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About the Series
The generally subdued security climate in 2020 in Southeast Asia (SEA) was breached by the suicide attack in Makassar, Indonesia on 28 Mar 2021. Until then, restrictive COVID-19 measures put in place by governments had seemingly arrested the mobility and planning abilities of jihadist groups in the region. Some observers had cautioned though that this security quietude was temporary and could represent a time for jihadists to lie low, regroup and review their ideological narratives, funding streams and operational plans before they spring back into action. In light of the latest attack, what lies ahead for the SEA terrorism landscape which had been with past attacks by local affiliates of the Al Qaeda and the Islamic State? In order to understand how the terrorism threat may unfold in the foreseeable future, ICPVTR is holding a series of webinars during the year to explore different aspects of the evolving threat picture in SEA. The series examines the dynamics of the region’s terrorism landscape, with in-depth discussions on the complexities and challenges in managing the return of foreign terrorist fighters, terrorism financing, latest developments in conflict areas which attract jihadists like Marawi, and the best practices and obstacles in countering online radicalisation.
In the first webinar of the series, Sidney Jones will discuss the broad terrorism landscape in the region by laying out the sources and drivers of the threat and outline the challenges regional security forces are facing today. Focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, she will highlight ideological trends and new realignments of extremist groups. She will examine issues thrown up by the new-old Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and its links with Al-Qaeda, and current fragmentation of pro-Islamic State (IS) groups in Southeast Asia. She will also touch on the deteriorating security in camps and prisons run by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria and why this should give a new urgency to discussions on repatriation of Southeast Asian nationals. Against this backdrop, Ms Jones will offer an analysis of the priorities which security officials should focus on in countering terrorism and a picture of what the landscape might look like moving forward.
About the Speaker
Sidney Jones is Director of Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict. From 2002 to 2013, Jones worked with the International Crisis Group, first as Southeast Asia project director, then from 2007 as senior adviser to the Asia program. Before joining Crisis Group, she worked for the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and New York (1977-84); Amnesty International in London as the Indonesia-Philippines-Pacific researcher (1985-88); and Human Rights Watch in New York as the Asia director (1989-2002). She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the New School in New York. She is an expert on security in Southeast Asia, particularly Islamist extremism, but has also published articles on labor migration, ethnic conflicts, ethno-nationalist insurgencies and land conflicts. She is a prolific writer and sought-after speaker and is seen as a top authority on Islamist radicalism in Southeast Asia. | <urn:uuid:e45ef725-5e47-4420-a17f-41ccddb7b867> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rsis.edu.sg/event/icpvtr-webinar-by-sidney-jones-director-institute-for-policy-analysis-of-conflict-ipac-jakarta-indonesia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.951137 | 635 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Seems to me that the holidays come earlier and earlier each year. Halloween wasn’t even over when stores were preparing for Christmas, however that’s when diabetics are challenged greatest. From Halloween to New Year’s we are constantly being bombarded with “the good stuff”.
What is this good stuff…candy, cake, baked goods and NONE are diabetic friendly. For me it started a few days before Halloween. I started seeing bags of candy stacking up for the trick or treaters and held firm on my willpower. Made it way past Halloween without having a problem. So many of us have these challenges with sweets and they are going to intensify in the next few weeks.
Here are a few suggestions I’ve tried:
- Drink lots of water when you get the urge for sweets – I guess drowning will keep you from eating sugar
- Eat a salad (but avoid the dressing) – I like this one, now I don’t get my snack and it’s tasteless
- Take a walk – This may actually help, get your mind off of the snack into a new atmosphere. Then when you come home you’ll be in a different mindset.
- Eat a low glycemic treat like Granola Gourmet bars – ok here is one that does work for me.
Dealing with food challenges is going to become a bigger issue in the next 6 weeks. Be honest with yourself, hiding your treat does not help your problem.
Disclaimer: This information is provided for general informational purposes only. Granola Gourmet does not treat, cure or prevent diabetes or any disease, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. | <urn:uuid:eafbf261-441d-46c1-b504-fd6c181d0128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.granolagourmet.com/index.php/category/diabetes-blog/page/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950268 | 354 | 1.804688 | 2 |
In a divorce or paternity case involving issues with children including time-sharing/visitation, parental responsibility or child support, the court may refer the parties to mediation. Florida law provides for the judge in such a proceeding to send the parties to mediation over disputed matters to determine if such things can be settled out of court, Florida Statute 61.183. As a divorce and family lawyer in Jacksonville, it has been my experience that mediation can be beneficial to both parties without going to trial because the parties have more control over the outcome.
What is mediation? Mediation is a formal negotiation process involving the parties, their attorneys and a neutral third party (the mediator). The mediator’s role is to help facilitate the negotiation process by working with both parties to reach the best outcome. Mediation often starts with everyone in one room (e.g. a conference room) and the party’s attorney will give a brief overview of the case and what the client is looking to achieve. Once the attorneys have completed the opening statement to the mediator, the parties are divided into two separate rooms. The mediator will typically start the process by talking to the party that initiated or filed the court action and will then go in between the rooms to see what may be resolved. Everything that is shared with the mediator is confidential and everything that happens at mediation is confidential and cannot be used at trial if the case is not resolved.
While going through this process, the mediator can make suggestions to both parties about what his/her experience has been with the judge in the case and give recommendations for offers to each party in order to help facilitate an agreement. However, the mediator is not allowed to provide legal advice to either party, even if she/he is not represented.
In mediating the case, the parties may agree upon things that the court may not hear at trial, such as future children expenses (e.g. college tuition). The parties have a little more room to sift through issues that they find important for the children that stem away from simply determining who will have majority time-sharing to such things as where the kids will go to school, how that will be determined, how division of certain activities will be paid for, etc. It gives parents an opportunity to think through what they want for the children and not just leave it to the judge to decide what is in their children’s best interest.
If an agreement is reached at mediation, then the mediator may draft a consent agreement. The agreement may be in the form of a consent final judgment and both parties normally sign before leaving the mediation. The signing of the document not only formalizes it, but also makes it binding if one party were to later change his or mind. The consent agreement must be provided to the judge for approval and his/her signature and then entered with the court. Once the order has been entered, it is an enforceable order that the parties must abide by. | <urn:uuid:d1692bae-9765-4724-b3fe-bfdf1c2bda19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jacksonvilledivorcelawyerblog.com/what_is_mediation_and_i_am_i_r/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97085 | 604 | 1.75 | 2 |
To our fans who came to BFIG to see us, and to our new fans we made there, we hope to see you all again soon!
eBee is an electronics quilting game, merging the social contexts of quilting bees and board games, the strategic and systems thinking of gaming and electronics, and the tangible nature of electronics and quilting. The project aims to bridge the generational, ethnic and gender gaps in electronics and eTextiles through its incorporation of traditional quilting methods and practices, and accessibility of board games. We envision a future in which families, friends, and communities collaborate to build and play the game, and learn about electronics along the way.
The goal of eBee is to build a circuit from the central hub, or power source, through an island, and back to the power source. The game is played with hexagonal fabric game tiles outfitted with conductive fabric pathways and attached to a game board with conductive velcro. eBee can be played as a two-player, team-based or co-op game. When players create successful circuits, an effect, such as LED lights, is triggered on the island. The game produces rich emergent gameplay and results in the creation of a collaborative, illuminated quilt. | <urn:uuid:396dddfb-af44-4c97-8ae0-dcd8c8f3b27d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ebeeproject.net/main/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.965165 | 262 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Memoirs are inherently wistful, but Larry McMurtry’s reminiscences of his life with books—not as a novelist but as a reader, book scout, and bookstore owner—are especially valedictory. Nearly every page sounds a note of farewell, of stoic, weary resignation, of time running out. While McMurtry’s voice remains modest, low-key, and immensely sympathetic, no amount of charm can disguise a pervasive melancholy in his pages. As he says, “A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.” But, he fears, the age of eagerly turned pages is passing:
Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to be. In many cases not even the librarians want books to be there. What consumers want now is information, and information increasingly comes from computers.
That is a preference I can’t grasp, much less share, though I’m well aware that computers have many valid uses. They save lives, and they make research in most cases a thing that’s almost instantaneous.
They do many good things.
But they don’t really do what books do, and why should they usurp the chief function of a public library, which is to provide readers access to books? Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books’ own home: the library.
Books, McMurtry’s new memoir, covers some of the same ground as his much-loved Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999). In those earlier “reflections at sixty and beyond” the novelist frequently discussed his life as a reader-writer-bookman. In essence, Books supplements those pages, even while repeating some of the same stories and arguments. But McMurtry’s prose is now looser, more rambling; he even calls his writing “prattle” and sometimes worries that he’s just telling “fish stories” of interest only to other book dealers and collectors. He may be partially right. Much of the time he simply alludes to one defunct bookstore after another and seldom spends enough time giving real narrative life to his friends, rivals, and colleagues in the trade. Too often Books just feels spotty and hit-or-miss. Yet despite its imperfections, a good many readers will nonetheless enjoy every page.
Like so much of Larry McMurtry’s writing, Books begins and ends in Archer City, the hardscrabble Texas town where he was born and where he now owns what he refers to as a mansion and several bookstores. He didn’t start out as a reader by any means. Cattle ranching was the family business—“McMurtry Means Beef”—and there were virtually no books in the house. As a consequence, young Larry grew up hearing rather than reading stories. But one day in 1942, a cousin on his way to war left the twelve-year-old a box of cheap adventure fiction from the 1930s. The titles were, he recalls, “on the order of Jerry Todd in the Whispering Cave or Poppy Ott and the Stuttering Parrot. The first book I actually read was an adventure involving the Canadian Mounties, called Sergeant Silk: The Prairie Scout.” In truth, what could have better suited a dreamy boy than just such wonderful trash? After all, real readers always read for excitement; only the nature of that excitement changes through life. The immensely learned man of letters Guy Davenport discovered his vocation when a South Carolina neighbor lent him a novel about Tarzan.
Soon, young McMurtry was visiting newsstands and drugstores in Wichita Falls (where his father attended weekly livestock auctions there), picking up paperbacks of Mickey Spillane’s I, the Jury and anything else that caught his wandering eye. For a long time, he tells us, “getting the books I wanted to read was the main reason for the pursuit.” But the passion for words on the page grew and grew. “I never wanted to be without books I wanted to read, and if I could be reading four or five books at the same time, so much the better.”
Eventually, McMurtry went off to Rice University, then North Texas State University, married, finished his first novel (Horseman, Pass By, filmed as Hud starring Paul Newman), received a Stegner writing fellowship to Stanford, and worked desultorily on his second book (Leaving Cheyenne). “My method of writing a novel,” he tells us, “was, from the first, to get up early and dash off five pages of narrative. That is still my method, though now I dash off ten pages a day. I write every day, ignoring holidays and weekends.” Once he’d put in his daily stint—at a typewriter both then and now—McMurtry would go out scouting for treasures in the used bookstores of San Francisco and the Bay Area. As McMurtry’s antiques-collecting hero in Cadillac Jack says, the scout’s mantra is “anything can be anywhere.”
A word more about scouting.
People commonly imagine that “bookmen” are shy, harmless folk, absentminded, with thick glasses, sporting tweeds and smoking briar pipes. Not scouts. Go to any big, well-advertised charity or antiquarian book fair just before it opens. If you wander to the front of the immensely long line—full of people with sturdy L.L. Bean canvas bags and carts of various kinds—you will notice men with lean and hungry looks. In buckskin, they might pass for gunslingers out of McMurtry’s own Lonesome Dove. A few might also be built like fullbacks or rugby players, and probably answer to the name Tiny. These are book scouts, men—and they are virtually all men—who roam the world’s estate sales and church bazaars, thrift stores, antique shops, and auction houses, who check out the books for sale in libraries and even those used as accent pieces in furniture departments. They live by their knowledge and their wits and their persistence. It’s as hardscrabble a life as any in a Texas cowtown.
In many cases, scouts will have traveled hundreds of miles for a big sale and then camped out overnight so as to be among the first people in line. When the doors open, they will run, not walk, to the categories where the high-end collectibles might lurk, to the tables marked “Rare,” “Modern Firsts,” “Art and Photography,” “Vintage.” Being at the front of the line may give them only a few seconds’ advantage, but that’s all a professional often needs. Sometimes, though, things can get tense, or even ugly. I once saw a serious fistfight break out over the Olympia Press first edition of Lolita.
For many years, Larry McMurtry was one of the best scouts in the country. In later life, according to Washington, D.C., lore, he used to hire an impecunious college student to camp out at the big local sales for him. Then, just before the doors opened to the ravening hordes, he would waltz in and take his factotum’s place in line. People would sometimes gripe. But scouting isn’t a profession for gentlemen.
“Scouts,” writes McMurtry “are the seed carriers, a vital link to the food chain of book selling. They have the time—as most dealers don’t—to inspect junk shops and visit yard sales. At a yard sale in Tucson a complete run of Melville first editions turned up, and it included The Whale. They had all been rebound, with the original covers bound in”—note the professional’s eye for detail—“but even so, they made a book scout’s day.”
San Francisco was always cold and gray, and McMurtry missed the sunshine, so he, his wife, and newborn son moved back to Texas, this time to Austin. There the young novelist and bookman became friends with Franklin Gilliam and Anthony Newnham, the proprietors of the famous Brick Row Book Shop, “surely the best bookshop in Texas at that time.” McMurtry’s affection for these two men brings out some of the best writing in his memoir:
Franklin Gilliam, originally from Texas (Cuero), was born out of his place and his age; he was meant to sit in his club, read The Times of London, occasionally look out the window and say “harrumph!” He was especially fond of trains. With his teammate, Anthony, he was, for a time, able to arrange long, cozy buying trips, always by train, across America, Canada, and the British Isles.
Anthony Newnham, by contrast, was a Byronic Englishman who, in the fullness of time, married something like nine women; these unions produced I don’t know how many children. With the onset of pregnancy Anthony’s interest in a given wife was likely to go into sharp decline…. Anthony knew nineteenth-century English books and autographs as well as any dealer I’ve known. For a time he had his own bookshop on the Isle of Wight, but he allowed Franklin to move him to Austin, where he produced a string of excellent catalogues with a heavy emphasis on the nineteenth century. Anthony was a very disciplined man, and energetic to an extreme, whereas his partner, Franklin, liked to wander around in his bathrobe drinking tea all morning, after which he would get dressed and amble off to a leisurely lunch; then he might catalogue a few books for his long a-building Southern catalogue, have a martini, and proceed to a long dinner, during which, well into the second or third bottle of wine, he would usually nod off….
Anthony Newnham tended mainly to marry against type. His first wife, I am told, was a proper English housewife—thus, in America, he usually went for wild, drug-taking motorcycle girls…. He was a very attractive man, even though, for a time, he had no front teeth, these having been knocked out by a cricket ball when he was nine. He lost his bridge and, for some years, didn’t bother to replace it…. All along he kept on marrying and siring children he could not support. Finally he went back to England, a child-support fugitive…. He fell dead, I’m told, while lifting a wineglass to his lips—an ideal exit, all things considered.
By the 1970s bookseller McMurtry had moved to Washington, where he soon opened—with his business partner Marcia Carter—the celebrated Georgetown literary oasis called Booked Up. There it flourished for more than thirty years. In his chapters about Booked Up, McMurtry naturally emphasizes many of the regulars and notables, including Nina Matheson, who formed a fabulous H.G. Wells collection, and her husband William Matheson, chief of rare books at the Library of Congress, who collected novels written by poets. (Even at the most crowded used-book sale the dapper Bill Matheson would wear a conservative suit and tie, while he examined, slowly, meticulously, every volume of poetry and fiction.) The dotty Sheri Martinelli, a former girlfriend of E.E. Cummings and Ezra Pound, hinted that she might be willing to sell her letters from these poets. Wearing her trademark floppy hat, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, once bought a couple of $2 mysteries. Sometimes McMurtry would glimpse “Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman accompanying old Governor Averell Harriman on his constitutional. The Harrimans then owned two houses side by side on N street—a house for the art and a house for themselves.” After some social maneuvering, McMurtry bought remnants of the library of Hugh Auchincloss from his widow Janice, mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
John Saumarez Smith, then managing director of Heywood Hill Bookshop in London (where Nancy Mitford once worked and whose customers included Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell), would stop in during yearly buying trips in search of private press titles and other expensive volumes—especially when the exchange rates were good. The Mayfair bookman would often stay with the British ambassador David Bruce and his wife Evangeline. “If there was a true reader in Washington,” writes McMurtry, “after Joe Alsop and myself, it was probably the distinguished diplomat David K.E. Bruce.” This is certainly a remark that many Washingtonians will dispute. As a matter of fact, McMurtry doesn’t seem to think much of the capital’s readers. “In our thirty-two years in Georgetown,” he notes,
we sold only one real book to a member of Congress. Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland bought a very fine Gibbon from us, and he read it…. Gary Hart, pre- and post-Donna Rice, often browsed, but I don’t recall that he bought. And John Brademas, the liberal congressman from Indiana who was swept away by the Reagan Revolution, brooded over a volume of Lorca once or twice, but I don’t recall that he bought it.
Booked Up always offered wonderful things, but I recall that there were few bargains—it was clearly a high-end shop for serious collectors, usually with deep pockets. Those with only modest, rather than mutual, funds at their disposal could usually just sigh over beauties they would never possess. At one point Booked Up handled first editions of Newton’s Principia Mathematica and Goya’s Disasters of War. Eventually the two owners opened an annex with cheaper items, but the main shop was the true sanctum sanctorum, where McMurtry would chat with friends, behave either coldly or shyly—depending on your viewpoint—to fans of his books, and sometimes, so I hear, sport a sweatshirt reading “Minor Regional Novelist.”
While being a general shop, Booked Up emphasized the kind of books that its owner himself liked to read: English and American literature, travel memoirs, history, classic works of scholarship. To borrow McMurtry’s own remark about William Wreden, “he always had interesting books, which is the highest compliment one bookseller can pay another.” I myself never bought much from Booked Up—being a bargain-hunter at heart—but the titles I do remember taking home indicate something of the shop’s range: the medieval Book of Margery Kempe (from the annex), a scholarly reprint of Johnsonian Miscellanies (from upstairs), Madam Crowl’s Ghost, a collection of supernatural tales by Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by his admirer and successor in the ghost story genre, M.R. James, and the Oxford edition, edited and annotated by Smith and Guthkelch, of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (purchased for my middle son on the day he was born.) All were, and are, in excellent condition.
In Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, McMurtry spoke of his personal library of 20,000 volumes; nine years later, it has grown to 28,000 volumes. Among the incidental pleasures of reading Books lies the discovery of what McMurtry himself collects and enjoys. In Archer City he has shelves of vintage paperbacks and once owned a considerable number of underground comics, including soft-core Italian fumetti. He remarks in passing that Thomas Pynchon’s V is “in my opinion a masterpiece.” One of his longest chapters describes his fascination with Gershon Legman, author of books about dirty jokes, limericks, and other erotic matters. (Legman’s unpublished autobiography, which McMurtry read in manuscript, was to be called Peregrine Penis.)
McMurtry’s most focused collection must be his two thousand volumes of travel narratives by women, though he likes travel writing in general, especially that by early-to-mid-twentieth-century British writers. He tells us that he particularly enjoys “the force of [Wilfred] Thesiger, the malice of Robert Byron, the sweep of Rebecca West, the charm of [Eric] Newby,… the irony of [Evelyn] Waugh.” Tent Life in Siberia and the shocking Siberia and the Exile System, both by George Kennan (a great uncle of the diplomat and historian), receive an entire chapter.
McMurtry mentions that he returns to Ezra Pound’s ABC of Reading every five years or so. Even more surprisingly, he notes that “I like to read Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf’s strictures notwithstanding, and have acquired—I can’t quite say ‘collected’—some 110 volumes of his work.” While we associate McMurtry with the American West, he confesses to an ongoing fascination with English political biography, having “long studied the rivalry between Balfour and Curzon—if I knew enough I’d write a novel about the two rivals.” His most recent passions are studies of the Rothschilds and books about World Wars I and II, especially biographies and accounts of the major battles. “I will no doubt be occupied with the literature of the two wars for the rest of my life.”
He no longer seems to enjoy novels. For a long time, McMurtry says, he used to review a lot of fiction for various newspapers and periodicals, but one day just couldn’t do it any longer. “I burned out as a reader of fiction. The last novel I reviewed was Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist, which I did for The New York Times Book Review.” When the late Barbara Epstein of The New York Review of Books offered him “choice bits of fiction—Charles Frazier, Cormac McCarthy,” he writes, “I knew I couldn’t read them, and sent them back.”
More and more, McMurtry confesses, he just prefers to settle down with old favorites. “If I once read for adventure, I now read for security. How nice to be able to return to what won’t change.” He specifically points to “Slowly Down the Ganges, a wonderful travel book by Eric Newby, I’ve now read many times.” But then he continues more plaintively:
I think sometimes that I’m angry with my library because I know that I can’t reread it all. I would like to, but the time is not there. It is this, I think, that produces the slight sense of alienation that I feel when I’m together with my books now. They need to find other readers soon—ideally they will be my son and grandson, but if not them, other book lovers.
That sense of winding down, of a summing up, recurs throughout Books. Periodically McMurtry comments on what he views as his own very modest literary achievement:
As I went on through life I wrote novel after novel, to the number of about thirty. Most were good, three or four were indifferent to bad, and three or four were really good. None, to my regret, were great, although my long Western Lonesome Dove was very popular—the miniseries made from it was even more popular.
Popularity, of course, is not the same as greatness.
(He never mentions that it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but remarks that he considers it to be “the Gone with the Wind of the West”.) After briefly praising his singer-songwriter son James, McMurtry adds: “I suspect that the mark he has made artistically is more likely to be indelible than the mark I have made. Great songs outlast all but the greatest prose.” That may be an exaggeration but McMurtry admits to few illusions:
One reason I’ve hung on to book selling is that it’s progressive—the opposite of writing, pretty much. Eventually, all novelists, if they persist too long, get worse. No reason to name names, since no one is spared. Writing great fiction involves some combination of energy and imagination that cannot be energized or realized forever. Strong talents can simply exhaust their gift, and they do.
It is a truism that many novels and films about the American West, including some of Larry McMurtry’s, are elegies for the passing of a heroic age. The era of long cattle drives and Indian wars, of buffalo hunters and scouts, of quiet men with fast six-guns will soon be over. Just so, McMurtry recognizes that his beloved bookdealing may have entered its twilight, first because of rising rents and more recently because of the Internet:
The 1970s…was part of the sad era that saw the closing of downtown urban bookshops in many American cities. The great dinosaurs began to disappear: Leary’s in Philadelphia, Lowdermilks in Washington, Goodspeed’s on Milk Street in Boston, Dauber & Pine and various others in New York City, Acres of Books in Cincinnati, and a little later, the Holmes Book Company in Oakland. These were venerable bookshops all, and those who loved them miss them still.
What these closings revealed was no secret to anyone in the trade: secondhand books can’t keep up with downtown real estate values.
