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The Russian Orthodox Church has demanded further testing of remains thought to belong to the son and daughter of Russia’s last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, disrupting the government’s plans to rebury them in St Petersburg next month.
A working group created by the prime minister Dmitry Medvedev in July proposed on Friday to bury crown prince Alexei Romanov and his sister, grand duchess Maria, with the remains of their family in the iconic Peter and Paul Cathedral on 18 October.
But Medvedev’s spokeswoman later said the date for their burial would only be decided after additional consultation with the Russian Orthodox Church, reported news agency RIA Novosti. Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin said the working group had agreed to further testing of the remains to prove their authenticity.
“People have questions. We want further investigation so that any tests are done in the presence of church officials,” said Chaplin, adding that the church also wanted to do further testing on those remains already buried in the cathedral.
The church has refused to recognise the results of DNA testing that found the remains do indeed belong to the royal family, delaying the process of burying Alexei and Maria, which have been held in a state repository since 2007. The current head of the Russian Imperial House, grand duchess Maria Vladimirovna, also considers the burial of these remains “premature,” a spokesman told news agency RSN.
“These people have been canonised, and if their remains are found they will be considered holy relics that believers will pray to, for this reason it’s very important to make sure,” said Chaplin.
Several descendants of the tsar’s family who now live abroad had already been planning to come to Russia for the October burial before the latest complications arose.
“We’re very happy this story is coming to an end, but at the same time there’s bitterness over the fact that the church hasn’t recognised the remains,” Ivan Artsishevsky, a spokesman for the relatives, told news agency Interfax on Friday.
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne in 1917, ending three centuries of rule by the Romanov dynasty, and sought asylum in Britain, but was refused by his cousin George V – Elizabeth II’s grandfather – over political concerns.
Held in captivity by the Bolsheviks, the family was executed by firing squad in the early hours of 17 July 1918 at a house in Yekaterinburg. Their bodies were thrown into a mineshaft, burned and then buried.
The first remains were found in Yekaterinburg in 1979, but remained buried until the end of the Soviet Union. In 2008, US and Russian experts confirmed that the remains unearthed in 1991 belonged to the tsar by matching DNA samples from the skeletons with those from living relatives and from objects such as a blood-stained shirt worn by Nicholas II.
The tsar, his wife Alexandra, daughters Anastasia, Olga and Tatiana and several servants were buried in St Petersburg in 1998 at a ceremony held by the president, Boris Yeltsin. Remains thought to belong to Alexei and Maria, who were 13 and 19 when they were killed, were discovered 43 miles away from the others in 2007. Russian investigators have ruled the remains are authentic based on genetic testing.
In a controversial decision, the Russian Orthodox Church canonised the Romanov family, which is revered by many right-wing groups but considered autocrats by others, in 2000.
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Helping 30,000 children find BELONGING by 2030
More than 30,000 Canadian kids are stuck in temporary government care. A number that's hard to put into perspective...until now.
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At 18, with limited support, they struggle with significant unintended consequences.
Each year, tens of thousands of children are taken into the child welfare system. Their origins vary from unaccompanied minors who have migrated and landed with nowhere to go and no one to rely on, indigenous children, or those who were removed from abusive, neglectful homes. Once in the child welfare system, there are challenges with foster care, mental health, and preparing for aging out of the system.
Until the Last Child develops projects designed to meet these challenges and improve the health, safety, wellbeing, and access to families for a sense of belonging.
All of our UTLC Pilot Projects have been delivered on time, on target and on budget.
- The Bringing Families Together Pilot cost approximately $1.8 Million over two years.
- The 76% of children in the pilot that achieved permanency resulted in $25.1 Million savings to government.
- Based on Canadian and U.S. estimates, the estimated avoided costs are in the range of $250,000 - $460,000 per youth aging out of care each year
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Approximately 76% of kids in our 2016 – 2018 Manitoba Bringing Families Together Pilot Project found permanent loving homes.
Approximately 50% of kids in our 2012 - 2014 Guelph Finding, Keeping and Honouring Connections Pilot Project found permanent loving homes.
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Colombia, Sri Lanka – Tens of thousands of Sri Lankan protesters occupy the President’s House, the Presidential Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s official residence in growing anger over the island nation’s unprecedented economic crisis.
The chaos began on Saturday when angry Sri Lankans stormed the official residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a 73-year-old member of the powerful Rajapaksa clan whom protesters blame for the country’s worst economic crisis since 1948.
Rajapaksa is expected to officially step down on Wednesday. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has also offered to step down once a multi-party caretaker government being discussed among political parties to resolve the crisis is formed.
However, protesters rejected a multi-party government and said they would not leave government buildings until the president and prime minister formally resign.
What do the protesters want?
“We demand the immediate resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe. After that, an interim government must be in place for at least six months,” Shabeer Mohamed, 22, told Al Jazeera.
“We are against a multi-party government,” he added.
Most protesters do not want the Rajapaksa-controlled Sri Lanka Podjana Party (SLPP) to be part of a multi-party government.
Melani Gunathilake, 35, said protest leaders strongly oppose a multi-party government, a move she said would have the “Rajapaksa cartel” controlling the government behind the scenes.
“Our demand is for an interim government, not a multi-party government,” she told Al Jazeera.
An action plan released by protesters on July 5 sets out six key demands, including the formation of a popular council made up of members of “Janatha Aragalaya” (popular struggle) to oversee the country’s political transition.
The establishment of a new constitution that enshrines the sovereignty of the people during the term of an interim government is among the main demands of the protest movement.
Mohamed said some representatives of the protest movement were due to meet with political parties and trade unions later on Tuesday.
“There we will reiterate our demands recently set out in our action plan,” he told Al Jazeera.
Six main demands of the leaders of the protest:
- President Gotabaya Rajapaksha should immediately step down
- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his government should also resign immediately
- An interim government should be put in place for a maximum period of one year
- A new constitution that endorses the sovereignty of the people is established by referendum, hopefully within a year
- The executive powers of the president must be reduced and democratic institutions strengthened until the new constitution is drafted
- The fundamental objective of the caretaker government should be to implement the above proposals
Although there is no leadership structure or single organization representing the mostly young protesters, the Interuniversity Student Union, widely seen as the student wing of the left-wing frontline Socialist Party, and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Affiliated Socialist Youth Union, among others, play a prominent role in the Janatha Aragalaya.
The caretaker government should make necessary reforms and pave the way for a new generation to take control of its future through early general elections, Eranga Gunasekara of the Socialist Youth Union told Al Jazeera.
According to the Sri Lankan constitution, if the president and prime minister resign, the speaker of parliament takes over the presidency. Current President Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene is a relative of the Rajapaksas.
On Abeywardene’s possible appointment as interim president, Melani says protesters are worried despite him being “no better than anyone else”.
“The options we have left are no better but we respect the current constitution. That’s why we called for a new people-centered constitution within a year,” she told Al Jazeera. “We don’t want to go beyond the constitution.
Vimukthi Dushyantha, 29, of the Black Cap movement, says while there is consensus among protesters on some issues, there is no common set of demands as protest leaders differ on other issues .
“The Frontline Socialist Party, for example, calls for a People’s Council, but none of these groups has a common program. Therefore, the best option is to go for an early election after addressing the immediate issues in a short period of time,” he told Al Jazeera.
Dushyantha is of the opinion that the caretaker government should amend the constitution to reform the all-powerful executive presidency and take immediate steps to ease the pain caused by the economic crisis.
Since 1978, Sri Lanka has been governed by an executive presidential system. A reformist government in 2015 stripped the presidency of much of its powers and gave them to parliament.
In October 2020, less than a year after becoming president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with the help of his elder brother, then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, proposed an amendment in parliament, giving himself sweeping powers.
Dushyantha says it might take longer than expected to appoint a replacement for Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the current system for replacing the head of state is “quite complicated”.
Will the protesters contest the elections?
Ranhiru Subhawickrama, 29, represents another group of protesters, who agree with the main demands: the need for an interim government and snap elections within six months. His group, he says, will certainly participate in the next general elections.
“We have no confidence in these 225 deputies and in the current political structure in general. The other thing is that they call it an apolitical movement, but several political parties are involved in it. So we will take our movement forward as a new political movement,” Subhawickrama told Al Jazeera.
Echoing the demands of the action plan, he also stressed the need for “some kind of role” for the protest movement within the interim government.
Gunathilake said she does not want to run in the next election, but she expects many of the protesters to be lawmakers in the next parliament.
The action plan also stresses the need “to eradicate racism and racial oppression” and to “strengthen the relevant legal foundations that affirm the equality of religion, language, sexuality and other cultural identities as well as as democracy and political freedom”.
Gunathilaka said the country’s leaders were using racism as part of their “divide and conquer” strategy to distract from corruption, rights abuses and mismanagement of the economy.
“The oppressor’s strategy has been to divide the oppressed and keep them in the fight to continue their misdeeds,” she said.
For decades, Sri Lanka has been in a bloody civil war with the Tamil minority demanding a separate state in the north. The rebellion was brutally crushed in 2009 by then President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya as Defense Secretary.
Since then, the Buddhist-majority country has witnessed heinous attacks against Muslims who make up less than 10% of the island’s population.
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Let’s talk about THE question in a teacher’s life … the baleful, “When am I going to use this in my real life?”
Yeah, that one.
The honest answer is probably, never… and they know it. Why else ask, if not to subvert and diminish your role and purpose? They don’t really want an answer. What they want ... is just to watch you squirm, or to hear what B.S. you might spit out. Either way, your class is now off the tracks!
However, it is a valid question, in its essence. What is our purpose here? It is a fair question, and one that needs to be answered. And don’t be one of those people that thinks all content is applicable to daily life … it is NOT, nor should it be. The purpose of education is not to train kids for every possible situation in life, but to equip them with an education so they can adapt to any possible situation. The purpose of education is the development of the mind. Sometimes we learn tricky things for the same reason some accountants lift heavy weights at the gym.
So let’s talk about how to change the answer to THE question. Let’s turn it on its head. Let’s answer the question: When am I going to use this in my real life, it in a way that swings the pendulum back in your direction. Let’s answer the question in a way that stops the division and animosity that fosters the question in the first place.
See, the reality is, when a kid asks that question, they’re doing you a favor. They’re providing you with insight that perhaps you’re serving the wrong this. And if you’re not, whatever purpose you serve is not apparent to that student!
Let’s back up and take a larger scope view of the situation. Especially in today’s educational climate, teachers stay in the classroom to be of service to students. That’s it. Teachers are blamed for all of the woes of society, for the failings of education, called lazy, and everybody seems to know what they’d do to fix it, if they were a teacher!
That sentiment, why teachers stay in the classroom, is the gateway to changing the answer to THE question. Teachers are only in the classroom for the benefit of the students. And surely, a teacher wouldn’t take on the sacrifices they do to stay teaching only to waste the time of their students, right?
Well … no, but kind of yes, too.
Let’s talk about job pressures … failing percentages in your classes, average scores on “high stakes tests.” Those are big deals! The test results are used to evaluate schools and teachers. Administrators can be rewarded or fired on the basis of such things!
After all, good test results must be the sign of a great school. Bad test results, well, that is really the teacher’s fault! Yet, if a teacher holds a standard aligned with test results, the class failing rate will be too high, unacceptable, and a sign of bad teaching. There will be unpleasant parent meetings; counselors, and administrators asking what’s being done to help the student, as if the student is hapless, a victim of the inevitable.
What am I doing to help this student? I don’t know … showing up to work every day with lesson plans, a warm welcome and words of encouragement? Oh, and I tell him to pick up his pencil fourteen times an hour, that’s a start, right?
Through either threat or blarney, bean-counters and pencil-pushers outside the classroom press hard to ensure that the teacher is performing due diligence to achieve high test grades. Parents hover, students object, and through it all teachers are led to one inevitable observation: this is not why I teach.
Do those test scores really matter for students? Sure, maybe ACT or SAT, AP, IGCSE or IB tests matter. But those are the culmination of years of work. Does it matter, to the student, if they pass their local state’s Common Core exam? Not one bit.
In my real life, everybody will be impressed that I got a 3 on my Common Core State Test in English.
The purpose of an education is not to be able to pass a test. The purpose of education is the development of the mind. An educated person should be adaptable, thoughtful, able to communicate and appreciate various points of view other than their own. An educated person should have perseverance and confidence, creativity and curiosity about the world around them.
A person that is educated should have an enriched life as a byproduct of their education.
When am I going to use this in my real life?
Well, that depends on what you mean by this.
Are you, as an educator, teaching this to help kids pass a test, or get a good grade in your class? Are you teaching this to help them to know how to do their homework? If so, there’s no judgement or blame. Sometimes you have to make concessions just to get through the day. We want kids to be successful. The problem is, what are we using as markers of success?
But what if you could make this align with why you come back every year?
If you teach students about factoring polynomials so they can complete a worksheet, and maybe pass a quiz, your this is not powerful. That is not why you teach. Why make it what you teach?
The trick is to devise ways to teach kids how to think, to encourage creative problem solving and develop communication … to give them an education, while they learn how to factor a polynomial.
Personally, I never want a student to say to me, “Mr. Brown, you’re the only reason I got through math class.” That’s too low of a standard. That is exactly the this that makes THE question so damning to our efforts. I don’t show up every day so my students can pass a quiz or test, or get a minimal passing grade in math class.
I show up every day to provide a challenge to my students, so they can test themselves and be better tomorrow than they were today. And by better, I don’t mean greater proficiency at rationalizing the denominator. I mean of better mind.
To me, the best compliment a student can give a teacher is, “You taught me how to learn.” In learning to learn, all of the pieces of an education are there. To know how to learn you must be a problem solver, a critical thinker, be reflective, confident, and resourceful. A student that knows how to learn is prepared for an unknown future.
Ask yourself: By teaching this, what’s being learned? Are you just rehashing the same old lessons, just giving the same information the students could get on Khan Academy? Are you asking them questions that can easily be answered by PhotoMath? Are you printing another worksheet off of KutaSoft?
Challenge yourself to raise the bar. Forget the bean-counters. They’ll be happy when they see the results because when a student that knows how to learn takes a silly test, they do well! Not only that, they’ll stand out when compared with students who were taught the content of the course only.
Unfortunately, if you’ve been dragged to the point where you realize, this is not why I got into teaching, and it consumes your day, you cannot answer THE student’s question honestly without using the word never.
You’re unlikely to find much guidance in the education industry that will change the this in THE question. The industry sells books and professional development designed to get students to pass the test. Their livelihood is generated from keeping the this we don’t want in THE question.
It is on us, educators dealing with students daily, to change the this.
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Everyone knows Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist who proposed a theory of evolution. But not everyone knows the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s friend and rival who simultaneously discovered the process of natural selection. This sumptuously illustrated book tells Wallace’s story, from his humble beginnings to his adventures in the Amazon rain forest and Malay Archipelago, and demonstrates the great contribution he made to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
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Christiane Dorion's passion for writing children's books stems from the thousands of questions she asked as a child, many of which remained unanswered: How big is the universe? When did life begin? Originally from Canada, she moved to the United Kingdom to get a Ph.D. in environmental education before working for World Wildlife Federation, United Kingdom, and later becoming an educational consultant. Her award-winning books are intended to inspire children to explore the complex systems of the world we live in and help protect it. Christiane Dorion lives in Surrey, U.K.
Harry Tennant is London-born, but escaped to the coves of Cornwall to study illustration at University College Falmouth before returning to the capital of the United Kingdom once more. He now works as a freelance illustrator, using a mixture of hand-drawn and digital media to create his illustrations, and primarily produces artwork for magazines and book covers. Harry Tennant lives and works in Hackney, U.K.
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Research efforts in the Yang lab are directed toward developing advanced materials for clean energy generation and renewable energy storage devices.
About Dr. Yang Yang
Dr. Yang Yang studied materials science & engineering and obtained his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2010. From 2010 to 2012 he was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked with Prof. Dr. Patrik Schmuki at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. From 2012 to 2015 he was supported by the Peter M. & Ruth L. Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked with Prof. Dr. James M. Tour at the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Sci. & Tech., Rice University. Since 2015 he has been an assistant professor at the NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Central Florida. His current research interests cover programmable nanomanufacturing, surface and interface engineering of energy materials, clean energy generation and storage, solar energy harvesting, and smart/flexible electronics, with a particular focus on advanced materials and their electrochemical applications.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than half of the world’s GDP and two-thirds of all employment. They range in scale and ambition, from fast-growing start-ups to stable, medium-sized manufacturing businesses. Despite their importance to the world economy, SMEs often face problems accessing credit when and where they need it. Their banking needs are often more complex than the usual retail banking customer and they don’t offer banks the revenue potential of larger corporations. Add to this their lack of sufficient collateral and poor or non-existent credit histories and it becomes clear why traditional financial institutions have been somewhat reluctant to do business with the sector.
However, the situation seems to be changing. A recent report by Accenture mentioned that banks in UK alone could make more than $11 billion in fees by 2020 through providing value added services to the SME sector. There is now a greater focus on this market by both banks and fintechs. The financiers have started offering tailored services such as invoice and supply chain financing, which take into account the credit ratings of the corporate partners (anchors) in the SME’s supply chain. Not only does this reduce the risk for the financiers but it also gives access to more financing at a lower cost to the SMEs. It benefits the corporate partners as well by eliminating instability caused by SMEs’ inability to access cost effective working capital finance.
Even supply chain financing, though, comes with its own set of challenges. The rate of borrowing for the SME (supplier) or their cost of working capital is dependent on the corporate partner(buyer)’s bank which does not leave a lot of scope for negotiations. The lack of transparency in transactions results in a lack of trust between the parties. This in turn, results in the inability of the buyers to improve cash flows for their entire upstream supply chain by financing the buyer’s tier 2, tier 3 suppliers (i.e their supplier’s suppliers)
To address these issues in a cost effective way, organizations are investigating the use of blockchain technology for supply chain financing. Blockchain can reduce processing time, eliminate the use of paper and save money, while ensuring transparency, security and trust. Blockchain technology is designed to virtually eliminate the risk of manipulation by participants in the chain. It opens an online marketplace for the buyer, supplier and financiers and facilitates trade directly between these parties while eliminating the need for intermediaries. A block in the blockchain has three key components, a transaction, a transaction record and a system that verifies and stores the transaction. Open source software such as Hyperledger generates and records information about the transaction. Every transaction contains a timestamp, is secured by a cryptologic process and can be verified by all members of the marketplace at any time. This could be useful in securing a variety of processes such as during the exchange of confidential business documents, order confirmations etc.
The raising of invoices by the supplier will be an individual transaction in a block which may also contain the purchase order, bills of lading, proof of the origin, quality or operations performed on a part or instructions for the place and time of a delivery. This information can be stored, exchanged and modified by the buyer without any cost implications and delays. Once the invoice is approved, a smart contract is created which contains the invoice information including payment methods, time-bound discount rates etc. and is attached to both the supplier and buyer wallets for automated transactions on the due date. Smart contracts can be accessed through a web interface.
So how does this marketplace work?
Let’s take an example of invoice factoring with Ethereum as the blockchain network.
As discussed previously, all concerned parties – buyers, suppliers and financiers are present in the market place. When a buyer accepts an invoice on the blockchain network, a smart contract is created with the terms and conditions (including the payment terms). This invoice or contract will be accessible to all the financiers in the market place, any of which can accept the invoice and offer factoring facility to the supplier. The supplier thus has multiple choices and gets to choose the best offer. As soon as the supplier chooses the best financing option, the title of the invoice is transferred from the supplier to the financier. On the due date of the invoice, the smart contract is executed and the buyer account is debited with the invoice amount while the bank account is credited with the same amount.
With blockchain, financing Tier 2 suppliers becomes feasible as well. Since the financier can see both the contract between the buyer and its main supplier as well as the order placed with the Tier 2 supplier by the main supplier -details of which can be included in the original smart contract, it can verify both legitimacy and source. Even if the bank is not as familiar with the Tier 2 supplier, it can extend financing to the company against the credit of the anchor.
The Way Ahead
There is an enormous interest in this new technology with many already starting to facilitate these types of market places. Mizuho Financial Group is partnering with tech conglomerate Hitachi to develop a blockchain platform for supply chain management. Eight of Europe’s largest banks including Deutsche bank and HSBC formed a joint venture -named the Digital Trade Chain Consortium- this month to launch a blockchain trade platform. In India, IBM is working with Mahindra Finance to build a blockchain-based supply chain finance solution, which would enable all parties involved in the transaction to act on the same shared ledger, with each party updating only their part of the process, ensuring efficiency, consistency, trust and transparency, while safeguarding sensitive information.
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Historically, education has been the “way out” for Black people in America. For 400 years we have struggled to throw off the yoke of oppression with the mantra of our forebears ringing in our ears—you know well their compassionate commands –“study hard, educate yourself and uplift your community”—accompanied by the gentle reminder that education was the one thing that could never be taken from you.
That has been our course—from our enslaved ancestors who faced death for learning to read and write to those of recent past generations who courageously battled the inherent inequity of Jim Crow in courthouses, on the schoolhouse steps and on the streets because they understood that access to a free, quality and equitable education was the path to true freedom.
That is why EDUCATION is THE ISSUE as we approach the upcoming Oct. 12 primary, especially the BESE election.
We at The New Orleans Tribune are convinced that the denial of learning opportunities and the squandering of public dollars through the dismantling of public education during the nearly 15 years since Hurricane Katrina have been just as hurtful to our cause as anti-literacy laws and just as injurious as Jim Crow. This latest attempt by the power structure to highjack our schools and privatize public education is the latest salvo in a never-ending fight to diminish the opportunities and resources that are available to the young people in Black communities. Make no mistake—the power structure recognizes the equalizing influence of education. The very history of “school choice” is rooted in White flight, resistance to segregation, and opposition to true equity in the immediate wake of Brown v. The Board of Education.
Here we are some 65 years later, and little has changed. And if you don’t believe it, consider this: public schools in Orleans have only become more racially segregated since Katrina. White students make up roughly 10 percent of the public school student population in New Orleans; yet, they comprise nearly 64 percent of the population at the top performing schools in the city, according to a 2018 report released by the Cowen Institute.
Here at The Tribune, we are convinced that this is exactly why big-monied interests are intent on influencing Louisiana’s BESE race and pushing the so-called reform movement. They want school choice, to be sure, but not for us.
That is why Education is THE Issue. We must ensure that every child in our community has equity in access and opportunity. It is not enough to ensure that our respective children or grandchildren are faring well. We must protect all of our children.
The reality is our schools have always—ALWAYS—been underfunded and undermined. Yet, because of the courageous dedication and determination of our African-American educators, somehow they still managed to provide our communities and our families with what was needed. Even when they were given the worst facilities and resources, they were pillars and producers—not profiteers and pillagers.
We must vote as if the children—all of the children—are depending on us, because they are.
With that in mind, The New Orleans Tribune makes the following endorsements in the Oct. 12 primary:
JOHN BEL EDWARDS
We strongly believe that Gov. John Bel Edwards deserves another term to continue the work he started four years ago. We are excited about his plans to focus on early childhood education and encourage voters to support his bid for re-election.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser’s plans for a Civil Rights Trail in Louisiana represent a good start toward more inclusion in the state’s tourism office. And if re-elected, we want to see more—more intentional reaching out to include and support the diverse businesses, entities and institutions that are at the heart of our city’s and state’s cultural heritage. It is an area that we believe has been lacking and one in which we expect to see change. We are expecting more—more than lip service, more than election-time phone calls and visits.
Secretary of State
Everything about Gwen Collins-Greenup excites us ever since she made a surprise showing in the 2018 special election, where she ended up in the runoff. Don’t be fooled, however. Gwen-Collins Greenup did not “come out of nowhere”. She has more than 20 years of experience as a legal secretary for the state Labor Department, a businesswoman, a deputy clerk of court for East Feliciana Parish, and as a director at Baton Rouge City Court.
We welcome her plans to support and champion policies that increase access to the polls and voter participation.
Derrick Edwards has the skills and experience to serve as Louisiana’s next state treasurer. He promises to be accountable and transparent and we believe he will serve with honor.
BESE District 1
Lee Price Barrios has the passion, commitment, background and experience to advocate on behalf of parents, students and teachers at BESE. A retired educator, Price-Barrios already works tirelessly as an education advocate. It is time for change, and she is the best voice for BESE District 1.
BESE District 2
Again, commitment and experience are what points us to Dr. Ashonta Wyatt. It’s time for change at BESE and she is the leader District 2 needs. It is not lost on us, however, that veteran educator and attorney Shawon Bernard has also been a strong education advocate who would represent the people of BESE District 2 with integrity and accountability as well. However, we believe this race is too important not to definitively back ONE candidate against the incredible machine that supports the incumbent, Kira Orange Jones. Wyatt is passionate; and we have no doubt that she will be a strong voice for our students, parents and teachers and taxpayers.
State Senate District 3
JOSEPH “JOE” BOUIE
Dr. Joe Bouie is right. He is uniquely positioned to provide the type of leadership that the people of State Senatorial District 3 deserve from Day 1. He has stood up for right when others would not. Through his efforts to return schools to local control and prohibit schools from being built on toxic waste sites, Dr. Bouie has shown he cares about the communities he serves.
State Senate District 5
State House District 91
State House District 94
State House District 97
Because experience matters, we are endorsing Eugene Green in this race. His background in economic development, his service to the New Orleans community as a member of several boards and commissions and his experiences as a business owner make him ideal for this position. While we fully endorse Green’s candidacy, we are impressed by Matthew Willard’s desire to build coalitions to help address the issues that face residents and his willingness to fight for the people of New Orleans; moreover, we look forward to seeing him play an important leadership role in the future.
State House District 98
We truly believe that the voters of State House District 99 cannot go wrong Adonis Expose or L. Jameel Shaheer as their next state representative.
State House District 99
ADONIS EXPOSÉ or L. JAMEEL SHAHEER
Because of his role at the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, Exposé possesses experience and relationships that will serve him well if elected. He is active throughout New Orleans and understands the needs of the community and the people he wants to represents.
A businessman and father, L. Jameel Shaheer believes he has what it takes to address the challenges that face District 99. His idea for an economic development zone in the Lower Ninth Ward indicates that he wants to work hard for the District and that he understands and appreciates its importance to the larger New Orleans community. As a military veteran, former teacher and firefighter, Shaheer has already proven that he is willing to sacrifice to serve his community.
State House District 100
Jason Hughes is our choice for District 100. We believe he will bring new ideas and an independent voice to Baton Rouge and work passionately on behalf of residents.
And there you have it—Our endorsements for the Oct. 12 primary. Still, don’t just take our word for it. We have included profiles of several candidates in this issue. Please read them. Also, you can visit our Facebook page to watch our interviews with candidates. Attend candidate debates and forums. Visit their websites to learn more about their positions. And then make the decision that is best for you and your interests.
CA NO. 1 (ACT 444 – HB 234) – Tax Exemptions for Outer Continental Shelf
Offshore Goods Property Tax Exemption
This proposed amendment would eliminate property taxes on raw materials, goods, commodities and articles stored for maintenance if destined for the Outer Continental Shelf. While part of the United States, the Outer Continental Shelf is not subject to the jurisdiction of individual states. However, we believe that oil and gas companies should pay taxes on the on raw materials, goods, commodities and articles that they own and store in our state. If this amendment passes it will limit the revenue that local governments can generate while providing a tax break to huge, wealthy corporations.
CA NO. 2
(ACT 445 – HB 62) – Amend Education Excellence Fund
Add Schools to the Education Excellence Fund
This proposed amendment would add more recipients to the state’s Education Excellence Fund. Specifically, the additional recipients would be Thrive Academy, the Louisiana State University Laboratory School, the Southern University Laboratory School, and the Louisiana Educational Television Authority (LETA). We support this amendment as an expeditious way to get this schools added to the fund, while also noting that we would rather see a long-term solution to ensuring that schools and educational activities that are eligible to receive disbursements from the fund can be added without repeatedly going to the voters for a constitutional amendment.
CA NO. 3 (ACT 446 – HB 428) – Remedy for Unconstitutional Tax Paid
Expanding the Board of Tax Appeals Jurisdiction
The proposed amendment would allow the Board of Tax Appeals to rule on whether taxation and fee matters are constitutional under state or federal law. Currently, the individuals or businesses can appeal a decision made by their local or state taxing authority. This amendment would let taxpayers have their entire tax dispute heard in one forum and could expedite resolution, as well as the receipt of any refund due to taxpayers. We have some concerns that the rulings of this three-person board, whose members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate, could be politically influenced. However, those concerns are assuaged by the fact Board of Tax Appeals decisions could be appealed to state courts and that taxpayers still would have the option to take their case to the courts instead of the Board of Appeals.
CA NO. 4 (ACT 448 – SB 79) – Allow New Orleans Property Tax Exemptions
New Orleans Tax Exemption for Affordable Housing
The amendment would grant the City of New Orleans the ability to establish property tax exemptions for residential properties that provide affordable housing. It would only apply to developments of 15 or fewer units placed on the long-term rental market. Of course, we support Mayor Cantrell’s efforts to create more affordable housing opportunities for residents in New Orleans as we have been supportive of all of her initiatives and programs during her tenure. However, this particular proposal causes us to pause for several reasons—chief of which is its ambiguous nature. For example, how is “affordable” defined? What are the limits? What type of property owners get to benefit. Will this be designed for corporate owners of multi-family unit building only? Or can the local property investor who owns several individual residential properties also benefit from tax relief if they use those properties to provide affordable housing? If so, will there a be cap on the number of units an individual can own versus the number a corporation can own? We have lots of questions. Of course, when we press for details, the response is that the New Orleans City Council will work out the particulars. That’s just not good enough. We believe voters, taxpayers and property owners should know exactly what this program will look like before it is a ballot item.
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PEACE envoys in the Middle East have a thankless task. That is certainly true of Bernardino León, the Spanish diplomat who heads the UN’s mission to Libya. For months Mr León has been knocking heads together in the hope of bringing some semblance of unity to the country. But as The Economist went to press, the talks were faltering, days before the deadline of September 20th that Mr León has set.
Like previous rounds of jaw-jaw, the talks seek a power-sharing arrangement that would rid divided Libya of its parallel parliaments, governments and courts. Under the deal being proposed, the factions would form a government of national accord. The House of Representatives (HOR), the internationally recognised parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk, would have the primary legislative role. Much of the negotiation concerned the future role of members of the self-declared parliament still in Tripoli, known as the General National Council.
On September 15th the internationally recognised government in the east (based in the city of Beida rather than Tobruk) appeared to reject the deal after Mr León said amendments could be made to the draft, at the GNC’s request. A day later, the HOR turned up the pressure, saying it might stop exports to oil companies still dealing with the rival authorities in Tripoli.
There is little doubt that Libya needs a political agreement, and fast. The civil war that has raged since the downfall of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has ruined the few institutions that existed. The country is thought to have used up a quarter of its foreign reserves last year. The next 18 months will see severe austerity measures. Jihadists of all stripes have fed off the chaos.
Most worrying is Libya’s Islamic State (IS) franchise. Since getting booted out of Derna, in the east, it has bedded down in Sirte, Qaddafi’s hometown. Two attacks in Tunisia, in the Bardo museum in Tunis and at a beach resort in Sousse, have been linked to men who trained in Libya.
Although some militias have declared a truce to focus on IS, most of them, including the force controlled by Khalifa al-Haftar, a former general who is affiliated with the Beida government, are more interested in fighting each other than defeating IS. That is why talk is growing in Western capitals of possible operations against IS in Libya. It is unclear whether this would be an extension of the coalition against IS which is currently only operating in Syria and Iraq, or a new grouping. Egypt, which has seen several of its citizens beheaded by IS in Libya, is one Arab country urging action.
Still, as with Iraq and Syria, Libya’s underlying problems need to be solved alongside any military action. In theory that should be easier in Libya: there is not much ideological difference between the various factions. Mr León describes this as the “very last moment” for Libyans to come together. Alas, many ordinary Libyans gave up on their country a while ago.
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Ferrari helps design new low-cost ventilator in coronavirus battle
The Mercedes team, Ferrari's big rival on the circuit, had also taken part in a comparable initiative in Britain
Formula One team Ferrari announced Wednesday they have helped develop a new low-cost ventilator which can be used in the fight against coronavirus.
The F15 project has been developed in five weeks by the Maranello team in conjunction with the Genoa-based Italian Institute of Technology.
"We started working on March 21 and the first prototype was ready on April 25," Ferrari's innovation manager Corrado Onorato told a video conference.
Designed to meet the demands of medium intensive care, Ferrari said the ventilator was reliable, versatile and easy to use and assemble.
The Formula One season has been suspended because of the pandemic which has killed over 31,000 people in Italy.
But Simone Resta, head of Ferrari's chassis department, said they had been given the all-clear by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to undertake the project which covered several divisions -- simulation, 3D modelling and chassis design.
"The challenge of Covid-19 was one we wanted to take on," said Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto.
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The ventilators are produced using easily available materials at a lower cost than currently available pulmonary ventilators.
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There are many reasons for investors and consumers to want to own gold. In the current recession, savers have no opportunity to earn any real interest in Treasury bills and notes, and there is literally will be trillions of fresh new dollars in the system after all the government stimulus and stabilization money fully trickles into the system.
Silver is supposed to track gold to a certain extent, but in 2020 that just is not the case. Silver is proving to live up to its nickname the “Devil’s Metal.”
The Silver Institute has released its World Silver Survey 2020, and the group reported that global silver demand was pushed higher in 2019. While the total global silver demand grew by 0.4% in 2019, there was a 12% rise in investment. The investment demand came from retail and institutional investors alike, and the Silver Institute noted that this was investors focused their attention on the long-term investment appeal of silver.
Industrial demand was selectively strong in 2019, coming from vehicle electrification and a rebound in photovoltaics. That said, the global trade war negatively affected many industries and the total silver industrial demand was down by 0.1% in 2019.
Where the issue becomes interesting is on the classical economic theory of supply versus demand. The Silver Institute noted that silver mine supply declined for the fourth consecutive year in 2019, with a 1.3% decline to 836.5 million ounces. Driving the lower supply was declining grades at several large primary silver mines along with disruption-related losses at some major silver producers.
Primary silver production fell 3.8% to 240 million ounces in 2019. The largest production declines were seen in Peru, and those declines were followed by Mexico and Indonesia. Gains in Argentina, Australia and the United States only partially offset the other declines. Mexico was still the world’s top silver producer last year, followed by Peru, China, Australia and Russia.
Silver is often considered to be the poor man’s gold, or perhaps as “street-level” gold. Investors buy silver for many of the same reasons they would buy gold, and if the global troubles ever necessitate a barter system there are far more uses for silver as a barter instrument than gold on everyday items like food and water. The biggest issue that drives a difference in gold over silver is that central banks use gold holdings to keep their central banks strong. Nations such as the United States, China, Germany, Russia, India and France are among the world’s largest holders of gold.
Gold was recently highlighted by the BofA Securities strategists as potentially going up to $3,000 per ounce. All that stimulus money and low interest rates add up to a bull market in their eyes. The Silver Institute is calling for a rise in silver, but not to that extent.
According to the views on investment and price, the report 12% gain from investment was up at 186.1 million ounces. That was actually the largest annual investment growth since 2015, driven by a 25% increase from Europe, a 9% increase from the United States and a 5% gain from India. The report said:
Institutional investment fared even better than retail demand. Last year, exchange-traded product (ETP) holdings stood at 728.9 million ounces at year-end, up by 13%, achieving the largest annual rise since 2010.
Notably, money-managers’ net positions in Comex futures went from being short over much of 2018 to consistently positive in the second half of 2019. Coins and medals saw a 13 percent increase in demand over 2018, rising to 97.9 million ounces, while bar demand remained solid at 88.2 million ounces.
Combined, these were the key drivers for the 15 percent intra-year rise in the silver price to a three-year high of $19.65 last September. The 2019 yearly average silver price of US$16.21 was 3 percent higher than the 2018 average price.
The higher net-physical investment strength was offset by lower jewelry and silverware demand trends in 2019. Jewelry showed a 1% drop to 201.3 million ounces as soft demand coming from India and China weighed on silver. The report said:
In contrast, Thailand achieved a 13 percent increase last year and growth was also registered in Indonesia, Japan and Italy. Silverware fell by 9 percent last year almost entirely due to lower demand from India.
There were gains in recycling and a drop in hedging in 2019. The Silver Institute showed total recycling rose by 1.3%, led by gains in industrial, jewelry and silverware. While hedging activity rose in the second half of 2019 to 15.7 million ounces, the first global hedge book increase since 2014, net supply from the official sector was down to 1 million ounces.
Despite some weakness, the Silver Institute is expecting a recovery in silver prices. Its 2020 outlook comes with the caveat that the uncertainties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic are making forecasts very challenging when looking out for the rest of this year. Demand from industrial fabrication, jewelry and silverware are currently expected to be lower ahead as a result of the global pandemic fallout. Mine supply is expected to decline again in 2020 with a temporary shutdown of several significant silver mining countries affecting the output.
At the same time, physical investment in silver is expected to rise again by 16%. That would represent a five-year high, and the Silver Institute is expecting that investors will rotate out of equities with a favorable view in safe haven vehicles. These factors were shown to add up for silver to test $19.00 per ounce again before year’s end. Silver was last seen trading at $15.43.
The real reference gains and losses can be seen in the silver ETF versus the gold ETFs. The iShares Silver Trust (NYSEARCA: SLV) shows just how bad the carnage has been in silver versus gold, with a drop of more than 16% so far in 2020. Gold has risen, with the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEARCA: GLD) trading up 11% so far in 2019. Compared to a year ago, the key gold ETF is up almost 32%, versus a 1.5% drop for the silver ETF.
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A 19-year-old woman with a history of chronic supraventricular tachycardia was admitted with acute left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction = 0.26) Surgical division of the accessory conduction ventriculoatrial pathway resulted in complete recovery and improved ejection fraction (0.55 one year after operation). The purpose of this report is to indicate that (1) chronic supraventricular tachycardia can cause ventricular dysfunction, (2) surgical repair of the tachycardia reverses ventricular dysfunction, and (3) progressive left ventricular dysfunction is an indication for surgical intervention in the management of chronic supraventricular tachycardia.
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Citizen science can be an excellent way to engage learners in the process of science and to address the Practices as outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In each issue of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Journal, Science Scope, a citizen science project from the SciStarter Project Finder is featured!
In the September 2018 issue of Science Scope, NASA Globe Observer (GO) Clouds is the featured citizen science project.
Here is a brief overview of the NASA GO Clouds Citizen Science Project, from the SciStarter Project Finder:
|Goal:||Help scientists understand the sky from above and below|
|Task:||Photograph clouds, record sky observations and share with NASA|
|Where:||Global, anywhere on the planet|
See recent NASA GO Cloud images submitted by citizen scientists around the globe!
The September Science Scope citizen science article entitled “Cloudy with a chance of ‘cirrus’ science” highlights how students can get involved in the project, as well as ideas and resources for educators to implement NASA GO Clouds in the science curriculum. The September NASA GO Clouds citizen science feature also connects to the issue’s main theme of Earth Systems, inviting students to see the “big picture” by exploring aspects of the dynamic natural world around them. See additional Earth Science projects here.
You can get involved with NASA GO Clouds citizen science today; all you will need to get started is a mobile device with the NASA GO Clouds app. If you mention SciStarter in the referral space on the app, you can also maintain a SciStarter record of your participation. Happy exploring!
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Auguste Louis Lepère Etching of Forest, Late 19th Century
Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849 – 1918)
Untitled (forest), late 19th century
Etching on paper
Signed to the lower right
- Item not examined outside of mounting
- abrasions and scratches to the frame; toning to the sheet; creases and buckling; some stains throughout.
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OTTAWA, December 16, 2020 – BioTalent Canada today released new findings from its most recent bio-economy Labour Market Information (LMI) study. This new brief—Academic Bonds: Examining the ties that bind STEM grads to their schools—reveals that few biotech graduates choose to relocate to find employment, with most seeking employment close to where they studied. There are several factors at play, notably that employers located close to a post-secondary institution can engage and form relationships with the students before graduation.
More than 90 per cent of graduates from the West, Ontario, and Quebec regions remain in their locations on average three years after graduation. Atlantic Canada is the exception. Only 70 per cent of graduates remain in that region which creates a challenge for their bio-economy employers as they face competition for talent from elsewhere.
