able to get access to vaccines first because they can afford to travel. Some argue that countries like the US would do better to donate excess doses instead of giving access to wealthy foreigners who may not necessarily be at risk. That way, the recipient governments would be able to allocate the donated vaccines to highest priority populations – a way that might promote equity.
On the flip side, allowing foreigners access to vaccines might help reduce the healthcare system burden in their home countries and could increase the number of vaccinated people contributing to herd immunity (Though it’s also worth noting that people might increase their chances of infection when traveling, seeking vaccinations). Further, the administrative burden (and chilling effect for undocumented populations) of requiring proof of residency would likely be untenable for local vaccination sites in the US.
These factors should be taken into consideration when assessing vaccine tourism. However, the ultimate solution to vaccination and achieving herd immunity across the world is equitable distribution of vaccines. In addition to bilateral purchases, donations and supply for the COVAX facility play a huge role in ensuring access everywhere and the vaccine tourism numbers clearly show that we have not yet succeeded.
Significant updates, news, and trends we saw last week:
- Samsung is officially chosen as Korea’s fill and finish manufacturing partner for Moderna.
- J&J suspended in Belgium for under age 41s due to adverse effect associated death.
- WHO requested more data on Sinovac prior to approving a second Chinese vaccine for an emergency-use listing (EUL).
- Per the IMF, a $50 billion investment by rich countries to vaccinate people in poor countries would end the pandemic earlier and result in a $9 trillion in additional economic growth.
- India has restricted purchases and agreements only to the government; private sectors are not allowed to sign contracts anymore. State governments are also not able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies such as Moderna and Pfizer.
- Medicago released promising mid-term results and is hoping for Q3 authorization in Canada.
- Sanofi-GSK released promising Phase 2 results and have launched Phase 3 trials, which will test efficacy against the South African variant, as well as the original strain. Production of the vaccine candidate is expected to begin “within weeks.”
- CureVac expects EU authorization in June.
- “Sputnik Light,” the 1-dose version of Sputnik V, expects to file for emergency use authorization in India in June and is being fast tracked for approval.
- The European Union continues its court case against AstraZeneca, suing for damages arising from delayed delivery of a vaccine it doesn’t even want or need anymore. As AstraZeneca is the only company so far that has kept a pledge to sell its Covid-19 vaccine at no-profit, and as much of the world is desperately waiting for AstraZeneca doses, we suggest that perhaps the EU could reconsider and let AstraZeneca get on with their work.
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The Importance of Saving as a Salon Professional
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You may think, Retirement is not anywhere in the near future for you, so why worry about it now? Easy, the earlier you learn about it and start saving, the more interest you can accrue, and the more money you will have set aside for retirement when the time comes. With the rising cost of living, you should start thinking about investing right now.
The secret to retirement, is starting to save early.
According to an article by Vanguard the secret to retirement, is to start saving early.
It is known that to live comfortably during retirement, you should have 85% of your preretirement pretax income each year when you retire. So, for a person earning $50,000 per year, that’s $42,500 each year. Now, let’s say that same person lives for another 30 years after retirement, that means they will need $1.275 million saved for retirement!
For example: Let’s assume that you’re 20 and just starting to save for retirement. If you make $50,000 per year and would like to retire at age 65. With an investment rate of return of 6% (which is conservative), you will need to save only $350 per month to reach your $1.275 million goal.
However, if you decide to start saving for retirement at age 40, you can still reach that goal; you’ll just need to save more each month. If at 40 you decide to start saving, and you make $50,000 per year and would like to retire at age 65, with an investment rate of return of 6% (which is conservative), you will need to save $1,515 per month to reach your $1.275 million goal.
So, you see, the secret to saving is compound interest. The earlier you start, the more interest is accrued over time, leading to more money saved for retirement. However, it’s NEVER too late to start! Use this retirement calculator to see where you stand.
What you save now will determine your future quality of life. However, we know the reality is that for so many beauty professionals, saving for retirement can be challenging. Since many beauty professionals work for themselves or for a small salon, they do not have a company retirement plan to support their retirement efforts. And then, as we all know, life hits—and other bills take priority over saving for retirement.
We asked two professionals in our industry if they feel they adequately prepared themselves financially for retirement. Here are a couple of their responses:
- Kym responded,
No way! Trying to make up for lost time, start your IRA’s now!
- Shaunna said,
I started early in my career, but life happened that created a setback, and [I’m] finding it hard to establish that place again. She also gave a few tips to current students.