In the 1990s McMurtry moved Booked Up from Georgetown to Archer City, hoping to establish his hometown as a major used-book emporium on the order of those old “dinosaurs” or of the famous “book town” of Hay-on-Wye in England. But with the rise of on-line bookselling, anyone could suddenly be a dealer, once-scarce titles suddenly seemed to be readily available, and fewer casual readers bothered to visit walk-in shops. The world was now one big virtual bookstore, where it was easy to just click and buy. Why travel to Archer City? Of course, people who ask that question don’t know the serendipitous pleasures of browsing through piles of books and finding the unexpected.
Soon even scouting began to change. Nowadays at fairs, you see fewer of the old-style scouts, the men with the steel-trap memories for a rare modern high spot, who can tell you—as McMurtry can—that the true first printing of The Sun Also Rises has the word “stoppped,” with that extra p, on page 81, line 26. Instead, you will now notice amateurs and hobbyists typing titles or scanning ISBN numbers into little hand-held computers. Within seconds, they know what any particular book is selling for on the Internet. If it’s underpriced, they buy it for resale. Many of them actually don’t know or care anything about the books themselves. Who needs connoisseurship, who needs the experience of handling and studying and remembering details about thousands of books? Instead of the risk-taking world of scouting, so full of raffish glamor and romance, we now have data-entry.
But then, some would argue we don’t even need physical books anymore. You can now read classic fiction on your cell phone. The electronic text industry keeps growing. Amazon even offers the Kindle, which emulates the look of an actual book page on its little screen. But bookmen—and bookwomen—love books, as McMurtry rightly insists. Why settle for an ersatz simulacrum when you can have the real thing? Yes, one can access a text with a computer, but computers don’t invite the quiet sustained attention that is real reading. They are built for speed and information retrieval, not for aesthetic bliss or the gradual acquisition of wisdom and understanding. Book collecting, as Cyril Connolly once observed, is a kind of prayer.
In the fall of 1975 I drove to Washington in an old Impala, with $400 to my name and no job prospects. I was in my mid-twenties. Soon after arriving I happened to wander into Weschler’s Auction House, and there discovered that among the Oriental rugs and early American paintings were a few small lots of books. One of these consisted of some attractive private press titles, including, if I remember correctly, an item from the famous Kelmscott Press of William Morris. The auction was to take place the next day, so I had time to run over to the Library of Congress and verify that this particular lot was worth at least $600 and probably a bit more.
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The carrier said the small cell deployment is part of the an integrated energy-savings-as-a-service initiative
Sprint’s Sprint Magic Box small cell is slated for deployment in approximately 100 buildings in Pittsburgh, Penn., to provide connectivity for the nation’s first fully-integrated energy-savings-as-a-service initiative.
BOSS Controls, an IoT energy management company headquartered in Pittsburgh, has received an intent to award contract from the city. Under this project, the firm is collaborating with Sprint and the city’s Sustainability and Resilience Division, Facilities Bureau and the Department of Innovation and Performance and other companies to provide energy savings for city buildings.
The carrier highlighted that the Sprint Magic Box, which offers improved data coverage and increased download and upload speeds, and Sprint LTE modems with Wi-Fi, will connect BOSS Smart Plugs installed in the selected buildings. The BOSS Smart Plugs can be added to any electrical device, which could be scheduled to turn off when the buildings are unoccupied.
“This is a great example of how Sprint Magic Box is making a difference for our customers with a data connectivity solution that’s so simple to use,” said Scott Santi, Head of Network Deployment & Operations at Sprint. “We’re proud to play a part in launching this innovative program to increase energy efficiencies and lower costs with the City of Pittsburgh.”
Sprint Magic Box is a wireless small cell, which provides indoor coverage averaging up to 30,000 square feet. The small cell’s signal also extends data coverage to Sprint customers in nearby businesses. As part of its next-generation network investment, Sprint is currently densifying its network by deploying more small cells – including Sprint Magic Boxes – to improve coverage and speed for consumers and businesses in cities across the country.
The self-configuring, plug-and-play small cell solution uses an LTE UE relay, and is being deployed in consumer and enterprise use cases, Sprint said.
In May, Sprint said it had already deployed 200,000 Sprint Magic Boxes to businesses and consumers in approximately 200 cities. Sprint plans to deploy more than 1 million units as part of its multi-year roadmap.
Last year, Airspan Networks, a provider of LTE small cells and backhaul technologies which designed and manufactured the Magic Box, said the company was taking actions to scale production of this small cell solution in order to meet the increasing demand for the product,
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One of the most pressing concerns that many business owners have today is the threat of hacking, information being compromised or ransomware. Cyber crime has been on the rise year after year, and the criminals aren’t just targeting big companies. Instead, they are also targeting small businesses that lack the precautions that many bigger names have. Could eLearning be a powerful tool to educate your employees on cyber security?
Cyber Security Issues Are a Serious Problem
Per recent estimates, approximately 2.7 million data records were stolen in 2017, which is over twice the number of records compromised in 2016. That number has continued to rise, and malware, data breaches, ransomware attacks and identity fraud are all problems for your employees and your business. Training your employees properly is a great way to ensure that they understand best practices for keeping data safe, protecting your network and guarding your computers from unauthorized access or attack. So, how can you properly train your employees?
eLearning Is an Excellent Way to Educate Employees
We recently launched a cyber security course here that is designed to educate employees and business owners on how to protect their assets. The right eLearning course will ensure that your employees are learning in an entertaining and engaging format while checking for comprehension along the way. Great course design can replace boring seminars and lengthy meetings where employees struggle to pay attention.
For example, would your employees learn more by receiving a printed list in an email of ways to protect data? Or, would they learn more by working their way through a dynamic course that doesn’t only list ways to protect data but also fully explain what each step means, how to practice it and then quizzes their knowledge to ensure comprehension? After all, telling your employees to back up and encrypt their data is meaningless if they do not fully understand that backing up and encrypting mean in the first place!
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An elephant of the royal stalls at Rājagaha. Devadatta, after several vain attempts to kill the Buddha, obtained Ajātasattu’s consent to use Nāḷāgiri as a means of encompassing the Buddha’s death. The elephant, he said, knows nothing of the Buddha’s virtues and will have no hesitation in destroying him. Nāḷāgiri was a fierce animal, and in order to increase his fierceness, Devadatta instructed his keeper to give him twice his usual amount of toddy. Proclamation was made, by the beating of drums, that the streets of the city should be cleared as Nāḷāgiri would be let loose upon them. When the Buddha was informed of this and warned against going into the city for alms, he ignored the warning, and went into Rājagaha with the monks of the eighteen monasteries of the city. At the sight of Nāḷāgiri all the people fled in terror. Ānanda, seeing the elephant advancing towards the Buddha, went, in spite of the Buddha’s orders to the contrary, and stood in front of the Buddha, who had to make use of his supernormal power to remove him from his place. Just then, a woman, carrying a child, saw the elephant coming and fled, in her terror dropping the child at the Buddha’s feet. As the elephant was about to attack the child, the Buddha spoke to him, suffusing him with all the love at his command, and, stretching out his right hand, he stroked the animal’s forehead. Thrilling with joy at the touch, Nāḷāgiri sank on his knees before the Buddha, and the Buddha taught him the Dhamma. It is said that had the elephant not been a wild beast he would have become a Stream-
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The dialects of Burmese language refer to difference in pronunciations or accents, words and expressions. Burmese dialects are the different forms of Burmese language spoken by particular group of people in different regions. Burmese dialect is a way of pronunciation used by a community of native speakers who belong to same geological region. In some of the languages, there are sub dialects too. Take a look at all Burmese Speaking Countries.
It is important to know Burmese dialects because different Burmese Dialects are spoken by Burmese speakers. Like other languages in the world, Burmese language also has many varieties. These Burmese dialects are spoken over the entire Burmese speaking regions. Burmese Language has different dialects and is most commonly spoken language in Burmese speaking countries. The total number of Burmese Dialects is 5. Get information about Burmese Language History to know more about this language.
Want to know where do they speak Burmese dialects? One of the Burmese dialect is Arakanese. Arakanese dialect is spoken in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar. Another dialect of Burmese is Tavoyan.Tavoyan dialect is spoken in Myanmar. Find more about speaking population of other languages on Most Spoken Languages.
Wondering how many people speak Burmese Dialects? Burmese Dialects are spoken in different regions with varying speaker population i.e. from thousands in one dialect to millions in another.
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Thanks to twisty television plots and popular Vegas magic shows, hypnosis is one of the most fascinating — yet least understood — forms of therapy. Below, we’ve listed 15 surprising facts about the science of hypnosis that will not only dispel some of the myths, but also totally blow your mind.
Hypnosis is an accepted form of medical treatment.
Hypnosis — known also as hypnotherapy — has its doubters, but it’s been an accepted form of medical treatment since the 1950s. Every year, more and more people seek out appointments with hypnotherapists to find a healthy way to control fears and negative behaviors. To achieve this, hypnotherapists help patients access their subconscious mind, something many of us do every day without realizing.
A human stays completely awake during hypnosis.
Contrary to popular belief, hypnotism is a natural state of mind. It’s not a form of sleep. Scientists have proven over and over again that patients remain wide awake while under hypnosis, and even retain complete control of their actions.
The average person experiences hypnosis at least twice a day.
Believe it or not, you likely enter an hypnotic state at least twice a day. Common examples include arriving at your destination without memory of driving there, zoning out while reading the page of a book, or becoming so engrossed in the television show you’re binging that you barely realize half a day has passed.
Officially, hypnosis has been around since 18th century.
Franz Mesmer is usually credited with bringing hypnosis to the attention of the public sometime around 1770. The Austrian physician likely knew about the use of hypnosis by earlier societies, and spent much of his career studying hypnosis and its effects on the human mind. Interestingly, Mesmer referred to hypnosis as “animal magnetism” or “mesmerism,” and the latter of the two is sometimes still used today. (We bet you’re utterly mesmerized by this fact, right?).
But some of the earliest recorded descriptions of hypnosis date back to ancient Egypt in 1500 B.C.
Imhotep, the world’s first known physician, used healing sanctuaries known as Sleep Temples. The temples were used for a type of suggestion therapy, and people would go to be healed from problems both physical and mental. It’s said that patients visiting a Sleep Temple would be put under the influence of incantation, or hypnotic state. Before ultimately falling asleep, the physician would give them whatever suggestions might help overcome their problem in hopes that the gods would visit the patient during his sleep and fix them.
Hypnosis can be used as an anesthesia.
Various studies have found that hypnosis can be an effective tool for pain management. In fact, studies done using EEG have shown that hypnosis removes the emotional experience of pain, while still allowing one to experience the sensory sensation. The touch can be felt, but the actual feeling of pain isn’t recognized by the brain. More and more women are even going through prenatal hypnosis training as they prepare for natural childbirth.
Stage hypnosis and clinical hypnosis are very different.
When “hypnosis” is mentioned, most people tend to think of stage hypnosis. This is the popular show during which a hypnotist chooses seemingly random people, sends them to sleep, and then makes them do hilarious (and kind of mean) tricks for laughs. As entertaining as stage hypnosis may be, it has little to do with clinical hypnosis. The latter is an accepted form of therapy which helps people overcome various ailments via a relaxed mind and strategic suggestion.
Not everyone is a candidate for stage hypnosis.
If you’ve ever seen stage hypnosis meant for entertainment, you’ll likely see the entertainer/hypnotist choose what seems to be a random group of audience members to come up on stage and “be hypnotized.” But like any good show, not all is as it appears. According to various scientific studies, some people are more prone to hypnotic suggestibility. These people can be persuaded into the subconscious mind more easily than others. These types of people are often “quizzed” beforehand, even if they don’t realize it.
A hypnotized person remains in complete control.
Hypnosis occasionally makes an appearance on television. It’s usually part of a storyline in which the hypnotized person has lost all control and becomes a “puppet.” In reality, people in a relaxed state of hypnosis remain completely in control. They should be able to hear, comprehend, and later remember what the hypnotist suggests. There should be no concerns about being made to cluck like a chicken or sent on a murder spree while hypnotized.
Hypnosis can help overcome a bevy of maladies.
People seek out hypnotherapists for a variety of reasons. These include getting help overcoming fears and phobias, weight loss, negative and traumatizing memories, insomnia, and smoking. Hypnotherapy has even been found to assist laboring mothers by reducing pain during childbirth. More parents of children with ADHD are finding that hypnotherapy has a positive and drug-free effect on their children. According to Britain’s Paediatrics Child Health, “Hypnotherapy allows the child to gain a sense of control, increase self-esteem and competence, and reduce stress.”
Hypnosis only brings about memory loss if that its intended goal.
On television, hypnotized people never seem to remember what happened during their hypnosis. However, as we said above, hypnotized people remain awake and aware throughout the session. Hypnosis is all about suggestion. If the purpose of undergoing hypnotherapy is to forget negative memories, that can be achieved. Forgetting memories is only likely to happen if that’s the goal, and even those memories can be brought back with further suggestion.
Your brain works differently while in a hypnotized state.
Hypnosis allows the brain to bypass the conscious part of the mind. It “turns off” the desire to ask questions or take note of surroundings. Instead, the brain gains hyperawareness, a state of being in control of one’s body and/or surroundings without consciously thinking about it.
It’s impossible to become stuck in a hypnotized trance.
The idea that one can become stuck in a hypnotized trance is a common misconception. In truth, hypnotized people never lose control of their mind or body, and are able to come out of the hypnotized state as easily as opening their eyes.
Hypnosis feels different to different people.
People who have undergone hypnosis report different feelings whilst “under.” Some describe their experience like falling asleep with the television on, while others report feeling heavy. Still others use words like “light” or “floating.” Since we all internalize experiences differently, it makes sense that the feeling of hypnosis is different for each person.
You can hypnotize yourself.
On television, there’s always a hypnotist and a person being hypnotized, leading to the common misconception that it takes two to tango with hypnotism. In reality, there is such a thing as self-hypnosis and it’s totally valid. Emile Coue, a French psychologist, developed the technique in which a person can suppress all mental resistance and enter into a hypnotic state. | <urn:uuid:78c2ec10-8588-4cdc-b2ae-ee1882fe64d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/amazing-facts-about-the-science-of-hypnosis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.963395 | 1,566 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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This course by Stressman Engineering gives you a strong base and understanding of Pipe Stress Engineering. It will enhance your discussions with colleagues, vendors, and clients and refuels you with inspiration and knowledge. In a set of online modules, you learn to understand the design philosophy of pipe stress. With practical examples, the instructors will provide you with a prominent course and give you a complete overview.
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Basic Allowable Stress Tables
Allowable Stress due to Sustained Loads
Allowable Stress due to Displacement Strains
Occasional Stress Allowable
Pipe Weight Considerations
Additional WeighInsulation & Internal Lining
The buoyancy of Piping Systems
Elasticity Modules Tables
Flexibility Factors & Stress Intensification Factors (SIF)
Pressure Stiffening of Components
Pressure & Weight Sustained Stresses
Pipe Span Calculations
Thermal ExpansionCoefficient Tables
Sagging & Hogging
Wind Loading on Piping Systems
Acceleration on Piping Systems
Transportation Analysis of Piping Systems
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Load Combination Cases Part A
Basic Load Combinations Part B
Load Combinations Example Part C
Load Case Combinations Part D
Load Case Combinations Part E
Load Case Combinations Part G
Scalar Combinations of Loads
Load Combinations Example for Pipe Stress Analysis
Trunnions & Welded Attachments
Piping guides and stops
Anti Vibration Supports, Struts & Sway braces
Introduction & Recap
Flange Leakage Calculations
Kellogg's equivalent pressure method
Flange calculation: ASME VIII Division 1 & 2
Flange calculation: API TR 6AF & API TR 6AF2
Category M Fluid Piping as per ASME B31.3
Piping supports settlement
Pipeline / Soil settlements
Water Hammer or Surge
Discharge in open systems: Pressure Safety valves
Discharge in closed systems: Pressure Safety valves
Acoustic induced vibration (AIV)
Flow-induced vibrations (FIV)
Summary AIV vs. FIV
Pulsations in Piping Systems (Flow-induced pulsations)
Hydrogen Induced Stress Cracking (HISC)
Recap & Exercise Review
Introduction & Overview
Reporting a Pipe Stress Analysis
Piping Stress Checklist
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After the courses Fundamentals I & II course you have a complete overview of the pipe stress process.
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Know all concepts involved in a pipe stress flexibility analysis,
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Have a good overview of all types of piping components and support types,
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Have a detailed understanding of the documentation aspects involved with pipe stress and interfaces with other disciplines.
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Piping Design Engineers & Piping Design Leads which are required to understand the basics of pipe stress engineering to make the right decisions,
Junior Pipe Stress Engineers with 0-3yr experience,
Mechanical, Process, and Structural engineers that require a broad perspective on piping system design.
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Traditions and Activities
Doane students develop a sense of community that is cultivated in its present but deeply rooted in its past. Students are bound together across centuries and generations by important traditions, some of which have been in place since the school’s founding in 1837. Doane is not only a place where students go to school, but also a place where they are from. Its traditions are an essential way of linking current students to the many alumni to whom the community is indebted.
First Day of School
Doane Academy begins the school year in a way that is profoundly meaningful and joy-filled. The entire school community, including students, faculty, family, alumni, and members of the board of trustees, gather on the bank of the Delaware River to celebrate the start of the new school year and welcome the members of the senior class as they arrive by canoe for the first day of school. The seniors’ arrival is a moving reminder to them and their families that this is the beginning of the end of their time as students at Doane. It is a moment for seniors to reflect on how the school community will look to them to be leaders in the new school year. In addition, it is an exciting way to open school for our youngest students, who track the seniors’ progress from the distant shore to the heart of Doane’s campus.
The culmination of Spirit Week, Homecoming is a time for alumni to return to campus for a day of fellowship, celebration, and entertainment. The day begins with a soccer triple-header, with the returning alumni facing off against each other, followed by the Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys hosting rival teams. At midday, alumni and members of the school community share signature dishes in a tailgate party for the enjoyment of all and in competition for 'Best of Homecoming' accolades. The daytime events end with teams of students using slingshots, trebuchets, and other hand-built siege engines to launch pumpkins toward the Delaware River. Students in grades 9-12 return to school at night for the Homecoming Dance.
Started by Upper School students over 40 years ago, Doane’s Dungeon gives a literary twist to the traditional Halloween haunted house. Scary, spooky, and Shakespearean, the event turns the basement and corridors of our historic school into a haunted dungeon for an entire weekend. Drama students, as well as those interested in set design and lighting, work together to create scenes from classics such as Frankenstein, The Crucible, The Phantom of the Opera, “The Tell-Tale Heart", and many other literary works. Open to the public, Doane’s Dungeon is one of the year’s biggest community events.
The Christmas season at Doane includes Upper School and Lower School concerts. Yet, the season’s centerpiece is the annual performance of the Christmas Mystery. Originated in 1848 by St. Mary’s Hall boarding students who were unable to travel home for the holidays, the Christmas Mystery is a music-filled presentation on the Nativity. Performed word for word as it was written so long ago (the current script dates from 1930), the Christmas Mystery is one of our most beloved traditions. Each year Upper School students vie for a part in the performance, with the parts of Mary and Joseph reserved for the senior boy and girl who have been at the school the longest, and the part of the Baby Jesus often filled by the baby of a Doane family or faculty member. The play is performed in the morning for students in grades Primary-8, and the evening performance for students in grades 9-12 is followed by a dinner that includes the reading of student holiday season reflections. The evening closes with a choir led singing of “Silent Night.”
Founder's Day Weekend
An alumni celebration of the school’s founder, Bishop George Washington Doane, and his enduring, revolutionary vision of providing educational opportunities to young women takes place every May. A weekend long series of events inspires alumni to relive their days at Doane alongside their longtime friends and share their stories with current students. A cocktail reception on Friday evening welcomes back alumni, and there is a chapel service on Saturday morning during which a wreath of pansies is placed on Bishop Doane’s portrait as a symbolic expression of gratitude. This service is followed by the Society of Graduates luncheon, and a dinner party caps off the events in the evening. Each year’s Founder’s Day Weekend pays special tribute to classes celebrating their major reunions.
Affirmations are designed to send seniors off to college with positive and sometimes enlightening messages and reminders of what of what they have given to the school community, and emphasizing the unique traits that make each of them so worthy of admiration, love, and respect. During a given senior’s Affirmation, a selection of faculty members and fellow students speak about them before the student body, and many more record their tributes in writing for that senior to carry with them as they move into boldly into their future.
Clubs and Activities
Doane’s club offerings mirror the diversity of the school’s students and their interests. They offer students the chance to participate in collaborative engineering projects, deliver closing arguments in mock trial, organize community service efforts, and much more. They provide unique ways for students to connect their academic studies with real world, real-time issues as well as devote additional time and energy to activities that bring them joy. Clubs are led by students to the fullest extent possible, with faculty members serving as advisors. These advisors encourage club members to take on the many different kinds of leadership opportunities and challenges inherent in building and running an organization with specific and meaningful goals. An essential part of school culture, clubs allow students to test themselves and their ideas in bold, exciting, and fun ways. | <urn:uuid:bc5365d1-d94b-4c4d-86d1-0a9962eea88a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doaneacademy.org/campus-life/traditions-and-activities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.9657 | 1,223 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Make a den in the garden to stay out of the sun for a little while and have fun reading a book together – a fun bright coloured story from ‘Uh Oh Milo!’ is perfect for younger children, and a great way to get conversations started with little people, around manners or temper tantrums.
What to do when they say “I’m BORED!” – let the BORED JAR do the talking!
Find a lovely jam jar and decorate it with glitter and other crafty things and then get your kids to write on some slips of paper lots of fun, simple, inexpensive ideas for things to do to pop into the jar. So when they moan. ‘I’m bored’ they can pick out something from their jar and voila – they have something to do, make or play. Some ideas: building a den, going to the library, playing badminton in the garden, go mini beast hunting, painting a rainbow.
Rotate activities. Most kids are attracted to novelty and will be more willing to play with something that feels new. Put aside some of your kids’ toys and games for a few weeks. When you reintroduce them, they will find them more appealing and fun all over again. You could also swap toys with friends because other children’s stuff always seems somehow more interesting than their own don’t they?
Wash the family car together. Two birds, one stone. Stay cool, have fun, clean the car – and spend quality family time together. Sounds like a memorable and productive way to spend a summer afternoon and stay cool to me!
Have a water balloon toss up! Get the kids to fill lots of balloons with water. Depending on how many kids there are, you can set up different water balloon games. You can keep it simple and play ‘keepy uppy’ or have one person in the middle of a circle and when they drop the balloon – it bursts open soaking the player!!! | <urn:uuid:9f4d91b9-2045-4cbb-b393-c49fd5725472> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scotland4kids.com/2022/07/29/summer-tips-to-keep-the-kids-amused-and-staying-cool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.940737 | 414 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The Boxer Breed
Boxers are large, muscular, square-headed dogs who look imposing--that is, until you look into their eyes and see the mischief and joy of life reflected there. Because of their playful nature and boundless energy, they are sometimes called the "Peter Pan" of the dog breeds. Boxers aren't considered fully mature until they are three years old, meaning they have one of the longest puppyhood in the world of dogs.