“Atlantic Canada has always faced stiff competition for its talent,” says Rob Henderson, President and CEO of BioTalent Canada. “But challenges present opportunities. This brief reveals some recommendations for the bio-economy that, if executed, could help the Atlantic-region improve its talent retention rate.”
Another area that will require attention is finding ways to ensure graduates from the physical and life sciences and technologies remain in the industry. More than 40% of biotech grads indicated that their current employment was “not at all” related to what they studied. A contributing factor may be the median employment income which has stagnated among graduates between 2010 and 2015. This means that earning potential right out of the gate is higher elsewhere.
The data for this brief was collected from an analysis of Statistics Canada’s National Graduate Survey (NGS) and Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The results indicate several things.
- Graduate relocation—or lack thereof in most cases—presents challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy.
- Employers, post-secondary institutions, and associations must make students aware of the opportunities and resources that exist prior to graduation.
- Engaging graduates from closely aligned fields of biological/biomedical science programs must be undertaken to lower the underemployment rates within this group.
“The bio-economy is growing at an accelerated rate in Canada and the pipeline of talent generated every year by our post-secondary education institutions is second to none,” adds Henderson.
“Labour Market Information studies like ours will help create a roadmap to sustainable growth in the sector. We are creating greater awareness among employers, students, and graduates of wage subsidy programs like BioTalent Canada’s Student Work Placement Program, Career Starter, and Science Horizons Youth Internship Program as a good place to start.”
BioTalent Canada wage subsidies have helped shape the future of Canadian bio-economy since 2005. More than 4,000 Canadians have started their careers through BioTalent Canada programs.
BioTalent Canada will publish three additional research briefs in advance of the full LMI release in 2021. The organization plans to produce 11 in-depths reports next year, including nine LMI regional and national reports, a report on “hot jobs”, and a talent supply report. For more details on the study please visit biotalent.ca/LMIStudy.
Funded by the Government of Canada’s Sectoral Initiatives Program.
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About BioTalent Canada
BioTalent Canada™ is the HR partner of and catalyst for growth in Canada’s bio-economy. Our engagement with employers, associations, post-secondary institutions, immigrant serving agencies and service providers has built a dynamic network that is strengthening skills, connecting job-ready talent to industry and creating opportunities. Recently awarded a Great Place to Work® Certification, BioTalent Canada practices the same industry standards they recommend to their stakeholders.
Recently, BioTalent Canada was named one of Best Workplaces in Ontario for 2020 and Best Workplaces in Healthcare. These distinctions were awarded to BioTalent Canada following a thorough and independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work®. Direct feedback from employees was provided to Great Place to Work® through a staff survey.
Employers wishing to provide expertise in future studies are invited to contact BioTalent Canada Project Manager Adriana Saenz.
For more information, please visit biotalent.ca.
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Car accidents occur in a variety of ways. From fender benders to high-speed head-on collisions, the scenarios are almost endless. But rear-end collisions are one of the most common kinds of car accidents. Generally speaking, the driver who rear-ends the leading car is legally responsible (liable) for damages resulting from the accident. But there are exceptions to the rule, including:
Get the basics on proving fault for a car accident.
Every driver on the road has a duty to follow other vehicles at a safe distance that varies depending on vehicle speed, road conditions, and a whole host of other factors. Drivers who breach (violate) this duty are negligent. That's why, in a rear-end accident, the trailing driver who rear-ends the lead vehicle will almost always be found at least partially negligent (at fault for the accident).
But it's possible for the driver of the car that gets rear-ended to be negligent too, including when:
So, what happens when trailing and lead drivers share fault for an accident? The rules vary from state to state based on contributory and comparative negligence laws.
Negligence is the term used to describe behavior that hurts others and falls below a basic standard of care. Basically, you are negligent if you don't act in a reasonable way, and someone is injured as a result. What constitutes reasonable behavior depends on the circumstances surrounding the accident.
To prove that a car accident was caused by driver negligence, you must first show that the driver had a duty of care. This is pretty simple because all drivers owe a duty to other people on the road to not do something that might cause an accident.
Second, you must show that the other driver breached this duty. Drivers in rear-end collisions can breach their duty of reasonable care in a number of ways, including failing to:
Third, you must prove the other driver's breach of duty was the cause of the accident. Finally, you must establish that you suffered damages as a result of the accident. This includes car accident injuries and vehicle damage.
This is fairly simple in theory, especially when it's easy to identify the at-fault driver. But what happens when the negligence of two or more drivers caused the accident?
If more than one driver is at fault for a car accident, the outcome will vary from state to state. A few states still follow a fairly harsh "contributory negligence" system, but most have adopted "comparative negligence" rules. Let's take a look at the difference between the two.
Only a handful of states still subscribe to this system. Essentially, under the law of contributory negligence, if Driver A can show that Driver B's negligence contributed to the accident to any degree, Driver B can't recover anything at all in a lawsuit against Driver B. So if Driver B was 1% at fault for the accident, they get nothing from Driver A, even if Driver A was 99% at fault.
Comparative negligence allocates fault between drivers. A driver's liability may be reduced, but not necessarily eliminated, if the other driver is partly at fault for the accident. There are two variations of the comparative negligence system:
These shared fault rules will apply in the event that your car accident lawsuit goes all the way to trial, but insurance adjusters also keep these principles in mind when negotiating a settlement after a car accident.
In most rear-end collisions, the driver of the tail vehicle will be legally responsible for paying for the lead driver's monetary damages. The repair costs for the lead vehicle are typically easy to calculate, so many car insurance companies are quick to pay for those costs. But a complication often arises when it comes to paying for the lead driver's medical bills. That's because common personal injuries from rear-end collisions are back and whiplash injuries, which are often hard to quantify, as they don't always show up on diagnostic exams.
It might seem like identifying the at-fault driver is obvious after a rear-end crash, but there could be small details that can completely shift the liability picture. Even if fault for the accident is no longer in question, the issue of how much you may owe in damages might be in dispute, especially when you and the other driver share blame for the accident.
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Happiness, it comes in many forms.
From a hearty bowl of minced meat noodles to the warm loving hug of a loved one, happiness takes on infinite guises.
But what exactly is happiness? Can it even be defined? What is the science behind happiness? Is it linked to our genetic make up? Is there such a gene as a happy gene?
Host Adrian Pang seeks to unravel the mystery behind happiness through ‘happiness experiments’ and discussions with medical professionals and happiness experts. Along the way, Adrian uncovers simple happiness tips and answer age-old happiness questions through field experts, consultants and psychologists. | <urn:uuid:02bdbd54-5098-4f28-8552-b7b45a315ac2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://very.sg/our/project/chasing-happiness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.935029 | 129 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Nature + travel, nature + environment
wild New Zealand
Flowing geysers, enchanting primeval forests, tranquil fjords and glaciers: New Zealand is unrivaled when it comes to the diversity of its landscapes and wildlife. But what happens when the humans and animals they bring with them invade New Zealand’s paradise? What if the living conditions of kakapo, tuatara, kiwi and giant locusts were completely changed after millions of years of natural balance? What if European weasels were decimating the flightless species that lived only in New Zealand long ago? How can New Zealand’s own indigenous zoologist and plant survive? And who will win this battle? New Zealand today is not only home to the kiwi, kea, weta and wikkaral – it is also home to plants from all over the world, blackbirds and birdsong, brown trout and voles from abroad. They all, in one way or another, drive the native animals of New Zealand out of their habitats. However, in modern New Zealand, new alliances are also being formed. Giant trout, for example, specialize in killing mice when crossing a body of water. Nature changes almost everywhere on the islands. Some of the original species of animals and plants are alive, but many are on the verge of extinction, such as the extremely rare Chatham flycatcher or the flightless parrot, the kakapo. Protected as the crown jewels, a few nocturnal kakapos live on Codfish Island, a small island in southern New Zealand. Fat parrots have a strange reproductive behavior: only when the remo tree bears enough fruit – and this happens about every four years – they begin to display courtship. Then the kakapo’s “bang” emits drum-like sounds that attract females. How parrots can be saved and whether recent conservation efforts are paying off are pressing questions that worry New Zealand conservationists. Wild New Zealand – Fight for Paradise offers insight into complex and clever rescues as well as new alliances that offer hope and show that New Zealand’s unique wildlife can surely be saved.
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the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Apr 26, 2021
The following is taken from a SPARK presentation given on April 18th.
In 1949, China made its own nationalist revolution against the various powers dominating, controlling and strangling its national economy, the most notable of which were powers like the U.S., Japan, Great Britain and France. So, the U.S. and the other big imperialist powers tried to strangle the Chinese revolution and economy by cutting it off from most world trade and investment.
To survive, the Chinese state nationalized big parts of the economy and invested heavily in building up its basic industrial infrastructure. Instead of profits going to shareholders, they poured back into developing more industry. In a period of less than 40 years, China went from being primarily a peasant country, to a country with a very large working class of hundreds of millions in huge factories, mainly in the coastal zone that extends from Hong Kong to Beijing. At the same time, the rest of China remained agricultural, farmed essentially by peasants using little technology. All during this time, U.S., Japanese and European companies were blocked by their own governments from coming in to make profits in China.
By the early 1970s, the U.S. government began to change its policy toward China. This opening was symbolized by U.S. president Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972. China’s huge population of 554 million, the largest in the world in 1949, was nearly 4 times larger than that of the U.S., which stood at 149 million then. For the U.S. capitalists, the aim was first of all to exploit and profit from China’s enormous working class, as well as gain entry into the Chinese domestic market.
Gradually, the U.S. and other big imperialist powers got China to open up its economy to foreign investment, that is, to Western (and Japanese) capital investment—including to U.S. companies like GM, Ford, Motorola, Procter and Gamble, GE, Apple, etc.
As a result of opening up that door, China developed primarily as the workshop of the world in the 1990s and 2000s, especially for imperialist countries like the U.S. The U.S. localized some of its production of goods in China with its low wages and nearly inexhaustible workforce, the largest in the world. Today the industrial workforce alone stands at 260 million workers, out of a total workforce of close to 800 million.
U.S. businesses have made comfortable profits by subcontracting their work to China or by integrating Chinese-made products into the U.S.’s own products. Companies like Walmart import goods made in China. Companies like Apple use the Chinese working class to assemble components produced all over the world. When Apple sells iPhones that are “Made in China,” the profits don’t go to China, but primarily to capitalists in the West, mainly in the U.S., who hold controlling shares in Apple.
We are told that foreign competition with China and other countries has undercut U.S. manufacturing, when the reality is that the manufacturing process in China is dominated by U.S., Japanese and European companies—but above all, the U.S. U.S. capitalism has spread its tentacles all over the world—all through other parts of Asia, especially China. U.S. companies dominate the global supply chain and global assembly line.
Yes, Apple iPhones that are sold all over the world might be stamped with a “Made in China” label. But their design, development, marketing and software are all carried out in the U.S. And some of its most expensive parts, such as the processors, are also made in the U.S. Most of the revenue and profits stay in the U.S. with U.S. capitalists. “Made in China” just means that is where final assembly took place, the least profitable part of the operation.
Even cell phones made by Chinese companies, such as ZTE and Huawei, also use the same U.S.-made processors, the guts of the cell phone. So, U.S. companies still grab a big part of the profits from many products that are made by Chinese workers at Chinese companies as well.
During the 1990s, United States policy consisted of integrating China into international institutions the U.S. controlled—like the World Trade Organization. George W. Bush codified U.S. policy toward China as something called “congagement,” a strategy combining containment and engagement. That meant the U.S. was going to invest in China, that is, “engage,” but it was also going to limit what China could do and how much value it could take from production carried out in China, and above all, that China should be “contained” under terms that continue to benefit U.S. capitalists.
The Obama administration in fact toughened the “containment” part of this double aim under the name of a “strategic pivot to Asia,” notably through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This “pivot” continued to recognize China as a relatively powerful state, all the while reinforcing the United States’s weight in the region through trade and military partnerships with China’s neighbors and economic rivals, including Japan, Vietnam and India. It was a way to ring China, to build a wall, so to speak, around China—not preventing its development, from which U.S. companies were first to profit, but to set boundaries for it.
The U.S. has not only set up trade pacts with China’s neighbors and rivals. It has also sent in warships, part of the Seventh Fleet, into the South China Sea and near Taiwan, as demonstrations of force, under the guise of keeping shipping lanes open and upholding international law. These U.S. naval vessels are within 12 nautical miles of some of China’s territories.
In response to the U.S. military show of force, every so often the Chinese state has sent its naval vessels and fighter jets into the zone. But for us in the U.S., there are banner headlines and pronouncements on national news that it is China threatening OUR national security! They make it sound as if Chinese warships were 12 miles off the coast of Key West—when, in fact, its ships are eight thousand miles away.
Under Trump, with the economic crisis and general slowdown of the economy, the U.S. stepped up its pressure against China, making a point not only of engaging in a trade war, but by making a big show of announcing it in order to force the Chinese government to make certain concessions. Trump began his campaign in January of 2018 with the rise of import taxes on over 1000 Chinese products, from steel and aluminum, that is, the basic building blocks of basic industry, to consumer items like washing machines, solar panels and LED lighting.
But Trump’s tariffs produced a huge mess. U.S. manufacturing companies that use imported steel and aluminum then flooded the U.S. Commerce Department with 20,000 applications for product exemptions from tariffs, claiming that they couldn’t get their specialty steel or aluminum from anywhere else.
Other large U.S. companies, from semiconductor chip makers to diesel engine manufacturers, also lodged complaints with the Commerce Department about suddenly having to pay tariffs on their own products.
In all the conflicts so far, whether diplomatic, or military, or part of a trade war, announced or quiet, the U.S. has been careful, up to now, not to let it go to a shooting war. But this conflict continues.
The trade war against China may have amped up under Trump. But the trade war continues today under the Biden administration. You can hear it on nightly news, in daily newspapers, at White House press conferences, and in widely publicized cabinet meetings of the Biden administration. There has been unrelenting coverage painting China as the main threat to the U. S., and verbal threats from the U.S. In the words of Biden’s press secretary: “We won’t rule out any action.” Or his Secretary of State: “It’s never a good bet to bet against America.” When a country as powerful as the U.S., with its vast military, uses this kind of rhetoric, it’s an open threat.
Be careful, however. I am not predicting there is going to be a shooting war—I am certainly not saying tomorrow. But there’s a logic to this situation and the proof of it is the rhetoric/propaganda directed against China, and events can develop faster that we realize.
The U.S. government is already preparing us for the idea of a clash with China. For Trump, even the coronavirus was Chinese, and the pandemic was an act of war! Now, Biden’s readiness to sign on to the anti-Chinese policies of Trump, even if not all the extravagant language, shows that the talk about China was not only a way to hide Trump’s regime’s obvious inability to fight the spread of the virus, it’s also a way for us to blame other people for the loss of jobs here.
We are told, over and over again, the reasons for the tremendous gutting of jobs, especially in certain sectors of the economy, like manufacturing, is because of foreign competition. And in this time period, the enemy is supposed to be China. In an earlier period, it was Japan.
It’s true that 5.5 million manufacturing jobs were lost in the U.S. in last 30 years, from January 1989 to January 2018. But it is ludicrous to attribute this drastic drop in manufacturing jobs to foreign competition. In that same time period when jobs here were lost, industrial production in the U.S. increased by 60%, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve. With this kind of increase there should be more jobs, not fewer. But there aren’t. If workers had taken their share of this increased production, more people would be working many fewer hours for more pay—maybe 25 hours a week, and maybe $100,000 in wages. Enough value was created out of this extra production to allow this to happen.
But over this past 30 years, workers haven’t fought to keep the benefit of their increased labor for themselves.
Today there are millions fewer workers in the U.S., producing substantially more, creating much more wealth for U.S. companies and the capitalist class. That’s the problem. Not China.
Trump made a big deal about supposedly saving steel workers’ jobs, whose numbers dropped by 400,000, or 75% between 1962 and 2005. But what he covered up was that steel shipments did not decline, according to a study published in the American Economic Review in 2017. No, what changed was a new technology called the minimill, which allowed the steel companies to push one worker into doing the work done by 5 workers 43 years before. Other studies have shown that there have been similar increases in productivity in other sectors, such as computers and electronics manufacturing. Even textile manufacturing, which was also said to have migrated out of the country, has been transformed in the U.S. into a high tech industry producing enormous amounts of expensive, specialty fabrics with many fewer workers.
So it’s not foreign competition that is taking U.S. jobs, but U.S. companies right here in this country that are eliminating manufacturing jobs. And these same U.S. companies have further capitalized on these job losses by using them to threaten those still working with the loss of jobs, getting them to accept lower pay, less benefits, longer work hours, less security—just in order to keep a job. So rather than competing against foreign workers, workers here are really competing against themselves. This capitalist system does everything in its power to drive down wages and increase its profits.
And during this period of the economic crisis IT created, the capitalist class is using protectionism as a pretext to heighten workers’ exploitation and to lower wages and raise prices, all in the name of competitiveness—in this case its victims in the trade wars are workers in both China and the U.S.
The capitalist class here, and their politicians, want workers to be mad at workers in China, or Mexico, or Japan, or wherever, rather than understand it is our own U.S. capitalist bosses here—who extract every ounce of value they can, out of the labor of U.S. workers.
U.S. capitalism is a part of an international capitalist system, where it sits on top, draining profit out of the productive forces, the working classes, around the world. But not only capitalism is international. There is a whole international working class in the world.
The Chinese working class is the largest one on the planet. Their class enemy is their own Chinese capitalist class, and their own dictatorial state, as well as all the capitalist classes of all the imperialist countries, like the U.S., that relegate the vast majority of China’s population to abject poverty, working for an annual income of $150 or less.
But despite their own repressive government, several years ago Chinese workers knew how to fight for higher wages, at least on a local level.
Fights that the working class makes there can come back and help the working class fight that can be made in this country—and vice versa. But it is the working class of this country that sits in the middle of the most powerful capitalist country in the world, the citadel of capitalism, that system which steals the value of workers’ labor all over the world. And the fact that we sit here gives the U.S. working class the possibility to free itself and the whole world. | <urn:uuid:bc83bda4-3e3b-4422-b6b6-2cf10e3c2b0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://the-spark.net/np1128601.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967292 | 2,922 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis Industry Perspective
Executive Summary The United States is in the midst of a prescription drug epidemic. Every day, dozens of people die as a result of opioid overdose. In fact, among people 25-65 years old, drug overdoses from opioids caused more deaths than motor vehicle crashes. Clearly, addiction to opioids – drugs like fentanyl, heroin and pain relievers – is a problem facing hundreds of thousands of communities in America today. As such, government has a key role to play in quelling this epidemic. State and local governments in particular have the authority, resources and local knowledge to make a significant impact on the way opioid abuse is addressed. Yet many community governments continue to struggle with combating addiction. Why? Simply put, many communities lack a clear understanding of the opioid crisis and its impact. The scope of drug use and abuse is often hard to capture, especially in communities unaware of the problem. Moreover, treatment of opioid problems must be community-specific in order to effectively combat addiction.
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
Governments needs a way to better capture and relate the scope of this problem. Mapping and analysis has emerged as the preferred method to capture and relate the scope of the problem. Specifically, geographic information systems (GIS) can help organizations gain a clearer understanding of local dynamics that lead to drug addiction. That’s why GovLoop partnered with Esri for this industry perspective about using GIS to tackle the opioid epidemic. This industry perspective was informed by interviews with state and local government leaders, as well as conversations with thought leaders from the Esri community. Read on to learn how GIS can help put a face on this crisis to better inform and engage the public; how to better collaborate with other departments in your organization and make data-driven decisions; and about the role that GIS plays in exchanging data with stakeholders in the community.
The Opioid Epidemic With 78 Americans dying every day from an opioid overdose, drug-related deaths in the United States have hit an all-time high. The number of prescription opioids sold in the U.S. and the number of prescription opioid deaths have both quadrupled since 1999. Since then, over 165,000 people have died from prescription opioid overdoses. In many areas of the United States, this epidemic is only escalating in scope as state and local governments struggle to prevent the abuse.
But there is a solution that can address all of these complexities as well as increase awareness and connect opioid victims to help: geo-enabled data.
The complexity of the problem can’t be overstated. Opioid addiction can have many different causes, from overprescribing opioids for pain to improper disposal methods of unused drugs and limited treatment and rehabilitation resources.
The National Association of Counties (NACO), in partnership with the National League of Cities, created a National City-County Task Force on the Opioid Epidemic that’s based on this idea of using GIS to inform and combat the drug crisis. In addition to compiling the “A Prescription for Action” report on local leadership’s role, the task force used Esri’s ArcGIS platform to create an interactive map and story of the nationwide impact of opioid abuse.
As a result, effective methods to combat the epidemic are also incredibly diverse. While some communities simply need more education on the issue, others require more resource-intensive prevention strategies like more treatment centers or prescription drop-off locations. Determining the best prevention strategy in your community requires an in-depth understanding of how the crisis is playing out in your population. However, this understanding is often lacking. Many communities are unaware of the crisis happening in their backyards. Because opioid abuse has often been linked to low socioeconomic groups, many victims in more affluent or isolated communities suffer without treatment, and government officials may not understand the true scope of the issue. Others lack the resources or knowledge to seek help.
“GIS lets you visualize the epidemic. It shows you the intensity of the issue and that you can’t hide from this,” said Matt Chase, Executive Director at NACO. “Using GIS analytics, our members are finding that this isn’t something happening in one neighborhood. It’s a whole community. This issue is everywhere.”
The Role of Geography in Addressing Drug Abuse The role of geography is obvious in many community emergencies, like wildfires, hurricanes or flooding. Data from the field must be collected in real time to create an accurate portrait of conditions on the ground. That geo-enabled data is then sent to responders, allowing them to assess the situation and deploy resources to the areas most in need without wasting time culling through raw datasheets. Ultimately, GIS allows responders to make better decisions and save more lives. The same is true with the opioid crisis. In reality, tackling drug addiction is similar to tackling any other community emergency. Geography has a crucial role to play. First, GIS allows community leaders to gain an accurate picture of how and where opioid abuse is impacting their citizens. “Some people can’t really full comprehend and believe the scale when you just talk about it, so the best way to have conversations is through data,” said Matt Chase of NACO.
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
GIS also allows communities to better understand the issues at hand by painting a more holistic picture of drug abuse and its correlations to other community factors. Leaders can combine data from health care, human services and law enforcement to cover all aspects of opioid abuse and treatment. Then, they can map that data using location tags. Attaching locations to data regarding opioid prescriptions, abuse and mortality helps create a variety of visual and interactive maps of the crisis that can be used in a multitude of ways.
Some possible maps a government could create to help visualize, document and address the opioid crisis include:
Knowing where opioid abuse is most prevalent is the first step to understanding community-specific triggers. It can also paint a visual picture of how widespread the epidemic is, especially in communities that lack awareness about the crisis.
Providers and prescriptions.
While pharmaceutical opioids are necessary in some medical scenarios, mapping providers and prescription frequency can help identify where opioids are overused or abused as treatment options.
Prescription drop-off locations.
Mapping prescription drop-off events and locations helps citizens know where to discard of unused and/or expired prescriptions.
It is important to provide treatment and overdose prevention to people struggling with addiction. Medication-assisted therapy combines the use of medication with counseling and behavioral therapies. To prevent death from an overdose, naloxone may be administered to reverse the effects of the overdose. Mapping locations that provide medical and/or behavioral therapy helps victims receive treatment faster.
Esri provides a number of tools to help government agencies quickly create these resources. With ArcGIS, these maps can be published for leaders and other community stakeholders to interpret and use. Moreover, Story Maps let organizations combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images and multimedia content to paint a personal picture of drug abuse. Additionally, these maps can be updated regularly. Health care professionals and first responders can send real-time information on abuse and treatment from within the community, using tools like Esri’s Survey123 for field data collection. That ensures maps are updated in real time to keep track of the epidemic and keep leaders informed. That real-time, geo-enabled data lets community leaders, as well as other stakeholders, make better decisions regarding responses and treatment plans for communities suffering from the opioid epidemic. By combining disparate data sources to create a more comprehensive picture of the crisis, they can determine where resource allocations would have the most impact. Then, with Esri’s Executive Operations Dashboard, leaders can monitor the effectiveness of programs and policies. Ultimately, GIS can help communities identify causes of drug epidemics that are specific to their area; predict where drug abuse is likely; better allocate resources, including treatment centers and prescription drop-off locations; and increase outreach to the public, media and other government bodies.
GIS in Action State and local governments are already using GIS to inform and share their efforts to decrease drug abuse.
Arizona The Arizona Department of Health Services has created a series of static and interactive maps to help citizens and local providers tackle the opioid crisis. The department began by creating community profiles based on unique primary care areas, rather than traditional county or city lines. The interactive maps allow users to compare area data to statewide averages for a number of drug-related mortalities. To help users, the department also created a number of video tutorials that explain various data points and how to interpret them. More recently, the department also incorporated maps of prescription drug drop-off locations into the interactive portal. Citizens can reference these maps to locate and get directions to the nearest drop-off for opioid prescriptions, rather than keeping them at home where they are more susceptible to abuse. Now, the department is focused on keeping these maps’ data up to date with the quickly evolving demographics and health needs of Arizona constituents.
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
“We created maps as tools for citizens and providers. You can quickly go through and look at your community and get an idea of how they’re doing. If they’ve got a lot of red indicators, you know that there’s a lot of progress to make.” Wesley Kortuem, Senior GIS Analyst at the Arizona Department of Health Services
Colorado After losing his younger brother to an OxyContin overdose in 2007, Jeremiah Lindemann was hesitant to share his family’s struggle with others in the community. He recognized a stigma associated with drug overdose and felt his brother’s death would be ill-received by others in his community. After reaching out to the Colorado Health Department for more information on drug abuse in the area, however, Lindemann found that his brother’s situation was not a rarity. Many other people, of a variety of backgrounds, were suffering from opioid addiction and overdoses. Because others were similarly unaware of the widespread nature of opioid abuse, however, no one was talking about the people they’d lost to the crisis. Lindemann began using Esri’s Story Maps to show victims’ stories and normalize conversations about opioid abuse in Colorado. His most prominent map, Celebrating Lost Loves Ones, not only highlights data on deaths in communities; it also allows members of the public to contribute their own stories about the real-life impact of opioid-related deaths. In just over two years, the map has received over 530 submissions nationally.
“People already have the data but it’s typically in spreadsheets. If this problem’s really going to be addressed, you have to understand it first. People will only understand and pay attention if they start to actually see what’s happening in their own area.” Jeremiah Lindemann, Solutions Engineer at Esri
Lancaster, Pa. Through community meetings and forums, the District Attorney’s Office of Lancaster County discovered that constituents didn’t understand the scope of the epidemic. They turned to GIS to help relate the true nature of the problem. Lancaster County-Wide Communications collected emergency response data which allowed Lancaster County IT and GIS units to track and map accidental drug overdoses between January 2014 and Nov. 1, 2016. The map is published online as an interactive educational tool to promote awareness of drug abuse, specifically heroin and opioids, prevalent in Lancaster County. It provides visual evidence that drug abuse has impacted almost every neighborhood in Lancaster County. Following the release of the map, county officials have seen a significant uptick in awareness. Community and school district leaders have particularly reached out for more information, as well as prevention tools, related to drug abuse in their communities. Due to that outreach, the county is now also mapping and publishing activities that offer alterative outlets for children’s free time in the area.
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
“We’re using this map to open the eyes of Lancaster County, specifically in those communities where individuals don’t have a personal interaction with the epidemic.” Brett Hambright, Media Specialist, Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office
Northern Kentucky In 2015, Northern Kentucky lost an average of one person to drug overdose every 40 hours. To increase awareness of the epidemic, and relate the complexity of its causes, the Northern Kentucky Health Department published drug-related incident data across the eight counties of the Northern Kentucky Area Development District in a dynamic online portal. Along with geo-enabled data on morbidity, opioid prescriptions and current response efforts, the Northern Kentucky Health Department provides narrative text to explain the insights revealed with GIS. Northern Kentucky has developed a six-pillar heroin impact response plan that includes prevention, harm reduction, treatment, recovery, supply reduction and advocacy. As community partners work to update the plan, the GIS data, published on a public ArcGIS platform, will be a key resource. It can also provide information for individual citizens to support government efforts against the drug epidemic. As response efforts change conditions, the maps and associated reports are updated every six to 12 months.
“Most people didn’t know where to find help in the area. Actually showing people what treatment is available and connecting them with that treatment is a huge step in the right direction.” Debbie Young, Public Health Informatics Manager
Getting Started With GIS GIS has the power to transform the way communities combat drug abuse, but real progress won’t happen overnight. Especially for state and local governments that are new to GIS, unlocking the power of mapping will take time and planning. Follow these steps to get started:
Gather data and geo-enable it.
Enrich your data with demographics.
Your first step is to gather data, including health care, law enforcement and social services records, from disparate sources. Specifically seek data that has geographic tags, and create locational tags for that data that doesn’t have it already. Then, you can use ArcGIS to begin mapping your data and create a visual of what’s happening in your community.
Next, combine your data with demographic information like population density, morbidity, age, income and mortality. This demographic data will help you understand how your specific population is interacting with the opioid epidemic, and help you compare your findings to other demographics.
Analyze your data to uncover patterns of abuse, crime and mortality. Once you have your data consolidated and mapped, start looking for patterns. Where is abuse most prevalent? What other indicators, like excessive opiate prescriptions or a lack of prescription drop-off centers, are also prevalent in that area? Use your visual data to determine patterns that are contributing to the opioid epidemic in your area, so that you can allocate the right resources to the right locations. Esri’s Business Analyst can help inform your location-driven analysis.
Using GIS to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
Use your analysis to bring partners and other stakeholders on board. Once you determine the best strategies to begin tackling opioid use in your community, use your mapped data to explain your logic and bring others on board. Tackling drug abuse often requires other stakeholders to provide treatment or other resources. Show how and where those partners can contribute with maps.
Make your community aware of the issues and proposed actions. Finally, make your findings public. Use Story Maps to publish personal stories of how opioid abuse is impacting your community. Explain your strategies for combatting drug problems with maps that show clear cause and effect on a local scale.
The opioid epidemic is happening in nearly every community, among all demographics. In fact, more Americans now die every year from drug overdoses than they do in motor vehicle crashes and the majority of those overdoses involve prescription medications. With a drug abuse problem that is only escalating in intensity and reach, it’s critical that government intervene. That’s where GIS comes in. Geographic intelligence plays an integral role in helping cities meet the challenges of opioid addiction and overdose deaths. Integrating health data with geographic information gives health service managers an understanding of who, where, when and why the epidemic is occurring and who it is impacting. It also lays the foundation for effective policy- and decision-making. With GIS, state and local leaders can quickly understand and begin addressing the opioid epidemic in their own communities. In the same way that they rely on mapping to inform responses to natural disasters, public servants can use real-time, visual data to effectively combat this drug crisis – and save the lives of countless Americans.
When Esri was founded in 1969, we realized even then that geographic information system (GIS) technology could make a difference in society. Working with others who shared this passion, we were encouraged by the vast possibilities of GIS. Today our confidence in GIS is built on the belief that geography matters - it connects our many cultures and societies and influences our way of life. GIS leverage geographic insight to ensure better communication and collaboration. Explore our website to discover how our customers have obtained the geographic advantage by using Esri software to address social, economic, business, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and global scales. We hope you will be inspired to join the Esri community in using GIS to create a better world. go.esri.com/GIS4Opioid @esri_health
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Greece’s emergence from nine years of crisis and international financial bailouts marks a “new day” for the country, a “day of redemption but also the dawning of a new era,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, in a televised address from the Ionian island of Ithaca. See the full video below.
Speak translated in English:
“Today a new day begins for our country.
A day historic. The memoranda of austerity, recession, and social depopulation have finally come to an end. Our country regains its right to define its own fortune and its future. Like a normal European country. With no external compulsions. Without any other extortion. Without new sacrifices of our people.
Our place is closed, the two black Clashing Rocks are closing down on it, the poet says. We are leaving these Clashing Rocks behind us. Knowing that Greece is its history. Achievements, struggles but also great pains. These things that have set its course throughout the centuries.
A journey that was never easy. But it always had a destination. Even in the darkest days, during the biggest storms.
Greece has experienced its modern Odyssey since 2010. Within five years, unprecedented things happened for a country in time of peace. We lost 25% of our national wealth. Three out of 10 were unemployed. Six out of 10 young people, too. Austerity measures of 65 billion were implemented. Violence and repression became part of everyday life. Democracy was ridiculed. Bankers became prime ministers and ministers became bankers. Fascist gangs came out of their hiding places after 60 years.
A country in a lasting state of emergency. And a people, however, who never accepted the fate that the powerful were planning for them. And they wrote new pages of resistance.
These people, three and a half years ago, made a historic decision. Getting the country’s steering wheel from those who led it to the rocks. And gave it to new captains. We assumed this heavy responsibility. With determination and respect for the sacrifices of our people. We did not move with certainties. Only one. The one that the Greeks defined to us: To take the country out of the tightness of the memoranda and the endless austerity.
We passed many waves to get to our destination today. The crew changed. Others were afraid of the waves, others preferred to tame them. We’ve heard the Sirens of futility many times. That things in Greece are not going to change. And the memoranda will be forever here. That there is no point in resisting when the Laestrygones and Cyclops stand against you. The beasts that the small and weak Greece could not win.
None of these, however, bent our effort. That’s because the people who fought to get to the destination were no longer on the sidelines. They were no longer locked in the hold, with no voice, with no hope. But they were behind the wheel. With us. And in hard times it was them who held it firmly.
Greeks, today is a day of redemption. But it is also the beginning of a new era. And at this point of departure, we will not commit the hubris to ignore the lessons learned of Greece of the memoranda. We will not let oblivion drift us. We will not be the Lotus-eaters.
– We will never forget the causes and the people who led the country to the memoranda.
Tax relief of the wealthy, generalized corruption, the impunity of a number of business and publishing groups that for years considered their country to be their property, the cynicism and contempt of a political elite who thought Greece was a feud and the Greeks its persuaded citizens.
– We will never forget those who have ravaged and devalued Greece and the Greeks because they dared not consent to the realization of a neo-liberal experiment that would hold for decades.
But we will also not forget those who stood by the side of the Greeks and Greece in the difficult. People and political forces from all European countries. Strongly resisting the plans for Greece to exit and be punished. Because they know that Greece for Europe means much more than budgets.
We will not forget anything that we have experienced because it is not just references for the historians of the future. But it is the supplies of a country that writes the new page of its history, in the present time.
We arrived at our destination, we came out of the memoranda, but we are fully aware that we have not finished here. New battles are now ahead of us. Modern suitors are here and still stand opposite of us. It is those who want to see the boat again beaten by the sea waves and the people back to the hold. Those who made in their image and likeness the Greece of corruption, interdependence and the power of the few. Those who want to evade taxes undisturbed, lining at the expense of the public interest, having their offshores and their bank accounts abroad. Those who consider themselves above any rule of law. And they tremble at the idea of an independent justice.
We are not going to leave Ithaka in their hands. Now that we have reached our coveted destination, we have the strength to make our land as it should be. The resourceful Greeks, we wrote with struggles and sacrifices the end of the memoranda. From today, we start with vision and determination, for the new era of our country. With caution and responsibility, never to return to Greece of deficits and bankruptcy. But also with boldness for the rebirth of Greece. For a homeland of equality, democracy and social justice.
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At the All Things D conference, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega announced that the company will eventually move to a shared data plan, otherwise known as a family data plan. Last June, right before the iPhone 4 launched, the carrier had terminated unlimited smartphone data plans. While it still grandfathered in existing customers to unlimited data, new customers were offered a maximum monthly data plan of 2 GB for $25, a $5 savings per month over the older unlimited data plan.
Justifying Metered Data Plans
At that time, users were bemoaning the restriction. The media was at a frenzy and phrases like ‘stifling innovation’ were thrown around as users may not feel free to access data anytime they want for fear of going over their monthly allotment, and users may neglect some apps if they are too data intensive. In its defense, AT&T says the majority of its customers consume less than that amount, and it is a fair approach to save the majority of its customers money while only penalizing the heaviest of data hogs.
More recently, after rival Verizon Wireless announced the iPhone 4 for its CDMA network and announced that it would offer WiFi tethering, AT&T followed suit and announced a Data Pro tethering plan, which adds another 2 GB of data to the monthly allotment for an additional $20, bringing a user’s data cap to 4 GB per month shared between tethering and on the phone for a total of $45. As AT&T begins to eye shared data or family data, its metered plans may not suffice the needs of users who are now adding new classes of wirelessly connected devices to their arsenals, from laptops to netbooks and tablets to phones, these devices are increasingly relying on connectivity to perform tasks. Video chatting, movies and music downloads, streaming media, cloud-based collaboration services, document archival and synchronization, and a vast number of tasks and processes are getting shifted to the cloud rather than relying on local storage, making the need for data ever more prevalent.
Shared Family Data
A shared data plan is similar to a family plan for voice. Voice family plans come with a bucket of minutes, for example, that are shared between all the different wireless cellular phone lines under the account. Similarly, a shared or family data plan will come with a bucket of data allotment, perhaps in the GB range, that can be shared across various Internet-enabled products in the account. Those products may include USB modems, MiFi units, tablets, smartbooks, netbooks, notebooks, and smartphones.
Shared data plans were first discussed by Verizon last month at the Reuters technology summit. Verizon is also looking to migrate to a metered plan and away from its unlimited offerings for smartphones.
Fair Use Data
Users in the past have complained that data was not fair under current pricing plans. For instance, even though you pay for data on a smartphone, you can’t use it on a tablet, even if it’s within your monthly allotment. The issue has been less mentioned now that carriers like AT&T and Verizon have begun to offer tethering options, but the cost of tethering is that, at least on AT&T’s network, is that you no longer can have unlimited data. Even grandfathered users under older plans must shift to a metered offering to enjoy tethering, but at least you’re able to share your data with other devices. However, if for instance, you’re using your phone to tether a laptop, and a friend wants to borrow the laptop for a week, they can’t enjoy the laptop using your AT&T smartphone’s wireless connection via the tethering implementation that you had set up.
With shared plans, they potentially can. Now, without signing up for multiple data plans for multiple devices, users can begin to consolidate all their devices–wireless and voice–under one account and one bill. Your laptop can get its own data plan and you won’t need to tether.
However, as networks become faster and more capable, users will find themselves consuming more data, especially if they can now do a lot of things on a lot more devices. AT&T’s 2 GB or even 4 GB limit may not be enough and the carrier may need to begin to offer more affordable plans at higher monthly allotments to appease heavy data users.
Bring on Rollover Data!
Ralph de la Vega did not give any details on when we’ll begin to see shared data plans. Hopefully, with de la Vega will see it fit to also carryover the rollover feature found on the carrier’s voice plans to its shared data plans.
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2022 ONLINE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE CONFLICT STUDIES
June 20-25, 2022
Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS) at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK),
Singidunum University, Belgrade
The Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS) at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University is organizing the 13th International Summer School in Comparative Conflict Studies.
The International Summer School in Comparative Conflict Studies is part of the Politics department at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) and the MA program in Critical Political Studies. The school provides a learning opportunity for students interested in the study and analysis of societies in and post-conflict.
Interdisciplinary in its nature, drawing from the fields of Peace and Conflict Studies, History, Anthropology, Education, Law, Political Sciences and International Relations, the International Summer School in Comparative Conflict Studies allows students to engage critically with each course’s themes, and provides students with an interactive learning experience utilizing frontal lectures and class discussions focusing on comparative conflict analysis of different case studies.
Language of instruction for all courses is English
Our courses are offered to graduate students, advanced undergraduate students and professionals working in related fields.
Students who complete the course requirements may transfer 5 ECTS course credits to their home institution.*
*Please note, it is the student's responsibility to verify with your home institution that you are allowed to transfer ECTS credits.
(Applicants can attend only one course from this list)
Feminist Peace and Security Studies: The Gendered Continuum of Peace-War
This course focuses on the adjacent fields of Feminist Peace Studies and Feminist Security Studies, which explore issues of peace/ war/ conflict/ security from a variety of feminist perspectives. Scholars working in these overlapping, as well as complementary, fields ask questions about the gendered nature of (conceptions of) peace and war, both in terms of how gender norms shape peace and war as well as how these, in turn, reshape gender norms. The feminist scholars also consider gender relations as causal in militarization and war, making connections across the continuum of violence that spans peace-wartime.
