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Capital of Pomorskie Voivodship and the largest city in Pomerania Region (450 000 citizens). Gdansk with Gdynia and Sopot create agglomeration – Polish main urban area of the Baltic Sea with more than 1 million inhabitants. Its history dates back over 1000 years ago and the most significant historic sites are located in Główne Miasto (Main Town) in Gdańsk (such as medieval Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary – one of the largest brick churches in the world).
Gdańsk is known worldwide as the place where World War II broke out (in August 2010 architectural studio “Kwadrat” in Gdańsk won the competition for construction of II World War Museum) and the “Solidarity” movement was established. Gdańsk is one the major academic centres in Poland (64 000 students) with more than 20 higher education facilities, including the University of Gdańsk and Gdansk University of Technology.
For 90 years Gdańsk has been dynamically developing – there is now over 60 000 enterprises operating in the city. The capital of the Pomerania Region occupies leading position in terms of utilisation of UE funds which fosters and results in grand investments in infrastructure. Gdańsk, along with adjacent Sopot and Gdynia, constitutes Polish holiday base – over 20 kilometres of Baltic beaches attract each year 500 000 foreign and more than 800 000 Polish tourists. | <urn:uuid:938718ce-44c9-4b67-be8e-217a77711e8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.poland2012.net/hosts/gdansk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.930341 | 317 | 2.5 | 2 |
What is Ultrasound?
Ultrasound is a non-invasive imaging method that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of structures within the body. The high-frequency sound waves are concentrated into a thin beam and directed into the body with a transducer, which is a small hand-held wand that the technologist uses to perform the examination. The sound waves reflect off internal structures, and the returning echoes are received by the transducer and then processed by a computer to produce real-time moving images. Ultrasound is commonly used to evaluate the abdominal and pelvic organs, breasts, thyroid gland, and testes, and well as blood flow in arteries and veins.
What Should I Expect?
You will be positioned on an exam table and a clear gel will be applied to your skin. The gel is used to eliminate air bubbles between the transducer and your body, since the sound waves travel very poorly through air. The transducer is pressed against the skin and moved back and forth to visualize the area of interest.
Ultrasound does not use radiation and is thus a very safe imaging technique. It is also painless, though you may experience some discomfort from the pressure applied to the transducer, especially if you are required to have a full bladder for your exam. The examination usually takes from 15 to 30 minutes, after which you will be able to return to your normal activities.
How Should I Prepare?
For many exams no preparation is needed. However, if your abdomen or pelvis is being evaluated, you may be instructed not to eat or drink for 12 hours before your test. You may also be asked to drink several glasses of water 2 hours before your test and to avoid urinating, so that your bladder is full during the exam. You should wear comfortable loose-fitting clothing, and you may be asked to change into a hospital gown.
How Do I Get the Results?
After your study is over, the images will be evaluated by one of our board-certified radiologists with expertise in ultrasound imaging. A final report will be sent to your doctor, who can then discuss the results with you in detail.
Appointments for the Providence Imaging Center and the Providence Medical Center Radiology department can be made at 913-667-5600
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KUCHING: While most people were celebrating New Year’s Day, government hospitals in the state were kept busy with 60 babies — including twins — born on New Year’s Day.
Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) recorded the highest number with 30 babies born — 17 boys and 13 girls.
The first baby born that day at 12.03am was a boy, while the last baby born at 11.29pm was a girl.
In Lundu Hospital, as of Jan 1 at 2.38pm, received two babies — a girl and a boy.
As for Serian Hospital, a baby boy was delivered at 5.11pm.
Further up in Sibu Hospital, nine babies were born there with six girls and three boys — the first baby, a girl, was born at 7.26am.
Ten more babies were delivered at Miri Hospital, with six boys and four girls. The last baby was born at 8.33pm.
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Title: Momma’s Magical Purse
Author: Paulette Bogan
Age: Preschool and School Age
Description: Cousin David doesn’t believe that Momma’s purse is magical, and then it starts to rain…
• Simple Narrative Structure
• Perspective Taking/Theory of Mind
• Why? Questions
• Early Prediction
• Interpreting body language
• Sentence structure (“not”)
Why I like this book: The illustrations are wonderful. Children love them and they provide another set of learning opportunities. Also, we all know a David…
Ideas for use:
• Great for modeling sentence structure of ”It is not… .”
• Instead of reading the words of the story, show the pictures and work on “why?” questions. Why does Momma have a bandaid, an umbrella, etc? The body language in the illustrations is fantastic. Once you’ve set the stage, see how much of the story kids can figure out using just the pictures.
• After reading a couple pages, see if kids can guess what else might be in Momma’s purse.
• Ask kids what they think about the magic. Great for open-ended discussion
• In a group? Have kids take turns being Rachael, David and Momma. Focus on the feelings that each of them has throughout the story. Talk about how David’s perspective might have changed at the end.
• The page where David takes the bucket is great for Theory of Mind. Where does each of the characters “think” the bucket is? Who actually “knows” where it is?
Submitted by: Karen S Head M.S. CCC-SLP
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The wooden floors in your dining room seem to be buckling, and the room smells a little like mold. Just some minor water damage, right? No big deal. You can call an expert next week, after that big conference is over.
Well, sure, that could be the case, but buckling floors and the smell of mold are also signs of a full-blown termite infestation, which are often not detected until the house’s structural stability is compromised. So you’ll have to move out and sink serious money into repair costs. While your home insurance policy may cover damage that vermin indirectly caused—like a kitchen fire started because mice chewed through some wiring—it won’t cover extermination or damage the pests directly caused. That’s because home insurance is meant to respond to sudden and accidental situations, like fire or theft, and not perils that can be prevented with home maintenance.
Termites are drawn to humid places, such as air conditioning units, leaky pipes and broken roof tiles. To make sure they don’t use these places as entryways into your home, repair any damage as soon as you notice it, and dehumidify damp areas. For the air conditioning unit, make sure the moisture release is directed away from the foundations of your home. Direct sprinklers away from the foundation as well, and ensure downspouts point away from the house.
Attics are another favourite hangout for termites, especially if there are plenty of unfinished wooden beams they can snack on. To minimize risk there, use plastic bins instead of cardboard boxes for storage, and regularly check for signs of termite damage in the wood. You can do this by pressing a finger against the beams, and if they feel spongy, call an exterminator right away.
Of course, termites aren’t the only pests out there. Rodents can carry diseases, and can also damage a houses’ structural integrity. To reduce the risk that mice and rats will make your home their home, the Centers for Disease Control recommend you seal up any holes around the house (around pipes, fireplaces and ventilation systems, for example) with steel wool and caulking, or sheet metal.
You should also trap rodents with snap traps: if you use glue traps, they may become frightened and urinate all over the floor, which increases the risk you’ll be exposed to disease.
It’s also important to properly store your food—and garbage—so it doesn’t attract rodents. Use thick plastic or metal containers with fitted lids, keep cooking areas clean, frequently wash garbage cans with soap and water, and don’t leave pet food out overnight.
Blocking entry points to your house and cleaning up after each meal also reduces the risk ants, cockroaches and other pests will invade. Also ensure your carefully inspect new objects your bring into the house, such as clothing, furniture and packaging, to make sure they’re pest-free. Keep an eye out for chewing and grazing, don’t forget to check seams, pockets and drawers.
To estimate your insurance costs, get a home insurance quote.
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How Emotional Support Animals Help ADHD
Some of the most commonly diagnosed emotional disorders are centered around attention and activity. Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects not only millions of children every year, but adults as well.
The three core symptoms that are part of ADD and ADHD include:
- Difficulty maintaining focus
- Impulsive behavior
But the challenges that go along with ADHD are not limited to these three behaviors. The consequences of these disorders reach far beyond and into daily life. The problems that are a consequence of ADHD can cause a cascade of issues like the following:
- Self-esteem issues
- Relationship problems
- Trouble at school or work
ADHD is a fundamental mental health problem that affects the brain and then goes on to affect life in real ways for those who struggle with it. Facing the issue and combating it requires intervention, because these symptoms are not just going to go away on their own. Without action, ADHD is tied to anxiety and depression. What’s most important with ADHD is to find treatment options that work both now and for the long term.
Emotional Support Animals Can Help with ADHD
Treatment options for ADHD can include a wide variety of tactics, but one that’s becoming increasingly popular due to its effectiveness is working with an emotional support animal (ESA).
Owning a dog may actually help to alleviate the symptoms of ADHD. It gives people with the disorder a way to learn healthy habits that can carry over into other parts of their lives.
People with ADHD can reap so many benefits from the support of an ESA. These animals offer those with attention disorders some solid means for learning to cope with the imbalances that affect their lives. Here are just a few of the ways that emotional support animals help individuals with ADHD.
- Outlet for excess energy
- Be a non-judgemental companion
- Provide social interaction opportunities
- Encourage routines
- Decrease stress
- Offer a healthy distraction
These benefits of an emotional support animal for ADHD reach in to address some of the major issues that are at the center of the disorder. They meet the problems right where it’s at to give a solution that really works.
Another area that emotional support animals can give a helping hand is right inside the brain. Playtime with a dog been shown to trigger a release of serotonin and dopamine, two chemicals in the brain that are all about happiness and that offer calming effects for the brain and body. This is powerful tool to help combat the fundamental problems associated with ADHD. Playtime with a dog can be an important part of the healing process for people with ADHD!
How Emotional Support Animals Provide Consistency for ADHD
Consistency is a huge issue for people who are living with ADHD, and an emotional support dog or other animal can provide that consistency in a positive way. In order to reach goals, be they therapy goals or accomplishment oriented goals, getting into a positive routine is an essential piece of the puzzle. Many individuals with ADHD also take medication on a daily basis, and getting the timing right of those helpful supports is an important part of successfully battling ADHD.
Emotional support animals offer a necessary consistency to individuals with ADHD. They help with planning and organization as they demand care that’s easy to access for people who struggle with these issues.
For example, and emotional support dog for ADHD creates a rhythm to life. The dog needs to be fed, walked, and played with regularly. These are demands that can’t be ignored without physical ramifications. Unlike the demands of school or work, the consequences of not walking the dog are immediate and unpleasant. That kind of real and immediate feedback is important for individuals with ADHD, who can struggle with consistency and order in their lives.
Caring for an emotional support animal is a tangible way for people with ADHD to form schedules and to learn skills about routine that can then transfer to other parts of their lives. Learning to take responsibility has to start somewhere, and a perfect somewhere to start mastering consistency is by caring for an emotional support animal.
Emotional support animals don’t just provide negative feedback for routine, they also provide a heaping load of positive support for consistency. Dogs and cats show their caregivers appreciation that feels fantastic and reinforces routine!
The Therapeutic Value of Animals for ADHD
A major area that individuals with ADHD struggle with is in socialization. Knowing how to interact with people in positive ways is a critical life skill, but it’s one that can feel out of reach. Emotional support animals provide a level of positive social interaction in and of themselves, but they also provide a gateway for individuals to have positive social interaction with other people.
The great thing about an emotional support animal is that they can go just about anywhere. In fact, that’s the thing that makes an ESA different from other pets. Because they can go just about everywhere, they can provide an innovative way to start conversations and to make connections with other people in situations that might otherwise be challenging.
Emotional support dogs for ADHD offer unconditional love for their companions, a scaffolding that makes it possible to have improved social interactions. People with ADHD often feel isolated, a problem that’s directly addressed with an ESA. These animals make it easier both to forge new relationships, and to deepen current relationships. Knowing that there’s a friend there who will always love you make it much more palatable to put yourself out there.
Emotional support animals encourage trust building and confidence, and they can make all the difference in the ability of someone with ADHD to cope with the challenges that they’re facing.
Image credit: Jamie Woods
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Tethering is the act of sharing your phone’s mobile data connection with another device—such as your laptop or tablet—connecting it to the Internet through your phone’s data connection. There are several ways to tether on Android.
Tethering is useful when you’re somewhere where and don’t have Wi-Fi access, do have cellular data access, and want to do something on your computer instead of your phone. But you may pay extra for the convenience.
Will It Cost Money?
Depending on your carrier, this may or may not cost you money. In the US, most major carriers charge extra for tethering. Consult your carrier’s website for more information about what they charge for tethering. An additional $20 fee to tether isn’t unusual in the USA.
It’s possible to get around these restrictions by installing and using a third-party tethering app, or if you’re rooted, unblocking Android’s built-in tethering feature. However, your carrier may notice you’re tethering anyway — they can tell because web traffic from your laptop looks different from web traffic from your mobile phone—and they may helpfully add a tethering plan to your account, charging you the standard tethering fee. If you’re lucky, they may not notice, just don’t be surprised if they make you pay the tethering fee.
Of course, standard data limits and charges apply. For example, if your carrier provides 2GB of data per month and you use 3GB between tethering and your normal smartphone usage, you’ll be subject to your plan’s normal penalties—extra charges or speed throttling—even if the carrier doesn’t notice you’re tethering.
Lastly, tethering drains battery—fast. When not actively using tethering, you should disable it to save power on your Android phone and keep its battery going longer.
Types of Tethering
We’ll cover how to use each tethering method. Here’s how they compare:
- Wi-Fi Tethering: Wi-Fi tethering turns your phone into a little Wi-Fi hotspot. It creates a Wi-Fi network that you connect to with your computer. It has decent speeds and you can connect more than one device—but the battery will drain faster than if you used one of the below options.
- Bluetooth Tethering: Bluetooth tethering is significantly slower than Wi-Fi, but uses less battery. You can only tether one device at a time via Bluetooth as well. It probably isn’t worth using unless you’re really trying to stretch your battery.
- USB Tethering: USB tethering has the fastest speeds, but you have to connect your phone to your laptop with a USB cable. Your phone’s battery won’t drain because it will draw power from your computer’s USB port.
In addition to the standard Android tethering options, there are other ways you might want to tether:
- Third-Party Tethering Apps: If tethering is disabled on a phone you acquired from a carrier, you can install third-party apps and use them to tether. Your carrier may charge you anyway if they notice.
- Reverse Tethering: In rare situations, you may want to share your computer’s Internet connection with your Android phone instead. This is useful if you only have wired Ethernet connections in the area and don’t have access to Wi-Fi.
Let’s talk about how to do all of these things, one by one.
Android has a built-in Wi-Fi tethering feature, although it may be disabled by some carriers if you don’t pay for a tethering plan. (Again, though, if you’re rooted, you can unblock Android’s built-in tethering feature with these instructions.)
To access this feature, open your phone’s Settings screen, tap the More option under Wireless & Networks, and tap Tethering & portable hotspot.
Tap the Set up Wi-Fi hotspot option and you’ll be able to configure your phone’s Wi-Fi hotspot, changing its SSID (name) and password. Leave the security set to WPA2 PSK unless you need to use an older device that doesn’t support this encryption standard. WPA2 PSK is the most secure option, and you don’t want other people connecting to your hotspot and running up your data bill.
After configuring your hotspot settings, check the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot option. You can now connect to your phone’s Wi-Fi hotspot from your laptop, tablet, or any other device.
You can also opt to tether via a Bluetooth connection. If your laptop has built-in Bluetooth (which most do) you can enable Bluetooth on your phone and enable Bluetooth tethering.
First, you’ll need to pair your PC with your phone. In Windows 10, you’ll first open the Bluetooth menu and make sure the device is discoverable.
On your phone, jump into Bluetooth settings and look for new devices to pair. Wait for your PC to show up. Once it shows up, tap on it to initiate the pairing process.
As both devices start to communicate, you’ll get a prompt on each asking to confirm that unique code is the same. If it is (and it should be), click Pair on both the phone and the computer. They should be connected over Bluetooth after that.
Now that the two are paired, you’re almost ready to use the Bluetooth tether feature. First, jump back into the Tethering & Portable Hotspot screen on your phone, then enable Bluetooth tethering.
Back on the computer, right click on the Bluetooth icon in the system tray, then choose “Join a personal area network.”
When this menu opens, your phone should be present. Click on it, then the “Connect using” dropdown. Choose “Access Point.”
Once the connection has been established, you’ll get a quick confirmation popup. Done and done—you can now use the Bluetooth connection to access the web.
Connect your phone to your laptop via a USB cable, and you’ll see the USB tethering option become available. Toggle it on.
Your computer should automatically detect this a new type of internet connection and make it available. Bam.
Third-Party Tethering Apps
There are quite a few third-party tethering apps you can download from Google Play. Many are paid apps or require root access, however.
PdaNet+ offers Bluetooth and USB tethering on all Android phones, while its Wi-Fi tethering will only work on some phones. The free version will automatically turn itself off and force you to turn it back on occasionally—you can have it stop bothering you by paying up for the full version. Unlike many other such apps, PdaNet doesn’t require root access. The bundled Wi-Fi tethering feature is new in PdaNet+, and is the same as the popular FoxFi app.
You may also want to look for other tethering apps in Google Play, if you may want a free app that uses root and doesn’t require you to re-enable it regularly, or if PdaNet+ can’t provide Wi-Fi access on your phone. In that case, we recommend using the Magisk/Xposed module that bypasses your carrier’s restrictions.
Lastly, if you’re rooted, you can reverse tether—connect your phone to your computer and share your computer’s Internet connection with your phone. This is a fairly rare situation, but you may someday find yourself in an office where there’s no Wi-Fi. If you can connect your Android phone to a computer with a wired Internet connection using a USB cable, you can share its wired Internet connection. Check out this guide for more detailed instructions on how to reverse tether.
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The effect of technology on your eyesight
It’s a digital age we live in, there’s no denying. Smartphones. Tablets. Computers. Televisions. On average, Americans are spending 6 hours and 43 minutes a day on a screen—that’s more than half the waking hours in a day! And the number continues to grow, according to a recent Nielsen Company audience report.
What does that mean for you? An increased chance of a little thing called digital eye strain.
What is digital eye strain?
Digital eye strain, sometimes called Computer Vision Syndrome, refers to a group of eye and vision-related issues that are caused by prolonged use of digital devices. Symptoms can include:
• Dry, red, or itchy eyes
• Blurred vision
• Neck and shoulder pain
The intensity or frequency at which symptoms are experienced seems to be directly linked to the amount of digital screen use. So, the longer you’re on a screen, the worse your symptoms may be. Your visual ability also factors in. Uncorrected vision problems, poor eye coordination skills, aging eyes—these all contribute to how severe digital eye strain will affect you.
What are the causes?
According to the American Optometric Association, the average American spends seven hours a day on the computer either in an office or working from home. Prolonged use of digital devices, such as a computer, is the major cause of eye strain.
Why? Because looking at digital screens makes your eyes work harder than, say, looking out toward a meadow. Screens display things differently than in real life. Letters or numbers displayed on a screen are often not as crisp or sharp as those displayed on a printed page. The contrast between what you’re looking at on screen and the background is reduced. Other contributing factors include:
• Screen glare
• Poor lighting
• Viewing distance or angle/posture
How do I know if I have it?
While you may feel as though you are experiencing digital eye strain, you won’t know for certain until you get a comprehensive eye examination from your eye doctor. Your optometrist may test for the following:
• Eye coordination: making sure your eyes are focusing correctly and working together properly
• Visual acuity: determining how well you are currently seeing objects and fine details
• Refractive errors: assessing if corrective lenses are required
These tests, along with a review of your patient history to establish if other factors such as medication or environment are causing the experienced symptoms, will determine your diagnosis.
How do I treat it?
Usually, symptoms will go away after stopping use of or taking a break from the digital device. The American Optometric Association recommends following the 20-20-20 rule: take a 20-second break to view something 20 feet away every 20 minutes. This will help alleviate any stress you are putting on your eyes by readjusting the focus.
How to reduce digital eye strain:
• Take regular eye breaks: Just like the 20-20-20 rule, taking time to rest your eyes and allowing them to refocus will help reduce strain.
• Be sure to blink: it sounds silly, but making sure you blink will help keep your eyes moist and reduce your risk of developing dry eye.
• Use anti-glare screens: these filters will reduce the amount of reflection or glare you may be looking at on your screen.
• Blue light blocking lenses: These type of glasses or contacts are specifically prescribed for computer use and use coating or tints to increase your visible ability.
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During the prehistoric area, Libya was green and lush in life, as the region's rock carvings of animals and plants can attest to. However, sometime in the 4th millennium BCE, an abrupt climate shift occurred in North Africa, which transformed the lush Arcadia into a sandy wasteland—the Sahara. As a result, more than 95% of Libya's area is desert, leaving only patches of arable land in the Mediterranean coastal strip, where the milder climate provides a haven for agriculture.
The Berbers (or, as many of them call themselves, the Amazigh/Imazighen* ) began to settle the region in the 1st millennium BCE. Presently, there are less than 200 thousand speakers of the various Berber languages, mainly nomads of the Sahara, although the majority of Libya's population have at least some Berber ancestry. In the 7th century BCE, the Carthaginians of Tunisia, who originated from Phoenicia, founded several trading cities in northwestern Libya, including Oea, Leptis Magna, and Sabratha. The Greeks knew them collectively as "Tripoli" (three cities), which later changed to refer exclusively to Oea. Speaking of the Greeks, they also colonized Libya around the same time, though choosing instead the fertile Jebel Akhdar highlands (AKA that conspicuous bulge in the northeastern coast). Their settlements were headquartered in Cyrene, with four other cities as auxiliaries, and were known as the "Pentapolis" (five cities) and later, by pars pro toto, Cyrenaica. There is also a third region, Fezzan, which consists of the arid region to the south of Tripoli and for a long time considered untouchable by non-Berbers. Before the discovery of the oilfields, Fezzan was rather unimportant aside from serving as a Saharan trade nexus.
Cyrenaica was the westernmost extent of Cambyses II's military campaign in Africa. The Achameneids were supplanted by the Macedonians in 331 BCE, following which they were administered from Egypt. Meanwhile, after Carthage's downfall, Tripolitania (as the Romans called the region surrounding Tripoli) changed hands several times before The Roman Empire finally occupied it under Augustus, who also earned the fealty of Ptolemaic Cyrenaica. The 2nd century CE Kitos War, which began with a Jewish uprising in Cyrenaica, depopulated the region of its original Greek inhabitants, though it was later repopulated again by people from the empire's other provinces. Tripolitania supplied the emperor Septimius Severus, under whose dynasty the region prospered, with many public works built, including an amphitheater in Leptis Magna. The Vandal invasions of the 500s caused the region's decline and made it an easy prey when the Umayyad Caliphate attacked in the 7th century.
The region was uniformly controlled by Arabs from the Middle East until the 9th century, when local control resurfaced. Nevertheless, there was still a clear divide: the former Cyrenaica was seen as an extension of Egypt (and therefore, the Middle East) and shared its fortunes, while Tripolitania had more in common with the Maghreb and associated itself with the Berber kingdoms of Algeria and Tunisia. In Cyrenaica, kingdoms that ruled included the Ikhshidids, Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, while Tripolitania was ruled by the Aghlabids, Rustamids, Zirids, the Siculo-Normans, Almohads, and Hafsids. In the Middle Ages, the Fatimid Caliphate was the only polity that succeeded in unifying both regions, because it had its roots in both Egypt and Tunisia. During its reign, the Arab clans of Banu Sulaym and Banu Hillal moved in, resulting in a rapid Arabization previously unseen in the region (the Umayyad conquest did not result in one) and the decline of the Berber languages.
In 1551, the Ottoman Empire claimed Tripoli from The Knights Hospitallers, who had been administering it since it was taken by Spain. The Ottomans unified Tripolitania with Cyrenaica (which it had conquered back in 1517) for the first time since the era of the Fatimids. The province was autonomous, with the local hereditary Pasha having mostly free rein. During this period, Tripolitania was site of the Barbary Coast Wars against the United States. Tripoli is memorably mentioned in the first stanza of the official hymn of the US Marines.
To catch up with the rest of the European powers during the Scramble for Africa (or Rape of Africa, if you prefer), the Italians invaded Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in 1912. They named their new colony "Libya", after an ancient Greek exonym that referred to Africa west of Egypt. They initiated a massive reform project that included major infrastructure building and encouraged Italian immigration. However, the Italians were also infamous for their brutality to the natives, particularly the Berbers, whose resistance movement was the stiffest; it's estimated that about a half of the Berber population perished due to ethnic cleansing, warfare, and disease around this time. Since the Italians sided with the Axis during World War II, Libya was the scene of several major battles in the Desert War opposing the German Afrikakorps and Italians under Erwin Rommel's command to the Allies (under Bernard Law Montgomery's command in the victorious offensive phase), including the Siege of Tobruk. The victory of the Allies in 1943 led to the British occupation of Libya and the renunciation of Italian claim to the colony in 1947.
Libya achieved independence in 1951 as the United Kingdom of Libya. The only king during this period was Idris I, the then leader of a Sufi order of Senussi from Bayda, which was a major resistance movement to colonial rule. Oil was discovered during his reign, which led to the country's rapid modernization. However, his close links with the West amid Arab nationalism were widely criticized and he was finally toppled while he was abroad by a coup led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who proclaimed a republic.
Gaddafi reigned as leader from 1969 to 2011 (in other words, 42 years). The man who had an Amazon Brigade of Bodyguard Babes and had his name transliterated at least 30 waysnote . He was universally considered a Cloud Cuckoolander and rather Ax-Crazy. Officially, Libya under Gaddafi was a socialist country ruled by its people through a form of direct democracy, an ideology which Gaddafi characterised as a third way between capitalism and communism and which was laid out in his self-penned "Green Book", with the Colonel himself having no official position within the state and instead being a "guide of the revolution" who merely oversaw the country. Unofficially, you can probably work it out. He infamously changed the country's official name to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 1986.