The typical Boxer is intelligent, alert, and fearless, yet friendly. He's loyal to his family and loves to play with them, but he's also headstrong, especially if you try to use harsh training methods with him.
With minimal grooming needs and legendary patience and gentleness with children, Boxers are great family companions, as long as you provide them with the physical exercise and mental stimulation they need. If you're willing and able to provide them with adequate exercise in the form of walks or runs, they can even adapt to apartment living, so long as they are able to be close to their beloved people
Boxers are renowned for their great love of and loyalty to their families. They often are distrustful of strangers at first, but will not be aggressive unless they perceive a threat to their families. Boxers are so loving that they often think they are lapdogs and try to lie as close to you as possible.
Boxer owners around the world take special delight in their beloved dogs' clownish behavior. Boxers are high-spirited, happy, and energetic. They often paw, cat-like, at their toys, food bowls, and even their owners. When they are excited, they often "kidney bean," a little dance that involves twisting their bodies into a semi-circle, similar to the shape of a kidney bean, and then turning in circles. Boxers also make a unique sound, called a "woo-woo," when they want something or are excited. It is not exactly a bark, but rather sounds as though they are saying "woo-woo," look at me!
Boxers aren't the breed for everyone, but if you like a big dog who likes to cuddle, don't mind a little drool between friends, want a dog that will delight you with his clownish antics and yet be gentle with your children, and most of all, if you are prepared to keep your Boxer physically and mentally stimulated, the Boxer just might be the right dog for you!
Boxers are high-energy dogs and need a lot of exercise. Make sure you have the time, desire, and energy to give them the play and activity they need.
Boxers are exuberant and will greet you ecstatically.
Early, consistent training is critical--before your Boxer gets too big to handle!
Although they are large, Boxers are not "outdoor dogs." Their short noses and short hair make them uncomfortable in hot and cold weather, and they need to be kept as housedogs.
Boxers mature slowly and act like rambunctious puppies for several years.
Boxers don't just like to be around their family--they need to be around them! If left alone for too long or kept in the backyard away from people, they can become ill-tempered and destructive.
Boxers drool, a lot. Boxers also snore, loudly.
Although they have short hair, Boxers shed, especially in the spring.
Boxers are intelligent and respond well to firm but fun training. They also have an independent streak and don't like to be bossed around or treated harshly. You'll have the biggest success in training your Boxer if you can make it fun for him.
Boxers are housedogs. Their short noses and short coats make them unsuited to living outdoors, although they'll enjoy having a fenced yard to play in.
Boxers love to play. To keep their muscles toned and satisfy their need for exercise, plan on playing with them or walking them at least twice a day for half an hour. Play fetch, take him for long walks, or get him involved in dog sports such as agility or flyball. Giving your Boxer plenty of daily exercise is the best way to ensure good behavior. A tired Boxer is a good Boxer.
Training is essential for the Boxer. He's so big and strong that he can accidentally hurt people by knocking them over if he doesn't learn to control his actions. The Boxer's temperament plays a role in his trainability. He's happy and excitable, bouncy, and a bit of a mischief-maker. Getting him to take training seriously requires starting early and using firm, fair training methods and positive motivation in the form of praise, play, and food rewards. Be consistent. Your Boxer will notice any time you let him get away with something, and he'll push to see what else he can get away with. Before you head to training class, settle him down a little with an energetic walk or play session
Crate training is recommended.
Children and other pets
Boxers love kids and are great playmates for active older children. They can be too rambunctious for toddlers, however, and can accidentally knock them down in play.
Always teach children how to approach and touch dogs, and always supervise any interactions between dogs and young children to prevent any biting or ear or tail pulling on the part of either party. Teach your child never to approach any dog while he's eating or sleeping or to try to take the dog's food away. No dog should ever be left unsupervised with a child.
Boxers can get along well with other dogs and cats, especially if they're raised with them.
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“And whoever would be first among you must be your slave,28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20: 27-28Tweet
As I matured in Christ, I began to notice, “everybody wants to preach, but nobody wants to minister! To minister is to care about the state of others and engage. To sacrifice is to act unselfishly, abandoning urges to serve self.
People are hurting and in need of more than lip service. Christians are preordained to serve and lead lost souls to Christ by example and sacrifice. According to the Dictionary.com website, as a noun, examples of sacrifice may consist of; the offering of animal, plant, or human life or the material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage. In verb form, used with the person, animal, or thing, and (used with an object), it is to make a sacrifice or offering of. to surrender or give up or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else.
“Self-sacrifice is one of the major themes of the New Testament. Jesus modeled it for us in the way He lived. ( gotquestions.org)
Though He was God, He did not demand His rights as God, but demonstrated servant leadership in everything He did.” (Philippians 2:6–8).
So you see, you must give of yourself in a manner that results in giving up something that you value, lovingly, like time, things or money whenever possible. Christians must not restrict sacrificing efforts to only those they know personally or who like or love them. Through Scripture, the Bible gives clear instructions coupled with examples of what “sacrifice” looks like. We should also pay close attention to the emphasis placed on the essence of the meaning of sacrifice found in Scripture depicting illustrations of sacrifice. At the end of this post, the following Scriptures give profound clarity to anyone seeking to dissect the true meaning of sacrifice.
God is looking down on us to see if we are intentionally attending to the needs of those we claim to care about.” The Father needs Christians who feel passionate about changing lives, are committed to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and are willing to sacrifice for the greater good. There is no halfway point. We must fully commit or get off the ship. As people say, our actions speak volumes, and so do our words or lack of either. Simply put, a spiritually sick brother or sister is one whose heart prohibits them from sacrificing themselves due to selfishness. Selfishness is a symptom of spiritual sickness, preventing one from effectively leading others to Christ by example. Because they are sick, they must first get well themselves. To approach the lost and sick, bearing open wounds subjects others to infection rather than healing. The most dangerous aspect of spiritually deficient or sick people trying to help others is the risk of spreading disease.
Every day we see evidence of disease spreading among the people both virally and spiritually. Let’s talk about spreading spiritual disease for a moment. Dissemination of false truths embedded in conspiracies may be the most egregious modern-day spiritual disease of all time. The keyword here is embedded. Hidden! Designed to deceive! Repeated to
Oftentimes, conspiracy messengers intertwine religion to help validate or give credibility to epistles. In Biblical terms, the concept can be chalked up to spreading false prophesy. In worldly provisions, “conspiracy” best describes the phenomenon. One need only examine the messenger’s purpose to actuate validity, which in turn brings to light the absence of evidence of any personal sacrifice. According to the Oxford dictionary, a conspiracy is a group’s secret plan to do something unlawful or harmful? That said, how does one intermingle God with intentional human acts of unlawful or harmful actions against others? They carry signs depicting God’s name, His Scripture, and even portraying His face. Most disturbing, the only sacrifice going where conspiracists are involved is that of others?
How could so many people fall victim to so many claims or conspiracies that do make common or otherwise sense? The one about all Democrats being pedophiles? Even if it were true, why would that bother you when 70-plus million Americans voted for a President who’s been accused of rape, disrespects women in more ways than one cares to count, has no empathy for others, let millions of people get infected with a possibly deadly virus, tell lies every time his lips move, incite and ordain a coup to overturn an election and cowardly go into hiding as it all goes down? Adopting the practice of selecting sins to bear according to situations is mute to God. The lynch mob is no less guilty of sin because they only desire to lynch people they hate. The con-man is no less of a sinner than the crooked politician. The Christian politician is still a sinner if he or she aims to serve the privileged. The evil preacher is just a sinner dressed up as a man or woman of the cloth, and the story goes. All I can do is pray, and (SMH).
Scripture on Sacrifice
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. John 15:12-14 ESV
Let each of you look not only to his own interests but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 ESV
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:2 ESV
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Dec 15, 2018
This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Joseph Juhn. They speak about the 1905 migration of Koreans to Mexico, their onward movement to Cuba, the difficulties they experienced in both countries, the challenges of maintaining split identities as a diaspora, how the Japanese annexation and division of the Korean peninsula reshaped these identities, the nature of this community and how it maintains today, and the impact they have had on Cuban society and politics.
Joseph Juhn is a former attorney and Intellectual Property Consultant at KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency). In December2015, he travelled to Cuba and by chance found himself meeting with members of the Korean-Cuban community. From this first encounter with this diaspora, Joseph has produced and directed an independent, feature-length documentary about the history of Koreans in Cuba, titled ‘Jeronimo’. (Link to the film’s website: http://www.jeronimothemovie.com/).
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I have been trying to understand the FX impact on deferred revenues. In the All Current method, the spot rate is used to convert the Deferred Revenue to US dollars. There is not much discussion of how this impacts the cash flow statement in the Schweser notes. There is a discrepancy in the change in deferred revenues in the balance sheet and cash flow due to FX.
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About High Efficiency Air Conditioning
High efficiency air conditioners waste less energy while cooling, which means lower utility bills. If you’re considering an AC upgrade, a high efficiency system will provide maximum comfort, and long-term energy savings.
Benefits of a High Efficiency Air Conditioner
- Less Energy Waste
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- Increased Comfort & Air Quality
- Quieter Operation
- Environmentally Friendly
SEER rating is a measure of an air conditioners efficiency. The higher the rating, the more efficient the system is. Energy-efficient models have a SEER rating of 16 or higher.
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If you have an old system, if your unit isn’t cooling properly, or if you have frequent breakdowns, get in touch for a fee estimate.
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We make the AC installation process as simple as possible. The first thing we do is determine the correct equipment to properly cool your home or business. An expert installer will provide a free assessment and explain system features, pricing, financing and warranties. All of our systems provide energy efficient cooling designed to specifically fit your space and budget.
If you approve this quote, we’ll schedule your installation appointment. Most installation take less than a day. Or typically a full day if you are also installation a new furnace at the same time. Extensive changes to ductwork, multi-unit systems, and commercial installs may take longer.
A new air conditioner is a big investment. If you don’t want to pay for a new system in full, we offer custom financing options. Just give us a call to schedule an estimate to start the process.
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The rapidly growing field of big data is upending everything from commerce to industry and applied science. One University of Melbourne graduate is right in the thick of it, helping online giant eBay manage its data in Shanghai.
“Big data is a very hot area at the moment in China,” says Xiao Su, a graduate of the Bachelor and Master of Science.
“The market is booming.”
Majoring in Stochastic Process and Statistics at university, she now works as an accounts manager at eBay in Shanghai, after stints at analytics firm Opera Solutions and Citibank. Her work at eBay involves figuring out which kinds of data the client needs, extracting it from eBay’s data warehouse, examining data variables, identifying which models work best with the data selected, and then running evaluations.
It’s a complex job, but Xiao says it’s a rewarding one.
“I think that it’s very important to choose a job that broadens your skills and knowledge, not one that restricts your abilities.”
When she embarked on her Bachelor’s degree she had never set foot in Melbourne. But Xiao found a welcoming and diverse community that supported her through her studies.
“It’s a great city with great culture, people and food of course,” she says.
“I was there to study, but I also wanted to have a personal life. It’s a city where you can have a lot of fun around studying.”
Xiao mentions the art galleries, museum, beaches and parks as particular highlights of her time in the city. And she believes these experiences helped her land her first job.
“Employers want you to define yourself as an overall human being,” she says.
“How to meet people, how to communicate with people … these are important skills to develop.”
Before moving to China, Xiao made use of the university’s career service on campus, which is free for students and recent graduates and can offer help with tailoring resumes. She also did her research.
“Choosing an entry level job is not easy, and for those who don’t have any specific interests I suggest getting an internship first. You can spend three or six months trying different workplaces out.”
Asked why she went straight from undergraduate to postgraduate study at the University of Melbourne, she says that “in China there are lots of Bachelor graduates. If you want to stand out when applying for jobs, you have to make yourself stand out. That’s one of the reasons, and secondly, I wanted to enhance my mathematical knowledge and get exposure to modern/front tier technology.”
Not only did she find the coursework interesting, but she made connections with fellow students, some of whom she is still in touch with today. Those relationships don’t just benefit the individual graduates, but also the companies for which they work.
“I got to know one of my fellow students because we took the same subjects many, many times, and he is now a PhD graduate from the University of Melbourne. He wanted to find a job in the industry and came to me for a discussion on whether going to industry or further into academia was right for him, and I wanted to know more about the high-level statistics he researched. We exchanged our knowledge and industry experiences, and I think this benefits both of our companies.”
While on campus, Xiao was also fortunate enough to be selected for a student ambassador program, where team members co-operated with a soccer team to educate young people about bike safety.
The project gave her real-world experience working with an industry partner, and also taught her about leadership, a skill that Xiao says is increasingly important.
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UT Extension to hold workshops on preserving food
Published 1:00 pm Friday, May 28, 2021
Juicy ripe peaches, fresh green beans, sweet blackberry jam, and crunchy dill pickles… nothing tastes better than home-canned foods. For many, preserving these and other foods at home can be an intimidating process. However, this does not have to be the case. In fact, with a little knowledge, the right skills, and practice, anyone will find that it is so easy to preserve fresh fruits and vegetables at home.
The University of Tennessee Extension Office in Claiborne County is pleased to announce a course to help with canning foods safely at home. “Canning 101: Preserving Foods Safely” is a course designed to teach, through hands-on demonstrations, the “ins and outs” of home canning. Topics to be covered in the course include:
Using a Pressure Canner to can low acid foods
Preserving Jams and Jellies
Using a Water Bath Canner
Freezing and Drying Foods
Whether you are an experienced canner who has preserved food for years or a novice wanting to learn more about home canning, this is the course for you.
Participants will learn the basics of food preservation as they safely preserve vegetables, fruits, pickles, jams and jellies. You will learn the difference between a hot water bath canner and pressure canner and why we use each one. Anyone interested in learning to preserve fruits and vegetables or who just wants a refresher course may attend. Cost is $60.00 which covers all supplies for the course.
Participants take home a So Easy to Preserve Book and a dozen jars, most filled with the preserved foods from the workshop.
There are 2 workshop options:
- June 19, 2021 from 9:30a.m. to 3:30p.m. at Servolution Health Services. Class limit is 10.
- June 22 and June 24 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Tazewell Senior Center. Class limit is 5.
You must pre-register for each of these classes so supplies can be purchased. Call the Extension Office at 423-626-3742 or email me at [email protected] to sign up for the class that you plan to come to, so supplies may be purchased.
This course is open for anyone who would like to learn more about preserving the wonderful produce from your garden, from the farmer’s market, or your local farmer, so you will have home preserved foods to eat all year long.
CHECK PRESSURE CANNER GAUGES
It is summer and time to preserve your summer produce. Safe, high quality home canned foods begin with the right equipment used properly. If you use a pressure canner with a dial gauge you need to have it tested to make sure that it is showing the correct pressure. Call the Extension office at 626-3742 and schedule a time to have your gauge checked. You just need the gauge or the lid with the gauge. There is no charge for this service.
If you would like to learn more about how UT-TSU Extension serves Claiborne County, you can visit the office, call us at 423-626-3742, visit our website at claiborne.tennessee.edu, like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/extensionclaiborne). | <urn:uuid:903f55be-ff23-4dfa-a564-a07e06966d2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.claiborneprogress.net/2021/05/28/ut-extension-to-hold-workshops-on-preserving-food/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.942488 | 726 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The Sintang Orangutan Center is in dire need of a new X-ray machine at their location in West Kalimantan. At the core of SOC is their rescue, rehabilitate, and release program for orangutans (mostly from the illegal pet trade) in Southeast Asia. A large part of this effort relies on their ability to adequately assess and diagnose their patients upon arrival, in addition to monitor their medical care throughout their stay.
A stationary X-ray machine, and all of its necessary parts such as lead plates and detector panels can cost anywhere between 70,000 and 100,000 USD! It is for this reason that the Orangutan Conservancy has committed themselves to helping fund this endeavor.
Medical Care for Orangutans
Upon arrival to SOC, all orangutans must undergo an extensive health examination. The purpose of this examination is to ensure that any orangutan entering the center does not introduce any infectious disease to the other individuals. If the orangutan passes their initial health examination they are admitted to the center and will undergo a yearly examination thereafter. If at any point during their initial or yearly examination(s) an infectious disease or other medical ailment is found, the animal care team must effectively be able to treat the animal with the necessary equipment and medications. The medical funding provided by OC will allow SOC to secure adequate amounts of medications and lab tests to treat any orangutan in need.
Orangutans are also very prone to different types of respiratory ailments, so having an x-ray machine is vital to diagnosing and treating the condition early. This piece of equipment is the next step in caring for and conserving the wild populations of orangutans in their region of Southeast Asia. Sintang Orangutan Center has cared for more than 40 individual orangutans in the past 11 years, most of whom came from lives as private pets or as part of the illegal pet trade.
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Gemology is a branch of science that deals with the study of gemstones. The certified professionals who work in this field are called gemologists. Their duties usually involve identifying, grading, and appraising gemstones.
In some cases, a gemologist can tell what gemstone is before him by looking at it, but this may not always be possible. Two different gemstones such as blue topaz and aquamarine may look nearly identical. This means that gemologists are often required to perform a series of tests to determine the true identity of a gemstone. Usually one test is only enough to provide indicators but insufficient for complete identification.
Once gemstones are identified, they may also be analyzed so that they can be graded. A grading report typically accesses the quality of a gemstone’s features such as color, clarity, and cutting properties. There are various grading systems and the results given by one gemologist can vary from those given by another.
Appraising is another task that some gemologists perform. This generally involves assessing a cut and polished gemstone. The gemologist who appraises a gemstone is most likely concerned with determining whether it is natural or synthetic and how much it is worth. Some appraisers work independently. Others may work for auction houses and jewelry stores.
Retail jewelry stores tend to be a major employer of gemologists. This is where many professionals get the experience they need to move on to other gemology careers. In the retail setting, a gemologist may serve as a sales person or buyer. He may also serve as an adviser to jewelry designers. People who design and make jewelry may not have sufficient gemological knowledge to know which gemstones can be used for which purposes.
A gemologist may also find work at a museum. In this capacity, he may evaluate and access donations or gemstones that the museum wishes to acquire. He is likely to provide information that will help the facility decide which purchases are wise and to appraise collections for insurance purposes. He may also be responsible for providing information displayed on the placards for gemstones on exhibit.
There are many individual gemology courses that people can take. Upon completing a course, a person is often granted a certificate that proves he completed that course. It is important to note this does not make a person a certified gemologist by industry standards. A true gemologist will generally have a diploma he earned by completing a gemological curriculum outlined by a recognized institution. | <urn:uuid:7d4a877f-fbbd-4b6c-9fe4-fd9c3f10e48f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.practicaladultinsights.com/what-does-a-gemologist-do.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.966666 | 500 | 3.21875 | 3 |
A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark or vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavoring, and indirectly for the purpose of killing and preventing growth of pathogenic bacteria.
Many of the same substances have other uses in which they are referred to by different terms, e.g. in food preservation, medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics, perfumery or as vegetables. For example, turmeric is also used as a preservative; licorice as a medicine; garlic as a vegetable and nutmeg as a recreational drug.
Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are leafy, green plant parts used for flavoring purposes. Herbs, such as basil or oregano, may be used fresh, and are commonly chopped into smaller pieces; spices, however, are dried and usually ground into a powder.
Classification and types
The basic classification of spices is as follows:
- Leaves and/or branches of aromatic plants, all or part of the plant can be used as one pleases. Basil, bay leaf, parsley, rosemary, tarragon, and thyme are all good examples.
- Ripened fruits or seeds of plants. Examples include dill, fennel, mustard, and pepper.
- Roots or bulbs of certain plants, garlic and ginger, for example.
Spices have been prominent in human history virtually since their inception. Spices were among the most valuable items of trade in the ancient and medieval world. The culinary use of spices originated in the Indian Sub continent and South-East Asia. In the story of Genesis, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers to spice merchants. In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices. Generally, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian sources do not refer to known spices.
A recent archaeolgical discovery suggests that the clove, indigineous to the Indonesian island of Ternate in the Maluku Islands, could have been introduced to the Middle East very early on. Digs found a clove burnt onto the floor of a burned down kitchen in the Mesopotamian site of Terqa, in what is now modern-day Syria, dated to 1700 BC . The ancient Indian epic of Ramayana mentions cloves. In any case, it is known that the Romans had cloves in the 1st century AD because Pliny the Elder spoke of them in his writings.
In South Asia, nutmeg, which originates from the Banda Islands in the Moluccas, has a Sanskrit name. Sanskrit is the language of the sacred Hindu texts, this shows how old the usage of this spice is in this region. Historians estimate that nutmeg was introduced to Europe in the 6th century BC .
Indonesian merchants went around China, India, the Middle East and the east coast of Africa. Arab merchants controlled the routes through the Middle East and India until Roman times with the discovery of new sea routes. This made the city of Alexandria in Egypt the main trading centre for spices because of its port.
Spices were among the most luxurious products available in the Middle Ages, the most common being black pepper, cinnamon (and the cheaper alternative cassia), cumin, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. They were all imported from plantations in Asia and Africa, which made them extremely expensive. From the 8th until the 15th century, the Republic of Venice had the monopoly on spice trade with the Middle East, and along it with the neighboring Italian city-states. The trade made the region phenomenally rich. It has been estimated that around 1,000 tons of pepper and 1,000 tons of the other common spices were imported into Western Europe each year during the Late Middle Ages. The value of these goods was the equivalent of a yearly supply of grain for 1.5 million people. While pepper was the most common spice, the most exclusive was saffron, used as much for its vivid yellow-red color as for its flavor. Spices that have now fallen into some obscurity include grains of paradise, a relative of cardamom which almost entirely replaced pepper in late medieval north French cooking, long pepper, mace, spikenard, galangal and cubeb. A popular modern-day misconception is that medieval cooks used liberal amounts of spices, particularly black pepper, merely to disguise the taste of spoiled meat. However, a medieval feast was as much a culinary event as it was a display of the host's vast resources and generosity, and as most nobles had a wide selection of fresh or preserved meats, fish or seafood to choose from, the use of ruinously expensive spices on cheap, rotting meat would have made little sense.
Early modern period
The control of trade routes and the spice-producing regions were the main reasons that Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama sailed to India in 1499. Spain and Portugal were not happy to pay the high price that Venice demanded for spices. At around the same time, Christopher Columbus returned from the New World, he described to investors the many new, and then unknown, spices available there.
It was Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) who allowed the Portuguese to take control of the sea routes to India. In 1506, he took the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Red Sea and, in 1507, Ormuz in the Persian Gulf. Since becoming the viceroy of the Indies, he took Goa in India in 1510, and Malacca on the Malay peninsula in 1511. The Portuguese could now trade directly with Siam, China and the Moluccas. The Silk Road complemented the Portuguese sea routes, and brought the treasures of the Orient to Europe via Lisbon, many of which are coveted spices.