Think realistically, set goals, and break them down into small tasks. Save tips and invest them in a way that will bring in more income. Some learners are making hair and skin products and creating client survival kits for home maintenance care. Some students sell hair extensions and clothes. They actually work towards a savings for their future.
You may feel a little lost and nervous about your financial outlook during retirement, so you brush it under the rug and try to forget that this is something you have to actually think about. Even if time has crept by and you have very little money saved, or if once upon a time you had a comfortable savings but dipped into it and exhausted it all, don’t fear. You can and should start saving again. There are many savings options available. No matter where you start, make financial planning around your retirement easier with these few steps:
Start Thinking About Saving
Even though the more you can save, the better, you don’t need thousands of dollars, or even hundreds of dollars to start saving. You can start saving with any amount you choose. You just need to find out what you can cut out of your current budget, how much you can save per paycheck or per month, and commit to that amount. Your initial investment may not seem like it will do a lot at first, but as your money grows and accumulates interest, you may be able to transfer it into stronger investment options. The big key is to set an amount that you want to save, make regular and consistent deposits, and make the commitment not to touch your retirement funds under any circumstances.
Learn the Different Retirement Options
There isn’t one “right” way to start your retirement savings. The only right thing to do is to learn your options, find the one that is right for you, and commit to it. There are many different options out there, including the following:
Social Security is a government retirement plan that was set up in 1935. IF Social Security is around when you retire, according to the Social Security Administration, it will likely provide only about 40% of the income that you need for a comfortable retirement. See more information on Social Security, here.
According to Fidelity, an IRA is an account set up at a financial institution that allows an individual to save for retirement with tax-free growth or on a tax-deferred basis. The three main types of IRAs are:
- Traditional: You make contributions with money you may be able to deduct on tac return, and can grow tax-deferred until you withdraw on them in retirement.
- Roth: Make contributions with money you’ve already paid taxes on, and your money will grow tax-free, with tax-free withdrawals (barring conditions are met).
- Rollover: Contribute money that is rolled over from a different retirement plan such as a 401K.
IRAs are a good investment because, as stated above, you may need up to 85% of your preretirement income in retirement. So, Social Security and a company retirement plan (if your company offers one) may not be enough to sustain you through retirement.
Company Retirement Plan:
Some companies, no matter the size, offer retirement plans. Whether this being a match percentage to your 401(k) or other various methods, talk to your supervisor to find out if this is a benefit offered at your salon.
Articles by NerdWallet and Salon Today share some of your options as well. Make sure you do your research and talk to a financial planner to learn every option available to you.
To make it even easier for you, you no longer need a degree in finance or a job on Wall Street to start investing. Many platforms are making investing easy and giving individuals a fighting chance to create a promising financial future. Here are some to research.
This platform was designed with women in mind. It’s changing the game for women interested in securing their financial futures. The platform considers your earnings as a woman over your career and factors them into investment plans that offer a better chance of you reaching your goals. You can invest how much you want, with tailored recommendations.
This platform is hot among millennials right now. The stock brokerage allows customers to buy and sell U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs with zero commission. According to their company website they believe “…everyone should have access to the financial markets and are on a mission to inspire a new generation of investors.” Robinhood is currently available on iOS and Android.
The most important thing to remember when it comes to retirement savings is to get started. It doesn’t matter how early or late you start, as long as you start today! Don’t let your current situation hold you back from investing in your future. No matter how things look now, they will change. Ask questions, share your goals and ask for clarity. Talk to the bank about interest and what your money could potentially look like in a few years. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. Remember, you are making a powerful decision to invest in your future. If you are already off to a healthy start investing for your retirement, kudos to you. Keep up the good work and save even more. | <urn:uuid:8c958b9d-ebb8-46de-8a0b-14f72094bede> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.miladypro.com/home/p/importance-of-saving-for-retirement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.960942 | 1,736 | 1.9375 | 2 |
AVG Antivirus Review
AVG malware www.neoerudition.net/the-biggest-list-of-antivirus-review-sites is the leading anti-virus software available for the Windows operating-system. It is manufactured by AVG Solutions, a cybersecurity software business founded in 1991. After having Avast in 2017, AVG Technologies became Avast. Yet , AVG ant-virus is a bit more complicated to install and use than some of the competitors. In this post, we all will review some of the popular features of AVG antivirus. We will discuss how to prevent the problems of this anti-virus.
AVG uses AI-based detection to discover phishing sites. To achieve this, it checks the domain’s meta facts, suspicious bridal party, and image elements. This kind of scanning takes place automatically even though the page loads and is successful in uncovering malicious sites 99% of the time. The green diagnostic button functions a basic understand on the most vulnerable parts of any system. You can synchronizing AVG malware with a couple of devices throughout the login characteristic.