Of particular note is Libya's relationship with the world during the 1980s. Very widely believed to be a state sponsor of terrorism/freedom fighting, arming the Irish Republican Army and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, among many others, this did not go down well with the United States. Libya claimed two incidents in the Gulf of Sidra, where Libyan jets attacked American F-14s and were duly blown out of the sky. Most notable of all was Operation El Dorado Canyon, a 1986 aerial attack by the US, in response to a terrorist attack, that killed 60 people, possibly including the Libyan leader's adopted daughter. Two of these inspired works of fiction. The country also tried to destabilize its African neighbors and profit from the resulting weakness. This didn't work out too well, as Libya proceeded to get its ass kicked by Egypt and Chad, the latter actually forcing the various factions fighting for control of Chad to band together. Helping Uganda's Idi Amin in his invasion of Tanzania also blew up in Libya's face. The nation also has an ongoing feud with Sudan.
In 2003, Gaddafi reconciled with the West somewhat, gave up his Weapon of Mass Destruction programme and got Libya taken off the US "state sponsors of terrorism" list. In 2009, he delivered a 96-minute rant at the United Nations General Assembly against the United Nations Security Council, chucking away a copy of the UN Charter and bringing up Conspiracy Theories galore, and made controversial statements regarding Switzerland (who had gotten in a flap with him over the arrest of his son and son's wife in Geneva). The fact that Libya chaired the General Assembly at that time meant he was allowed to do this.
In February 2011, Libya experienced an armed uprising against the Gaddafi regime, influenced by the Arab Spring. The brutal crackdown was condemned worldwide, and caused many Libyan soldiers to defect, which Gaddafi responded to by hiring mercenaries. On March 19, the U.N. approved a no fly zone over Libya, complemented by air strikes. Gaddafi lost control of the country and was killed in Sirte on October 20 2011. Both sides committed war crimes before and during the 8 month civil war. In total, up to 20,000 people were killed.
The National Transitional Council, founded by the resistance as a way to coordinate all anti-Gaddafi opposition, was an interim government that tried to keep the peace for ten months, before dissolving upon a general election. The General National Congress took over, but instability and lawlessness prevailed over much of the country. This triggered a second civil war in 2014 that ended in a ceasefire in 2020.
The Second Libyan Civil War killed around 10,000 people. The parties were the UN-backed Government of National Accord, made up of the cabinet elected in the 2014 elections, and the unrecognized House of Representatives, made up of the parliament who won the same elections and disputed the GNA, whose military wing is called the Libyan National Army (LNA). The GNA is based in Tripoli, while the HR and LNA are based in Cyrenaica's Tobruk and Benghazi, respectively. They were also backed by different foreign forces, with the GNA being supported by Turkey, while the LNA was backed by Jordan, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. This confusion left locals having to organize themselves, opening way to armed gangs and radicals to exploit. The Islamic State opened a branch in Libya when it occupied Sirte for a year, being defeated by the GNA and US-backed forces in 2016. Similarly, Benghazi was occupied by various jihadist groups until the forces of field marshal Khalifa Haftar, which supported the HR, ejected them and made the city his base. Having captured most of the country's east, center, and south, Haftar launched a siege of the Tripoli metropolitan area in April 2019. On the brink of losing, the GNA made a pact with Turkey to hire Turkish military advisers and units from the Syrian rebel army (themselves similarly on the losing side of a war and being backed by Turkey) and materiel, which significantly turned the tide of the war, with Haftar announcing a retreat in June 2020. In response, Russia began sending even more weapons to help the LNA, triggering fears for a Syrian Civil War-like chaos. This led the UN, as well as Russia, Turkey, and other foreign backers, to actively engage in deescalation and ceasefire talks.
A permanent ceasefire agreement was ratified on October 23 2020, with the Government of National Accord and the House of Representatives forming the Government of National Unity on March 10 2021, headed by Chairman of the Presidential Council Mohamed al-Menfi. This provisional interim government will remain in power until the next presidential election. The first round of election was initially set to be held on Christmas Eve, but was postponed indefinitely on December 22. Under all this confusion and turmoil, it is perhaps unsurprising that both monarchism and Gaddafi loyalism have grown in popularity among the Libyan population.
The country is also noted as a major transit point of African refugees who want to immigrate to Europe. This is especially evident in the Mediterranean refugee crises, where the Libyan Coast Guard has been paid by the governments of several European countries specifically to stop and catch migrants who want to leave by boats. Life for the stranded refugees is not good, with slavery-like condition being reported by several human rights organizations.
Libya is rich in oil and natural gas, both being cornerstones of the country's exports. Under Gaddafi, despite the authoritarian regime, the standard of living in Libya was rather decent and among the highest in Africa. This was partly because Gaddafi genuinely distributed the oil wealth quite well, and partly because the population was small. Money from the exports is so high that even during the post-Gaddafi civil war era, where living standards have plummeted greatly, the country still has a high GDP per capita.
As a last, curious note, Libya's flag was completely green during Gaddafi's regime. The green was supposed to represent Gaddafi's devotion to Islam. The rebels in the 2011 war adopted variants of the old flag of the monarchy (red, black, and green horizontal stripes, with a white star and crescent in the middle) as a symbol; after the defection of the Libyan ambassador, it was the flag that flew over the Libyan mission to the UN, and became the official flag of Libya after the captures of Tripoli and Sirte.
Libya in fiction:
Plenty of works are set in the North African theatre of World War II.
During the 1980s, Libya was near the top of the Hollywood Axis Of Evil list, up there with the Soviet Union and East Germany. This was majorly helped by the fact that Libya received Soviet arms (then annoyed the Soviets by losing a load of them in a war with Chad), funded the IRA and carried out or supported terrorist attacks that killed Americans.
The Gulf of Sidra incident in 1981 inspired Top Gun, while El Dorado Canyon inspired very directly (including going around France and Spain) an attack on a Qurac in a novel called Eagles.
- The Desert Rats - Retelling of the siege of Tobruk during World War II.
- Airwolf- Dr Moffett takes the chopper there after he steals it.
- In Patriot Games, Libyan terrorist training camps were used by the ULA to train for their attack on Jack Ryan's house when the Prince of Wales and his wife were visiting the Ryans.
- Also used as a source of terrorists in Back to the Future.
- The Oregon Files book Corsair takes place there, with the team racing against time to try and find a missing U.S Diplomat.
- George Macdonald Fraser doesn't state explicitly where his battalion was stationed in the McAuslan books, but contextual clues (former Italian colony, US airstrike in the 80s) make it clear they were in Tripoli.
- The main villain of The Lion's Game lost his girlfriend and some of his family during the El Dorado Canyon incident. His allies identified the pilots and bombers who conducted the raid, and he traveled the world trying to assassinate them.
- Scorpion in the Sea, a Naval thriller features a Libyan Navy operated diesel attack submarine prowling off the Florida coast, waiting to attack an aircraft carrier.
- Arab Mythology
- Tuareg Mythology
The Libyan flag
The Libyan national anthem
- Unitary provisional unity government
- Chairman of the Presidential Council: Mohamed al-Menfi
- Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity: Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Aguila Saleh Issa
- Capital and largest city: Tripoli
- Population: 6,959,000
- Area: 1,759,541 km² (679,363 sq mi) (16th)
- Currency: Libyan dinar (ل.د) (LYD)
- ISO-3166-1 Code: LY
- Country calling code: 218
- Highest point: Bikku Bitti (2267 m/7,438 ft) (115th)
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Overview of water-based calcium stearate Calcium stearate emulsion refers to the water-based calcium stearate, also known as water-based calcium stearate, calcium stearate dispersion liquid.
The main parameters of water-based calcium stearate
Molecular formula: Ca(C17H35COO)2
Appearance: milky white viscous liquid
Solid content: 50±2%
Viscosity: ≤550mpa.s (25℃)
Whiteness: 90 Purity: 94
Particle size: ≤30 microns
Melting point: 150-155°C
Stearic acid content: 93.4%
The role of water-based calcium stearate
Water-based calcium stearate is a stabilizer and lubricant of polychloroacetic acid, but its stabilizing effect is poor, and the long-term thermal stabilization effect is still good. It can be used as non-toxic food packaging, medical equipment, and other soft film utensils. Used as a halogen absorbent in polyethylene and polypropylene, it can eliminate the adverse effect of the residual catalyst in the resin on the color and stability of the resin. It can also be widely used as a lubricant for polyolefin fibers and molded products. It can also be used as a moisturizer and release agent for phenolic, amino, and other thermosetting plastics and polyester reinforced plastics, a thickening agent for grease, and a waterproofing agent for textiles. Flattening agent for paint, etc.
Application areas of water-based calcium stearate
1. Paper industry: As a lubricant for the paper coating layer, it can improve the lubricity and hydrophobicity of the coating surface, enhance the delicate feeling of the coating, make the paper smooth and flat, and prevent cracking after drying.
2. Printing industry: The super calendar prevents powder and lint during the cutting and printing process, thus improving the appearance and printing performance of the paper.
3. Polyurethane demoulding: It can be used for RIM reaction injection molding, PU foam production, and high resilience opening, etc., to increase the hardness of the coating film and does not affect the surface color, adhesion, paintability, etc. of the product.
4. Rubber industry: As a plasticizer in rubber processing, it can soften natural rubber and full-grown rubber without affecting vulcanization.
5. Metal processing: It can be used as lubrication treatment for cold extrusion, cold stamping, and cold drawing of metal materials. It is especially suitable for workpieces with a large extension degree, high deformation rate,s, and complex curved surfaces.
6. Processing of soft products: It is also used for non-toxic soft films and appliances such as food packaging and medical appliances. It can also be used as a halogen absorbent for polyethylene and polypropylene to eliminate the adverse effects of residual catalyst on color and stability.
7. Hard product processing: It can increase the speed of gelation when combined with base lead salt and lead soap.
8. Plastic processing industry: It can also be used as a heat stabilizer for polyvinyl chloride, a lubricant for a variety of plastic processing, and a mold release agent.
9. Other industries: It is also used as a lubricant for polyolefin fibers and molding compounds, a thickening agent for grease, a waterproofing agent for textiles, a leveling agent for paint, and a plasticizer when manufacturing plastic records. It is also used in the production of pencil lead, medicine, perfume, etc.
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A casing head has many other names: casing bowl, a-section, Braden head, or starting head. The casing head is the surface pressure control equipment’s primary interface. These interfaces would be blowout preventers for well drilling or the Christmas tree for production wells.
The casing head is often welded or screwed on the top of the conductor pipe, and the casing then becomes a part of the wellhead system of the oil well. It serves as an adapter between the first casing string and the BOP stack (during drilling) or the wellhead (after drilling has been completed). The casing head uses a flanged or clamped connection to match what the BOP stack or wellhead needs.
Types of Casing Head
There are two major types of casing head design.
Thread Type Casing–This is a casing head housing design that features a 45-degree landing shoulder. This type of design prevents damage to sealing areas caused by drilling tools and avoids test plug and blow protector wedging problems when applying pressure. This design also allows for the accurate vertical positioning of annular seals, control line ports, and test ports.
Slip Type Casing–head eliminates post-heating, saves time, and is quick to install. It is well suited for exploratory drilling because It can be moved from well to well, eliminating the extra transportation and repair charges associated with conventional welded heads. Installation of slip type casing is simpler as well.
A casing head is an adapter between the first casing string and either the BOP stack (during drilling) or the wellhead (after completion). This adapter may be threaded or welded onto the casing, and may have a flanged or clamped connection to match the BOP stack or wellhead. It is the primary interface for the pressure control equipment. When installed, a casing head is typically tested to stringent pressure and leak-off parameters to ensure viability under blowout conditions before any surface equipment is installed.
Casing Head Functions
The casing head is an essential component of any wellhead system. It provides many different vital functions within the system. These functions include:
The casing head in a conventional wellhead system is the lowest part of the wellhead assembly and is almost always connected to the surface casing string. It supports the remaining parts of the wellhead and completion equipment. The casing head performs the following functions:
- Provides a base to attach the surface casing string.
- Supports or transfers the weight of the equipment during drilling and well servicing operations
- Provides a platform for testing the blowout preventers (BOP) while drilling
- Isolates the inside of the surface casing from the outside environment
- Provides outlets for fluid returns
- May serve as a test port to test welded or other non-threaded bottom casing head connections
- Allows the suspension and packing off of the next casing string
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A month after the White House launched an effort that brought together technologists and artificial intelligence experts to scour the world’s repository of medical literature for insights on COVID-19, researchers last week reported that journals and publications designed to be read by people are posing challenges for computers to sift through.
Most scientific papers published and distributed using the PDF format are “not amenable to text processing,” the group of 24 researchers wrote in a paper published last week. While “the file format is designed to share electronic documents faithfully for reading and printing” they pose challenges for “automated analysis of document content.”
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on March 16 announced a collaborative venture that included the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, Microsoft, Allen Institute for AI, Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, the Chan Zuckerberg Institute (named for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, and his wife Priscilla Chan), and Kaggle, which is a unit of Google.
The goal was to assemble a dataset of tens of thousands of scientific papers and literature on the coronavirus that would be examined using machine language and text processing programs to find patterns. That would help researchers rapidly answer questions raised by the World Health Organization and U.S. agencies about the pandemic.
Scientists all over the world have been working and publishing their findings on various strains of coronavirus over the years, including other variants such as SARS, MERS, and the latest, COVID-19. The application of artificial intelligence tools to look for commonalities and differences among the thousands of such published articles could help the scientists spot things they may have missed.
Tens of thousands of papers
The project began with about 29,000 papers and journal articles from researchers around the world and soon grew to more than 50,000 papers in the subsequent few weeks, the researchers from all of the groups involved in the effort wrote. The database is known as CORD-19.
“There is however, significant work that remains” on what methods work best to search and analyze the text, how to involve biomedical experts in the process, and how to take useful results from the analysis and convert them into COVID-19 treatments and management of the pandemic, the researchers said.
“If you see a PDF document, it’s great for reading and human consumption but for a machine to understand the content, you have to extract from the different portions of a PDF and tell the machine here’s column one and here’s column two and here’s where a figure is with respect to the text,” Lucy Wang, one of the lead authors of the paper said in an interview. “Turns out it is not easy to do that.”
Researchers also are grappling with collecting accurate metadata on publications in a form that computers can ingest, Kyle Lo, another author of the paper said. Metadata includes year of publication, authors of a paper, and peer reviewers, which often are signals to other scientists on whether a publication is weighty enough for consideration in their own work.
“If a paper was published 20 years ago,” and is broadly about the whole class of coronavirus it may not be immediately useful to answer questions on the current SARS CoV2, which is the novel coronavirus that is causing COVID-19, Lo said.
Publishers of scientific journals are helping gather and share their publications with the research group, including pre-publication papers, but each publisher may use a different format for their metadata that makes it difficult for text processing algorithms to sift through, Lo and Wang said.
Wang and Lo are researchers at Allen Institute for AI, co-founded by Paul Allen, who was a co-founder of Microsoft.
Speed is the goal
While literature reviews typically take months or longer to find pertinent scientific articles, and then extract, summarize and find useful insights in them, “here we are trying to automate this process to generate these results very quickly,” Wang said. “It remains to be seen how effective these systems will be but early results seem pretty promising.”
Kaggle, which brings together more than a 1 million data scientists from around the world, is holding a competition to generate algorithms that would extract information and findings from the articles to answer questions such as the incubation period for COVID-19 observed from around the world. They would then feed that to biomedical researchers who in turn would provide feedback to the data scientists on further questions.
PubMed Central, a free digital repository of scientific literature on biomedical and life sciences, at the National Library of Medicine, is leading the effort to gather all the scientific literature from around the world for the CORD-19 project.
The repository of articles currently is primarily drawn from sources in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and from East Asian countries. Chinese researchers also have published thousands of papers on COVID-19, having been the epicenter of the outbreak.
Still, there aren’t enough Chinese language papers in the database, especially those that were produced “during the early stages of the epidemic,” the researchers wrote. The database also is likely missing publications by government agencies, they wrote.
The National Library of Medicine is in the process of collecting some of the Chinese publications, Wang and Lo said. The National Library of Medicine did not immediately respond to questions on its efforts.
NIH is working with as many as 50 scientific publishers and journals that have agreed to make their COVID-19 and broader coronavirus articles freely available via PubMed Central in forms that support text mining and machine analysis, the agency said in an email.
The database includes about 2,000 foreign language articles in Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and others, NIH said. The bulk of the rest are in English, the agency said.
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While it would be ideal for all parents to realize how important it is to put their children first and keep them out of the separation or divorce, that is often not the reality. Whether it’s from anger, hurt, jealousy, sadness, or another strong emotion, sometimes one parent will try and manipulate their children to alienate the other parent. In this article, we will take a look at this very real part of a divorce known as parental alienation, how to avoid it, and what to do if you are experiencing it.
Understanding Parental Alienation
First, it is imperative to understand what parental alienation is and what it isn’t. The Association of Parental Alienation defines parental alienation as:
“The programming of a child by one parent to denigrate the other targeted parent in an effort to undermine and interfere with the child’s relationship with that parent. It is often a sign of a parent’s inability to separate from the couple conflict and focus on the needs of the child. Such denigration results in the child’s emotional rejection of the targeted parent, and the loss of a capable and loving parent from the life of the child.”
Parental alienation can take place in many forms and can even be carried out unwittingly. More often than not, however, it is a tool used by one of the parties to drive a wedge between the children and the other parent.
Studies have shown that parental alienation takes place in 11-15% of all divorces in the United States.
The Damage Created by Parental Alienation
There are 3 distinct ideas that are common when parental alienation tactics are being used by a parent. These include the following:
- That only they love the child and without them, the child will have no self-esteem or self-worth.
- Not only is the other parent not available to help the child feel good about themselves but they are also dangerous for the child to be around.
- If the child wants to attempt to pursue a relationship with the alienated parent, the relationship with the alienator will be put at significant risk – in other words, it’s either him/her or me!
Parental Alienation Syndrome
These ideas can have a significant impact on children. They may start to show a number of behaviors which form parental alienation syndrome. These include the following:
- They begin to exhibit a hatred for the other parent.
- The hate is enforced by ridiculous rationalizations that the parent doesn’t like them either.
- When it comes to the parent instigating the alienation, the child has a lack of ambivalence towards them, instead showing automatic support on an idealized level.
- The child thinks that rejection of the other parent is their own idea.
- The child has no guilt whatsoever towards the way the alienated parent is treated.
- The child begins to use borrowed scenarios from the alienating parent as a way to increase accusations.
- The alienation and hatred for the other parent will begin to creep into their extended family as well. This can include siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
If these behaviors are exhibited, the parental alienation has already taken significant hold and much damage has been done. As a parent going through a divorce, it is important to be on the lookout for any of these signs.
While you may feel helpless if you are the victim of parental alienation this holiday season, here are some steps you can take to prevent the situation from getting worse.
1. Be the best parent you can be
No matter how much your kids try to hurt you, never fight back. Continue to be the best parent you can be at all times. They too are a victim just like you are. Never lash at them through anger, no matter how difficult it might be, especially when they are lashing out at you. Always try to reinforce your love for them, even though they might not reciprocate. And always be there for them in the times that they might need you.
2. Never stop trying to get into contact with them
At some point, you may be denied total contact with your children. Don’t give up, be it sending gifts, trying to phone, or even visiting them. If you do stop trying, it will give the other parent an opportunity to paint you in a worse light, perhaps even suggesting that you do not care about your children. Always make an effort to stay in contact with them.
3. Don’t blame your kids
Parental alienation is a difficult situation. At no point should you blame your children for what is happening. They are being manipulated.
4. Don’t retaliate by alienating your spouse
If you start to notice your ex-spouse manipulating your children against you, do not reciprocate with your own manipulation. This creates even more turmoil for your children and may leave them feeling abandoned. Never ask them to take sides. This is between you and your ex-spouse, not you and your children.
5. Seek legal help when needed
Without a doubt, in certain parental alienation circumstances, legal counsel can certainly be a great help. This is especially true if you are denied access or visitation rights that were already granted through a court order. In this regard, it is imperative for you to keep accurate records of when visitations were denied.
Need Support with a Parental Alienation Issue?
Parental alienation is both an unfortunate and potentially damaging situation. If you are going through a divorce, or perhaps have been denied the right to visit your children, you need legal support.
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Skynet RC – Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) vs. Business Process Automation (BPA)
The year was 2008, the same year Bill Gates stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft. I found myself in a situation that was best described as a scene from The Wolf of Wall Street. I sat in a glass meeting room located on the 30th floor of Bank Street in Canary Wharf where I was being interviewed by a couple of “suits”. During the interview, I was questioned “so ... how good are you with WinRunner?” I responded with the default contractor answer of “well it depends, what you are trying to do?”. The next question shocked me, “do you see all the people on this floor?” I nodded, “well ... we are about to let them all go… and we need automation” someone then walked up onto a stage and announced that everyone on the trading floor had been let go.
As people started to leave, they continued to explain that they had bought millions of mortgages and loans from various organisations/providers and needed them to all be boarded/migrated onto their target platform (see above) so they could be serviced.
Six months later, my time at Lehman Brothers had taught me a valuable lesson on the importance of Business Process Automation (BPA) and the potential value of enterprise RPA to an organisation. This could be driven by Operational Efficiency, Speed to Market or even traditional ROI / cost saving:
- Operational Efficiency - What do you think the percentage is of Human error when you have 100+ mortgage agents boarding loans 24/7 and what is the impact of missing a zero or keying in the wrong number?
- Speed to Market - How long does it take from purchasing subprime to be able to underwrite/service the loan? (i.e. when they could start making money)
- ROI / cost saving - Reducing headcount by 100+ mortgage agents (or redeploy them to better use as SMEs) and replacement with robotic agents (WinRunner VMs).
One of the major challenges around replacing humans with robots is that they lack the context-sensitive validation that human SME has many years of experience in each industry, both vertical or domain. For example, what happens when one of the mortgage platforms categorizes the property as a studio apartment and the other system categories it as a one-bedroom flat?
This is where Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) comes in by factoring in the decision making based on a domain / context specific model of the solution (i.e. modelling derivatives and providing the associated data sets). This topic was explored at the RPA Tech Day in London on Wednesday 26th September (see above photo).
Additionally that week, I had finished recording a podcast with Joe Colantonio which explored this subject in much more detail around ‘Shift Right’ and learning how to model the behaviour of systems from production. In turn, this highlights a challenge with modelling. What happens when a journey is not discovered (an edge case) or a decision tree is not executed by the system? This is another challenge with process mining or node discovery (discovering every possible path through a system).
Forget adding additional Chaos Engineering approaches of ‘what if’ scenarios to handle systemic failure. But, are we saying that RPA is destined for failure (similar that of early digital transformation efforts) because the systems that humans have built are too complex or are we saying that the lessons that we have learned from the past can help us avoid making similar mistakes when it comes to Enterprise RPA adoption?
The RPA Tech Day at the Micro Focus office in London which was very similar to the workshop that I attended in South Africa last month. The messaging had again evolved taking another step toward differentiating Micro Focus within the RPA industry. The key differentiator being Business Process Automation (BPA) capabilities and augmenting intelligence through SME and the autonomy of the dissecting the process targeted for RPA.
I’d swap activities and interactions around as an activity can be made up of several interactions with potentially different systems (i.e. context switching). Another observation was the importance of Digital Experiences (DX) over User Experiences (UX) I.e. focusing on what the human does instead of the cause and effect modelling of what upstream and downstream activities are being triggered (check out my chapter in the Digital Quality Handbook for further detail).
Another challenge is how many possible flows through the above process, is it 5, 10, 25, 100, infinite? At the time of publication, the simple process flow above (taken from the Experiences in Test Automation by Dorothy Graham) I had estimated 25 flows, unfortunately, I was completely wrong. I remember running a workshop in California on code coverage techniques on LCSAJ (Linear Code Sequence & Jump) with only a single loop, to cover all paths with all data permutations results in the nearly infinite possible path.
I recall when I was based in Silicon Valley as the product owner for the market-leading model-based testing (MBT) tool, we used various techniques and graph theory to optimize the best coverage possible. It was only when dealing with companies like Apple & PayPal when we realised that modelling the data of the flows was as important, if not more important that all paths through the system.
Let us take PayPal as a simple example. My PayPal balance is £100 and I’m in Dubai and I want to pay for my Uber which is 450 Dirham which is fine based on the current financial exchange (FX) rate of 0.22 but it is the end of the month and suddenly Brexit happens and the FX rate suddenly changes at the end of the day and I’m left with a negative balance (which is not possible on my account). This is known as an edge case that may have not happened before in production or have been negatively tested. So, who is to blame? The customer, they had enough money at the time when the transaction occurred but after the FX spike, they didn’t? PayPal, who should be able to make real-time payments and not overnight batch things up? Uber, for sending a debt collection letter as they were not able to collect the fee to pay the third party driver?
You may be asking what has this got to do with Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? The short answer is everything. Replacing a human with a machine may catch 85% of the Business Process Automation (BPA) flows, but who is left to pick up the other 15% which fails? Augmenting Intelligence with skills SMEs and providing RPA as a Service (RPAaaS) seems like the only logical way of successfully navigating the challenges of Business Process Automation (BPA) to establish Intelligent Process Automation (IPA). | <urn:uuid:7a860f38-72c4-4883-bc5f-40f6b45f10dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vivit-worldwide.org/blogs/viewPost/3846 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.961643 | 1,429 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Early science fiction authors tossed around the idea of mining the asteroids near Earth decades ago. Asimov, Heinlein, Pournelle, and other sci-fi luminaries wrote the concept into their stories of robots and space-bound pioneers since the 1940s. As with many of those authors’ ideas, we’re on the edge of fiction becoming reality.