Common spice mixes
- Colombo (paprika, cumin, coriander, nutmeg, ginger, black pepper, star anise, cardamom, cloves, mustard grains, saffron);
- Curry powder;
- Five bays;
- Five-spice powder;
- Garam masala;
- Quatre épices;
- Ras el hanout;
Production in tonnes. Figures 2003-2004
|India||1 600 000||86 %||1 600 000||86 %|
|China||66 000||4 %||66 000||4 %|
|Bangladesh||48 000||3 %||48 000||3 %|
|Pakistan||45 300||2 %||45 300||2 %|
|Turkey||33 000||2 %||33 000||2 %|
|Nepal||15 500||1 %||15 500||1 %|
|Other countries||60 900||3 %||60 910||3 %|
|Total||1 868 700||100 %||1 868 710||100 %|
- Turner, Jack (2004). Spice: The History of a Temptation. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40721-9.
- Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot Quote: “...Garlic, onion, allspice and oregano, for example, were found to be the best all-around bacteria killers (they kill everything)...Top 30 Spices with Antimicrobial Properties...”
- August 18, 1998, Common Kitchen Spices Kill E. Coli O157:H7 Quote: “...The study is the first in the United States that looks at the effect of common spices on E. coli O157:H7. Previous studies have concluded spices kill other foodborne pathogens. “In the first part of our study, we tested 23 spices against E. coli O157:H7 in the laboratory,” Fung said. “We found that several spices are good at killing this strain of E. coli.”...”
- The Lure and Lore of Spices Quote: “If the appearance of spices were to reflect their real importance in the history of the world, the bottles of spices would be filled with bright glittery substances, diamonds, rubies, emeralds or gold would be appropriate. When you opened the bottle, a poof of vibrantly colored, mystically fragrant, magical smoke would slowly billow softly throughout the room.”
- Adamson, Melitta Weiss (2004), Food in Medieval Times. ISBN 0-313-32147-7.
- Scully, Terence (1995), The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages. ISBN 0-85115-611-8.
- List of herbs and spices
- List of Indian spices
- Spice trade
- Run (island): Seventeenth-century British-Dutch rivalry for a source of nutmeg, lead to the British exchanging this Indonesian island for Manhattan (New York)
- International Spicy Food Day
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Wood Art - Farm Animal Series - Gracey The Goat
This artwork by Bonnie Mohr captures a goat with a neutral blue and green background. This series will be perfect for a kid's bedroom or playroom!! Compliment it in a grouping of several other Farm Animal Series images!
A personal note from Bonnie: Approximately 500 million goats live in the world today. And about three million of those goats live in the U.S. Gracey is one of them….she lives just down the road from Bonnie Mohr Studio! Milking goats can give 6-8 pounds of milk a day. A mother goat can recognize her kid’s calls as soon as they’re born. Goats form a close relationship with their mothers. A mother will often call out to their young to make sure they stay close by her at all times. | <urn:uuid:bd957002-1b1b-47ab-86bf-86d93a00ba18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bonniemohr.com/collections/new-art/products/wood-art-farm-animal-series-gracey-the-goat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.961129 | 172 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Oxygen is a colorless, odorless reactive gas and the life-supporting component of air. It forms just under 21% of the earth's atmosphere, and is the most abundant element in the earth's crust, mainly in the form of oxides, silicates, and carbonates.
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Music is a significant part of a person's’ life. The music lovers have a kind of relationship with every song they like or dislikes. A favourite song shares the empathy in the form of healing a heart, getting remember someone, lifting our spirit, filling our head with numerous thoughts and sometimes blow all waste concept out of our mind.
It's a great day and opportunity to show your gratitude to all those wonderful faces who regularly gives us such presents. Paying tribute to the singers, there are some views and stories that they shared in their day:
1. Lata Mangeshkar
The veteran singer to whom the whole world admire said that she never consider herself as established and said:“Riyaaz. That is what makes singing worthwhile. I never felt I had enough time to do riyaaz because I was in and out of recordings constantly. But I still made time to do riyaaz. Alas, not enough time. I wish I had devoted more time to practising my classical singing”, as she still strives for excellence. For today’s music world she termed singers as satisfied while saying that “I get the feeling they are happy achieving what they get to achieve in no time at all. No artist should be satisfied with what he or she has achieved. There is always another sky to conquer beyond the one that you think you've just reached”. “An A.R. Rahman or a Shankar Mahadevan are so successful and long-lasting because they know their classical heritage”, she added.
The Bengali singer said “I feel fortunate to have witnessed all the great singers of yesteryear. I have seen Ravi Sahab, Kishor da, Lata Ji, Asha Ji sing in front of a mike. Thanks to my father, at a very young age, I visited the studious often”, while sharing the experience of music history and changes in it. He also stated Music as a favourite among his all profession and said added that “Once a singer, always a singer”.
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In Nano-11-KAg vaccinates a substantial upregulation of H1N2-particular IL-17A+ CTLs in comparison to Nano-11-KAg+Poly(We:C) ( 0.01) and mock problem ( 0.05) groups was observed ( Figure 3D ). well simply because H1N2- and H1N1-particular T-helper/Storage cells with central storage, IFN+&TNF+, and IL-17A+ phenotypes. Extremely, industrial vaccine induced a rise in H1N1-particular T-helper cells in TBLN and naive T-helper cells in both TBLN and peripheral bloodstream mononuclear cells (PBMCs), while H1N1- and H1N2-particular just T-helper cells had been augmented in Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C) vaccinates in both TBLN Loviride and PBMCs. Furthermore, the Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C) vaccine activated sturdy cross-reactive IgG and secretory IgA (SIgA) replies in lungs, as the industrial vaccine elicited high degrees of serum and lung IgG and serum hemagglutination inhibition (HI) titers. To conclude, despite vast hereditary difference (77% in HA gene identification) between your vaccine H1N2 and H1N1 problem infections in Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C) vaccinates, in comparison to over 95% identification between H1N1 of industrial vaccine and problem viruses, the trojan insert and macroscopic lesions in the lungs of both types of vaccinates had been comparable, however the Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C) vaccine cleared the trojan from the sinus passing better. These data recommended the important function performed by Nano-11 and Poly(I:C) in the induction of polyfunctional, cross-protective cell-mediated immunity against SwIAV in MDA-positive pigs. gradual discharge of antigens Rabbit Polyclonal to BRP16 and concentrating on antigens to antigen- delivering cells such as for example dendritic cells (11). Furthermore, inactivated subunit and trojan antigens could be fortified with adjuvants such as for example artificial double-stranded RNA, toll-like receptor-3 (TLR-3) ligand, Poly(I:C) to elicit sturdy antigen-specific immune replies (12, 13). The KAg adjuvanted with Poly(I:C) upon intranasal delivery elicited a solid heterologous mucosal antibody response in pigs (14). Previously, our laboratory designed and characterized corn-based cationic alpha-D-glucan nanoparticles (Nano-11) and verified its potential as a trusted nanovaccine system in pigs (15C18). Nano-11 provides natural immunostimulatory properties and serves as an adjuvant (15, 16). Therefore, the present research premiered with a target of creating a book vaccine made up of KAg with Poly(I:C) Loviride co-adsorbed jointly on Nano-11 [Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C)] for make use of in MDA-positive pigs. We hypothesized that vaccine presents security in the current presence of MDA also. Influenza-specific cell-mediated immune system responses play a significant role in web host body’s defence mechanism. Accumulating body of technological data in human beings, pigs and mice corroborate the critical protective function of antigen-specific cell-mediated defense replies. The defensive function of cross-reactive Compact disc8+ T-cells concentrating on conserved viral epitopes was reported by previously pioneering research (19). Likewise, the current presence of antigen-specific T-cells resulted in the amelioration of symptoms and decreased shedding in case there is 2009 influenza pandemic in human beings (20, 21). In mice, influenza trojan an infection elicits antigen-specific T-cell replies leading to security in the lack of neutralizing antibodies (22). Administration of indication minus Flu (S-FLU) Loviride general influenza vaccine resulted in alleviation of lung pathology and trojan burden in sinus passages and lungs pursuing homologous and reasonably matched trojan challenge Loviride without neutralizing antibodies in pigs (23). Furthermore, intranasal delivery of poly D,L-lactic- 0.05 was considered significant statistically. Outcomes Both Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C) and Industrial Vaccine Reduced the task Virus Insert in the Airways of MDA Positive Pigs and Exhibited Equivalent Macroscopic Lung Lesions Ratings at DPC6 To measure the defensive efficiency of Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C), we examined the strain of challenge trojan (H1N1 SwIAV) in the sinus swab, BAL liquid, and lung lysate examples of piglets, which acquired high serum titers of SwIAV particular IgG MDA blessed to vaccinated moms ( Supplementary Amount 1 ). At DPC4 and DPC2, the challenge trojan titers were equivalent in every the vaccinates except in KAg+Poly(I:C) group at DPC4 ( Statistics 2A, B ). A considerably reduced insert of challenge trojan titers in sinus swab was seen in Nano-11-KAg+Poly(I:C).
4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) was utilized to label nuclei. HLS mutant HYLS1D211G facilitates ciliogenesis however, not activation of Hh signaling. These outcomes implicate mammalian HYLS1 being a multitasking proteins that facilitates ciliogenesis and ciliary signaling by coordinating using the ciliary lipid kinase PIPKI. Launch The principal cilium, a sensory organelle on the top of all mammalian cells, includes several subsegments like the basal body (BB), changeover fibers (TFs), changeover zone (TZ), as well as the microtubule axoneme ensheathed with the ciliary membrane contiguous using the plasma membrane (gene, encoding HYLS1 (hydrolethalus symptoms proteins 1), and termed HLS1 (are necessary for ciliogenesis by regulating the business of TFs and TZ, the docking of intraflagellar transportation (IFT) particles towards the ciliary bottom, as well as the ciliary gating function ((does not have the Hh pathway (to individual cells. Open up in another window Fig. 1 Characterization from the function and localization of mammalian HYLS1.(A and B) HYLS1 is localized towards the proximal end of centrioles (A) as well as the ciliary BB (B) in mammalian cells. Renal cortical tubular epithelial (RCTE) cells, before (A) and after (B) 24-hour serum hunger, had been put through indirect immunofluorescence (IF) labeling with indicated principal antibodies and examined with 3D-SIM. PolyE-tub, polyglutamylated tubulin. Range pubs, 0.5 m. Pictures numbered as 0 and +5 indicate underneath and top areas in a collection of pictures displaying HYLS1 and CEP164, respectively. The positioning is presented with HGFR a cartoon style of HYLS1 on the proximal end from the MC/BB. (C and D) Lack of HYLS1 inhibits ciliogenesis. RCTE cells had been treated with detrimental control (siNC) or two distinctive HYLS1-particular (siHYLS1-O1 and siHYLS1-O2) siRNAs for 48 hours, serum starved every day and night, and put through IF microscopy using indicated antibodies then. Range pubs, 2 m. The percentage of ciliated cells (C) and the distance of cilium (D) had been quantified ( 100). Outcomes from in least 3 separate tests were analyzed and plotted seeing that means SEM statistically. *** 0.001. Lack of mammalian HYLS1 interrupts the integrity of TFs as well as the TZ The set up of the principal cilium is normally a precisely managed, multistep procedure. In nematode, HYLS-1 is vital for the correct development of TFs, the docking of IFT contaminants, as well as the TZ company (null worms ( 100). Outcomes from at least three unbiased experiments had been statistically examined and plotted as means SEM. N.S., no factor. *** 0.001. We following examined TZ company in cells missing HYLS1. In mammalian cells, the TZ area includes at least three interconnected proteins complicated modules: the nephronophthisis (NPHP) component, the megakaryocytes (MKS) component, as well as the Joubert symptoms (JBTS) component ( 100). (D) HYLS1 colocalizes with PIPKI on the centrosome or BB. RCTE cells before (+FBS) and after (?FBS) 24-hour serum hunger were stained for IF microscopy with indicated antibodies. Pictures had been obtained with 3D-SIM. Range club, 0.5 m. (E) SB 242084 hydrochloride PIPKI is normally essential for HYLS1 localization on the centrosome or BB. RCTE cells treated with control (siNC) or two distinctive PIPKI-specific (siPIPKI-O1 and siPIPKI-O2) siRNAs for 48 hours. With (?FBS) or without (+FBS) 24-hour serum hunger, cells were analyzed by IF microscopy with indicated antibodies. 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) was utilized to label nuclei. Range club, 5 m. The percentage of HYLS1-positive centrosome/BB in charge or PIPKI-depleted group was quantified in 100 cells. (F) The full total proteins degree of HYLS1 had not been suffering from PIPKI depletion in RCTE cells. (G) HYLS1 is not needed for PIPKI SB 242084 hydrochloride to focus on towards the BB. Control (siNC) or HYLS1-depleted RCTE cells had been serum starved every day and night and then put through IF microscopy to imagine PIPKI and cilia (polyE-tub). The percentage of PIPKI-positive BB was quantified in 100 cells. All statistical analyses had been performed using outcomes from at least three unbiased tests and plotted as means SEM. N.S., no factor. *** 0.001. HYLS1 directly binds to and activates PIPKI The colocalization of PIPKI and HYLS1 suggests a physical association between them. Either ectopically portrayed (Fig. 4A) or endogenous (Fig. 4B) HYLS1 and PIPKI shaped a proteins complicated in mammalian cells. Additional SB 242084 hydrochloride analysis with in vitro proteins pulldown assay SB 242084 hydrochloride using recombinant protein purified from showed a direct connections between HYLS1 and PIPKI (Fig. 4C). As proven in Fig. 4D, Flag-tagged HYLS1 could coprecipitate full-length (FL), N terminus of (NT), or C terminusCtruncated (CT) PIPKI, however, not the CT by itself, recommending that HYLS1 binds towards SB 242084 hydrochloride the NT of PIPKI. Although PIPKI NT is normally conserved among splicing.
We note that the sprayed droplets cover the whole collector surface, but the protective layer with opening in the collection sites was removed, showing only the collection points (Figure ?Figure44c). Open in a separate window Figure 4 Interfacing the wearable collector with antibody-based sensing. (a) Schematic of the dot blot approach. for future emerging pandemics. spraying to mimic droplet-based exhalation in breathing. We assessed and modeled the wearable collection capabilities for viruses. After virus collection, the sample was eluted to isolate and recover the trapped viruses, followed by analytical sensing, where we tested the collector performance for COVID-19 detection using RT-PCR, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), and dot blot assays. The use of protective masks is likely to become ubiquitous as a preventive tool; thus, their integration with user-friendly virus collectors can potentially increase sampling, enabling increased testing for new Rabbit Polyclonal to CDC25A (phospho-Ser82) airborne viruses. Open in a separate window Figure 1 Wearable collector for exhaled breath sampling. (a) Wearable virus collector adhered to the inside of the mask to collect the viruses in exhaled breath. (b) Scheme and SEM micrograph showing the surface of the detachable collector along with captured 100 nm PS particles. (c) Attachment of wearable collector FK866 on different masks including (i) N95, (ii) KN95, (iii) surgical mask, and (iv) textile mask. (d) Images of mechanical testing (i-torsion, ii-indentation, and iii-bending) performed on the device. Results and Discussion A virus-concentrator-based wearable collector has been designed to combine the resilience and ease of use of a disposable test. The prototype integrates a detachable medical adhesive and a porous polycarbonate membrane (200 nm) for target enrichment in the sample. This wearable breath-based sampler is attached to the inner surface of the face covering. A porous polycarbonate membrane was chosen as the collection surface due to its large surface area and ease of integration with commonly used fluidic systems such as reusable syringe filters.29 The porous material permits the airflow to pass, avoiding any blocking of the air of passage. Figure ?Number11b qualitatively illustrates the scanning electron micrography (SEM) of 120 nm polymeric particles that are within the size range of SARS-CoV-2, that is, 60C120 nm in diameter,30 collected on the exterior surface and interior pores of the FK866 collector membrane. These particles showed a brighter transmission than the background due to surface charging of uncoated polymeric materials during SEM imaging. To provide an affordable platform, we used a large-scale compatible fabrication protocol (Number S1a). Rolls of flexible medical adhesive ARcare@90445 were die-cut into solitary adhesive units to form the disease collector foundation. The adhesive plastic consisted of a 25 m transparent polyester base coating coated on both sides having a 28 m medical grade adhesive. The double-faced adhesive thin plastic was safeguarded by a 50 m polyester launch liner. This fabrication method could enable high-throughput fabrication due to the ease of use and the low expense of roll die cutting approach. The materials for the face mask collector include the polycarbonate filter membrane and a plastic adhesive; hence, such a device can be made inexpensively, and the cost does not increase significantly compared to that of a protecting face mask. The wearable collector was built by integrating the flexible plastic adhesive film and a porous polycarbonate collector (Number S1b). The purpose of using two different adhesive sections is definitely to facilitate the recovery of the collector from your face mask, reducing potential contamination. Therefore, two adhesive patterns were designed using computer-assisted design: (1) a ring and L-shape design comprising a 20 mm diameter hollow circle to hold and provide mechanical stability to the polycarbonate porous membrane and (2) FK866 a T- and ring-shape design to FK866 interface the porous membrane. This T-rectangle shape at the top of the ring enables the attachment of the wearable collector to the face mask and remains unbound to the bottom part, which confers.
(b) HEY PGCCs and daughter cells treated with CDC25C-siRNA and siRNA control. had been likened before and after CoCl2 treatment. Immunoprecipitation was utilized to investigate the interacting protein of pCDC25C-Ser216 and pCDC25C-Ser198. The clinicopathologic significances of the cell cycle-related protein and proteins kinases expression were studied. Outcomes CoCl2 induced the forming of G2/M and PGCCs arrest. CDC25C, cyclin B1, and CDK1 expressions after CoCl2 treatment had been less than that in charge cells. Cytoplasmic CDC25C was degraded by ubiquitin-dependent proteasome. The appearance of phosphokinases and P53 including CHK1, CHK2, PLK1, and Aurora A elevated after CoCl2 treatment. The appearance of pCDC25C-Ser216 and pCDC25C-Ser198 depended upon the genotype of worth significantly less than 0.05 was defined as significant statistically. Outcomes Development of PGCCs pursuing CoCl2 treatment When high focus (450?M) of CoCl2 was put into HEY(Fig.?1A a) for 48?h and BT-549 (Fig.?1A d) for 24?h, most WEHI-345 regular-sized diploid cells were killed in support of few PGCCs survived the CoCl2 treatment (Fig.?1A b, e). The making it through PGCCs could generate little girl cells via asymmetric department (Fig.?1A c, f). Furthermore, to research whether CDC25C knockdown impacts PGCCs development, H&E staining was utilized to count the amount of PGCCs in charge cells (Fig.?1B WEHI-345 a, e) and PGCCs using their little girl cells (Fig.?1B c, g), aswell WEHI-345 as their CDC25C-siRNA (CDC25Ci) groupings. Based on the statistical outcomes showed in Desk S5, the amount of PGCCs in BT-549 WEHI-345 and HEY after CoCl2 treatment was greater than that in charge WEHI-345 cells. There also had been even more PGCCs in CDC25Ci group (Fig.?1B b, d, f, h) than in the bad control group (Fig.?1B a, c, e, g). The distinctions among these groupings had been statistically significant (Fig.?1C a, b). Hence, CoCl2 CDC25C and treatment knockdown may induce the forming of PGCCs. Open in another window Fig. 1 PGCCs with budding little girl cells in BT-549 and HEY cells. a HEY and BT-549 control PGCCs and cells. (a) HEY control cells, (b) HEY PGCCs induced by Prox1 450?M CoCl2 treatment for 48?h, (c) PGCCs and their little girl cells; the top black arrow signifies PGCCs and the tiny black arrow minds the little girl cells, (d) BT-549 control cells, (e) BT-549 PGCCs induced by 450?M CoCl2 treatment for 24?h, and (f) PGCCs and their little girl cells; the top black arrow signifies PGCCs and the tiny black arrow minds the little girl cells. b H&E staining from the HEY and BT-549 cells before and after CDC25i. (a) HEY control cells, (b) Control cells after CDC25C knockdown, (c) HEY PGCCs with little girl cells, (d) HEY PGCCs and little girl cells after CDC25C knockdown, (e) BT-549 control cells, (f) Control cells after CDC25C knockdown, (g) H&E staining from the BT-549 PGCCs with little girl cells, and (h) BT-549 PGCCs with little girl cells after CDC25C knockdown c (a) The percentage of HEY PGCCs in charge, control cells after CDC25i, PGCCs with little girl cells, and PGCCs with little girl cells after CDC25Ci. (b) The percentage of BT-549 PGCCs in charge, control cells after CDC25i, PGCCs with little girl cells, and PGCCs with little girl cells after CDC25Ci. All magnifications are in 100. Treatment: Cells treated with CoCl2. 1531si: siRNA CDC25C-1531 CDC25C participates in PGCCs development by regulating cyclin B1-CDK1 complicated To be able to explore whether CDC25C is normally related to PGCCs development by regulating cyclin B1CCDK1 complicated, CDC25C was knocked down by transient transfection. Traditional western blot were utilized to verify CDC25C, cyclin B1, and cyclin-dependent proteins kinases 1 (CDK1) appearance amounts and subcellular localization. The common variety of PGCCs in 5 high-power-fields (400) occupied 28% of the full total cell and 72% was the little girl cells predicated on the H&E staining. Traditional western blot outcomes showed that the full total proteins degree of CDC25C, cyclin B1 CDK1 and reduced after CoCl2 treatment in HEY, BT-549, SKOv3 and MDA-MB-231 cells weighed against those in charge cells (Fig.?2A). Outcomes of quantitative evaluation showed remarkable distinctions of CDC25C, cyclinB1, CDK1 appearance before and after CoCl2 treatment (Fig.S1 a-c). Subsequently, nuclear and cytoplasmic protein.