To introduce student to insights from this feminist literature, the course focuses on four main areas: How have feminists challenged the meanings of key concepts such as peace and security? What happens when we study armed conflict while also paying attention to femininities and masculinities? What can we find out when we ask feminist questions about soldiers and the militaries? How has feminist activism, exemplified in the adoption of the so-called Women, Peace & Security agenda at the United Nations and of the International Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, affected global security environments? The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine makes a gender analysis of the efficacy of this Treaty particularly urgent and salient, and the course will devote some time to this as well as other feminist interrogations of the current conflict. The course illustrates the theoretical discussion through practical examples taken from feminist research on violent conflicts, as well as their aftermaths, around the world (from Afghanistan to Liberia, from Guatemala to Israel, from Rwanda to India). In this course, students will also learn the tools to carry out their own analyses of peace and war from a feminist perspective.
Justice after Mass Atrocities: Truth-seeking, Retribution, Reparation
What happens to societies after genocide and mass atrocities? How do survivors pick up their lives in the aftermath of mass killings and war crimes? Can one come to terms with mass atrocities committed against one's family and ethnic/racial group? Can one forgive and reconcile?
This course will introduce students to the field of transitional justice which is an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on processes of dealing with past human rights violations and the transition to more peaceful and democratic states. The course deals with questions that arise in countries emerging from armed conflict or from periods of authoritarian or repressive rule. It will focus on strategies available to societies in the aftermath of massive violations of human rights to re-establish the rule of law and build sustainable peace.
The course will introduce students to the evolution of transitional justice theory and practice, including truth commissions, trials and traditional practices, in such contexts as post-apartheid South Africa and post-genocide Bosnia, Cambodia, Germany and Rwanda. The course will raise a series of thought-provoking questions such as how mass atrocities affect states and their neighbors? What lessons did the UN learn from its experiences in dealing with mass atrocities? What are the pros and cons of prosecuting individuals for mass atrocities? Can multi-million international courts bring justice to survivors of war crimes?
SECURITY, CONFLICT AND THE RISE OF ILLIBERALISM
This course invites students to explore the relations between security, conflict and peace. More specifically, the course investigates how national security policy, security sector governance and security practices are used to undermine or re-strengthen liberal democracy and peace in Europe and Euroasia. The assumption behind the design of this course is that security governance is an inevitable target of autocratization, for three purposes: (a) guaranteeing impunity for those abusing power; (b) selective enforcement of rules by police and judiciary on the behalf of aspiring autocrats; and (c) legitimization of elite and governance through securitization. We will examine how security discourses and practices beyond deployment of violence are used within states or across state borders to manage political competition and conflicts. The course will critically look at the effects of security practices as they appear under the label of ‘liberal peace-building’, and ‘authoritarian conflict management as a form of wartime and post-conflict order’. Finally, it will critically investigate how they co-exist in the current global order.
The course’s empirical focus will center on security governance within both ‘old democracies’ and post-communist countries, as well as their export of ‘liberal peace’ and ‘illiberal peace’. The effects of security practices will be studied in the cases of the Western Balkans, Hungary, Turkey and Central Asia.
The course will also feature a combination of reflective and research assignments (Country Case Studies) and two hands-on workshops: (a) how to research security policy and (b) how to engage in policy advisory work on security reforms. In this way, the students will be able to get an understanding of the complexity of security as a public good and of the political and practical challenges to the provision of human and national security while attending to the foundations of democracy.
Citizenship in the 21st Century: Fragile Rights, Unequal Societies, Divided Cities, and Global Movements
How to define citizenship in our confusing and uncertain times? Is it based on the idea of membership, equality and participation only? Or exclusion, conflicts, wars, and our perception and construction of enemies might have a strong influence on how we perceive ourselves as citizens as well? What is our political community or do we necessarily have multiple identities? To whom do we owe loyalty, global humanity, nation-states, regional alliances, our ethnic and religious group? What happens when we cannot agree about the nature and institutions of our communities? Or when we descend on the streets and squares? For what do we fight? Global justice, climate, gender equality, national interests, or our cities and lifestyles?
Citizenship is a tool that can be used for different and opposing goals, from integration and re-unification to fragmentation, division and ethnic engineering. It could be classically understood as national citizenship, but also as European, ecological, sexual and urban. The study of modern citizenship, as theory, institution and practice, is necessary to understand how political communities are made, un-made and re-made in the 21st century.
The course will be dedicated to general theories of citizenship, contemporary debates on membership and identity, as well as to various practices of citizenship and collective action in Southeast Europe. We will discuss citizenship in post-1989 Europe, in the West and in the former socialist East with a special focus on the post-socialist Balkans.
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Source of bee pollen
Pollen is the male cell of plants and is their “sperm”.Bees collect pollen back to their nests, called bee pollen.Bee pollen contains a small amount of nectar and secretions added by bees during collection, in addition to ordinary pollen, so bee pollen is slightly different from ordinary pollen in composition.The outer shape of the pollen is different from that of the pollen grains, but rather the pollen grains processed by bees.Pollen grains are mostly between 10 and 50 microns in diameter, and there are various irregular furrows on the surface of pollen grains and obvious germination pores.
Pollen varies in color from plant to plant.Fresh pollen has a special spicy flavor, slightly sweet taste, a few bitter.
Pollen is so complex that modern instruments can detect hundreds of species.But there are mainly protein, sugar, fat, vitamin, trace element and biological active material six categories.The total nutrients contained in pollen are: 40% ~50% sugar, 20% ~ 25% protein, 5% ~10% fat, 10% ~ 15% lignin and 10% ~ 15% unknown substance.It contains 19 ~ 22 kinds of amino acids, 27 kinds of major and trace elements and 11 kinds of vitamins.
Pollen is extremely rich in nutrients, containing high quality protein equivalent to eggs, beef more than 5 times.In addition, pollen also contains a variety of enzymes, hormones, flavonoids and other biological active substances, this kind of substances have an important role in regulating human life activities.Bee pollen contains more than 100 enzymes, the lack of any enzyme will affect the body’s physiological activities and functions.
Bee pollen is known as a safe source of nutrients because it is rich in nutrients, and is praised as “concentrated nutrient bank”, “concentrated miniature natural medicine”, and “completely nutritious food”.Professor Ye Juquan, a famous Chinese medicine expert in China, said: “Pollen research is a life science, which is the genetic engineering of plants and the source of life for reproduction.The exploration of pollen’s nutrition and anti-aging active substances will reveal the secrets of nature.
Physicochemical properties of bee pollen
Pollen of different plants is slightly different in color, such as rape pollen is yellow, corn pollen is light yellow, sunflower pollen is orange-red, buckwheat pollen is dark brown and so on.Fresh pollen usually has a special spicy smell, which varies from plant to plant. Some are sweet, some are astringent.The outer wall of pollen grains is very hard and resistant to acid and alkali and microbial decomposition, but the germination pores and germination trenches are very fragile and easy to break under acid and alkali and mechanical treatment.
The therapeutic and health care function of bee pollen
Bee pollen is a nutrient-rich substance found in nature.In the past 20 years, many nutritionists at home and abroad have conducted a great deal of research on the beneficial components, pharmacological effects and functions of pollen, proving that pollen has good therapeutic and health care effects on many organs of the human body.
(1).Brain health, physical strength and anti-fatigue: bee pollen has obvious functions in improving mental state and brain health.Bee pollen can provide rich nutrients for the development and physiological activities of brain cells, promote the development of brain cells, enhance the function and balance of central nervous system, and keep the brain active.
(2).Bee pollen has the function of regulating nervous system, so it has a good effect on the treatment of common neurological diseases and psychosis caused by the imbalance of nervous system.The vitamins and amino acids contained in pollen can coordinate the nerves of people with neurasthenia and neurodepression, making them take an interest in life again.Edible pollen, can enhance physical strength and endurance, quickly eliminate fatigue.Olympic gold medalist, Dutch runner Lasseveren, took pollen to improve his performance, winning the 5,000m and 10,000m races at the 20th Olympics in 1972 and the gold MEDALS in both events at the 21st Olympics.From June to August 1983, Zhejiang Provincial Sports Committee and Hangzhou Baoling Co., LTD. (formerly a dairy company beekeeping farm) gave pollen to 155 athletes, 20 grams per day (30 grams for those weighing more than 80 kg), in the morning and in the afternoon.After a month of continuous use, the athletes’ insomnia, appetite loss, weight loss and hemochrome decrease due to the influence of training and high temperature were greatly improved. Most of the athletes felt good about themselves and fatigue was eliminated quickly after exercise.After examination, its hemochrome, vital capacity, back strength, grip strength, endurance have increased, sports performance has also greatly improved.2. Treatment of chronic prostatitis, prostatic hypertrophy: chronic prostatitis is one of the most common patients in middle-aged and elderly men, the main symptoms of the patient is poor urination, drenching chun and lower abdominal pain.According to the medical journal, 100 cases of the disease were treated with pollen, with a cure rate of 80 percent.Prostatic hyperplasia is also a chronic disease peculiar to the elderly, with an incidence of more than 75%.After patients eat pollen, glandular hyperplasia is inhibited, gland volume is reduced, and endocrine regulation function is improved.
(3).Improve the immune function and anti-tumor: pollen consumption can improve the number and function of T lymphocytes and giant salivary cells in the body, thus improving the immune capacity of the body and preventing various diseases and chronic diseases, especially the occurrence of tumors.Additional, the LgG in haematocyte immune globulin is an important kind of antibody, can promote giant cell to have phagocytosis action, resist the encroach of bacterium, virus, still have the function of neutralization toxin.Pollen can improve the human serum immunoglobulin LgG level, which is also to improve the body’s non-specific disease function of another important aspect.
Pollen has the effect of inhibiting tumor, and many experts have proved that pollen has the effect of inhibiting tumor significantly.The number and activity of T lymphocytes and macrophages in mice inoculated with tumor cells did not decrease, but also increased, indicating that the inhibitory effect of pollen on tumor cells was realized by increasing the number and function of T lymphocytes and macrophages in the immune system.
(4).Anti-aging: Pollen can increase thymus, enhance T lymphocytes and macrophages, enhance the immune function of the body, and thus delay the aging process of the body.Some trace elements contained in pollen are also anti-aging components, such as selenium, which can reduce the formation of lipid peroxidation in the body.According to research, selenium can improve the activity of glutamate oxidase in blood and tissues, catalyze the decomposition of lipid peroxidation, reduce the formation and accumulation of lipid peroxidation, and thus play a role in delaying aging.
(5).Therapeutic effect on liver disease: Pollen has a good protective effect on liver cells and has a very good therapeutic effect on chronic hepatitis.Experts have done such a test: give 110 cases of hepatitis patients take pollen, 30 grams a day, for 1 ~ 3 months.Results The symptoms of the patients were significantly improved, the indexes of liver function were significantly improved, and the albumin/globulin (A/G) ratio in blood was increased from 0.85 to 1.26.
The liver protection function of pollen is closely related to the vitamin, amino acid, nucleic acid and various trace elements contained in pollen, and also to the improvement of immune function of the body.
(6).Effects on cardiovascular system and digestive system: pollen is rich in vitamin P and some other flavonoids, which have good effects on enhancing capillary strength, preventing capillary permeability disorder, cerebral hemorrhage, retinal hemorrhage, hypertension and varicose veins.Some doctors gave pollen to 60 patients with hyperlipidemia and 40 patients with cerebral atherosclerosis, 3 times a day, 15 grams each time. After 1 month of continuous administration, the serum of the patients decreased, headache, angina, memory loss and other atherosclerosis symptoms generally improved.
Pollen has obvious therapeutic effect on emaciated patients with poor digestion and absorption function.Some patients with inappetence, abdominal distension and emaciation will lose their symptoms, improve their spirits and gain weight after taking pollen.Habitual constipation patients, generally take pollen for 1 month, stool to normal.
(7).For beauty;Natural bee nectar is rich in nutrients, which can be added to various cosmetics, absorbed directly by skin cells or taken orally.Pollen can improve skin nutrition, promote skin cell metabolism and delay skin aging.It can prevent dry skin from desquamation, increase elasticity of aging skin and eliminate wrinkles.Japanese beauty experts call it “bee pollen is better than a hundred times on the dresser”.Pollen is good for acne, chloasma, age spots, hair, etc.Can be called “all-around beautician”.
Natural pollen has comprehensive nutrition and can overcome various physiological disorders in human metabolism, thus enhancing immunity. This is the secret that bee pollen can treat a variety of diseases.At present on the market “front kang piece”, “beautiful beautiful beauty king” and other food, drugs, cosmetics are bee pollen as raw material.
Bee pollen administration
If bee pollen is used for health care, take 3 to 5 grams per day.If the treatment of some diseases, can take 15 ~ 20 grams.The method of taking can be rooted in their own physical conditions.Generally early and late fasting absorption effect is better;Stomach unwell person, it is advisable to take 1 hour after meal.For long-term users, stop taking for 7 days after 30 consecutive days and then continue.
Utilization and absorption of bee pollen
Pollen grains have a hard outer shell called the pollen wall.According to the data, although the shell of pollen grains in the excrement of bees after eating pollen is complete, the material in the shell has been absorbed by bees, leaving only an empty shell.According to research again, in the excrement that the person eats pollen excretion on an empty stomach, the material in pollen 70% ~ 90% has been absorbed by the human body.This means that bee pollen can be absorbed by the human body without breaking its shell, although the absorption rate can be increased by breaking the shell.Whether bee pollen shell needs to be broken can be determined according to the application situation. General consumers can take it orally directly, while some high-grade cosmetics and oral liquids can break its shell when pollen is used as an additive for better use.In the dry state, pollen wall has a special protective effect on pollen nutrients.After breaking the shell of pollen, its active component exposure to air and light increased, and easy to absorb moisture, such as improper storage, more susceptible to bacteria, deterioration.
Pollen contains allergenic components (allergens), which can produce allergic reactions to very few people with special constitutions.In the process of taking pollen, candidates with special allergies should take a small amount of pollen first, and then take more if there is no abnormal condition.If there is fever, asthma, urticaria and other phenomena, should stop taking immediately.
Whether children can take pollen.Pollen is plant “sperm cells”, which gather a lot of life elements, are rich in nutrients, but because of the pollen contains a certain amount of hormone, so a lot of people did not dare to let children taking pollen, worry about pollen can make the sexual precocious children, actually this kind of worry is redundant, too much added hormones can really make the sexual precocious,But it’s not that any food containing hormones is too scary for kids to eat.We usually eat a lot of food contain hormones, such as rice, wheat contain hormones, milk, milk, eggs contain sex hormones, these hormone containing food did not make children what abnormal reaction.Pollen contains the same amount of sex hormones as those found in the food above and is therefore perfectly safe for children.Researchers at the Pollen Application Institute of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province and the Department of Biology at Hangzhou University conducted a biological experiment on this issue.The other group was fed twice the normal dose, and neither of the two doses caused premature puberty in the young rats.
What special effects does pollen have?
Pollen, the essence of plants, has been known and used by our ancestors for more than 2,000 years.Qu Yuan in the “Li SAO” in the chant “drink magnolia falling dew, evening meal autumn chrysanthemum falling” famous poem.China’s earliest medicinal monograph shennong Bencao Jing has records of pine pollen and ctypha pollen, saying that these two kinds of pollen smell sweet, non-toxic, can treat heart and abdominal bloating heat evil, urine, blood stasis, long take light, qi, prolong life.Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty bathed and enjoyed pollen mixed with yellow rice wine.The Greek philosophers thought pollen was the key to staying young. Early Olympic athletes used pollen to boost their energy. The word pollen means “energetic” and “strong”.
Pollenologists, nutritionists and medical scientists have deeply studied the health care, pharmacological and efficacy of pollens on human beings.The results showed that pollen could prevent and cure cardiovascular diseases, reduce blood lipid, regulate nervous system, promote sleep, regulate gastrointestinal system function, promote digestion, and treat habitual constipation.It has certain effects in regulating endocrine, improving immune function, anti-aging, improving sexual function and treating male sterility.Especially the treatment of male prostatitis, prostatic hypertrophy has obvious curative effect.It improves symptoms in a very short time.There are obvious cancer prevention and cancer suppression and liver protection, prevent anemia, diabetes, anti-fatigue and other functions.In addition, bee pollen has obvious cosmetic effects. Its mechanism lies in comprehensively regulating the balance of human endocrine system, from the inside to the surface, fundamentally improving the vitality of skin cells, enhancing the metabolic function of skin, preventing facial pigmentation, skin roughness and aging, and keeping the skin moist, white, shiny and elastic.
The health care functions of bee pollen mainly include:
(1) Enhance the comprehensive immune function of human body: pollen polysaccharides can activate the phagocytosis of macrophages and improve the human body’s resistance to disease.(2) Anti-aging and beauty function: Bee pollen is a nutritional cosmetic. VE, SUPERoxide dismutase (SOD), selenium and other components in pollen can nourish and nourish the skin, restore the elasticity and smoothness of the skin.The inositol in pollen can make white hair black, alopecia is born gradually, keep hair black and bright.
(3) Prevention and treatment of cerebral cardiovascular diseases: flavonoids in pollen can effectively remove the deposition of fat on blood vessel walls, thus softening blood vessels and lowering blood lipids.
(4) Prevention and treatment of prostate diseases: pollen is the Nemesis of prostatitis, and rape pollen and buckwheat pollen have the best effect.The effective drug for treating prostate diseases in China – prostol is made from pollen.
(5) Weight loss: Taking bee pollen can absorb enough nutrients to make you feel full.At the same time, the lecithin in pollen can burn excess fat, to achieve the purpose of losing weight.
(6) Adjust gastrointestinal function: pollen has many bactericidal components, can kill Escherichia coli, and prevent constipation.
(7) Protect the liver and protect the liver: flavonoids in pollen can also prevent fat deposition on the liver.
(8) Regulate the nervous system and promote sleep.
(9) Auxiliary treatment of other diseases: pollen has good effects on anemia, diabetes, memory improvement, menopause disorders, etc.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of bee pollen breaking walls?
Because pollen has a hard outer wall that is resistant to acid, alkali and corrosion, it was thought that bee pollen could only be absorbed by breaking the wall.However, a number of studies have shown that bee pollen as food does not need to break the wall, because there are germination pores and grooves on the pollen wall. Under the action of neutralizing enzymes in the acidic environment of the gastrointestinal tract, pollen nutrients can penetrate out through these pores and grooves.After pollen breaks the wall, it is more likely to be polluted, which is not conducive to preservation.But pollen as a cosmetic material must break through the walls because the skin has no ability to digest it.But when the pollen is used as a raw material for further processing, the walls must be broken so that all the nutrients in the pollen can be extracted.
What are the factors that affect the quality of bee pollen?
Bee pollen of high quality must meet three conditions: first, it must be fresh and no loss of active substances is guaranteed;Second, the number of bacteria in a safe range;Three, no mildew.Pollen is rich in nutrients and is easily affected by moisture, pollution and mildew.Bee pollen must be scientifically sterilized and cryogenically dried to ensure its safety.Unsterilized pollen should not be taken orally.Pollen that has not been dried is prone to mildew and deterioration.To ensure freshness, it must be refrigerated.
Bee pollen storage methods
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Adventures with Words: A Brief History of Slavery by Jeremy Black
It’s not. 336 pages does not a brief book make. And they are 336 dense pages. But then, not only is it a brief history but it also attempts to be a new global history too. That’s a lot to pack into a book about one of the oldest and most widespread institutions in human history. And, you know, what: Jeremy Black succeeds much better than you might expect.
While today we might think slavery self-evidently evil and beyond the pale, almost all civilisations and places have regarded it as perfectly normal. What Black does very well in this book is show the ubiquity of slavery, demonstrate how in all its forms it required the help of local elites to facilitate the trade and how the British came to play a particularly schizophrenic role in its culmination, opening up the Atlantic slave trade while also then outlawing and finally policing, via the dominance of the Royal Navy, the slave trade to an ending.
To fit all this in, Black eschews emotionalism: it’s a fairly dry account, strong on economics and politics, weak on human interest. This is not a book seeking to outrage but to understand. If you want to learn, I recommend it. If you want to burnish your moral certainties, read something else. | <urn:uuid:23533d39-7707-4f61-9b38-8845f553e4fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edoardoalbert.com/book-review-a-brief-history-of-slavery-by-jeremy-black/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.93895 | 279 | 2 | 2 |
Founded in 2000 BC, Mantova was once an Etruscan village and is now capital of the province with the same name. It is a relatively large town of 100,000 in the region of Lombardia. Surrounded on three sides by man-made lakes created in the 12th century, this world-famous city, known in English as Mantua, attracts visitors interested in art, architecture and history.
SIGHTSEEING IN MANTOVA
Mantova is known for its beautiful palaces, among them the impressive Palazzo Tè or Tea Palace. The palazzo was designed by Giulio Romano in a Renaissance style and was the summer villa of Frederick II and the Gonzaga family. Today, the palace is home to the city’s Civic Museum, which features a large collection donated by Arnoldo Mondadori and Ugo Sissa.
A collection of buildings built between the 14th and 17th centuries, the Ducal Palace was used by the Gonzaga family as their main residence. All buildings are connected by galleries and corridors and visitors can admire the various gardens and inner courts, too. With over 500 rooms in the complex, there is much to see. One of the most famous aspects of the palace are the impressive frescoes in the Sala Degli Sposi.
Basilica di Sant’Andrea
One of the most important religious monuments in the city is the Basilica di Sant’ Andrea, which was commissioned by a member of the Gonzaga family, Ludovico II. The construction of the church began in 1462, based on the designs of Leon Battista Alberti, on the site of an old Benedictine monastery. The bell tower of the original monastery still remains.
Rotonda di San Lorenzo
Another important religious building in the city is the Rotonda di San Lorenzo. It is the oldest church in the city and was built during the Canossa family’s reign around the 11th century. The architecture and design was inspired by Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre and it was dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
The church features many ancient elements, such as a loggia for the female faithful, known as matronaeum. There are also many beautiful frescoes, most from the Byzantine school of the 11th and 12th centuries. The construction was completed in Lombard tradition, using two columns and details done in marble, many of which were taken from other ancient edifices.
Piazza Sordello is the main square in town. For centuries, it has been the heart of the artistic and cultural life in Mantova. Around it, you can find the cathedral, Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Acerbi and the Torre della Guardia, as well as the Bishop’s seat. Mosaics and ruins of a Roman domus were discovered here in 2006.
Getting to Mantova
Visitors interested in getting to Mantova will be pleased to find that the city is easily accessible. There are trains from nearby cities like Cremona, Modena, and Verona as well as Firenze and Bologna. There is also an extensive bus network, both state and private, that connects the city to various other points in the region.
If travelling by car, take the Milan-Venice A4 Highway to Verona, and then take the A22 Highway into Mantova. The nearest airport to Mantova is Verona-Villafranca.
Moving around the City
The fact that Mantova, spread over an area of 64 sq km, is not a very large city makes it ideal for tourists. The main monuments and sightseeing attractions are located in the center, so it is quite easy to visit them all on foot. Visitors can also use the local public buses or bicycles to get around.
Stay and Accomodation
Mantova attracts many tourists eager to see its beautiful architecture and various villas and palaces. The best accomodation can be found near the train station and visitors to the city have many options including hotels and Bed and Breakfasts, in all price ranges. Take note that finding low rates during peak season is difficult. Some of the best known hotels in the city are the Rechigi Hotel, ABC Comfort Hotel, Hotel Mantegna, Hotel Broletto, Hotel Dante Residence and Albergo Bianchi Stazione.
In Mantova there are plenty of good restaurants and pizzerias to choose from. Those who prefer to sample traditional dishes and regional delicacies should try the osterias and trattorias in the city, which serve simple wholesome dishes at low prices. There are also many good cafés and pubs that offer a selection of good quality local wines. Some of the best restaurants are Ristorante Aquila Nigra, Osteria della Fragoleta, Ristorante Griffon Bianco, Trattoria Alla Nuova Marasca, Trattoria L’ Ochina Bianca, Trattoria Due Cavallini and Trattoria Leoncino Rosso.
Shopping in Mantova
Mantova has a few good shopping streets that are lined with stores selling clothes, bags, jewelry, and footwear. In the older section of town, there are many small traditional shops selling locally made artifacts, handicrafts and souvenirs. Food shops offer a good variety of cheeses and olive oil and there are also stores selling local wines.
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Can You Be Charged at the State and Federal Level for the Same Crime?
Dual Sovereignty and Double Jeopardy Are Not the Same
A recent Supreme Court ruling determined that a case did not violate the Constitution wherein an Alabama man was charged by the federal government for the same crime he was already convicted of by his state government. This case upholds the concept of dual sovereignty and highlights how it impacts double jeopardy defense situations.
Understanding Double Jeopardy
Protection against double jeopardy is written into the Fifth Amendment. The language is clear about no individual being charged for the same instance of offense twice.
Under state and federal law, double jeopardy is a procedural defense that prevents state prosecutors from charging a defendant for the same crime after they have been acquitted. The purpose of this concept is to protect defendants from abusive use of power and establish the finality of judgments, but its use can be complicated when there are multiple state jurisdictions involved. The double jeopardy rule does not apply to these situations because of the different jurisdictions, which qualify as separate sovereigns.
Under the dual-sovereignty doctrine, the Supreme Court has interpreted that state and federal governments are separate sovereigns. This concept has a significant impact on double jeopardy defense cases where a defendant has violated both federal and state laws.
Under dual sovereignty, both the state and the federal government can charge a person for the same crime if it violated both state and federal laws. Further, the outcome of each case will have no bearing on whether the other can pursue charges.
How Dual Sovereignty Affects Double Jeopardy Cases
As you can see, double jeopardy and dual sovereignty are entirely different concepts. A state government cannot prosecute you a second time for the same crime after you were already acquitted. The same is true for federal offenses. Once you have been acquitted of a federal charge, the federal government cannot again pursue you for the same crime.
Dual sovereignty makes it possible for each government entity to prosecute you for the same crime if it violates both state and federal law. An example would be if you illegally transported drugs into Florida. You would have violated state law and federal law because both entities have their own set of laws regarding such a crime.
Remember that regardless of what jurisdiction has already prosecuted you for a crime or what the outcome was, you can still face a trial in the jurisdiction that did not charge you yet. If you receive convictions in both state and federal court, you will also receive punishments from both courts.
Protect Yourself Against Double Jeopardy Violations
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The next National Democratic Congress (NDC) Government from January 7, 2021 to January 6 2025, will formulate an economic diplomacy blueprint to serve as a policy guide to diplomats and all staff of the Foreign Service.
The NDC Economic Diplomacy Blueprint would provide clear deliverables under Ghana’s economic diplomacy agenda, enhance the general conditions of service for Foreign Service Staff including; restoring duty waivers on vehicles for staff returning from postings.
The NDC Election 2020 “People’s Manifesto: Jobs and Prosperity for All,” focus on International Relations and Foreign Affairs seeks also to leverage and place Ghana’s hosting of the African Continental Free Trade Secretariat at the heart of our industrialisation drive by ensuring that Ghana becomes Africa’s trade, transport and investment hub.
The NDC under the leadership of former President John Dramani Mahama as the Presidential Candidate and Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemenag the Vice Presidential Candidate said it would restore the high regard for career diplomats, enhance esprit de corps and meaningful career progression deserving of career diplomats by ensuring that majority of ambassadors and envoys were selected from the stock of career diplomats.
The NDC said it would establish a Consular Support Fund as a line item in the budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to cater for distressed Ghanaians abroad who may require urgent consular assistance.
It would conduct an asset inventory of all diplomatic property with the view to pursuing an aggressive asset improvement and maintenance programme-this review will also seek to address the phenomenon of unsustainable expenditure on rent in favour of the more economically prudent option of owning our own property.
The NDC said if given the change to governing again it would deepen Ghana’s famed Pan African credentials by putting forth a raft of policies targeted at forging stronger and concrete bonds with Africans in the diaspora and African Americans beyond the occasional visits afforded by “PANAFEST” and “The Year of Return” to a more permanent mutually benefiting relationship.
The NDC said it would ensure that consistent with the party’s track record, “we will actively canvass for many more Ghanaians to assume high offices in reputable multilateral organisations”.
The NDC said it would renew Ghana’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 by fully domesticating and aligning our development goals across all sectors with these global imperatives.
It would further enhance Ghana’s internationally renowned image in peace operations which marked a milestone this year in commemoration of 60 years since Ghana’s first peace operations deployment in the Congo.
The next government of the NDC would improve conditions of engagement and also increase the number of females in troop deployment consistent with modern UN standards.
The NDC said it would protect the inviolability of the premises of all Foreign Missions in Ghana as required under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations in order to avoid the recent embarrassing spectacle, which created a diplomatic stand-off between Ghana and Nigeria when the latter’s property were demolished in Accra.
The next NDC government would reappraise the geographical representation and economic significance of Ghana’s diplomatic and consular missions and establish new missions strategic to the national development especially in the areas of trade and investment, tourism, and educational opportunities.
The NDC in its manifesto pledged to appoint trade officers to specifically designated Ghana diplomatic missions to aggressively market Ghana’s competitiveness in trade and investment activity and spearhead the implementation of agreed strategies.
It would ensure that Ghana continued to play an active and lead role in ECOWAS and worked in concert with other member states to consolidate the gains of the Community and to achieve its defined goals.
The government of the NDC would also increase collaboration within the United Nations, the Commonwealth, and other multilateral organisations to fight existing and emerging threats to global peace, security, and sustainable development including; climate change and global warming, international terrorism, cybercrime, piracy, money laundering, narcotics trade, human trafficking and pandemics.
The NDC said its next government would deepen Ghana’s involvement in the affairs of the Francophone and UEMOA with a view to better understand those organisations and reaping the maximum benefits from them given our geographical position of being surrounded by three Francophone countries.
According to the NDC, Ghana provide a congenial environment for the enhancement of productive international relations both at bilateral and multilateral levels for the adoption and promotion of common, yet beneficial positions, encouraging mutual understanding and cooperation which inure to its overall national growth, security and political and socio-economic development.
The NDC said Ghana’s foreign policy would continue to be driven by the nation’s commitment to credible and sustainable international peace, security and development as necessary prerequisites for the effective promotion and protection of enlightened national interest and aspirations as outlined in domestic policies.
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It’s almost the end of August,and blockbuster season is winding down. A few big trends have emerged in this huge summer for Hollywood. Let’s take a look at some of these themes and see what they say about the people consuming and creating them, and what they say about the Author of Creation.
1. “Avengers: Endgame” – It’s All Connected
The world around us seems more chaotic by the day. We’re constantly forced to contend with a non-stop barrage of data, and in the era of deep fakes and dishonesty, distinguishing truth from fiction is harder then ever. While life may seem more chaotic than usual, the primal craving for order isn’t new. Ever since Babel, humanity has been contending against confusion, trying to craft a semblance of structure in a universe apparently characterized by entropy.
With that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise us that “Avengers: Endgame” is the most successful film in history. By weaving 20-odd films of different genres, tones and styles into a single, coherent, opus, “Endgame” tells us that even the most convoluted story can have a consistent throughline – excellent news for those of us with a passion for teaching the Bible.
Christians see a unified story being told through songs, epics, genealogies, eyewitness accounts and a collection of letters. At times, single characters are extolled and examined in minute detail (Ruth, Esther, Philemon; Iron Man, Black Panther, Captain Marvel). Sometimes the focus is on a much broader epic (see Kings, Exodus or Revelation; “Age of Ultron” or “Infinity War”). Sometimes the saga can feel like a slog (1 Chronicles 1 comes to mind, as does Thor: The Dark World). When we realize it’s all connected, we can begin to draw the line between the apparently mundane and the monumental.
When we realize it’s all connected, we can begin to draw the line between the apparently mundane and the monumental.
2. “Midsommar” – Fear’s Firm Lessons
In recent years, horror has become a reliable way for studios to make big on small budgets. This year’s newest addition to the fray was “Midsommar,” a grueling and grisly folk story about the value of community and the dangers of losing control. With its depictions of violence and suffering, it’s definitely not the kind of movie everyone can – or should – watch.
Even so, “Midsommar” pulled in 28 million dollars on a budget a third of the size. Some people might say it’s just fun to be scared, but films like “Get Out,” “The Quiet Place” and “The VVitch” suggest there’s more to the story. These kinds of movies don’t just offer cheap thrills, like the shock jock horror of the 80s and 90s. Instead, these movies expose our fears – and as the Bible teaches, properly oriented fear is the beginning of all wisdom.
Perhaps we’re attracted to fear because we instinctively recognize that the things that scare us the most also have the most to teach us. Knowing the dangers of distracted driving can help keep us off our phones behind the wheel. The threat of hell makes us cry out for a Savior. The thought we might be counted among the goats encourages us to persist in the faith.
In a similar way, horror (when handled with intentionality) can teach important lessons. In “Midsommar,” for example, the main character doesn’t have much to connect to – her family is fragmented, her relationship is rocky and her traveling buddies can hardly wait to get rid of her. That loneliness drives her to connect with a dark and dangerous community. As viewers grow more horrified with the commune of Harga, Dani grows more enamored. The film challenges viewers to be careful of who and what they put our trust in.
By taking common and elemental fears and extrapolating them into the obscene and absurd, horror serves as a kind of microscope. Our miniscule fears are blown up to a scale where we can analyze and address them. It’s not unlike exposure therapy, as we imagine how we might engage in the worst-case scenario of our everyday fears. In other words, viewers are attracted to horror because they’re scared anyways – and maybe seeing those fears on screen can help them conquer them.
Nostalgia has distorted the past and led to a negligence of the future.
3. “The Lion King” – Nothing But Nostalgia
Almost every major film this summer has been part of a current franchise, a reboot of an old franchise or a long-delayed sequel to a franchise. “The Lion King” is a perfect example. I may have loved it, but the general consensus was that it’s a pale imitation of the original. Ecclesiastes tells us not to ask why the old days are better than these. So why do we act so surprised when these rehashes disappoint us?
All sin follows a familiar pattern. God tells us something true, Satan asks us if God’s sharing the whole story, man steps in to fill the gaps. Often times, that tendency manifests itself in us trying to remake Eden rather than pushing forward to heaven. Maybe you tell yourself that an ex was a better match than your current spouse. Maybe longing for the church you were raised in leads you to create divisions in the church you find yourself in. Maybe you think back fondly on the days before you were saved, leading you back to your proverbial vomit. In any of these cases, nostalgia has distorted the past and led to a negligence of the future.
Many of the remakes, rehashes and sequels come across as a little hollow, precisely for this reason. They don’t scratch the itch we want them to, as we realize we weren’t just missing the story: we were missing the intersection of a film with a particular time in our lives. Like someone moving back to their hometown after 10 years gone, we find things familiar but disconcerting. Everything’s just a little bit off, and nothing’s quite where it’s supposed to be. “Toy Story 4” taught this lesson well. It wasn’t afraid to radically change the status quo of the franchise. Instead of rehashing the same familiar ground, it managed to build off the framework of the past to create something unexpected and exciting. The moral of the story? You can’t go back – and sometimes you shouldn’t even try.
Sparking Gospel Conversations
Film is a fruit of the common grace of God, an exercising of the creative muscles our Creator gave us when he created us in his image. These quick takes don’t tell us everything we can derive from the stories of Hollywood, nor should we try to sanctify every major film. But it’s fair to say that we can learn something — about ourselves or about our culture — from everything we create.
Creation teaches us about its creator. The skies pour forth knowledge about God, and movies tell us what their makers value and how they think about the world around them and God above them. Put that lens on the next time you walk into the theater, and you might find something edifying in some very surprising places. Use those lessons to spark gospel conversations with your film-loving friends, and you might find avenues into evangelism you never expected. | <urn:uuid:11fe9b26-d561-4ac2-98e4-8403af465984> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cfc.sebts.edu/faith-and-culture/3-movie-trends-and-what-they-tell-us-about-our-culture-right-now/#comment-16822 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.94798 | 1,610 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Emoji Language Translation Services
As one of the most popular languages used in everyday communications throughout the world the humble emoji has a lot to say. A small picture can represent a thousand words and where time is a premium, emojis are often used in place of common words and phrases. Not only are they used in personal communications, they also feature in messages between businesses too.
Used across a variety of platforms from Apple through to Android, the appearance of the emoji does vary slightly and the meanings can also change between cultures and countries. It is therefore important that any translation service of the emoji language is accurate and culturally correct.
Emojis and Communication
With emojis featuring in many different types of communications from email messages and social media posts through to text messages the recipient may need some assistance with translation. That’s where we come in. As one of the fastest growing languages what do you do if you receive a document and it is filled with emojis?
We specialise in comprehensive emoji translation services, helping you understand what is being said and make sure others understand what you have to say. We can help you translate text to emoji or emoji to text for any purpose. Alternatively you may want to distribute an innovative marketing message to your customers who you know use emojis a lot. We can help you do just that from supporting the development of a unique marketing campaign that makes a lasting impression through to the completion of complex projects and assignments. Translation of emojis can be difficult, with many cultural variations and meanings making it even more complex. However, using our knowledge and expertise, we can deliver the right translations in the correct context.
There are so many reasons why you may need a document translating to or from emoji. You may want to send a letter with a difference which is filled with emojis or maybe you have received an ‘emoji message’ and want it translated into normal text. Our services are unique, fresh and innovative, meeting the requirements of modern day communications.
Language evolves at such a rapid rate, and if you use emojis a lot, you need to stay ahead and understand exactly what they mean, both when sending and receiving information.
Although you may not be expecting an influx of emails and letters filled with emoji symbols, it is interesting to keep up to date with the changing way people communicate, particularly your customers. Understanding what an emoji is and how it can be used will certainly help.
The Digital World
With the growing use of the internet, emojis are used more and more as an easy way to communicate. We have been working in the translations industry for many years and over this time we have witnessed an extraordinary shift in the way businesses and individuals send and receive information. When working on emails for example, people will often use emojis in place of standard punctuation so the whole landscape of how people communicate both in a business and personal context is changing.
As the emoji continues to grow and evolve with new characters joining all the time, there is a growing demand for companies like ours to translate the emoji language.
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How many hairs can I get transplanted with surgical hair restoration?
How many follicular units (hair groupings as they occur naturally) can be harvested during hair transplant surgery ultimately depends on your donor hair supply, available and "safe" hair on the sides and back of your scalp resistant to DHT. For follicular unit hair transplantation (FUT) also known as the “strip” procedure, this includes your scalp’s elasticity, donor hair density, and the width and length of the strip harvested from your donor area. In follicular unit extraction (FUE) hair transplant procedures, hair characteristics and density play a primary role in how many follicular units can be extracted and transplanted.
Depending on the area of immediately and future baldness needed to cover; it may take more than one procedure to meet your hair restoration goals. On average, a patient has been 5000 to 8000 follicular units available via FUT and 3000 to 5000 follicular units available via FUE. To maximize your donor hair supply, a combination of both procedures is often utilized.
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MARIPOSA PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
The Mariposa Public Utility District can meet the near-term water supply needs of local residents and businesses. Local residences and businesses are asked to "Stress Your Lawn and Save Your Trees" by reducing sprinklers by two minutes each cycle while continuing to water your trees. Large scale turf irrigation should be reduced by 15% when compared to 2020 water usage. Please continue to conserve water. Wasteful water uses include:
The use of potable water for washing sidewalks, driveways, buildings, or other hard-surfaced areas, except in cases where health and safety are at risk.
The use of potable water that results in flooding or runoff in gutters or streets.
The use of potable water, except with the use of a positive shut-off nozzle, for the individual private washing of motor vehicles.
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The Seven Samurai
I naturally resist attending films I know are good for me. I hate being told that I need to see, say, the work of a Godard or Kaurismäki. Knowing that some unwashed film student type will think less of me in part explains my consistent attendance at Wayans Brothers films. This is why I’m wary of telling anyone they have to see Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai.
Why on earth should you have to see it (or anything for that matter)? Why should you sit through over 200 minutes of Japanese men fighting in the mud? Why should you have to suffer through the subtitles and the slow pacing and the often laughably melodramatic acting? Because it’s important. Is that enough?
The Seven Samurai is almost universally agreed to be the father of the action flick. It inspired not only John Sturges’ 1960 western The Magnificent Seven but Star Wars as well. Critics speculate that it established the trope of seeing a hero in action before he or she is assigned the plot’s central task. More important still, the cinematic effects employed by Kurasawa would ultimately influence anyone who has ever subsequently filmed an action scene. The long panning single shots he employs in his battle sequences and the use of slow motion and embedded cameras allow The Seven Samurai to transcend its age.