Companies such as Redmond-based Planetary Resources plan to send robot harvesters up to the asteroids, likely within a decade, to extract water and rare minerals. CEO Chris Lewicki told me they are already in the prospecting phase, sending satellites to probe for likely mining candidates. The conference room where we met has a large window into a clean room, where their engineers prepare the next satellites.
“I think we are closer to extracting water off of an asteroid than we were to the launching of the iPhone,” he said.
As Lewicki talks, he illustrates his discussion not with pictures, but with meteorites scattered on the Planetary Resources conference table. Rocks such as these have crashed all over Earth, like an almost 20-kilogram iron mass found a few miles from Pullman in 1993. They provide clues to what we might mine from asteroids.
One of the unassuming samples on the table is a dark slice of rock with light flecks. It’s similar to the type of asteroid, a carbonaceous chondrite, that might provide ice—and thus oxygen and hydrogen for fueling rockets and water to keep people alive when the time comes for further human spaceflight.
Asteroid mining is just one aspect of the rapidly-developing private space industry. Rocket launches, space tourism, and space planes are already here—with Washington at the forefront. The Washington State Space Coalition is a recently-formed group of Washington companies that builds on the state’s long history of aerospace innovation from Boeing and others.
Research at WSU on meteorites, propulsion systems, and other aspects of space exploration can help Washington move toward that future. Just as crucial, WSU trains engineers and others who will work in this growing field. Dozens of alumni already work for outer space companies such as Blue Origin, Planetary Resources, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and SpaceX. They’re working not on sci-fi dreams, but real efforts with a universe of possibilities. | <urn:uuid:95cbf54e-bdb0-427f-8284-c2f7b093ca47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://magazine.wsu.edu/2016/04/29/as-above-here-below/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.947591 | 481 | 3.25 | 3 |
Perhaps we are not doing just enough to convince the general populace to come out willingly or voluntarily to take the Covid 19 vaccine. Yes, we agree rumours are doing around and some people are using social media to post their hesitancy and reluctance which might be due to either sheer ignorance or the deaths after vaccination and the adverse effects. The matter cannot be solved by arresting them or putting them in jail. Rather, we should be questioning ourselves as to what had gone wrong in the convincing part and what all needs to be done to convince them at all. If we look back to the history of plagues and pandemics which had ravaged the world since time immemorial, we should be thanking the scientific community of today for developing a vaccine or versions of it so fast within a year. Whether the Covid-19 virus is a product of nature or a by-product of the Wuhan lab leak theory, it does not matter for the present. All we have to be thankful now is the development of vaccines. Some of it are still undergoing trials. That is exactly why we have to respect the misgivings or concern of certain people amongst us. And the looming threat of a third wave is also driving many people to get themselves vaccinated.
Are we doing just enough?
IFP Editorial: A short inquiry by a doctor about the past history of allergies and medications and treatment for other diseases before vaccination was indeed a necessity. In practice, nobody follows the directives or guidelines given by the health authorities. Once you get the call, you report to the designated vaccination centre, a nurse gives you the shot
Updated 25 Jun 2021, 10:06 pm
Even as the Union government declared free vaccination for citizens aged 18 and above, many are still reluctant. The awareness campaigns in various forms of the media is still not getting its desired effect in many parts of country. Yet, some innovative ideas have come up to convince people to get themselves vaccinated early. An Arunachal Pradesh government officer’s offer of free 20 kgs of rice as an incentive for getting vaccinated against Covid-19 has broken through the reluctance among some residents aged above 45 years and managed to accelerate the vaccination drive in Lower Subansiri district.
Meanwhile in Manipur, an MLA has been accused of threatening to withhold the free rice quota announced by the government if one does come out for vaccination. Now, the said MLA is gifting five kgs of free rice for anyone who comes out voluntarily to get vaccinated. The state-wide lockdown and restrictions have robbed many sections of the society of their means of livelihood, which is exactly why the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced free distribution of rice to ease the worries of the public. But in the end, one has to understand that the present vaccination is purely voluntary in nature as per clarifications issued by the Union government. What the state government needs to seriously consider is throwing up innovative ideas to convince sections of the reluctant public so that they come out willingly for the vaccine shot. We know it is not that easy, as the state has already seen two deaths after getting the shot, besides many others in the rest of the country.
In Thoubal district, a 37-year-old teacher died hours after receiving the first dose of Covishield vaccine. This is not the first case of death after receiving the vaccine. In February this year, an Anganwadi worker in Bishnupur district died after getting the Covid-19 vaccine shot. A short inquiry by a doctor about the past history of allergies and medications and treatment for other diseases before vaccination was indeed a necessity. In practice, nobody follows the directives or guidelines given by the health authorities. Once you get the call, you report to the designated vaccination centre, a nurse gives you the shot and tells you to rest for 30 minutes before leaving the place. Nobody asks you whether you have any past allergies or health issues. Perhaps, this is the basic problem leading to deaths after taking the shot. Not everyone dies after taking the shot, but even one or two deaths is enough to scare away the rest. But, these deaths had to be scientifically explained. Now, a wider consultation is required for ideas and incentives to convince the public. In this, the cooperation of every MLA and other public leaders is required and the state government should not shy away from approaching the opposition also.
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Global financial markets plunged as results from the “Brexit” referendum defied bookmakers’ odds to show a 52-48 per cent victory for the campaign to leave a bloc Britain joined more than 40 years ago.
The sterling suffered its biggest one-day fall of 9.4 per cent against the US dollar on market fears the decision will hit investment in the world’s 5th-largest economy.
The vote to leave also raises questions over London’s role as a global financial capital and ushers in months of political limbo.
The euro slumped nearly 4 per cent against the US dollar on concerns a ‘Brexit’ vote would do wider economic and political damage to what would become a 27-member union. Investors poured into safe haven assets including gold, and the yen surged.
In an early mark of international concern, Japan’s top currency diplomat Masatsugu Asakawa said he would consult with Finance Minister Taro Aso on how to respond to the market moves, describing the foreign exchange moves as very rough.
Yet there was euphoria among Britain’s eurosceptic force.
“Dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom,” said Nigel Farage, leader of the eurosceptic UK Independence Party.
“If the predictions are right, this will be a victory for real people, a victory for ordinary people, a victory for decent people…Let June 23 go down in our history as our independence day.”
He called the EU a “doomed project”.
Asked if Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum in 2013 and campaigned to stay in the bloc, should resign if Britain voted for Brexit, Farage said: “Immediately.”
Quitting the EU could cost Britain access to the EU’s trade barrier-free single market and mean it must seek new trade accords with countries around the world. President Barack Obama says it would be at the “back of a queue” for a US pact.
The EU for its part will emerge economically and politically weakened, facing the departure not only of its most free-market proponent but also a member country that wields a UN Security Council veto and runs a powerful army. In one go, the bloc will lose around a sixth of its total economic output.
Cameron is expected to formally report the result to his European counterparts within days and prepare negotiations for the first exit by a member state from the EU – an exit he has said would be irreversible.
The British leader called the referendum in 2013 in a bid to head off pressure from local eurosceptics, including within his own party. Initially billed as an easy ride, the vote has now put his political future on the line. Party ally Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who became the most recognisable face of the “leave” camp, is now widely tipped to seek his job.
Opinion polls had see-sawed throughout the four-month campaign, but the Remain camp edged ahead last week after a pro-EU member of parliament, Jo Cox, was shot and stabbed to death.
In the end though, the pro-EU camp was powerless to stop a tide of anti-establishment feeling and disenchantment with a Europe that many Britons see as remote, bureaucratic and mired in permanent crises.
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Many (but not all) use GML as a data format.
- good to have SVG view?
Mind Mapping is a subset.
Piddle is is a Python module for creating two-dimensional graphics in a manner that is both cross-platform and cross-media; that is, it can support screen graphics (e.g. Quick Draw, Windows, Tk) as well as file output (PostScript, PDF, GIF, etc.).
Mathematica and its clones
- looks like a Flash app, but does have export of JPEG/PNG/SVG
- hey, it actually does connecting vectors that move with either end! (Unfortunately they're right-angled, not pretty curves.)
TouchGraph: for rendering, not editing
- what does The Brain use for WebApp? It's not Flash (in Feb'2013)
- http://raphaeljs.com/ SVG
- ProtoVis http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/
- CoffeePhysics http://badassjs.com/post/18503583619/coffeephysics-a-fast-new-physics-engine-written-in
- http://bl.ocks.org/rkirsling/5001347 editor
- Software Galaxies code-dependencies viewer https://github.com/anvaka/pm/tree/master/about#software-galaxies-documentation
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SMM, the new tool in the organization arena has shown a promising rise, the recent years. The web world is going gaga over it & Social media has shown a one hundred% higher lead-to-close rate than outbound marketing. Now almost 84% of B2B marketers use social media in some form or the other. No matter what you sell and who your target audience is,, using social media as a advertising and marketing tool is a certain shot way to you grow your brand!
Not getting an active social media presence is kind of like living in the ancient occasions. Folks may perhaps ask what is social media advertising and marketing going to do for me? Do I seriously need it? Yes. Yes you do just check out the motives why:
Enhanced Web Visitors
Social media posts can drive targeted visitors. Making a new web page on your internet site, landing pages, properly-placed social media posts can make all the distinction. A single link on Reddit or hyperlinks submitted to StumbleUpon can transform a web page from a handful of visitors a day to hundreds. Who wouldn’t want to capitalize on that?
Boost Search engine marketing
Social media can boost your site’s Search engine marketing. Search engine crawlers know which pages are regularly earning website traffic and which are just floating out there, forgotten and ignored. Driving visitors to your optimized pages with social media posts will bring about them to climb a great deal more rapidly in the search engine benefits pages (SERPs).
smm panel with Consumers & Sector Leaders
Social media leads to real relationship constructing. Twitter and Instagram advertising can get you free of charge interaction with your client base – you can read their tweets and status updates to get insights into their daily lives like what goods they choose and why and so forth. & maybe you can fine tune your strategy.
You can also use social media as a tool to connect with thought leaders and tastemakers in your space, as effectively as journalists who cover your sector.
Get your message across
As people today view Twitter and Facebook as social networks, not promoting machines they’re significantly less probably to see what you post as promoting and will be much more most likely to hear what you have to say. This translates to significant net visitors when you link to your site and posts that market themselves as your friends and followers share what you have posted.
Targeting and retargeting with Advertisements.
The extremely customizable nature of social media advertisements. like Facebook advertisements, is a single of the causes social media is critical. These advertisements even permit you to target customers by points like place, education level, sector and even purchase history and the pages they’ve liked. You also have to the selection to retarget the users who check out you & even convert them into solid leads and sales.
Get noticed at events
It is less difficult to get noticed at events and even generate earned media coverage with social media posts. At any occasion there is no better way to leverage your presence than with the help of social media.
The feedback you get in the approach of SMM, you will be the very first to know when there are difficulties – and you can take quick measures to resolve them suitable away and customers appreciate companies that respond to customer complaints.
Builds Brand Loyalty
Brand loyalty can be built on a strong social media presence. It has been located that brands with active social media profiles have additional loyal customers. Getting active on social media assists you turn out to be less like a company and a lot more like what you truly are – a unified group of people today who share a vision.
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|Title||Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'Studies of the processes operative in solutions. XXV - The influence of non-electrolytes on solubility. The nature of the processes of dissolution and precipitation' by Henry Edward Armstrong and J Vargas Eyre|
|Description||Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry|
Recommended for publication in Proceedings, although the theoretical part should be shortened.
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1913].
Endorsed on verso as received 21 January 1913.
|Physical description||Standardised form (type C)|
|Related material||DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1913.0024|
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Monique Cotton, Police Communication Director, 509.363.8285
Monday, October 28, 2013 at 1 p.m.
The Spokane Police Department and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office are working to prevent citizens from becoming victims of property crime.
Citizens are encouraged to:
Last week the Spokane Police received 22 reports of garage burglaries while the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office received 13. In 50% of these cases, the garages were left open or unlocked.
Additionally, last week the Spokane Police Department received 117 reports of vehicle prowling. Last week the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office received 41 reports of vehicle prowling. In the majority of these cases doors to vehicles were left unlocked and valuables were left in plain sight.
SPD and SCSO would like to remind you that in many instances, property crimes are preventable crimes. By following the tips listed above, you can help prevent yourself from becoming a victim of property crime.
For in progress crimes and emergencies call 911
To report a non-emergent crime contact:
To provide crime activity or suspect information that doesn't require immediate action contact:
For general police email contact:
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Islamic State in Afghanistan Could Attack US in 6 Months
The US intelligence community has assessed that Islamic State in Afghanistan could have the capability to attack the United States in as little as six months, and has the intention to do so, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Tuesday, October 26.
The remarks by Colin Kahl, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, are the latest reminder that Afghanistan could still pose serious national security concerns for the United States even after it ended its two-decade-old war in defeat in August.
The Taliban, which won the war, are enemies of the Islamic State and have seen its attempts to impose law and order after the US pullout thwarted by suicide bombings and other attacks claimed by Islamic State.
They include bombings targeting the minority Shi'ite sect and even an Islamic State beheading of a member of a Taliban militia force in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Kahl said it was still unclear whether the Taliban has the ability to fight Islamic State effectively following the US withdrawal in August. The United States fought the Taliban as well as striking groups like Islamic State and al Qaeda.
"It is our assessment that the Taliban and ISIS-K are mortal enemies. So the Taliban is highly motivated to go after ISIS-K. Their ability to do so, I think, is to be determined," Kahl said, using an acronym for Islamic State in Afghanistan.
Kahl estimated Islamic State had a "cadre of a few thousand" fighters.
Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi of the new Taliban government has said the threat from Islamic State militants will be addressed. He also said Afghanistan would not become a base for attacks on other countries.
Kahl suggested al Qaeda in Afghanistan posed a more complex problem, given its ties to the Taliban. It was those ties that triggered the US military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001 following al Qaeda's September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The Taliban had harbored al Qaeda leaders.
Kahl said it could take al Qaeda "a year or two" to regenerate the capability to carry out attacks outside of Afghanistan against the United States. (JPost / VFI News)
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Washington, Apr 21(ANI): Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's lack of experience in corporate governance may raise red flags among those who are considering investing in the massive social network, analysts have said.
"He's just a kid. Most people at that age aren't expected to understand corporate governance subtleties. To try to remake him overnight into a corporate executive is a bit of a stretch. He's a kid who is smart and skillful and lucky, but he's not a corporate executive," Fox Business quoted Endpoint Technologies President Roger Kay, as saying.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company's board of directors were just "told, not consulted" on the company's plans to acquire photo-sharing service Instagram for one billion dollars.
"The board is there as a buffer between the investors and management. The board is supposed to give their stamp of approval for major strategic decisions and give investors a greater sense of assurance," Jeffrey Cohn, who advises boards on CEO succession issues, said.
"He's the entrepreneurial startup guy who doesn't think about profits and shareholders. He thinks about the next innovation that keeps his product hot. He's still running the company like it's a startup," Drexel University Finance Professor David Becheraid.
The comments come ahead of the Facebook IPO, which is likely to value the company at up to 100 billion dollars.
Analysts also have legitimate questions about whether or not these corporate governance concerns are making the company's shares more risky.
"If I were looking at it as a long-term holding, I would be concerned. While it's not a near-term issue. You need to discount the company on that issue," publisher of The Boardroom Insider Ralph Ward said. (ANI)
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Our home in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, may sound, when written down, like we’re based in a modern industrial business park environment but it couldn’t be further from the truth. As much a part as Edinburgh City Centre as any other, Edinburgh’s New Town is only new by comparison, it was in fact built and developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. This is why buildings such as ours fit in beautifully with the surroundings and give visitors a taste of elegant architecture and some sterling examples of urban town planning at its finest.
New Town at a Glance
Edinburgh’s New Town is awash with buildings of the neo-classical style, some even complete with Grecian style pillars, decadent high ceilings and friezes and decorative plastering within. Many of the buildings in the area have been modernised on the inside, providing home to busy office workers or redesigned as modern apartments but the exteriors often remain as grandiose as ever.
New Town property is highly sought after and even mews properties, once home to stables and servants, make desirable modern working and living spaces. Building codes ensure that the Georgian feel of New Town is kept perfectly preserved. The cobbled street, ornate pillars and sandstone block facades are kept perfectly intact and even the iron railings around the area have to keep to the code, only being allowed to be painted black.
New Town: A History
Going back to the mid-18th century New Town was nothing but a medieval jungle with a mishmash of narrow streets and tall buildings leading down to the foot of Edinburgh Castle. The population of Edinburgh was growing massively and there was a significant need for better quality homes. Around 60,000 people were stuffed within the walls of the city and it was the partial collapse of one of the tenements in the New Town area which led to action.
In 1766 a competition was held by the City of Edinburgh to develop 100 acres of city-owned land as a residential suburb. The winning bid went to James Craig, just 21 at the time, who designed the grid system well know well, with three main streets, Princes Street, George Street and Queen Street integral to his design. Formal squares sat at either end of his cross-crossed grid: St Andrew’s Square and Charlotte Square.
The development took its time to grow but eventually Craig’s plans came to fruition and though it took 20 years to pay off the cost of building New Town, the results certainly seemed worth it. The architect behind many of the most famous buildings in the area was Scotland’s finest neo-classicist, Robert Adam. Adam designed Charlotte Square in its entirety and though it wasn’t complete until after his death, it bears all the hallmarks of his best work.
Edinburgh New Town is listed, alongside Old Town, as an UNESCO World Heritage site due to its retention of its Georgian character and neo-classical architecture.
Abercromby Place (see photo above), home of the Royal Scots Club, is an exceptional example of the Georgian architecture of Edinburgh’s New Town. More than this, it benefits from a central location which makes it a wonderful place to enjoy the rest of New Town from but also visiting other parts of the city. | <urn:uuid:1b56e72c-f386-455e-80ee-23a3079400b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://royalscotsclub.com/edinburghs-new-town/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.9764 | 694 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Rampant Anti-Semitism Is Flourishing across the World
Sitting in my office almost forty floors above ground level in midtown Manhattan last week, I was astounded to be drawn away from my work by chants of “Free free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Even up in the clouds, the demonstrators’ voices were clear and loud, almost as if they were just outside my window.
Based on the level of violent protests taking place across the globe, the pro-Palestinians in New York seemed comparably tame – yet no less offensive. For if there is any question that chants of “from the river to the sea” are wishful thinking for the annihilation of the Jewish State of Israel, the calls for “Death to Israel” were anything but vague.
Domestically, pro-Palestinians are using Israel’s defensive military incursion into Gaza as an excuse to let loose on the Jews. In San Francisco, 300 anti-Israel protestors surrounded and threatened 30 peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators. In addition to the usual chants, they screamed, “Long live the intifada, we support the intifada,” calling for violent uprising against Israelis.
At a protest this weekend in Los Angeles, what began as a peaceful pro-Israel event escalated as pro-Palestinians attacked the demonstrators, drawing in Federal Homeland Security officers, one of whom was forced to fire a weapon. Farther north in Seattle, signs and chants reflected more of a general hatred of Jews rather than simply protests regarding the current conflict in Gaza. “Zionist Israel = Nazi Germany”; “Palestine screams terror, Israel screams greed”; “AIPAC Supports the Murder of Children”; and a poster depicting a Jew eating a gentile child with a cup of blood on the side are but a few examples of the anti-Semitic displays.
Not to be outdone by their anti-Semitic brethren out west, here on the east coast (aka the other left coast), protests were not limited to the streets of New York. In Philadelphia, a pro-Israel vigil was interrupted by the typical chants for Israel’s destruction, but it was in Boston where things turned physical as a pro-Israel activist was assaulted by a woman shouting "that Muslims and Christians would someday take possession of Jerusalem and that the ‘Jews will go to hell, inshallah [God willing].’”
Alas, the domestic ugliness is in fact tame compared to the violent demonstrations erupting throughout Europe, reminding us that the hatred that led to the Holocaust during World War II remains alive and well. Last week pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Paris led to hundreds of Jews being besieged inside a synagogue while police clashed with the violent extremists; three Jews were hospitalized. While the pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Paris streets outnumbered domestic events, the violence, which the leader of the French ecology party justified, was quite distressing. One reporter stated, “What I have seen today is Arab hatred against Jews. Pure hatred. Right in the middle of Paris. Don’t try to ‘explain’ or ‘understand’, it was hatred, period.”
This past weekend, a rabbi walking to synagogue in Casablanca was badly beaten while his cries for help were ignored by passersby. Earlier this week, neo-Nazi Islamists took to the streets in Frankfurt chanting, “You Jews are beasts.” The police allowed the protestors to use their vehicles and megaphones, purportedly in order to “deescalate” the situation. In London, protestors stood in front of the Israeli embassy and in “blood curdling speeches” compared “Palestine” to Auschwitz and Dachau as “some mocked the Holocaust, others disfigured the Israeli flag, a few screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’, [and] they all called for the destruction of the Jewish state.”
Despite the latest wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, it is important to recognize that anti-Semitic voices are not new. In Europe, anti-Semitism is so pervasive that some are questioning whether Jews even have a future living there. Even before the violent demonstrations in response to Operation Protective Edge, Jews in Europe have been targeted – e.g., the recent murder of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. France is particularly hostile, with 50% of all racist crimes in France motivated by anti-Semitism despite Jews representing 1% of the population.
In the U.S., our college campuses are rampant with anti-Semites making their voices heard. From NYU and Harvard to the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley, it is not uncommon for Jewish students to receive death threats or faux eviction notices while administrators remain silent. Organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and others have been documenting and fighting the growing anti-Israel movements on colleges across the nation while the average American, the mainstream media, and our government take little notice of the dangers this trend poses.
But it is not just colleges that have been infiltrated with anti-Israel views. The mainstream media has been obsessed with demonizing Israel for decades. HonestReporting has been documenting the media bias in reporting on Israel, and it is without question that this bias has helped lead to anti-Israel indoctrination across the globe. As this sickness takes hold in the minds of mostly leftists, the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement is also growing with hate-filled supporters who call for boycotts of Israeli products (reminiscent of those that occurred against Jewish businesses in Europe pre-WWII).
A new Pew Research poll reflects the partisan divide in support for Israel: “the share of Republicans who sympathize more with Israel has risen [since April] from 68% to 73%; 44% of Democrats express more sympathy for Israel than the Palestinians, which is largely unchanged from April (46%).” This is not surprising. Note the cities where anti-Semitic, anti-Israel demonstrations have occurred. They are all in blue states where Jews live and thrive. Sadly, many of those Jews join the Israel-haters with their progressive ideology and politically correct obsessions that lead to anti-Semitic views being not only tolerated, but permitted to flourish.
Not all anti-Semites in the U.S. are peaceful protestors who simply shout hateful speech while encouraging violence. Many are in fact violent. The knockout game involves black youths beating people until they are knocked unconscious. Although little mentioned by the media, Jews have been disproportionately targeted by these haters in cities across the country. And the FBI’s hate crime statistics indicate that Jews are the most targeted faith, constituting 62.4% of victims. By comparison, Muslims constituted 11%. So much for Islamophobia.
In an article entitled “Does Anti-Semitism Threaten American Jews?” Kenneth Marcus of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law observed:
According to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) important new study, there are now one billion adult anti-Semites in the world. As Rabbi Yoffie acknowledges, this is fully a quarter of the world’s adult population. Can American Jewry shrug this off?
As the post-Holocaust taboo against anti-Semitism erodes, the ramifications are troubling. Suppose that one in ten thousand anti-Semites should physically harm or threaten Jews or Jewish institutions in a given year. Under this scenario, serious anti-Semitic incidents would increase to 100,000 per year, even if anti-Semitic attitudes remain constant. In other words, things can get much worse.
While despots around the world murder and maim their citizens with poison gas, torture, and work camps, it is Israel, a democratic, tolerant, and free society, that faces demonization, U.N. and international condemnation, and boycotts. While Jews are a charitable people who have contributed to the advancement of medicine, technology, academia, and the like, hate for them is irrationally exploding worldwide.
The sickness known as Nazi Germany is rearing its ugly head under the guise of pro-Palestinian movements. Despite the fact that it is not state-supported outside Arab lands, as it was during WWII, it is no less dangerous and far more open and pervasive today.
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Many of us have body goals — a certain way we dream of looking, little tweaks we’d love to make here and there, or even people we admire for their physique.
Everyone is different. You may want leaner thighs, six-pack abs, or a more slim waist. The man next to you may want to put more muscle on his body or lose some weight around his stomach.
So the question is, can we achieve these body goals?
Let’s start with the bad news…
Unfortunately, there’s actually no way you can spot-reduce fat. If you want to lose a few centimetres from your waist, you’ll need to shed fat from your whole body to do so.
The waistline (as well as the thighs, butt and arms) is commonly perceived as where many feel they tend to store excess fat. The only way to change this is to invest the time and effort into changing your lifestyle — namely your diet and exercise patterns — to reduce the fat from head to toe.
The good news?
The good news is: you can define your core muscles and sculpt the muscles around your hips so, when you do shed your excess body fat, you’ll have the waistline you’ve been working for!
Here’s an effective three-step approach:
- Start with abdominal exercises which recruit key muscle groups and require serious core control, including squats, deadlifts, lunges and rowing. These will quickly build strength and definition.
- Next, add in some HIIT training, to boost your metabolism and help you shed fat.
- Finally, the cherry on top: targeted ab exercises, including side planks, forearm planks, leg raises and weighted crunches. These movements can give your waistline the definition you’re looking for.