AVG anti-virus includes current protection, email shield, and phishing security. It prevents malware and viruses from spreading, helps to protect personal files, passwords, and webcams, and ensures confidentiality and data security. If you’re using an older version of AVG antivirus security software, you can find a free version on the official AVG web-site. AVG possesses great customer support, and is readily available 24/7. Additionally, it offers a support forum to help you with issues that you may face.
AVG is among the most well-known antivirus applications that you can buy. It ranks in top-tier antivirus assessments and is a fantastic choice if you’re looking for a comprehensive antivirus for Home windows. This program is usually extremely effective in preventing constant malware. Furthermore, it comes with useful additional such as a electronic private network and a tracking instrument. If you’re not sure of whether AVG is the right choice just for your whole body, we suggest a 30-day free trial before purchasing. | <urn:uuid:98312dcb-a00d-43a1-97d2-4c2d1f0a07af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://designtrade.net/avg-antivirus-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.907408 | 446 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The Christmas shopping season began very early this year, not only in Ireland, but in most of Europe. We were not really enthused by having the Christmas lights switched on during the early days of November, but recognised it as part of a desperate effort to encourage commerce, and maybe even some comfort shopping.
We are, however, bewildered by the swift change in our economic situation, angry with our government and unable to understand exactly what has gone wrong. Self-congratulation has been replaced, almost overnight, by national self-denigration. Last year’s prophets of gloom were lonely and were treated with scorn; they have been proven right.
If we are absolutely honest, we will admit that our government suffered from a very strong commitment to our own new Credo: complete trust in the construction industry and utter faith in the inherent benevolence of market forces. In the midst of all the current negativity, it helps when we remind ourselves that the mistakes we made are international, rather than uniquely ours, that Spain is even more depressed than ourselves and that Iceland’s uninhibited love affair with international banking has led to disaster.
When the Celtic Tiger was roaring, we became distracted. The homeless and drug addicts do not vote, so we forgot about them. The response to crime was to lock criminals up, rather than try to rehabilitate them. We needed immigrants to keep the economy moving, but we ignored the presence of people who were “trafficked” here. Trafficking involves the smuggling and exploitation of people from poorer countries. It is an international scandal and is the downside of globalisation. It is grimy and not very newsworthy, so it receives little attention.
The celebration of selfishness, expressed in the building of gated communities and in advertising campaigns that appealed to our egoism, briefly became a national characteristic. The ideal Irish man or woman was portrayed as young, expensively dressed and groomed, self-centered, fast moving, forgetful of and/or contemptuous toward the past, devoted to consumerism and contentedly godless.
Godlessness is basic to this worldview. It is fashionable and fits into the mainstream of contemporary European thought, which emphasises that religion is private as well as personal. Green policies become a substitute religion, even to the extent of regarding humanity as a polluting rather than a sinful entity.
As the recession began to bite, during the summer of 2008, our government went on holiday and then returned to work, uttering prophecies of doom. A rushed Budget then hurt the oldest and the most vulnerable amongst us. The ensuing uproar took everybody in government by surprise. How can our politicians have become so remote from the rest of us?
Our Green Party is usually regarded, and seems to regard itself, as being above criticism. Its leaders are given some of the attributes of living saints, but all its Dáil deputies stood to applaud a very unjust Budget, thereby showing that they may have sold their souls for power.
As jobs vanish and many mortgage holders find themselves with negative equity, appeals to patriotism are hollow, not least when they come from people who live in great comfort. There is, of course, no longer any appeal to religious motivation. Our continued commitment to Third World issues, even when we have been at our most materialist, is proof of the fundamental decency which it the stance of the vast majority of Irish people. It is this trait, rather than any other, on which our leaders should rely. | <urn:uuid:7621b3b8-63ad-4a2b-b0df-81064d332ca5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.studiesirishreview.ie/product/edtorial-winter-2008/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.979299 | 715 | 1.625 | 2 |
Detailed knowledge of the efficacy and selectivity of a product along with the development of product delivery techniques, compatibility profile and other unique traits of a molecule are all important for the success of a crop protection product. At the Belchim trial farm we have access to around 10 hectares of land where a whole range of crops, both annual and perennial, are cultivated and our products are developed, tested, compared and integrated into programmes to explore the possible solutions to any one of the multitude of pest, weed or disease problems that exist.
The trials are conducted to enhance both our own knowledge of that of our customers by demonstrating and discussing current and future potential solutions. This way, the knowledge can then be transferred on to the growers who can benefit from our joint knowledge and expertise.