But still. Unless you’re a student of film history, what on earth do you care if it was the first or the 23rd to do any of that? Why not see Superman instead? The effects in Bryan Singer’s superhero epic reflect moden technology’s increasing proximity to the realm of eerie magic. Isn’t saying you want to see the film that started it all a bit like dating a Homo erectus for insight into human psychology?
In a way, yes. Nonetheless, there are two reasons to head to Cinematheque Ontario’s screening of The Seven Samurai tonight. First, because, Kurosawa’s script is an interesting piece of social critique, and second, because, despite the film’s age, its best shots are still more arresting than even the slickest CGI.
If you think you’re going to see a rip-roaring action flick of the Sly and Arnie variety, think again. Just because it’s the father of action films, doesn’t mean it has to be vapid. Kurosawa made Samurai because he wanted to make a movie about Japan’s past and one that called for a new humanistic approach to its future. The film’s plot is simple: a small village impoverished by banditry hires a team of freelance samuraito protect them. The villagers have nothing to offer but rice, but the samurai, lead by the simultaneously childlike and stoic Takashi Shimura, agree nonetheless. On the surface, this might seem a rather plain premise, but in the Edo period, where the film is set, farmers and samurai were never permitted to rub shoulders. They belonged to different castes. Suddenly, in Kurosawa’s re-imagining of history, class boundaries fall away in the face of necessity and a shared brotherhood. The town, which has traditionally feared and despised samurai, must open itself to the warriors; in turn, the samurai must learn to pity and protect the lowly farmers. Kurosawa uses sub-plots to bend social lines even further: an uneducated, unrefined buffoon of a farmer’s son (played by Tishiro Mifune) rises to the level of samurai; meanwhile, a samurai and a farmer’s daughter meet and fall in love, ultimately earning the community’s reluctant approval. Watching The Seven Samurai, it’s easy to see the director’s fascination with Shakespeare shining through.
If you’re willing to look this film in the eye (acknowledging its length and pacing and age for what they are), then there’s a great deal of value here. Far be it for me to tell you what to see, but this is a film that has insisted on its place in cinematic history. And one that demands viewing.
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Wondering if someone could help me understand crowding out effect; I had understood it as a function of expansionary fiscal policy (increased government spending) which crowded out private investment. I got a question wrong on CFA, which said that crowding out effect is associated with increasing government borrowing.
Looking at Schweser I see the following two explanations:
" Increased government borrowing will tend to increase interest rates, and firms may reduce their borrowing and investment spending as a result, decreasing the impact on aggregate demand of deficit spending. This is referred to as the crowding-out effect."
"Crowding-out effect: Expansionary fiscal policy may crowd out private investment, reducing the impact on aggregate demand."
In my mind, these lines are saying two different things: One says expansionary fiscal policy causes it (which would be increased government spending, not borrowing) and one says increased government borrowing causes it (which would be contractionary fiscal policy no?)
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Last half term our main topic focused around studying the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. We have looked at why the Egyptians settled along the River Nile, the impact of the River Nile on everyday life and farming and how their beliefs were very different to ours. We also had a visitor from Wakefield Museum Service who brought in real Egyptian artefacts for us to examine and explore further.
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This year we will be studying 6 different topics. An overview/breakdown of these can be found below...
This term we will be studying...
(A study of the features of Rivers and waterways)
For a closer look at what we will be learning each term , click on the parent flyer below!
SEESAW Homework APP
Homework this year will be all provided on our online platform seesaw. Each child will be given a unique passcode or QR code to scan. This will allow them to access weekly (differentiated) homework provided by their teachers. Please click on the link above to log into Seesaw.
Each week your child will be set homework in the following areas:
- Maths - work linked to this weeks work in class
- Maths - key mental targets (see below to download a spare copy)
- GPS (Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling)
Reading at Home
Children will also be expected to cpmplete reading at home to an adult. The expected amount is at least 4 reads of 20 minutes per week it is vital that your child completes this as it supports the learning that takes place in the classroom
All reading at home should be recorded in the reading log book so that children can earn rewards for their efforts.
Maths Homework Packs - 2 Minute Challenges
To be tested each week - Your child will have the appropriate revision sheets uploaded to their seesaw home learning space, but a spare can be downloaded here if you wish! Your child should only revise one page per week.
Further Homework Support
Purple Mash is a fantastic resource that allows your child to word process, create images, create code and much much more. Every child has a login for Purple Mash and this can be used both at school and at home. Please click on the LINK above to link to this site.
Please ask your child's teacher if you require a new username and password.
Additional times table challenges can be created from the website below.
More online games to support learning
6 Unicorns - Wednesday with Mrs Speight
6 Griffins- Wednesday with Mrs Speight
6 Phoenix - Wednesday with Elite
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They’re pushing forward, doing what’s right — and figuring out a way to pay off their own debt.
그리고 Rutgers 대학 졸업생 한 명을 위해, 참신한 아이디어와 관련된.
뉴저지 native Pathik Oza graduated in 2018 with a B.A. from Rutgers University — he studied psychology and biology — with $ 70,000 in student loans, he told Fox News Digital in an interview.
And while Oza began pursuing another degree ahead of his plan to attend medical school, he also found a passion for rehoming used and discarded books.
“I was walking around one day during the summer, and I saw books lying there, and I thought there would be an opportunity,” 그는 말했다.
“Why would books be thrown away? They could be redistributed to someone who may need them. So I just started this volunteer work where I would collect unwanted books,” he told Fox News Digital.
What began as a kind gesture and a chance to give back to local libraries, 학교, shelters and children’s hospitals turned into a sparkling new business opportunity.
An increasing number of requests for books and a high demand for his services became something far too large for just Oza and his Toyota RAV4 to handle. | <urn:uuid:6a2e7962-ffdf-4ae4-b41a-80e671b8ea46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://i898.s1000.xrea.com/nj-college-graduate-pays-off-70k-in-student-loans-by-starting-used-book-business/?lang=ko | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.982574 | 344 | 1.570313 | 2 |
FRUITS WITH A LOT OF CALCIUM
Do fruits have lots of calcium?
The content of calcium in fruits is generally lower than that of legumes, although we must consider that some of the calcium in legumes is lost in cooking, while fruits are usually eaten raw, so that, in practice, the percentage of calcium purchased is close to those.
We also have to keep in mind that a large part of the calcium in the fruit is found in the skin. In general, fruit juices often have less calcium than the fruits themselves from which they come.
Which fruits have the most calcium?
Dried figs are rich in calcium
Raisins contain a lot of calcium
Among the richest fruits in calcium are dehydrated fruits and berries. A special case deserves jamaica rose and dried figs:
Jamaican rose (Hibiscus sabdariffa), also called Abyssinian rose, Roselle, Gabeche or Jamaican flower is a plant of the family of the mallow that can reach the 3 or 5 meters of height.
It draws much attention by the strong red chalice of its flowers that is used as medicinal.
It is a plant that has been widely used as a dye, as a vegetable fiber and as a medicinal plant.
The fruit preparations facilitate urination, lower blood pressure and reduce fever.
Its leaves are edible. From its fruits are made jams that possess a very high level of calcium.
The calcium content of dried figs exceeds that of milk.
FRUITS WITH CALCIUM – LIST OF FRUITS RICH IN CALCIUM (milligrams kg)
In order from highest to lowest content:
More information on calcium
|Calcium, chlorine, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium||Copper, chromium, fluorine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, iodine, zinc.|
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Fish Sampling Equipment
Fish sampling requires the use of direct current electricity supplied by the electrofishing gear. There are three main types of equipment used during the Biological Assessment fish collection.
One to three battery-powered backpack shockers are used to electrofish smaller streams. This is accompanied by one to three persons netting the fish and placing them into containers to be identified, counted, and released immediately following the fish sampling.
A barge shocker, or "tow boat" is a small vessel that carries a generator, electrical control box, retractable electrodes, and a live well. This device is used in relatively deep or wide wadeable streams which cannot be effectively sampled with backpack shockers. It is not uncommon to use additional backpack shockers to accompany the barge, using them to shock shallower areas or side channels.
The boat shocker is only used for the non-wadeable rivers occasionally sampled in the Biological Assessment program. This is a boat, manned by 3-5 people, which contains a generator and electrofishing gear. It is used to sample areas of larger rivers that are too deep and wide to be sampled with any other means. | <urn:uuid:ce4376e6-08ba-44ac-a747-142bb18f1a41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://programs.iowadnr.gov/bionet/Docs/Codex/Fish%20Sampling%20Equipment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.938447 | 255 | 3.203125 | 3 |
A neurosurgeon? A dentist? An engineer? What do you dream to be?
If you are on the brink of making a career choice after studying in the Science stream, particularly in Physics, Chemistry, Maths, and Biology (PCMB), your career opportunities may not be limited to just a handful of traditional options. Whether you continue to love all things science or you’re someone who has reconsidered their passion for the subject, there are ample PCMB career options for all.
Before you dive deep into exploring PCMB career options, perhaps, you might want to understand how to recognise a course that paves the way to your desired career. Here are a few tips to help:
If you’ve always wanted to take the traditional route of engineering or medical, then you already know the courses that best suit you. On the other hand, if you are someone who wants to pursue something unconventional, like dance, fine arts, defense, etc. — then do your research and look for courses that offer what you are looking for.
If you have figured out what interests you, the next step would be to find a course that helps you build your knowledge of the subject. Check out college/university websites. Go through the courses they offer and the syllabus under each course to understand if it is indeed what you’re looking for.
If you find a course that takes you closer to your dream career, make sure you understand its financial prospects clearly. It is only logical to choose a career that only feeds your passion but fills your pocket too.
Were you always extra attentive in Biology classes about DNA and genetics? Do the complex DNA structure and its life-giving processes fascinate you? If you love biology and wish for a unique career that involves modifying and studying the DNA to improve life, then genetic engineering could be your calling.
As the name suggests, a genetic engineer specialises in working with genetics in animals and plants. As a genetic engineer, you could either work in a research lab, understanding and modifying the genes of crops to produce quality food, or work as a genetic counsellor for people with rare genetic disorders.
In the food and agriculture industry, a genetic engineer would manipulate crop genes in order to form new variants that are better in terms of quality and quantity. They would also dedicate their work hours to biopesticide production and nutraceutical development.
If your interests are more inclined toward medical, then you could choose to work for pharmaceutical companies, healthcare organisations, research and development companies, universities, or government bodies. Genetic engineering is a very vast field that offers opportunities in ecological, human, conservation, medical, classical, quantitative, molecular, and immunogenetics.
The demand for genetic engineers soars by the day across the world. Especially in India, there is high demand for genetically modified crops that meet the food requirements of the exploding population. There is a lot of scope for genetic engineers in several sectors including forensic labs, dairy, agriculture, and biomedical industries.
A genetic engineer can also build an exciting career working for huge corporates and startups that solely focus on genetics.
To pursue a career in genetic engineering, you must pick science, specifically the PCMB combination, in your 11th and 12th grades. You can then proceed to get a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics. You could further specialise by choosing the field of your choice in genetics during post-graduation. There are several options in terms of specialisation in genetic engineering. You could get a Master of Science degree in Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, Biomedical Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Human Genetics, Microbial Genetics and Bioinformatics, etc.
Great visuals always grab attention. You open your social media and double tap on a picture, why? Most often it’s because it presents information in an appealing way — making you stop and take notice of what a brand or person is trying to communicate. You are walking down the street and you notice a billboard, why? Possibly for the same reason — it engages you. If you have an artistic mind with an interest in communication, then you could be an excellent graphic designer.
As a graphic designer, you would be spending your day creating functional, effective, and meaningful visuals, either for digital or print media. Your creatives will have to be aligned with a client or your company’s needs. For example, you could be asked to design for marketing campaigns, social media posts, print ads, banners, etc.
A graphic designer would have to be creative and must possess the ability to understand the interests of people for whom an ad or a banner is designed. Great communication skills, familiarity with designing software, and a basic understanding of web development are essential for a career in graphic designing.
Graphic design is a booming industry across the globe. Several surveys predict a huge increment in the demand for graphic designers between 2020 to 2030. This is a result of the increasing digital presence of companies, including tech giants.
As a graphic designer, you could work for advertising agencies, software development companies, video productions, or corporate organisations for branding and product packaging.
Completing your undergraduate degree in graphic designing would be ideal as this helps nurture useful skills for a career. It also gives you opportunities to build a portfolio of work that you could showcase to your future employers.
In addition to a degree, you could also certify in popular designing softwares such as Adobe. Make sure you intern as much as you can to gain maximum knowledge and exposure.
Have you ever wondered how fingerprints help solve crimes? Were you ever fascinated by how evidence and clues from the crime scene are so significant in solving a puzzle? If problem-solving is one of your strengths and you have a soft spot for science, then a career in forensic science would be most suitable for you.
Forensic science can be defined as the application of scientific knowledge and methods in a variety of crime-related settings. The central aim of this science is to discover and study physical evidence through testing and evaluation.
As a forensic scientist, you would:
Forensic pathologists, forensic science technicians and forensic analysts are some of the most interesting career options in forensic science. Some of these professions would require you to pursue a medical course and train in residency.
With the rate of crimes increasing exponentially across the country, there is indeed a high demand for forensic experts in India. One can build a successful career in forensic science by opting for a job with several government bureaus such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or the Information Bureau. There are umpteen opportunities in the private sector too. A degree in forensic science could fetch you a job in legal firms or you could also be hired as a private investigator.
A bachelor’s degree in forensic science would be the minimum requirement for a career as a forensic scientist. An undergraduate course would help you gain a theoretical and practical understanding of forensic sciences. You may pursue courses like B.Sc. in forensic science and criminology, B.Tech in cyber security and forensics, and B.Sc in chemistry. A post-graduate degree is not mandatory for most forensic science jobs but employers do value field experience.
Have you ever wondered how information is collected, analysed, and interpreted by reporters before presenting it on the news? Journalists assess trends and important issues in various fields such as politics, business, economy, entertainment, sports, and more to deliver significant information to the masses. You would love a career as a journalist if you love current affairs and have an inclination towards mass communication.
A journalist is responsible for unbiased reporting of all that is happening across the world. Journalism is an umbrella term for a field that offers numerous career options. You could choose to work either for television, radio, print (newspaper and magazines), or digital media.
One of the important qualities a journalist must possess is good research skills. While reporting on an issue, a journalist must be informed enough to investigate and analyse the issue to report an unbiased story. A good journalist would also have excellent conversational skills that enable them to conduct impactful interviews and collect vital information.
No doubt, journalism is a flourishing industry. The number of television news channels, magazines, and digital media houses is increasing each day. With a command over your language — be it English or any regional language — and an inquisitive mind, you could definitely achieve a lot with a career in journalism.
An undergraduate degree is a minimum requirement for a position at a media house. Although a degree in journalism will only improve your skillset and knowledge, a degree in related courses such as public relations or even English literature is accepted by many universities.
What are the PCMB career options that you have in mind? Tell us in the comments below!
1. What should I do after 12th PCMB?
PCMB students can pursue careers ranging from pharmacy and genetic engineering to journalism and psychology.
2. Are PCMB students eligible for NEET?
Yes, studying Biology in class 12 is one of the main criteria for NEET
3. Are PCMB students eligible for JEE?
Yes, PCMB students are eligible for JEE
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The goal of farming efficiently is to store the largest amount of data in the smallest amount of space with the lowest power. Generally, this involves tradeoffs of cost, availability, reliability, cooling, and noise, based on the size and location of the farm. Farming in the Chia network is a very lightweight process from the CPU side, so the goal of a farmer platform really revolves around IO connectivity and the number of drives you can attach. This quickly expands to other goals, which we will explore in a few key concepts. As you can see there is a large list of tradeoffs. The good news is, storage is already being deployed in large-scale data centers and for the most part this is a problem that has already been solved, as you will see when we get towards the bottom into enterprise storage arrays, JBODs that are designed to solve all these challenges.
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- Demystifying Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and ICOs
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- Predicting changes in Bitcoin price using grey system theory
- Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain size as of January 9, 2022
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After all, the ethos of Bitcoin is all about self-sovereignty. There are a few categories of wallets from mobile wallets, software wallets, multi-sig wallets, third-party custodial wallets, and of course hardware wallets. If you hold a substantial amount of cryptocurrency, it is highly recommended that you consider a hardware wallet for maximum security.
There are several hardware options on the market today. To save you time, we reviewed ten of the most common wallets on the market. One of the most popular non-custodial wallets on the market, this is perhaps the simplest wallet to use with a PIN code and a recovery phrase. Ledger wallets integrate a certified chip design to withstand sophisticated attacks, as well as their own operating system.
With the Ledger Live App, you can also buy crypto directly, send it, receive it or stake it. Ledger hardware wallets can be used with multi-sig setups through open-source 3rd party tools such as Electrum, Caravan, Lily Wallet, or Casa Wallet.
You can start your crypto journey by using a Ledger Live exchange integration to buy crypto, then secure, manage, receive, send and stake your crypto assets. The Nano X can store more than tokens. One of the most popular wallets on the market, the Trezor Model T provides multi-signature security and comes with a magentic dock for convenience.
The device requires a connection to a computer and can be used with Trezor Suite or with 3rd party desktop wallets such as Electrum, Exodus Wallet, Magnum Wallet and Blockstream Green. Trezor supports over tokens and is the only full open-source hardware wallet that has allowed thousands of people to build their own devices. Made by Coinkite, this multi-sig, open-source wallet looks like a mini-calculator at first glance. Coinkite, as one of the oldest Bitcoin companies on the market, ensuring that this wallet is jam-packed with features and regarded as one of more secure options to store your Bitcoin no other tokens supported at this time.
Simply mark the first 4 letters of each seed word from any hardware wallet on the plate, up to 24 words. One of the simplest hardware wallet for beginners, BitBox02 boasts a fast setup, microSD backup, in-app guide, and intuitive touch sliders. Just connect this open-source, multi-sig wallet to your computer.
The wallet is both multi-sig and open source, and works with coins and , tokens. OPOLO wallet app has two built in coin swap options, that let users to swap any coin or token within the app. OPOLO wallets support a character long password and passphrases, and come with a built in password manager to manage any passwords gmail, facebook, etc for maximum security.
Cobo Vault wallet is one of the most secure multi-sig, open-source and non-custodial wallets for Bitcoin. Cobo Vault is QR code air-gapped for maximum security. Notably, this wallet has a fingerprint sensor, and is waterproof and drop resistant. The only way to sign and approve the transaction is to scan the short-distance QRcode, which can prevent any online attacks and short-distance peeking. SafePal S1 is embedded with multiple security sensors, as well.
Once any malicious attempt is detected by the sensors, the sensor will trigger a self-destruct mechanism and thus the secure element will erase all wallet data, leaving no trace for the hackers. The SexuX Hardware Wallet uses a web and mobile app, and is powered by a mAh lithium battery for up to 7 hours of usage. No computer hook-up required. The V20 wallet features a round aluminum shell to protect the hardware against any rough transport.
The 2. Tangem cards provide a refreshing alternative to the clunky hardware wallets. Using the Tangem app, hold your phone over the card to discover your wallet. Use the app to transact and check your balance. One of the most affordable wallets on the market, the Satochip card looks like a regular chip debit or credit card, and comes with its own reader. The hardware supports multiple software clients, and provides multi-signature security, while being fully open source.
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Solana private key format. Recently, the demand for access-conditioned content in Web3 has exploded: subscriptions, streaming, private NFTs, NFTs as access tokens, the list goes on. If the pool utilizes a Saber decimal-wrapped token, either the decimal-wrapped or Solana native mint address can be provided. Therefore, it has no network functionalities. Please note that the PassPhrase is crucial to your assets. For non-fungible assets, each issuance of units creates a new token with a unique name. For this exercise we will take "1" as private key which is an acceptable private key because it lies in specified range mentioned above.
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This article is the first in a two-part series on cryptocurrency and climate change. Are you thinking of investing in Bitcoin? The car manufacturer revealed in February that it had invested USD 1. In this first article of our two-part series on cryptocurrency and climate change, Landscape News went to the experts and put Bitcoin under the microscope. In How Bad Are Bananas? That is roughly the same as driving from San Francisco to New York 15, times, or the amount of carbon hypothetically sequestered by a forest the size of Portugal. According to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance , Bitcoin currently uses more electricity than the entire countries of Austria and Greece combined.
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There's also live online events, interactive content, certification prep materials, and more. The blockchain data structure is an ordered, back-linked list of blocks of transactions. The blockchain can be stored as a flat file, or in a simple database. The blockchain is often visualized as a vertical stack, with blocks layered on top of each other and the first block serving as the foundation of the stack. Each block within the blockchain is identified by a hash, generated using the SHA cryptographic hash algorithm on the header of the block.
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Bitcoin mining — the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm — is a deeply energy intensive process. Bitcoin mining — the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithms — is a deeply energy-intensive process. Miners are rewarded in bitcoin. But the way bitcoin mining has been set up by its creator or creators — no one really knows for sure who created it is that there is a finite number of bitcoins that can be mined: 21m. The more bitcoin that is mined, the harder the algorithms that must be solved to get a bitcoin become.
Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain size as of January 9, 2022
Scalability is an ongoing field of research and a challenge in blockchain technology. Without scaling the speed of many blockchains today — Bitcoin achieves around transactions per second, Ethereum about 15 transactions per second — widespread adoption of the technology by businesses and private individuals all around the world cannot happen. Blockchain Layers to Scale There are two approaches to blockchain scaling — scaling the protocol layer layer 1 scaling or scaling using solutions on top of the protocol that do not require changes to the core code of the blockchain layer 2, or L2 scaling. Scaling one of these layers offers multiplicative benefits when combined with the other one, meaning a 10x improvement in the first layer or base layer and a x improvement in the second layer could easily compound to an overall x throughput enhancement. Second layer scaling is different from sidechains that are linked to the main chain.
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Questions about how Bitcoin currently works related to scaling as well as questions about the technical terminology related to the scaling discussion. Bitcoin was initially released with a dynamic block "change" limit equivalent to approximately kB worth of normal transactions; there was a "hard" size limit of 32 MiB, but it was effectively impractical to hit unless one crafted a spam block. Statements by Nakamoto in the summer of indicate he believed Bitcoin could scale to block sizes far larger than 1 megabyte.
Cryptocurrencies are all the rage. At its core, blockchain technology does nothing more than maintain a decentralized log of transactions that can be easily shared across many nodes miners. PWAs are more developer-friendly to distribute than mobile apps. He does a great job of providing valuable information to developers! Within minutes, you should be able to log in to our developer console and create new applications. You can track this issue on GitHub.
On May 16, , the accumulated growth in data size of the BSV blockchain surpassed the BTC blockchain for the first time, with the total data stored on-chain reaching Since then, BSV continues to extend its lead as the largest and most data-rich blockchain, increasing the amount of data stored on-chain to The continued data growth of the BSV blockchain can be attributed to its decision to follow Bitcoin creator's Satoshi Nakamoto's vision to scale unbounded; with no limit on the default block cap size and thus the transaction volume and data capacity on the BSV blockchain. In contrast, the BTC network imposes a default block cap size of only 1 MB with block weight up to 4 MB , limiting its network to 7 transactions per second on-chain - requiring higher transaction fees and restricting the utility of its network to high-value and 'store of value' transactions. For many years, BTC supporters have argued that the Bitcoin network cannot or should not scale, but their position has been proven wrong by the BSV network's greater data capacity.
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There was good cause for these exclamations upon the part of the Yankee and Irishman, as they stood on the margin of Wolf Ravine, and gazed off over the prairie. Several miles to the north, something like a gigantic man could be seen approaching, apparently at a rapid gait for a few seconds, when it slackened its speed, until it scarcely moved.
Occasionally it changed its course, so that it went nearly at right angles. At such times, its colossal proportions were brought out in full relief, looking like some Titan as it took its giant strides over the prairie.
The distance was too great to scrutinize the phenomenon closely; but they could see that a black volume of smoke issued either from its mouth or the top of its head, while it was drawing behind it a sort of carriage, in which a single man was seated, who appeared to control the movements of the extraordinary being in front of him.
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If you love your dog and at the same time you are fond of gardening, then may you will have to consider a few things to keep both safe.
While you cannot really get “rid” of your canine best friend, you can definitely avoid some plants that may be toxic and even deadly for dogs.
If you do not have some of this possible toxic plants at your home, these can definitely be in the gardens or even on the roadside where you take your dog for walks.
Here are five plants we think should be avoided by you if you love your dog:
#1 Sago Palm
These ornamental palms are primarily seen in places which have warmer climates but beware. The plant can be highly toxic to dogs. Some dog breeds tend to be attracted to these plants as they are said to be tasty for the dog, they can have serious side effects. The effects include liver failure which may be even lead to death.
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#2 Tomato Plant
While tomatoes are considered to be delicious among Humans, the same can cause weakness, gastrointestinal problems, drowsiness, dilated pupils, slow heart rate, and confusion among dogs. Ensure your dog is away from such plants.
#3 Aloe Vera
This one can cause vomiting, diarrhoea, lethargy, tremors, and general central nervous system depression.
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Any form of ivy should be avoided if you have a dog. If a dog consumes even a little ivy, it may be hit with vomiting, diarrhoea, excessive salivation and drooling, and abdominal pain.
Tulips are loved by everyone but consider them a killer for your dog. These are poisonous plants for dogs and can result in gastrointestinal problems accompanied by central nervous system depression and even convulsions leading to death.
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It was in 1853 that Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild acquired Château Brane-Mouton at auction. Located in the heart of the Médoc, in the appellation of Pauillac, the estate was renamed Château Mouton Rothschild. In 1924, Baron Philippe de Rothschild took over the reins of the property. A visionary, he decided to initiate bottling directly at the estate and also designed a label for the wine. In 1973 Château Mouton Rothschild became a First Classified Growth. An icon of the Pauillac appellation, Château Mouton Rothschild has produced magnificent Bordeaux wines, known by wine lovers around the world.
Château Mouton Rothschild 2021 is a Pauillac wine that stems from a 90-hectare vineyard, located to the north-west of Bordeaux in the Médoc region. The vines are planted in stony, gravelly soils that capture the heat and restore it during the night, thus helping the grapes ripen. These poor, well-drained soils are lain over clay-gravelly subsoils, lending the wines of Château Mouton Rothschild a certain power, elegance and a tannic structure.
The mildness and humidity of winter favoured an early and even budburst. April was particularly dry and was punctuated by frost periods which did not impact the vineyard, thanks to its location near the Gironde estuary. Despite the coolness and rainfall during May, which slowed down the vegetative development, the optimal flowering period took place under mild temperatures. Although from mid-June to mid-July there was a strong mildew pressure, resulting from unstable stormy conditions, which persisted until the end of the veraison period. The vineyard health benefited from the dry climate in August which ensured that the grapes ripened gradually. Harvested at optimal maturity, the healthy and concentrated grapes reveal a fresh, balanced and structured expression that resonates with the great vintages of the last century.
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NBC10 is one of more than 20 news organizations collaboratively reporting on solutions to poverty and Philadelphia’s push towards economic mobility.
A new series of rules aiming to protect tipped workers is now in effect across Pennsylvania.
One update to the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act stipulates that employees must now make at least $135 a month in tips before bosses are allowed to drop their hourly pay from $7.25 an hour to as low as $2.83 an hour. Before, employees needed to make only $30 in monthly tips before their bosses could drop their hourly pay.
Additionally, tip pooling will be allowed among employees but will in most cases exclude managers, supervisors and business owners.
Employers will also be prevented from deducting credit card and other non-cash payment fees from workers’ tips, and they must clarify to customers that automatic service charges are not tips for workers.
Workers must be allowed to spend at least 80% on their time doing work that generates tips.
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Main source: Story by market blogger Zhu Ping in Sinafinance
THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON is drawing to a close, and Chinese investors are all too happy to greet the next cycle – the Snake Year – which begins on February 10.
The year 2013 will be a better year for several reasons.
For most of 2012, there was very little to smile about regarding the performance of China’s A-share markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
China's "New 1949"
After flirting with the 2,500 level this May, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has been in virtual freefall mode ever since, reaching a near-term low of 1,949 in early December.
But this month has been a different story altogether, with the Index rising nearly 13% since the final month of the calendar year began.
In fact, sentiment is such improved of late that investors jokingly refer to the 1,949 level in early December as “The Nation’s Second Founding,” a take on the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in the year 1949 after the end of the long civil war.
Whether or not this symbolic market “bottom” of 1,949 points is here to stay and won’t be challenged again is still a major unknown, but there is reason to be optimistic that its depths are virtually unassailable.
China’s current A-share slump can be compared to the capital markets of 1970s America.
The post-war boom following WWII was long over, and the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts had become part of history books.
The US, along with the entire industrialized world, were searching in vain for a new engine of growth to spur the sluggish global equity markets into a faster-expansion phase.
The US economy along with the leading GDPs of pre-EU Europe were sputtering in neutral, looking to gain traction, and still reeling from the oil crisis of 1973.
The doldrums weren’t merely because the long-entrusted economic growth policies off Keynes were invalid or suddenly ineffective.
In actuality, the biggest hurdle to progress at the time was that people were no longer hungry.
Not hungry in a literal sense, with long bread lines and empty bellies.
But the West had reached a postwar boom and stagnation, and now individual countries were looking for new growth models to sustain and grow their collective prosperity.
People had enough to eat and drink, they were properly clothed and housed and the gap between rich and poor in the industrialized world was not as glaring at it is today.
This led to a gradual complacency, then a malaise, and finally – market inactivity and sluggishness.
Some big-picture economists at the time were saying that the industrialized world had amassed enough wealth and prosperity to reach a sustainable “Zero Growth” economic model, and could carry on as such for the foreseeable future without the need for constant stimuli.
The US stock markets apparently seemed to be taking the bait, and managed to stubbornly refuse to turn bullish despite a decade of relatively robust earnings results from listed enterprises.
In fact, it wasn’t until US shares as a whole slumped to an average P/E ratio of just seven times that the “true bottom” was reached and a sustainable bull run could begin in earnest.
It is clear that Chinese shares have seen a similar cyclicality, ridden the economic boom of the past three decades to soar sky high in the half-decade leading up to the Wall Street Crash in 2008.
But since then, A-shares have been some of the world's worst performers and a new growth story is desperately needed to be narrated.
So when China’s overall P/E ratio recently slumped into this Brave New World territory, financial journalists collectively asked: “Just 7x? So where are the funds?”
CCTV and other major media outlets recently asked several fund managers how they could avoid the temptation of such a depressed market, and the answers they received were very revealing.
A noteworthy number of money managers say they had already jumped back into the market, head first in many cases, when the all-important P/E level sunk below 9x.
And now that it is flirting with 7x, these same fund managers are spending most of their time apologizing to clients for their premature entry, and doing everything in their power to keep unhappy investors on the books with better returns elsewhere.
Thanks to a red-hot December – at least as far as local equity prices are concerned – P/Es are rising and so is general interest in the A-share markets once again.
Helping matters greatly was a recent report in the China Securities Journal saying the National Social Security Fund had issued funds to fund managers who successfully applied to manage the larger allocation.
The same report also stated Guangdong Province’s social security authority had completed the allocation of 100 billion yuan for investment over the past three months.
With newfound funds, liquidity and the promise of more robust daily turnover days to come, it’s no wonder that things are looking up this month and beyond.
It’s hard to imagine that 2013 could be worse than this year -- which is mercifully drawing to a close.
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In the race of technological advancements where Google considers the ease of people in reading their text messages and is about to announce its text message reader speakers, Bosch also takes pains to advance in the automotive industry.
With the advancements in the automotive industry, self-driving cars or planet friendly electric drivetrains are changing the world as well as the way people think.
Robert Bosch is a German multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. According to 2011 revenues, it is the world’s largest supplier of automotive components.
Here is a glimpse of some latest innovations that company is working on and destined to ease you in the near future.
1.Handover between autonomous and semi-autonomous
Bosch shows off the switch-over experience between autonomous and non-autonomous modes making it clear that autonomous systems are ready and the companies have stepped up to focus on the semi-autonomous driving modes with the arrival of Tesla Model S ( level 4 autonomy ).
The car has been enabled to count down to the time the driver needs to take over. The driver simply presses two buttons on steering wheel to take back control when he is ready.
Excitedly, if some time driver loses control, Tesla itself would pull over to the side of the road to stop in a lay-by.
2.Wireless charging BMW i3
3.Sensors to make you stop from hitting things
No more need of repenting the beep you ignored that was actually made by the sensor in your latest car to tell you that you are about to face something ahead, but you ignored that beep and hit something. That’s nothing new, usually, people ignore that beep and face losses.
Bosch is working to apply automatic brakes in the next generation systems giving you 360-degree protection by stopping automatically at the very last moment to stop you from facing an accident.
It also prevents side impacts of braking and you will not hit a child behind your car.
4.A vision for full autonomy
While travelling in autonomous mode, what can a driver do is selecting music, and interacting with his home to prepare it for getting there.
What makes the travelling experience safer is Vehicle-to-vehicle vehicle communication system. So to go on safely even if a vehicle quickly approaches from behind, without looking in the mirrors.
In this system, car’s screen notifies the driver of the overtaking vehicle making the autonomous cars fully autonomous.
Bosch is working on this project.
6.ABS on bicycles
Powerful braking systems are the need of the day.
Bosch has taken inspiration from Anti-lock systems of car and motorbike and adjusted brake pressure in its bicycle ABS system so to avoid skidding.
In this system, wheel speed sensors monitor the speed of both wheels with the help of front-wheel ABS. When the front wheel threatens to lock up, the Bosch’s e-bike ABS regulates the braking pressure and optimises the stability and manoeuvrability of the e-bike.
Greasy, wet city roads or gravelly mountain trails are no problems with this system.
The system will be available in the markets in the latter half of 2018. At present, the system is being trialled on fleet bikes in Europe.
7.Electric transportation for the masses
Bosch is trying to introduce affordable mobility to the streets via its partnership with e.Go.
There are two models of an early prototype compact electric car, one has 14.4 kWh capacity battery and the other has 19.2 kWh capacity with ranges from 80mph to 110mph. The speed of both cars is 62mph.
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What is acne?
Acne is a very common skin condition identified by the presence of comedones (blackheads and whiteheads) and pus-filled spots (pustules). It usually starts during puberty. Acne ranges from a few spots on the face, neck, back and chest, which most teenagers will have at some time, to a more severe problem that may cause scarring and reduce self-confidence. For most, it tends to go away by the early to mid twenties, but it can go on for longer. Acne can also develop for the first time in people in their late twenties and beyond.
Occasionally, young children will develop blackheads and/or pustules on the cheeks or nose.
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What causes acne?
Our sebaceous (oil-producing) glands are affected by our hormones. In people who have acne, the glands are particularly sensitive, even to normal blood levels of these hormones. This causes the glands to produce too much oil. At the same time, the lining of the pores (the small holes in the skin’s surface) becomes thickened and dead skin cells are not shed properly. A mixture of the oil (sebum) and dead skin cells builds up and plugs the pores producing blackheads and whiteheads. The plug of dead skin turns black from exposure to air and not due to dirt.
The acne bacteria (now known as Cutibacterium acnes) live on everyone’s skin, usually causing no problems. In those with acne, the build-up of oil creates an ideal environment for the bacteria to multiply. This is accompanied by inflammation which leads to the formation of red, swollen or pus-filled spots.
Sometimes acne can be caused by medication given for other health conditions or by certain contraceptive injections or pills. Some tablets taken by body-builders contain hormones that can trigger acne too.
Diet can influence acne. High glycaemic index (GI) diets (e.g. sugar and sugary foods, white bread, potatoes, white rice etc) have been shown to cause or aggravate acne. Switching to a low GI diet may lead to fewer spots. There is also some evidence that consuming milk and dairy products may trigger acne in some people, but this hasn’t been studied in as much detail yet.
Most acne sufferers have normal hormone levels if tested; however, acne can sometimes be caused by a problem with the hormones. The most common problem with hormones is polycystic ovarian syndrome in females. If you are a woman and develop irregular periods, unusual hair growth or hair loss or other changes to your body, mention this to your doctor in case it is relevant.
Is acne hereditary?
Acne can run in families, but many people with acne do not have affected people in their family. It is likely that a combination of genetic, hormonal and lifestyle factors (such as diet, stress, skincare products etc) act in combination to cause most acne.
What does acne look like and what does it feel like?
The typical appearance of acne is a mixture of the following: oily skin, blackheads, whiteheads, red spots and pus-filled pimples. Occasionally, larger, deeper bumps (known as nodules) or cysts (which resemble boils) may develop. Affected skin may feel hot, painful and be tender to touch.
Acne can leave scars or marks on the skin, particularly in the presence of nodules and cysts. These may be raised and lumpy (known as hypertrophic or keloid scars) or indented (known as pitted or atrophic scars). Acne can also leave discolouration which may be red, hyperpigmented (darker than your usual skin colour) or hypopigmented (lighter than your normal skin colour).
Not all spots are acne, so if there is something unusual about the rash it is advisable to consult your doctor.
One important aspect of having acne that doesn’t get talked about very much is the effect on mood and self-esteem. Many studies have shown that acne itself has a negative psychological impact. For example, severe acne has been shown to be associated with suicidal behaviour. If you are suffering from acne and are feeling depressed, anxious or suicidal, it is important to speak to your doctor about these feelings as soon as possible.
How is acne diagnosed?
Acne is easily recognised by the appearance of the spots and by their distribution on the face, neck, chest or back.
Can acne be cured?
At present there is no ‘cure’ for acne, although the available treatments can be very effective in preventing the formation of new spots and reducing scarring.
How can acne be treated?
If you have acne but have had no success with over-the-counter products then it is probably time for you to visit your doctor. In general, most treatments take two to four months to produce their maximum effect.
Acne treatments fall into the following categories:
- Topical treatments, i.e. those that are applied directly to the skin
- Oral antibiotics, i.e. tablets taken by mouth
- Oral contraceptive pills
- Isotretinoin capsules
- Other treatments
These are usually the first choice for those with mild to moderate acne. There are a variety of active anti-acne agents, such as benzoyl peroxide, antibiotics (e.g. erythromycin, tetracycline and clindamycin), retinoids (e.g. tretinoin, isotretinoin and adapalene), azelaic acid and nicotinamide (also known as niacinamide). They should be applied to the entire affected area of the skin (e.g. all of the face) and not just to individual spots, usually every night or twice daily depending on the treatment.
Some topical treatments can be irritating to the skin, so it may be advised that the treatment is initially used on a small area of affected skin for a few applications before being applied to the entire affected area. It may also be recommended to gradually increase the use of the treatment, for example using it once or twice weekly, progressively building to regular daily use if tolerated. Consult your doctor if the treatment causes irritation of the skin.
Some topical treatments, such as retinoids can lead to the acne getting worse for a few weeks before it gets better.
Oral antibiotic treatment
Your doctor may recommend a course of antibiotic tablets, usually erythromycin or a type of tetracycline, which is often taken in combination with a suitable topical treatment.
Antibiotics need to be taken for at least two months, and are usually continued until there is no further improvement. Typical courses last three to six months. Some should not be taken at the same time as food or can make your skin more sensitive to the sun, so read the instructions carefully. It is also essential to let your doctor know if you are planning a pregnancy as some antibiotics cannot be taken if you are pregnant.
Oral contraceptive treatments
Some forms of the oral contraceptive pill can be helpful in females who have acne. The most effective contain a hormone blocker (e.g. cyproterone acetate) which reduces the amount of oil the skin produces. It usually takes at least three months for the benefits to show. Although it may not be taken primarily for this reason, the pill also helps to prevent conception. As it inhibits ovulation (release of the egg from the ovary), the pill may be less suitable in young teenage girls where ovulation is not well established. These tablets carry a small risk of blood clots so you must tell your doctor if you have any past history of these. This is a greater risk for people who smoke, are overweight or have others in the family who have had blood clots.
This is a highly effective treatment for severe or persistent acne and the improvements can be long-lasting in those who complete a course of treatment. It does, however, have the potential to cause a number of serious side effects and can be prescribed only under the supervision of a consultant dermatologist.
Most courses of isotretinoin last for four to six months during which time the skin usually becomes dry, particularly around the lips. Regular application of a lip balm can be helpful. Often, acne becomes a little worse for a few weeks before improvement occurs. The improvement is progressive throughout the course of treatment, so do not be disappointed if progress seems slow.