Supplementary MaterialsSupporting Information EJI-48-522-s001. implicating a job for CXCL4 in PsA pathology. mRNA in CD4+ T?cells Etretinate upon CXCL4 treatment (Supporting Information Fig.?1). CXCL4 did not significantly alter the levels of other T helper cytokines (Fig.?1C, Supporting Information Fig.?2A) nor did it affect proliferation (Supporting Information Fig.?3A). In contrast, CXCL4 treatment induced co\expression of IFN\ and IL\22 in IL\17 positive cells (Fig.?1D and E). Therefore, our data indicates that CXCL4 directly induces human CD4+ T? cells to produce IL\17 in co\expression with other pro\inflammatory cytokines such as IFN\ and IL\22. Open in a separate window Figure 1 CXCL4 increases the percentage of IL\17 producing cells in CD3/CD28\stimulated human CD4+ T?cells. CD4+ T?cells were isolated from healthy donors and cultured with CD3/CD28 coated Dynabeads and CXCL4 for five days. (A, B) The effect of CXCL4 on IL\17 production by CD4+ T?cells was assessed by (A) flow cytometric intracellular cytokine staining and (B) enzyme\linked immunosorbent assay. (C) The percentage of of IFN\\, IL\4\ and IL\22\producing CD4+ T?cells were measured by flow cytometry. (D, E) The amount of IL\17 producing cells co\expressing IFN\ (D) or IL\22 (E) were measured by flow cytometry. Cells were gated on live, single cells. Means (bars) and values from each donor are shown. Data are pooled from two to four independent experiments, except for panel B from 14 independent experiments, with one to four donor samples per experiment. Each dot on the bar graphs represent a single donor and paired = 0.066). To determine whether CXCL4 mediates Th17 activation in vivo at the website of inflammation, we measured T and CXCL4?cell\produced cytokines within the SF of patients with PsA. Incredibly, CXCL4 highly correlated with both IL\17 (= 0.713, 0.01) and IL\22 (= 0.620, 0.01) (Fig.?5C), whereas CXCL4 didn’t correlate with IFN\, IL\5, IL\10, nor GM\CSF within the SF of PsA patients, clearly mimicking our in vitro results. The enhanced IL\17 production by CD4+ T?cells upon CXCL4 treatment was also observed in PsA patients (Fig.?5D and E). Additionally, we had five donors from which multiple synovial fluid samples were collected multiple times at different time points. CXCL4 level completely Etretinate mirrored the changes of IL\17 amount in PsA SF over time in four out of five PsA patients (Supporting Information Fig.?5). These data suggest that Etretinate in PsA, higher CXCL4 levels are associated with increased Th17 cytokines locally at the site of inflammation. Open in a separate window Physique 5 CXCL4 expression is usually upregulated in Th17\mediated diseases, correlates with Th17 cytokine levels in the synovial fluid of psoriatic arthritis joints, and induces IL\17 production in psoriatic arthritis patients. Plasma was obtained from healthy controls (HC), psoriasis (Pso), or psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients, and synovial fluid (SF) was collected from PsA and osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Monocytes and CD4+ T?cells were isolated from PsA patients and CXCL4 effect was assayed in (co\) cultures. (A) CXCL4 was measured in the plasma of HC, Pso, or PsA patients by enzyme\linked immunosorbent assay. Kruskal\Wallis test was used for statistical analysis. (B) The levels of CXCL4 was measured in SF from OA and PsA patients using a Luminex\based assay. Mann\Whitney test was used for statistical analysis. Mouse monoclonal to CD13.COB10 reacts with CD13, 150 kDa aminopeptidase N (APN). CD13 is expressed on the surface of early committed progenitors and mature granulocytes and monocytes (GM-CFU), but not on lymphocytes, platelets or erythrocytes. It is also expressed on endothelial cells, epithelial cells, bone marrow stroma cells, and osteoclasts, as well as a small proportion of LGL lymphocytes. CD13 acts as a receptor for specific strains of RNA viruses and plays an important function in the interaction between human cytomegalovirus (CMV) and its target cells (C) The intraarticular levels of CXCL4, IL\17, and IL\22 in PsA SF were measured using Luminex\based assay. Correlation between cytokine levels was assessed by Spearman’s correlation. (D, E) The effects of 2 g/mL CXCL4 on secreted IL\17 by CD4+ T?cells from PsA patients upon (D) CD3/CD28 stimulation or (E) co\culture with autologous monocytes in the absence or presence of superantigen from Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB) as assessed by enzyme\linked immunosorbent assay are shown. Data are pooled from three impartial experiments, with one to two patient samples in duplicate per experiment. Means (bars) and values from each patient are shown and paired t\test was used for statistical analysis. *for 10 min, and plasma was collected. SF samples were isolated from 17 patients with PsA and nine patients with osteoarthritis. All SF samples were collected from effusion of the knee as part of routine clinical care. For SF collection, liquids were centrifuged in 2300 for 10 min in 4C to eliminate particles and cells. All examples had been aliquoted Etretinate and iced at instantly ?80C until additional use. 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As a result of the tall result of the current analysis concentrating on Myspace use and you will prior to education looking at the latest association anywhere between items toward most other SNSs and you will personality traits [23,94], the research of your matchmaking anywhere between behavior for the personal programs and mental health appears to be a rewarding thing off look. To improve the brand new accuracy for the data, a combination of personal decisions accounts away from affiliate activities and you can goal quantitative steps, e.grams., amount of online-nearest and dearest and uploaded images adam4adam zaloguj siÄ™, might be familiar with familiarize yourself with on line decisions.
Present efficiency reveal differences when considering Fb users and those who create not make use of this SNS. Facebook profiles has actually highest opinions from lifetime pleasure, social assistance and you can subjective glee than just Fb low-pages. Because these types of affairs protect psychological state, Twitter profiles need to have a low likelihood to grow intellectual conditions. Although not, simply a marginally higher property value anxiety periods is used in the latest Facebook low-representative class compared with the fresh new Myspace representative class. The prices out-of stress and anxiety periods did not disagree between the fresh new communities. Upcoming research would be to simulate and you may keep the present study, by firmly taking into consideration intellectual conditions such as for example compulsive-obsessive illness otherwise public phobia to own review. And thus, way more specific computing tool than the DASS-21 can be always level despair, anxiety and stress.
Additionally, to show the generalization of introduce abilities, upcoming training would be to have a look at their replicability playing with a mature test that have a broader a long time.
It should even be said that the latest unequal group size of Facebook profiles and you may Myspace non-users constraints the new block conclusions. Yet not, today’s studies examined only German university students. Which partially teaches you the latest large quantity of Myspace profiles on decide to try, given that that it SNS plays a greater role when you look at the young mans daily life . Along with, according to the Italian language Government Analytical Office within the 2015 93% of the German college students made use of SNSs and you will eight% don’t fool around with people SNS . Within shot, 92.4% made use of SNSs and you can seven.6% did not fool around with SNSs. Ergo, all of our shipments suits the new shipping of your Italian language population.
On the other hand, latest education indicated that Twitter becomes more about old users therefore it is more complicated to find an adequate amount of Myspace non-users getting investigations training .
Also, just like the already explained, the utilization of almost every other SNSs and you may social networking fool around with because a entire should be considered in future training.
Regarding the lot of time allocated to Fb, it seems possible that not simply character traits off pages try linked to on the web conclusion, but so is even their psychological state.
The full attempt incorporated 945 people of the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. 790 participants (228 men, 562 ladies; decades (years): Yards = , SD = 5.02, range: 17–58) was indeed defined as Myspace users. 155 people (56 people, 99 ladies; years (years): Meters = , SD = six.thirty five, range: 17–52) were not people in the latest SNS Myspace.
Next, the newest organization amongst the examined parameters is actually analyzed from the no-purchase bivariate correlations by themselves for the all the groups. After that, we conducted two numerous linear regression analyses. Basic, the new details age, intercourse, self-regard, narcissism as well as the faculties of your own “Large Four” have been removed since the separate parameters, and you may despair, stress and anxiety, successively, just like the built details. Next, the brand new parameters age, intercourse, happiness, lifetime fulfillment, resilience and you will societal service offered once the independent variables, and despair, stress and anxiety, successively, since centered parameters.
Furthermore, in the Facebook user group, 25.5% of the variance of the anxiety scale was explained by the total model, F(9,780) = , p < .001. Age (standardized beta = -.066, p < .05), self-esteem (standardized beta = -.273, p < .001), narcissism (standardized beta = .106, p < .01), extraversion (standardized beta = -.105, p < .01) and neuroticism (standardized beta = .270, p < .001) were significantly associated with anxiety symptoms. In the Facebook non-user group, 24.6% of the variance was explained by the total model, F(9,145) = 5.267, p < .001. Significant associations were found between anxiety symptoms and self-esteem (standardized beta = -.264, p < .01) as well as neuroticism (standardized beta = .214, p < .05).
Prior to testing of association between your create notice-regard and usage of SNSs have shown contradictory findings having several networks. Mehdizadeh revealed a bad relationships between Facebook include in the us and you can worry about-value. On the other hand, Wang ainsi que al. discovered a confident relationship anywhere between interaction toward a Chinese SNS and you may self-admiration. It’s possible to believe these distinctions you will partially be said from the social (individualistic culture in the us, collectivistic people in the Asia) distinctions . However, within the a survey with the an effective Italian language SNS (individualistic community), Brailovskaia revealed comparable leads to Wang mais aussi al. . Most recent performance reveal that Myspace users has actually a high mind-esteem than just Fb low-profiles. Eg inconsistent results out-of knowledge to the more SNSs high light you to definitely inside the order to learn the partnership anywhere between identity and you can social networking explore, an even more all over the world see-focusing besides on one SNS-becomes necessary . Hence, upcoming degree is compare even more regions and their cultural attributes which have admiration toward use of additional SNSs and you may self-regard.
Centered on earlier abilities [40,41], in communities anxiety, anxiety and stress attacks were negatively connected with lifetime satisfaction, resilience, societal help and happiness (verification out-of Hypothesis 3). Those who discovered assistance off their online and/or off-line social media establish highest values out-of resilience and you may really-becoming [78,83–85]. Sturdy men and women are significantly more optimistic and happier than others that have all the way down strength values . They have improved capability to manage exhausting and you will scared facts one comes to personal and social resources [86–88]. Contentment and you will lifestyle fulfillment include psychological state by growing private opposition up against depression, anxiety and stress [39,42].
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Kampong Cham: Mr. Un Chanda, Governor of Kampong Cham Province, said that in the new school year, which will come in the next few months, teachers and students who have not been vaccinated against COVID 19, will not be allowed to teach and study in school.
The Kampong Cham Provincial Governor was speaking at a meeting at the provincial hall on the morning of August 10, calling on those 12 to 18 years old or parents or guardians to go to be vaccinated against COVID 19 before the new school year, expected to be starting in the next three to four months. If students of all ages are not vaccinated, there is no chance of enrollment. Also, teachers who do not have a vaccination card can not be allowed to teach. He stressed this is not discrimination, it is a contribution to preventing more outbreaks in schools.
Mr. Ly Meng San, Director of the Department of Education, Youth and Sports of Kampong Cham Province, said on the morning, August 11, that he would like to acknowledge and agree that this is the case. So far, out of a total of 8,000 teachers in the province, more than 90 percent have already been vaccinated against the virus.
The director of the Department of Education, Youth and Sports said about 10 percent have not been injected want to participate. However, due to health reasons, such as chronic illness, pregnancy, and those breastfeeding, such cases are likely to be decided by the head of the Royal Government. RASMEI | <urn:uuid:69439245-a210-4597-9f76-b00e93804fe3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cne.wtf/2021/08/12/kampong-cham-teachers-students-to-have-vaccine-before-new-school-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.978677 | 306 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Each of the Program sessions is centered around a Pillar—one of the eight skills and values that are essential for effective and moral leaders. The Pillar is explored through three different lenses: the curriculum, guest speaker, and mentor. These three parts build upon each other to form a layered, fully developed understanding of each Pillar, and of leadership overall.
The first step for every Pillar is our written curriculum, which is based on the Socratic Method of critical thinking. Prior to the session, Fellows complete a curriculum module that allows them to critically examine their beliefs and presuppositions relating to that session’s Pillar. Each module contains a curated collection of news stories, anecdotes, and TED talks that explore and demonstrate the skills, values, and nuances integral to each Pillar. Questions following each section of the module give Fellows the opportunity to think deeply about their personal perspectives and organize their thoughts in preparation for the session. When Fellows arrive at each session, they are prepared to fully absorb the life lessons delivered by the guest speaker and contribute meaningfully to the round table discussion with their mentor and group. | <urn:uuid:7ff34b74-a26e-49f5-87c5-1474c762bf48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.solomonprogram.org/curriculum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.938379 | 226 | 2.453125 | 2 |
In this blog, we will learn how to group similar data objects using K-means clustering offered by Spark Machine Learning Library.
The code example needs only Spark Shell to execute.
What is Clustering
Clustering is like grouping data objects in some random clusters (with no initial class of group defined) on the basis of similarity or the natural closeness to each other. The “closeness” will be clear later in the blog.
The reason I chose Clustering as beginning of ML that I find it most basic algorithm which requires minimal domain knowledge about your data and produce good analytic over it. Before diving deep into terminologies, lets look at a simple problem which we are going to solve with K means algorithm.
A certain real estate firm wants to build homes targeting different buyers. The only information that firm has collected is the income and the
current property locations of their potential buyers. The firm wants to group their potential buyers into some group which is not obvious by dataset itself.
Let us solve this case by using K Means Clustering algorithm offered by MLLib of Apache Spark.
This is how our dataset looks like:
K is the number of groups that we want to partition our dataset into. For the case given above, it may be the number of different group of buyers we want out of our dataset.
How it forms different groups
1. Algorithm selects k random centroids (data objects) at first
2. Groups each data object into the closest centroid. The closeness is the distance between features of data objects.
3. Re calculate the value of centroid by taking mean of features of all of the data object that belong to the group.
4. Repeat 2 to 3 until number of iterations exhaust.
Preparing Input Data
K-means algorithm works only on numerical features and it is obvious because it needs to quantify the features in order to calculate distance between data objects. For simplicity our data set contains only numerical features. To run K-means on categorical data, we need to quantify categorical data by some encoding technique which is out of scope of this blog.
We need to set the following parameters to run K means algorithm:
The number of resultant clusters may be equal to numberOfCluster or less than number of clusters specified. It totally dependent on how dissimilarity of groups and similarity of objects within a group.
We can run K-means algorithm as:
model.train returns KMeansModel object by which we can get the following information about the clusters of the datasets.
We can get centres of the clusters as:
This result is the centre of three clusters having three different means of locations (long,lat) and three different means of income.
We can predict cluster of each data point it belongs to as:
results as tuple of cluster Index and Buyer Id as:
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Five years ago this week, I was hospitalized with an infection that might have become life-threatening or permanently debilitating had I not had health insurance coverage, which allowed me to receive a relatively early diagnosis. Every day in this country, uninsured people hunker down, hoping their health problem will go away without an expensive doctor's visit. That's one of many reasons studies have shown that expanding Medicaid saves lives.
Governor Terry Branstad sounds determined not to expand Medicaid, but none of his arguments can withstand scrutiny.
UPDATE: Branstad confirmed on February 23 that he will not agree to expand Medicaid. Added details and other related news below.
Many authors have presented strong policy arguments for expanding Medicaid. If the ethical reasons to provide life-saving coverage don't persuade you, check out some of the economic benefits. The Iowa Hospital Association explained how expanding Medicaid would improve Iowa's business climate as well as individuals' health and the finances of community hospitals. That association is among 48 groups, representing just about every aspect of medical care in Iowa, which called on state leaders "to expand Medicaid to Iowa residents with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level as set forth in the Affordable Care Act, in order to provide and compensate for an efficient and cost effective health care delivery system for low income Iowans who are in need of, but currently lack adequate and accessible health care coverage." Here's the full list of groups that signed on to the cause:
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
AFSCME Iowa Council 61
American Heart Association
AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy)
Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa
CAFE Iowa CAN
CHAIN (Community HVI/Hepatitis Advocates of Iowa Network)
Community Health Charities Iowa
Communications Workers of America Iowa State Council
Easter Seals Iowa
Epilepsy Foundation of Iowa
Every Child Counts (Child and Family Policy Center Initiative)
HCI Care Services (formerly Hospice of Central Iowa)
Hospice & Palliative Care Association of Iowa
Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans
Iowa Alliance in Home Care
Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
Iowa Association of Area Agencies on Aging
Iowa Care Givers Association
Iowa Catholic Conference
Iowa Citizen Action Network (ICAN)
Iowa Community Action Association
Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council
Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Iowa Hospital Association
Iowa Human Needs Advocates
Iowa Medical Society
Iowa Mental Health Planning Council
Iowa Nurses Association
Iowa Occupational Therapy Association
Iowa Olmstead Consumer Task Force
Iowa Public Health Association
Iowa Primary Care Association
Iowa Psychological Association
Iowa Statewide Independent Living Council
League of Women Voters of Iowa
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Iowa Chapter
Mercy Health Network
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Greater Des Moines National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Upper Midwest Chapter
Progressive Action for the Common Good
Results (The Power to End Poverty)
South Central Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa
What does Branstad think he understands that all of the leaders of all of these groups are missing? His communications director delivered this message.
Branstad has said that instead of committing to expanding the expensive joint federal and state Medicaid program, Iowans should focus on living healthier lives. He is pushing a plan to make Iowa the healthiest state in the nation, mainly by encouraging residents to exercise more and eat more healthfully.
His spokesman, Tim Albrecht, reiterated Branstad's skepticism about the idea: "The expansion of Medicaid without any attention to outcomes fails the very people Medicaid intends to serve: vulnerable Iowans," Albrecht wrote in an email after the press conference. "Expanding Medicaid without any attention to the funding sources, both our own and those of our federal partner fails the very people Medicaid who make the program possible: the hardworking taxpayers of Iowa."
Albrecht said the governor's staff is instead focusing on redesigning and extending IowaCare. That program, a current, limited offshoot of Medicaid, offers basic coverage to about 70,000 uninsured adults.
"Gov. Branstad believes we should work together to make IowaCare and Medicaid programs that focus on the quality of the outcomes for the patients they serve before we spend time discussing the expansion of programs whose only results have been high cost but low quality outcomes," Albrecht wrote.
The IowaCare program is everything Republicans would normally rail against: a government plan that forces recipients to receive care at only two locations in the state, even if that means they have to drive hundreds of miles. IowaCare is more costly per individual covered and doesn't allow patients to choose their own doctors. Expanding Medicaid as foreseen under the 2010 health care reform law would cover between 115,000 and 150,000 Iowans, far more than the number helped through IowaCare.
The Des Moines Register has published many editorials about Medicaid lately. Instead of responding to their substantive criticisms, Branstad authorized his re-election campaign to send out this fundraising e-mail yesterday.
"Dear Friends," his letter says, "you probably haven't noticed, but buried deep in The Des Moines Register, they are waging a campaign against the governor, trying to force his hand into expanding Medicaid. They do this without a care in the world as to where the extra hundreds of millions of dollars would come from, and taking no issue with the fact that this government program fails to make those it covers healthier.
"In fact, they have written 14 editorials on Medicaid expansion - just since January 22! Quite an obsession. It's time to fight back. Will you donate $14 to battle their vicious smears? That's just one dollar for every editorial they've written attacking this governor. ...
"Gov. Branstad understands what the Register hides - Medicaid enrollees have grown by 65% since 2000 - while costs have increased a whopping 129%! All the while, this program fails to make Iowans healthier.
"Can't we do better? Gov. Branstad believes we can, and has a goal of making Iowa the healthiest state in the nation, and won't be deterred by the Register's attempts to go backwards on this goal..."
While Branstad postures as a victim of the Des Moines Register's obsession, let's look at what some other Iowa newspapers have had to say on the issue.
The Ames Tribune commented in a February 2 editorial,
"This Healthiest State Initiative will assist Iowans in learning about and applying proven methods to live longer, happier, and healthier lives," Branstad said at the time [in August 2011]. "We control more than 70 percent of the factors that influence our health. It is within our power to make a positive difference in our lives."
That's all well and good, and everyone knows that the choices we make in our daily lives have a huge impact on our mental and physical health. Eating well, exercising and avoiding unhealthful behaviors such as smoking all can help us maintain our well-being.
But what about that other 30 percent? The part we have no control over, such as when, despite our best efforts, we get cancer or lupus or pneumonia, or fall and suffer a head injury?
What about the indisputable fact that preventive care - the early detection of disease and regular management of chronic conditions - can not only reduce overall health care costs but also mean the difference between life and death?[...]
Branstad's concern about the federal budget didn't stop him from lobbying against cuts to the Iowa Air National Guard or to federal subsidies for ethanol production. Surely those expenditures also affect federal debt and deficits.
Branstad's answer to health care access, as outlined in his Condition of the State Address in January, is to throw a few million dollars to doctors to entice them to practice in Iowa and set up obstacles to make it more difficult for malpractice lawsuits to get to court.
There really is only one word for the governor's positions, and it is a harsh word: hypocrisy.
It is hypocritical to call on Iowa to become the healthiest state while at the same time refusing federal help to give more Iowans access to basic health care. It is hypocritical to fight for federal funding for military and ethanol interests while at the same time claiming the government can't afford to expand Medicaid.
How about the Quad-City Times, which endorsed Branstad for governor in 2010? That newspapers's editors argued on February 17,
Under ACA [the Affordable Care Act], Medicaid eligibility would be granted to the working poor, not just the absolutely destitute. This government coverage would allow poor Iowa families to get the check-ups and treatment they need before minor symptoms become chronic diseases. At that point, treatment gets more expensive, less effective, and everyone pays.
Expanding Medicaid puts the poorest Americans on track for better, and more cost-effective health care.
Yes, it costs billions.
But much of that cost is coming from ACA-ordered reductions in hospital and physician payments in other areas. Those savings are being invested into expanded Medicaid across the nation.
There is no good reason the poorest Iowans should be left out.
Branstad and many of his Republican colleagues are balking, claiming they don't trust the federal government to follow through on funding promises. We find those concerns are more political than practical. The federal government has reliably funded Iowa roads, farms and schools through congressionally ordered programs. The ACA - like it or not - is a congressionally approved program. Pretending otherwise makes for petty, pandering politics - and lousy public health policy.
Instead of embracing the Medicaid expansion, Branstad wants to dump more money into IowaCares, a program that offers coverage for some poor Iowans able to seek treatment at Broadlawns Hospital in Des Moines or University Hospitals in Iowa City. That's it. Two hospitals.
That's a pale substitute for statewide, preventative coverage. And it will do little to make Iowa the healthiest state.
The rest of the governor's health plan involves legislating limits on medical malpractice judgments. Medical lawsuits are declining and malpractice insurance premiums have been flat, or gone down. We're comfortable trusting Iowa judges and juries to litigate specific facts in specific cases brought by real Iowans. The Legislature has no business blindly shielding medical providers from the consequences of malpractice.
So the governor's only remaining healthy state initiative is Blue Zones, an innovative public/private partnership to improve wellness in a handful of targeted communities.
That effective effort will make little impact if the governor continues to block Medicaid expansion to more than 100,000 poor Iowans.
This afternoon, Branstad is scheduled to meet with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in Washington. He wants the federal government to allow Iowa to keep running IowaCare for the next two years. Iowa Senate Democrats have asked federal officials to say no. I hope Sebelius gives Branstad some pretext to back down from his stance on Medicaid, because his stubbornness threatens to hurt a lot of innocent people.
Any comments related to health care reform are welcome in this thread.
UPDATE: The Des Moines Register's February 20 editorial underscored more problems with Iowa Care.
"We find that nearly all our IowaCare patients must be taken to the U of I," the director of a city ambulance service in northwest Iowa said in an email to us. "It's a round trip of more than 450 miles, costing more than $600 in fuel and personnel, plus the cost of any equipment or supplies. The bill would be about $3,500, but IowaCare does not cover the cost of any transportation for patients.
"Obviously if a patient is enrolled in this program, they more than likely do not have an extra $3,500 to pay, and these charges are typically written off," the director said.
The "true tragedy," he points out, is patients could receive great and less expensive treatment closer to home, including at a top-notch cardiac facility near him. Those patients could do that if the Legislature and Gov. Terry Branstad agree to expand Medicaid.
SECOND UPDATE: I've never found much to admire about Ohio Governor John Kasich, but here's what he said about Medicaid during his State of the State address this week.
Kasich methodically ticked through segments on job creation, past legislative successes and his proposed budget as it relates to taxes, the Ohio Turnpike, school funding and higher education.