Lab and small-scale trials
Active ingredient screening and thorough investigation of the mode of action and characteristics of our products is carried out in the laboratory and in small scale pot trials. | <urn:uuid:3f457296-b6d8-4985-a1e6-b72d25b47d43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.belchim.com/trialstation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.939364 | 191 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Dr. Luke Chang
Dr. Luke Chang is an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on understanding how emotions and expectations are represented in the brain and impact learning and decision-making in social contexts. In 2019, Dr. Chang received the Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science for transformative early career contributions to psychological science.
Learning Check-In: After watching the video interview with Dr. Chang, students will answer reflection questions about it.
Website Review: Students will investigate Dr. Chang’s website to learn more about his research.
Article Analysis: Students will select a recent publication of Dr. Chang’s and create a PowerPoint presentation about it.
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InEnTec® patented Plasma Enhanced Melter® technology solves two of the world’s most perplexing challenges: disposing of waste in a safe, environmentally-responsible manner and producing valuable, clean products from recycled materials. Without using combustion or incineration, PEM® technology can transform virtually any waste—hazardous, medical, industrial, and municipal—into ultra-clean energy, electricity, and industrial materials. Proven, efficient, and cost-effective, PEM technology provides a clean, green path to a sustainable future.
1935 Butler Loop, Richland, United States of America
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Minnesota predatory offender laws have been created in order for the public to be provided adequate notice and information about predatory offenders who have been or are about to be released from custody. Residents who partner with their local police department are better able to develop constructive plans to educate themselves and their family members for the offender’s release.
The public risk posed by a predatory offender is assessed by a committee of experts, after which the offender is given a risk level by the Department of Corrections. Information about the offender, including their risk level, is sent to the local law enforcement agency having primary jurisdiction over the area in which the offender plans to reside. The assigned risk level determines to whom law enforcement may disclose information to.
Pursuant to Minnesota State Statute 244.052 and 253D, our police department will be releasing information regarding a Level III predatory offender (William Kibble Jr.) who will be moving into our community in the 1000 block of Livingston Avenue. Our police department takes an aggressive role in monitoring predatory offenders and sharing information about offenders with our residents as the law permits. We strongly believe a well-informed public makes for a safer community.
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we will not be hosting an in person meeting like we typically would. We have created this video with all the same information we would provide at an in person meeting. We have also linked a wide variety of resources to help further answer questions.
We encourage you to watch this video and become more informed with the history of the community notification program and the state predatory offender registry. If you have specific questions about this particular predatory offender or our Predatory Offender Registration Program, please contact Investigator Elyse Wood at 651-552-4238 or [email protected]. If you need further information on our Neighborhood Watch Program, contact Crime Prevention Specialist Laura Vaughan at 651-552-4235.
The Community Notification Law can be an empowering tool. As previously stated, it allows law enforcement agencies to inform their residents. Information helps residents be aware, be cautious and be safe. This information is not intended to cause undue fear or inappropriate actions such as harassing the offender.
Available resources and links
Stop it Now! MN (888) PREVENT
Jacob Wetterling Resource Center (800) 325-HOPE
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (800) 843-5678
MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault (651) 209-9993
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System and Platform Evaluation
Created December 2017
Determining the security of your organization’s information systems is more important than ever. We leverage CERT cybersecurity research to develop and provide advanced penetration testing and cyber vulnerability assessments of systems and platforms for organizations.
You Will Be Attacked. Will You Be Ready?
Organizations operate in an era of seemingly constant high-profile data breaches. A cyber attack on your organization is inevitable. Organizations can no longer expect to defend against every attack. However, your first line of defense is still a hardened information system and cyber processes. These defenses reduce costly downtime, breaches of sensitive data, and potential damage to the organization's reputation and mission achievement.
Know Your Weaknesses
A risk and vulnerability assessment (RVA) identifies vulnerabilities in an organization’s network and endpoint devices. It also ensures that security implementations actually provide the protection that organizations require and expect.
CERT subject matter experts conduct RVAs with personnel from our partners at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. We use open source and commercial security tools to conduct vulnerability scanning and manual penetration testing. These scans and tests determine whether, and by what methods, an adversary can defeat security controls on a live or simulated network.
Technical and Organizational Strength
An organization’s ability to repel cyber attacks requires more than just software patches and complex passwords. It takes a risk-based approach to security decisions. An RVA contributes to both technical and organizational strength by
- helping secure against known vulnerabilities and threats by providing mitigation strategies to reduce risk
- aggregating vulnerability data so executives can make informed decisions regarding the security and safety of information systems
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