Isotretinoin can harm an unborn child. The government medicine safety agency (MHRA) has strict rules for doctors prescribing this medicine. Women enrol in a pregnancy prevention programme and need to have a negative pregnancy test prior to starting treatment. Pregnancy tests will be repeated every month during treatment and five weeks after completing the course of treatment. Effective contraception must be used for at least four weeks before treatment, whilst on treatment, and for at least four weeks afterwards.
Since it was first approved for treating acne in the 1980s, concerns have been raised that isotretinoin may cause depression and suicidal feelings. These reports must be considered in the context of elevated rates of depression and suicide in acne sufferers independent of isotreinoin therapy, so this can be complicated. Regulatory bodies, such as the MHRA (and the FDA in the United States) periodically review new data submitted by clinicians, pharmacists and patients. To date, a causal link between isotretinoin and psychiatric adverse effects has not been confirmed. The MHRA are due to meet again in 2020.
As a precaution, any personal or family history of low mood, depression or other mental illness must be disclosed to your dermatologist prior to consideration of isotretinoin therapy and you may be asked to see a psychiatrist before any treatment is commenced to determine if it is safe for you to proceed. Letting close friends and family know about your treatment provides an opportunity to flag any changes in your mood that must be reported to your doctor without delay.
It should be emphasised that many thousands of people have benefited from treatment with isotretinoin without serious side effects.
More detailed information on isotretinoin and its side effects can be found on the BAD website.
There are many forms of light and laser therapy for inflammatory acne but these types of treatment have given mixed results when studied and are usually ineffective in the treatment of severe acne. Laser resurfacing of facial skin to reduce post-acne scarring is an established technique requiring the skills of an experienced laser surgeon. Laser treatment should not be done for at least one year after completing a course of isotretinoin. This is not available on the NHS.
Various other techniques may also be used to improve the appearance of acne scars. These include steroid injections, microneedling and subcision and are also not routinely available on the NHS. Skin camouflage is an inexpensive and effective method for disguising changes in the pigmentation of the skin which can sometimes remain after acne has been treated.
Self care (What can I do?)
- Try not to pick or squeeze your spots as this usually aggravates them and may cause scarring and infection.
- If your self-confidence has been affected by acne or if you are feeling distressed, it is important to reach out to others for support. This includes friends, family members and support groups. You may also be able to access a counsellor through school, university or work.
- Let your GP or Dermatologist know if your acne is making you feel depressed or anxious. They will be able to speak with you about how you are feeling and help you to form a treatment plan, which may involve input from other specialists, such as psychologists or psychiatrists, if necessary.
- However your acne affects you, it is important to take action to control it as soon as it appears. This helps to avoid permanent scarring and reduces embarrassment. If your acne is mild, it is worth trying over-the-counter preparations in the first instance. Ingredients like salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide can be helpful. Your pharmacist will advise you.
- Expect to use your treatments for at least two months before you see much improvement. Make sure that you understand how to use them correctly so you get the maximum benefit.
- Some topical treatments may dry or irritate the skin when you start using them. If your face goes red and is irritated by a lotion or cream, stop treatment for a few days and try using the treatment less often and then building up gradually.
- Make-up may help your confidence. Choose products that are labelled as being ‘non-comedogenic’ (should not cause blackheads or whiteheads) or non-acnegenic (should not cause acne).
- Cleanse your skin and remove make-up with a gentle cleanser and water, or an oil-free soap substitute. Scrubbing too hard can irritate the skin and make your acne worse. Remember blackheads are not due to poor washing.
- Think about whether you get more spots after consuming high GI foods or dairy. If something seems to consistently trigger a breakout, what happens when you don’t have that food or drink for a few days, weeks or a month? Discuss with your doctor before permanently cutting any foods out of your diet as this can lead to nutritional deficiencies. Whilst diet may play a role in causing your spots, keeping your skin clear usually requires more than a diet change. | <urn:uuid:47464460-2398-40ed-87ee-bb654cf81198> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://knowyourskin.britishskinfoundation.org.uk/condition/acne/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkoS5mdvI2QIV77vtCh3h4AY4EAAYASAAEgJbo_D_BwE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.949711 | 2,825 | 3.171875 | 3 |
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Vitamin D is both a nutrient we eat and a type of vitamin our bodies make. It is a fat-soluble vitamin. In general, Vitamin D helps the body absorb and retain calcium and phosphorus; both are required for maintaining bone density and formation of new bone.
Some food naturally contain vitamin D, for example:-
oily fish – such as salmon, sardines, herring and mackerel
fortified foods – such as some fat spreads and breakfast cereals
For most people, the best way to get enough vitamin D is taking supplement, especially people with vegetarian diet. Vitamin D supplements are available in two forms: vitamin D2 (“ergocalciferol” or pre-vitamin D) and vitamin D3 (“cholecalciferol”). Both are also naturally occurring forms that are produced in the presence of the sun’s ultraviolet-B (UVB) rays, hence its nickname, “the sunshine vitamin.
A recent research in the International Journal of Endocrinology published in 2018 has concluded that vitamin D can affect testosterone levels and correcting vitamin D deficiency will effectively improve male sexual health.
It has been established that vitamin D deficiency is linked to poor male sexual function (especially erectile dysfunction). In the mentioned research, the participants had measurements of serum testosterone, Vitamin D, and completed the International Index of Erectile Function-15 (IIEF-15) questionnaire, a series of questions that gauges erectile and orgasmic function, sexual desire, intercourse satisfaction, and overall satisfaction. Higher scores on the IIEF-15 indicate better sexual function.
The researchers found that higher levels of vitamin D were associated with higher levels of total testosterone and higher scores on all domains of the IIEF-15. In addition, higher levels of total testosterone were associated with better erectile function and higher total IIEF scores.
In the research discussion, the authors discussed possible reasons behind the vitamin D/sexual function relationship. It is postulated that vitamin D protect the inner linings of the blood vessels from oxidative stress (improves vascular integrity), thus improving thus improving erections. Also, vitamin D deficiency is associated with cardiovascular risk that can also affect sexual function; healthy levels of vitamin D may mitigate this risk and, in turn, benefit sexual health.
They research has concluded that vitamin D plays an essential role in men’s sexual function and that supplementation can improve it. “If our data will be further confirmed, vitamin D evaluation might be included in the near future in the clinical work-up protocol of male sexual dysfunction,” they wrote.
Zinc is considered an essential nutrient, meaning that your body can’t produce or store it.
For this reason, you must get a constant supply through your diet or supplement.
Zinc is required for numerous processes in your body, including
Growth and development
Zinc is naturally found in a wide variety of both plant and animal foods.
Diet that includes zinc:
Foods highest in zinc include
Shellfish: Oysters, crab, mussels, lobster and clams
Meat: Beef, pork, lamb and bison
Poultry: Turkey and chicken
Fish: Flounder, sardines, salmon and sole
Dairy products: Milk, yogurt and cheese
Whole grains: Oats, quinoa, brown rice, etc.
Certain vegetables: Mushrooms, kale, peas, asparagus and beet greens
You can also take zinc supplements or multi-nutrient supplements that provide zinc.
A Journal published in 1996 explained how zinc affects serum testosterone levels. A group of young men with zinc deficient diet were studied and displayed both zinc and testosterone deficiency. Testosterone levels were measured and there was a significant decrease (almost 75 percent) after 20 weeks of a low-zinc diet.
The study also examined zinc supplementation in elderly men. In this study, testosterone levels in the elderly population had almost doubled when given the appropriate amount of zinc supplementation. Hence, it can be concluded that zinc is paramount for testosterone production.
For an adult male, 11 milligrams of zinc per day is considered the ideal amount to consume. Women should limit their zinc intake to 8 milligrams per day.
A high-protein diet will usually contain enough zinc. Meats such as beef, pork, lamb, and chicken are all good sources of zinc. Nuts, whole grains, legumes, and yeast also contain zinc.
Spermatogenesis is the medical term for the production of sperm in the human male body. Spermatogenesis takes about three months. For this to happen, the human body needs various essential nutritive substances to support the various development stages of the sperm cell, such as vitamins, vitamin-like substances, trace elements, mineral substances and amino acids. These nutrients are needed for optimal production of normal and healthy sperms.
PROfertil is a medical dietary supplement containing a number of micronutrients which work to improve male fertility levels. It contains the vitamins, minerals and enzymes necessary for healthy sperm production.
The contents of profertil are such as:-
· Coenzyme Q10
· Vitamin E
· Folic acid
The breakdown of the proven effects of each micronutrients within PROfertil are as highlighted:-
For men with the desire to have children the most important task is to optimise their normal reproductive function and to maintain normal spermatogenesis. The demand for those specific nutrients which contribute to normal fertility is substantial and it can be demonstrated that with the regular and targeted supply of a well-balanced combination of specific nutrient substances in sufficient quantities the natural process of sperm production may be affected on a nutritional basis.
Numerous substances which are vital for spermatogenesis have already been analysed individually and the findings are published by scientists. The formulation of the individual substances contained in PROfertil is based on these scientific results and the specific composition of PROfertil is tested in scientific studies.
Eurycoma longifolia, or tongkat ali, is a tree found in mainly Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Some species of the plant also grow in regions of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand. The plant’s long, twisted roots of which has been harvested for it’s medicinal value.
The health benefits of tongkat ali comes from various compounds found in the plant. Specifically, tongkat ali contains flavonoids, alkaloids, and other compounds that act as antioxidants.
Among some of the potential health benefits of tongkat ali includes:-
· Increase in serum testosterone hormone
A 1-month study in 76 older men with low testosterone found that taking 200 mg of tongkat ali extract per day significantly increased levels of this hormone to normal values in over 90% of participants
· increased semen volumes, sperm count, sperm viability, and sperm motility
· potential increase in libido
· Improved sperm concentration and motility
a 12-week study in 108 men ages 30–55 observed that taking 300 mg of tongkat ali extract daily increased sperm volume and motility by an average of 18% and 44%, respectively
According to these studies, tongkat ali effectively treats low testosterone and infertility in some men, but more extensive research is needed.
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In the wake of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, the Scottish National Party swept all before it. At the 2015 UK general election it won 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats, taking half the popular vote.
The 2016 Scottish election confirmed the SNP’s dominant position, winning 47 percent of the vote and giving it just short of an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament.
While the 4 May council elections did not see a reversal of the SNP’s fortunes — it emerged with the largest number of seats — it did signal the fact that some of its gloss may be starting to rub off. Despite its leading status, it was not able to win overall control of any single council.
The relative increase in support for the Tories, which has been grossly exaggerated by the media, is real enough. They took a quarter of first preference votes (on the Single Transferrable Vote system) winning 276 seats with a swing of 12 percent.
The main reason for this is the disastrous leadership of the Labour Party in Scotland by Kezia Dugdale, who spends most of her time attacking the SNP and the idea of a second independence referendum. The result of this is that much of the unionist vote has now consolidated behind the Tories.
The combined support for the pro-unionist parties in May’s elections was considerably greater than for those supporting independence. The Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats between them took a 56 percent share of first preference votes while the SNP and Greens took 36 percent. Hardly a ringing endorsement of independence.
This result can partly be put down to the lower turnout in council elections. However, it can also be explained by the performance of the SNP as a party of government.
The SNP came into power in 2007, when it first took over as a minority administration. Since then it has won two further elections, one with outright majority. It has had more than enough time to make an impact on the lives of people in Scotland.
More than one in five children in Scotland live in poverty and Scotland remains a deeply divided country with 1 percent of Scots owning half the wealth. The impact of the SNP in tackling the Tories’, and previous Labour governments’, policy of austerity and cuts has been negligible. SNP controlled councils have also implemented cuts just as vicious as their rivals.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, in the wake of the Brexit vote, has tied the issue of independence directly to Scotland’s continuing membership of the EU. Ignoring the complexity of the vote, she has presented the argument as a direct choice between a reactionary Tory Brexit and more progressive Scotland, which would have continuing access to the free market and the continued free movement of people. However, it has been recently shown that over two thirds of people in Scotland either want to leave the EU or want it reformed.
How all this affects the June UK general election is an open question. It would be nigh on impossible to expect the SNP to improve its position in comparison to 2015.
The Tories are likely to improve their performance and pick up several seats. Any improvement by them will be trumpeted by the Tory press as a means of ruling out a second independence referendum.
The Labour Party manifesto presented by Jeremy Corbyn does resonate in Scotland. Angus Robertson, the SNP deputy leader, has tried to rubbish it as a vision “that looks a lot like Scotland”. Unfortunately, this ignores the fact that Labour’s commitment under Jeremy Corbyn to tax the rich, renationalise the railways and the Post Office and restore workers’ rights puts it way to the left of anything being considered by the SNP.
However, the manifesto commitment to rule out a second referendum on Scottish independence means that it is doubtful that Labour will win back the support of working class voters who have switched to the SNP.
The radical left, which is not standing in this election, must hold to account the main parties looking for the support of the Scottish working class.
These parties need to be pressurised to ensure an early vote on Scottish independence and called upon to support immigrants and refugees, to commit strongly to anti-racism, to promise to remove Trident nuclear missiles, to put an end to warmongering and to break with the politics of austerity and cuts.
The results of the council elections show that Scotland is not totally immune to right wing and reactionary arguments. Failure by the leadership of the independence movement to move forward can easily set the movement backwards.
The scapegoating of immigrants and refugees is always part of the daily political discourse, in Scotland as well as England. That is why it is crucial that organisations such as Stand up to Racism and Unite Against Fascism must continue to play a central role in the political life of Scotland.
In November of last year, there was a brief moment of light amid the darkness that was 2020. Scotland became the first country in the world to make period products free for all. Just as the weekend and the eight-hour-day are now regarded by many as a given, future generations may be in disbelief that...
On 4 November last year, when many of us were watching the aftermath of the American presidential election, the US formally left the Paris Climate Agreement. Written in 2015 at the United Nations’ COP21 climate conference in Paris, the agreement is often considered to be the most significant document of international climate cooperation. Back then,...
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Pfandbrief banks establish minimum standards for Green Pfandbriefe
- “Green Pfandbrief” trademark will further boost a young segment
- Banks commit to ensuring a high degree of transparency and disclosing their contribution to climate protection
- Germany already one of Europe’s leading markets for green covered bonds
Pfandbrief issuers under the umbrella of the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (vdp) are introducing minimum standards for the issuance of “Green Pfandbriefe”. These are Mortgage Pfandbriefe secured by climate-friendly properties or real estate loans.
Jens Tolckmitt, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of German Pfandbrief Banks, says:
“We see great potential for Green Pfandbriefe. The new minimum standards will provide a further boost to this still young market segment, as they provide useful guidance for Pfandbrief banks and reassure investors that Green Pfandbriefe actually meet the stringent requirements placed on them."
The new standards take account of the initiatives being formulated at European level for the introduction of a taxonomy for sustainable economic activities and an “EU Green Bond Standard”. They include requirements for the energy efficiency of financed buildings and oblige Pfandbrief banks to maintain a high degree of transparency. Sustainable investors can therefore rest assured that all Green Pfandbriefe meet high sustainability demands.
By issuing Green Pfandbriefe, the Pfandbrief banks aim to play their part in protecting the climate, limiting global warming to 2 degrees centigrade and, in particular, achieving the carbon savings envisaged for the building sector. According to the German government’s climate protection plan, the building sector in Germany is expected to reduce carbon emissions to around 70 million tonnes in 2030 and become CO2 neutral by 2050.
Sustainable Pfandbriefe with a total value of just under EUR 5 billion are currently in circulation. The Pfandbrief banks have therefore established one of Europe’s leading markets for green covered bonds. To go on developing this market efficiently, the Pfandbrief banks will in future be able to use the “Green Pfandbrief” trademark, the rights to which the Association acquired from Berlin Hyp this year.
High degree of transparency
As transparency plays an increasingly important role for sustainable investors in particular, the Pfandbrief banks undertake to disclose detailed information about their Green Pfandbriefe. This particularly includes information on the qualifying assets in the cover pool, the issuer’s “Green Bond Framework” and the external opinion prepared by a qualified independent party.
At the same time, the minimum standards include an obligation to draw up and publish an annual impact report. This will ensure that investors not only know how banks use the proceeds of the issue, but also what contribution their investments actually make to climate protection.
In order to achieve the long-term goals, the minimum standards for Green Pfandbriefe are regularly reviewed and continually updated. This is done through an association committee in which all the Pfandbrief banks already active in this segment participate.
The standards are also linked to the “Energy Efficient Mortgage Initiative” of the European Mortgage Federation/ ECBC. The aim of this initiative is to establish green real estate financing in Europe and improve the existing data situation. In this context, an analysis will also be carried out to see to what extent green real estate financing has a lower probability of default or loss given default than conventional financing. Here, the vdp acts as a “national hub”, coordinating German efforts under the initiative. | <urn:uuid:df13562e-50de-4c57-9edc-fa2474ba98da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pfandbrief.de:443/site/en/vdp/press/News/press_releases/vdp_10_2019.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.895329 | 756 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Here’s the gist of a conversation I just had with a longtime friend. Patty’s practiced a couple of medical subspecialties, as well as completed a rigorous fellowship in medical ethics. A ton of experience caring for patients, along with her intelligence and compassion, has made her pretty wise. This is a doctor who gets both the intellectual and the emotional pieces of being a physician and a healer.The conversation naturally turned to one of our favorite subjects, the poor medical care that results way too often when doctors don’t listen to patients. She told me about a demented old woman she’d just been asked to see. Four days prior, this unfortunate patient had landed in the intensive care unit after suffering a disastrous medical event. By the time Patty saw her in the ICU, the woman had a tube in her mouth with one end in her trachea and the other attached to a respirator that breathed for her; an IV poking out of her neck that delivered fluids to the central veins in her chest, and another line that reached into her heart all the way from an artery in her wrist. No doubt there was a catheter in her bladder too.It was my friend’s job, as the ethicist attached to the intensive care unit, to talk to the family about how they wanted to proceed. Even among professionals who encounter death and dying all the time, many are surprisingly uncomfortable with talking to patients and their loved ones about resuscitation status. Death is a scary subject. Years on the front lines as a hospice physician and ethicist have made Patty comfortable with, even eager to ask these difficult questions because, almost always, it’s a great relief for people near the end of life to be asked directly what they want and be given the opportunity to respond with clear, honest answers.This old woman’s family, upon being posed the dreaded question of code status, answered, immediately and definitively, that their mother, wife, grandmother, did not wish to be resuscitated; that, in fact, she never even would have wanted to be intubated. So the ethicist/physician informed the staff, who immediately turned off the respirator and removed the endotracheal tube. She died peacefully a few minutes later. In the meantime, Patty went to the computer, called up the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR), and checked the boxes for “Do Not Resuscitate” and “Do Not Intubate.”It was that simple. When I was in medical school, long before there were EMRs, we used to say, “When all else fails, talk to the patient.” If the people taking care of that old woman had just bothered to ask her family what she wanted before they placed her on the slippery slope of intervention that comes with a bed in the ICU, huge amounts of suffering and expense could have been avoided. This is an example of how a simple EMR checklist, by reminding providers to ask a question and document the answer, could have been a tremendous boon to the quality of care. If only the professionals had used it.Unfortunately, the electronic medical record, with its endless checklists and cut-and-pasted gobbledygook, too often gets in the way of asking the sorts of questions and documenting the answers that are crucial to caring for a patient. Ethics consults are not a billable medical service. Patty can afford to ask open-ended questions because nobody in the business office cares how many boxes she checks in the EMR when she records a patient encounter. In general, the more items a provider can document they inquired about or examined, the more the billing office can charge. If a doctor clicks to indicate they have asked about urinary burning and poked the belly of the patient, that counts as one system queried and one examined. On the other hand, there is not an box to check that indicates a bone marrow transplant patient is so concerned about his 8-year-old daughter who has missed a week of school because of a cold, compounded by worry about her father and conflict with the grandmother who’s caring for her, that he’s threatening to leave the hospital and return home immediately, in spite of the increased risk of acquiring a fatal infection on the outside.My friend can type such a story into the EMR or even dictate it and have an automated transcription system turn it into pretty good prose. She tells me nurses and doctors often go to her notes, written in English, to learn so much more about how their patients are doing than vital signs, laboratory results, imaging reports and lists of checkmarks from the clinical encounter can tell them. When she needs to know something about her patient beyond the homogenized data that appear in the EMR, Patty actually talks to the patient’s doctor or, even better, to their nurse.Certainly, we cannot practice medicine without real data. But if we don’t have the real stories too, we’re being mechanics, not doctors. People are people, not machines. What makes us tick cannot be reduced to blueprints.How to do justice to both data and story is the crux issue for the EMR. So far I have not seen a good solution on the horizon. Before too long, I hope, artificial intelligence will get good enough at turning narrative prose into usable data that we can have our story cake and eat the data too.Beyond the crucial pieces of information that are left out now when we care for people, what scares me most is the way that cramming the process of care into what fits into the schema implicit in an EMR (no matter how detailed the blueprint) transforms how we think about caring for people. It’s always been hard to get medical students to ask open-ended questions. I worry that today’s trainees are so comfortable with their eyes on a screen and their fingers on a keypad that it’s harder than ever for them to learn the value of looking a patient in the eye, taking their hand, and asking, “What scares you?” then sitting back and listening for the answer; not to mention documenting that information in a way that is of use to the person working the next shift in the ICU. | <urn:uuid:2fc61800-6ebd-45cb-9c7e-0b67205ec72c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marcringelmd.com/digital-healing/what-scares-me | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.972151 | 1,292 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Hallucinogens are a diverse group of drugs that alter perception (awareness of surrounding objects and conditions), thoughts, and feelings. They cause hallucinations, or sensations and images that seem real though they are not. Hallucinogens can be found in some plants and mushrooms (or their extracts) or can be human-made. People have used hallucinogens for centuries, mostly for religious rituals. Common hallucinogens include the following: ayahuasca, DMT, D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), peyote (mescaline), and 4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (psilocybin). | <urn:uuid:160beed5-0001-426d-a640-7aa55bdf2974> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://odcp.iowa.gov/drug-information/hallucinogens | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.924755 | 142 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Calendar » Sustainable Finance for Conservation – First REDLAC and Café Virtual Congress
|Virtual Congress: Oct 6–8, 2020|
RedLAC and CAFÉ are regional networks that group 43 environmental funds from 30 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, as well as 3 regional funds. Its member environmental funds are leaders in the development of permanent financing mechanisms that produce measurable impacts on conservation and sustainable development objectives at the national, regional, and global levels.
For 8 years, the members of RedLAC and CAFÉ have developed a collaborative relationship by jointly implementing projects to drive innovation in environmental funds, diversify funding sources, and promote knowledge transfer and best practices through peer learning and online tools. This partnership materializes in this event, an unprecedented joint virtual congress on conservation finance, envisioned to enable knowledge generation, networking, and the exchange of experiences.
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Not to be put down after their defeat in last November’s elections, anti-energy activists in Colorado wasted no time orchestrating another round of legislation aimed at restricting the state’s thriving oil and gas industry.
On Monday, however, the state’s Republican Party played their hand, demanding that the Senate read aloud a 2,000-page bill unrelated to SB 181. The strategy is an ingenious tactic masterminded by GOP State Senator John Cooke, who hopes the reading will help delay passage of SB 181.
What Is SB 181?
If you’re not familiar with this radical legislation, here’s how SB 181 appears to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), the government agency receiving the brunt of SB 181’s animus.
According to the agency, if SB 181 passes:
- Control of the COGCC would go to a politically appointed director given “unprecedented, unilateral control to stop oil and natural gas development at his or her discretion.”
- Colorado would officially buck the nationwide trend of incorporating technical feasibility or cost-effectiveness into their regulatory or permitting decisions, allowing for politics to play a more significant role in the process.
- Local governments could create their own setbacks, a move that “could ban oil and natural gas development based on politically tinted and incorrect views about health and safety, rather than scientific data about health and safety.”
- In an instance where multiple agencies, counties, or regions found themselves in a regulatory dispute, the entity with the strictest regulations would come out on top.
- Critical scientific personnel like engineers and geologists would be removed from the COGCC, effectively removing science from the decision-making level of the COGCC.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sweeping changes suggested by the Colorado Democratic Party are not being cheered by the current incarnation of the COGCC. The agency was quick to paint SB 181 as the damaging bill it is, one that bucks decades of established practices based on scientific research and open communication with the oil and gas industry in favor of policy that bows to political, not logical, motivations.
Popular Opinion Vs. Scientific Information
When reading through the full text of SB 181, one theme recurs frequently; that is, the exchange of scientific knowledge for popular opinion.
Whether SB 181 is restructuring the COGCC (minus a few scientists) or delivering control of critical oil and gas decisions to local governments, one factor is constant. Those people with valuable insight into the operation and growth of a wildly complicated industry are being shoved to the side in favor of those who know very little (but who command a lot of votes).
Cooke’s actions in the state Senate will likely be characterized as a partisan attempt to disrupt SB 181’s path through the government … and it is. However, when confronted with the black-and-white drawbacks to such dangerous legislation, Cooke’s move is nothing short of admirable. | <urn:uuid:5672fef9-57b0-4578-897c-4800efd95790> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://upstreampm.com/colorado-republicans-push-back-against-controversial-sb-181/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.944262 | 611 | 1.742188 | 2 |
This week, Microsoft announced changes to its Cognitive Services Face API that will improve the technology's ability to accurately determine gender across various skin tones. The improvements reduce error rates for men and women with darker skin tones up to 20 times. For women of all skin tones, error rates are reduced nine times. The improvements address a gender and racial bias that is revealing itself across AI and Machine Learning technologies.
"[Microsoft] had conversations about different ways to detect bias and operationalize fairness," Hannah Wallach, a Microsoft Senior Researcher, commented in a company blog post. "[Microsoft] talked about data collection efforts to diversify training data. [Microsoft] talked about different strategies to internally test [Microsoft] systems before we deploy them."
Microsoft, among others, has found that its facial recognition technology has traditionally worked best when the subject is a lighter skinned male. Microsoft researchers attribute this bias towards the datasets used to train its machine learning algorithms. By increasing the number of woman and darker skinned individuals in training datasets, the AI improved.
Microsoft made three major changes to the API. As mentioned, the datasets were improved to increase underrepresented samples. Second, new data collection efforts were implemented to improve training with a specific focus on skin tone, gender and age. Finally, Microsoft improved the classifier. To learn more about Microsoft's efforts, and AI-industry concerns, read through Microsofts announcement. | <urn:uuid:969a9289-6df2-4ce2-80b1-8a19d12d108a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.programmableweb.com/news/microsoft-improves-face-api-to-reduce-racial-and-gender-bias/brief/2018/06/29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.935227 | 283 | 2.453125 | 2 |
“Cameras. Laptop computers. Flat-screen televisions. Cellphones. Jewelry. Even 5-foot-tall African masks.”
(Photo courtesy of Connecticut State Police)
That’s the way a Hartford Courant writer starts off his article about the arrest of a “band of thieving baggage handlers” at Bradley International Airport. Some of the 11 people arrested worked for Delta Air Lines, others worked for Delta Global Services, which handled ground crew duties for Delta flights.
In statements to police, some of those arrested said that the thefts had taken place at least since 2006. According to arrest warrant affidavits, the thieves would rifle passengers’ bags as they unloaded them from the cargo holds of Delta aircraft. They would shove cameras and laptops into their pants, then hide the items above the ceiling in their locker room.
So if you do travel through BDL, be sure to keep an eye on your belongings. But also make time to see the three patch-sized embroidered scenes created by Raymond Materson to honor the 1994 Special Olympics.
Materson was in prison when he made the patches and unraveled his socks to get the colored thread to use in his artwork. Once out of prison, Materson kept sewing. His work is now highly prized and displayed in museums and in art galleries. Here’s an example of his recent work: a portrait of Queen Victoria.
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Kathleen Murphy’s review of Contagion was written for Movies/MSN at the time of the film’s original release.
Steven Soderbergh’s super-creepy Contagion does for pandemic what the Oscar-winning director did for drug Traffic back in 2000. Mimicking the insidious spread of coke-related ills, he tracks a lethal little virus—bat-borne, then transmitted to a piglet—as it metastasizes out of a friendly handshake to world-killer. A panic-worthy journey for sure, but no need to buckle up for fast-cutting, tension-building, apocalyptic action—or anything else that might significantly raise your blood pressure. Less hysterical than hushed, more numbing than terrifying, Contagion‘s closer to documentary—an imagined record of how global citizenry might realistically react to monumental crisis.
Says Soderbergh: “We were looking for something that was unsettling because of the banality of the transmission. In a weird way, the less you trump it up, the more unsettling it becomes.”
Accordingly, the director paints his plague canvas with a muted palette that leaches heat and color out of potential melodrama; sometimes the very air seems dimmed, weighted with invisible death. Chronicling the mundane, almost slow-motion process of coping with pandemic, the movie’s narrative engine runs cool rather than hot—in contrast to Outbreak (1995), in which mild-mannered scientists morph into action-heroes, questing for curative antibodies while fighting off trigger-happy generals.
Contagion has more in common with Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain (1971): Set underground in hyper-sterile laboratory environs, that chilly movie’s action was mostly of the cerebral kind, featuring a quartet of dispassionate experts glued to microscopes, computer screens and observation windows, looking to decode a deadly, alien virus.
Similarly, Contagion‘s way of picturing catastrophic events is three clicks removed, like peering into a microscope, watching cellular warfare under glass. The cast is overstocked with attractive A-listers—Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, et al.—but none stands out.
Soderbergh pulls a Hitchcock (Psycho) by offing a lead early on; during the autopsy, that actress’s iconic features are literally peeled away. He continues to subvert our pleasure in movie stars as warm, beautiful bodies, objects of subliminal desire: how can we fantasize about intimacy when human contact—an embrace, a kiss, a sigh—is fatal? Their charisma banked, the stars—potential Petri dishes of infection just like regular people—deliberately do not shine.
Quarantine puts the kibosh on those staples of the traditional disaster movie, loner heroics or Capra-esque communal activism. Emerging momentarily as a smart, no-nonsense healthcare organizer, the striking Winslet soon falls out of focus, another ravaged body in a gymnasium full of anonymous dead. Cotillard, as a World Health Organization doc, gets kidnapped in China, her ransom a supply of the curative vaccine. Distinctly unthrilling, this plotline peters out in anticlimax, an exercise in futility.
As End Times loom, Soderbergh spotlights, almost clinically, human selfishness and short-sightedness, the metabolism of everyday life. When a maverick researcher cracks the viral code, a rival scientist blurts, “Now he’ll publish!” Nurses strike, bureaucrats argue budget, funeral homes turn away the dead, the government (as usual) fiddles while Rome burns. Action-movie addicts will jones in vain for some bigger-than-life villainy to offer escape from Contagion‘s enervating realism.
Reprising the structure if not the tempo of Traffic, Soderbergh deploys a network of narrative threads to catch the inexorable spread and impact of infection: from the globe-trotting Patient Zero, to global health organizations desperately trying to find a cure, to foodlines on the homefront. The Internet, potentially a secure lifeline for the world’s isolated souls, spreads another kind of lethal virus. A popular blogger, aptly named Krumwiede, unleashes a highly infectious meme about government–Big Pharma conspiracy and a cure called Forsythia. What’s this cross between Andrew Breitbart and Michael Moore after? A killing in hedge fund futures! (Krumwiede’s played by a snaggle-toothed Jude Law, recalling his rodent self in Road to Perdition.)
Soderbergh does provide some warm spots in his low-key vision of humanity in extremis. A father (Matt Damon), bereft of wife and little boy, guards his daughter from contagion, sealing her off from even gestures of love. A high-level staffer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (Laurence Fishburne) gives a janitor’s kid his own allotted vaccine. And, of course, there’s one act of world-saving heroism—but hey, the lady’s hoping for a Nobel Prize. These moments don’t pack much emotional punch, seeming almost like afterthoughts in Soderbergh’s chilly laboratory of catastrophe.
Though far from a likeable movie, Contagion‘s admirable as a highly controlled, verging-on-Kubrickian exercise in directorial vision and style. What’s most disturbing about this low-energy disaster movie is how tellingly it taps into America’s current angst, the fear of a slow decline that can’t be cured, all our heroes having succumbed to a plague of Krumwiedes. | <urn:uuid:73fb1a0e-af81-4a4d-8b1d-fbcc234d5e20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parallax-view.org/2020/04/04/contagion-steven-soderbergh-kathleen-murphy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.900668 | 1,249 | 1.59375 | 2 |
For those who like to observe wildlife close to home, here are a few sightings from Chantry Bridge.
My first visit at the end of April found a male goosander alongside the
common species such as 20+ mallard, which included six tiny ducklings. A
pair of swans had a nest with seven eggs, five of which hatched on or
around the 9th May. The pen Y567 has attempted breeding here before and
the BTO tell me that she was ringed as a cygnet at Lemonroyd Lock, Methley. Her
mate in the past was Y127 but the present male has only a metal BTO ring so
there are no informative numbers to be seen.
Regular species that can be seen or heard on most visits are blackbirds,
pied and grey wagtail [both of these I believe to be breeding], sand
martins, grey heron (just one) wren, robin, goldfinch, chaffinch, willow
warbler and titmice.
An unusual sight last week was a jay (a first here for me) being mobbed
by a pair of carrion crows. Then, as I raised my head above the parapet,
a kingfisher appeared below me and flew at great speed downstream and
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If you're not a nerd, keep browsing. The entire analogy in this blog post won't make sense. Fair warning.
We all know and love IPv4. It's the Internet Protocol we grew up with. It's been the backbone of inter-networking since ARPANET standardized it in RFCs in 1979-1981 and BSD 4.2 Unix made the source code and standards for TCP/IP public domain in 1983.
And most of us are aware of the basics of IPv6, even if we haven't fully implemented it. We've been told it's coming for fifteen years, so we're used to ignoring the advice to learn it.
So . . . where's IPv5? Oh, it's out there. It's little known and less used. But it does exist.
Basically, when it was time to create a "Next Generation" of internet protocal (IPng) work was started on creating, standardizing, and documenting the next version. Before it could have an official designation, IPv5 was already given to a specific transmission process called Internet Stream Protocol (commonly known as ST, ST+, or ST2). So IPng became IPv6.
Anyway, IPv5 does exist. Basically no one uses it, and we've moved on to something that will be widely used.
My assumption is that engineers were told to come up with something so completely different that no one would recognize it and it would stand on its own as a thing of beauty. Well, you certainly can't recognize it as a useful tool. No borders: I can live with that. No menus: Ummmm. No status bar? Opens strange programs and program hooks within the O.S., sometimes when you don't expect it. Never closes completely. If it were any other program, you might think it's a virus. Very disorienting, overall.
Grandma won't have any idea how to use it. Technicians will just feel alienated. And business people will be disoriented.
Now, all of that is fine. It's a crappy version. Put out the next version as soon as possible. Move on, right?
Wrong. In its current incarnation, Windows 8 is a bit too integrated with the IE browser. For example, when you click on something from within another program or file, the ONLY option is to open the link in IE 10. This is true - currently - no matter what your default browser is. For example, if I send you a PDF with a link and you have Chrome set as your default browser, links within that PDF document will open in IE 10. Same for links in email.
I have finally come to realize that 90% of what I don't like about Windows 8 is really what I don't like about IE 10.
I have standardized on the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser since 1998. In the last few years I have had added another browser because some web sites don't work properly with IE (and some work only with IE, so I have to have two browsers).
But with Windows 8 (that is, IE 10), I have finally changed my default browser to Chrome. My backup browser is Firefox. I am still forced into IE 10 a lot more than I want to be. Whenever it happens, I just get out as soon as I can.
I am sure that the next version of IE is under development. These things take time and that's the way things go. My suspicion is that IE 11 will get an extra boost of development funds - or that IE 10 will get a major UI face lift - before Windows 8 is released.
The trend for browsers to ignore agreed-upon standards and each do whatever they want (and they are all guilty of this) is bad for the consumer. I have to use THIS browser with my bank, THAT browser with the merchant service, and the OTHER browser for my primary supplier. Grrrrr.
It's a huge gamble to have the browser so tightly integrated into the operation system that you literally can't escape it. But it's a huge mistake to take that strategy with a browser that's so unknown and uncomfortable to most users. Taking such a huge risk with a browser and then integrating it in the O.S. will mean big, big trouble for Windows 8.
To be honest, I've never understood the appeal of the Chrome browser. It's good. It's fast. It's easy to configure. But it's a browser. It's 95% just like IE 9 or Firefox 12. With IE 10, the appeal of Chrome is easier to see. Whatever else it is, it's NOT IE 10!
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I was going to post this today . . . then Statcounter announced that Chrome had overtaken Intenet Explorer as the most popular browser last week (32.76% to 31.94%). Other sources report IE still has more than half the market (see http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/is-google-chrome-now-the-worlds-most-popular-browser.php).
All sources show a downward trend for IE. Believe me, IE 10 will make that drop like a rock.
Having been involved with some product advisory panels at Microsoft, I know they do an incredible amount of research and study with real human beings before this stuff gets released. So I am confused. How can IE 10 be so bad?
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The 55-foot totem pole raised at the University of British Columbia to honour victims and survivors of Canada’s residential school system was vandalized days before its second anniversary.
The incident was described as a “troubling act of vandalism” in an open letter written by Margaret Moss, director of First Nations House of Learning, and Sheryl Lightfoot, senior advisor to the president on Indigenous Affairs.
Stakes that were holding the the Reconciliation Pole were removed from the ground and inserted into the back of the pole, according to the letter. On Friday, a campus employee reported the vandalism to campus security. The stakes have since been removed and there is no visible damage to the pole.
On Monday, the Reconciliation Pole celebrated its second anniversary. It was carved from a 800-year-old red cedar tree on B.C.’s north coast by a Haida Nation hereditary chief, James Hart.
Two years ago, on April 1, 2017, Reconciliation Pole was placed at #UBC. It's a symbolic art piece, representing the history of Indigenous people in Canada before, during, and after the Indian residential school era. https://t.co/0AoHLNQKK4 pic.twitter.com/JfuwhdHYDW
— University of British Columbia (@UBC) April 1, 2019
“This condemnable act profoundly disrespects everything the pole represents, from the voices of the survivors of the schools, the memories of the children who died in them, the hopes of Indigenous peoples, to the honour of all Canadians who are striving to shake free from the darkness of the past to embrace a brighter future together,” the letter stated. | <urn:uuid:cdb510ff-2e69-4d24-a89f-2f560a1eddfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vicnews.com/news/reconciliation-pole-at-ubc-vandalized-days-before-second-anniversary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.96032 | 355 | 2.328125 | 2 |
As schools open, Bernier discusses concerns (part 2)
Lee County schools open August 10. In the second part of a two-part interview, Dr. Christopher Bernier, who took over as superintendent last spring, discusses how you can contribute to choosing new school board members, what he is doing to help insure student safety, and what he is looking forward to about the first day of school.
To hear the conversation, click the blue "listen" oval above.
The app for tracking the bus Dr. Bernier refers to in part I can be found here: https://wheresthebus.com/
Here's a video on how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGq77HZLd8&t=2s
But be forewarned that the app only helps if your child is on their assigned bus. If your child's route does not have an assigned driver (which many of them won't), the app will probably not give you the information you want. So if you are frustrated by the problems the driver shortage is creating for your family, the app may only serve to frustrate you more.
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Three. Radiator issues. Radiators and fans reduce heat from the engine by decreasing coolant temperatures. Issues with the fan can cause unnatural temperature increases.
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PCP Vs Bank Loan
PCP (Personal Contract Purchase) finance lends you the car while you pay off the value of its depreciation over the term of your agreement. A bank loan provides you with the money to buy the car outright and then pay off the loan, so you immediately become the owner of the car.
Want to find out about all the differences between PCP car finance and a personal bank loan? Read on to see which option best suits you for your next car purchase.
What is PCP car finance?
PCP car finance may seem like a complicated process at first sight, but it’s actually quite simple. When purchasing a car through a PCP agreement, you will face three main payments:
- Monthly payments
- Balloon payment (optional)
The deposit is simple. As with other big purchases, you will be required to put down a deposit, usually around 10% of the car’s value. In most cases you can choose to put more down as an initial deposit if you’d like. This will make your monthly payments cheaper as it goes against the total amount you loan.