But he reached back for something extra on Medicaid, perhaps, in part, because many of the 59 Republicans in the Ohio House and the 23 in the Senate are queasy about the idea.
The expansion - an option under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act - would provide health care for hundreds of thousands of poor Ohioans and be funded fully for three years by the federal government. Kasich defends it because of the $13 billion he says it will return to Ohio over seven years and because of the funding it would free up to treat the mentally ill.
"I can't look at the disabled, I can't look at the poor, I can't look at the mentally ill, I can't look at the addicted and think we ought to ignore them," Kasich said. "For those who live in the shadows of life, for those who are the least among us, I will not accept the fact that the most vulnerable in our state should be ignored. We can help them."
Earlier yesterday, the Ohio Liberty Coalition, a network of tea party groups, threatened a primary challenge for any Republican lawmaker who votes in favor of the expansion.
"I know it's controversial," Kasich said, before he called out a Republican representative by name. "We're not ignoring the weak. Jim Buchy (of Greenville), the Lord doesn't want us to ignore them."
Meanwhile, Iowa's governor is trying to spin his stubbornness on Medicaid into campaign contributions.
SATURDAY UPDATE: Speaking to the Associated Press in Washington, Branstad said he told Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius that he won't expand Medicaid in Iowa.
Branstad said he pressed Sebelius for a federal waiver to continue IowaCare, a health care program that provides limited benefits to 70,000 low income adults in the state. That program is set to expire later this year.
"I am very comfortable that we have made the right decision and we are going to continue to pursue this waiver and we're working with them on a partnership exchange and that's what I told Secretary Sebelius," Branstad said between meetings as part of the National Governors Association meeting in Washington. "We are interested in making Iowa the healthiest state. We have kind of set our direction." [...]
"Every governor has got to look at their own situation," Branstad said. "We're fortunate in that we don't have as many uninsured that a lot of other states do." [...]
"We want to cooperate with them as much as we can but we're not going to buy into a '60s federal program that's unaffordable and unsustainable," Branstad said. "Because we think the whole thing in the end will either collapse or the burden will be pushed onto the states in a very significant way."
He could have done what Governor Rick Scott is doing in Florida: agree to a three-year Medicaid expansion, with plans to re-evaluate later, depending on federal funding levels.
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Location: Cereal Disease Lab
Project Number: 5062-21220-022-000-D
Project Type: In-House Appropriated
Start Date: Mar 27, 2017
End Date: Mar 16, 2022
Objective 1: Discover specific factors involved in pathogenicity, sporulation and toxin synthesis for the FHB pathogen and related fungi by applying genomic and functional approaches. Sub-objective 1.A. Functionally characterize cellular processes and structures that determine plant pathogenesis. Sub-objective 1.B. Identify genes uniquely or differentially expressed during development that defines pathogen structure and function. Objective 2: Relate fungal genotypes to mycotoxin production in fungal strains in field production environments to aid in developing enhanced methods of control. Sub-objective 2.A. Monitor genetic changes in critical pathogen populations by pathogen surveys. Sub-objective 2.B. Characterize populations of Fusarium from native North American grasses that may be sources of novel pathogen genotypes and/or host resistance. Objective 3: Optimize metagenomic and functional approaches to define the phytobiome of healthy and diseased plants naturally infested with the FHB fungus. Sub-objective 3.A. Characterize phytobiome and soil carbon composition. Sub-objective 3.B. Determine the relative abundance of competitive phenotypes and impacts on plant productivity. Objective 4: Identify novel sources of plant disease resistance to FHB and mycotoxins produced by FHB fungi to improve breeding for resistance. Sub-objective 4.A. Characterize the epigenetic changes of FHB resistant durum cultivars produced by altering the DNA methylation pattern. Sub-objective 4.B. Characterize durum lines missing a portion of chromosome 2A region that may contain the FHB suppressor locus. Objective 5: Introgress new genes of scab resistance into barley and wheat germplasm.
Improved management strategies are needed to maintain adequate plant disease control. Specific approaches include: 1) Genetic information obtained from the fungal pathogen, Fusarium, will be used to identify genes factors responsible for fungal pathogenesis, possibly leading to novel approaches to control FHB disease and reduce toxin levels in grain; 2) FHB levels, strain diversity, and the nature of associated fungal communities, will be monitored by population genetic and metagenomic approaches improving the ability to forecast the economic impact and the design of effective management strategies; 3) Novel sources of FHB resistance and mycotoxin tolerance will be developed for plants. | <urn:uuid:fa3c294f-eb14-4db6-a48b-e3a7d7668605> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/project/?accnNo=431321 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.886547 | 541 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The latest researchers examined the likely results of three issues where most of the consumers is enrolled in IDR plans. In the 1st, individuals begin spending to the money a lot more than 150% of the government impoverishment line and you can shell out ten% from the earnings. Regarding second circumstance, kept stability was forgiven once 10 years. Throughout the third, the latest installment threshold try raised in order to three hundred% of your own federal impoverishment line, in lieu of 150% lower than latest agreements.
The study finds that getting the consumers for the IDR leads to extreme forgiveness for center-earnings individuals, compared to common or capped forgiveness principles you to definitely disproportionately work for high money consumers. Anybody about 3rd courtesy 7th deciles located 61% of total forgiveness, and folks towards the bottom 50 % of the gains shipping discover over fifty percent of your own development. In terms https://getbadcreditloan.com/payday-loans-md/ellicott-city/ of the racial and ethnic consequences, “forgiveness quantity is twice as higher having blacks according to whites while the general populace,” the brand new scientists located.
“Increasing the new kindness of cash-driven installment preparations, or joining more people throughout these preparations, contributes to the key benefits of forgiveness going to the straight down middle together with middle income, instead of the ideal percentiles of income shipping,” said Yannelis.
“It is not no more than emotion. We have to glance at the wide variety to complete specific designs out-of rules research.” –Sylvain Catherine
Improving the earnings threshold significantly more than and this borrowers pay funds away from 150% of the poverty line to 3 hundred% considerably increases the earnings in order to lowest-money individuals. “That have a living-motivated cost system you to only is actually garnishing wages more than three times the poverty range means that a person who produces $forty,000 annually and is unmarried will not pay something – or hardly any – after which their harmony would be forgiven once 20 age,” told you Catherine. Yet not, to make one IDR coverage more liberal makes little difference to people who earns $one hundred,100 otherwise $150,100000, the guy additional.
not, the new college loans field appear to does not have this new rigor this 1 observes that have regular lender credit
Most of the time, those who spent more hours in school come in procedures like treatments otherwise rules, was earning better and are capable lower its scholar loans, Yannelis told you. But that’s false for all those who went to graduate school, the guy additional. “Some people fight for reasons uknown. In fact it is one of the benefits of those earnings-motivated installment agreements. If somebody has actually a high personal debt balance, it went to rules otherwise scientific college and for whatever need things did not work-out, they don’t have and work out those very high repayments. Therefore, discover insurance coverage made in for consumers.”
The major takeaway from their scientific studies are that policymakers have to feel “very careful” inside framing regulations to cope with college loans, “while they may appear modern in writing, however they are really regressive,” told you Catherine. “We need to do some qualitative knowledge. It is not just about feeling. We need to go through the quantity to accomplish some models off rules investigations.”
The analysis don’t are about $150 mil when you look at the financing started by the individual lenders and you may backed by the government, they listed
Centered on an inside research the brand new U.S. Agency out of Degree used, the us government faces loss regarding $435 billion into the $step 1.thirty-five trillion inside the student loans it holds, This new Wall structure Road Log stated into the November.
The federal government gives more $a hundred billion yearly to college students to pay for university fees within a great deal more than simply six,100 universities and colleges, brand new Record declaration mentioned. “It ignores activities such as fico scores and you can field of analysis, and it cannot familiarize yourself with if or not pupils commonly earn enough after graduating to cover its financial obligation,” it additional. | <urn:uuid:bc812318-2792-4b42-9492-20422788c444> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://abs-tour.com/payday-loans-5000-2/hispanics-while-others-select-all-the-way-down/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955114 | 898 | 1.59375 | 2 |
By Laura Keys, LCSW, Courier & Press, Sept. 19, 2017 –
If you are the parent or caregiver of a young child, you have most likely experienced the dreaded meltdown or temper tantrum. You also know it is not a delightful experience for you or your child.
Children do not like to feel out of control or unsafe, which is often what is occurring during a meltdown. If you are new to the game of parenting or caregiving, these meltdowns or tantrums do not magically end when kids leave the “terrible twos” and turn three. In some cases, they can continue through a child’s early elementary years.
However, for most kids and their parents or caregivers there is relief. There are a few things you can do to help speed or at least ease the process and build your child’s self-esteem at the same time.
One of my favorite books to recommend to parents is “No More Meltdowns,” by Jed Baker, Ph.D. I like this book because he uses examples where he, as both a therapist and parent, has sometimes struggled or had to try different approaches before finding the right one for his client or his own child. In both cases, he keeps trying until he finds success.
For example, see if there is a time pattern or specific trigger before a meltdown occurs. Is your child hungry or tired because of a missed snack or nap? Are they off their normal routine for some reason? Does your child always have a tantrum when you buy a birthday present for another child?
Once you identify the problem you can avoid the trigger in the future. As your child becomes older and more communicative these will become teachable moments. Not only will you be trying to avoid uncomfortable tantrums for you and your child, you will be teaching them the beginning steps of self-problem solving.
If a slightly older child has issues with homework such as math, always start with a few problems they can work successfully. This will give them confidence before moving on to problems they are struggling with. Always praise their efforts.
Yes, you want them to develop their skills, but if they feel they are mentally or emotionally defeated before they even get started on a task, it increases the likelihood they will get frustrated, give up, shut down or turn the situation into a power struggle. Power struggles can cause a meltdown for both you and your child.
Trying to reason with a child during a meltdown does not usually work. The child’s reasoning capabilities are most likely not engaged at this point. The goal at this point is to soothe and comfort. This does not mean giving in; it means keeping the child from hurting himself or others. Remember that children with certain conditions will be more difficult to help through tantrums than others.
In emergency situations, Dr. Baker recommends distraction. However, he cautions not to use this all the time as the child will learn this as their primary coping skill. As they get older they may learn that distraction is a way to avoid doing what they don’t want to do, (i.e. math problems).
Hopefully, this article is a reminder to parents that you are not alone; there are resources available if you are interested or feel you need assistance. Dr. Baker’s book is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Today is World Mental Health Day, a day recognized by the World Health Organization in order to spread awareness about mental health. Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiences mental illness in a given year. Fortunately, there foods that you can incorporate into your diet to help you to feel your best.
- Everyone loves chocolate, and eating 1.4 ounces of dark chocolate per day has been found to reduce stress hormones, including cortisol. It can also help to increase endorphins, which are feel good chemicals.
- Eat more whole foods and less processed foods. People with diets high in desserts, fried foods, processed meats, refined carbohydrates and high-fat dairy products report feeling more depressed than those who follow a more healthy diet.
- About 45-65% of your calories should come from carbohydrates, preferably from high fiber and whole grain sources. Carbohydrates can actually help to boost your mood because they promote the production of serotonin, a feel good brain chemical. Include lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes in your diet.
- Limit saturated fats, which have been associated with a higher incidence of depression. Choose leaner meats, low-fat dairy products, and more plant based foods.
- Include fatty fish in your diet, such as salmon, herring, tuna, sardines, and rainbow trout, at least twice per week. Diets high in omega-3 fatty acids results in increased dopamine and serotonin production, which help you to feel good.
- Eat foods high in vitamins B-12 and folate, including beans, citrus, and dark greens. These vitamins have been shown to positively impact mood and reduce depressive symptoms.
- Fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables. These foods are packed with antioxidants, which help you to feel better by reducing oxidative stress in your brain.
- Get your daily dose of vitamin D, which has been associated with a lower incidence of PMS, seasonal affective disorder, and depression. Vitamin D can be found in fortified milk, egg yolks, and in fatty fish.
- Limit alcohol intake because it is a depressant. Women should consume no more than one serving of alcohol per day, and men should consume no more than two servings per day.
- Be aware of your caffeine intake. It can disrupt your sleep at night, which can make you more irritable during the day.
- Remember to exercise, which helps to reduce depression and anxiety by releasing feel-good endorphins. Exercise also helps to take your mind off your worries. Aim for 30 minutes or more per day for three to five days per week.
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In Their Own Words
Anni Liu on “Memory in a Foreign Language”
weekday afternoons I walk from school to the English
class in the foreign language university
the air is the color of amber or it is only
this way in memory which has stained it
like a film remastered
here I learn a language is the way someone you love
looks when speaking it and English is my mother
moving her face in ways she does not at home
long pursed O’s wide smile that’s almost a grimace
the lesson underway: sounds with the letter L
I mimic the sounds my voice swallowed by the class
I stretch my mouth and feel the shape of what
I don’t yet understand chanting lack
luck lock lack luck
lock and what happens next
I don’t remember yet
Reprinted from Border Vista (Persea Books, 2022). All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
On “Memory in a Foreign Language”
I’m fascinated by the relationship between language and memory, and my poems are sometimes ways for me to puzzle through the relationship between the two. I was brought to the US when I was almost nine, and I knew about as many words of English. But, being a kid, and the kid of an English teacher especially, I quickly became fluent. After a few years, I’d all but forgotten Chinese. Along with my first language, I severed my past self and her life from my new one willingly, eagerly, like an extraneous and embarrassing appendage I alone possessed.
It is apparently common for childhood learners of a second language to pass through a silent period. From this time between languages, I have almost no memories, least of all about myself. Inside my brain, a black hole opened, into which entire years silently vanished. In this poem, English is the future, freeing and overwhelming. It carries meaning even before the speaker can understand it. It speaks of hardship even as it functions as social, cultural capital. At the end of the poem, we see the hole created by the disowning of language and the reticence of memory.
What is it now, to recall experiences from that other language and life, to distill them and access them in English? Writing of childhood, I feel as though I’m creating memories, writing the past one scene or line at a time. More than remastering, it feels like an act of ghostly ventriloquism, or like archeological interpretations of compromised artifacts. Whatever it is, it is the only way, until I am fluent again in Chinese, to remember my life. | <urn:uuid:6a3d864b-56bd-45e6-8807-99be64a1f080> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://poetrysociety.org/features/in-their-own-words/anni-liu-on-memory-in-a-foreign-language | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.962049 | 560 | 1.828125 | 2 |
What Is Lipid Metabolism?
Atherosclerotic and thrombotic diseases of the cardiovascular system are major causes of death and morbidity. Nutrition and lifestyle have been largely recognized as an important factor in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Among dietary factors, total dietary fat and fatty acids have been generally considered. The different types of fatty acids have different influences on lipid metabolism, metabolic risk factors and the risk of cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis. However, these influences are potentially modulated by gene variations that play a role in lipid metabolism. Single-gene defects affect a relatively small subset (5-10%) of patients at high risk of premature coronary heart disease, while multiple gene variations with minor effects have a compounding effect and contribute to Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk in the vast majority of individuals.
Such multigenic effects depend predominantly on environmental influences, which suggests that most premature cardiovascular deaths can be prevented if action is taken to avoid, or modify, external factors that may influence a genetic predisposition to become clinically relevant.
The SNPs assessed in this panel are found on the genes; LPL, APOC3, CETP, APOE and PON1. If a number of gene variants in this panel convey moderate to high risk impacts, it may be prudent to assess an individual’s cholesterol profile (liposcan) – paying special attention to cholesterol sub-fractions. Personalised interventions can then be implemented based on that individual’s specific genetic profile.
It is estimated that around 17.9 million people die each year from CVD, which is an estimated 31% of all deaths worldwide. Individuals who are living with CVD have a decreased quality of life, and put strain on the healthcare system and economy.
Heart health depends on the interplay between genetic and environmental factors – Identifying those at highest risk of CVD and ensuring they receive appropriate management through targeted interventions can prevent the onset of disease and improve health outcomes.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) encompasses a group of diseases of the heart & blood vessels, including coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, heart arrhythmias, and heart valve problems. Major risk factors that lead to the development of CVD are hypertension, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity, with a major underlying cause being that of chronic, low grade inflammation. This review will focus mainly on the areas of dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis.
Dyslipidemia is characterised by an abnormal amount, or an altered ratio, of lipids (triglycerides, cholesterol and/or fat phospholipids) in the blood, and contributes toward the development of atherosclerosis.
Endogenously, lipids are synthesized in the liver, and exogenously, sources come from dietary fat. They have a diverse range of biological functions in cell membranes as phospholipids, and as a major source of stored energy in adipose tissue as triacylglycerols (TAGs). Cholesterol is also crucial for the production of bile acid, vitamin D as well as several hormones, including the stress hormone, cortisol, and the sex hormones testosterone, progesterone, and oestrogen. Cholesterol is transported in the blood in the form of apolipoproteins.
Different forms of apolipoprotein cholesterol exist. Chylomicrons are the least dense and largest of the lipoprotein family. Chylomicrons undergo a maturation process and, with successive hydrolysis of triglycerides, the size of chylomicrons decreases, forming so-called chylomicron remnants, which are rapidly removed from the circulation by the liver. The next dense class of lipoproteins is the very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) particle, which is rich in triglycerides, and can be hydrolysed by lipoprotein lipases. During this lipolytic removal of triglycerides, the particle size of VLDL decreases while the particle density increases. With time, the particles are converted from triglyceride-rich VLDL to cholesteryl ester-rich low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles, which are much smaller than VLDL. LDL particles are the primary transporters of cholesterol to peripheral tissues and, in contrast to the other lipoprotein species, LDL particles possess just one single copy of an apolipoprotein called apolipoprotein B-100 (Apo-B100). Apo-B100 is a large, non-exchangeable, amphipathic single-chain glycoprotein which plays a central role in particle stabilization as well as in cellular recognition and receptor mediated endocytosis of LDL. High density lipoproteins (HDL) are the smallest and densest lipoprotein that are rich in protein and hold different amounts of exchangeable apolipoproteins, of which apolipoprotein A-I (Apo-AI) is the most abundant. HDL plays a significant role in reverse cholesterol transport for the efflux of cholesterol from the tissue to HDL. HDL returns excess cholesterol to the liver, where it is converted to bile acids and eliminated from the liver. HDL thus protects from atherosclerosis development.
In the first step of atherosclerosis pathogenesis, small LDL particles penetrate the endothelial wall, then, Apo B-100 bind to proteoglycans deposits in the extracellular matrix of subendothelial spaces, leading to retention of these particles in the blood vessel wall.
The second step of this process involves the oxidation of the subendothelial LDL by resident vascular cells, triggering vascular-cell production of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1(MCP-1) and macrophage colony stimulating factors (M-CSFs).
When there is a trigger for oxidative stress insult, such as with smoking, hypertension, hyperglycaemia, and hyperlipidaemia status, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production is increased, overpowering the endogenous antioxidant response. This oxidative stress insult increases oxidation of LDL particles and impairs endothelial function. In the initial phase of LDL modification, the lipid components interact with ROS, and produce many types of lipid oxidation products. The lipid oxidation products, such as lysophospholipid products, attach to the Apo B protein. After interaction with scavenger receptors, the macrophages are activated and uptake of ox-LDL is initiated, which also induces several pro-inflammatory conditions.
The Importance Of Lipid Metabolism
Lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides are involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, specifically, having raised levels of serum LDL and triglycerides lead to the formation of atherosclerotic lesions. Atherosclerosis underlies many diseases of the cardiovascular system, which are major causes of morbidity and mortality.
When considering laboratory tests to ascertain risk in this area, a full lipogram, oxidised LPL and VLDL, as well as the blood level of Apo-B can be measured, where the ideal level for Apo-B is less than 100mg/dl.
It is important to highlight that chronic oxidative stress exposure increases risk for atherosclerotic damage. Risk factors that contribute toward atherosclerosis, as mentioned above, include smoking, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, sedentary lifestyle, overweight and obesity, a modern Western lifestyle and chronic stress.
The recommendations for lipid metabolism will centre around optimising dietary fatty acid intake, assessing dietary quality in terms of phytonutrients, antioxidants and fibre, as well as considering key lifestyle factors such as exercise and smoking.
Nutrition has been largely recognized as an important factor in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Among dietary factors, total dietary fat and the different fatty acids have been studied extensively. The individual fatty acids (FA) found in different foods have been strongly related to lipid metabolism and, consequently to metabolic risk factors and the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, these associations are potentially modulated by variations in genes that play a function in FA and lipid metabolism.
Generally, eating a diet high in saturated fats, such as full fat dairy products and fat found in animal sources (chicken skin, red meat etc.), is associated with increases in cholesterol levels. Similarly, a high trans-fat diet (commercially baked cookies and confectionary, ready-made meals etc.) has been associated with raised cholesterol levels. It is recommended to keep saturated fat to less than 10% of total energy, totally avoiding trans-fat intake, if possible. Replacing saturated fats with monounsaturated fats (MUFA), such as olive oil and avocado, has shown beneficial results in improving cholesterol levels. Increasing intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) from omega 3 (n-3) sources, such as fatty fish, flax seed and walnuts may also improve the dyslipidaemic profile.
Individuals who eat a diet high in refined carbohydrates also have an increased risk of dyslipidaemia, specifically hypertriglyceridaemia. It is suggested to replace refined carbohydrates with low glycaemic (GI) alternatives and also to consider increasing MUFA intake. Those with hypertriglyceridaemia are recommended to take in 2g to 4g of n-3 fatty acids (FA), mixed EPA/DHA, per day.
Research also emphasises a diet high in both soluble and insoluble fibre can help to manage total cholesterol. Plant sterols have also been shown to improve dyslipidaemia, and a diet high in phytonutrients with a high dietary intake of vegetables and fruit is protective against atherosclerosis development.
Also, following a Mediterranean style dietary pattern has been shown to decrease risk for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Weight management and losing up to 10% of total body weight, if overweight, is associated with improved metabolic outcomes. Stress management and cessation of smoking is imperative.
Personalised lifestyle and nutrition interventions for balancing lipid metabolism and decreasing risk for atherosclerosis will be given according to genotype. It is, however, important to take the full genetic panel into account to ensure an holistic, personalised plan is given. One must also consider other key biochemical areas that influence atherosclerosis risk, including the inflammatory pathways and antioxidant status.
Lipid Metabolism PowerPoint Presentation
Genetic of Trigylcerides and the Risk of Atherosclerosis
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Lipid and Non-Lipid Factors Affecting Macrophage Dysfunction & Inflammation in Atherosclerosis
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Many argue that conversion rate should not be the main metric for the success of an eCommerce website.
Conversion rates (CR) vary greatly across industry verticals, so comparing one market or store with another won’t typically produce any meaningful insights. For example, an apparel eCommerce site that sells to B2C customers will have vastly different results than a business that supplies industrial materials to B2B customers.
But that doesn’t mean conversion rates aren’t important. They make sense when used in conjunction with other important metrics in this list. It’s a great measure of the competitiveness and health of your eCommerce store.