An even more effective strategy…
However, the best strategy for achieving a slim waist is consistently maintaining a healthy, balanced weight and feeling confident and healthy in your own skin. Consistently eating healthily and exercising regularly in ways that make you feel great is key.
Fat deposits around your waist can be caused by many factors: genetics, stress, undereating or overeating, hormonal changes, or even poor quality diet.
Therefore the most effective thing you can do is prioritise wholefoods in your diet, and reduce your intake of processed and refined foods. Focus on including lean proteins, healthy sources of fat, plenty of fibre, and complex carbohydrates each day.
Swap your sugary beverages out for water or herbal tea — this can save so many empty calories throughout your day and is a simple switch to make.
Reducing stress can also help manage excess fat, so schedule in some time for YOU! Plan an activity you love each week, whether that means taking a long, hot bath, or going out for a bushwalk with your friends. Show yourself some love, and take some time out to disconnect and de-stress.
Finally, find an exercise routine that works for you. This can involve some trial and error, but the key is to find something you love and look forward to. This is the workout routine you’ll be able to maintain consistently, and therefore the one that will achieve the best results.
The expert trainers at Fitness First can help you develop a fitness routine that suits your goals and tastes. Get a free five-day trial at your nearest club today to try a bunch of classes and find the right option for you!
The bottom line…
But first and foremost, when you do start to have these all-too-common thoughts about changing your body dramatically, or wanting to look more like others, it’s time to check in with yourself. Where are these thoughts coming from?
Do you really think you’d feel happier if you lost five kilos, if it meant you couldn’t enjoy your favourite foods? Would you feel that much more confident if your waist was two centimetres smaller, even if it involved missing out on socialising with your friends?
The truth is, sometimes the body goals we set for ourselves are unrealistic, and often unhealthy. Everyone is born with a different set of genetics, a different metabolism, and a unique, beautiful body. Instead of scrutinising all the things you hate about your body, try to appreciate all the things it does for you. It’s your home on this earth, it allows you to move and breathe and eat and laugh and connect with others. Enjoy it!
You can’t compare yourself to others — whether it’s your friends or random influencers you see online. You are beautifully individual, and it’s what makes you, YOU.
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Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
The Secret to Unleashing Team Creativity
Getting your team to be more creative can often feel like trying to catch lightening in a bottle. New ideas can’t be churned out on an assembly line like cars or refrigerators, and pushing people to be more creative can often have the opposite effect. A new study co-authored by CEIBS Professor of Management Tae-Yeol Kim provides some insight into the ingredients necessary for stimulating creativity in organizations.
First, managers should ensure that there is enough deep diversity within their team. This means teams should be composed of members who have a variety of different skills, knowledge, perspectives and ways of thinking – what academics also call cognitive diversity. Second, team leaders need to have a clear vision that they share with the team, and be skilled at coordinating different ideas and stimulating intellectual curiosity within the group. This is called transformational leadership, and it is an important motivational force for enhancing creativity and ensuring that people work happily together, particularly when they have diverse ideas and approaches. Professor Kim says that when cognitive diversity and transformational leadership are combined, his study showed that team members are stimulated by the exposure to diverse perspectives and enjoy working together in a way that brings out their creativity more organically.
For their study the researchers surveyed 346 member-team leader pairs at 62 R&D teams in 14 organizations across various industries in South Korea. Team leaders were asked to rate their team members’ creativity on scale of 1 (poorly) to 7 (very much) by responding to questions such as “Our team enjoys finding solutions to complex problems”. The questionnaire given to team members asked them to assess their teams’ cognitive diversity, motivation, and the transformational leadership behaviour of their leaders with questions that were similarly designed.
The results have been published by the Journal of Business Research in a paper titled “Cognitive Diversity and Team Creativity: Effects of Team Intrinsic Motivation”. Professor Kim’s co-authors are Xiao-Hua (Frank) Wang of the School of Business, Renmin University of China and Deog-Ro Lee of the School of Business, Seowon University.
Read the paper here.
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Effects of composition of exposed atmosphere on the “fizz” created in soda.
The following experimental design is about the effects of the composition of the air around the soda to the “fizz” effect created by the exposure of soda to the air. The bubbly sound produced when a soda can or bottle is opened is due to the release of carbon dioxide pressurized inside the bottle to add froth to the taste of soda. (Lal, 2010) This is achieved by the process of carbonation performed on water and carbon dioxide. (Bryner, 2013)The normal event happens in normal breathable atmosphere and the outcome of that event is that the CO2 is released in the air. If the bottle of soda is kept stable for a longer amount of time, the soda would become “flat” and the froth subsides after some time. (Panthi, 2003)This experiment will delve into the possibilities of difference in the composition of the atmosphere and its effect on the “fizz” effect normally created by its exposure to air. It is necessary to know the effects of different compositions for possible safety measures or informative purposes.
1. The effect of different temperatures on the fizz effect of soda.
2. The effect of vacuum on soda
3. The effect of soda on metals
I predict that the atmosphere around the soda will affect the “fizz” effect of soda.
This idea was discussed by me with people at home, two of my friends an individual from a scientific background who is a family friend. The family members at home did not have much idea about the experiment and its necessities and outcomes but they showed encouragement about the project. Both of my friends thought the primary subject of the experiment was interesting and practical. The family friend showed particular interest in the project and also described about a similar experiment which he had conducted in the past.
The objective of the experiment is to test the effect of change in atmosphere composition to the “fizz” effect in the soda. For testing that, it is difficult to expose an entire room to certain gases at this level. So the method to be adapted here is that the effect of atmosphere composition will be checked by putting soda into a beaker which is kept inside a container filled with ice. This will give us an idea about the effect of cold gases on the fizz of soda. The objective behind this is to replicate an environment of cold gases around the soda and derive conclusions from the result.
Steps of the Experiment
Two solutions will have to be prepared which are a M/100 HCl solution and NaOH solution. It is advised to take 10 ml of the HCL solution in a conical flask and 1 drop of phenolphthalein is to be added and it is to be titrated against the NaOH solution for the analysis of its molarity.
The next step is to a take a chilled soda bottle and pour 200 ml of the soda into a beaker and place the beaker quickly into an ice filled external container(trough)
Now the soda water is to be stirred and the point of time when the bubbles stop releasing from soda, the temperature is to be measured.
A burette is to be cleaned and and rinsed with the NaOH solution prepared Earlier. Now the burette is to be clamped and filled with NaOH solution. The air bubble is to be removed and the level is to be brought up to the zero mark.
20 ml of soda is to be extracted out of the beaker with the help of a pipette and poured into a conical flask. 2 drops of phenolphthalein are to be added to this flask and it has to be titrated quickly before the solution warms up. When the end point has been reached, the amount of NaOH solution used is to be noted.
• The room temperature
• Ratio of carbon dioxide in the soda
• Air composition
• The amount of NaOH to be mixed into the solution
• Amount of soda inside the solution
It is not an experiment with possibly dangerous outcomes so a control group is not necessary for observation or regulation.
• The temperature of ice used in the experiment
• The actual room temperature of the experiment
• The “fizz” of the soda will deplete at a speed which can be observed at a normal room temperature.
• The “fizz” will stop beforehand showing a change.
• The soda water will change color and stop freezing.
Time Taken for the Fizz to deplete Condition
3 minutes 20 seconds Room Temperature
2 minutes 50 seconds 1st Trial
1 minute 20 seconds Final Trial
The recorded time taken in the fizz dying out is very fast compared to the time in room temperature. The plot of concentration based on sodium hydroxide also supports the final result of the experiement.
These results clearly indicate that the solubility of carbon dioxide decreases in water with an impact of temperature change due to over carbonated water. This conclusion can be used to derive the conclusion that under the influence of cold gases the “fizz” found in carbonated water will breakdown quickly under the influence of ice.
The results from the experiment support the hypothesis completely.
Due to the freezing effects of ice, it can be fairly concluded that “fizz” effect dies when kept in a controlled environment. This controlled environment was created to derive conclusion about the breakdown of carbonated water under cold gases. The quick depletion of the “fizz” effect indicates that the particles stopped moving fast inside the soda and the carbon dioxide couldn’t escape from the soda.
The fact that the project could achieve a conclusion which could normally be achieved after efforts of larger scale is the true strength of the process. The apparatus for this experiment can be obtained from any chemistry lab.
The difficulties were faced in conducting the experiment as some activities needed to be done at the right time and to move the soda was not advisable and made it flat quickly which gave incorrect results and I was force to run a second trial to achieve the results.
This process can be made better by further simplifying the process and making measurement easy.
Bryner, M. (2013, 2 13). Why Does Soda Fizz? Retrieved 11 30, 2014, from www.livescience.com: http://www.livescience.com/32492-why-does-soda-fizz.html
Lal, M. (2010). Lab Maual and Projects in chemistry. New Delhi: VK Enterprises.
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The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside.
The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level. Multiple Grammy Award winning saxophonist Michael Brecker
Victor Wooten has been doing things on the bass that nobody dreamed of, and we bass players can't help but hunger for some insight into what inspires him and how he does it. Here, as in his music, he surprises us and gives us more depth than we expected, more of himself than many would dare. This is his journey, his mystical quest, not merely to play the bass but to fully encounter and understand Music itself. Tony Levin, World Class Bassist with the Peter Gabriel Band
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In the Old Testament, God is unique, sovereign, and unchanging. He differs from Greek gods, whose faults and quarrels cause events. His unchanging nature is hinted at by his names. In biblical Hebrew, God is called “YAHWEH,” meaning “to be.” This title is similar to the title God uses with Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” However, the God presented in Old Testament does contradict himself at times. In the course of two chapters in Exodus, God threatens to destroy the Israelites, relents, and then pronounces himself loving, forgiving, and slow to anger. God grants himself the power of self-description; he is whoever he says he is.
Each biblical writer gives God human characteristics. For example, God speaks. We do not know how his listeners recognize that it is he who is speaking or what he sounds like, but God certainly embraces the ability to articulate his intentions through the human convention of language. Also, God assumes human form. He appears as an angel, as a group of three men, and as a mysterious army commander. In a sense, God takes on human qualities like a costume that can also be taken off, since his specific appearances do not offer a complete picture of him. Still, these manifestations suggest that there is a fundamental humanity to the personality of the Hebrew God. God casually walks in the garden with Adam and Eve. He even physically wrestles Jacob and allows Jacob to beat him. These humble and endearing qualities of God contrast his later appearances as a pillar of fire and a thunderous mountain. The more extreme manifestations are, like the human manifestations, only a part of God’s character rather than his sole mode of existence.
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KEY STAGE 4 ARABIC GCSE
KEY STAGE 4 ARABIC GCSE 2017
COURSE CODE 1AA0
LEVEL 1/2 (FOUNDATION & HIGHER TIER)
Availability UK & International
SKILLS – LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING, WRITING
Key stage 4 Arabic aims to enable students to develop their ability to communicate confidently developing language-learning skills that will prepare them for further language study. Also, it provides awareness and understanding of the culture and identity of the countries and communities where the language is spoken.
This may be adapted depending on the number of lessons per week, the duration of each lesson and how many years the student is taking the lessons. There may occasionally be some overlap of topics depending on when a student starts lessons and the material or resource being used at any given time. There are also topics within topics time and scope permitting.
KS4 ARABIC CONTENT GUIDE
*Areas may overlap with topics studied at Key Stage 3.
Years 10 and 11:
Topics: Family and friends, what makes a good friend, relationships, physical descriptions, personality, role models, talking about childhood. Grammar: Present and past tense regular verbs. Personal, attached and hidden pronouns. Adjectives.
Topics: Sport, music, reading, film and television
Grammar: Present and Past Tense continued. Effects of the Preposition.
Topics: Festivals and celebrations, food, clothing, daily life
Grammar: Present and Past Tense continued. Definite and indefinite articles.
Topics: Where you live, transport, places in town, weather, ideal towns, taking action to improve where you live
Grammar: Present and Past Tense continued. Subject and Predicate.
Topics: Countries, past, future and ideal holidays, hotels and restaurants
Grammar: Present and Past Tense continued. The annexation of nouns.
Topics: Describing your school, subjects, comparing between countries, school rules, making the most of education. Grammar: The imperative.
Topics: Jobs, career paths, ambitions, using languages in a career, interviews
Grammar: Agreement of demonstration and relative pronouns.
Topics: The planet, protecting the environment, concerns, volunteering, global ethics
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The comic Anthony Jeselnik tells this joke about his girlfriend and her love of chocolate:
My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She’s always eating chocolate. She likes to joke she’s got a chocolate addiction. Like, “keep me away from those chocolate bars, Anthony, I’m addicted to ‘em!” And it is really annoying. So I put her in a car and took her down town. And I pointed out a crack addict. And I said, “you see that honey? Why can’t you be that skinny?”
Everything (including Jeselnik’s deadly serious tone) leads us to believe that he’s driven his girlfriend down town and is pointing out an emaciated crack addict so that she can appreciate what genuine addiction looks like, as opposed to her “joke” addiction. We assume (we can hardly help but assume) that he’s going to end the sequence by saying something like “you see that honey. That’s what real addiction looks like”. We may not come up with the exact words, or any words at all, but we have a pretty good (and entirely false) idea of how the story ends.
Our brains have sped ahead, during the pause between the penultimate line, in entirely the wrong direction. Jeselnick was showing his girlfriend an emaciated crack addict not as a solemn warning about the seriousness of addiction, but simply so that he can tell her that she looks fat. The result, presumably, of all the chocolate she’s been eating.
It’s the comedy equivalent of a “dummy” in sports: giving your opponent enough false signals to convince them to move off in the wrong direction. E.g. in Rugby Union (as described by BBC Sport):
You must fool your opponent into believing you are actually about to make the pass… The defender will be drawn to your team-mate – the target of the intended “pass”… Sprint into the space you have just created.
The “dummy” and Jeselnik’s “chocolate addiction” joke have the same logical structure as Operation Mincemeat, an Allied disinformation operation in World War 2, which was recounted in the 1956 film The Man Who Never Was. The body of a homeless man was dressed as a Royal Marine officer and set adrift off the coast of southern Spain. He was carrying fake documents which suggested to German Intelligence that the Allies’ plan was to invade Germany and Sardinia, rather than Sicily (which was invaded by the Allies in 1943).
In the foreword to the book The Man Who Never Was by Ewan Montagu, the originator of the plan, Lord Ismay, who served as Churchill’s chief military assistant during the war, says:
To mystify and mislead the enemy has always been one of the cardinal principles of war. Consequently, ruses de guerre of one kind of another have played a part in almost every campaign since the episode of the Trojan horse, or perhaps even earlier. The game has been played for so long that it is not easy to think out new methods of disguising one’s strength or one’s intentions.
In this case, says Ismay, “The operation succeeded beyond our wildest dreams… even to the extent of sending German vessels away from Sicily itself”. The Allies sprinted into the space they’d created. The same dynamic is at play: misdirection, movement (of the opponent’s body / enemy forces / audience’s brain) in the wrong direction, victory.
Jeselnik’s punchline in the chocolate addiction joke is his invasion of Sicily: it’s where he was headed all along. The way he misdirects the audience away from the actual endpoint towards a false assumption can be seen in the way the joke discreetly shifts in its references, from chocolate to addiction.
The top half of the joke is thick with references to his girlfriend eating chocolate. Once this idea of his girlfriend’s love of chocolate has been hammered home, Jeselnik moves away from it — as his girlfriend says: “keep me away from those chocolate bars”. This dummying movement “away” from chocolate towards addiction is reinforced in the narrative by Jeselnik actually getting in a car and driving away from the chocolate bars: he physically shifts her (and the gravitational centre of the joke) “down town” to the crack addicts. Which is where he wants our brains.
The biggest misdirection of the joke is the innocuous sounding line in the middle: “And it really is annoying”. This is the big lie, the annoyance that never was. Jeselnik isn’t “really” annoyed by his girlfriend’s pantomime addiction to chocolate. He’s “really” annoyed by her weight gain.
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Greg Margolis is a 64 year old semi retired paralegal worker who has lived in Portland for 30 years. He is a long time member of Portland Jobs with Justice, Co-chair of JWJ Global Justice and Trade Committee, a member of the Jobs With Justice Executive Board, and is also active with many other social justice groups. He says “I support immigrant rights because my grandparents were immigrants and at one time so were the ancestors of most Americans. I do not believe any human being should be criminalized for merely crossing an arbitrary border. I also believe that our governmental policies have been responsible for expanding the need for migration especially from Mexico as a result of the NAFTA “free” trade agreement. This agreement allowed major American agricultural conglomerates to undersell Mexican farmers by removing tariffs and subsidizing these huge corporations with American tax payer money. As a result some 2 million agricultural workers in Mexico lost their ability to make a living farming and were forced to migrate here to make money to feed their families.”
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Twitter’s pick to stop the spread of misinformation in times of crisis has a history of pushing falsehoods.
Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter’s safety and integrity unit, unveiled the site’s "crisis misinformation policy" on Thursday. In a blog post, Roth outlined how Twitter will place warning labels on tweets deemed to contain misinformation and prevent them from being "amplified or recommended" in times of armed conflict, natural disasters, or public health emergencies.
Roth is a questionable pick to launch the policy, given his own track record with misinformation. Roth oversaw Twitter’s decision to block the sharing of an October 2020 New York Post report on emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. Roth told the Federal Election Commission he made the decision based on "rumors" shared by the United States government’s intelligence community that the Russian government might release materials hacked from Hunter Biden.
There has been no credible evidence that Biden’s laptop was hacked, or that Russia played a role in publishing emails from it. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later admitted that blocking the article was "a total mistake."
Roth came under fire earlier in 2020 for referring to Trump officials as "actual Nazis" in a 2017 tweet. He also called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) a "bag of farts."
Twitter is rolling out the policy amid a period of uncertainty for the company. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is seeking to buy the company, has stated his opposition to censorship on the site. He has also said Twitter has "a strong left wing bias."
The Twitter policy also comes as the federal government falters in its efforts to combat misinformation. The Department of Homeland Security scrapped its proposed Disinformation Governance Board this week following revelations that its executive director, Nina Jankowicz, pushed conspiracy theories about both the Biden laptop and claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Jankowicz officially resigned her post Wednesday.
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Originally published in 1936, this book deals with the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with any English hospital and their mysterious author, Johannes de Mirfeld. Hartley and Aldridge provide the original Latin text of all of Mirfeld's works, along with an English translation on each facing page. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medical history.
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- Date Published: September 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107686052
- length: 218 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.28kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. The life of Johannes de Mirfield
2 Johannes de Mirfield as a medical writer
Part II. The Breviarium Bartholomei:
1. Introductory remarks
2. Proemium, Latin, English translation
3. De signis malis, Latin, English translation
4. Chapter: De ptisi, Latin, English translation
5. Pulvis pro instrumento bellico (gunpowder), Latin, English translation
6. Emplastrum Batholomei, Latin, English translation
7. De ponderibus et mensuris, Latin, English translation
8. Epilogue, Latin, English translation.
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What can governmental agencies do to help us live in harmony with our desert environment for generations to come? Meet civic staff whose work aims to ensure a sustainable future.
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Knowing where to drill is a million dollar question for the oil and gas industry. Seismic exploration is one way that the energy industry can determine where commercially viable energy stores are to be found.
From Oil and Gas Lawyers:
A seismic survey is conducted by creating a shock wave – a seismic wave – on the surface of the ground along a predetermined line, using an energy source. The seismic wave travels into the earth, is reflected by subsurface formations, and returns to the surface where it is recorded by receivers called geophones – similar to microphones. The seismic waves are created either by smalle xplosive charges set off in shallow holes (“shot holes“) or by large vehicles equipped with heave plates (“Veibroseis” trucks) that vibrate on the ground. By analyzing the time it takes for the seismic waves to reflect off of subsurface formations and return to the surface, a geophysicist can map subsurface formations and anomalies and predict where oil or gas may be trapped in sufficient quantities for exploration activities.
Texas-based company Dawson Geophysical is using orthomosaics and elevation models generated from aerial imagery, using SimActive’s Correlator3D, to aid in planning of seismic surveys: one more way that drones are proving invaluable tools in the oil and gas industry.
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“SimActive’s software allows our company to survey hundreds of square miles at a much faster pace”, said Christopher Lindsey, Technical Services Manager at Dawson Geophysical. “This enables us to be more accurate, time-efficient out in the field, and to produce map products that our whole company can use.”
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What is Messianic Judaism? Is this something we should understand? Should we follow Messianic Judaism? Where did this concept originate? Where did this appellation come from?
Recently we answered a letter questioning us on the use of the name Yeshua for the Savior. Respectfully we answered the letter and posted the results in The Hawke File. Apparently, we did not answer this letter exactly as the writer intended. Consequently, we received some caustic remarks. The writer was appalled at our attitude towards Messianic Jews! Are the Messianic Jews seeking Salvation, or do they already have Salvation?
Because if you confess that Yahshua is Sovereign with your mouth, and believe in your heart that Yahweh raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.
For the Scripture says, "Everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame." [Isa. 28:16]
For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Master of all is rich toward all the ones calling on Him.
For everyone, "whoever may call on the name of Yahweh will be saved." [Joel 2:32]
How then may they call on One into whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without preaching?
And how may they preach if they are not sent? Even as it has been written, "How beautiful" "the feet of those preaching the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things." [Isa. 52:7] Romans 10:9-15
"Behold, "your house is left to you desolate." [Jer. 22:5]
For I say to you, In no way shall you see Me from now on, until you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of Yahweh." [Psa. 118:26] Matthew 23:38-39
Several passages came to mind upon receiving this letter. One of the first was Yahshua's statement in Mark 12:24
Yahshua said unto them, "Is it not for this cause that you err, that you know not the scriptures..."
How do you tell someone that their Scriptural intellect is lacking? We try to be kind here at Truth On The Net, but sometimes a no-nonsense assessment and reply becomes necessary!
We take great precautions in being absolutely correct concerning the names Of Yahweh and Yahshua. This web site is replete with information on the true names of the Father and the Son! It is absolutely necessary to be correct concerning this teaching!
What about Messianic Judaism? What is the purpose? We remember when the Jews for JC began making the rounds. What was their purpose? Taking the name of J-s-s to the Jewish people. There was something very wrong with this idea! Can you see what that might be? How can you take the name of a Greek idol to the Jewish people and say; here is your Salvation? Perhaps they should have used the name Zeus instead? Would any good Jewish person accept a pagan idol for their salvation? I really don't think so! J-s-s is the name of the Ch--stian savior! Notice I said the Ch--stian savior? Because? This most certainly is not the Jewish Savior's name!
"And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved." Acts 4:12
And? Just what name is that? If there is only ONE NAME given to be saved in? Which one would you choose? The Greek? Or, the Jew?
"You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews." John 4:22
Yes! Salvation is of the Jews! But? Does that mean every Jew has Salvation? Does that mean because you were born a Jew you automatically are entitled to Salvation? No! Absolutely not!!!
"Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that Yahweh is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." Matthew 3:9-9
There is a certain criteria that must be followed to obtain Salvation! Do we have Salvation immediately when we find Messiah's Name? No! There are many things between us and the Kingdom of the Heavens!
But he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved. Matthew 24:13
He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieves shall be condemned. Mark 16:16
Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, Yahweh. But if you want to enter into life, keep the mitzvot."
He said to him, "Which ones?" Yahshua said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'
'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"
Yahshua said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions. Matthew 19:16-22
What do we lack? There is more to Salvation than meets the eye. Working on your own Salvation requires a lot of hard work. Changing from carnal to spiritual requires much change.
Why the name of Yeshua? Is this a true form of the Savior's name? Or; is this a more palatable form? If you combine the names of J-s-s and Yahshua using certain parts you can arrive at the name Yeshua! Take the JE from J-s-s and combine it with SHUA and you have this hybrid name! Yeshua has no meaning where salvation is concerned. Some will state that this form of the Savior's name is from the Aramaic! Is this true? However! This becomes a form that some Jewish people can accept! It takes away the paganism of the Greek idol and employs a Jewish term for salvation/saves! Thus the Messianic Jews can save many in this acceptable but erroneous name! But? Are they really saving anyone in the name of Yeshua? Remember how the name Jehovah came about?
The Usage of Jehovah Came From Catholicism
by Dan Corner
Yet a different piece of Watchtower literature states the same embarrassing information about the word Jehovah, but elaborates as to its Catholic origin in 1270:
By combining the vowel signs of 'Adho.nay and 'Elo.him' with the four consonants of the Tetragrammaton the pronunciations Yeho.wah' and Yehowih' were formed. The first of these provided the basis for the Latinized form "Jehova(h)." The first recorded use of this form dates from the thirteenth century C.E. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican Order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270. Hebrew scholars generally favor "Yahweh" as the most likely pronunciation.(6)
Please note: Hebrew scholars generally favor "Yahweh" as the most likely pronunciation.
Bruce Metzger, who criticizes the KJV's misusage of Jehovah, gives additional information:(7)
The form "Jehovah" is of late medieval origin; it is a combination of the consonants of the Divine Name and the vowels attached to it by the Masoretes but belonging to an entirely different word .... (1) The word "Jehovah" does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew. (2) The use of any proper name for the one and only G-d, as though there were other g-ds from whom the true G-d had to be distinguished, began to be discontinued in Judaism before the Chr--tian era and is inappropriate for the universal faith of the Chr--tian Ch--ch.(8)
The name of Jehovah is an erroneous form of the name of Yahweh! The name Yeshua is an erroneous form of the name Yahshua! Let's review some very relevant information! Let's obtain some background on Messianic Judaism!