A balloon payment, also known as a Guaranteed Minimum Future Value (GMFV), is one final payment you make to the finance provider if you wish to keep your car after your agreement. This will be pre-agreed before your finance deal begins and is what the provider predicts your car will be worth after your term.
The loan amount you pay for the car is the vehicle’s current value minus the GMFV and deposit. This means that you are essentially paying to cover the value of depreciation on the car, as once you come to the end of the deal you either hand the car back or pay the current value of it.
Once your agreement has ended, you can either pay the balloon payment and keep the car, hand the car back and start a new PCP finance deal, or simply hand the car back and walk away.
Want to get the best PCP deal on your new car? We’re now offering Nissan finance deals, so you can compare lease and PCP prices side-by-side and find the right option for you.
What is a personal bank loan?
A personal bank loan is a standard loan that you can get from the bank, in this case to cover the cost of your car. You borrow the money from the bank themselves and then use that money to buy the car outright. So you essentially become a cash buyer, owning the car yourself and making the monthly payments to the bank as opposed to a car finance provider.
Bank loans will come in one of two forms, secured or unsecured. A secured bank loan means that your loan is secured against one of your assets, most commonly your house. This acts as a guarantee for the loan. It is important to understand this because it could mean your house is repossessed if you fail to keep up with your monthly payments.
Unsecured loans are loans that are not secured against an asset. This may seem like a no-brainer as it gives the provider no right to repossess the asset if you fail to make the repayments. However because of the lack of guarantee, these loans will likely include a larger interest rate.
What is the difference between PCP and a bank loan?
Despite having many differences between them, PCP car finance and personal bank loans are, at their core, not very dissimilar at all. You lend money from a provider to purchase a new car, and over the course of your agreement you make monthly payments to cover the loan.
The main differences lie in the beginning and end of the agreement. If you opt for the PCP method, you will pay a deposit, and arrange a balloon payment, that you may or may not pay. Alternatively, with a bank loan you simply loan the amount you need to buy the car. No deposit, no balloon payment, just the amount you need to own the car, and then pay back the full value, plus interest to the bank.
There are some smaller differences with regards to restrictions on the car or flexibility. We’ll talk about these later on in more detail.
PCP or bank loan: which is the best option for me?
So which method is right for you, PCP car financing or a personal bank loan? It will likely depend on a number of factors including your budget, how you use the car and what you intend to do with it after your agreement.
We have broken down the specifics to give you a clearer idea of what you can expect with both methods.
As we briefly mentioned, a PCP car finance agreement consists of three main payments. So take a £20,000 Mini Hatchback for example.
You opt for a three year PCP deal, and pay a £2,000 deposit. Before you drive away in your brand-new Mini , the finance provider has predicted that the car will be worth £8,000 after the three year agreement. Therefore you are only loaning £10,000 as you might choose to pay the £8,000 after the agreement, or hand the car back.
The £10,000, plus interest, is then split equally over the next 36 months to cover the cost of the loan.
Below is a visualisation of how PCP payments are structured.
Now, take the same £20,000 Mini Hatchback, but this time you opt for a personal bank loan to finance the car.
You go to the bank and ask for a loan of £20,000 to cover the cost of your new car. After credit checks and other legal requirements, the bank agrees to loan you the money – and you agree to repay the bank over three years. So you take the £20,000 they have loaned you and give it all to the dealer in return for the brand-new Mini Hatchback. You now own the Mini and owe the bank £20,000, plus interest, which you will pay back in monthly payments.
The ownership structure of the two methods are very different. When you use PCP car finance, you do not own the vehicle until you pay the balloon payment at the end of the deal. So throughout your loan agreement the finance provider owns the car.
This isn’t the case with a personal bank loan. You use the money borrowed from the bank to buy the car outright. So you are the owner of the vehicle, until you decide to sell or scrap it.
Under both PCP and bank loan agreements you will be required to insure the car yourself. With a bank loan this is always the case. They are only loaning you money to buy the car, and as with any car purchase it is your responsibility to insure the vehicle.
PCP car finance deals are almost exactly the same, except it is worth checking with the providers beforehand as in some rare cases the insurance will come included. These are very rare however, and most dealers will require you to take out fully comprehensive cover to insure the car. This is to protect the car as you’ll be hiring it until you pay the balloon payment at the end.
It is also your responsibility to take out GAP (Guaranteed Asset Protection) insurance should you wish to. GAP insurance covers you if your car is written off or stolen while you owe more to the lender than the car is currently worth. As most insurance companies only pay out the value of the car, you may find yourself having to cover the difference out of your own pocket.
Because you might hand the car back at the end of your PCP agreement, you are required to maintain the car. You can do this using one of the provider’s approved garages. Using a garage that is not approved by your lender will likely invalidate the GMFV and could see you having to pay more if you wanted to keep the car.
As you are the owner of the car when you use a bank loan to finance your car, it is your responsibility to keep the car appropriately maintained. You do however have more flexibility when it comes to garages. The car is yours, so you can have your car serviced or maintained wherever you see fit.
Both options offer a reasonable amount of flexibility when you finally pay off the loan.
As the owner of the car, you are free to do as you wish with the car when you use a bank loan to finance the car (even during the loan period, as long as you continue to pay the loan off).
If you opt for a PCP car finance deal, you don’t have that same flexibility during the agreement as it is not your car. However, once you have finished paying off the loan, you have three options:
- Pay the balloon payment and own the car outright
- Use any equity you may have towards a new PCP deal on a different car
- Hand the car back and walk away
PCP deals are much more restrictive when it comes to mileage as well. The GMFV of the car is based upon a few factors, including the miles you expect to do during the term. So it is your responsibility to stick to that mileage agreement or else you risk facing excess charges if you return the car after your agreement.
Again, because the car is yours if you opt for a personal bank loan, you are free to drive as many miles as you wish.
You can terminate a PCP deal early. Under the Consumer Credit Act 1974, voluntary termination is possible if you have paid at least 50% of the total value of the loan. Simply hand the car back and walk away. Crucially, the total value of the loan includes the balloon payment, interest, and others fees.
A bank loan is not quite as simple. You can terminate the loan but that can only be done by paying off its value. You can’t just hand the car back and walk away, you would have to sell the car, and use the proceeds towards paying off the loan.
Is PCP car finance right for me?
So how do you tell which option is the right one for you? Our quick summary will help you decide.
A PCP car finance agreement suits someone who:
- Is unsure if they want to keep the car after the agreement
- Wants to pay an initial deposit to make the monthly payments smaller
- Prefers to regularly change cars
- Doesn’t want to have to worry about depreciation
Is a personal bank loan right for me?
A personal bank loan will be better suited to someone who:
- Wants to own a car outright
- Doesn’t want to be restricted by mileage and maintenance agreements
- May want to sell the car at any point during the term
- Is comfortable paying larger monthly payments in order to own the car
Other available finance options
PCP and personal bank loans are not the only finance options available. Hire Purchase (HP) is another common method of financing, as is Personal Contract Hire (PCH), or car leasing, as it is more commonly known. Find out more about the differences between HP and PCP in our other guide. Or if you want to know more about leasing, read through our leasing guides.
Looking to consider your options for car finance? Read our handy guide explaining what the different types are so you can find out which one is best for you.
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Jeanne Smoot, “Empowering Girls in Virginia to Choose If, When and Whom to Marry,” Alliance in Action (January 11, 2016). Blog by Tahirih Justice Center’s Senior Counsel for Policy and Strategy, Jeanne Smoot, outlining the need to change minimum age of marriage laws in Virginia to better protect minors from being forced to marry. Read here.
Francisca Ortega, “The Texan counties with the most married children,” Chron (January 29, 2016). In Texas, teenagers between the ages of 16 and 17 can get married with parental permission, and those under 16 with a judge’s approval. This article discusses how some of these marriages are driven by manipulation and coercion, and takes a look at the frequency of child marriages in Texas. Read here.
“Forced to Marry & Flee, Child Brides Seeking Asylum in Scandinavia,” Sputnik International (February 3, 2016). With an increasing flow of refugees coming from the Middle East, the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs has stated that they are carefully screening child migrants for signs of sexual abuse or forced marriage. The department found that more than 61 migrant children seeking asylum in Norway arrived already married to older men. Read here.
Karen Bradley MP, “Help for victims of forced marriage and honour-based violence,” GOV.UK (February 12, 2016). This article by Karen Bradley, the Minister for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime, highlights a recent trip by the Home Office of the UK to the organization Karma Nirvana. During this meeting, the Minister met survivors of forced marriage, as well as learned about the organization’s efforts to combat forced marriage in the UK. Read here.
Janene Pieters, “250 Illegal Child Marriages Every Year in Netherlands,” NL Times (February 12, 2016). According to a recent study by Maastricht University and the Verwey-Jonker Institute, close to 250 underage children get married each year in the Netherlands, most of whom are 16 to 17 years old. Forced marriage is a criminal offense in the Netherlands and carries up to a two-year sentence. Read here.
Anjali Shastry, “Va., Md. weigh raising marriage age to 18 to combat coercion, abuse,” The Washington Times (February 15, 2016). In Virginia and Maryland, legislatures are considering an increase in the minimum age to marry to 18, in order to protect minors from forced marriage. Tahirih’s Jeanne Smoot and founder of Unchained At Last Fraidy Reiss comment on the bill. Read here.
“Calif. Woman allegedly kidnapped, forced into marriage testifies at suspect’s trial,” Fox News (February 18, 2016). In California, a 26-year-old survivor of forced marriage is continuing her testimony against Isidro Garcia, who is charged with raping her and forcing her into marriage when she was 15. The survivor testified that the defendant threatened to contact immigration authorities to have her deported, which allowed him to continue to abuse her until she was an adult. Read here.
“States Make New Push to Curb Child Marriage,” The New York Times (February 20, 2016). With the help of advocates like Fraidy Reiss of Unchained at Last and Jeanne Smoot of the Tahirih Justice Center, state legislators in Virginia, New York, and Maryland are reexamining laws that leave minors vulnerable to forced marriage. This article also highlights the efforts of state senator Jill Vogel, the sponsor of the current legislation in Virginia, and tells the story of forced marriage survivor, Naila Amin. Read here.
Matt Payton, “Six-year-old girl with learning difficulties forced into child marriage,” Independent (February 22, 2016). An investigation in the UK found that a six-year-old girl with learning difficulties was removed from school, and taken to Pakistan to marry an older man. Her story is among the other cases reported in the Sunday Times investigation. Read here.
Emma Batha, “Young U.K. girls being forced into marriage over Skype: Charities,” Toronto Sun (February 29, 2016). This article uncovers the rising prevalence of forced marriages committed via Skype or phone. In Britain, it has been reported that Imams are using Skype to remotely marry British girls to men abroad, who later come to the UK on marriage visas. Read here.
“Slough charity to train hairdressers to spot forced marriage,” BBC News (March 7, 2016). Jeena International, a nonprofit based in Slough, England, plans to launch an initiative to raise awareness on forced marriages within the wedding industry. The organization will start with a series of 15 workshops to train beauticians and hairdressers on the signs of forced marriage, and who to contact if they suspect a client is potentially at risk. Read here.
“Forced Marriage Campaign: Seasonal Reminder Ahead of Easter School Holidays,” West Yorkshire Police (March 7, 2016). Before the start of the Easter holiday, West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner and West Yorkshire Police are working with schools, airport staff, and other key personnel to raise awareness on the signs of forced marriage. Officers note that forced marriages tend to increase over school holidays, when families have the opportunity to travel abroad. Read here.
Laura Vidal, “Forced Marriage Is Happening in Australia And We Need To Do Something About It,” The Huffington Post (March 8, 2016). In this blog post, Laura Vidal, Project Coordinator of the Salvation Army’s Freedom Partnership to End Modern Slavery, draws attention to the prevalence of forced marriage in Australia. Vidal calls upon lawmakers to create better policies to respond to the issue, noting that the UK’s Forced Marriage Unit is a potential model that Australia can emulate. Read here..
“Forced marriage figures ‘may not reflect full scale of abuse,’” Belfast Telegraph (March 8, 2016). Official statistics released by the UK Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) show that there were 1,200 reported incidences of forced marriage in 2015. However, a recent report by the Home Office and Foreign Office warns that the FMU’s findings may not accurately reflect the magnitude of the issue in the UK, as forced marriage is often a hidden abuse. Read here..
Siobhan Fenton, “Woman ‘shot dead at wedding for refusing arranged marriage to her cousin’,” The Independent (March 16, 2016). In Germany, a 21-year-old Kurdish woman was shot dead after refusing an arranged marriage to her cousin. According to the victim’s alleged father, she encountered multiple forced marriage attempts by extended family members. The police are currently investigating her death as a homicide. Read here.
“Interview: the women campaigning to end child marriage in the United States,” Girls Not Brides (March 17, 2016). In this interview, Fraidy Reiss from Unchained At Last, and Jeanne Smoot from the Tahirih Justice Center, talk about their work to end child and forced marriage in the United States. Both women discuss the prevalence of child and forced marriages and ways to address this issue in the U.S. Read here.
Sophie Morton, “Forest Gate students organise forced marriage campaign,” Newham Recorder (March 19, 2016). The Azhar Academy Girls School in the UK recently ran a forced marriage campaign to raise awareness on the issue. The campaign included guest-speaking events by government members of the Forced Marriage Unit, as well as representatives of other UK-based nonprofits. Students learned about the signs of forced marriage and what to do if they or a friend are facing a forced marriage. Read here.
“Woman who says Warren Jeffs forced her to marry her cousin at 14 can sue,” The Guardian (March 24, 2016). The supreme court in Utah has ruled that Elissa Wall may sue for monetary damages after being forced to marry at age 14 by the polygamous leader Warren Jeffs. In 2007, Wall’s testimony of her abuse helped convict Jeffs, who is now serving a life sentence in prison. Read here..
Alex Matthews, “Husband who brought his Pakistani bride to the UK and treated her like a slave giving her regular beatings and forcing her to clean from 5am every morning faces jail,” Daily Mail (March 27, 2016). In the UK, Safraz Ahmed, a man who confined his wife to their house and threatened to sexually assault her if she left, is facing charges of conspiracy to hold a person in domestic servitude in the Woolich Crown Court. Ahmed forced his wife to carry out endless chores in their home and regularly beat her. After nearly two years of this abuse, neighbors who witnessed a recent incident contacted the police. Read here.
Ishaan Tharoor, “Refugee child bride went on a hunger strike after Belgium separated her from husband,” The Washington Post (April 1, 2016). With the influx of refugees entering Europe, Belgium officials are grappling with the issue of whether to recognize child marriages from Syria, where girls who are as young as 13-years-old can get married. Belgium also has broader concerns of forced marriage in their existing communities. Between 2010 and 2013, the police received at least 56 reports of forced marriage, and officials believe that these numbers are just the tip of an iceberg of the true magnitude of the issue. Read here.
Siobhan Fenton, “’My childhood was stolen from me’: Pupil of illegal Jewish faith school reveals physical abuse,” Independent (April 3, 2016). This article tells the story of a young woman who grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in London and the exploitation she experienced as a child. She finally left the community at age 18, after facing pressure to get married. Read here.
Andrew Ford, “Lawmakers ponder youth marriage ban,” app.com (April 5, 2016). In New Jersey, 16-year-olds can get married with parental consent, and anyone younger with a judge’s approval. However, lawmakers are now considering a new bill that would raise the marriage age to 18. Unchained At Last’s Fraidy Reiss testified before state lawmakers, explaining how loopholes in the state’s present laws leave young women and girls vulnerable to child and forced marriages. Read here.
Michael Yong, “Children in Bristol were forced into marriage overseas,” Bristol Post (April 5, 2016). New figures by the UK Ministry of Justice show that at least 11 individuals in Bristol have been granted Forced Marriage Protection Orders (FMPOs) by the courts. Activists note that the actual number of forced marriages taking place is higher, since not all victims are able to obtain FMPOs. Read here.
Tovia Smith, “Who Decides If You’re Too Young To Marry?” NPR (April 5, 2016). This article by NPR highlights the dangerous, but common loopholes in states’ marriage laws that leave young women and girls vulnerable to child and forced marriage. In response to the concerning number of child marriages taking place in the U.S., and due to the efforts of advocates like Tahirih’s Jeanne Smoot, Virginia recently passed a bill to increase the minimum marriage age. Legislators in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York may follow suit with similar bills. Read here.
Michael Symons, “Should child marriage be banned in NJ? It happens more than you think,” New Jersey 101.5 (April 10, 2016). Legislators in New Jersey are considering a proposal to increase the age of marriage to age 18 to provide additional safeguards to minors facing forced marriage. The article also features a video telling the story of forced marriage survivor and founder of Unchained at Last, Fraidy Reiss. Read and watch here.
Josh Halliday, “Boy aged eight among known potential victims of forced marriage in the UK,” The Guardian (April 20, 2016). Police figures into investigations of forced marriage cases in the United Kingdom have been released, showing that the majority of investigations into cases of forced marriage do not result in a prosecution and providing demographic data on cases since 2014. The article also contains recent data from UK based charities and the Forced Marriage Unit and a discussion on how to overcome challenges in prosecution and the need for further training for law enforcement. Read more.
Yasmin Choudhury, “Forced marriage still happens in the UK because police are scared of being called racist for fighting honour abuse,” Independent (April 24, 2016). In this article, author Yasmin Choudhury calls attention to the low rates of forced marriage investigations that actually result in prosecutions in the UK. Choudhury asserts that such low levels of prosecutions are due to police and governmental fear of offending cultural traditions. Read here.
Hannah Al-Othman, “A fifth of forced marriage cases last year were in London, official figures show,” Evening Standard (April 20, 2016). According to official statistics released by the UK’s Forced Marriage Unit, the department assisted on 1,220 possible cases of forced marriage. Among these cases, almost 80 percent of referrals came from professionals or third-party family members, rather than the victims themselves. A fifth of the total number of cases were from London. Read here.
Dina Yazdani, Kaitlyn Denzler, “A Conversation on Child Marriage With Amnesty International,” Fair Observer (April 29 2016). Following the prioritization of the elimination of Child Marriage by the global community in recent years, Kaitlyn Denzler, a women’s rights campaigner at Amnesty International USA spoke on the issue. Answering the baseline questions around Child Forced Marriage internationally, and in developed countries she gives the readership an overview of the issue’s current, past and future. She also discusses Forced Marriage in the US, and cites the work of Tahirih. Read more.
Stephanie Labaff, “To Lalita Janke, Camp Haven’s men are family,” USA Today Network: TC Palm (May 4, 2016). An article outlining the incredible survivor Lalita Janke’s story from forced marriage to helping millions with their fights with substance abuse. Read More.
Bob Mims, “Former child bride, polygamous trust settle lawsuit for $2.75M,” The Salt Lake Tribune (May 6, 2016). Child marriage survivor, Elissa Wall, has reached a settlement of $2.75 million in her ongoing legal action against the once communal property trust of Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints whose leader, Warren Jeffs, forced her to marry at age 14. Read more.
Chris Arnold, “Group Advocating young teenage marriage denied Wichita meeting venue,” KSNW-TV (May 6, 2016). The group “Let Them Marry” is founded in a “biblical understanding of early marriage,” where all people should be married by 20 years old. Their retreat, planned to serve as a place for young people to meet and engage in marriage, was cancelled last week by the camp’s owners. The group claim their message has been misunderstood and misrepresented. Read More.
“Dad admits he took pregnant 14-year-old daughter to marry her 24-year-old rapist” Fox 31 Denver, (May 25, 2016). An Idaho father has been sentenced to serve four months in prison after he took his 14 year old daughter out of state to marry the man who raped her, resulting in pregnancy. The young woman and her rapist were taken to Missouri, where a minor who is pregnant can marry with parental consent. Read and watch here.
Anna Leech, “The lesbian rapper who escaped forced marriage in Somalia” Som Tribune (May 5th, 2016). The story of forced marriage survivor and anti-FGM activist, Berlin, who was taken to Somalia where she faced forced marriage and death threats after being outed as a lesbian. Berlin escaped to Toronto, where she is pursuing her studies to become a doctor. Read here.
Shaheen Hashmat, “The majority of police forces’ failure to tackle “honour”-based violence is punishing victims” The New Statesman (May 15th, 2016). Opinion piece by UK based forced marriage survivor and campaigner, Shaheen Hashmat, arguing that specialist police units should be set up to address harms such as forced marriage and “honor” based violence as a way to overcome lack of training and inconsistent quality of practice in police departments nationally. Read more.
Sara Karim, “An Open Letter to British Asians From Survivor Sara Karim,” She Speaks We Hear (June 1, 2016). Sara Karim, a survivor of sexual assault and forced marriage, tells her story in a call to action to specifically protect and inform British Asian women of their higher risk rates of forced marriage. Read More.
Pragna Patel and Sundari Anitha, “Transnational marriage abandonment: A new form of violence against women?” Inclusive democracy (June 6, 2016). The article discusses the phenomenon of transnational Marriage Abandonment or Stranded Spouses: a form of violence against women, where a husband, who is a national or resident of another country, deliberately abandons a foreign national wife in her country of origin. This piece examines several court cases in the UK that highlight the severity of this problem. Read more.
Nadia Khomami, “Victims of forced marriage to receive lifelong anonymity,” The Guardian (June 7, 2016). In an effort to protect victims of forced marriage in England and Wales a new law is being drafted to provide anonymity in all publications and broadcasts of information that could identify victims. This law is being modeled off of the anonymity order introduced last year for victims of FGM/C. Read more.
Donna Rachel Edmunds, “Child Bride Legally Married Under Sharia Law, German Judge Rules,” Breitbart (June 11, 2016). In a landmark ruling a German judge has ruled to uphold a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 20-year-old husband based on the fact that the marriage occurred in their native Syria, legally, and was conducted according to Sunni marriage rites. This case contradicts the majority of European countries who have a marriage age of 16, making a precedent for other such cases involving immigrant, refugee, asylum, and non-EU early marriages. Read more.
Joey Millar, “Muslim girls saved from forced SKYPE marriage and FGM in legal first,” Express (June 13, 2016). A 21-year-old English Muslim woman was to undergo FGM before marrying a stranger on Skype, when she spoke up against her father’s plans to the UK authorities. She is become the first ever person to receive civil court orders saving her from FGM and forced marriage. Read more.
“Court order issues for first time in Fife to block schoolgirl being taken to Pakistan for forced marriage,” Dunfermline Press (June 13, 2016). When elder sister “Miss A” fled her family home in Scotland after refusing to marry her cousin back in Pakistan, her concerns fell on her sister, her likely replacement in the proposed marriage. The evidence seemed to affirm this “appeasement” and the police of Fife Scotland intervened in order to protect her from an “honor-based crime.” Read more.
Steve Wright, “Forced marriage and honour abuse are still ‘under-reported,’ conference in Bradford is told,” Telegraph & Argus (June 14, 2016). With recent efforts to combat forced marriage in West Yorkshire in the UK, advocates are concerned that numbers are much higher than reports suggest. Jasvinder Sanghera, a survivor of forced marriage, is an adamant activist in the area, working to bring justice and relief to victims. Read more.
Alanna Vagianos, “Poem Exposes The Gut-Wrenching Anonymity of Child Brides,” The Huffington Post (June 17, 2016). Talented Slam Poet Emi Mahmoud delivers an incredible spoken word poem “Child Bride,” paying homage to the millions of girls married as children every year. See her performance here and read more.
“Private Life: Norway Targets Forced Marriages Amid ‘Peak Season,’” Sputnik News (June 20, 2016). Norway is stepping up their legal responses to the dramatic increases in the number of girls and women being forced into marriage, forcible kept abroad, or forcibly undergo FGMC. In response to research showing that the summertime is “high season” for forced marriage and FGM/C in Norway, the country is pursuing new legislation targets consent around such travel in an attempt to eliminate the practice. Read more.
“Three prosecuted in Sweden’s first forced marriage charge,” The Local (June 21, 2016). Three men are being prosecuted in Sweden’s first indictment of forced marriage. The prosecution names honor-based crimes, and coercive force responsible for why a father was forcing his daughter into marrying a man through blackmail–he had kidnapped and was assaulting her boyfriend. Read more.
Anat Ghelber, “NYS Legislators to End Marriages of 14-year-olds,” The Jewish Voice New York (June 22, 2016). Legislators in New York are actively trying to address the problem of child marriage in the state, but recognize that legal challenges are not the only thing they’re up against. While changing the minimum marriage consent law to 18, with no exceptions, would be a huge step forward for the state, there are other factors involved in eliminating forced marriage in the state. Fraidy Reiss, survivor and founder of Unchained at Last, talked about the gap between true consent and parentally coerced consent as a huge problem in this battle. Read more.
“The woman saved from her father’s FGM plans,” BBC (June 23, 2016). A 17-year-old girl in the UK was meant to go through an arranged marriage and had freely and willingly agreed to it after she and the man became acquainted. But at the last minute the man revoked his offer. This happened a few more times with different men, before she was told that the reason was that she was not circumcised. Her father was under increasing pressure to send her abroad for both the “procedure” and a forced marriage. Figuring out what was about to happen she reached out to the authorities and has received a joint forced marriage and FGM protection order. Read more.
Emma Batha, “UK schools urged to be alert to forced marriage risks ahead of summer break,” Daily Mail (June 28, 2016). The NGO Reuters has released a renewed warning to UK schools to be on alert about forced marriage and FGM warning signs as summer break approaches. The numbers of girls who undergo “vacation cutting” and forced marriage back in their parents’ home country drastically increase over school breaks, specifically summer holidays. UK schools are emphasizing education around trigger statements and procedures that teachers and other faculty should undertake if they suspect a student to be facing forced marriage or FGM. Read more.
Tracy Walker, “Honour based abuse survivor speaks of being banished from family,” Nottingham Post (June 28, 2016). As a young girl in Nottingham from a conservative Indian family, Nisha’s desire to go to university and not enter into a marriage was shocking to her family. Now 22, she recalls the mental and physical abuse she constantly endured. And when she told her parents she was too exhausted to both go to university full time (a 6 hour commute each day), care for her siblings, and do domestic chores in the house, her parents offered her their only option: get married. Instead she ran away at 18. Four years after their ultimatum Nisha has two degrees, works for Karma Nirvana to combat forced marriage, and despite several attempts has not been able to have a healthy relationship with her family. Read more.
Jenna Portnoy, “Why 13-year-olds can no longer marry in Virginia,” The Washington Post (July 3, 2016). Much to the efforts of Jeanne Smoot, Tahirih’s Senior Counsel for Policy and Strategy, a bill has gone into effect reversing previous legislation that allowed a girl 13 or younger to marry–if she was pregnant–with parental permission. Read more.
Jean Mackenzie and Adam Eley, “The UK women seeking divorce through Sharia councils,” BBC News (July 11, 2016). A woman in the UK forced into an abusive arranged marriage at 15 sought a divorce, or nikah, through Sharia councils in the UK. Despite being asked a myriad of questions and being put through frustration and pain over theoretical reconciliation with her spouse, the court unanimously awarded her the nikah. Read more.
Tristan Cork, “Warning over summer holiday forced marriages for Bristol teenages,” Bristol Post (July 12, 2016). As summer holidays approach in the UK authorities and advocacy groups warn colleges and schools to be on the lookout for suspicious and targeted behavior that could indicate forced marriage. Read more.
Sarah Grossman, “Virginia Has Banned Child Marriage. Yes, It Still Exists in the U.S.” Huffington Post (July 12, 2016). As the new law in Virginia raising the minimum age of marriage took effect at the beginning of this month, publicity around the law’s necessity shocked many. Moreover, the law’s increase of the age of marriage to 18 highlighted to the public the presence of child marriage in many other places in the US. Read more.
“Newcastle remembers victims of honour based violence,” Metro Radio (July 13, 2016). As Newcastle remembers those who have died at the hands of honour based violence, survivors are speaking up about how these issues can be best addressed and prevented. One prominent survivor, who is now a model and advocate, called on educators and community members to be more engaged and investigative when students seem “off” or go missing. Read more.
Helena Hickey, “Former Officer inspired to join service after escaping forced marriage,” Police Oracle (July 18, 2016). Former West Midlands officer Rashid was herself a victim of attempted forced marriage, that violently left her separated from her family forever. In the aftermath of such a hard situation Rashid became a police officer, and continues to fight against forced marriage. She works to increase education around officer alertness to forced marriages in their communities. Read more.
Vikki White, “Brave bride fled forced marriage and took legal action against DAD to wed her true love,” Mirror (July 23, 2016). A UK law student fled her family and eloped with her boyfriend in Pakistan, was awarded a police order protection. The order, against her father, who had been forcing an arranged marriage on her, is protecting her from the “damaging influences” of her family. Read more.
Christie Renick, “Too Young To Say ‘I Do’,” Chronical of Social Change (September 8, 2016). This article provides an in-depth analysis of the child marriage issue in the United States including national and international statistics, research on the harms of early and forced marriage, legislative efforts and opinions from experts including Tahirih’s Jeanne Smoot and Casey Swegman. Read more.
Eleanor Ainge Roy, “New Zealand bans forced marriages in crackdown on domestic violence,” The Guardian (September 13, 2016) New Zealand has revamped its domestic violence laws, and part of that initiative has led to the banning of forced or coercive marriages. Prime Minister John Key introduced this and other changes to the country’s Domestic Violence Act, saying he hopes this will make it easier for abusers to be stopped. Read more.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, “Child and Forced Marriage in the United States,” Council on Foreign Relations (September 15, 2016). This piece discusses the PBS special about child marriage in the United States and provides background information about the issue, citing studies from Tahirih Justice Center and Unchained At Last. American efforts to counter forced and child marriage, such as Virginia’s passage of its anti-child marriage bill are discussed. Read more.
Brianne Tolj, “How Middle Eastern families in Australia are sending their daughters as young as nine overseas and forcing them to marry,” Daily Mail Australia (September 19, 2016). Children set to be forced into marriages by their families are reaching out to their teachers in order to appeal for help. School workers have begun relaying these messages to the Australian Family and Community Services helpline. These forced marriages have been growing and many involve 14-16 year-old girls. Read more.
“’Tsunami’ of Australian girls as young as nine married off abroad in forced wedding epidemic,” Yahoo7 News (September 20, 2016). Girls as young as nine years old are being sent by their families to countries including Lebanon, Indonesia, and Afghanistan for arranged marriages. This number has gone up recently, as there are currently 69 cases being investigated since 2015, which is 33 more cases than the year before. Read more.
“Five questions about forced marriage you were too afraid to ask,” The AHA Foundation (September 20, 2016) The AHA Foundation provides a list of common questions that someone unfamiliar with forced marriage issues might ask with paired answers. It responds to questions such as what really constitutes a forced marriage and why it is so difficult to leave them. Read more.
Molly Oswaks, “‘I’m a person and I deserve more’: What it’s like to escape a polygamous cult,” Broadly.vice.com (September 21, 2016). The Kingston Clan, a Mormon group based in Utah, practices polygamy and the forced marriage of underage girls. Former members of the cult, Julianna Johnson and Val Snow, are interviewed about the abuses they suffered and their lives following their transition into normal life. Julianna was forced to marry her nephew when she was 15, and Val was kicked out of the group for being gay. Read more.
Jenny Stanger, “How to put an end to forced marriage in Australia,” NT News (September 22, 2016). Opinion piece from Australian Salvation Army Freedom Partnership manager calling for a comprehensive approach to supporting young people and their families to address forced marriage. It cites the Australian Criminal Offense which official made forced marriage a crime in 2013 as making people more aware of the crime and of how to contact the police with information. Read here.
Devin Tomb, “Child Marriage Still Happens in America,” Good Housekeeping (September 23, 2016). This article shares three stories of survivors of child marriage in the United States, Naila Amin, Anna Jones, and Nina Van Harn. Coerced by their parents and unprotected by the law, these three girls share illuminating stories of how easily forced marriages can happen in the here. Read more.
Marina Freri, “Child marriage: A closer look at the story behind the headlines,” Radio Australia (September 26, 2016) In response to the dialogue about child marriage that has followed the story about the “tsunami of young girls” being sent from Australia into forced marriages overseas, Marina Freri investigated the facts about forced child marriage. Read more.
“Migrant child brides put Europe in a spin,” BBC (September 30, 2016). European governments facing an increased amount of migrant activity have been struggling to tackle the question of whether underage marriages performed in refugee camps or in the refugee’s home country should be broken up by authorities. Denmark has made recent policy shifts, and begun reuniting couples with brides as young as 14. Read more.
Michael O’Keeffe, “Unchained at Last founded by ex-Orthodox Jewish bride aids women and girls escape forced marriages,” New York Daily News (October 17, 2016). Unchained at Last is a nonprofit based in New Jersey that was founded in 2011 by forced marriage survivor Fraidy Reiss. Since leaving the marriage, Reiss now provides help to other forced marriage victims, providing legal assistance, therapy, English education etc. Read more.
Melissa Davies, “Cultural marriages could be hiding forced marriages in NZ,” Newshub (December 4, 2016). New Zealand legislators are considering a bill to reform current marriage legislation which allows 16-17 year-olds to marry with parental consent. If passed, this new legislation would require oversight from the Family Court for any marriage under the age of 18. Read here.
Don Snyder, “Germany considers law to invalidate Muslim refugees’ underage marriages,” Fox News World (December 8, 2016). The German government is preparing legislation to outlaw child marriage that would deny legal status to any marriage in which a partner is under the age of 16. Concerns have arisen over whether the legislation is a reflection of Islamophobia, and whether it would leave young girls already in marriages vulnerable. Read here. | <urn:uuid:f45ac1ac-b01d-4cae-a2ee-9aabac83ac92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://preventforcedmarriage.org/2016-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.962808 | 7,016 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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The plant is thought to have arrived in the United States when American farmers, looking for inexpensive flax seed in the 1870s, bought contaminated seeds from Russia and inadvertently planted the thistle, which responded well to the dry, windy conditions of the West, said Jeffrey Dukes, a professor of forestry and natural resources at Purdue University.
Tumbleweed, a Russian (troll) invasion.
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On Saturday, an old stone house collapsed in Pompeii. The building had been closed to the public, but was known for the beautiful gladiator frescos on its interior walls. Historians believe this was the place gladiators trained and relaxed before fighting.
According to the Telegraph, the Italian government has been criticized for allowing Pompeii to fall into disrepair over the years. But everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else. Some claim the site has management problems, others say the problem is lack of government money, still others argue it’s just the effects of weather.
Officials said they were “hopeful” that the frescoes could be saved with Professor Christopher Smith, the director of the British School in Rome which carried out digs across Italy offering his help and knowledge.
Professor Smith, has not worked at Pompeii but the School is known for its dig at nearby Herculaneum which was also buried in the same eruption of Mt Vesuvius and is much better preserved and maintained.
Professor Smith said: “It’s extremely sad to see what has happened at Pompeii, which is clearly suffering problems from its maintenance… Archeological sites are always at risk when they are open to the elements but the problems at Pompeii have been going back for decades and our experience is that you need a good plan for maintenance and administration.”
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The protagonist, Hori, a poor peasant, desperately longs for a cow, a symbol of wealth and prestige in rural India. In a Faustian twist of fate, Hori gets his cow, but pays for it with his life. After his death, the village priests demand a cow from his widow to bring his soul absolution, and peace (Godaan). The narrative represents the average Indian farmer's existence under colonial rule, with the protagonist facing cultural and feudal exploitation.
It's hard to imagine anyone having the patience to read a 400 novel on a subject as limited as this, but fortunately the novel itself is much more than a single villager's cow-related struggles. There are several parallel plots: the story of Hori and his wife, Dhaniya, mentioned above; the story of Hori's son Gobar, and his wife, Jhuniya, who leave the farm in rural UP for an urban life in nearby Lucknow; and the story of the Rai Sahib and his friends in Lucknow. The Rai Sahib owns the land on which the village is situated, and as the novel develops his circle of friends, including especially a philosophy professor named Doctor Mehta, an English-educated single woman named Miss Malti, and the sugar mill director Mr Chandra Prakash Khanna, all become major characters with their own personal and familial plots. Even in the village, new plots begin to spin out involving characters who seem minor at first, but who begin to play more important roles as the story develops.
The novel is in short, a big story in the manner of the grand Victorian novels, with about fifteen major characters. The two nodal points are Hori, the poor villager (whose life really isn't that oriented to the idea of the "gift of a cow"), and Rai Sahib, the powerful Zamindar in Lucknow. In the plot of the novel the two characters are shown meeting once, at the beginning, but from that point onwards their stories go in different directions (though certain incidents, do keep the two characters in each others' orbit).
Another misconception about Godaan comes with its form -- namely, "social realism" -- which might lead one to expect this to be mainly a political novel, with the Zamindar and his high-caste agents as villains, while the poor Kayastha (Kshatriya) and Chamar villagers are heroes. In actuality, Premchand gives full and equal psychological depth to both the high-born urban characters and the poor villagers, and the novel's politics are much more subdued than one might expect from a key figure in the Progressive Writers' movement, writing at the height of the era of anti-colonial agitation. This is undeniably a novel that dramatizes the crisis of rural poverty and the corruption of the ruling class, but what comes across more than the socio-political critique is Premchand's remarkable characterization and plot.
My favorite moments in Godaan are the everyday arguments and debates amongst the characters, which make almost every chapter interesting in its own right. Most of the debates (in both the village and the town) are about status, property, gender-relations, and caste. Here's an example of a fight between a husband and wife that I found particularly powerful. Khanna and his wife Govindi are here debating what to do about a sick child; Khanna has been having a longstanding flirtation with the beautiful and cultured Miss Malti (an England-returned physician), and as a result has been neglecting his wife:
Bhisham was their youngest son. Sickly ever since birth, he seemed to have something or other wrong with him all the time. One day it would be a cough, the next a fever; sometimes he'd start having chest pains, other times it would be diarrhea. Ten months old now, he looked only five or six months. Khanna had become indifferent toward the boy, convinced he wouldn't live anyway. But Govindi for that very reason cared more about the baby than about any of the other children.
Khanna assumed an air of fatherly concern. 'It's not good to get babies in the habit of taking drugs, and you have a fetish for doling out medicines. You call the doctor at the slightest excuse. This is only the third day. Wait another day. The fever'll probably drop all by itself today.'
'It hasn't come down for three days,' Govindi persisted. 'All the home remedies have failed.'
'All right then, I'll make a call. Whom should I send for?'
'Call Dr. Naag.'
'Very well, I'll get him, but remember that a big name doesn't mean the man's a good doctor. Despite the high fees he collects, I've never seen his treatment cure anyone. He's notorious for dispatching his patients to heaven.'
'Then call anyone you like. I only suggested Dr. Naag because he's been here several times.'
'Why don't I send for Miss Malti? Her fees are lower and a lady doctor knows more about children than any man could.'
Govindi flared up. 'I don't consider Miss Malti a doctor.'
Khanna glared back at her. 'I suppose she was in England digging ditches. Besides, thousands of people owe their lives to her today. Doesn't that mean anything?'
'Maybe so, but I have no faith in her. She may have the remedy for men's ailing hearts, but she can't cure anything else.'
That did it. Khanna began to thunder, and Govindi let loose a torrent. Malti's name was like a declaration of war between them.
Khanna flung all the papers on the floor. 'Life with you has really gone sour,' he declared.
There are similarly vivid arguments with the other couples in the novel, suggesting that Premchand knew the ins and outs of arguments that can happen between husbands and wives. I found it interesting here that the argument is over how to treat an ill child; it says a lot that one option is to simply let the child continue to be feverish without even calling a doctor. The high infant mortality in India at this time is only too evident from the plot of Godaan, as throughout the novel, we see several major characters lose young children to illness. (Happily, the child mentioned in the passage above does survive.)
There are several transgressive romances in the novel involving major characters, including Hori's romance with a widow named Jhuniya, which causes grief and scandal for his family (though the family does eventually recover from the sanctions imposed on them by the local village council). Another important transgressive is the romance between a Brahmin named Matadin and a Chamar woman named Siliya. The latter is a starker example of caste-transgression, and a confrontation over it provokes one of the more disturbing scenes in Premchand's novel:
Siliya's father Harkhu was an old man of sixty, dark and thin, wrinkled as a dried pepper and just as biting. 'There's no trouble, thakur. Today we'll either make a chamar out of Matadin or shed his blood along with our own. Siliya is a woman, and she has to go live with some man or other. We have no objection to that, but whoever takes her must become one of us. You can't make brahmans out of us, but we can make chamars out of you. If you're willing to make us brahmans, our whole community is agreeable. As long as that's not possible, then become chamars. Eat with us, drink with us and live with us. If you're going to take away our honour, then give us your caste.'