CR shows how many people who visit the website leave as a customer. It’s the direct metric that shows the quality of the traffic and proves effectiveness of your strategy and tactics. If the traffic is high but the CR is low, you may need to review the traffic sources, or take actions to nurture your visitors.
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Here I have different articles from my brand. I want to split the cell so I can have only the size (which is the last letters from the string).
The thing, if i do a cell splitter for every space, it gives me 4 or 5 or 6 columns. Depending on the number of spaces of course.
Do you know how I can, for every rows, keep the size apart from the reste of the string?
Id like it to be automated for every row.
Thanks in advance,
Have you tried splitting using a comma as the delimiter?
An alternative to this is using RegEx Extractor to grab the portion of the string after the final comma. The RegEx would be something like
elsamuels proposal hopefully solves you issue
beside this if you do not like regex (Who doesn’t like regex but anyway) you could also try out string manipulation
substr(reverse($YOURCOLUMN$), 0,1 )
it is a great solution,
however, for some articles, the size is 42,5…
do you know how i can do it?
is there a node where i can make a group by whenever there are no missing values
for example : as the split is for the coma
2 columns for 42,5 42 and 5
then the group by would asemble the two
but is that possible if there a no value (for example the 42 doesn’t need any group by)
I used the column combiner :
it works perfectly for the underligned one.
However, for the other it won’t.
How can I specify that, in caseof no value on the column, “don"t combine”
you can use Column Aggregator with Concatenate aggregation method, unckeck missing option and specify comma as delimiter.
This is what happens when you don’t provide enough information with your initial post. Your example shows sizes which are just a single letter (or number), or 2 letters, and so my suggestion reflected that. Are there any other peculiarities with your data that we should know about?
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Early signs of Spring have anglers itching to wet a line but the effects of Winter still have their hold beneath the water’s surface.
Water temps will take a few more weeks of warm weather to gradually increase, bringing the underwater world to life.
Prawns will flood back into the labyrinth of tributaries on the big tides and one only need see a few trawlers working a particular reach to know they have moved back in, and where to locate the majority of these tasty crustaceans.
Bream, flathead, school Jew, estuary perch and bass won’t be far behind, gorging themselves to gain some condition after low water temps, big migrations and spawning events.
Bass and EPs are back on the wanted list this month. The best bites will be in the tidal water between Wisemans Ferry and Sackville, with soft plastics the go to for those who like to flick lures.
It’s dynamite to cast curl-tail grubs and minnows of 2”-3” rigged on 2g-5g jig heads into the eddies created by the rock walls and weed beds.
Cricket-score catches can be achieved with the right techniques in the right locations but anglers need to be responsible and exercise catch and release.
Bream have started to filter into the river proper and can be found on the abundant rock walls from the rail bridge to Wisemans Ferry.
Soft plastics, deep crankbaits and vibes will all have their day on the walls; it’s just a matter of seeing which is working best for the given tidal and weather conditions when you hit the water.
Don’t discount the washes around the headlands, either, as migrating bream schools will have to pass these areas to access the estuaries.
Soft plastics and crankbaits are the preferred weapons of the lure flickers, while a bread berley and lightly weighted baits of peeled prawn, nipper or white bread folded onto a 1/0 hook will produce some good catches.
Flathead have been in good numbers and size through the cooler months in the lower reaches from Spencer to Broken Bay. They too will follow the bait upstream for a month or so before heading back down to spawn when the conditions are favourable.
Trolling and casting are fun and productive ways to rustle up a feed of flatties. Lures need not be too big for either of these approaches; 2”-4” is perfect and will rarely be refused by a hungry dusky.
If that seems like too much hard work, try drifting the mangrove edges where they drop into deeper water with fresh baits of prawn, whitebait or fish fillet. Use the smallest amount of lead to keep your bait on the bottom and waft naturally for best results.
Lure fishing for school jew has been outstanding and will continue for the next couple of months before live-baiting comes into its own. That’s not to say a livie, fresh strip or fillet bait won’t be eaten this month; it’s just not as productive as covering large areas of water casting lures.
Prawns, herring and poddy mullet imitations will be the standout lures rigged on the lightest jig head you can get away with.
Spring also brings the promise of surface-feeding schools of pelagics.
Large schools of glass bait or ‘eyes’ have already flooded the estuary mouths seeking protection and sustenance. They have lives envied by none as the schools get ravaged en masse by salmon, tailor and bonito.
When these pelagics get focussed on the ‘eyes’, it can pay to have a few tricks up your sleeve. Small metal slices from 3g-15g, 2”-3” soft plastic minnows in translucent colours and, if you have any ability with a fly-tying vice, a 3g-5g jig head with some sparsely tied Sparkle Flash along the hook shank is a standout.
All in all, despite the cooler water at present, the fishing will heat up as the month progresses so don’t delay – get out there and get stuck into some quality fish.Reads: 958 | <urn:uuid:728384f9-85be-4308-ab6e-ec7731a76c6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fishingmonthly.com.au/Articles/Display/15425-Target-list-starts-to-grow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.93312 | 909 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Third Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing assistance for all stages of the research experience, including guidance on how to select an area of focus, design a culturally-proficient study, collect and interpret data, and communicate findings.
With an updated introduction and two new chapters, this revised edition fully develops a convincing response to the framing question of the book, "Why pre-service teacher action research?" The new edition continues to focus on elements of trustworthy pre-service teacher action research, and provides a more robust overview of research methodology. Using additional activities, charts, and examples, this book offers support during the steps of writing a critical question, data collection, data analysis and the use of analytic memos.
New Features in the Third Edition include:
- New chapters on ongoing data analysis and final data interpretation, which include practice scenarios and examples to give readers a deeper understanding of doing the work of action research processes;
- An expanded chapter on action research methodology, which includes scaffolds for making methodological decisions, additional practice scenarios, and a revised action research design template;
- New end-of-chapter Content and Process Questions to encourage deeper understanding;
- New examples throughout, expanded additional glossary terms, enhanced literature review guidance, and updated templates to support action research projects;
- An updated companion website with downloadable templates and additional instructor resources;
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- This one-of-a-kind guide continues to offer invaluable support for teacher-education students during a critical phase of their professional—and personal—lives.
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Shuv LaMakom – Return to Your Place
Meditation, insights, and preparations for the new year
Meditation is an ancient technique intended for achieving spiritual understanding and equanimity, beyond the wear and tear of everyday life, but without disconnecting from it.
Since olden times the sages of different cultures have managed to keep their secrets, while also allowing knowledge to flow out and in. So, for example, we find parallels today between the secrets of Kabbalah and Jewish prophecy, and the wisdom of medication and ancient Indian philosophy.
It is just for this reason that a fine distinction is necessary, to avoid fashionable fusions and focus anew on inner intention.
In this lecture, you are invited to a direct experience of ancient knowledge, with a local and contemporary flavor.
The only chance for this experiment to succeed lies in your hands, dear audience.
So sit comfortably, put your phones aside for a moment, listen with a new and open mind,
and may we all have a year of favorable surprise.
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This research examines the partnership between player’s really worth possibilities and their tips for the to try out a greatly multiplayer on the internet role-playing online game. Online survey study from,577 people was combined with the behavioral metrics into the video game. A lot of correlations was discover involving the many value system as well as the during the-video game metrics. Participants that scored at the top of the fresh Reddish really worth system will save money a real income throughout the game, peak upwards its reputation and element as fast as possible, and you will look for most other triumph from the versions given by game industry. These features for fun, electricity, and you may instant satisfaction are also forecast by Red worthy of system. The fresh in search of provides rewarding information about how to better structure, look at, and see pleasure into the games. The results as well as reveal the potential for by using the game given that a platform into the inferring players’ well worth systems along with training someone to cultivate specific experience.
step one. Introduction
MMORPGs (greatly multiplayer online part-playing games) are extremely widely known games category, symbolizing a wave regarding social, social, and you may big monetary impact. The complete gaming market revenue from Asia risen to All of us$18.5 billion inside 2014, and you can MMORPGs accounted for regarding a third from it .
Understanding athlete features is an essential part from games framework and you may has also crucial implications to own broadening games’ possibility of difference on area. The fresh personality, which shows the newest practices that comprise and you will characterize each individual, has been thought to be one of many secret parts so you can knowledge the spends and you may effects of games. The diversity regarding athlete behavior in this online game industry offers unique possibilities to studies the partnership ranging from personality and you can game to tackle, and you may MMORPGs is actually “a gold-mine of personality data” .
not, this new character characteristics regarding participants since the a team are nevertheless maybe not well-understood, and there has been apparently absolutely nothing lookup associated with personality from users and their when you look at the-video game choices. What is more, every newest betting browse are considering self-said study extracted from the participants using interviews, studies, otherwise ethnographic findings. To deal with such restrictions, we want to shell out way more attention to longitudinal analysis gathered straight from game, that offers united states having a stronger empirical foundation to raised learn such cutting-edge digital globes . Knowledge on China MMORPGs people are also nevertheless scarce, and you may a far greater experience in him or her is going to be wished, while the China members certainly are the biggest MMORPGs affiliate classification in the the nation.
In the current studies, i look at the connection anywhere between athlete personalities since conceptualised by Graves as well as their conclusion when you look at the good MMORPG during the Asia. The fresh new conclusions will help obtain insight in regards to the audience inside buy in order to complete the needs of the user and invite online game industry to produce more engaging and focused game.
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Character is understood to be the latest arranged totality out of qualities or features which makes one unlike others. It combines perceptions, motives, means, and you will emotions and you may influences just how people consider, perform, and means internal and external issues . There have been numerous training regarding the affairs that may apply to leisure activity from confirmed category, neighborhood, and you can people, such age, education, money, gender, occupation, and you may societal class . Although not, to have anticipating leisure behavior, the conventional demographic details are actually weakened, and, because the ideal just before, personality are a much better predictor of preference than simply demographics having experiential situations .
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Imaging procedures, like computed tomography (CT) scans, make it easy to diagnose underlying medical issues invisible to the eye. At Executive Medicine of Texas, the concierge medicine providers offer several types of imaging onsite, including CT scans and ultrasounds. To make an appointment in Southlake, Texas, call the office or click the online booking feature today.
Imaging refers to procedures that use advanced technologies to capture photos of your internal organs, soft tissues, or bones and joints. They provide a noninvasive way to diagnose illnesses, injuries, and disorders that don’t present visible symptoms.
Executive Medicine of Texas has a state-of-the-art imaging facility that provides several types of diagnostics. Patients can receive a prompt diagnosis of fractures, heart disease, and even certain types of cancer.
Executive Medicine of Texas offers several types of diagnostic imaging:
Computed tomography (CT) scans are a more advanced type of X-ray. Executive Medicine of Texas uses CT scans to screen for lung cancer and heart disease. They also diagnose abnormalities of the kidneys, liver, and pancreas,
3D virtual colonoscopy uses a CT scan to diagnose colon cancer early on when it’s easiest to treat. Unlike traditional colonoscopy, virtual colonoscopy requires no anesthesia. As a result, you can return to work and other activities immediately after your appointment.
Carotid Doppler is an ultrasound imaging technique that assesses the health of your carotid arteries –– two arteries on the sides of your neck that carry blood from your heart to your brain. If your test results are abnormal, your provider can recommend healthy lifestyle changes or medication to reduce your risk of a stroke.
The qualified providers at Executive Medicine of Texas can help you determine the type of imaging that most benefits you. After an in-office consultation that includes a physical exam and a review of your health history, they can make recommendations according to your age and needs.
Diagnostic imaging is safe and usually well-tolerated. CT scans expose you to small amounts of radiation, but the benefits of early diagnosis and treatment far outweigh the potential risks. What’s more, Executive Medicine of Texas provides the necessary protective equipment to ensure your safety.
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Laura Opening- Welcome back Dr. Breus. For all those who haven’t read your book ‘The Power of When’, here is a chance for them to learn more about your important work and pick up your book. Before we get to your ground breaking research, we first have to acknowledge the Nobel Peace Prize award in Physiology or Medicine that went to three doctors who have discovered molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. Now when we just say this, many will wonder, well why would that matter to me?
At World Wise Beauty I try to present important research, medical science and wellness wisdom in real context. The first question I always ask is, ‘Why does it matter?’ But before we get to this, let’s start first with a simple question. What did this Nobel Prize winning research specifically unveil for us from a scientific perspective that is so ‘eye opening’? No pun intended!
Dr. Breus: The basics behind the research showed that in fruit flies (who actually have very similar circadian rhythms as humans) the researchers were able to isolate the gene that controls our daily biological clock. This gene encodes a protein that accumulates in a cell during the evening and degrades during the daytime. This clock regulates behavior, weight loss, hormones levels, sleep and body temperature. Understanding this mechanism helps us all understand why we experience jet lag, how our internal biological clocks affect disease, our hormones, and literally everything we do. As you may remember in my new book, ‘ The Power of When’ this is EXACTLY what I have been writing about.
Laura Q- Yes you did, and hopefully more people will discover your work with this post! Now that we understand how our genes control our daily biological clock, what does that really mean if we are all different bio-individuals?
Dr. Breus: Actually we are more similar than you might think. The genetic studies that are going on in Sleep Research are on “common species” areas.
Lauroly Q– Why do circadian rhythms matter and why does understanding our unique biological clocks matter to our health?
Dr. Breus: So here is where it gets so fascinating, when I was in school, we learned that basically there was one central biological clock for time passage ( aging) and there were a few others that controlled hormone regulation, etc. Now we have found over 100 different control centers in the body. They each send information to each other. I think of it like grand central station in New York City. There are trains coming from all over the place to one central location. If one train is late, it could mess up all of the other trains going in or out. So the timing of these clocks actually controls our health, completely. These systems have a regularity to them or a rhythm. They become predictable, and more efficient. This is how the immune system, metabolic system, sleep system, all systems function.
Lauroly Q- There is our answer. Sleep is a real regulator to everything in our ‘ biological system’. Should we all be in sync with sunrise and sunset for optimal health?
Dr. Breus: Yes, but it is really unrealistic to think that we can do it correctly. Remember that we have at least 4 different chronotypes, so there are some of us, who are more prone to late evenings and others who are morning people. As a side note, there was a great study on insomnia, where they took insomniacs out into the woods camping for 2 weeks. By the end of the study, everyone’s sleep had significantly improved. It was likely due to the sun exposure, and a reduction of EMF exposure talk about in sync with he sun!
Lauroly Q- In your book you identify many different types in the context of sleep needs. Does the circadian ‘sync’ vary from person to person?
Dr. Breus: It does vary based on Chronotype. Lions (early risers), Bears (in-betweeners), Wolves (late nighters) and Dolphins (poor sleepers). If you want to know your type go to www.thepowerofwhenquiz.com and get it for free.
Lauroly Q– So does this mean that some people are just genetically wired to be night owls?
Dr. Breus: Absolutely. I am. Interestingly enough you can even get this tested at 23 and Me, due to the genetic nature of chronotypes. It is based on the PER3 or Period 3 gene and its length. It effects sleep drive and timing.
Lauroly Q- While we are different genetically, is there still some unifying wellness wisdom when it comes to sleep that all human beings need to listen to?
Dr. Breus: Yes, consistency is the key. Most specifically in your wake up time, keep the same for weekdays and weekends, everything gets better, assuming you are sleeping by your chronotype.
Lauroly Q- The first thing I think of when it comes to circadian rhythms, is cultures living in the Northern Lights part of the world. How does the abundance of light exposure and then the significant decrease of light effect their circadian rhythms?
Dr. Breus: There are a lot of issues with sleep in these areas of the world. Sunlight appears to play a significant role in the human biology, from Vitamin D production to being the re-start button for the brain each morning.
Lauroly Q-Have their genes adapted over time living in these areas?
Dr. Breus: To a certain degree, yes. But I doubt that anyone is completely unaffected.
Lauroly Q- We know there is more depression associated with the decrease of light. I suppose even if you don’t live in these areas, but are vulnerable to depression, getting sunshine would be important. This correlates with the Vitamin D hormone that activates when we are exposed to the sun and then chemically regulates our serotonin synthesis. As we know, serotonin is one of the happy chemicals in our system. Take it from here Dr. Breus, I’m just trying to connect all the dots!
Dr. Breus: Light therapy is used in both depressive diagnoses and some sleep disorders. In depression the light helps re-set the persons circadian rhythms, which sends all of the other systems back in sync. This appears to play a role in the recovery from depression. While it is not the whole reason, it does seem to have a significant effect.
Laura Closing- Thank you for sharing your expertise with us Dr. Breus. Now that we are learning more about our biological clocks and our connection to nature, we can begin to see how everything is interdependent in wellness. As Plato so wisely said “The Part can Never be Well, unless the Whole is Well.” I encourage everyone to read ‘The Power of When’ and learn more about your own body’s internal clock. Sleeping will become a healthy habit, just like a good diet and exercise is.
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The Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival takes place from April 21-24 at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. Festivities include field trips, a family day, guided birding activities and a BioBlitz for recording observations.
This year’s theme is “Carrion Birds: Nature’s Clean Up Crew” with the turkey vulture as the featured bird.
Admission to Dead Horse Ranch State Park will be free to festival participants. Dead Horse has over 423 acres of land with three stocked lagoons making it a prime location for bird watching and wildlife encounters. More than 180 species of birds have been recorded at the park.
Many bird species will be migrating through the area during the month of April so the festival offers the opportunity to see both species common to the area and those traveling through to their summer homes to our north.
Presentations at the festival will cover topics such as Verde River ecology, backyard birding and birding basics, mammals and wild plants of the Verde Valley, and recognizing bird calls.
Each day of the festival from 8 to 10 a.m., an Armchair Birding activity allows beginner and experienced birders to take a short walk on the Canopy Trail at the bottom of Owl Road in the park to a location where feeders allow close-up encounters with birds. A knowledgeable guide will attend each session to help with species identification.
Saturday at the festival is “Family Day” with free admission and special activities geared toward children from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. between the lagoons at the park. Guided family nature walks will take place every hour, on the hour. Participants with smart phones and the iNaturalist app can keep a record of the animals, plants and fungi observed during the walks to participate in the Verde Valley Community BioBlitz and contribute to the scientific examination of the state of the river basin.
Family day will also have displays of skulls, snakes and other live reptiles, and live rescued birds from the Arizona Game and Fish Department. A vulture “scavenger” hunt sponsored by the Tucson Audubon Society and live painting by artist Syri Hall, the 2022 VVBNF winning artist, will also happen throughout the day.
In addition, Jay’s Bird Barn, Verde Valley Archaeological Society and Pindrop Travel Trailers will host displays.
A full range of workshops and field trips are available with prices ranging from $15 to $100. Workshops include educational presentations about bats, birds and owls, a birding photography sessions and bird related story-telling.
Field trips to observe birds and other wildlife range from Flagstaff to Prescott to Black Canyon City including multiple locations around the Verde Valley.
Kayaking trips along the Verde River with Doug Van Gausig of the Verde River Institute and stargazing with Dennis Young of the Sirius Lookers Astronomy Club are also on the agenda. Workshops and field trips require pre-registration.
The Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival is hosted by Friends of the Verde River and sponsored by the Salt River Project (SRP), the City of Cottonwood, the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau, The Melting Pot (Sedona) and the Northern Arizona Audubon Society. For more information or to register for an activity, visit VerdeRiver.org/birding-festival.
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Luciano Pavarotti Foundation together with Google Arts & Culture brings Luciano Pavarotti Home Museum online
More than 160 images from the tenor’s last house, now a popular museum, are available on Google Arts & Culture
Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti in Modena (Italy) joins Google Arts & Culture, the technological platform developed by Google to promote and preserve culture online, with a digital collection of over 160 images.
The digital collection
The first phase of the upload work led to the creation of a wide gallery of images that accompany the virtual visitor inside what was the last residence the Modenese tenor called “home” (and where he passed away on September 6, 2007). The building still is as he left it and it’s possible to feel his presence in every detail, since every single object has a story to tell.
The digital exhibition of costumes and awards
Inside the gallery of images there are also many portraits of Maestro Pavarotti wearing stage clothes, while he plays on stage some of the roles that made him the most famous and loved tenor of the second half of the XX century: from Rodolfo of La Bohème to Nemorino of Elisir d’amore, from Tosca’s Cavaradossi to Canio from Pagliacci and Grimaldo from La Gioconda, and many others.
Among the stories displayed on the main page there is also the one describing some of the numerous awards Maestro received during his career (they’re more than 400 in total). It’s possible to admire, for example, the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors and the Nansen Refugee Award, the Citation for United Nations Messenger of Peace, the World Social Award, numerous medals, plaques, over one hundred city keys and many other recognitions more.
The collection of “LUPA” paintings
Among the images of items, awards, portraits and memorabilia treasured inside the Home Museum – from the white handkerchief to the private diaries, from the scores to the original costumes of the opera roles – stands out a rich collection of paintings painted by the tenor.
For a long time, in fact, painting was one of his favorite hobbies and a small collection was born from this pastime. The painter Pavarotti used to sign as LUPA (from the initials of his name and surname) and his paintings are colorful, sunny and full of vitality… just as the tenor often described himself.
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture puts the collections of more than 2,000 museums at your fingertips. It’s an immersive way to explore art, history and the wonders of the world, from Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings to the women’s rights movement and the Taj Mahal. The Google Arts & Culture app is free and available online for iOS and Android. The team has been an innovation partner for cultural institutions since 2011. Google Arts & Culture develops technologies that help preserve and share culture and allow curators to create engaging exhibitions online and offline.
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‘Organising after the Brexit vote’ event calls for solidarity to fight insecurity at work
Building solidarity between workers, no matter what passport or contract they hold, is a trade union priority after the Brexit vote.
That was the message of the TUC event on ‘Organising migrant and other insecure workers after the Brexit vote’ held at Congress House last week.
The event was held as part of the TUC’s ‘Rethinking Organising’ series that is looking into how unions should adapt to new challenges in the workplace to increase membership and bargaining power.
TUC research published this week revealed that 3.2 million workers, one in ten of those working today, now face significant insecurity at work.
Migrant workers are often employed on insecure contracts because of their relative lack of power to demand better conditions at work. This insecurity has increased for EU migrants following the Brexit vote who have not been given assurances about whether they will have the right to remain in the country – something the TUC is campaigning for.
However migrants are by no means the only vulnerable group with young people, BME workers and those with caring responsibilities more likely to be subject to insecure conditions at work.
At the event, Guardian journalist Felicity Lawrence spoke about the business models that favour a flexible workforce that have driven these insecurities. She spoke about on her investigations of the food industry in East Anglia where she found supermarkets demanding round-the-clock deliveries of fresh goods at low prices. This was pushing suppliers to keep workers’ wages low and for them to put workers on precarious contracts so they could be hired and fired to meet demand.
Felicity also spoke about the insecurity entailed in new forms of employment associated with phone apps and other new technology – this is also discussed in the TUC’s report Living on the edge.
Felicity noted the important work by trade unions to organise workers in these sectors, highlighting the campaigning by GMB with Uber drivers that resulted in the landmark ruling that gave them worker status.
Unison organiser Katia Widlack spoke at the event about the work by her union to organise in sectors where insecure work was prevalent. Through long campaigns in some instances, organisers had successfully got employers to agree to recognise the union and to improve conditions and pay.