Messianic Judaism is any of a group of loosely related religious movements, all claiming a connection with Judaism, and all of which consider J-s-s to have been the Messiah.
Messianic Judaism began in the 1800's, as Jewish converts to the Ch--ch of England began to organize into smaller groups. This was paralleled by a growth of missions to the Jewish people. By the 1860's, the first Messianic umbrella organization, the Hebrew Ch--stian Alliance, had been formed through the Ch--ch of England with the primary goal of evangelizing the Jewish people.
Beliefs and practice range from evangelical Ch--stianity to close to Orthodox Judaism, while accepting J-s-s to be the Messiah (and G-d) and using the New Testament as scripture. The groups range from those comprised mostly of Jews to those which are mostly gentile in membership; the majority are mixed. While the controversial group Jews for J-s-s espouses the Messianic beliefs, Jews for J-s-s is an evangelical organization, not a religion or a denomination. Its stated aims are to educate Evangelical Ch--stians concerning the Jewish origins of their Ch--stian faith, and to convert Jews to Ch--stianity.
Most Jewish converts to Ch--stianity do not consider themselves "Messianic Jews". Protestant and Catholic ch--ches may have Jewish converts among their members, but these members self-identify as Ch--stians. They also sometimes are referred to as Jewish Ch--stians, Hebrew Ch--stians, or Ch--stian Jews. The term "Messianic Jew" is used only to refer to those affiliated with organizations or congregations that claim to be specifically part of the self-described Messianic Jews movement.
Messianic Jews commonly use the name Yeshua, which may have been J-s-s' Hebrew or Aramaic name. Some Messianic Jews do not consider themselves "Ch--stians" (although by definition, they are), preferring to call themselves Messianic or "Torah-Observant" Jews. The vast majority of Jews, however, find the latter label a misnomer and highly offensive.
Messianic Judaism Definition:
It has also been my understanding that Chr--tians wanted to convert Jewish people to their religion. The true religion was taken over by the Roman Catholic Ch--ch during the early centuries since Yahshua's death. I really do not totally agree with the term "Messianic Jew". Who is a Jew anyway? I think the term True Believers would be more applicable.
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from Yahweh. Romans 2:28-29
The Jewish people must come to the understanding of exactly who the Messiah really is! Is the Messiah a concept or figment of Chr--tianity using a Greek appellation? No! The Messiah was of the tribe of Judah! He was a Jew by birth! He was King of the Jews!
The writer goes on to give us their pedigree. Stating their Jewish roots and Catholic upbringing, they claim to be saved by water baptism. What name were they baptized in? Doesn't say. Baptism alone does not save you! Being a Jew alone does not entitle you to salvation. But, does pedigree really matter? Does your ethnicity really matter?
There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for you all are one in Messiah Yahshua.
And if ye are Messiah's, then are you Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:28-29
Let's do the Math as they say. Starting from the beginning. There was Adam, there was Eve. One man, one woman. Continuing down through history as the Bible teaches it, we come to Abraham. Abraham was called a Hebrew. Yet reference to being the seed of Abraham appears many times in the Bible. The descendants of Abraham. The children of Abraham. Abraham, the friend of Yahweh! But we do not find the term, Abraham the Jew! The tribe of Judah did not make its' appearance until the time of Jacob the Patriarch. Judah was one of twelve sons. However, the tribe of Judah was selected to be the progenitor of King David and ultimately The Messiah Yahshua! Special? Yes indeed!
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no man has given attendance at the altar.
For it is evident that our Savior has sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. Hebrews 7:12-14
The tribe of Judah was selected for the change concerning the priesthood. The change from Levitical to Melchizedek was complete in Yahshua. Is this making any sense to you? So? Does it really matter which tribe you were descended from? How many are selected in Revelation chapter seven? From which tribes are they selected?
"And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel." Revelation 7:4
Selected for what?
And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These, the ones having been clothed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?
And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.
Because of this they are before the throne of Yahweh, and serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He sitting on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them. Revelation 7:13-15
The letter continues with " I heard the audible voice of the Heavenly Father." This instructed the writer to get in touch with their Jewish roots. What is wrong with this statement can be seen in:
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. John 5:37
So! For this person to have heard the Fathers voice is in fact, impossible!
The writer continues with, "In 1991 (I) became a Messianic Rabbi." What is wrong with this statement? See for yourself!
But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Messiah, and all of you are brothers. Matthew 23:8
Yahshua the Messiah is our "Rabbi."
The writer continues, "However, I do take offence when you announce in a public forum that I am "seeking salvation", when I have been teaching, preaching and winning souls for the Kingdom the past 24 years."
But seek first the kingdom of Yahweh and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:33
That they should seek Yahweh, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. Acts 17:27
"Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man." Luke 21:36
We are all seeking to be found worthy. We want to be able to stand in His presence acquitted of all sins against us through the blood of the Lamb. Just because we use the Messiah's name does not guarantee us anything. Just because we teach in Yahshua's name, does not grant us any special recognition!
Not every one that says to me, Master, Master, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Master, Master, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by your name do many mighty works?
And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. Matthew 7:21-23
These knew the Master's name! These prophesied/taught in the master's name! Even casting out demon's in the master's name! But, they were workers of iniquity! They did not obey all of the laws, statutes and ordinances contained in the Holy Word! These were not in total obedience to the word of Yahweh! (Revelation 12:17 & 14:12)
The writer concludes with, "I can't help but wonder after seeing that your definition of "Messianic" is so off what else in your theology is in error."
First, we do not use the term theology for doctrinal teachings. Second... Oh! By the way? Did I tell you the writer was a woman? Does that matter? Only if you consider what she wrote!
"I have been teaching, preaching and winning souls for the Kingdom the past 24 years." She writes.
Now what is wrong with that? Consider the following passages, and you tell me!
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
but (which becomes women professing holiness) through good works.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety. 1 Timothy 2:9-15
A woman must remain quiet in the Assembly gatherings. A woman is not allowed to teach in the Assembly! Therefore a woman "Rabbi" is not scriptural! Orthodox Synagogues do not allow women to teach from the Bimah if they are strict. The priesthood of the OT consisted of men only to minister at the altar. The people selected by Yahshua the Messiah to preach the message of Salvation were men! The Apostles were men! The 70 were men! The Apostle Paul was told to ordain Elders in every city, and these were men! No; we are not misogynists here at Truth On The Net! However, we are Bible believers!
I will end here! More to be said on Messianic Judaism. Stay with us!
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Yours in Yahshua, Hawke
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One of the common explanations of the miraculous Creation, as many understand Genesis 1 to mean, is that God ignored natural laws/natural order along the same lines as the Resurrection, although we have two very different things there. This discounts all of the theories (facts) about the speed of light, the size of the universe and other such things which must be denied in attempting to prove that the 6-Day interpretation is the only inerrant interpretation of Genesis 1. In essence, they see to frame a literal interpretation of Creation as a miracle, something that is not actually seen in Scripture. Further, they require that God bend, break or destroy natural laws, such as the speed of light, in order to hold to their theories.
God says otherwise:
|35 Thus said the LORD, Who established the sun for light by day, The laws of moon and stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea into roaring waves, Whose name is LORD of Hosts:|
36 If these laws should ever be annulled by Me — declares the LORD — Only then would the offspring of Israel cease To be a nation before Me for all time. – JPS
|35 It is the LORD who provides the sun to light the day and the moon and stars to light the night, and who stirs the sea into roaring waves. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, and this is what he says:|
36 “I am as likely to reject my people Israel as I am to abolish the laws of nature!” – NLT
|35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name:|
36 “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the LORD, “Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” – NASB
So, unless you decide that God can only be speaking after the Creation, or some other excuse for not reading the text ‘plain’, one must conclude that due to measuring the speed of light, the universe is older than 6000 years…. way, way older.
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Turkey, Russia should resolve tensions with mutual dialogue: Foreign Office
He said the tensions must be tone down through dialogue
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday expressed concerns on the ongoing tensions between Turkey and Russia and said that both countries should hold dialogues to tone down tensions, Dunya News reported.
In a press briefing, Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said that Pakistan has concerns over tensions between Turkey and Russia. He said the tensions must be tone down through dialogue adding that Pakistan is desirous of peaceful solution through dialogue.
Talking about executions of opposition leaders in Bangladesh, Khalilullah said Bangladesh should respect the three-party agreement of 1974. He said Pakistan will summon Bangladeshi High Commissioner in Pakistan to protest summoning of Pakistani High Commissioner in Bangladesh.
The FO spokesman said the motives and details behind the executions of Jamaat Islami leaders will also be discussed.
Talking about the rising Islamophobia after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, he said it is not appropriate to link terrorism in France with Islam, adding that the international community should take notice of attacks on Muslims.
Turkey shoots down Russian warplane
Turkey said it shot down the Russian warplane after it repeatedly violated air space above the Turkish border. Moscow however insists that the plane never strayed from Syrian air space.
Erdogan said that the incident early on Tuesday showed "what kind of consequences careless steps could have". He revealed that two Turkish citizens were wounded by pieces of the Russian plane that fell on the Turkish side of the border.
The president dismissed Russian claims that the plane had been on an anti-terror mission against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in northern Syria, saying that the area was populated by Syria s Turkmen minority.
Pakistan on Sunday had expressed deep concern and anguish over the unfortunate executions of Bangladesh National Party leaders Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mojaheed.
In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah said Pakistan is deeply disturbed at this development.
The spokesperson said Pakistan has also been noting the reaction of the international community on the flawed trials in Bangladesh related to the events of 1971.
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Hyperventilation (respiratory alkalosis) is an important treatment for persistent pulmonary hypertension in neonates. The precise way that hyperventilation attenuates hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction is unclear. We studied the effect of alkalosis on hypoxia-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction in 13 acutely instrumented, pentobarbital anesthetized, neonatal lambs. We specifically examined the relative effects of a metabolic alkalosis versus a respiratory alkalosis on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and compared these results to the control response to hypoxia without alkalosis. Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction was significantly milder whenever the animal was alkalotic, regardless of whether the alkalosis was respiratory or metabolic. Thus, the elevated pH, rather than decreased Paco2 during hyperventilation appears to be the major factor in moderating the response of the pulmonary vessels to acute hypoxia in this neonatal lamb, model. © 1985 International Pediatric Research Foundation, Inc. | <urn:uuid:4dffec0e-7ef4-4cf1-aa84-f5127877ad88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.uab.edu/display/pub1233190 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.87915 | 209 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Some influential global leaders have confirmed participation in the Women Deliver’s third global conference, Women Deliver 2013, scheduled to take place from May 28 to 30 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Women Deliver 2013 is expected to convene over 5 000 experts and advocates from more than 160 countries.
The conference aims to ensure that investment in girls and women remain a global priority in the lead-up to the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline and beyond.
Speakers at the conference will include: Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director of United Nations Women, Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Michel Sidibé, executive director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids), Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, Dr. Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, and Karolinska Institute; Co-founder & Chairman, Gapminder Foundation.
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The Beatles thrilled young America with a landmark television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964.
Days later, Donald Sommer, then 20, started as an apprentice tool and die maker at Tottser Tool & Manufacturing, earning $1.50 an hour.
At 70, he is still working there - although his pay has gone up considerably.
"When you have four kids, every morning they want milk and cereal, so you better have a job and you better stick with it," Sommer said recently, as metal stamping machines in the Huntingdon Valley manufacturing firm thumped in agreement.
"But I liked this job on the first day and I still like it now," he said.
Which is why he is still working, even as, year after year, he mulls the idea of retirement.
"My biggest fear is that I'll be bored to death," he said at first, then amended, "My biggest fear is that my wife and I will argue all day."
For 50 years, Sommer has reported to work, and the world changed as he labored at his bench.
"In 1964, there were so many tool and die shops, I could have gone anywhere," Sommer said. At Tottser's, every bench was filled and there were two buildings. "We had a night shift and helpers," he said.
He outlasted the manufacturing shift to the South and to China - now some of that work is coming back to Pennsylvania.
Bernard Reichart, a German tool and die maker who started working for Tottser in 1958, bought the business in 1963, a year before he hired Sommer.
It's a male-dominated industry, but Sommer now works for a woman, Reichart's daughter, Linda Macht, the owner.
Technology has changed, as well. "You have to be computer literate," Sommer said. He's not, but his skills are nearly irreplaceable, even with the changes that come through computer assisted design, and a wire machine that helps with the precision cuts.
"You know what, we need him," Macht said. "As long as he wants to work, he has a job."
Not that Sommer wasn't fired - multiple times.
"He and my father had a love-hate relationship," Macht said, laughing. "My father would bring in the want-ads and circle [other positions].
"He'd say, 'You're fired.' And Don would say, 'I'm not leaving.' And Dad would say, 'I'm not paying you' and Don would say, 'I don't care.' "
"He got fired and he wouldn't leave," she said.
"He's stubborn. He wants to do it his way, and he wants to do it perfectly. But people won't pay to have it perfect. We had a work-around. We let him make things perfect.
"If we didn't make money on the job, it was, at least, perfect," she said.
What's perfect in the tool and die business?
A tool is attached to a press that slams a metal sheet into a die, shaping and cutting the metal into a part for an engine, or a stove, or a car door.
Sommer makes the indentations and protrusions that shape the metal. They must be precise, the tolerances exact. But that isn't enough for Sommer.
They must also be polished and perfectly square on the outside corners. They must be beautiful, even if they are only going to be attached to a stamping machine in some factory's back room.
"Some of our customers only want Donald to make their tools," Macht said.
Tottser Tool & Manufacturing earned its revenues from the auto parts industry, with Sommer and others fashioning the tools and dies that created metal parts for doors, roof panels and tailgates.
In 2003, Budd Co., which had Ford contracts, shut its Philadelphia plant. In the next five years, other auto plants closed.
Then the recession hit and employment at Tottser went from 60 to 25. To survive, Macht opened a second factory in Nashville, near Southern car manufacturers. When work gets too busy there, it gets sent up here.
Sometimes Macht outsources tool and die work to China, because it's cheaper. And sometimes, the work is mediocre and Sommer needs to fix it.
Sommer said he finds fulfillment in his craft.
He's proud of the white apron he wears. As dingy as it gets, it is the doctor's coat of manufacturing, denoting the skills and finesse he brings to the job.
"It's not boring and monotonous," although other jobs in manufacturing can be, he said. "You use your brain and you use your experience."
In February, to celebrate Sommer's 50 years on the job, Macht and other top executives picked up Sommer and his wife in a limousine and drove them from their home in Mayfair to an expensive and well-deserved steak dinner in Center City.
"This company educated me," he said. "They fed me. They paid for vacations at the Jersey Shore, presents under the Christmas tree. I feel blessed."
These days, there are no apprentices standing by Sommer's side at Tottser to learn his skills. Tottser's two other tool and die makers are both over 55.
What happens when they retire?
Macht jokes that Sommer and the others aren't allowed to quit, but she doesn't have a plan. "I can't make that investment in people and equipment again," she said. "Young kids don't want to go in manufacturing."
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By Glenn A. Walsh
Reporting for SpaceWatchtower
Last Friday marked the 49th anniversary of the first landing and walking by humans on Earth's Moon. And, next Sunday will mark the 60th anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the nation's first civilian space agency (signed into law by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 1958 July 29, after Congressional passage on 1958 July 16; NASA became operational on 1958 October 1). The Trump Administration and the National Space Council are now calling for the establishment of the nation's first true military space agency, the U.S. Space Force.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced his proposal for a Space Force on 2018 June 18, during an address to the newly reconstituted National Space Council. In the address, the President said, “I’m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. That’s a big statement.” He further said that the Air Force and the Space Force would be two "separate but equal" branches of the United States Armed Forces.
The President had floated the suggestion for a Space Force during an earlier speech in March of 2018. Apparently, he felt that few people, particularly in the Pentagon, had taken the suggestion seriously, which resulted in the National Space Council address and official proposal.
Last year, a new U.S. Space Corps within the U.S. Air Force (as the U.S. Marine Corps is within the U.S. Navy), had been proposed by the Trump Administration. As the Pentagon showed little support for a Space Corps, the initiative went unfunded by the Congress.
Russia is the only nation that has had an independent Space Force. The Russian Space Forces operated as an independent branch of the Russian military from 1992 to 1997, and again from 2001 to 2011. The Russian Space Forces became a part of the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2015, similar to how the U.S. Air Force Space Command is part of the U.S. Air Force.
Currently, only three other nations have space-related military agencies:
- China: People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force
- France: French Joint Space Command
- United Kingdom: Royal Air Force Air Command
Although he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, President Eisenhower preferred creating a civilian space agency, which became NASA, for most scientific research into space exploration. In a Presidential Memorandum of 1958 March 5, it states the following:
“The President...said he has asked himself how we should use space activities for our national purposes. It seems to him that military activity on space projects is acceptable in the area of application of knowledge. He feels certain, however, that discovery and research should be scientific rather than military. He felt that there is no problem of space activity (except ballistic weapons) that is not basically civilian, recognizing that application of findings may be made to serve military purposes.”
For military space activities, a new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was set-up within the Department of Defense on 1958 February 7. Today, this agency is known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and advances scientific research that often has civilian applications. The Internet and the Global Positioning System (GPS) originated with DARPA projects.
Since 1958, responsibilities for military activities in Outer Space has been reorganized a few times. A U.S. Space Command, which was a Defense Department Unified Combatant Command, operated from 1985 to 2002. In an attempt to streamline Defense Department commands, the U.S. Space Command was absorbed into a larger U.S. Strategic Command in 2002.
Additionally, three armed services-based commands, related to military space activities, continue to exist:
- Naval Space Command which was merged into the Naval Network and Space Operations Command in 2002;
- Air Force Space Command;
- Army Space and Missile Defense Command.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal reported on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study that stated that, as of 2016, there were "60 distinct entities that deal with (military) assets in space." Although details for the organization of a new Space Force are not yet available, it seems that these would all be absorbed by the new, separate Space Force.
Following President Trump's official Space Force proposal, before the National Space Council, the Congress has commissioned two studies to consider the feasibility of such a new military service. The first study, which is due next month, would determine whether such a Space Force would be necessary. The second study, due in December, would examine the nature, implementation, and costs of a Space Force.
Supporters of a Space Force contend that American military space efforts are fractionalized among several different commands and other agencies. This leads to uneven implementation of military space goals and objectives.
Further, Space Force supporters believe that the Navy, Air Force, and Army have their expertise in sea, air, and land (respectively) activities, that does not transfer well into the realm of Outer Space; the Navy, Air Force, and Army just have other priorities. They believe that a single Space Force, which can completely concentrate their efforts in activities related to Outer Space, would be a much more efficient and effective manner to implement the nation's military efforts in Outer Space.
Mark Albrecht, Executive Secretary of the National Space Council from 1989 to 1992 has noted that “Space is a place where there is now tens of billions of dollars” in infrastructure, from the International Space Station to the the Hubble Space Telescope, to GPS and military surveillance satellites. He adds, “Everything from financial transactions to the GPS that guides your car is controlled from space, or at least facilitated by space.” He believes that we have such a huge financial investment in Outer Space today, we do need something such as a Space Force to protect that investment.
Recently, perhaps surprising support for a Space Force came from a well-known, science popularizer, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, long-time Director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium and host of the most recent Cosmos television series. He insists that people should not dismiss the Space Force proposal out-of-hand, simply because it was proposed by President Trump. Dr. Tyson believes a Space Force may be the best way to organize protection against possible asteroid strikes on the Earth.
People opposed to a new Space Force see the new military service as a new, unnecessary expense. They see a new enlarged and costly bureaucracy that will be a rival to the other military branches. They contend such an additional rivalry for military resources would be inefficient, and during a time of national crisis could be harmful.
Last year, when a U.S. Space Corps was being considered, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said, “The Pentagon is complicated enough...This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organization chart, and cost more money. If I had more money, I would put it into lethality, not bureaucracy.” Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis also wrote to Congress in opposition to the Space Corps proposal.
On 1967 January 27, most nations of the world, including the United States, Russia (then, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and China, signed the Outer Space Treaty. The treaty forbids weapons of mass destruction in Outer Space, but does not forbid conventional weapons. The treaty, however, does forbid the use or testing of any type of weapon on another planetary body.
The Outer Space Treaty also forbids military installations or military maneuvers on other celestial bodies, as well as any nation claiming land on a planetary body. Space analysts have long suggested that this portion of the treaty may some day need to be amended, to promote economic development and resource exploitation of other planetary bodies, including asteroids.
Few private corporations will be willing to make huge investments in Outer Space, if they do not have property rights on certain portions of planets or asteroids. Further, when such planetary and asteroid development begins, the nations from which the corporations come from will want to provide some type of military protection for the corporation's celestial activities, as our military currently protects corporations within our legal boundaries.
In the popular, science-fiction television series, Star Trek, to justify military action in a distant part of our Milky Way Galaxy, Star-Ship Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk (who led the Flag-Ship of the United Federation of Planets' “Star Fleet”) sometimes said something to the effect, “We are the only cops out here!” The question is: how soon will true “space cops” be needed?
Internet Links to Additional Information ---
Kwast, Steven L. "The Urgent Need for a United States Space Force."
Opinion article adapted from a speech delivered by retired USAF General Steven L. Kwast at Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington DC on 2019 November 20.
Imprimis, Hillsdale College 2020 January First retrieved 2020 Feb. 10.
Link >>> https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/urgent-need-united-states-space-force/
Memorandum of Conference with the President (Eisenhower) - regarding establishment of NASA - 1958 March 5
Link >>> https://eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/nasa/Binder12.pdf:
Space Forces Around the World: Link >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_force
Proposed U.S. Space Force: Link >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
20th Century Space Race between U.S. and Russia:
Link >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
1967 UN Outer Space Treaty: Link >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Related Blog Posts ---
"45 Years Ago: Man Lands on the Moon !" 2014 July 20.
After 30 Years, New "Cosmos" Science TV Series Airs on FOX." 2014 March 7.
"JFK: Loss of the Man Who Sent Us to the Moon." 2013 Nov. 22.
"Moon Day - A National Holiday ?" 2013 July 20.
"The Historic Mission of Apollo 11, Man Walks on the Moon for the First Time; A Personal Remembrance From 40 Years Ago By Glenn A. Walsh" 2009 July 20.
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Letter: Loophole means food workers really need those tips
I appreciate Dave Jasper’s letter about tipping [Voices, Aug. 13] but, having two daughters I’ve seen struggle to survive, I must speak up.
Most food servers make minimum wage or less. Nevada has a loophole that lets businesses pay less if they “offer” medical insurance. In most cases the employee can’t afford the overpriced insurance and if they can, they usually can’t afford the deductible, so the monthly copays result in no return on investment. Normally they decline it. If that loophole hasn’t been changed, it should be.
Next, the employee gets taxed for tips they may not even be getting. This is deducted from take home pay as though they had actually received the tips. Also, any government assistance tacks on the penalty as though it is being received, so things like housing, food stamps, etc. are lowered because of tips that they may not even be getting.
If you feel that you can’t afford a 20 percent tip, then don’t go there!
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Talks between the United States and China are going to focus on the global economy, economic policy and the ill-at-ease feeling Beijing has about holding U.S. bonds. David Pierson and Don Lee for The Los Angeles Times reports that Washington’s desire to reduce China’s reliance on exports and the need for both sides to reach consensus on tackling climate change will also be tackled.
Steve Chiotakis for Marketplace reports that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner co-chaired the two day talks. Other major topics include:
- Major overhaul within environmental policy
- Beijing’s economic reform to focus on domestic consumption, rather than exports
- The U.S. economy and stimulus plan must make progress, as China is deeply concerned about bonds and financing
- The strength of the U.S. dollar bears weight upon China’s record $801.5-billion holdings in U.S. Treasuries
Ultimately, China may find the talks reassuring. President Barack Obama told officials that the dollar is sound, their investments are secure and that the United States is working feverishly to fix its economy. Obama stressed the need for cooperation between countries. If his words have an impact, a mutually beneficial future may be in order.
- iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (FXI): up 47.9% year-to-date
- PowerShares Golden Dragon Halter USX China (PGJ): up 57.7% year-to-date
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Public Safety, DER's & Wildfires
- May 21, 2021 9:53 pm GMT
No doubt, 2020 was a tough year. For people, for the planet, for the economy. Globally, we have witnessed the multiplier effect of COVID-19 on the inequities hard-baked into our social infrastructure, accelerating enormous social, political, ecological, and financial hardship. And despite all our hopes and aspirations for relief in 2021, we are still in the grips of the pandemic and all its societal comorbidities.
Globally, climate change is an accelerant to these social, political, and economic threats. Climate change already impacts millions of Americans daily, putting lives at risk; forcing people from their homes, businesses, and communities; destroying critical infrastructure and costing billions of dollars in losses.
In 2020, the United States experienced a record-breaking 22 weather-related disasters that each resulted in at least $1 billion in damages. Millions have lost their homes, creating tens of thousands of climate refugees across the country, something unthinkable in America just a decade ago.
These dramatic impacts of climate change are on full display in California each year as drought, extreme wind, and abnormally high temperatures collide and accelerate an ever-worsening wildfire crisis.
California: Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS)
CA was on fire in 2020. Now in May 2021, rainfall is at an estimated all-time low and nearly 80% of the state is experiencing extended drought conditions. Arid conditions turn vegetation into tinder, increasing the likelihood of wildfires and enabling more rapid spread once sparked.
In California, utilities and regulators have turned to a blunt instrument in hopes of preventing utility infrastructure from causing additional fires known as Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) - where power is turned off intentionally when weather conditions are optimal for igniting fires.