Datadin raised his stick. 'Control your tongue, Harkhu. Your girl's over there. Take her anywhere you please. We haven't tied her down. She worked and she got paid. There's no shortage of labourers around here.'
Siliya's mother shook her finger at him. 'Bully for you, pandit! You're being terribly fair! I'd like to see you talk that way if your daughter had run off with a chamar. We're chamars, though, so of course we don't have any honour! We're not taking Siliya away alone. We're taking Matadin with her--the one who ruined her. You're so pious--you'll sleep with her, but you won't drink water from her hands. No one but this bitch would tolerate all that. I'd have poisoned such a man.'
'Didn't you hear what these people are saying?' Harkhu challenged the group with him. 'What are you standing there gaping for?'
At this, two of the chamars sprang forward and grabbed Matadin's hands while a third tore off his sacred thread. Before Datadin and Jhinguri Singh could wield their sticks, two chamars had stuffed a big piece of bone in Matadin's mouth. Matadin clenched his teeth but the abominable thing caught between his lips all the same. Overcome by nausea, he opened his mouth involuntarily--and the bone slipped inside.
The vomiting over, Matadin stretched out almost lifeless on the ground as though his back were broken, as though he only wanted a cupful of water in which to drown himself. The ritual propriety which had allowed him to flaunt his passion and his pride had been wiped out. That piece of bone had polluted not only his mouth but also his soul. His religion depended on absolute purity in eating and drinking; not that righteousness had been cut off at the root. (305-306)
In part, it's surprising here to see the Chamar group as in effect initiating an act of physical aggression -- in much modern Indian literature, caste violence is seen as always 'top-down'. It's also interesting to me that the characters choose this particular kind of embodied 'pollution' as revenge for a Chamar woman being 'taken' as a mistress by a Brahmin: a piece of bone forced into the mouth becomes the equivalent of a sexual relationship.
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There are also some passages in Godaan that flirt with a more moral and philosophical quality, though for the most part I tend not to find these quite as gripping. One exception is the climactic scene involving the reconciliation of Khanna after his mill is burned, and his estranged wife Govindi -- as it occurs in front of Miss Malti, the woman who has in fact distracted Khanna from his wife in the first place. In some ways, the philosophical revelation below is the follow-up to the scene of crisis I quote from above:
The dawn of married life is rosy with an intoxicating desire whose golden rays illumine the horizons of the soul. Then comes the scorching heat of noon, when whirlwinds blow and the earth begins to tremble. The golden shelter of desire melts away. Stark reality emerges. After that comes restful evening, cool and peaceful, when, like weary travellers, we discuss the day's journey with a detachment as though seated on some high mountain top removed from the clamour below.
And here is the original Hindi, using Google's Transliterate function to roughly render the Devanagari:
वैवाहिक जीवन के प्रबात में लालसा अपनों गुलाबी मादकता के साथ उदय होती है और हदय के सारे आकाश को अपने मधुये का सुनहरी किरणों से रंजित कर देती है. फिर मध्याह का प्रखर ताप आता है, क्षण-क्षण पर बगूले उठते है, और प्द्थ्वी कापने अगती है. लालसा का सुनेहरा आवरण हट जाता है और वास्त-किकता अपने नग्न रूप में सामने आ खादी होती है. उसके बाद विज्नाममय (*) संध्या आती है, शीतल और शांत, जब हम थके हुए पथिके की भाति दिनभर के यात्रा का वतान्त कहेते और सुनते है, तटस्थ भाव से, माने हम किसी ऊचे शिखर पर जा बैठे है जहा नीचे का जन-राव हम तक नही पहुचता.
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Roadarmel's terrific 1967 translation has been widely praised, and Vasudha Dalmia, in Indiana University Press's 2002 reissue of Godaan, decided to leave it untouched. As far as I can tell, Roadarmel is pretty consistent in rendering the Hindi source accurately and effectively into English. Dalmia does point out that Roadarmel makes a couple of small but telling changes here and there, however:
If at a dramatic moment in her encounter with the police official Dhaniya speaks of the futility of trying to gain 'suraj' as she calls it, that is svaraj (self- or home-rule), on a moral basis as slim as that presented by the new leadership, Roadarmel elects to omit these few lines with their immediate reference to impending political disaster altogether. He also omits another telling sentence, in order perhaps not to belittle Hori, when Gobar calls his father a 'gau' (cow)--that is, a man too simpleminded and submissive to survive village politics--linking him ironically to the very object he so desperately seeks to own. (xv)
I do have the Hindi original text of the novel, though I've only been looking at it sporadically. (I haven't found the passage where Gobar calls his father a 'gau' yet, but am looking for it.)
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Godaan, in short, is fundamentally a modern novel in both form and content. Its form clearly resembles multi-plot late Victorian novels by writers like Thomas Hardy, and in some ways its content is Hardy-esque as well -- though thoroughly transplanted to the Indian/Hindi context without a trace of 'derivativeness'. The novel rings true both in its village scenes and in its urban/high-culture passages, and many of the debates and arguments its characters have, over issues such as caste- and gender-relations remain relevant today. Despite Premchand's reputation as a political writer (which he himself reinforced in his public statements in support of the Progressive Writers), Godaan does not hit the reader over the head with politics. It's satisfying to read for its psychological insights (especially regarding relationships between men and women), and I could certainly imagine teaching Roadarmel's translation to American undergraduates; when I do, perhaps I'll add a bit more. | <urn:uuid:3690d6a6-c503-4359-beb8-6c876977a81c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.electrostani.com/2010/09/thoughts-on-premchands-godaan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.969147 | 3,637 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The estimated prevalence of endometriosis is 10% in the general population, and it is a leading cause of gynecologic-related hospitalization. In 2002, medical and surgical treatment of this disease cost an estimated $22 billion. However, the true prevalence of endometriosis is most likely underestimated because the disease can be asymptomatic or manifest only minimal symptoms and can be difficult to diagnose without surgery.
Several clinical features are commonly seen in patients with endometriosis, including age between 30 and 40 years, nulliparity, and involuntary infertility. They also may have dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and the classic symptom, pelvic pain. Pain and infertility are the most common sequelae of this disease and can cause devastating effects on the physical, mental, and social well-being of affected women.
Due to a lack of sufficient studies, the true prevalence of extrapelvic endometriosis remains unknown. Extrapelvic endometriosis has been reported in the gastrointestinal tract, appendix, inguinal canal, liver, lung, umbilicus, cesarean scar, and rectus abdominus. Cases have also been reported of abdominal wall endometriosis following needle introduction from amniocentesis.[14,15]
Blanco and colleagues noted a 4% prevalence of abdominal wall endometriosis in a retrospective study of 297 patients with endometriosis. Common clinical symptoms for these cases of endometriosis included a palpable mass, dyspareunia, menorrhagia, and dysmenorrhea.
The initial workup of possible extrapelvic endometriosis should include a detailed history and physical examination, consideration of various imaging modalities (ultrasonography, MRI, CT scanning), and/or fine-needle aspiration (FNA).
FNA of an endometriotic mass demonstrates the tubular and spindle-shaped stromal cells seen in endometriosis. Endometrial glands with endometrial stroma can also be appreciated on hematoxylin-eosin stained specimens. Imaging modalities used to help determine the extent of endometriotic masses for surgery include ultrasonography, CT scanning, and MRI. Classic endometriosis demonstrates low-level homogeneous internal echoes on ultrasonography and is found in 95% of cases. CT scanning of these masses is nonspecific, with findings including simple to complex cystic structures and contrast enhancement due to vascularity and hemorrhagic components. MRI is the most specific modality because it can detect hemorrhagic nodules containing degenerated blood product, with T2-weighted images showing progressive loss of signal in the dependent portion of the lesion as a result of accumulation of chronic blood products from cyclic bleeding.
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Report to Congress: Penn Researchers Find Homelessness Is Declining
Authored by: Jill DiSanto
Photography by: Candace diCarlo
Faculty & Research
Homelessness across the United States continues to decline, according to a new report toCongress co-authored by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.
The 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report shows a decline in the number of homeless people in the U.S. across all groups, including women and children, veterans and the chronically homeless.
The number of people experiencing homelessness dropped to 578,424 in 2014. This is down from 591,768 in 2013, a decline of more than 2 percent.
Homelessness among veterans is down 11 percent, and the number of persons in families experiencing homelessness fell 3 percent.
“The continuing decline in homelessness across subpopulations indicates that the new federal emphasis on moving people rapidly back into housing is working, especially among veterans, where there has been significant new investments by the Congress and President Obama,”Dennis Culhane, the report’s co-principal investigator, said. “Overall improvements in the labor market may also be helping people get out of homelessness more quickly.”
The report derives data from the annual Point-in-Time Count, an unduplicated estimate of the number of both sheltered and unsheltered homeless populations. It is held in communities across the country on the last Wednesday in January.
Culhane is the Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy and director of research at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, which is responsible for the annual report’s chapter on veteran homelessness.
The research group examines the demography and dynamics of veteran homelessness, developing and testing interventions to address the problem.
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Nano camera for real-time monitoring of chemical reactions
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have made a tiny camera, held together with ‘molecular glue’, that allows them to observe chemical reactions in real time. Their results are reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Nature controls the assemblies of complex structures at the molecular scale through self-limiting processes. However, mimicking these processes in the lab is usually time-consuming, expensive and reliant on complex procedures.
“In order to develop new materials with superior properties, we often combine different chemical species together to come up with a hybrid material that has the properties we want,” said Professor Oren Scherman, who led the research. “But making these hybrid nanostructures is difficult, and you often end up with uncontrolled growth or materials that are unstable.”
Prof Scherman collaborated with researchers from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory and University College London to develop a method that uses a molecular glue called cucurbituril (CB), which interacts strongly with both semiconductor nanocrystals called quantum dots and gold nanoparticles. The researchers used the small nanocrystals to control the assembly of the larger nanoparticles through a process they coined interfacial self-limiting aggregation. The process leads to permeable and stable hybrid materials that interact with light.
The team added the individual components, along with the molecule they wanted to observe, to water at room temperature. Previously, when gold nanoparticles were mixed with the molecular glue in the absence of quantum dots, the components underwent unlimited aggregation and fell out of solution. However, with the strategy developed by the researchers, quantum dots mediate the assembly of these nanostructures so that the semiconductor–metal hybrids control and limit their own size and shape. In addition, these structures stay stable for weeks.
“This self-limiting property was surprising; it wasn’t anything we expected to see,” said co-author Dr Jade McCune. “We found that the aggregation of one nanoparticulate component could be controlled through the addition of another nanoparticle component.”
The camera harvests light within the semiconductors, inducing electron transfer processes like those that occur in photosynthesis, which can be monitored using the gold nanoparticle sensors and spectroscopic techniques. This enabled the team to observe in real time the formation of radical species — a molecule with an unpaired electron — and products of their assembly such as sigma dimeric viologen species, where two radicals form a reversible carbon–carbon bond. The latter species had been theorised but never observed.
“We were surprised how powerful this new tool is, considering how straightforward it is to assemble,” said first author Dr Kamil Sokołowski.
“This platform is a really big toolbox considering the number of metal and semiconductor building blocks that can be now coupled together using this chemistry — it opens up lots of new possibilities for imaging chemical reactions and sensing through taking snapshots of monitored chemical systems. The simplicity of the set-up means that researchers no longer need complex, expensive methods to get the same results.”
Researchers from the Scherman lab are currently working to further develop these hybrids towards artificial photosynthetic systems and (photo)catalysis where electron-transfer processes can be observed directly in real time. The team is also looking at mechanisms of carbon–carbon bond formation as well as electrode interfaces for battery applications.
“This platform will unlock a wide range of processes, including many materials and chemistries that are important for sustainable technologies,” Prof Scherman said. “The full potential of semiconductor and plasmonic nanocrystals can now be explored, providing an opportunity to simultaneously induce and observe photochemical reactions.”
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Miami, FL — YWCA South Florida, alongside presenting partner Football UNITES™, a program of the Miami Dolphins, is launching the third annual community-wide Stand Against Racism Challenge. With YWCA USA and more than 220 other YWCAs around the country, YWCA South Florida aims to spark conversations and inspire action by educating individuals and local businesses on ways to address racial and social injustices. Registration is FREE and opens today. The community awareness challenge will begin on April 4.
“At YWCA, we are unrelenting in our mission to grow a community of learners and to make South Florida the country’s most inclusive and equitable community,” says Kerry-Ann Royes, YWCA South Florida’s president and CEO. “It is an honor to have the Miami Dolphins partnering with us through their Football UNITES program. Our partnership was a natural fit as we both strive to create a more inclusive South Florida.”
Based on the premise that it takes 21 days to build a habit, YWCA has structured its Stand Against Racism Challenge as a 21-day virtual learning challenge. The purpose of the experience is to help participants develop effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with race, power, and leadership. YWCA’s web and app-based platform creates a safe space each day for participants to learn, grow, listen, and discuss the deep-seated issues of systemic racism and inequities plaguing communities of color. The ultimate goal is to encourage action, so pushing to end racial and social injustices becomes a habit.
The Stand Against Racism Challenge is a national movement with YWCA South Florida’s participation being the largest social justice collective learning experience in Florida. YWCA South Florida encourages locals to take the challenge and examine how racism and bias impact their lives and communities.
Want to build up your racial equity and social justice muscles? 💪 Sign up to take the Stand Against Racism Challenge today and explore timely topics alongside your friends, family, and community!
— YWCA Spokane (@ywcaspokane) May 5, 2022
“YWCA’s Stand Against Racism Challenge allows everyone involved to look within and decide how they can stand up for equity and social justice in tangible ways,” says Jason Jenkins, senior vice president of communications and community affairs for the Dolphins and a YWCA board member. “Through our Football UNITES program, we look for community organizations that align with our mission to create a positive impact in our community. Stand Against Racism allows us all to take that journey together.”
Each day, participants will have virtual learning experiences, such as reading a relevant article, listening to podcasts, viewing trending videos, reflecting on individual experiences, and other motivational opportunities. South Floridians can join as a group, a company, or individually.
ABOUT YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA
YWCA South Florida seeks to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Combining direct service programming and advocacy, YWCA South Florida works across three key areas: racial justice and civil rights; empowerment and economic advancement of women and girls; and health and safety of women and girls. The organization has been at the forefront of some of South Florida’s most significant social issues since it was founded in 1921 and has worked to improve the lives of more than 3.1 million adults and children. To learn more, visit ywcasouthflorida.org. | <urn:uuid:dbab481f-8ba4-495b-aa0f-74c3fa1282d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lemoncitylive.com/football/ywca-south-florida-miami-dolphins-football-unites-announce-free-community-wide-racial-equity-stand-against-racism-challenge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.931105 | 738 | 1.703125 | 2 |
In 2020, the number of IDPs returning to their area of origin (AoO) or being re-displaced increased, coupled with persisting challenges in relation to social cohesion, lack of services, infrastructure and - in some cases - insecurity in AoO. Increased returns were driven in part by the ongoing closure and consolidation of IDP camps. Between October 2020 and mid-January 2021, 14 formal IDP camps closed or were reclassified into informal sites by the Government of Iraq (GoI), in addition two informal sites – Al-Ishaqi and Al-Shams – were also closed. Ongoing planning continues surrounding the future of the remaining camps across Iraq. A total of 4.86 million returnees have been recorded in Iraq, with 1.2 million IDPs still in displacement.
In light of these dynamics, the need to better understand the factors influencing the sustainability of returns, conditions for the (re)integration of IDPs and returnees, and the impact of their presence on access to services and social cohesion has been identified in the context of humanitarian and development planning. In response, since June 2020, REACH assessed 10 sub-districts of return in Ninewa Governorate (Markaz Al-Baaj, Markaz Mosul, Al-Qairawan, and Markaz Sinjar subdistricts), Salah Al-Din Governorate (Markaz Tooz Khurmato and Yathreb sub-districts), Diyala Governorate (Markaz Al-Muqdadiyah Sub-district), Kirkuk Governorate (Markaz Daquq Sub-district) and Al-Anbar Governorate (Al-Rummaneh and Markaz Al-Garma sub-districts) in coordination with the RWG.
The need to cover information gaps still being considered a priority as reported in the different Area-Based Coordination groups (ABCs) established across Iraq under the Durable Solutions Technical Working Group (DSTWG). To address this gap, REACH will continue conducting rapid assessments to profile priority sub-districts of return and/or secondary displacement where there was identified a risk to the sustainable (re)integration of populations, and therefore durable solutions. The sub-districts will be identified in coordination with the RWG, and aligned with the ABCs areas of interest classified as ‘hotspots’ where conditions may threaten the viability and sustainability of return or (re)integration.
The profiles – called Return and Durable Solutions profiles (ReDS) – aimed to provide evidence base to support humanitarian and development actors to promote durable solutions for returnees and IDPs in situations of protracted displacement on multiple levels, including:
Development of strategic dialogue, policy development, and resource mobilization efforts,
Development of localized interventions, and
Advocacy with government actors around camp closures, consolidation, premature returns, and conditions in areas of origin to allow sustainable returns.
As indicated by the information need within the context, six factsheets will be released before 31 December 2021. Key findings for each location will be compiled in a PowerPoint presentation, in addition to the factsheet, to be disseminated through relevant coordination platforms in order to inform prioritization and effectiveness of ongoing and future programming, such as through the RWG, the Durable Solutions Technical Working Group’s (DSTWG) Area-Based Coordination Groups (ABCs), and relevant general coordination meeting (GCM). As relevant, findings can also be presented in the non-coordination group meetings for learning and informing response, including through thematic groups (such as the Emergency Livelihoods Cluster and/or national Peace and Reconciliation Working Group) and other subnational coordination mechanisms relevant in the assessed locations. In addition, a dissemination letter will be share via email through the RWG, and by uploading the outputs in Relief Web and REACH Resource Centre. As indicated by the information need within the context, six factsheets will be released before 31 December 2021. | <urn:uuid:a92760d0-22ff-4520-b850-dc16d65b3307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/research-terms-reference-returns-and-durable-solutions-reds-iraq-irq2004-april-2021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.933429 | 846 | 1.859375 | 2 |
This year’s Dragon Boat Festival will be on June 03, 2022, which is also the fifth day of the fifth month in the traditional lunar calendar, and a very special day in Taiwan. Baring in mind that COVID might change the plans, it seems the race will take place at the usual spot at Dajia Riverside Park (under Dazhi Bridge), and it is definitely worth a visit.
Most commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwujie 端午節), along with Moon Festival, and Lunar New Year, it is one of the three most important festivals celebrated on the island. Dragon Boat Festival is a public holiday and an occasion for Taiwanese to travel and gather with family and loved ones. Boasting an over 2,000-year history, this fun-filled celebration is marked by a number of long-standing traditions, special food, and a very unique sporting event.
Dragon Boat Festival is sometimes also called Double Fifth Festival because it is observed on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month. This is a time of year once considered unlucky and unhealthy, because as the mild days of Spring give way to the heat and humidity of Summer, snakes, centipedes, scorpions, and other creepy crawlies start to emerge, and diseases spread more easily. To ward off these unwelcome guests, branches of the fragrant herbs calamus and wormwood (moxa) are hung above the front door of Taiwanese homes.
Stay safe with fragrant herbs
To keep you protected when you are out and about, you can wear a xiang bao (香包). These perfumed sachets are traditionally created from cloth, ribbons, or paper and filled with sweet-smelling herbs and powders, then worn around the neck or elsewhere on the body. Historically the older generation would make them for the younger generation to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck. Today anyone is welcome to wear a xiang bao.
Brave adults can also try xionghuang jiu (雄黃酒) or Realgar Wine. Realgar, a yellowy-orange arsenic sulphide powder, was used in the past as a snake and insect repellent, and was also considered to be an antidote to all poisons. It is mixed with huang jiu (黃酒 yellow wine) to create an alcoholic drink believed to provide protection against pests, illness, and evil spirits when consumed, or sprinkled around the home. Today you can safely enjoy commercially prepared Realgar Wine, and use it to mark the foreheads of your children with the character 王 (king) to safely protect them as well.
After you have driven away the evil spirits, Taiwanese tradition says that you can invite good luck and harmony for an entire year by balancing an egg on its end at exactly noon on Double Fifth day. Patience and a peaceful mind are the key to success in this endeavor, and if you find you are good at it, there are often egg-standing contests at temples and department stores throughout Taiwan.
The change in seasons is not the only event recognized during this holiday, however. There are several origin stories in circulation, but Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Poet’s Day because, as probably the most popular legend, tells it, the festival commemorates the death of the poet and government official Qu Yuan (屈原) in 221 BCE.
Although he was a loyal and patriotic man, Qu Yuan was banished from his home country by the King of Chu for political reasons. During his time in exile, Qu Yuan created a new style of poetry and composed many works in this style expressing his love, and enduring concerns for the future of his state. His devotion to the Kingdom of Chu ran so deep, that upon hearing that it had been overtaken by a rival Warring State, Qu Yuan threw himself into a river and drowned. Local fishermen and villagers Revered Qu Yuan for his resolute patriotism and rushed out in their boats to try and save him. When his body could not be found, they beat drums to scare off any fish, and placed rice balls wrapped in bamboo leaves in the water to feed them, in the hope of preventing them from eating Qu Yuan’s body.
Elements of this legend live on in the traditions used to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan today.
What to eat
The sticky rice used to feed the fish is represented in 粽子, zongzi. Zongzi is made from glutinous rice and a combination of ingredients such as pork, mushrooms, salted duck egg yolks, seafood, peanuts, and walnuts, wrapped in bamboo leaves. The triangular packets are, then steamed. Whether they are made together by the whole family or purchased on the street, almost everyone eats zongzi during Dragon Boat Festival.
The race to try and save Qu Yuan is recreated in the most exciting part of the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boats are a kind of canoe that varies in size from 40-100 feet in length, but all of them feature heads and tails shaped like dragons and are brightly painted. Before the race, each boat is “brought to life” in a formal eye-dotting ceremony, where red paint is dabbed in the pupils of the dragon’s eyes. Each boat is crewed by a team of rowers and a flag catcher, as well as a drummer who keeps time for the rowers and brings to mind the fishermen trying to scare away the fish from Qu Yuan’s body. Boats race against each other, and the winner is the first team to capture the flag at the end of the course.
Dragon Boat races are held locally all around the island. The earliest Dragon Boat races in Taipei can be traced back to 1895 when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. They continued in various forms over the years, and since 1996, Taipei City has hosted the Taipei International Dragon Boat Championships. Held at Dajia Riverside Park on the Keelung River near the Dazhi Bridge, the races have attracted teams of paddlers from all over the world, and huge crowds to cheer them on and enjoy festival-related activities and performances. The global Covid-19 pandemic saw the 2020 Dragon Boat Festival dramatically scaled back with most events that were not canceled allowing virtual viewing only. This year’s Dragon Boat Festival has been canceled.
The place to go see the Dragon Boat Races is Dajia Riverside Park, more specifically the Dajia section of the Keelung River. The International Dragon Boat Championship has been held here since 1996, and the races draw large crowds of spectators. In the midst of a very festive atmosphere, the contestants set off on their races from Dragon Boat Pier (Dazhi Bridge).
The Dragon Boats
The name of the game. The rowers, who are actually paddling, propel the boat to the beat of the drummer, and the flag catcher leans far across the bow of the boat to grab a flag. The winning team is the first boat to capture the flag at the end of their lane.
The Dragon boat:
- It is a canoe ranging from 40-100 feet in length and colorfully decorated like dragons.
- The front of the boat is carved as a dragon head
- The body of the boat is painted to look like dragon’s scales, holds 20 rowers in 10 rows
- The stern of the boat is a dragon’s tail.
- The drummer sets the pace of the rowers, which is believed to drum the heart rhythm of the dragon.
- A traditional eye-dotting ceremony will give life to the boat before the race.
Traditions to Ensure Good Karma at the Dragon Boat Festival
To ensure a good Dragon Boat Festival, a ceremony invoking the deities, eye-dotting, and river blessing is held at the Qu Yuan Temple of Zhoumei village — the only temple in Taiwan that worships Qu Yuan as its main deity. Representatives from Taipei city, the Taipei City Government Department of Sports, and the dragon boat competition representative teams and guests join in the worship ceremony. Following ancient rituals, they pray to the deities for the successful and safe completion of this year’s Taipei Dragon Boat Championships.
This ceremony is held in accordance with ancient Taoist rituals. A blessing ceremony will normally involve dragon and lion dance, traditional drums, and a figurine of Santaizi, the Taiwanese god of protection. Participating teams of all ages are invited to join in the festivities, and the gathering of teams from different backgrounds and generations symbolizes the shared guardianship and heritage of traditional dragon boat culture. At the same time, the competitors also paint and wear statement headbands symbolizing “fighting for each other” to demonstrate Taipei’s vitality and combat capability.
After the ceremony, the participants go to the appointed dragon boat eye-dotting venue to perform the eye-dotting, whereafter the boats are lowered into the water for the river blessing ceremony.
Representatives of these boats finally row the dragon boats from the venue to Dajia Dragon Boat Wharf, ready to participate in the 2021 Taipei Dragon Boat Championships.
The Tale of the Eye-dotting
This tale created the Chinese idiom, “Paint the dragon, dot the eyes.” Zhang, a devoted Buddhist, was commissioned to paint four dragons on a wall. Zhang conscientiously worked on his masterpiece, and his progress was admired by spectators. However, these spectators noticed that Zhang had missed out the dragon eyes on all the dragons and questioned whether he had finished his masterpiece. Zhang explained that this was done on purpose, saying: “The eyes are the spirit of the dragon, and the other parts are just the form. Once the eyes are added, the form will come to life and fly away.”
The spectators thought it was a tad farfetched to believe the painting would come to life and said as much. So, with four dabs of his ink brush, Zhang dotted the dragon’s eyes and gave pupils to two of the dragons. At that moment a light struck the wall where the dragons were painted, and the two dragons flew off the wall and disappeared into the sky above. Therefore he decided that the other two pupilless dragons should remain as paintings on the wall.
The Chinese idiom, “paint the dragon, dot the eyes” (畫龍點睛, huà lóng diǎn jīng) is derived from the tale of Zhang. It means adding the finishing touches to something already very good and achieving perfection. The tradition of eye-dotting dragon boats arose as a way to symbolically give the dragon spirit to win the race. | <urn:uuid:bb1089ad-f4f0-4166-8f25-b411626af60c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.communitycenter.org.tw/dragon-boat-festival/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.964357 | 2,242 | 1.601563 | 2 |
CHECK PLEASE: USING LEGAL LIABILITY TO INFORM FOOD SAFETY REGULATION.
Food safety is a hotly debated issue. While food nourishes, sustains, and enriches our lives, it can also kill us. At any given meal, our menu comes from a dozen different sources. Without proper incentives to encourage food safety, microbial pathogens can, and do enter the food source--so much so that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year roughly one in six Americans (or forty-eight million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. What is the optimal way to prevent unsafe foods from entering the marketplace? Safety in the food system emerges from a delicate interplay of several sources--direct regulation, legal liability, and market response. And yet food safety is a largely unexplored area in legal scholarship. This Article fills this void by examining the contribution of legal liability first as an economic signal to deter firms from producing unsafe food and then as an indirect regulator promoting food safety. Two parts follow. Part I examines the efficacy of legal liability to deter firms from producing unsafe food. I estimate an empirical model using all (320) publicly recorded foodborne illness settlements and verdicts in the U.S. from 2000-2011, to determine factors that influence the plaintiff win rate, resolution time, and plaintiff recovery. Statistically significant results include: Plaintiffs who sue for foodborne illness injuries win more often and win more monetary damages when they settle. Cases are resolved faster and damages are higher when the plaintiffs attorney is ranked and an expert in the field. Interestingly, in states where punitive damage limits are in place, plaintiffs resolve their cases faster, they are more likely to win, and they collect more damages in general. When the plaintiff suffers the gravest injury (death), the case takes longer to resolve and damages are higher. Plaintiffs also win more damages when the injury takes place in a state that has an efficient public health reporting system. The results suggest that as a cost of doing business, foodborne illness litigation sends a strong signal to firms to increase food safety practices--but only when cases settle and not necessarily when they reach a jury trial. The way in which the results highlight the existence of market failures in providing food safety--the transaction costs and the information costs preventing plaintiffs from suing in the first place and from recovering fully--presents valuable information for regulators. Part II contributes to the understanding and active debate surrounding the interplay between legal liability and food safety regulation, suggesting the optimal way for these two deterrence mechanisms to interact. My solution is for regulation to be responsive to foodborne illness litigation. This Article advocates for empirically informed regulation and contributes to the literature of tort law, law and economics, and food safety. The new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), promulgated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has the potential to aid plaintiffs in overcoming causation and traceability concerns with their claims. Concrete recommendations seek to inform an audience of regulators currently drafting the final rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] | <urn:uuid:bfd6ca7b-32b2-4450-ae06-8fd5c4844f35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.colorado.edu/display/pubid_54302 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.936139 | 644 | 2.359375 | 2 |
How long do you cook trout?
It takes 12 to 14 months for the trout to grow to legal size (7 inches). During this time, trout are fed three to five times per day, and they grow quickly. Trout are graded and sorted by size in the raceways. Trout are weighed, counted and loaded into stocking trucks.
How do you know when rainbow trout is cooked?
The best way to tell if your fish is done is by testing it with a fork at an angle, at the thickest point, and twist gently. The fish will flake easily when it’s done and it will lose its translucent or raw appearance. A good rule of thumb is to cook the fish to an internal temperature of 140-145 degrees.
What temp should trout be cooked to?
Test for doneness. Flake with a fork. Fish should reach an internal temperature of 145°F. Add 5 minutes to the total cooking time for fish cooked in foil or in a sauce.
Does trout take longer to cook than salmon?
If you’re using salmon, it tends to be a little bit thicker than steelhead trout, so you might need to cook it just a few minutes longer. You can prep the fish ahead of time, and keep it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to put it in the oven. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
Is rainbow trout salmon?
Rainbow trout and steelhead are ray-finned fishes in the salmon family, and they are one of the top sport fish in North America. Steelhead are anadromous—meaning they spend part of their lives in the sea before going to rivers to breed—while rainbow trout spend their lives mostly or entirely in freshwater.
Is trout healthy to eat?
Freshwater trout is low in calories but high in protein. A healthy source of omega-3 fatty acids, trout is also naturally rich in B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin), vitamin D, phosphorus, and iron. Trout is also a good dietary source of iodine.
How long should I cook fish?
Steps Heat oven to 375°F. Grease bottom of rectangular pan, 11x7x1 1/2 inches. Cut fish fillets into 4 serving pieces if needed. Mix remaining ingredients; drizzle over fish. Bake uncovered 15 to 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with fork.
WHat is the 10 minute rule for cooking fish?
The rule 10-Minute Rule or Canadian Cooking Method is simple: cook fish for 10-minutes per inch of thickness. Then, flip the fish only once, halfway through the cooking time. Whether you plan to follow a recipe or not, start by measure the thickest part of the fish with a clean ruler.
Can you eat undercooked trout?
For most healthy people who choose to eat raw or undercooked seafood, it may only pose a small health risk but for others the risk can be severe. Major types of food poisoning that can result from eating raw or undercooked fish and shellfish include Salmonella and Vibrio vulnificus.
Do you cover fish with foil when baking?
Baking in foil Lots of people prefer to bake their fish by wrapping it in foil. This method is very efficient, as it cuts down on oven and utensil cleaning time. By wrapping the fish in a protective covering, it has a similar effect to steaming, as moisture is sealed within the foil rather than escaping into the oven.
What temperature do rainbow trout like?
Trout are most actively feeding in comfortable water temperatures between 34 and 67 degrees Fahrenheit. Trout feeding picks up just as the water temperature rises one degree above 40, 45 and 49 degrees Fahrenheit, so taking the water temperature every hour is beneficial.
Is rainbow trout healthy?
Health Benefits of Rainbow Trout: Rainbow Trout is delicious and also a healthy meal choice. Rainbow trout is packed with protein and essential Omega-3 fatty acids, as well as potassium – all of which can help to manage high blood pressure, improve muscle strength and boost metabolism.
Is rainbow trout fishy tasting?
Rainbow trout often have a very mild taste. If there is a fishy taste or odor, it’s likely the fish has gone off. Rainbow trout are similar to salmon in appearance and flavor. The fish are very similar and could even be caught in the same waters.
Is rainbow trout better than salmon?
Salmon is healthier than trout because it almost has twice the number of omega-3 fatty acids. In addition, salmon contains more vitamins C and B-6. Although both types of fish are considered healthy and recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Is trout healthier than salmon?
Rainbow Trout is the sustainable, low mercury fish labeled a “best choice” by the EPA and FDA. This colorful patterned fish is a member of the salmon family and is one of the healthiest fishes you can include in your diet. Plus, it’s an excellent alternative to the often-overfished salmon.
Is rainbow trout the same as salmon trout?
The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The fish are often called salmon trout. Several other fish in the salmonid family are called trout; some are anadromous like salmon, whereas others are resident in freshwater only.
Is trout cheaper than salmon?
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Central Secretariat or Secretariat Building is located at Raisina Hill in New Delhi, India's National Capital. It is an administrative district. This district comprises monumental establishments from the British era which house institutions such as the Indian Parliament and Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Central Secretariat accommodates the Ministries of Cabinet of India. It consists of two buildings known as the North Block and the South Block. These symmetrical buildings were designed by the noted British architect- Herbert Baker. They are located on either side of the great boulevard-Rajpath. At the western end of the Rajpath is situated the President's official residence known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The North Block accommodates the Ministry of Finance, the Central Board of Direct Taxes, and the Home Ministry. In comparison, the Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Secretariat, National Security Council, Ministry of External Affairs, and the prime minister's office are part of the South Block.
During summers, the temperature can soar up to 40 degrees Celsius, and the condition worsens due to the periodic heat waves. The winters see cold weather with temperatures falling lower than 8 degrees Celsius—monsoons climax in August with an average of 190mm of rain. The daylight lasts the longest in June.
If you want to reach Central Secretariat from Sarojini Nagar, you can drive within 14 minutes via Sri Aurobindo Marg, covering 6.3 km. You can even opt for the metro from Sarojini Nagar on Pink Line and switch to Yellow Line from INA to reach Central Secretariat. You can also take the DIMTS bus from Kidwai Nagar near Sarojini Nagar to Rail Bhawan Metro Station close to Central Secretariat.
This place has excellent connectivity to the rest of the city. Central Secretariat Metro Station serves it. New Delhi Railway Station is the closest railway station to this place. The Indira Gandhi International Airport is a mere 10.9km away and takes just 20 minutes to reach. Auto-rickshaws and cabs are also readily available.
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I AM THAT I AM THAT YOU ARE!
Selected Quotes by Wayne Hartman
What did we do with our lives that was worthy of our having lived? That question needs to be on our minds incessantly, propelling us to be that best we can be and in the process to do what is ours to do.
We are meant to live lives of greatness, to be extraordinary in some manner. Yes, each and every one of us. However, it doesn't happen automatically; at least, not for most of us. We have to do what it takes to make it happen.
Life should be free from boredom. Boredom is a sure sign that we are not living up to our potential.
What do I want? I have been so focused on the question of who am I, that I have all but neglected this issue of what I want. Yet, it seems that this is the very question that drives the reality that I would create for myself.
I would be whom that I AM. That is always enough. I would do what I am moved to do. That too, is enough.
Each of us possess greatness inside of us. One of our challenges is to find a way to apply that greatness and share it with the world.
Everything happens when it needs to happen. There is a grand plan of consciousness that is unfolding ... in particular, the expression of spirit in flesh. We are all part of that plan. Each of us have a particular role to play ... a role for which we were designed, a role for which we came into this existence.
The web of consciousness in which we are enmeshed is incredibly rich with interconnectivity. Through this web, we are related to everyone and everything.
We have to go beyond mind to get to spirit.
In a very real way there is only ONE source, one consciousness from which we all spring. No, I can't prove that such is the case. It comes from a direct knowingness. It just feels right. In the end there can be only ONE!
Ultimately, what we hoard, we eventually lose. What we give freely comes back to us manyfold, though not necessarily in the ways we might expect.
There is much to do in the world. There are a myriad of jobs requiring a corresponding myriad of abilities. It is for us to find the jobs that are right for us. These would be the jobs that fully employ what we do best. Typically, this will allow us to do those things that we love to do. Something special, something magical happens when love enters the picture.
To create a better world, we must desire a better world and then imagine what could be. Out of this imagining will come the directives to enable what we imagine to be created, first conceptually and then physically.
It is spirit that animates us, that gives us life far beyond the breath ... that gives us soul. And ultimately, it is this soul that makes us whom that we are.
That is what life is all about ... learning whom that we are and expressing that as much as we can in the way that we live.
If we continue making the same old choices, we will continue to get the same results. If we want a different outcome we need to have the courage to try something new ... and keep trying and evaluating until we find what works for us. Wayne Hartman, Metaphysician
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This GBCA Safety Toolbox Talk discusses the distinction between isolation and quarantine in relation to COVID-19 response (Updated December 3, 2020). Click below to download the Toolbox Talk as a handout (includes Sign-In Sheet).
COVID-19: Isolation and Quarantine
Currently, there is no FDA-approved vaccine or treatment for COVID-19. Because of this, humans are highly susceptible to being infected and getting sick. To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend isolation and quarantine to prevent further exposures to the virus. This toolbox outlines both isolation and quarantine and reviews the recommended responses to COVID-19 exposure for individuals. (Updated December 3, 2020)
Isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick. If you are sick, you isolate to prevent infecting others.
Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick. You quarantine because you might get sick or may already be sick and contagious.
The recommended time for isolation of people with COVID-19 is at least 10 days from the date that symptoms first appear. Isolation lasts until the following conditions:
- At least 10 days since symptoms first appeared AND
- At least 24 hours with no fever WITHOUT fever-reducing medications AND
- Other symptoms of COVID-19 are improving. **Loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation.
Isolation can last longer than 10 days from the date of first symptoms if the other two conditions are not met.
When you isolate, stay at home except to get medical care:
- Monitor your symptoms. If you have an emergency warning sign (including trouble breathing), seek emergency medical care immediately
- Stay in a separate room from other household members, if possible.
- Use a separate bathroom, if possible.
- Avoid contact with other members of the household and pets.
- Don’t share personal household items, like cups, towels, and utensils.
- Wear a mask when around other people, if you are able to.
The recommended time for quarantine of people who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 (excluding people who have had COVID-19 within the past 3 months), or who have traveled to known COVID-19 hotspots, is at least 14 days from the last contact with COVID-19 or date of travel.
The following situations count as close contact:
- You were within 6 feet of someone who has COVID-19 for a total of 15 minutes or more
- You provided care at home to someone who is sick with COVID-19
- You had direct physical contact with the person (hugged or kissed them)
- You shared eating or drinking utensils
- They sneezed, coughed, or somehow got respiratory droplets on you
If you are caring or living with someone with COVID-19 (in a situation where you cannot completely isolate from them), then the 14 day quarantine period starts AFTER the COVID-19 positive person completes their isolation period (see above for the conditions for isolation).
If you develop symptoms of COVID-19 during your quarantine and test positive for COVID-19, switch to and start the recommended time for isolation.
- For example, if you develop symptoms of COVID-19 on day 12 of your quarantine and receive a positive test for COVID-19, this day will count as the first day of isolation, meaning that you will be in quarantine and isolation for at least 22 days (12 days of quarantine + at least 10 days of isolation).
When you quarantine, stay at home and monitor your health:
- Stay home for 14 days after your close contact or travel to a hotspot.
- Watch for fever, shortness of breath, cough, or other COVID-19 symptoms.
- If possible, stay away from others, especially people who are at higher risk for getting very sick from COVID-19.
Options to Reduce Quarantine
The CDC offers two options to reduce quarantine for individuals without symptoms after close contact exposure or travel to a hotspot:
- On day 10 without testing.
- On day 7 after a negative test result for a test taken no earlier than day 5.
After stopping quarantine, you should,
- Continue watching for symptoms until 14 days after exposure.
- Immediately isolate if COVID-19 symptoms appear and contact your medical provider.
- Continue wearing a face mask, practicing social distancing, avoiding crowds, and washing your hands frequently.
Returning to Work
We recommend staying home if you have any symptoms. Contact your medical provider to get a test to distinguish between COVID-19 and flu. You can be positive for COVID-19 and flu at the same time. You should stay home if you have the flu.
Contact your supervisor. Employers may have specific requirements before you may return to work after isolation or quarantine due to COVID-19 exposures
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By Tricia Ebarvia
Last week, I shared how I organize my classroom library. But how did I build my library? How did I know what books to include? And how do I keep it fresh and inviting for students? This week, I share the answers to these questions and more.
START AT HOME
Three years ago, my first attempt at a classroom library was a collection of titles that I’d read during and after college. Well-loved copies of books like A Farewell to Arms, Pride and Prejudice, and Mrs. Dalloway sat along side more contemporary fiction I read for pleasure when I had the time, titles like A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Time Traveler’s Wife. As an English major and general book nerd, it was a lot of books! That was also the year I was teaching AP Lit, so many of those “English major” titles were going to come in handy with the independent reading I was planning on having my seniors do.
But I soon realized that while many of these titles were great for AP Lit students, they weren’t so great for my other classes, Read more
By Tricia Ebarvia
I wrote earlier this year about my efforts to foster a culture of reading in my classroom. I reflected on the ways reading has shaped how I experience the world. I considered how my reading practices and preferences affect my students, both positively and negatively.
As a result, I dedicated more and more class time to independent reading this year than I have ever before. I replaced mini-grammar exercises with book talks. I read the books my students read and recommended to me. I cut down on whole class novel analysis and gave students what they said they needed most—time. Time to read, read, and read some more.
But I’d be remiss not to also mention that extra ingredient which made our reading community possible: a classroom library. Read more
By Rita Sorrentino
“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
In All the Light We Cannot See, author, Anthony Doerr, uses this powerful statement to emphasize the propaganda broadcasted across Germany to support Hitler’s agenda, and to give us a glimpse into the character Werner Pfenning, a boy with an enchantment for tinkering with electronic circuitry and a passion for seeking new knowledge and ideas through radio communication. Before only state-sponsored radio programs filled the airwaves, Werner and his younger sister, Jutta, secretly listened to a French Professor who sparked their curiosity about the changing world. The idea that “the brain has power to create light in darkness” lingered with Werner while he tried to block out the ultimate future awaiting boys growing up in an orphanage in the German mining town of Zollverein. Read more
This month, we are absolutely thrilled and honored to have the Jeff Anderson blogging here at Write.Share.Connect. Below, Jeff shares the process of writing and publishing his first middle-grade novel, Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth (Sterling, 2015).
By Jeff Anderson
I started writing for children in 1994.
Yep, that’s right. I know. It’s 2015. But every writer eventually wants to be published, and the good news is, in August I will celebrate the release of my first middle-grade novel, Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth (Sterling, 2015). It took me a winding road of over 20 years, but it happened…after a lot of practice. Read more
Another installment of Monday in the Middle with librarian and media specialist Gabija Fischer!
Wonder by RJ Palacio
RJ Palacio’s Wonder is the story of Auggie’s transition from homeschool to attending a traditional school. This in itself would be a challenge for anyone, but Auggie, born with severe facial deformities, must also combat the stares, fear, and avoidance of his peers. But the struggles aren’t Auggie’s alone. His parents wonder if they’ve made the right decision: how can they protect him from the cruelties of the world while give him the freedom to mature too? And his sister, Via, a constant source of love and support suddenly becomes self-conscious of her image as Auggie’s sister. Read more | <urn:uuid:232b66bb-249e-4278-a62a-7bb0cb199539> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pawlpblog.org/2015/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.962978 | 917 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Since October, Denise Mattson has been living with her husband and their baby at the Multiple Assistance Center, better known as “the MAC.” Located next to the Eureka Target and painted like a New Mexico stripmall, the 100-bed complex currently operates as a transitional housing facility with on-site programs aimed at helping the families who live there overcome the challenges of homelessness.
Mattson, who’s been in and out of several other programs, said she’s gotten the help she needs at the MAC. “We recently had a workshop about housing,” she said, “and they taught us about credit reports, how you can look and see what prevents us from getting housing — like if you have a water bill that needs to be paid off.”
She’s also taken life skills courses, learning about how to find employment, fill out housing applications and even reduce stress. And her husband has been attending a fathership group. Mattson is impressed.
“I feel very passionate,” she said. “This program works. It puts more people into housing. It’s the first [program] I’ve seen that actually works.”
Lately Mattson has been speaking out to the media and local officials, protesting against plans to repurpose the MAC. The facility is operated by the nonprofit Redwood Community Action Agency in partnership with the County of Humboldt and the City of Eureka, which owns the property. These agencies, led primarily by the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, recently decided to make some dramatic changes, repurposing the MAC building. Starting this summer the facility will no longer house or provide services to families; instead it will be used as an intake facility geared toward helping the county’s chronically homeless individual men.
Families living at the MAC, who in recent years have been given as long as 18 months to get their lives back on track before moving out, were notified they’d have to leave no later than June 30. The county and RCAA are working to get each family placed into more permanent housing, with funding for support services following them into the community. But Mattson said she’s scared about the future.
“I have no idea what will happen,” she said. She feels that the MAC is “the only place for families to go in Humboldt County.”
Residents aren’t the only ones worried. Current and former MAC staffers, along with various community members, have voiced concerns about the upcoming transition, which marks a major shift in the way Humboldt County addresses homelessness.
Much of the ire has been directed at Phillip Crandall (pictured at right), director of the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services. Crandall recently sat down for an interview in the conference room on the fifth floor of the Professional Building, on the corner of Fifth and F streets in Eureka.
“I just want to reassure everyone that the county is not in the business of increasing homelessness,” he said, “and we’re certainly not going to be throwing children and families out into the streets. … We would not close the MAC if we didn’t have an alternative plan for the families.”
That alternative plan focuses on getting homeless people — both individuals and families — placed into permanent housing as quickly as possible, as opposed to the transitional housing approach embodied by the MAC.
Crandall and other officials say this shift in approach was motivated by two main factors: evidence and funding. In recent years, government agencies that deal with chronic homelessness — particularly the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — have themselves shifted gears, putting less focus on transitional programs like the MAC and more on “housing first” approaches, including rapid re-housing and permanent supportive housing.
Ed Cabrera, a San Francisco-based spokesman for HUD, said that the old school model for addressing homelessness focused on “housing the most housing ready.” In other words, the people who could show up for meetings and fill out applications were most likely to receive aid. But HUD is now encouraging local communities to take more strategic approaches in hopes of reaching “the most visible, the most vulnerable — the chronically homeless,” Cabrera said.
In Eureka these days the most visible homeless people are usually men, often with addiction and/or mental health problems. This is the community that RCAA and the county hope to serve better by turning the MAC building into an intake facility where these men can stay for roughly 30 to 60 days while a long-term plan is developed for their housing and services.
Eureka has arguably been the ugliest and most volatile battleground in the fight to end homelessness locally, with regular raids on homeless camps, roundabout enforcement efforts like the shopping cart ordinance and escalating community vitriol, which was partially (and illogically) sparked by the New Year’s Day murder of Father Eric Freed.
With public outcry over homelessness reaching a fever pitch, the city commissioned a homelessness policy paper from a Sacramento consulting firm called Focus Strategies. That paper, released last fall, encouraged a new approach.
“Focus Strategies strongly advises the City of Eureka not to pursue approaches directed at better managing the existing problems, such as by increasing the frequency of police sweeps or creating a legalized camping area or ‘tent city,’” the paper said. “All available evidence shows that providing homeless people with housing, without making participation in other services a pre-condition, is the most effective way to reduce homelessness.”
This jibes with HUD’s shifting priorities and further motivated county officials to change their approach. Could a repurposed MAC get Eureka’s chronically homeless off the streets?
The latest messaging and data suggest so. According to the federal government’s Interagency Council on Homelessness, “housing first” programs “allow people with one or more serious disabling conditions to stabilize their housing and address underlying conditions that often have gone untreated for many years.”
The philosophy goes all the way to the top of U.S. government. President Obama helped codify the strategic shift during his first year in office by signing the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009. And when federal agencies adjust positions, nonprofit grant funders tend to follow suit. Sure enough, the shift in strategies has been trickling down to local communities around the country.
Image from RCAA’s Facebook page.
Val Martinez is the executive director of the Redwood Community Action Agency, the nonprofit that operates the MAC. “When we first heard that HUD was shifting focus to rapid rehousing we were concerned,” she said. In recent years HUD has provided only about eight percent of RCAA’s annual budget to run the MAC. (The 2015 budget, which was finalized before the changes to the MAC were decided, was $1,351,959, with a HUD grant of $104,147, or 7.7 percent, awarded just last month. Martinez said RCAA will now ask HUD for permission to redirect the grant to reflect the new mission.) But RCAA’s program director spoke with various other funders that supply the remainder of the MAC’s funding and they said they’d be following HUD’s lead in moving away from transitional housing models, Martinez recalled.
To hear Martinez and county officials tell it, the MAC was all but forced to change because its approach is becoming obsolete.
But longtime advocates of the MAC say that it’s too unique and valuable a program to be mothballed. Amy Whitlatch is a former employee of RCAA who worked at the MAC from October 2012 through July 2013, including a five-month stint as its acting director.
“I believe in the MAC; I love the MAC,” Whitlatch said. “I can’t tell you how meaningful it is to the people who live there. … The changes you see in families, in children, it’s just phenomenal.”
The MAC opened its doors in 2005 following 13 years of planning, delays and objections from local business owners and neighbors, who worried about panhandling, crime, graffiti and litter. It was originally intended to serve both families and individuals but after encountering funding troubles it was repurposed in 2008 to serve only families.
While Whitlatch understands the latest shift toward “housing first,” she argues that the transitional housing model offered at the MAC is necessary in rural areas like ours, where low-income housing is limited, wages are relatively low and social services are overburdened with demand.
Martinez, RCAA’s executive director, also sounded regretful about the elimination of this transitional housing program in favor of rapid rehousing. “If I could talk to HUD I‘d say there needs to be some blend [between the two], but until they make me queen of the world I have to follow their lead.”
But the truth is that HUD does still fund programs like the MAC. Cabrera, the HUD spokesman, said transitional housing programs are a necessary component in each community’s “Continuum of Care,” meaning its organized approach to ending homelessness.
“HUD does not advocate the wholesale removal of one type of resource in a community for another,” Cabrera said. “We see that as being short-sighted and not taking into account the specific needs of communities.”
Ultimately, Cabrera said, HUD wants local agencies to be more strategic and have thoughtful conversations about the efficacy of each individual program. “Research shows that this limited resource — transitional housing — is often not being targeted appropriately,” he said. In other words, the people most in need have tended to fall through the cracks.
But Whitlatch feels that the families living at the MAC really do need its services. “The MAC becomes the place where they make a stand to change their life,” she said. Whitlatch has personally watched as families worked to repair their credit, get counseling, earn certificates at College of the Redwoods and find jobs. She also saw children get much-needed one-on-one attention including services from mental health programs geared specifically for kids. “A lot of children will all of a sudden start behaving better [and] doing better in school,” she said. “The case management there [at the MAC] is something you can’t replace. To have someone holding your hand, helping you follow through, it becomes more manageable to change your life.”
Another benefit: When parents have their kids removed by Child Welfare Services, the MAC has allowed families to get reunited more quickly because case workers know the site is safe. Often, more than half the residents at the MAC are children. Whitlatch believes that the consequences of closing it to families will be dire. “To lose that [the MAC] means more children will be homeless,” she said.
But county officials insist that the “wraparound” support services offered at the MAC will follow these families as they move out into the community. The funding for those services comes largely from CalWORKs, the state welfare program offering cash aid and services to eligible families. So the various workshops and classes that MAC resident Denise Mattson and her family have enjoyed onsite will be offered elsewhere, at community centers, churches, nonprofit offices and the like.
Cabrera, the HUD spokesman, said this latter model has proved effective. “We’ve found there’s no service that can be provided in transitional housing that can’t be offered once a person is permanently housed,” he said.
Crandall argues that offering services on-site at the MAC may actually be counterproductive. “Are we fostering independence?” he asked. “Or are we fostering dependence on a system that doesn’t exist out there in the real world?” Children’s playgroups offered at the MAC, for example, are also offered through First Five programs throughout the community, Crandall pointed out. And when parents access those services at a church or community centers it connects them with people who aren’t in the same situation, potentially expanding their social support system.
“It worries me when people say, ‘It’s either this program or else I’m in an abyss,’” Crandall said. “That’s almost an example of the dependence that’s being perhaps taught inadvertently as a part of this program.”
He compared this transition to the evolution of strategies with child welfare services and orphanages. Children used to be placed in group homes and orphanages until research showed that kids do better when placed in community-based family living environments, with services brought into the homes.
“Closing orphanages doesn’t mean you don’t care about families,” Crandall said. “The lessons learned there are the same: We want to normalize the living environment and move toward fostering problem-solving and independent judgment.”
Barbara LaHaie, the assistant director of programs at the county Department of Health and Human Services, said there’s a team working with each family currently living at the MAC to identify their particular needs and barriers to finding permanent housing.
Crandall expressed confidence in this process. “We’ll meet with each and every one of those families, and unless they’re absolutely against engaging with us we’ll work with them to solve their housing issues,” he said.
But Whitlatch and other MAC defenders — some of whom contacted the Outpost but declined to go on the record — worry that there’s simply not enough affordable housing in the area. The wait list for Section 8 housing, the HUD program offering vouchers to subsidize rents, is past capacity in Humboldt County and has been closed to new applications for two years or more, according to Eureka Housing Authority Executive Director Wesley Weir. There are currently more than 400 people on the list, Weir said, adding that his agency may reopen it soon. Regardless, that’s a long wait list.
Yet Crandall argues that there’s a misperception in the community about affordable housing.
“People are stuck with [the idea] that there is nothing. I don’t believe that at all,” he said. “I believe that there’s a lot of available housing stock out there. It’s just not coordinated in a way that we can access it effectively.”
In an effort to remedy that, Crandall’s office and the RCAA are working to improve coordination between the 40-or-so agencies that comprise the Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition (HHHC), which includes service providers, government agencies, faith-based organizations and community members. The effort will also entail trying to reduce the stigma of mental illness so that landlords are more comfortable renting to those in need. The county’s Department of Health and Human Services has already begun collaborating with officers from the Eureka Police Department to form the Mobile Intervention and Services Team (MIST) to serve homeless people with severe mental illness.
The MIST team in action. Photo courtesy Humboldt County DHHS.
Whitlatch said these new developments sound great. “The rapid rehousing they’re proposing is fantastic, and it’s a much needed program for Humboldt County,” she said. What Whitlatch and others wonder is why the county can’t provide families the same rapid rehousing services without booting them out. “The MAC is such a special place,” Whitlatch said.
Crandall said this new approach is exactly what HUD suggests — a thoughtful and strategic experiment based on the best research available. “It’s an experiment in that we don’t know everything yet,” he said. “The first thing to acknowledge is that we don’t know. And that should not cause a state of paralysis.”
When volunteers set out last month for the biannual homeless count in the county they certainly found many people who have fallen through the cracks of care and services provided here. (Though contrary to the oft-repeated local theory that these services attract homeless people to Humboldt County, the data show that there are downward trends in access to those services, which proves to Crandall at least that they are working.)
But will grasping to help those who are currently homeless cause families to suffer the same fate?
“We’re taking risks,” Crandall acknowledged. “But they’re risks based on what the literature tells us is probably our best bet.”
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The concerted efforts of the global medical fraternity, experts and political leaders will yield vaccines that will be made available to people over the next 12 months. The Indian government, too, is weighing in on the efficacy, long term effects, cost and distribution of the vaccine in the world’s second largest populated country. In a country the size of India, the vaccine could take months to reach every person.
Dainik Bhaskar Group steps up
In India, newspapers continue to be the most credible source of information. With the influx of digital content, fake news, propaganda and unverified information have been consistently presented as facts during the pandemic. However, Indian readers have made newspapers their go-to source of information with trust in newspapers at an all time high.
Dainik Bhaskar Group, India’s largest newspaper group with a readership of 6.6.crore readers (Source: IRS 2019, Q4, TR, Main + Variant), has been at the forefront of driving socio-economic changes in its markets of operation. The group enjoys an unrelenting credibility and reader trust and its editorial philosophy ‘Reader at the core’ is aimed at adding value in readers’ lives by delivering rich knowledgeable content. To this effect, driving impact through group publications, digital platforms and radio has been tried and tested successfully time and again. The group’s social campaigns have a great advocacy effect too.
A first-time innovation delivers reach and impact
The Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Marathi and Divya Bhaskar newspapers from the Dainik Bhaskar Group have stepped up their social messaging endeavours by replacing the masthead with ‘Mask is the only vaccine for now’. In keeping with its on-going campaign, this move is aimed at drawing attention to the fact that wearing masks is critical in the fight against the pandemic and keeping the economic activity moving as the world waits for the vaccine.
The group’s leadership position and widespread reach across 12 states in India through three flagship newspapers – Dainik Bhaskar (46 editions), Divya Bhaskar (9 editions) and Divya Marathi (6 editions) along with Radio and Digital platforms have been optimized towards creating awareness about the importance of masks.
Such strong measures towards creating awareness about the importance of masks are yielding results as people are increasingly including masks in their daily routines and raising their voices against those who are seen without a mask in public.
“The Bhaskar Group has always taken its role as the fifth estate of the society very seriously. The revolutionary move of replacing the masthead with a mask is an industry first and is specifically designed to alert the reader on the seriousness of the issue. The on-ground efforts put in by the team along with relevant content has helped create awareness on the importance of constant vigilance, social distance and wearing masks,” said Sudhir Agarwal, MD, Dainik Bhaskar Group.
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Yes, Pepper Makes Us Sneeze. The black pepper we sprinkle on our food and see placed on our tables is a stimulant. The stimulant specifically contained in pepper is called piperine, and unfortunately piperine is also an irritant.
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Burlington City Council advances smoking ban
Increased health risks posed by second-hand smoke in Burlington's Church Street Marketplace prompted City Council to advance a 24-hour smoking ban on the downtown pedestrian throughway.
A 13-1 vote delivered the proposed ban to the Ordinance Committee, which will consider revisions before returning it to the council for another reading, and a vote.
Councilor Max Tracy, P-Ward 2, cast the only dissenting vote.
As currently written, the ban would prohibit smoking on Church Street between Pearl and Main streets. It includes outdoor seating on the marketplace, but exempts private property.
The ordinance would impose a $50 fine for the first offense; $100 for subsequent offenses.
The restriction is a revived effort by the city, which narrowly passed a more sweeping ban in early 2012 — only to be stubbed out with a veto by former Mayor Bob Kiss.
The earlier ordinance would have prohibited smoking east and west of Church Street, from South Winooski Avenue to Pine Street; and extended the no-smoke zone south to King Street.
The 2012 proposal also exempted outdoor cafes and restaurants on Church Street from the ban — drawing criticism from those who termed it a "pay-to-play" provision, aimed chiefly at ridding the marketplace of people of limited means.
"We can't legislate an adult's desire to smoke, but we can protect the rights of others who don't," Councilor Karen Paul, D-Ward 6, said during her introduction of the new proposed ordinance.
City Councilor David Hartnett, D-Ward 4 — an opponent of the 2012 proposal, is a co-sponsor this year.
The reason: "This time it's in a closely defined space. It's not all downtown," Hartnett said. "Someone who needs to take a cigarette break now can just walk around the corner and have a cigarette. It will be self-policing.
"We don't allow smoking in restaurants, and Church Street is one big outdoor restaurant," Hartnett added.
Supporters for the ban dominated the public comment section of Monday's meeting.
But Bob Conlon, owner of Leunig's Bistro, said foul language and begging on Church Street irritated his customers "much more than the occasional whiff of tobacco" from a neighbor.
"We can all deal with a little discomfort," Conlon said.
The possibility of financial discomfort gave Councilor Jane Knodell, P-Ward 2, pause — and she asked that greater care be taken to assess the impact of the ban on city tax receipts.
Greg Roy, a city resident, told the council that smokers drove the demand for outside seating at restaurants and cafes — and should not be displaced by non-smokers who have belatedly come to appreciate the ambiance.
Councilor Kurt Wright, R-Ward 4, who voted nay in the 2012 proposal, joined the majority vote to send the current version to the Ordinance Committee — but said "a vigorous process" would be required before it would meet his full approval.
Wright and other councilors asked that the committee investigate potential problems with shifting of smoking groups to side streets, with enforcement and with perceptions that the ordinance targets poorer populations.
The current proposal is on the council's agenda in part due to a request by the Church Street Marketplace District Commission, which voted unanimously in support of the ban at its May 21 meeting.
Supporting documents from the commission cite local surveys showing a sharp decrease in tolerance for public smoking since 2010.
Earlier in May, Vermont Commissioner of Health Harry Chen wrote in a note to City Council that he supported the ban.
In concert with the U.S. Surgeon General, Chen warned that health risks posed to non-smokers (such as heart disease, lung cancer and respiratory problems in children) are well documented.
Chen extended his concern to include what he called "health equity."
"Restaurant staff who work in outdoor patios during the spring and summer are routinely exposed to secondhand smoke while on the job," Chen wrote.
The Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community also favors the ban.
In a May 14 letter of support to the commission, the coalition's director, Mariah Sanderson, wrote that stronger anti-smoking policies would protect the city's most vulnerable populations from a proven health risk, and similar bans "have been proven to be an effective way to prevent children from starting to smoke and encourage smokers to quit."
Smokers have expressed reservations.
Puffing away in tandem Monday morning on Church Street, Burlington residents Lisa Meacham, 45, and her son, Justin Cousino, 20, paused to register their disapproval.
"They should absolutely not ban smoking," said Meacham, a consumer of cigarettes for 30 years and free, she added, of any effects to her health. "This is free air."
A ban against smoking beneath the marketplace's awnings might work, Meacham allowed, as would a voluntary curb on smoking near young children.
Targeting smokers at the expense of other polluters isn't fair, she added: "What about all those companies that are putting smoke in the air? What about those trucks? You're already breathing stuff that's out there."
Her son stubbed out his butt underfoot. Restaurants, he said, might reasonably ban smoking.
"I can see that," Cousino said. "But all along Church Street? It would have more negative than positive outlooks."
Further north on Church Street, Dave Stoll, owner of Boo-Kies food cart on the Church Street Marketplace, took a break from a cigarette break. "To be honest, I've been trying to quit for the past few weeks," he said.
Stoll pulled out an e-cigarette, one that he said only exhausted water vapor and essence of blueberries.
"If the ordinance passes, Stoll said, "it'll give me no choice but to use this thing."
One of his customers, Kayleigh Buffum, 20, said she, too, was adjusting well to battery-powered nicotine delivery systems.
Like Stoll, Buffum sees e-cigarettes as a path to quitting altogether.
An added bonus: "These are much, much cheaper than tobacco."
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WDFUSE stands for Windows Dark Forces Utility and Editor. It is a Delphi written mission editor created by Yves Borckmans , a programmer from Belgium in 1995. Here is the story of how he created the Windows version of DFUSE in 1996.
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Configuration
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Basic Geometry
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Basic Geometry II
- WDFUSE Tutorial - 3D Renderer
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Advanced Geometry
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Advanced Geometry II
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Advanced Geometry III
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Objects
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Scripting
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Scripting II
- WDFUSE Tutorial - Scripting III
"Around 1995, when the Dark Forces DEMO came out, I started working on DFUSE (the DOS version, in C). I didn't release it then because it would have been a bit unethical (you could have made levels for the demo, never buying the game). When the full game came out, I did a few quick changes that were necessary (some formats changed slightly), then released DFUSE 1.0 on ftp.cdrom.com This included the first DF specs if I remember correctly. I made a couple of updates if I remember correctly, but nothing much. Later in that year, I also sent a copy of my C code to Brad Oliver, to help him start on the Mac editor (Dark Forge IIRC). Around 1996, I had to learn Delphi for work, so I decided the best way to learn was to use it to make a Windows version of DFUSE, and in a couple of weekends that became WDFUSE 1.0 I released a couple versions, then started preparing to move from Europe to the US to work at LucasArts. I enrolled the help of David Lovejoy, Alexei Novikov and Jereth Kok to help as I was working 2 jobs (my job + LucasArts) + preparing a transatlantic move lol We called ourselves The Code Alliance and they pretty much took over WDFUSE... many other people helped too! " '
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Mount of Temptation
This site is less certain than most other holy sites as being the true location, for where Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights. But there are some good reasons to believe it was in this area, like the fact that this area was, from time immemorial, a refuge for those who wished to isolate themselves from the world.
Galilee is a small, shallow, freshwater lake that gets stirred up very much and quickly, especially in January. A good contrast to compare is the ocean. Oceans require much more wind to change their ripples into waves, then it can take days afterward to calm down after a huge storm. A shallow lake, by contrast, develops waves much more unpredictably and suddenly, then calms down to being mirror-like almost as soon as the wind stops. The ocean’s waves also never obtain the same narrow distance from their base to their crest, that is horizontally like a shallow lake’s waves do. This means the sides of a shallow lake’s waves are much steeper, which actually makes a shallow lake much more dangerous. Add to this the instability of the flat-bottomed boats the fishermen used in Jesus’ day, compared to our modern-day boats with ballasts. And add to this the weather patterns of Galilee, which are due to the hills that surround the lake and the cool, prevailing westerly winds from the Mediterranean. The weather here is quite unpredictable, making Psalm 107:23-32 intensely applicable to the fishermen of Jesus’ day.
Millstone Hung About the Neck
Millstones were used for grinding wheat or other grains. Many more millstones were found in Capernaum than what could’ve been used by its own inhabitants, which seems to indicate they were being made there out of the local, hard basalt rock, and sold to customers who lived elsewhere. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:5-6).
Pool of Siloam
Discovered in 2004 and partially restored (it used to be much bigger). John 9:3-7, “Jesus…spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva…anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.”
Pinnacle of the Temple
The pinnacle of the temple, where Jesus was tempted to throw himself down from, could’ve been next to the Kidron Valley on the eastern wall. This would’ve been a higher drop than even the southwestern corner shown in this picture. But many scholars believe it was more likely to be this southwestern corner where Jesus was tempted because here the whole city could witness it, whereas hardly anyone would witness it in the Kidron Valley. Also, from here a priest would blow the trumpet to announce the beginning of the Sabbath and other special events. So this corner became significant for the attention of the city’s residents much like our media is to us today. And in the original Greek, “pinnacle” comes from a Greek word commonly used to refer to turret-like structures. Only later did its basic meaning change to the highest point.
The Antonia Fortress was adjacent to the temple mount so the Roman Soldiers who resided in the fortress could quickly descend upon the temple precincts if there was a riot. Also, it was slightly taller than the temple was, to let the Jews know “who’s boss” and effectively “rub it in their faces.” This was traditionally where Jesus was beaten and condemned to die, but more likely, because of Josephus’s (and Philo’s) writings, he was beaten and condemned in what became known as Herod’s Palace. If this is true (which seems most likely), it changes the validity of the “Via Dolorosa” as being where Jesus walked to his crucifixion.
Peter’s House or “Insula”
This place in Capernaum is more than likely the location for Peter’s house that existed in Jesus’ day. Also, Peter’s “insula” would’ve been built from the same basalt type of rock common to that area. But what remains there now was rebuilt, expanded, renovated, etc., from the way it was in Jesus’ day, and archaeologists date these remains to an era of about 500 years after Jesus was here. Likely Peter’s descendants and/or their friends continued to meet here in a house church after Peter died, and eventually, it became more like a shrine, with pilgrims coming from afar to write their names on the walls, etc.
Peter’s courtyard gives a slightly better idea of what “insulas” were like in Jesus’ day. The rooms they built were for sleeping in, and their courtyards were all fenced in not only to keep in their chickens, sheep, etc. but to help protect their women and children from outsiders.
The Biblical Resources Center in LaGrange, Georgia, used to have a center in Israel when I went there in 2002 and again in 2004. They served us, tourists, a Passover meal as part of our learning experience; this was before we sat down to eat.
Southern Steps of Temple Mount
Jews walked up these steps when approaching the temple, especially during the great pilgrimage festivals of Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot. Christian archaeologists and scholars agree with 100% certainty that Jesus must’ve been here (see also a modern-day picture of the restored southern steps). The temple itself was rebuilt in 1.5 years (back in 19 BC), and most of the temple mount was completed by 26 AD.
Model of Golgotha
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built on what is most likely the site of Golgotha. In Jesus’ time it was outside the city walls, but today it’s within the old city walls because the old city today has its walls in a different place. There is no reason to believe that Jesus was crucified on top of a hill; he could’ve been crucified at the base of a hill. The Roman Catholic Church depicted the crucifixion at the top because it seems to exult Jesus better. But there is a good chance there’s a hill there that looks like a skull, which is why the place was called “Golgotha.” And this first-century replica of Jerusalem has such a hill on this site.
Changes for my website
Praise the Lord! My students finished helping me with the latest technology and now I’ll be busy all summer with improving my presentations and organizing my material to significantly improve your experience here. If you want to keep tabs on the latest edits, check out the bottom of my blog index.
- Putting out a Fleece, Casting Lots, and Choosing that Hill to Die on February 24, 2020
- False Humility in the NT, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha, Part 3 of 3 February 17, 2020
- False Humility in the NT, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha, Part 2 of 3 February 10, 2020
- False Humility in the NT, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha, Part 1 of 3 February 3, 2020
- Christ’s Temptation as our Inspiration January 26, 2020
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My Focus in Blogging
My story of forgiveness and healing is quite unrelated to envisioning the Bible world. But since our world is sin and pain infested, I suspect many will want to hear more about my personal experience. I wrote a couple of blogs about this, but mostly I focused on envisioning the Bible world. I learned lots after being in Israel, and now I can share that with you.
Plans for Improved Website:
Now that my documentary links are all moved under the Tour Israel menu heading, I’ll be working to improve the website for visually impaired people and the SEO. This will allow many, many more hits to this website than ever before.
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I am a grade 5 student at the International School of Tanganyika. A few weeks ago I started a important project called the Final X, this project is a significant part of grade 5 since it helps us transition from elementary schooling to secondary schooling. I have decided to enquire into children’s right to education , with my 2 other group mates, I specifically was learning about girls right to education. I have found interesting facts and figures and would like to share it with the Dar community so they are inspired to try and help those who need support.
In many poverty-stricken countries girls are forced to get married and take care of the household instead of going to school. According to “Girls Not Brides.Org”, “Tanzania has the one of the highest child marriage prevalence rate compared to the world.” This means child marriage is very common in Tanzania. This upsets me and I hope Tanzania will hold rankings for stuff like “Most Beautiful Country, Most Clean Country” instead of highest highest child marriage prevalence rate compared to the world. There are many reasons for child marriage but the most common are girls being seen as financial burdens, cultural and traditional and gender-based inequality. In Tanzania girls are traded for cows, a documentary called “Bride-Trade” stated a non-educated girl will be traded for up to 10 cows but an educated girl worth only 5-7 cows. This because an educated girl knows her rights and will demand to go back to school and stop the marriage.
Many girls and boys live in unimaginable poverty, and have no time and/or no money to go to school. Instead they have many other responsibilities such as collecting water, tending to animals and caring for younger siblings. Other times, children must work and earn only a few coins a day, barely enough to support their families. According to “GirlsNotBrides.org” poverty and education are connected. If a girl is educated she will gain the basic skills and opportunities to lift her family out of poverty. Other families will see this and take the same approach, this cycle will slowly lift thousands of people out of poverty. By educating this generation and generations to come we can end the cycle of poverty once and for all. In Tanzania poverty seems common (from observing villages and rural areas), so by having more girls in school we can lift more families out of poverty.
People don’t understand how important educating girls is to the community. There are endless advantages to educating a girl as well as educating boys. A big advantage is educated girls can contribute to communities by becoming lawyers, doctors, teachers and much more and earn more money to support their families. Another advantage is educated woman has a chance to lift her and her family out of poverty. The final advantage is educating more women can end child marriage completely because girls know they have the right to a education and should not be forced to get married. If every girl in the world had a basic schooling, our whole world would benefit from it.
In conclusion, there are many advantages to educating a girl child. In the future girls can contribute to society because they have the schooling and resources to become teachers, lawyers, doctors and more. Educated women can lift their families out of poverty by encouraging her village or town to overcome the poverty. Finally, educating girls on their basic human rights, to education and the right to refuse marriage, can end child marriage. These are just three of the many advantages of educating a girl. | <urn:uuid:766663ab-26bd-4b69-a7c2-ec4a57616aab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.darpost.com/2017/05/educated-girls-know-their-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.976705 | 719 | 2.734375 | 3 |
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — As Norfolk State University gets ready to host its first United States senatorial debate, the school’s president is weighing in on what it means to the university.
Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston was chosen to be Norfolk State’s seventh president in 2019 and the school has already taken a special place in her heart.
“It’s been wonderful,” she said about her time at NSU. “It is an exciting place on trajectory to continue our excellence. I will tell you the thing that drew me here and continues to be most important are the people of NSU, the excitement around the tradition, who were are and around what they become as they are a part of NSU, so it’s been wonderful.”
Earlier this month, the historically Black university celebrated its 85th anniversary. The school was founded in 1935 during the Great Depression for Black students who could not afford to attend a four-year institution.
Adams-Gaston says the school’s founding principals and the community that came together to help those in need is something they continue to strive to achieve.
“I am so proud of that tradition, of excellence, and the ability to have access, affordability, and success for students. For 85 years, that’s what we’ve been doing and we’ve been doing it well,” she said.
Adams-Gaston is also proud of the school for recently being named one of the top 20 HBCUs by U.S. News.
She says a number of factors go into these rankings but one they’re most proud of are their relatively small class sizes.
“They get that interaction with the faculty and when you talk to alumni, they talk about what that interaction meant to them and how they helped them in life,” she said.
Norfolk State has a 16:1 student to faculty ratio. Adams-Gaston says 56 percent of their classes have less than 25 students and 99 percent have less than 50 students.
With a brighter future ahead, Saturday’s debate is just another bright spot to look forward to.
The debate between Sen. Mark Warner and challenger Dr. Daniel Gade will focus on racial disparities and inequities in education, healthcare, economic mobility, and the criminal justice system.
Adams-Gaston says there no better place to hold the debate than Norfolk State.
“We have held up the banner ensuring that there is racial equity, that there is a sense of social justice,” she said. “We send our students out and we ensure that they’re thinking about who to vote for and why they’re making those decisions and particularly in how to engage in social and political process. It’s really important and we are so honored to be chosen.”
The university and its Center for African American Public Policy (CAAmPP) has partnered with WAVY-TV 10, an NBC-affiliate and Nexstar Media Group station, The Virginia Bar Association, and Visit Norfolk to host the debate.
WAVY-TV 10 will air the recorded debate on Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m.
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One of the pages on Lavonne's site which I have copied are the Old Age
The OAP was introduced in 1908. The 1841 and 1851 census records then
existed and they were used to check claimants ages.
These cnsus records wer destroyed in the Battle of Dublin in 1921.
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***Disclaimer: the following paragraph is a short rant before getting to the good stuff***
I never knew the true value of sleep until I had a baby. Pre-kid I could go to bed when I wanted, wake up when I wanted, and know that my deep slumber would not be interrupted by a tiny human with no regard for my circadian rhythm. Oh how I miss those days! My daughter is actually a really good sleeper (minus those initial 3 months), but you still can’t guarantee that she’ll sleep through the night or that a random cry won’t wake me at 3 in the mo. Plus, sleeping past 7 am is not a trait she’s yet developed. And because of these truths, I just don’t sleep as well as I used to. She’s worth it, but I still long for weekends of deep sleep until 8/9 am! OK, vent session over. Now onto the actual post…
If you look at the research, you’ll find that more than one-third of Americans don’t get enough sleep; 7 hours is the recommended minimum according to experts1. And even if people are getting enough sleep, the quality isn’t great. A big part of poor sleep is due to stress and anxiety. Stress and sleep are intimately intertwined, but it’s a complicated subject for another blog post.
Another big part of proper sleep (and stress management!) is nutrition. Melatonin – your primary “sleep hormone” which regulates your sleep/wake cycle and whose output is guided by your circadian rhythm – is created from…nutrients! It starts with the amino acid tryptophan (amino acids are simply the building blocks of protein), which goes through a series of steps to turn into melatonin. I’ll save you the biochemistry lesson, but essentially tryptophan has to be converted into serotonin (another important hormone that regulates mood), then into melatonin. These biochemical reactions rely on a host of micronutrients including certain B vitamins, vitamin C and the minerals calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc. Long story short, if you aren’t eating enough protein and aren’t getting your micronutrients, your body probably isn’t producing adequate melatonin, which is affecting your sleep!
The good news is that you have the power to change this. Now, you might be thinking, “Great, I’ll just take a multivitamin and call it good.” Wrong. Although a multivitamin, or other supplements for that matter, is good insurance that you’re covering your basic needs, you don’t absorb synthetic nutrients in the same way that you absorb nutrients from food. Food should be your foundation. The nutrients in food work synergistically to have a more profound, positive effect in your body. Food is information for your body, so in order to produce the right hormones, you need to eat the right things. Follow these dietary guidelines to get your essential nutrients and start sleeping better!
Try to consume a serving of each of these foods per day; even more for dark leafy greens, broccoli and cauliflower.
- Pastured poultry, cage-free eggs and grass-fed beef for B vitamins (especially B12), tryptophan, zinc and iron
- Raw bell peppers and citrus for vitamin C
- Dark leafy greens, broccoli and cauliflower for calcium, B vitamins, and vitamin C
- Nuts and seeds for tryptophan and minerals (almonds and sesame seeds specifically for calcium)
- Legumes like black beans, garbanzo beans, pinto beans and lentils for protein and minerals
- Bananas for B6 and magnesium
- Spirulina for tryptophan, vitamin B1, iron, and magnesium
- Organic dairy products like cheese and yogurt for calcium, tryptophan and B12
In addition to the recommendations above, don’t consume caffeine (coffee, tea, soda, etc.) past noon, and if you’re extremely sensitive to caffeine, be careful not to eat chocolate close to bedtime, as it contains caffeine.
(Side note, nutrition is just part of the puzzle. Proper sleep hygiene and emotional components like stress and anxiety should be addressed as well.)
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Millions of television viewers tuned in to the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 opening ceremony in South Korea. Viewers around the world witnessed history coming to life as 1,218 Intel® Shooting Star™ drones decorated the night sky, setting a Guinness World Records title for the most UAVs airborne simultaneously.
The pre-recorded event showed the drones simultaneously flying in a magical dance, choreographed to create shapes in a rainbow of colors, including the Olympic rings and a snowboarder.
”For the Olympics, we wanted to push our boundaries, bring the world something they’d never seen before,” said Natalie Cheung, general manager of the drone light show business, which is part of Intel’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Group.
For the Olympics, the goal was to challenge the team to see how far they could push themselves and the record by more than doubling their previous attempts. This led the team to attempt to fly over 1,200 in drones South Korea – ultimately taking the final number to 1,218. And setting their third Guinness World Records title.
Audiences on site will get to experience a live drone show throughout the games at the nightly Victory Ceremony.
“We wanted to capture the best viewing experience for the millions watching across the world, but also bring the light show experience to the live audience on site,” said Rachel Padgett, marketing manager for the drone team.
How They Pulled it off
For more than a year, members of Intel’s drone team across Finland, Germany, California, and South Korea flew under the radar to test the top-secret mission to give Olympic Winter Games audiences the record-breaking show.
To test the drones in the harsh winter conditions expected in South Korea, a team member in Finland loaded 18 Intel® Shooting Star™ drones into a family car and drove 12 hours north to a cold, remote village called Äkäslompolo.
In Germany, another team brought drones to the Alps, where they used a generator to simulate wind to check how it would affect cooling inside the drones.
“It was really important to test our technical capabilities before we went to Korea,” said Madeline Ong, program manager for the Intel drones team. “After all the testing and simulations, I had full confidence in the technology and my team.”
Ong and Cheung feel the excitement each time a fleet of drones takes to the skies.
“My favorite parts of the show are still the takeoff and landing because you see this whole cloud of drones basically dancing up into the sky,” said Ong. “But the best part is seeing the audience reactions, watching them gasp or applaud.”
Nabbing the Guinness World Records title is a thrill that Cheung said never gets old.
“It was kind of a blur. We knew it would work but there is always a bit of excitement and anticipation,” she said.
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