And while much attention is paid to the role utilities play in sparking these wildfires, which is the justification for these planned shutoffs, the truth is that utility infrastructure only causes a small fraction of the annual wildfires year over year in CA. This is a critical point that needs to be considered in the discussion as to what really creates ‘public safety’ when it comes to wildfires and preventing them.
Two judges - one from PG&E’s criminal proceedings, and one from its bankruptcy - recently drew more attention to controversial PSPS events. Judge Alsup has proposed that PG&E expand the use of PSPS to avoid further criminal liability from utility infrastructure causing fires, and Judge Montali has ruled that PG&E isn’t liable for the damages and threat to public safety caused by these forced outages. Taken together - the call for more PSPS and indemnification from their impacts - we can expect many more PSPS events going forward from utilities in CA.
The problem is, PSPS really do not prevent wildfires in CA, nor do they protect public safety, which is the claim being perpetuated as the reason behind them (notwithstanding Judge Alsup).
In 2020, fires caused by extreme heat, drought, and wind – the lethal combination of ‘natural’ or environmental conditions cited by utilities that trigger a PSPS event – caused approximately 9,900 wildfires. By contrast, fires sparked by utility infrastructure are estimated to be approximately 800 fires, with only 25 PSPS events in total for the year.
Is this really achieving public safety given the disastrous economic losses during a utility power shut-off (PSPS) and the growing numbers of climate-induced fires? In the final analysis, these PSPS events hardly addressed the 9,900+ total fires in 2020, much less the estimated 800 utility-sparked fires - and cost the state billions in economic losses.
Given these numbers, are PSPS events really creating public safety, much less preventing wildfires?
The actual root cause of rapidly increasing wildfires in CA (+25% YOY) is the impacts of rising CO2 levels and the lethal combination of extreme heat, wind and drought, the result of climate change. It is consistently hotter and drier throughout the Western US, and fire season now starts much earlier and lasts longer than previous years. CA has already suffered through more than 2,000 wildfires in 2021.
Utility PSPS are not a solution to CA’s wildfire problem. As Judge Alsup pointed out, the main driver for PSPS is to reduce utility criminal liability.
The Solution: Distributed Customer-Sited Energy Storage & Rooftop Solar
To have a meaningful impact on California’s 10,000+ wildfires each year, we must employ strategies that face the root causes of wildfires (climate change) head-on.
The way to protect homes and businesses from utilities’ increasingly liberal use of PSPS events, that effectively serve their interests - at the expense of Californians - is to provide resilient distributed backup batteries and solar generation at the customer site. Distributed energy storage is the only way to safeguard the interests of utility customers to get through these frequent, extended planned outages. This strategy also reduces CO2 levels, the root cause behind increasing heat, drought and wind and the ensuing wildfire disasters in the state.
Thankfully, both strategies can be pursued simultaneously through the widespread adoption of customer-sited solar + energy storage systems installed in homes and businesses across the state.
Rooftop solar power augments the central electric grid and offsets a customer’s demand for more carbon-intensive power. Solar customers also gain some energy independence and control over their energy use decisions.
But in order to ensure utility line worker safety, solar systems alone that are directly tied to the electric grid won’t operate during grid outages. Solar arrays go down when the grid goes down.
However, when paired with an energy storage system – like SimpliPhi Power’s industry-leading safe lithium ferro phosphate batteries – homeowners and businesses gain critical backup power reserves and unlock additional value with their solar panels, generating electricity even when grid power is unavailable. Customer-sited batteries also solve the ‘duck curve,’ excess solar generation feeding into the grid during the day, further benefiting the utility and customers alike.
Buildings equipped with solar+ storage protect utility customers from the impacts of PSPS events while also reducing carbon emissions – tackling the root cause of wildfires in the state while mitigating the financial losses of frequent planned utility outages (again, in the billions of dollars).
Innovations in distributed energy storage, combined with renewable generation and software that can control and monitor customer-sited assets, for the customer and the utility, are readily available solutions that can, and already do, protect Californians from increasing PSPS outages. These solutions also play a significant role in offsetting infrastructure upgrades, indefinitely deferring the billions needed to adequately improve and ‘harden’ the grid.
On top of all these direct benefits, the rapidly growing solar + storage industry in California is producing good-paying jobs and economic benefits for the state. The California Solar and Storage Association (CALSSA) released a comprehensive report demonstrating the significant economic benefits of expanding solar in the state, including 60 full-time jobs for each megawatt of solar installed (and more than 1,200 MW’s were installed in 2019 alone).
California’s wildfire crisis is worsening as climate change continues largely unabated. We need aggressive action to reduce emissions rapidly, and the protectionist utility PSPS events are going to increase in coming years as drought conditions become even more severe. Recognizing the judgment put forth by Judge Alsup, PSPS events are in service of limiting legal liability for the utilities, not reducing the causes driving wildfires, nor are they a strategy that protects “public safety”.
To address both challenges directly – while increasing economic opportunities, saving Californians money, and augmenting the central electric grid – we need to prioritize distributed customer-sited energy storage + solar solutions that have an outsized impact on our shared climate-resilient future and economic survival.
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Buying a car is far easier when compared to maintaining it because there are many responsibilities associated with vehicle ownership that are necessary to keep your car running for you. Most cars come with a warranty that cover the cost of repairing parts that break down before their estimated life cycle but can you really rely just on that and ignore the signs your car has been giving? Well not!
The first and foremost thing that you should be very clear about is to know that warranties aren’t insurance. If a part breaks because of accidental damage, it will not be covered under a warranty in most cases. Warranties do, however, cover the cost of a repair when a part wears out with ordinary use. So as a vehicle owner you still have responsibility to ensure any repairs needed aren’t because of negligence.
Almost every car owner with any time behind the wheel knows that you have to maintain your ride. There are oil changes and tire rotations to be done, and most of us know we can’t take our wheels to a racetrack for some hot laps and then expect the car manufacturer to foot the bill when we blow an axle. But automakers, like insurance companies, expect us to take reasonable action and steps to mitigate any damage when something goes wrong.
For example: If you are driving your three-year-old sedan on a warm summer day and a warning light or two appears on the dash, but everything seems normal. Should you stop and check or wait until the engine starts to stumble and then suddenly stalls? To be honest, you should first roll it to the side of the road, let the engine cool down and then try to restart. If it doesn’t, call road-side assistance to tow the vehicle to an independent repair shop.
In case the mechanics discover the engine has been badly overheated, and if car is still under the terms of its powertrain warranty, tow it to the nearest authorized dealership. It is likely that if your engine has been damaged beyond repair from overheating, the vehicle manufacturer, will deny any coverage and you will be left with a hefty bill to be paid.
So in order to avoid this kind of situation, listen to the first signs your car is giving and don’t damage it due to sheer negligence. To protect your investment and your wallet, when something seems wrong, call your service provider to ask for advice. They might not be able to diagnose your problem over the phone, but at least they can arm you with enough knowledge to take steps to avoid further damage. And they’ll know you’ve done the right thing. | <urn:uuid:bd3d365f-396e-4df1-8f9d-ab48606ea262> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mechanicar.com/blog/car-warranties-really-worth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.963305 | 532 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The full year 2015 poverty incidence among population, or the proportion of poor Filipinos, was estimated at 23.3 percent (revised from the 21.6 percent released last 27 October, 2016). This translates to 23.5 million Filipinos (from 21.9 million) who lived below the poverty threshold estimated at PhP 9,452 (from PhP 9,064), on average, for a family of five per month in 2015.
Back estimation of the full year 2015 poverty statistics was made due to the following:
• rebasing of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) market basket prices from 2006 to 2012; and
• adoption of the 2015 Census of Population (PopCen) results for the weights in the FIES.
These were incorporated in the 2015 full year poverty estimates for comparability with the full year 2018 official poverty statistics, which will be released on 06 December 2019, 10:00 am.
The following are the highlights of the changes due the back estimation in 2015:
For further inquiries, please contact Assistant National Statistician Wilma A. Guillen at telephone number 8376-1883 or e-mail address [email protected].
For the latest updates on the Official Poverty Statistics, see https://psa.gov.ph/poverty-press-releases.
CLAIRE DENNIS S. MAPA, Ph.D.
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Relationships play a key role in Semantic Web to connect the dots between entities (concepts or instances in a way that enables to absorb the real sense of the entities. Even though relationships are important, it is difficult to categorize or identify them because they consist of complex knowledge in the schema. Therefore systematically identifying relationships yield many advantages and open doors for new research avenues. In this work, we try to identify a specific type of relationship (part of) in a multi-domain dataset and devised an algorithm using Wikipedia to identify patterns of part of relationships in the dataset. This paper is based on some in progress initial work based on identifying part of relationships.
Henson, C. A.,
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(2011). A Systematic Property Mapping using Category Hierarchy and Data. . | <urn:uuid:58d63f4e-8297-4b20-8da6-257a8215e0cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/601/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.838385 | 226 | 2.03125 | 2 |
A group of organizations, academics and individual experts, have expressed collective concerns and endorsed an agreed list of points about equating surrogacy where there is a monetary exchange to the sale of children in recent reports by the Special Rapporteur. Equating compensated gestational surrogacy as the sale of children is deeply problematic. It mischaracterizes and misapprehends the motivations of intended parents and the women who provide gestational surrogacy services. This perspective / position is not that of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) or other human rights experts or mechanisms. See the full submission below. | <urn:uuid:4e58e9c8-5f99-4e9b-9d36-ac7f3540e482> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.srhm.org/news/joint-submission-to-the-special-rapporteur-on-compensated-gestational-surrogacy-as-the-sale-of-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.912623 | 122 | 1.664063 | 2 |
CONNECTING YOUR CLASSROOMThe length of the cabling system is an important consideration of any A/V cable install. If the distance from the source device to the display is longer than the limitation of the cabling signal, then a signal booster may be required. Below is a list of common AV signal types and their length limitations.
Official length limitations: These standards have been defined by industry associations.
- DisplayPort — 15 meters (about 49ft)
- DVI digital — 5 meters (about 16.5ft)
Unofficial length limitations: These signaling methods do not really have a defined maximum length. The limitations listed here are based on common real-world experience. Use these as a guideline — your application may allow for a longer cable run, or may call for a shorter distance. Check with your equipment manufacturer — they may specify a maximum cable length. The best advice for these types of cables is to use as short of a cable as you can.
- Audio (line level) — 150ft
- Audio (speaker level) — 500ft (use lower gauge wire as distance increases)
- Audio (digital coax) — 50ft
- Audio (digital optical) — 16.5ft
- Component Video — 150ft
- Composite Video — 150ft
- HDMI — 16.5ft without a booster
- Modulated RF (CATV, SATV) — 150ft (use RG-6 coaxial wire)
- S-Video — 150ft
- VGA (laptop output) — 35-50ft without a booster/amplifier
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Saturday, November 9, 2013
Twin Temblors off Vancouver Island today
The seismic plates just west of Port Hardy appear to be readjusting this week, with a stretch of ocean between two fault lines rumbling over the last 48 hours.
Yesterday we outlined the recording of a 4.8 quake in the region and today a pair of temblors have rattled along the fault line of the area.
The first took place at 9:04 AM today a 4.1 magnitude quake located 187 km WSW of Port Hardy, that was followed by a second temblor at 1:42 PM recorded at 4.0 magnitude, this one 157 km WSW of Port Hardy.
As with Friday's quake, no damage was reported, nor was any tsunami warning generated.
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Whatever set of statistics I provide this week – as 2020 progresses – the figures will be increased by next week - in this horrible trade of children in slavery, including sexual slavery.
I found this News.com article in my archive it was headlined that at least 250,000 children around the world are being used in wars and surely this must parallel sexual trafficking with young children.
I recall my visit to Auschwitz in 2005 and the parallel of the photographs and film documentaries showing the youth of the Nazi guards to the youth of the Polish police and military on security duty was manifest.
At that time I wrote -
“The Israeli guide told us that most of the SS Guards at these death camps came out of the Hitler Youth movement, as part of the compulsory training of the ‘military machine’, and were in most cases in their early 20s – or younger.
“While I listened to these accounts of young soldiers, it dawned upon me that the Polish police and soldiers - who were everywhere about - also looked so young.
“And, like young people everywhere, they felt as though they were indestructible, even though they had not yet had the experience of life to think of others in less fortunate positions (empathy needs development).
“Added to this was their brainwashing, from their time in the Youth Movement, aimed at convincing them that they were a superior race and that the Jews were to be seen as vermin to be totally wiped out.
“Little wonder there was a total disregard for human life .... “ (end of quotation)
The philosophy of using child soldiers is nothing new but a huge movement has gathered around the world against using children in combat – Child Soldiers International.
The article explains that since 2000, the participation of child soldiers has been reported in most armed conflicts and in almost every region of the world, according to Child Soldiers International.
The News.com article lists some very graphic videos with a warning of their content. This is the list of countries documented who since 2011 have used children in combat (war).
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
Well documented and very public are the child soldiers from Africa and ISIS. Missionaries have been telling first hand stories of immediate experiences of child soldiers and the nature of difficulties in post war 'stand down'.
UNICEF estimates there are over 250,000 children involved with armed groups, being used for everything from frontline fighters, suicide bombers or human shields to porters, couriers, spies, messengers and guards.
Human Rights Watch says many are abducted or recruited by force, while others join out of desperation, believing that armed groups offer their best chance for survival. The report claims: “Children are sometimes forced to commit atrocities against their own family or neighbours, children are easily manipulated are too young to resist or understand.”
A wide range of international bodies including Amnesty International have documented similar, the list goes.
All this is a similar trajectory to sex trafficking, in that as the News.com article notes:
“Both boys and girls face the risk of sexual abuse, while girls are often forced into marriage. There are reports out of The Council on Foreign Relations that girls, impregnated by their commanders, have even been forced to fight with their babies strapped to their backs.”
The world wide campaign against sex trafficking has had a focus on the West with young people in servitude to financial interests and much has been written on this subject by our young writers.
The sex trafficking in these war regions where child soldiers are ensnared have a double whammy, in that they are engaged in satisfying the sexual pleasures of their superiors and personnel. Words are simply not enough to illustrate the horrific manner of 'human exchange' whereas video footage doesn't measure the emotional toll which often lasts a life time.
One thing every one of us can do is discuss it and bring it into the open and ensure that our politicians are aware of your heartache. Such movements across a nation into the ear of every politician bring pressure to bear that more action can be taken through nation to nation communications.
These things are bought to book at an international level although missionaries continue to engage in ministry at this level in many localised areas - the problem is that there are not enough of such missionary personnel and rogue combatants move to other areas when the pressure gets too much.
Moreover the recent film “Fury” about a WWII American tank commander, an early scene has a fresh green crew member seeing the children through the heavy green thickets and trees and couldn't bring himself to alert and fire. One of these children sent the lead tank to massive fire and destruction by a simple hand held tank blaster. It was a lesson of deadly combat and from that time on no further quarter was given.
A real and present trauma - Peace Keeper helpers in such places get targeted - the perpetrators to such meaningless killing - turns out to be an 8 year old boy or a 12 year old girl.
Dr Mark Tronson - a 4 min video
Chairman – Well-Being Australia
Baptist Minister 45 years
- 1984 - Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
- 2001 - Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
- 2009 - Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
- 2019 - The Gutenberg - (ARPA Christian Media premier award)
Gutenberg video - 2min 14sec
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Background: Researchers and clinicians are seeking to develop efficacious behavioral interventions to treat overweight children; however, few studies have documented the behavioral correlates of overweight children in community samples. The goal of this study was to determine the nature and prevalence of behavior problems for overweight school-aged children versus normal weight peers before and after controlling for the effect of sleep disordered breathing. Methods: Hispanic and Caucasian children were invited to participate in a study of sleep through public elementary school classrooms. Anthropometric evaluation and behavioral ratings were collected for 402 children aged 6-11 years. Overweight was calculated using the Centers for Disease Control age- and gender-specific guidelines. Children were classified as overweight if they were at or above the 95th percentile for their age and gender group. Behavior problems were measured using the Conners' Parent Rating Scales-Revised and the Child Behavior Checklist. Sleep disordered breathing was assessed using in-home overnight polysomnography. Results: Approximately 15% (59/402) of the sample was classified as overweight. Simple odds ratios indicated that overweight children were more likely to have clinically relevant levels of internalizing symptoms (OR 2.23, CI 1.05-4.72), psychosomatic complaints (OR 2.15, CI 1.02-4.54), withdrawal (OR 4.69, CI 2.05-10.73), and social problems (3.18, 1.53-6.60). When odds ratios were adjusted for level of sleep disordered breathing, withdrawal (OR 3.83 CI 1.59-9.22) and social problems (OR 2.49 CI 1.14-5.44) remained significantly higher for overweight subjects. Conclusion: After controlling for the effect of sleep disordered breathing, behaviors such as withdrawal and social problems, are common in overweight children and need to be taken into account in the design of interventions and services as they may act to moderate the efficacy of behavioral treatments.
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A lethal assault in opposition to American and Afghan civilians could be a catastrophe not just for the USA, but additionally for the Taliban, who’re transferring to consolidate management over Kabul. The Taliban and the Islamic State have been enemies, preventing one another on the battlefield for management of components of the nation.
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Who’re the Taliban? The Taliban arose in 1994 amid the turmoil that got here after the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989. They used brutal public punishments, together with floggings, amputations and mass executions, to implement their guidelines. Right here’s extra on their origin story and their record as rulers.
Western counterterrorism analysts say a high-profile assault by ISIS in the course of the evacuation would probably raise the group’s flagging fortunes, recruiting and status.
A United Nations report in June assessed that the Islamic State’s “territorial losses have affected the group’s capability to recruit and generate new funding.”
Though the ISIS affiliate was nonetheless believed to have 1,500 to 2,200 fighters in small areas of Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, the report mentioned, “it has been pressured to decentralize and consists primarily of cells and small teams throughout the nation, appearing in an autonomous method whereas sharing the identical ideology.”
Whereas the group suffered navy setbacks beginning in summer time 2018, the report concluded that since June 2020, beneath its formidable new chief, Shahab al-Muhajir, the affiliate “stays energetic and harmful,” and is searching for to swell its ranks with disaffected Taliban fighters and different militants.
“On condition that ISIS-Okay and the Taliban are enemies, it will likely be a problem for ISIS-Okay,” Mr. Clarke mentioned. “Nonetheless, the Taliban now has its palms full with governing, which is able to devour appreciable bandwidth inside the group.”
Nathan Gross sales, the State Division’s counterterrorism coordinator within the Trump administration, mentioned on Sunday that if the ISIS affiliate was able to attacking the airport in Kabul, “that means Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal shall be a permissive setting for all kinds of terrorist teams, even these hostile to the Taliban.” | <urn:uuid:b43f2bad-3d3d-4081-93e3-f5a8d8f7c775> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acblivenews.com/isis-poses-acute-threat-to-u-s-evacuation-efforts-in-kabul-sullivan-says/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.93899 | 477 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Everybody who has had even a cursory glance at game degrees, whether they are technical, artistic or design based, knows that they come in for some abuse. You hear what can only be described as horror stories, people who have spent 3 or 4 years of their lives, racked up a large amount of debt, only to come out at the end with a piece of paper that not only doesn’t give them the skills to get into the Games Industry, but doesn’t give them the skills to get into any other kind of industry either.
Fortunately, not all of them are of the same quality, but with the general attitude towards them, its very difficult and daunting to try and find one that is not only worthwhile, but one which will benefit you if you find out the games industry isn’t the right industry for you.
SkillSet (or the ‘Sector Skills Council for Creative Media’) is a body that (amongst other things) works with Universities to monitor, recommend and guide course content, pushing it in a direction (if it isn’t there already!) that will provide students with the right skills, and experience, to enter the games industry and provide them with the talents to move into other industries if that’s where life takes them.
And it doesn’t work alone. Working with companies and individuals from the games industry and Universities it can constantly check and discuss what is being suggested, what is needed and how best to get the required skills to those that want them.
Accreditation is one of the main ways in which SkillSet is able to easily and clearly indicate that a University course is, for want of a better phrase, ‘fit for purpose’ and while it can be a hard process to get through it is something that really benefits the Universities in the short and long term.
Accreditation is a process in which Universities apply to SkillSet with a set of documentation that covers, amongst other things, the following.
- Course Content – Are they teaching what the industry wants. Advanced C++ and math, team work and development (source control tools, cross discipline development, leadership and teamwork skills) and console development spring to mind
- Equipment – When joining an industry that uses technology not available in any other industry, it helps if you have already experienced what it’s like developing for them. Platform holders are happy to work with Universities to provide equipment for their students to use, and they should have good exposure to it.
- Industry Involvement – Do they have guest speakers or work with companies to form their course content?
- Outcomes – How many of their students get roles in the industry when they graduate and what roles are they filling? Are they able to get jobs in other industries if they want to?
The documents that applicants complete are freely available here if you want to have a more detailed look.
Representatives from the Games Industry then take part in the accreditation process, reviewing the application content, and feeding back to SkillSet and the University before, if successful, moving onto a more detailed phase of presentations, visits and interviews.
And it should be stressed that it is these industry representatives, always from a development background, that have the final say.
There are currently 6 courses that are accredited (and I stress courses, as a University who’s Art track is accredited may not have it’s Tech track accredited) and you can easily find out the content of their courses to see why these have been given a big thumbs up from the Industry. Obviously as the process continues, gets more streamlined and improves, more courses will be added to this list, hopefully sometime this year and on a yearly basis after that…
I was originally going to end this post with a ‘what to look for’ and a ‘what to avoid’ paragraph for future students, but I want this to be about the work that SkillSet is doing, and how their process is not only useful, but is driven by the industry that is being fed into. There will always be discussions as to how to improve the process and it’s encouraging to see how many companies and individuals take part in these talks (on both the University and Industry side).
So if you are looking at going on a ‘Game Degree’ in the near future, make sure you check out the current list of accredited courses, and if you can’t get to one of those, examine the course content in detail to see how it compares or to see if they are in the process of being accredited. If you still can’t find the information you need, request more information from the University. They benefit from you being there to, so it needs to be a two way street before you even think of enrolling. | <urn:uuid:d0845c46-1eae-4b86-b53e-826433cd1250> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://engineering.leewinder.co.uk/2009/08/03/game-degrees-skillset-and-accreditation/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966449 | 989 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The images in Art Werger’s intaglio prints are anchored in his New Jersey childhood. His suburban scenes are lyrical and evocative of boyhood summer evenings. His city scenes are fraught with tension and isolation. Some of Werger’s prints show the influence of film noir genre movies as well as paying tribute to the cinematic techniques of Alfred Hitchcock. Through realistic portrayals of scenes viewed from unusual angles, he creates a dream-like detachment from the events taking place.
Werger states, “All of my work involves a level of voyeurism or intrusion. I want my images to create a tension based on phobic response, whether it’s a fear of falling or drowning. I want to elicit an active response to the representational image. Rather than intending to comfort the viewer, I want to challenge preconceptions”. Werger has exhibited internationally and has works in several collections, including the Boston Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. | <urn:uuid:97ca0828-09c5-4dc0-91d8-e8b4a1523d63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://everkath.wordpress.com/aboutart/art-werger-abt-1956/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.927675 | 215 | 1.773438 | 2 |
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Little Hands Nature Club – Cloud Racing
August 31 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmFree
Did you know that there are different types of clouds? Bring your preschoolers out and Join Hancock Park District at Oakwoods Nature Preserve to learn what the different clouds look like and what kind of weather they bring. Hands-on stations will allow children to make it rain in a jar, create their own cloud chart, and make a pinwheel to race with the clouds. Afterward, lay down on the soft grass and use your imagination to create pictures in the clouds. Adult companions must remain with children for this program.
Meet at the Discovery Center at the Oakwoods Nature Preserve by 2 pm. This event is recommended for ages 3-6 with an adult; other age siblings are welcome to attend. The event is free and registration is not required to attend. | <urn:uuid:44f7e769-4e2a-4f24-afd1-108a93e3c282> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://visitfindlay.com/event/little-hands-nature-club-cloud-racing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.923549 | 177 | 1.625 | 2 |
There are tons of ways to transfer money, but people are often not sure what is better: online transfers or bank transfers? Both of these transfer methods have their pros and cons, and here is a quick list of the benefits and disadvantages of both to help you make the best decision for yourself!
Why You Should Use an Online Transfer
Firstly, online transfer payment methods have tons of options. There are many payment platforms and alternatives that you can compare to see which one suits you the best. For instance, PayPal is a popular payment platform that is great for people who want to shop online. Venmo is ideal for small and quick money transfers for people who want to send small sums to their friends. First Payment Provider is an all-around website that is great, especially for mass wire transfers and automated payments.
Online transfers tend to be more convenient than bank transfers. Most online transfers can be done through your phone and computer as long as you have a secure internet connection. Therefore, you can send and receive money anywhere you want. That way, you do not have to rush out to the bank to send and receive money.
Plus, online transfers are usually cheaper than bank transfers. Online transfers require fewer resources to complete a transfer process. Therefore, they would cost less money, which is why online payment platforms usually have lower fees than banks. Many online payment platforms offer free transfers, depending on where you are sending money, how much you are sending, how quick you want the process to be, etc.
However, online transfers are not perfect. It is possible for a hacker to hack into your account, especially if you use public internet connections or shared devices. That is because hackers are experts at trying to sneak into your phone and computer. Luckily, you can combat that by keeping your information private, using a secure and private internet connection (like your home WiFi), and only using your own device to log into your payment platforms.
Why You Should Use a Bank Transfer
Bank transfers are more trusted than some payment platforms because they have been around longer. Therefore, most people may prefer to make transactions with you via bank transfer over online transfer. Plus, many bank transfers are available online since many banks have their own apps and websites that you can use. Therefore, you may be able to make an online transfer using your bank’s app or website.
In some cases, a bank transfer may be cheaper than an online transfer. For instance, let us say that the person you want to send money to has an account in the same bank as you. If your bank offers free transfers to different clients in the same bank, you can save more money by using their transfer services instead of an online one. Some banks also offer free checking and benefits, so it might be beneficial for you to use a bank transfer.
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Date: 18th–19th century
Dimensions: L. 39.25 in.
Museum number: 259
Physical location: Section 2 (Central Hall): Implements of War
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My previous Arctic ice report was limited by technical difficulties, now resolved as shown by the animation above. So this update comes a week into May, with the animation covering the last three weeks from mid April. The dramatic melting in the Pacific basins of Bering and Okhotsk (left) sets them apart from the rest of Arctic sea ice. As noted before, those two basins are outside the Arctic circle, have no polar bears and are the first places to become open water in the Spring. Elsewhere sea ice persisted, actually growing in Barents and Greenland seas.
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The melting effect on NH total ice extents during this period is presented in the graph below.
The graph above shows ice extent mid-April through May 7 comparing 2022 MASIE reports with the 16-year average, other recent years and with SII. 2022 ice extents have tracked the average, going surplus for the last 10 days. .Both 2021 and 2007 are well below average, on day 127 lower than 2022 by 318k km2 and 443k km2 respectively. The two green lines at the bottom show average and 2022 extents when Bering and Okhotsk ice are excluded. On this basis 2022 Arctic ice was nearly 400k km2 in surplus on May 7, and prior to yesterday, the horizontal line shows little loss of ice extent elsewhere than in the Pacific.
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The only deficits to average are in Bering and Okhotsk, more than offset by surpluses everywhere else, especially in Barents and Greenland seas, along with Kara and Baffin Bay. At this point, overall NH sea ice is 88% of last March maximum (15.1M kim2). All regions are well above 90% of their maxes, except for Barents (81%), Baffin Bay (66%), Bering (33%) and Okhotsk (20%).
April 1st Footnote:
It has been a long hard winter, requiring overtime efforts by Norwegian icebreakers like this one:
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At Crowcroft Park Primary School the safeguarding of our children is the highest priority. Please use this page to view our school policies and guidance for parents in relation to safeguarding issues.
Whilst the risk posed by strangers is rare, it’s really important to make children aware of simple tips they can follow to keep themselves a little safer.
This video on Stranger Danger is designed to highlight a few key points, to be used to help you have that important conversation with your child. It is aimed at children aged 4 - 11 years. For parents, carers, families, teachers, schools and centres for young people to use to raise awareness and generate discussion that helps children keep safe.
We would advise you to talk to your child about who their safe adults are and where there are safe places near you if help is needed. It’s also important to think about safety on the internet and use of mobile phone apps and games that have ‘chat’ functions as this can be just as dangerous as a stranger in the street.
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What Are The Judicial Service Exam
Judiciary is a great career option if :
- You have inclination towards Public Service.
- You intend to contribute directly to a fair, just system and greater good of society.
- You want to stay in an intellectually stimulating profession, simultaneously being in touch with the laws.
- You want to remain in a profession which is dignified and commands respect of people.
How to be a part of the Judicial Services ?
You can get into the he judicial services at two stages of your life i.e. Judiciary has two levels of entry :
- If you are a fresh law graduate :
Lower Judicial Services –
- Conducted by the respective State Public Commissions.
- Applicants must have a B. degree from a recognized university in India
- Applicants must be enrolled as an Advocate under the Advocates’ Act 1961
- Posted as Member of sub-ordinate judiciary.
- Benefit – No experience required. Secured Employment this early in your career.
- Cons – Promotions are time based.
- Age – between 21 to 35 years of age
- Final Year Candidates can also appear
- Citizen of India
Not the right option if : You harbour dreams of becoming a High Court, Supreme Court Judge or desire hastened position up the ladder.
- If you have few years experience in litigation :
Higher Judicial Services –
- Applicants must have a LL.B. degree from a recognized university in India
- Must have a prescribed minimum of seven years of litigating practice
- Posted as ADJ ( Additional District Judge )
- Benefit – Accelerated Promotions.
- Cons – Late security, Competitive Exam Preparation quite late in life.
- Age may vary from state to state
- Citizen of India
- Basic Exam Structure for both Exams :
- Preliminary Examination
- Basic Syllabus for both Exams :
- Civil law
- Criminal Law
- Language Paper
- Some States – GK, General Science, Current Affairs
Mon-Sat : 10:00 am – 6:30 pm
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Fridge import curbs likely
India is considering restricting imports of refrigerators to promote local manufacturing, two industry sources told Reuters on Thursday, potentially freezing out shipments from Samsung Electronics Co and LG Electronics Inc in the $5 billion market.
The sources, who declined to be named as the talks were private, said the government was considering mandating that importers seek a licence from the authorities, replacing the existing free-import regime. That could be followed by a ban on imports of refrigerators with refrigerant already added, to create opportunities for value-added operations in India, said one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the government’s discussions.
The source said a decision could come in a month, adding: “The thrust is to support all those who are manufacturing in India rather than those bringing them into India.”
The Indian trade ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Spokespeople for Samsung and LG also did not respond immediately. A licensing regime, the other source said, would raise the compliance burden and risk delaying imports.
The government estimates India’s refrigerator market at more than $5 billion, with foreign companies such as Samsung and LG competing with domestic majors including the Tata conglomerate’s Voltas. The first source said India’s annual fridge-making capacity was around 24 million units but demand was only some 15 million, a part of which is met by imports.
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What Are the Signs of Persistent Pain Disorder? The signs and symptoms of chronic pain disorder can be unreasonable or entirely without cause. Some individuals might experience anxiety and also anxiety and also fear of day-to-day activities. The event of these symptoms does not necessarily mean that the physical problem is worse; it can simply be a result of their system ending up being much more delicate. To figure out if you experience chronic discomfort syndrome, begin maintaining a journal to document your symptoms. If you are unable to stop tape-recording your pain, your following step is to locate a medical professional who will certainly be compassionate and also understanding. Workout is important for people with chronic pain disorder. Physical treatment returns hundreds of years. Exercise, massage therapy, and also warm or cold are some of the techniques made use of. With a physiotherapist, clients discover new ways to do day-to-day jobs and also carry out exercises to enhance toughness and also wheelchair. Job-related therapy teaches you brand-new ways to carry out daily tasks while addressing your certain needs. Individuals struggling with persistent discomfort disorder usually find themselves less active than they might be or else. Although pain is the body’s natural action to injury or condition, it can likewise take place when there is no apparent physical damages to the cells. Discomfort generally goes away when the initial problem has solved, but in some people it persists for longer than 3 months and also negatively impacts their lives. In addition to drugs, patients might additionally require physical therapy and psychological support. A combination of treatment might be required to attend to the underlying causes of persistent discomfort disorder. If you are suffering from chronic discomfort syndrome, it is best to consult a medical professional. If you are suffering from persistent discomfort syndrome, you might need to make changes to your lifestyle to handle it properly. While persistent discomfort syndrome can be testing to deal with, medications, counseling, and also various other treatments can help alleviate the signs of persistent pain. It can also have an impact on your relationships, your work, and your home life. People suffering from chronic pain are prone to psychological as well as psychological reactions that can make managing the condition tough. Therefore, it is suggested to look for aid from a discomfort administration clinic that provides extensive treatments. A pain management center will aid you cope with the problem as well as prevent relapsing. Intricate local discomfort syndrome is an additional sort of chronic discomfort that is challenging to determine. It generally affects an arm or leg and is set off by an injury or over-immobilization. Therapy is most reliable when the problem is diagnosed early, so it is crucial to seek treatment for your condition. Physical treatment assists manage pain as well as maintain function. Although physical therapy is not a treatment for CRPS, it can decrease its symptoms and protect function. Despite its extensive event, there is no known cause for fibromyalgia. Surprisingly, people with fibromyalgia tend to be much more sensitive to discomfort, as well as some have a genetic tendency to develop the problem. Fibromyalgia can additionally be the cause of chronic discomfort syndrome. Although the root cause of fibromyalgia is unidentified, it can often trigger signs and symptoms such as raised level of sensitivity to pain and also sleep issues. Nevertheless, there are lots of treatment options for chronic pain syndrome, consisting of drugs and therapy. | <urn:uuid:74d7076e-29e8-422f-99a2-c6bf3736af97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nishishinjuku.info/smart-tips-for-uncovering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956663 | 675 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Looking to take advantage of the growing interest in French dual-language programs (DLP), the first Bilingual Education Fair of New York is set to be held October 11 at New York City’s Hunter College.
Organized by Emmanuel Saint-Martin of French Morning, a magazine geared towards French speakers, the fair has the dual goals of showing off French books to New Yorkers as well as providing a venue where parents can get more information about DLP programs in the New York area. Of the more than 60 exhibitors planning to participate, 20 will be children’s book publishers from Quebec who will be displaying 250 French-language titles under the Québec Édition banner. Also on hand will be the newly opened L’Albertine, the new French bookstore that opened its doors on 5th Avenue last month.
The fair was inspired by the increased number of children who are now enrolled in French DLP schools in New York. Begun in 2007 which one teacher and 24 students in Brooklyn, approximately 1,300 students enrolled in DLP programs for this school year. According to the originator of the project and its main advocate, Fabrice Jaumont, the French embassy educational attaché, the demand for a bilingual education is outstripping the supply. He has set his sights on raising $2.8 million in order to offer a DLP education to 7,000 students in the next five years.
Saint Martin hopes to attract this network of DLP parents, teachers and school administrators to the fair. “In the past, parents could only choose from a classic French education or an All-American monolingual school”, Saint-Martin notes. “The offer is much broader now. In the New York area there are now more than 40 schools offering some kind of French education, and other languages have followed the same trend.” | <urn:uuid:63308bf5-d238-4ecb-87aa-2e2f3b3577b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/trade-shows-events/article/64342-french-fair-set-for-hunter-college.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.966511 | 382 | 1.742188 | 2 |
If you work with Laravel PHP framework like me, you have surely done an upgrade to a newer version of Laravel. In this article I want to share an upgrade workflow that I usually do when I upgrade some Laravel app.
The steps that I present here can ensure that you have considered all the customization in your current app, while also taking into account all the modifications that are introduced in the new Laravel version.
Let’s say that we have an app that is currently run on Laravel 5.5.* and that we want to bump it to Laravel 7.*.
Just to note, my dev setup is:
- Windows 10
- Docker (Debian, Apache, PHP 7.*)
- Git Bash
Steps for upgrade from Laravel 5.5.* to Laravel 7.*
The first thing I do is create the following:
- in the current app repository create a new Git branch from ‘master’ branch. It can be called something like ‘laravel-7-upgrade’. This branch is used to do all code modifications regarding upgrade process, in the current app. When we are ready at the end, we will merge it with the ‘master’ branch. The sample command to do this is:
git checkout master
git checkout -b laravel-7-upgrade
- create a new app which will hold a Laravel 7 base installation. When I say ‘base installation’, I mean installation of Laravel without any custom modifications. We will use this new app to check and sync code between Laravel 5.5.* app and Laravel 7.* app. The result we want is to have our current app and a Laravel 7 app in sync. To create a new Laravel 7 app, create a new Laravel project (of course in a separate directory):
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel:7.* laravel-7-base-installation
- create a new app which will hold a Laravel 5.5.* base installation. We will use this app to check the differences between our production Laravel 5.5.* app and a basic Laravel 5.5.* installation. This way we can be sure about all the custom things that we have introduced in the current app.
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel:5.5.* laravel-55-base-installation
The next step is to compare the code in the current app to the Laravel 7 base installation, and sync all the changes. While we do this we can also reference the Laravel 5 base installation so we can be sure about our custom modifications in the current app. Let me show you what I mean.
To do code comparison I use an app called WinMerge. It is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. It can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
Let’s compare our current app with the Laravel 7 installation.
In another WinMerge window, I’ll also do a comparison for current app and a Laravel 5.5 base installation.
Now, let’s take a look in comparison results for Laravel 7 base installation. Note the marked ‘Left only’ result.
The ‘Left only’ means that those two folders exist only in our current app. I will copy those two folders to the Laravel 7 installation so we can keep track of all the changes we have made when comparing our current installation with Laravel 7 installation. Remember, the final result we want is that the current app and a Laravel 7 app are in sync (that it has same content). To copy selected directories we can use button ‘Copy right’:
This action will place marked directories in the Laravel 7 app. If we refresh the comparison results (press F5 or click refresh button), we will see that they are now marked as ‘Identical’.
Let’s take a look at the next example. We have a ‘Kernel.php’ file with different text.
When we open it, we see the next difference.
The only difference is in one comment. We can safely use the version from Laravel 7, since it is newer. To do this, first we mark the difference and then click on the ‘Copy left’ button.
This will bring the change from Laravel 7 app to the current app. When we save and refresh comparison results, we will again see the Kernel.php file marked as ‘Identical’.
Next case, let’s check out Handler.php file.
Right at the top we see a difference in the ‘use’ statements. The question now is which lines are our custom modifications that we have made in the current app, and which changes are introduced in the Laravel 7 version.
To check our custom modifications, we can compare current app with the Laravel 5.5 base installation. Let’s see a comparison result for the Handler.php file in Laravel 5.5 base installation.
As we can see, our custom modification is that we have used ‘AuthenticationException’ and ‘ValidationException’, so we know that those two lines must stay. Other lines correspond to the Laravel 5.5 base installation, so we can consider changing them.
The sync procedure now is this. I copy right to the Laravel 7 app all custom code. I copy left to the current app all newly introduced code if it doesn’t conflict with current code.
For example, in the new Laravel 7 app, it now has the line ‘use Throwable’ instead of ‘use Exception’. After a brief look at the code, I see that the report() method signature is changed and that it now uses Throwable. The Exception class is never used anymore in this file, so I can be sure to replace ‘use Exception’ with ‘use Throwable’. The result for this difference would be this:
Let’s move down and take a look at other difference in the same file. We have a method report() which now has a different signature.
As we mentioned, it now accepts Throwable parameter instead of Exception. Let’s take a look at the comparison with Laravel 5.5 so we can be sure about our modifications that we have introduced in this file regarding this method.
We can see that the only change is in the body of the method. This means that we have to take the new signature from Laravel 7, and also use our custom code in the method. In this case, despite the new signature, the custom code will still works, since Exception is Throwable. The result for this difference is:
There are still some differences in this file, but to solve them the concept is the same as mentioned in the previous example. Let’s take a look at the next case.
The marked files (new config files) are only available in Laravel 7 app, so we can safely copy them to our current app (copy left).
When it comes to cache files, it actually doesn’t matter which version we choose to keep, since those are generated files.
They will actually be cleared in the end of the procedure, so we can use left or right version just to have them in sync so they don’t get in our way.
Refreshing Composer and Node packages
Regarding Composer, when it comes to ‘composer.json’ file, in essence you should replace all the packages with the newer version from Laravel 7, and keep all of the custom packages in your current app. File ‘composer.lock’ can be deleted, as well as ‘vendor’ directory.
Similar thing is with the file ‘packages.json’ – use newer version packages, and keep custom packages. Directory ‘node_modules’ can be deleted.
After the configuration of composer.json and packages.json file, we can enter the following commands to refresh all of the newly included and kept packages. Commands are entered for current app:
File ‘composer.lock’ can now be copied right to the Laravel 7 app, just to have it in sync. Folders ‘vendor’ and ‘node_modules’ can be copied also, or the above mentioned commands can be run in the Laravel 7 folder.
To clear all the auto generated files in Laravel, we can now enter the following command in the current app:
php artisan optimize:clear
We can also sync this with the Laravel 7, just to have it in sync.
At the end of the procedure of comparing current app with Laravel 7 app, we should have all the folders and files in sync, like this.
Check Laravel upgrade guides
Laravel documentation is really good in covering all the changes a new version brings. When upgrading, we should read all the upgrade guides from the version we are upgrading from to the version we are upgrading to.
For example, in our case, we have regularly used ‘str_’ helper functions which were available in Laravel 5.5 (https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/helpers#available-methods), and which are now replaced with ‘Illuminate\Support\Str’ class (https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/helpers#available-methods). This means we must search for all occurrences of ‘str_’ functions in our code and replace them with corresponding methods available in ‘Str’ class.
If you didn’t already run your Laravel 5.5.* application on higher PHP version, upgrading from Laravel 5.5.* to Laravel 7.* also means upgrading from PHP 7.0 to PHP 7.2 or higher. If this is the case, this means that we should also check upgrade guides for PHP:
Save production state and git commit 🙂
When you have made sure that your app works, you can make your commit for the upgrade. When upgrading, I like to have as few commits as possible, preferably only one 🙂 (as if everything works from single commit :P).
git commit -m "Upgrade to Laravel 7"
git push -u origin laravel-7-upgrade
If you remember, we are on a new branch used for upgrade only. We still have our production state available on the ‘master’ branch. Let’s just keep current production state in a new branch so we have it available for quick checkout.
git checkout master
git checkout -b pre-laravel-7-upgrade
git checkout master
At this point, since everything works, we can merge the upgrade branch with master and push it to repository.
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You know about web accessibility and why it’s important. You know that your site should be accessible and you’d like to make that happen. But how can you tell if your site meets the necessary requirements? Where do you start?
Automated Web Accessibility Tests
There are a lot of accessibility tests out there. Some of them, like AChecker, are very comprehensive and assess your page on a line by line basis. Other tools, like Axe by Deque can be installed directly into your browser. But the two I just mentioned are definitely geared toward web developers.
If you’re not comfortable reading code or you just want someone to explain it to you in simple terms, then I highly recommend using WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool by WebAIM. It gives you detailed results and overlays them directly onto your page—not the code that makes up the page. This way, you can see which elements are causing problems even if you aren’t code-savvy. It also provides easy-to-understand explanations of every issue it finds. WAVE is available as a browser extension or you can simply put your URL into their site to run a test.
Keyboard Navigation Test
This is an easy one that you can do yourself. Part of web accessibility is the ability for a user to navigate your site using only keyboard inputs. This is commonly done by pressing the tab key. If your site is accessible, this will trigger a “focus” on the first available navigation element. This focus usually looks like a dotted or solid border around the selected element. A navigation element could be an item in your nav bar or an inline hyperlink or a clickable image that takes you to another page.
Pressing tab a second time move the “focus” onto the next available navigation element. Continue to tab through all of the navigation elements on your site. Make sure that it’s always easy for a user to tell which element is in focus. Take note of any navigation elements where the focus is difficult to perceive or nonexistent.
These tests will get you started but there are a lot more things to consider. If you’re serious about making your site more accessible, it’s a good idea to connect with an accessibility consultant or a local accessibility consulting firm. Automated tests can only diagnose surface level problems and can’t give an adequate assessment of the user experience across all assistive devices and technologies. An accessibility expert will be able to ensure an optimized experience for all of your users. | <urn:uuid:6a93ca58-7094-47c3-b7cb-866f46f22a85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://logictran.com/2020/09/04/how-to-test-your-sites-accessibility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.908859 | 524 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The last time I tackled a Top Ten Tuesday topic, it was ‘Most Memorable Mothers in Literature‘. So this week I’m looking at the most memorable fathers in literature: the good, the bad, and the ugly. (This was technically supposed to be last week’s TTT topic. My bad.)
With hundreds of new titles published every week, re-reading books may seem like a bit of a foolish endeavour these days. But re-reading books – ones you loved, hated, or were simply puzzled by – can be an excellent exercise, one that helps you to better understand a text. Or, sometimes, even better understand yourself, as I’m afraid the following list may very well reveal. The Broke and the Bookish’s Top Ten Tuesday theme this week is ‘Books I Feel Differently About Now That Time Has Passed’, and I’ve come up with a list of books that I have re-read either once or many times, with different emotions every time.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about Valentine’s Day, but since I’ve always been a bit of a cynic about a commercial holiday which demands that lovers be nice to each other for one day (thus allowing them to be perfectly horrible to each other for the next three hundred and sixty-four days in the year), I’ve decided to make this Top Ten Tuesday list all about my favourite examples of non-romantic love in fiction. The following relationships are not without their struggles and complications, but I think they all show that non-romantic love can be just as messy, affectionate – and ultimately uplifting – as romantic love.
My Top Ten Non-Romantic Loves in Fiction
Samantha Ellis’ How To Be A Heroine has certainly opened up doors for me when it comes to 1930s and 40s English literature. The literature of the twentieth century has always eluded me before now, mostly because I was convinced that it would be, based on my limited experience with it, either a) depressing, or b) mad, confusing, and experimental. Or possibly both.
But one thing I’ve found, reading Cold Comfort Farm and re-reading I Capture The Castle, is how contemporary these texts can feel. And they’re so easy to read, flowing like Victorian novels – only with telephones and cars thrown in. The same can be said of South Riding, another of the books that Ellis discusses in How To Be A Heroine.
South Riding is set in the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire, and its main character is a forty-year old spinster called Sarah Burton, who comes up from London to become the headmistress of the girls’ high school. She brings with her boundless energy and a desire for reform. She’s a character who believes that “The proper technique of headmistress-ship was to break all rules of decorum and justify the breach” (Book I, Chapter V).
I Capture The Castle was never going to be an easy film to make. The book is written as the journal of a young girl in 1930s England. The plot is bog-standard, almost on the side of boring (handsome young men come into neighbourhood, pretty young women pursue handsome young men, pairing-up ensues). Considering that the true magic of the book lies in the youthful simplicity and honesty of Cassandra Mortmain’s voice, making a film version seems like a bit of a tricky endeavour.
All this considered, then, the 2003 movie actually does a decent job capturing the tone and style of the book. As you might expect, there are lots of shots of green English landscapes, with the Mortmain’s castle as a centrepiece. Visually, there are some very pretty moments as we explore the English countryside and the recesses of Cassandra’s imagination.
I’d love to say that I wrote this review sitting in the kitchen sink. It might begin to express the complicated feelings I have for Dodie Smith’s beloved I Capture The Castle. It might even be a suitable homage to this lovely, quirky book. Sadly, as I’ve discovered, kitchen sinks are not comfortable places to sit, especially when you’re trying to balance a laptop on one knee and a cup of tea on the other.
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Back in 2015, I discovered USB123 USBee AX PRO, an ultra cheap logic analyzer (now $5 shipped) with 8 channels, and up to 24 MHz. I purchased one at the time, and successfully tested it with Sigrok & Pulseview open source tools that now work in Linux, Windows, Mac OS, FreeBSD, Android, and several other operating systems.
As I read through my list of RSS feeds today, I noticed Peter Scargill had tested ZeroPlus Logic Cube Lap-C 322000 logic analyzer also connected to your PC via USB, but with better specifications including 32-channels, and 75 MHz. Peter used the company’s Windows software (ZEROPLUS Logic Analyzer LAP-C_Standard_V3.14.03), but a quick search confirmed ZeroPlus Logic Cube Lap-C family is supported by Sigrok.
LAP-C 322000 is the top model from the family with the following hardware specifications:
- Sample Rate – Internal clock (timing mode): 100Hz~200MHz; external clock (state mode): 100MHz
- Bandwidth – 75MHz
- Working Range – -6V~+6V
- Accuracy – ±0.1V
- Memory – 64Mbit, i.e. 2Mbit per channel with up to 512Mbits with compression enabled
- Trigger – Condition： Pattern/Edge; 32 channels; trigger count： 1~65535
- Phase Errors： < 1.5ns
- Maximum Input Voltage： ±30V
- Power Supply – 5V/500mA via USB port
- Safety Certification – FCC / CE / WEEE / RoHS / REACH
The hardware is based on ZEROPLUS ZP-322MB-5 which is believed to be a custom ASIC from the company, Genesys Logic GL660USB (USB2.0 to IEEE-1284 / DMA bridge), Cypress SRAM, and various other chips as explained in the sigrok page.
The company’s software supports Windows 2000 to Windows 10 with plenty of features (Waveform display, filter, filter delay, trigger delay, protocol analysis, etc..), and you can read a detailed review of the device used with the Windows software if you are interested. If you prefer open source software, or run another operating system Sigrok should be a worthwhile alternative.
ZeroPlus Logic Cube LAP-C 322000 is not a low cost part as it goes for $1,599 on Amazon, but other models with the same 75MHz bandwidth, only 16-channels, a lower clock speed (up to 100 MHz), and less memory (512Kbits) such as Zeroplus LAP-C 16032 can be purchased for about $135 on Amazon or eBay. More details should be available on ZeroPlus website.
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77,000 operating rooms worldwide without a single pulse oximeter is an enormous statistic, but it’s still not large enough to fit all the faces – children, parents, families – at risk from unsafe surgery.
So at Lifebox it’s a privilege to hear first hand accounts from providers who meet this number, faces first, every day.
Benson Nfon Tanjong is an anaesthesia provider in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. He’s president of the Cameroon North Westerner’s Association of Anesthetics, and a driving force for safer anaesthesia in his country.
That’s him above, with some old monitoring machines at his hospital – they haven’t worked in some time.
We wanted to share some extracts from a letter he sent us recently:
“Health care delivery in the developing world is still overwhelmed with so much poverty. Patients come to the hospital almost at the terminal stage of their illness, after visiting many traditional healers. Still, on a yearly basis we operate about 1200 cases.
We have two operating theatres with four beds, and a very simple Boyles anaesthetic machine with no ventilator attached. We have one pulse oximeter, which we agree to use on the most serious patient of the day. We have one functioning monitor that constantly goes off, following regular power shortages.
In my practice I have experienced serious negative effects from the absence of a pulse oximeter.
Four months ago I was called for an emergency cesarean hysterectomy for a 31-year-old woman whose placenta had ruptured overnight. We realized that the baby had died in utero – probably of severe hypoxia. The maternity ward in our hospital is a pretty busy one, but with no equipment to help in resuscitation of either babies or the mothers. After the hysterectomy, the lady was not recovering from the anaesthesia. I ordered a blood gas analysis, and the results were more or less those of a living corpse. In about an hour the patient arrested and died.
This is life experience. This woman needed a pulse oximeter early on, so that changes in saturation could be diagnosed earlier, and proper measures taken.
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This post is part of the series His Encouragement
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Welcome! Welcome, dearest friends, to His Encouragement: Biblical Inspiration for Your Thursday. Every week, I join a few blogging friends to bring you a Bible passage and a little hope-filled discussion. We pray that these devotionals help you end your week strong in God’s love and purpose for you.
The Lord bless you and keep you;Numbers 6:24-26, NKJV
The Lord make His face shine upon you
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace
There is a lot of hurt, grief, confusion, anxiety, and anger in my country right now, and possibly in yours, as well. This year has been a tumultuous one, and we are not even halfway through.
I have previously written on remaining steadfast through trials, hope in crisis, grieving in hope, the Lord delivering us from our fears, our Christian responsibility to speak up for those who cannot, and Jesus’ compassion on all people. If any of those topics match what you are feeling or searching for today, please read those devotionals.
Right now I want to speak directly to the person who is in a dark place. Perhaps you are filled with anxiety or dread regarding our bleak-looking future as a human race. Or you are filled with sadness so great it threatens to overwhelm your already-broken heart. Maybe you are seething with anger at the injustices you experience or see happening around you.
No matter what you are facing right now, take hold of the blessed promises found in Numbers 6:24-26.
If you turn to the Lord, He will bless and keep you. The original Hebrew word translated here as “keep” is shamar, which according to Strong’s Concordance, means: “to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life”. (Source) Let’s pause a moment and consider that promise in light of 2 Thessalonians 3:3, “But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.”
The Lord will show His kindness and have mercy on you. The original meaning for this verse is more like: The Lord’s very presence (sometimes translated as “face” or “countenance” from the Hebrew paniym) will enlighten or shine on you and He will bestow pity, mercy, favor upon you. Not that we deserve His mercy and favor because we know no one can earn forgiveness and salvation, but it is a gift He offers to us. (Romans 6:22-23; Ephesians 2:8-9)
The Lord will watch over you and give you peace. The word paniym is used again to mean His very presence will be with you and you will receive His peace, a peace that surpasses all earthly understanding. (Philippians 4:7) A special peace with God Himself.
These promises don’t mean that bad things won’t ever happen to you or me. We are sinful, broken people living in a sinful, broken world with other sinful, broken people. The difference is that we believe in the power of a risen Savior who has conquered sin and the grave and He will be returning to set the world right again. (1 Corinthians 15:20-24; John 14:1-3; Revelation 21:1-4)We are sinful, broken people living in a sinful, broken world with other sinful, broken people but we believe in a risen Savior who has conquered sin and will return to set the world right again. Click To Tweet
You are deeply loved and cared for by your Creator, Redeemer, and Friend. Do not lose hope. In the midst of your darkest days or moments, turn to Him for comfort and peace. He is offering it to you. A free gift. You just need to reach out and accept it.
What verse has touched your heart this week? Share in the comments below!
Be sure to also visit my fellow bloggers and read their encouragement for your Thursday as well:
- Trisha of Joy of Reading
- Nicole of The Christian Fiction Girl
- Jessica of A Baker’s Perspective
- Becca of The Becca Files
- Gina of Stories by Gina
- Rev. Rebecca Writes
- Andi of Radiant Light
- Leslie of Words of Hope
- Claudia of By Claudia Moser
- Keneesha of Women Loving God’s Way
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Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to enforce its many detailed rules, nor has it ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically, the talmudic rabbis claim that the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that brings a person closer to God—a claim no country makes of its law.
In this talk Professor Chaim Saiman will introduce the thesis of his book which traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies assign not only to philosophy, political theory, theology, and ethics but also to art, drama, and literature. He will show how in the world of halakhah where everything is law, law is also everything, such that even laws that serve no practical purpose form part of a learned and regulatory canon.
Chaim Saiman is a scholar of Jewish law, insurance law and private law, and has just published Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law with Princeton University Press. Professor Saiman has served as the Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Law at both Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a visiting fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Bar-Ilan, Hebrew University and IDC faculties of law. Saiman has also served as an arbitrator on rabbinical courts and as an expert witness in insurance law and Jewish law in federal court. Professor Saiman received his B.S. from Georgia State University, and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. He also studied for a number of years at Yeshivat Har-Etzion (Gush) and Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel. Prior to joining the faculty at Villanova, he was an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School a Golieb Fellow at NYU Law School, a law clerk to Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a corporate associate with the firm Cleary Gottlieb in New York. At Villanova, Professor Saiman teaches Contracts, Insurance Law, Insurance Coverage Disputes, Jewish Law, and Legislation. | <urn:uuid:f952ce31-a0df-4694-b21c-04a950d4a18d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://religion.ucla.edu/event/halakhah-the-rabbinic-idea-of-law/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97428 | 488 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The vision of the School of Public Health is to be a global centre of excellence in offering Public Health solutions. This is in line with the Mount Kenya University (MKU) .
The mission of the School of Public Health is to offer world class teaching, learning, research, innovation, and investments in Public Health for accelerated, equitable and sustainable individual, family, community, society, national, and global human health and prosperity. The School’s mission includes coaching, mentorship and counselling of students and staff to acquire state-of-the-art knowledge, skills and attitudes to be competent, marketable, and champions of public health and prosperity from womb to tomb and generation to generation in Eastern Africa, rest of Africa and beyond. This is in line with the University mission: “To attain world class standards in training and in innovations for sustainable individual prosperity and social development”.
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Stephen Covey wrote the classic “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. If you haven’t read it, I recommend it.
I read his quote on Twitter: “We are not the product of our circumstances. We are the product of our decisions.”
Circumstances come at us. Weather. Economy. Poverty. Sickness. Health. Wealth. Parents. No parents. Death. Taxes. You name it. A lot happens that we don’t control.
But, we do control the decisions we make given those circumstances.
We decide what we do next.
We decide whether we get up.
We decide whether we spend or save.
We decide what we eat and drink. We decide our exercise plan.
We decide how we fulfill our responsibility as a significant other or a parent.
We decide if we learn or stand pat.
We decide our attitude.
Get my point? No matter what the circumstances, we have many decisions to make on how we will be affected. PalletOne leaders “happen to the world” by making decisions to move ahead.
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In a series of tweets
On Monday, Agrawal outlined Twitter’s approach to spam accounts and its challenges.
suspends “more than half a million spam accounts every day”, Agrawal wrote
. He reiterated a long-standing Twitter stat that less than 5% of its daily active users are spam accounts — a stat Musk cited on Friday while announcing his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was ” temporarily suspended”.
this estimate is based on “several human reviews … of thousands of accounts” randomly sampled, but it is not possible to know externally which accounts are counted on any given day. Twitter has previously acknowledged that while it considers its estimates to be “reasonable”, the metrics have not been independently verified and that the actual number of fake or spam accounts could be higher.
Agrawal’s first 13 tweets received a response from Musk that reflected the unusual and extremely online nature of the deal: a poo emoji
Musk followed up with a slightly more thoughtful question. “So how do advertisers know what they’re getting for their money? » Musk asked
“It’s fundamental to the financial health of Twitter,” he added.
Musk has repeatedly spoken out against bots and spam accounts on Twitter, once describing cryptocurrency spam bots as the “platform’s most annoying problem.” Anyone who knows the replies to Musk’s tweets knows that they are full of such scams, many of which try to capitalize on Musk’s name.
But some analysts believe the world’s richest man could use the bot debate to drive down the price at which he should buy Twitter, whether as a standard trading tactic or out of necessity.
Twitter’s share price has erased all of its gains in the weeks since Musk revealed his stake in the company and is currently trading at $37.39 per share, well below the offer price of Musk of $54.20 per share.
“The bot problem at the end of the day … seems to us more like the ‘dog ate the homework’ excuse to bail out the Twitter deal or talk about a lower price,” Dan Ives and John Katsingris, analysts at Wedbush Securities , wrote in a note on Monday.
Musk appeared to fuel that speculation on Monday, saying a deal to buy Twitter at a lower price wouldn’t be “out of the question,” while launching his own estimate that at least 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake, according to Bloomberg. Musk did not say how he arrived at the number and did not respond to a request for comment from CNN Business.
In his Twitter thread, Agrawal said most spam campaigns on Twitter use a combination of humans and automation, rather than being primarily bot-driven. Analyzing legitimate and fake accounts can be complicated, he said.
“The difficult challenge is that many accounts that appear superficially fake — are actually real people,” he said. mentioned
. “And some of the spam accounts that are actually the most dangerous – and cause the most harm to our users – may seem entirely legitimate at first glance.”
Twitter had been in touch with Musk over the spam issue.
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Malaria and HIV Co-infection among COVID-19 Cohort in Selected Healthcare Facilities in Rivers State, Nigeria
Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic began while improvement in malaria control and elimination had reached a peak. COVID-19 affected routine services particularly those for other killer infectious diseases including, HIV/AIDS and Malaria. This resulted in slowing progress in achieving control programs targets.
Aim: The study was aimed at evaluating malaria and HIV coinfection among COVID-19 cohort in selected healthcare facilities in Rivers State of Nigeria.
Methodology: The observational study showed a snapshot sampled only patients within the COVID-19 approved centers who consented to participate within the selected study area otherwise excluded. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 400 participants, giving subjects equal opportunity of participation. The majority of the data came from primary sources, but secondary sources were also used. Malaria testing was perform using microscopic method. Result outputs were presented on tables and charts.
Results: The study showed high prevalence of malaria infection among COVID-19 patients -327 (81.8%) but low rate of HIV co-infection- 2 (0.5%).
Conclusion: Much consideration should be channeled towards malaria endemicity and coinfection with COVID-19 unless it confers protective advantage as postulated by some studies however, a large scale and more in-depth study is suggested.
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We have a robust clinical research infrastructure that is underpinned by sophisticated clinical and MRI databases. This platform manages longitudinal data on over 1,500 patients on an ongoing basis. The platform’s multi-modality imaging program, led by Dr. Susan Gauthier, incorporates both animal and human imaging, utilizing both MRI and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). With the infrastructure, platform and relationships in place, we are focused specifically on applying markers to the quantification of myelin and inflammation. By researching and validating novel imaging MS biomarkers, and utilizing these imaging modalities to make discoveries regarding the ongoing pathological processes, we can further enhance our understanding of potential therapeutic targets. | <urn:uuid:df4bedda-a6df-4401-9fa3-bf3cd7f66ef1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mscenter.weillcornell.org/research/imaging-research-mri-pet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.918483 | 235 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Whatsapp has become the new trend not only for communication but also for studies. The internet has enables millions of students to pursue their preferences. The barriers among various occupation have all been extinguished by internet. Since digitalization has emerged as the predominant form of education these days. Whatsapp as an application has been able to connect students and teachers easier and doubt clearing has become a piece of cake with this form of technology. However, it can be one of the largest distractions as well.
Whatsapp is one of the applications that uses internet the least thus which network connection is used whatsapp can be easily available and used without any interruptions. It is always felt that when one is accompanied by others in the same field with the same goal and motivation you will be able to be focused better. Lot more revisions and areas which you considered not important or missed will come to your notice. Whatsapp groups for various government examinations have come in place.
Each of these group have their own perks and disadvantages. If you are looking to join the best government exam preparation group on whatsapp here you come at the right place!
Best Government Exam Preparation Group on Whats-app
Whatsapp provides you with many pros as well as cons like any other internet appliaction to its users. However today it shas emerged as a helping hand to assist in the learning process of many preparing for government examinations. It is one such dias that you can take advantage of. Advantage of engaging with bright minds on issues at hand and controversy. It gives you an experience of talking and stating points and how that can be countered. Now what we are to do is to tell you what exactly the objective of whatsapp group is and can pose in the lives of the thousands of students who are involved in this learning.
The links to such productive whatsapp groups containing aspirants who are really focused will help you in your studies. The aspirants have also become a source of motivation to the many involved in the process and might even feel lost. The State Level exam has been made the priority here and thus the link mentioned below will help you connect to those channels you wish.
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Athens, Greece – Relations between Greece and Turkey have been thrown into diplomatic crisis since November 28, when Turkey announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Libya outlining their maritime boundaries.
The memorandum traces a corridor of water between the Turkish and Libyan coasts that cuts across what Greece views as its islands’ maritime territory.
At stake is national prestige – and the lucrative prospect of hydrocarbon resources. Greece and Turkey have not delimited their Exclusive Economic Zones, which allow countries to exploit undersea wealth.
Cyprus, Israel and Egypt, who have delineated their EEZs, have all discovered offshore gas fields that can power their economies for decades.
Alarmed by Turkish statements that Ankara would send ships to look for oil and gas in its newly claimed dominions, Greece reinforced its military garrison on Crete, and told Turkey that its drillships would be sunk.
Greece has also launched a diplomatic counteroffensive to isolate Turkey and ensure its memorandum with Libya remains dead in the water.
The US, Russia, Egypt and Israel have all denounced it the deal. So has the European Union. The agreement “infringes upon the sovereign rights of third states, does not comply with the Law of the Sea and cannot produce any legal consequences for third states”, read a draft EU statement – meaning the Turkey-Libya deal is not binding upon EU member Greece.
Greece’s foreign minister is to go on a tour of the Arabian Peninsula next week, drumming up further support.
Do islands have an EEZ?
Yet, Greece’s diplomatic successes may mean little to Turkey, which has already this year been threatened with EU sanctions for searching for oil and gas in the Cypriot EEZ.
“Turkey has refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and argues that it is not bound by its provisions that award islands maritime zones,” says Ioannis Grigoriadis, Jean Monnet chair of European studies at Bilkent University in Ankara. “What is interesting in this case is that it found another neighbouring country, Libya… to endorse that position.”
Israel and Egypt rejected earlier Turkish overtures to divide the east Mediterranean in a way that would deprive Cyprus of an EEZ.
The Law of the Sea clearly states that ” the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf of an island are determined in accordance with the provisions of this Convention applicable to other land territory”, except in the case of rocks and islets incapable of sustaining human habitation or economic life (UNCLOS Article 121). Turkey’s deal with Libya would appear to contravene that provision, depriving the inhabited Greek islands of Kastellorizo, Karpathos, Kasos and Crete of an EEZ.
Turkey’s position is also seemingly contradictory in its application of exclusive zones. While it does not recognise an EEZ for the Greek islands of the Aegean, it does recognise an EEZ for Cyprus, which partly benefits an internationally unrecognised Turkish-Cypriot state in the Turkish-occupied north of the island.
“The same goes for the way that the Greek Cypriots are treating the Turkish Cypriots,” Turkish ambassador to Athens Burak Ozugergin told Al Jazeera.
“They (the Greek Cypriots) need to abandon their landlord-tenant way of looking at their northern neighbours and start acting like genuine partners if they want to be ‘a normal state’ in the future. The Greek Cypriots are always keen to start negotiations but never to finish them, ultimately wasting everybody’s time. That is the real contradiction you should be asking about.”
The Greek-Cypriot-dominated government of Cyprus has agreed to share its hydrocarbon wealth among Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but only after a political deal to reunify the island, divided by a 1974 Turkish invasion. Three rounds of talks since 2004 have failed.
“As for Law of the Sea matters,” Ozugergin said, “our positions always take into account the meaning and purpose of law in general, as well as the considered direction of court decisions rendered in maritime disputes. Indeed, courts are increasingly handing down judgments limiting the effect of islands in maritime boundary cases if their location distorts equitable delimitation.”
Can the government in Tripoli sign an agreement?
Greece also disputes whether the Tripoli government is authorised to sign an agreement with Turkey. A civil war in Libya has split the Government of National Accord formed in 2015. The elected parliament and Libyan army are now based in Benghazi, and the presidential council and cabinet, which signed this deal, are protected by their own militias in Tripoli.
Greece has on three occasions intercepted ships supplying Turkish weapons to the Tripoli government.
“If the [Tripoli] government believes this initiative will save it by bringing a mass inflow of Turkish weapons, it will discover that Greece and Egypt will intensify naval patrols they have undertaken to enforce the UN Security Council’s arms embargo on Libya’s warring parties,” says Theodoros Tsakiris, associate professor for Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the University of Nicosia.
Visiting Athens on Thursday, Libyan Parliament speaker Aguila Saleh said the Tripoli government had lost two votes of confidence and had never received the support of the legally elected parliament.
“It has no right to sign an international treaty affecting Libyan sovereignty,” he said.
Will Greece and Turkey go to war?
Greece and Cyprus, as EU members, are playing by the book, and invoking international law in their positions. Turkey is less invested in this legal order. It has had its hopes of EU membership dashed. But under President Erdogan, it has quadrupled its economy and greatly expanded its defence capabilities. It has forged an energy alliance with Russia and seeks a regional order more suited to its interests.
I believe that things will fall into place once Athens realises and accepts that we are neighbours and not rivals across the Aegean Sea
This leaves Greece and Turkey with very different frames of reference, but they are still talking.
“It is true that we have long-standing disputes in the Aegean Sea with Greece. But we also have reasonably well-established channels to discuss these issues, of course within the confines of good neighbourliness and international law,” said Ambassador Ozugergin.
“I believe that things will fall into place once Athens realises and accepts that we are neighbours and not rivals across the Aegean Sea.”
Turkey’s stance is less restrained when it comes to Cyprus, however.
“Having said that, a new situation has been developing in the Eastern Mediterranean in the past few years due to Greek-Cypriot recklessness,” says Ozugergin. “They have gone out of their way, through various groupings which include Greece, to try to contain and even constrain Turkey within her own corner of the Eastern Mediterranean. It is no wonder that we would not remain silent when our rights and interests – and those of the Turkish Cypriots – are being ignored.”
Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt this year declared an energy alliance, through which they plan to pursue projects of common interest. One such project is East Med, a potential undersea natural gas pipeline that would travel 2,000km (1,240 miles) via Greece and Italy, bringing Cypriot and Israeli gas to Europe. Turkey has yet to find any hydrocarbons in indisputably Turkish waters, while Greece and Cyprus are licensing consortia to explore promising concessions.
But the vision of a pipeline that circumvents its EEZ, turns Cypriot energy interests into European energy interests, elevates the energy status of Greece in the EU and offers Greece and Cyprus a leading role in the EU’s relations with the Middle East, greatly concerns Turkey.
Quite apart from the economic implications of being left out of an energy bonanza, it is a state of affairs that sits ill with its expansive vision.
George Pagoulatos, director of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, a think-tank, believes the EU’s diminution is offering Turkey an opportunity to indulge that vision.
“Europe is faced with a declining role and global influence … agreements it had supported and been vital in bringing about, such as the Paris Climate Accord and the [nuclear deal with Iran] are trashed by the [United States]. It is faced with the rise of a very dynamic competitor which it increasingly views as a rival and a systemic challenge, China, and it cannot rely on its most stable post-war ally, the US.”
Greece certainly seems to feel that it has legal allies but not military ones. Defence Minister Nikos Panayotopoulos recently told a television network that if it came down to a fight in the Aegean, “we shall not wait for anyone to come and help us.
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday agreed with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott that the United States as a nation is not racist, but added that the country has a history of racism that cannot be overlooked.
Biden, pressed on if he thought America was racist, told NBC News in an interview Thursday, “No, I don’t think the American people are racist, but I think after 400 years, African Americans have been left in a position where they are so behind the eight ball, in terms of education, health, in terms of opportunity.”
“I think the overhang from all of the Jim Crow and before that, slavery, have had a cost, and we have to deal with it,” Biden added.
During a Thursday morning appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Harris was also asked to react to comments from Scott — made during the Republican response to Biden’s joint address to Congress — that the US is not a racist country. Scott waded into an array of hot-button policy debates and issues during his speech, including infrastructure, voting rights, policing reform and racism and discrimination, saying at one point that “America is not a racist country.”
“No. I don’t think America is a racist country but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today,” Harris said. “I applaud the President for always having the ability and the courage, frankly, to speak the truth about it.”
Harris noted that domestic terrorism manifested by White supremacists is “one of the greatest threats to our national security.”
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Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made history during Biden’s address by becoming the first two women to sit behind the President during a speech to a joint session of Congress.
During the speech, Biden laid out his plans for a sweeping spending proposal that could revamp the American economy with trillions of dollars of spending on physical infrastructure and what he administration calls “human infrastructure.”
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Harris also addressed some of her immediate plans for tackling the crisis at the US southern border.
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Siewers, Nathaniel Shober
15 Nov. 1845–12 Jan. 1901
Nathaniel Shober Siewers, physician and lay officer of the Protestant Moravian church, was born in Salem, the son of John Daniel and Rebecca Shober Siewers. His grandparents, Henry Frederick and Dorothea Wrang Siewers, traveled as Moravian missionaries in 1797 from Herrnhut, Germany, to the Danish West Indies. Nathaniel Siewers attended the Salem Boys School and Nazareth Hall, Nazareth, Pa. On 1 Nov. 1863 he went to Orange County, Va., to enlist in the Confederate army. As a private in the First Battalion, Company B, North Carolina Sharpshooters, he was detailed "as a musician" in the Twenty-first Regiment Band. His battalion joined in Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 Apr. 1865.
In 1865, after "reading" medicine with Dr. Theodore F. Keehln, Siewers entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was graduated in 1867. Eager to obtain additional training in the European clinics, he studied at the medical centers of the Universities of Berlin, Prague, and Vienna. From Vienna in October 1868 he wrote: "There is, to my mind, no profession outside of the ministry, the conscientious pursuit of which carries with it greater blessing than does that of medicine." In this spirit of dedication and with a keen awareness of his responsibility, he extended his medical study abroad through the second year to take advantage of the specialized departments of medicine then being established in Europe.
In 1869 Siewers returned to Salem to practice medicine. On 5 Oct. 1875 he married Eleanor Elizabeth de Schweinitz, the daughter of Bishop Emil de Schweinitz, a lineal descendant of Count Nicholas Louis von Zinzendorf, benefactor and "father" of the Renewed Moravian church in Herrnhut, Germany. Dr. and Mrs. Siewers had seven children—Pauline, Charles Shober, Agnes Gertrude, Ralph de Schweinitz, Ruth Eleanor, Walter Ledoux, and Grace Louise. In 1893, near the gate to what was once Cedar Avenue in Salem, Siewers built the stately gray-stone Cedarhyrst for both a residence and an office.
Siewers considered medicine to be "standing at the portals" of its potentiality; he predicted organ transplants in human beings. He was considered an excellent surgeon and is believed to have been the first in the area to perform an appendectomy. In addition, he was one of the promoters and builders of the Roanoke and Southern Railroad and among the organizers of the Wachovia Loan and Trust Company.
Bishop Edward Rondthaler characterized him as "quiet but earnest and deeply interested in the work of his church." Siewers served on the board of elders and the board of trustees of the Home Moravian Church. In 1890 he was elected a provincial elder, the first layman to fill such an office in the Moravian Unity. His last honor was that of being chosen to represent the Southern Moravian Unity at its worldwide synod in Herrnhut, Germany, in 1899, but ill health prevented him from attending. After a long illness, Siewers died at age fifty-six. He was buried in God's Acre, the Moravian graveyard, in Salem. In the University of Pennsylvania Register was this tribute: "His energy and faithfulness in his profession was [sic ] exemplary, while his skill as a physician placed him in the front ranks as a practitioner in the South, and his practice for many years was large and covered a wide area of the country."
Louis H. Manarin, comp., North Carolina Troops, 1861–1865: A Roster, vol. 3 (1971).
Dorothy R. Nifong, Brethren With Stethoscopes (1965).
North Carolina Biography, vol. 4 (1919).
Edwin Rondthaler, "Memoir of Nathaniel Shober Siewers, M.D.," 1901 (Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem).
Nathaniel Shober Siewers, "Letters to His Father, 1858–1869" (typescript copy made in 1960, possession of his family.
Nathaniel Shober Siewers papers. UNC Charlotte. https://specialcollections.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0011
Rominger, I.T. c. 1930. "View of Cedarhyrst in Salem." Old Salem Museum and Gardens. http://hdl.handle.net/10339/16803
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Lately people have been visiting this site looking for the answer to this question:
"What is the difference between grammar and usage?"
Here is my answer: Grammar has to do with the correct placement of words in a sentence. Usage involves using the proper word.
These are grammatical errors:
Me and Joe rode home together.
There’s many ways to publish a book.
In the first example, we need a subject pronoun, I, as the subject of the sentence. It would be perfectly fine to say "Joe gave me a ride home" (object pronoun). But if we rode home together, Joe and I rode home (subject pronouns).
In the second error, we need the plural verb are–not is–to agree with the plural subject, ways. However, if there were only one way to publish a book, there’s (there is) would be correct.
Those errors have to do with the grammatical role the words play in the sentence.
Below are errors in usage–a word is used incorrectly:
What is your principle reason for applying? (Principle is used incorrectly. The proper word is principal.)
Please insure that Mr. Mohammed arrives safely. (Insure is used incorrectly. The proper word is ensure.)
No doubt there are much more elaborate explanations for the difference between grammar and usage. This brief one works for me. I hope it helps.
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