She showed a short film Unison has made about their migrant worker networks which provide migrant workers with support and develop their confidence to take leadership positions in the union. She said this is critical to ensuring the union is responsive to their concerns.
I spoke at the event to highlight the resources the TUC has developed to support organising in workplaces with migrant workers. These include the ‘Working in the UK’ guide to workplace rights in 21 languages and an online educational course (that anyone can access for free here) to encourage trade union reps to understand the importance of organising migrant workers together with other workers.
Felicity Lawrence also spoke about the concerns of residents in East Anglia that had been caused by the use of migrant workers to do low paid insecure agricultural jobs. She said that in areas like Wisbech ‘migration is being used as a wages policy.’
These concerns can only be addressed by stronger employment protections and collective agreements to ensure all workers are treated decently, as we showed in the film ‘Fairness at Work’ (online here) which the TUC made with with trade unions and community groups in Corby.
Participants of the event called for more case studies of effective trade union organising of migrants and workers from the local area together.
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The cleaning merchandise aisle of the supermarket has lots of solutions for cleansing and sharpening wooden furniture. And while these formulated for use on wood get the career carried out, you really do not constantly need a dedicated product or service to get your mahogany desk or oak chairs gleaming. Right here are some other ways you can clean wood—many of which involve merchandise you may perhaps by now have at home.
How to clean wooden home furniture with family products
As constantly, if your wooden furnishings is new more than enough to occur with guidance from the maker on how to clean it, observe all those. Also, retain in intellect that a large amount of modern day “wood” household furniture receives its glimpse from laminate or veneer, which may have various treatment recommendations than solid wooden.
Your ideal bet is to use a microfiber fabric when cleaning wood, simply because the material’s small fibers are in a position to get far more dust and dust than other sorts of fabric. And start out out with at least two (but ideally a lot more), earning absolutely sure to maintain just one dry.
In this article are a several procedures for cleansing wooden household furniture:
If you are cleansing wooden home furniture that’s currently getting employed or exhibited in your property (as opposed to a piece you acquired at a garden sale and have to deep-clean up), wipe it down with a dry microfiber cloth, buffing out fingerprints or smudges as you go.
For stubborn sticky spots, frivolously dampen a microfiber fabric and carefully rub the sticky place until eventually it is absent. If it still won’t budge, mix a modest quantity of dish soap with heat h2o, dampen your fabric in that, and repeat the measures earlier mentioned.
Utilize a light layer of non-gel toothpaste to a drinking water ring or stain on wood furnishings. Permit it sit for 5 minutes (but not more than that, so the toothpaste doesn’t stain the wood by itself). Then, buff it out making use of a dry microfiber fabric, getting cautious to only rub in the drinking water stain by itself, steering clear of the encompassing wooden as a lot as attainable.
Like toothpaste, mayo can also be utilised for h2o and trapped humidity stains on wood home furnishings. Use your finger or a spatula to implement the mayo to the stains in a circular movement. Allow it sit for an hour, then look at portion of the stain to see if it is gone. If it is, clear away the mayo with one fabric, and then dry the areas with yet another.
Diy dusting and cleansing spray
Wanting for a alternative you can make yourself and have on hand for schedule cleansing? You may perhaps want to combine up a batch of this:
- 1 cup of h2o
- ¼ cup of white vinegar
- 2 teaspoon mineral oil or coconut oil
- 15 drops of lemon oil
Pour the elements into an vacant spray bottle, and shake very well (both originally, and ahead of each use). To use it, just spray it on wooden household furniture, and use a microfiber cloth to wipe it off.
Diy cleansing polish
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Aliran is shocked over a recent article by a local academic over what he terms as the rightful cleansing of Malaysia of undocumented foreign nationals.
His plaudits for the authorities’ series of raids to round up undocumented foreigners is seriously xenophobic.
We have seen attempts to dehumanise foreigners, especially those who are undocumented, time and again in a flurry of recent articles and news reports. Worse, the inflammatory content in some of these articles could very well incite locals to act against those who they think have no place in this country.
Such xenophobia and bullying can have serious consequences on people’s lives.
In some articles, we see the pathetic use of a range of stereotypes, misinformation and unsubstantiated allegations against undocumented foreigners:
- they have pinched the jobs of many locals who are left jobless and economically vulnerable by the pandemic
- they are criminals who threaten the safety of Malaysians
- they are not bothered about cleanliness
- they contribute to the spread of life-threatening diseases including Covid-19
The undocumented are not in a position to refute such allegations levelled at them, as they don’t have the avenue to respond.
Agreed, some foreigners are capable of a wide range of criminal activity, just like some Malaysians are. But are they disproportionately more prone to crime?
One news report cited statistics which showed that crimes by foreign nationals dropped over the period from 2016 to 2018. A research study revealed an overemphasis on nationality during crime reporting, leading to the entrenching of the stereotypes of foreigners as criminals.
As for health issues and sanitation, when will we acknowledge the appalling living conditions of workers both documented and undocumented, allowed by the government (including local councils), employers and recruitment agencies, which has led to cramped living spaces and the inability to practise social distancing in such places? Will we acknowledge the difficulty of foreign nationals in accessing affordable healthcare in the country, given they have to pay much more than locals at hospitals?
Blaming foreigners for Covid-19 transmission is ironic given that it is highly doubtful that it was the undocumented workers who went on holiday and brought Covid-19 back to Malaysia.
Moreover, the reporting of new cases of Covid-19 infections has been at times divided into locals and non-locals, further fuelling the “us versus them” xenophobia. Was it the fault of the undocumented migrants that so many cases of Covid-19 cropped up at congested immigration detention centres?
And what about the broken promise that no action would be taken against undocumented migrants who show up for Covid-19 testing?
What is dangerous is commentary that encourages suspicion and ‘action’ against foreigners, eg stopping them from gathering at public spaces to ‘reduce the threat’ to us.
Agreed, immigration laws in the country apply to all. However, the application of these laws must take into consideration the context of the infringement. While some undocumented migrants have gained entry into our country through illegal means, abetted by locals and non-locals who profit from such under-the-counter arrangements, others have found themselves cheated or ill-treated by recruitment agencies or local employers who have kept their passports. Or migrants may have found their working conditions exploitative, intolerable or not what they were promised.
Access to justice for the vast majority of these people caught in human trafficking or exploitative situations is extremely difficult.
So, in tackling the issue of undocumented people in the country, the authorities must be rational and balanced in their approach. There cannot be room for regressive, hate-fuelling propaganda to score points or flex muscles as part of a show of power.
Dehumanising or demonising groups of people has serious consequences. We have seen the world over where hatred towards groups of people can lead to. It leads to hate crimes and even fatalities. We cannot have that here in Malaysia.
We must nip it in the bud and stop the hate.
Aliran executive committee
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We have used new monitoring technology in the form of child ‘avatars’ - online profiles which simulate children’s browsing activity - to identify ads that children see online. As a consequence, we have already taken action to ban ads from five gambling operators which were served to child avatars on children’s websites in clear breach of the UK Advertising Codes.
Over a two week monitoring period last year we identified ads by 43 gambling operators in non-logged-in, online environments. Five of those gambling operators, NetEnt Product Ltd (Vikings Video Slot), Evoke Gaming Ltd (RedBet), Multilotto UK Ltd, Platinum Gaming Ltd (Unibet) and Skill On Net Ltd (PlayOjo), broke the strict advertising rules which prohibit gambling ads being targeted at under-18s.
We collected data on the 10,754 times that ads were served to the child avatars (ad impressions*) across 24 children’s websites and 20 open-access YouTube channels. In total, we found:
- Gambling ads were served to the child avatars on 11 of the children’s websites monitored
- 23 individual gambling ads were seen by the child avatars on those 11 children’s websites a combined total of 151 times – 1.40% of the total ad impressions
- One gambling operator (Vikings Video Slot) was responsible for 10 ads and 122 of the ad impressions (81% of the 151)
- No gambling ads were served on any of the open-access YouTube channels included in the research
The gambling operators have accepted their ads broke the rules. In most instances, we were informed that the problems arose due to errors by third-party companies who served the campaigns on behalf of the operators. We have instructed the companies to take immediate action to review their online ads, ensure they are not served to web users aged below 18 years of age through the selection of media or context in which they appear and to put in place measures to ensure this does not happen again.
We are now exploring whether this monitoring and enforcement approach can be extended to logged-in environments like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.
We worked with an expert data and analytics firm to create seven online avatars. Their profiles were designed to reflect the browsing characteristics of children aged 6-7, 8-12 and 16, an adult, a person of an indeterminate age, and a profile reflecting the browsing behaviour of an adult and a child using the same device.
This strand of work heralds the beginning of a new phase in our regulation with the use of technology helping to better protect children and vulnerable groups online. The new approach is part of wider efforts to ensure action can be taken against irresponsible ads without the need for members of the public to raise a complaint.
The findings from the avatar research provide a snapshot of the ads that children are seeing online, with invaluable data and real examples of where ads for age-restricted products are appearing. They are also enabling us to take speedy action to enforce the rules in respect of the small number of ads which are found to be targeted irresponsibly.
We will now interrogate the monitoring data further and report later this year in more detail. Further work with child avatars will be undertaken to monitor exposure to online ads for high fat, salt or sugar food and drink products, and alcohol.
Our Chief Executive Guy Parker said:
“Online ads are subject to the same strict rules that apply elsewhere and this important new monitoring capability delivers on our commitment to having more impact online. It’s already allowed us to spot a problem with a small number of gambling operators and take quick and effective action to ensure children are protected from irresponsibly-targeted gambling ads. We’re already looking at expanding this work, as well as exploring how other new technologies can help us protect the public.” | <urn:uuid:607fee97-5670-4979-9fed-a647e7f15ae4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asa.org.uk/news/harnessing-new-technology-gambling-ads-children.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.948329 | 796 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Andria appeared in Kathy Come Home
in 1966 As the BBC said :-
A controversial, moving and brilliantly acted, this film directed by Ken Loach
is arguably the most influential television drama ever broadcast.
Watched by 12 million people — a quarter
of the British population at the time — on its first broadcast on 16 November 1966, Cathy Come Home was a defining moment
in British television history. It provoked major public and political discussion and challenged the accepted conventions of
The film tells the story of Cathy and Reg, a couple with three young children, who find their
life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, it remains a truly ground-breaking
piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers
to keep their own children.
Utilising documentary-style filming on location, the film consolidated director
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Anne F. HarrisDec 1, 2021
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
"Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oxford University Press 2021
Today I talked to Anne F. Harris. Anne wears two hats: she's a medieval art historian and president of Grinnell College. We talked about her new book Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2021), which she co-authored with Nancy M. Thompson. We also discussed the significance and relevance of Medieval art today, the transition from teaching to administration, what it's like to head a premiere liberal arts college in the age of Covid (and all else), and her vision for Grinnell.
Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He's also a graduate of Grinnell College. He can be reached at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:d32ab16f-1ee5-4330-8c10-deae640077b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newbooksnetwork.com/medieval-art-250-1450?token=3XpWtnTYK-n4zVU1eNZOaHJfW8T73m-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936391 | 216 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Source: The Courier
A new running club has brought improved concentration to the classroom at Fordcombe Primary School.
The Golden Mile club is the brainchild of Lorna Holgate, who took inspiration from Scotland’s Daily Mile initiative.
Mrs Holgate approached the primary school with her idea in April and it was agreed that on one day a week pupils would voluntarily run laps of the playground and field, with ten laps equalling one mile.
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Word count 750, not outside resources needed. Make clear citation
This paper will offer your reflection on Edith Turner’s There Are No Peripheries to Humanity (post in file) and the concept of “framing process” discussed on p. 355 of Essentials of Cultural Anthropology.
Throughout her article, Turner describes how Inupiat people sought recognition that their disproportionately high rates of cancer and cancer deaths were due to radioactive dumping and poisoning of their land and water. Turner started her research with the Inupiat with one goal: to study healing. In that process, the ravages of cancer became an overwhelming reality not only for the Inupiat people of Point Hope, but for Turner as well. This led her to join in their fight for justice, and to question the role of the anthropologist and anthropological research.
Throughout, we are offered different frames for understanding cancer in Point Hope and the role of the anthropologist. These frames include those of U.S. government agencies, the people of Point Hope, and Turner herself. While Guest’s definition describes a “framing process” as the “creation of shared meanings and definitions that motivate and justify collective action by social movements” (Guest, 355), anthropologists often encounter framing processes among government officials and others in power, as well. These are often similar to what Tett describes in the excerpt from her book “Fool’s Gold”: that those in power also frame issues in way that may serve their interests, such as by acting on shared ideologies and assumptions that permit one set of facts to be public, but keep another set of facts quiet or hidden. In relation to cancer in Point Hope, at least three groups, U.S. government agencies, Point Hope residents, and the anthropologist, Edith Turner, were engaged in framing the issue and their role in it.
First, using the expanded discussion of a “framing process” above, write 750 words describing how:
- U.S. government agencies initially framed the high cancer rates in Point Hope (or what justification they offered for not exploring the possibility of radioactive pollution);
- The people of Point Hope framed their position vis-a-vis the government and their high cancer rates (or what shared understandings did they create that motivated action);
- Edith Turner framed her role as an anthropologist, and how that changed over time. Did she come to accept the frame offered by the U.S. government or that offered by the people of Point Hope? Why?
Finally, describe how the balance of power shifted over time, that is how the people of Point Hope were able to convince U.S. government agencies to pay attention to their frame and clean up the pollution. | <urn:uuid:65c2071a-6830-48e8-b949-f142a5d0b312> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://topnursingresearch.com/anthropology-essay-1-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967 | 574 | 2.421875 | 2 |
By Fabian Fuentes Gonzalez, Jan Webb, Maria Sharmina, and Matthew Hannon - EnergyREV Business and Financial Practices team
The EnergyREV Business and Financial Practices team has compiled a database of companies involved in the energy business and finance sector in the UK. Many of these businesses meet some of the characteristics that define a Smart Local Energy System (SLES). In general, their level of indebtedness seems appropriate in the context of energy markets, even though further analysis is necessary.
The world is changing and bringing uncertainty at lightning speed, nowhere more so than within the energy sector. There are significant opportunities and challenges associated with net zero carbon targets, digital technologies, innovative thinking, and renewed interaction between energy companies, citizens and policy makers. SLES represent an opportunity to challenge the UK history of centralised, large-scale fossil fuel systems and markets, contributing to decarbonising, decentralising, digitalising, and democratising energy.
The EnergyREV Business and Financial Practices team has created a local energy business database, bringing together many sources of publicly available information. This database will help us to better understand local energy businesses involved in SLES and their financial situation, in order to inform next-generation business models and potential financing for integrated systems.
Our database contains 699 energy businesses, including aggregator services, equipment (heat interface units) maintenance, supply of electricity for EV charging, and cooling. One interesting example is a pumped storage power station in Snowdonia (North Wales) which has established a visitor centre with tourist facilities and tours inside the power station. There are also entities involved in energy and waste management services, which have agreements with local authorities to manage/recycle different kinds of waste (food, solids, liquids, and even packaged goods) as part of energy generation; some of them have specific funds for communities. The sample included in our database gives a rich and representative picture of the current UK market, with some businesses closer to a SLES than others. The database uses the financial, legal, and commercial information provided by Bureau van Dijk through its product , a time series database of UK and Ireland businesses. We extended the FAME data by integrating information from company websites, publicly available notes to the financial statements, media articles, and other public sources. This extra information includes the number of customers, revenue streams/sources, technologies and installed capacity, provision of benefits to communities, and ownership.
We have found that most businesses in the sample are privately owned (78%), but there are others that take the form of community interest companies (6%) - a type of limited company conceived to benefit communities rather than shareholders - and others owned by trusts, foundations or community groups (13%). Councils and universities own the remainder (3%).
If Companies House thresholds based on (average) assets or company resources are used as a way of calculating company size, we notice a fairly even distribution: 8% can be categorised as micro (typically with one employee), 48% as small (typically one employee), 29% as medium (typically five employees), and 15% as large (typically 37 employees).
Knowing the revenue sources of companies allows us to better understand their core businesses and, therefore, how they generate their income. Most of the businesses within the sample (421 out of 699) have only one revenue source, which is mainly sales of electricity to the grid (276 out of 421) using renewable sources and technologies, for instance, solar PV, wind or hydro. On the other hand, just over a quarter (188 out of 699) have two or more revenue sources, including production of bio-fertiliser, food waste management, injection of gas into the grid, heat and power services, power purchase agreements (PPA), financial lending to related companies, gain on investments, and Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROC).
There are also businesses receiving public subsidies almost 13% of the businesses (90 out of 699) declare receipt of Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) benefits; most of these have two (49) or three (31) revenue sources. This gives a general idea about the companies’ dependence on public resources to carry out their business activities.
All businesses can be funded with equity and/or debt. One key financial indicator is the debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio, which is simply a coefficient derived from items in the financial statements. This indicator is important because it indicates how companies finance their operations and their ability to cover debts with shareholders’ funds in case of downturn. Beyond having a referential value or threshold for this indicator, an accurate interpretation of it should also consider the context of the industry where the businesses under analysis are. From 2010 to 2018, for businesses in our database, those in private ownership have a ratio between 1.4 and 2.3. This means that companies’ debt is between 1.4 and 2.3 times shareholders’ funds. Businesses owned by universities had a higher ratio of 2.5 on average from 2010 to 2012, followed by a continuous drop to 0.8 in 2018. Businesses owned by trusts/foundations/communities show even higher ratios of debt to equity, with an average of around 2.8 from 2010 to 2012 and nearly 4.0 from 2013 to 2018. Municipally owned businesses show negative values for equity most of the time, and their liabilities (current and long-term) reach circa £14 million on average. Similarly, most of the community interested companies had negative values for equity during the years analysed, and their liabilities reach an average of £1.6 million; this implies a very high average D/E ratio (12.8), due to the inclusion of companies with negative equity. In general, the level of indebtedness seems to be within the standard of the energy services industry, but further analysis is necessary.
Some businesses are closer to a SLES than others. For example, some organisations are already involved in areas of SLES value creation, such as providing energy services which combine heat and power, enhancing environmental eco-system benefits beyond carbon reductions (e.g. waste management and biofertilisers), social justice and energy equity (e.g. community funds/grants), and social needs (e.g. employment, education, and even leisure). However, most current businesses appear to be struggling with ‘smartness’, including the adoption of real time information technologies; rapid, flexible response to changes in energy demand; use of machine learning or artificial intelligence, and engagement with stakeholders in planning, decision-making and governance. Concerning localness, some businesses are involved with communities through providing defined benefits and/or third sector or public ownership. We are now doing further work to explore which companies are closer to the SLES model.
These brief comments deliver context and insights into companies’ performance and ability to create value, and then invest in other energy activities to provide smart local services. Our work continues with more detailed analysis of the data for future reports. This new business and financial knowledge will support innovations for a more decentralised, clean, affordable, resilient and democratic, energy system in the UK.
The University of Edinburgh licence.
The standard level of debt-to-equity can vary from one industry to another. One example of high debt-to-equity (D/E) ratios is the financial services industry. Having high levels of debt could imply a high exposure to financial risks (for example, interest rate fluctuations) but companies can mitigate them through different measures.
Ford, R., Maidment, C., Fell, M., Vigurs, C., and Morris, R. 2019. A framework for understanding and conceptualising smart local energy systems. EnergyREV, Strathclyde, UK. University of Strathclyde Publishing, UK. ISBN: 978-1-909522-57-2 | <urn:uuid:8156d052-4711-45f6-8b02-f22f6d144096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energyrev.org.uk/news-events/blogs/local-energy-businesses-in-the-uk-what-do-we-know-about-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.941622 | 1,641 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Scaffolding Marple Greater Manchester: There's a good chance that you are going to have to get some put up, if you're intending to do some significant works on your home like putting in new double glazing, removing a chimney stack, repointing your brickwork or re-felting your roof. This will make the work easier to accomplish and make the area safer for both you and the workforce. To be able to get this done properly, you'll need to choose a professional scaffolding contractor to check the construction area, supply you with an estimate, and arrange for the scaffolding to be safely set up. This isn't something to go cheap on, since it must be done correctly, and you should always employ an established scaffolder, avoiding cowboys at all costs.
About Scaffolding: A system that allows tradespeople to work safely at height and reach otherwise unreachable locations on houses, office blocks and various other structures, scaffolding is composed of a network of steep tubes and fixtures which when clamped together form a safe and strong platform from which to work. Sheltering the general public and occupiers from hazards like falling debris is also a fundamental function of scaffolding, helping make the general environment safer. A thorough risk assessment will likely be necessary to establish if a scaffold is required for any particular job.
The different sections that combine to build a scaffold include: sole boards, limpet clamps, standards,, ladders, facade braces, base plates, , right angle clamps, guard rails, midrails, swivel clamps, board clamps, sills, spade ends, , diagonal braces, putlogs, toeboards and ladder clamps.
There are numerous different types of, each one serving its special function, among the different types are patented , single scaffolding (bricklayers scaffolding), double scaffolds (masons scaffolding), suspended scaffolding, , scaffolds, tower scaffolds, , rolling scaffolds, confined space scaffolds and scaffolds. The style that you'd most likely use on your house in Marple, is the single (also known as bricklayer's) scaffold. However, if it is a business building or premises that is being worked on, any one of the above mentioned styles might be needed.
If you need scaffolding in Marple, you must search for an expert , who's endorsed by the . Some safety checks will need to be carried out on your scaffolding, and these must be done prior to its being used, routinely every seven days, after adjustments and modifications and after bad weather. If it encroaches onto the a pavement or public highway, you'll need to get authorization from the local authority. Licences such as this are essential for staging, pedestrian barriers, , access towers, hoardings and additionally for setting up rubbish skips or contractors plant. If the is going to go a highway it must be fitted with , which should be supplied by your . The European Standard, BS EN 12811-1 is the legislation that any scaffolding in the British Isles needs to abide by.
You might already be aware of a couple of local companies who put up scaffolding. It's a common marketing strategy with scaffolding companies to show off huge, striking advertising boards, high-up on scaffolding, wherever they're working. Having these local businesses on your short list will give you some options. To add more to your shortlist you could post a free quotation form to Bark.com, who will save you a lot of time and stress by contacting local scaffolding companies for you. You will soon have a sufficient number of prospective scaffolders in order to make a well informed choice for your upcoming project.
Scaffold Tower Hire Marple - A scaffolding tower may be acceptable if your building project is just a limited one, which means you'll have a lot more options. Some scaffolding companies in Marple, will be willing to hire you a tower scaffold, but there's also other suppliers which you could try, for instance some tool and plant hire companies in Marple may stock as well as building merchants and similar outlets in and around Marple. Hire Station, Jewson, Travis and Perkins, HSS or similar nearby tool hire providers are likely spots to ask.
To ensure they are simple to transport and to move in situ, tower scaffolds are typically constructed from lightweight alloy. There are various shapes and sizes of scaffold tower available. For just about any form of undertaking you can choose between microfold towers, non-conductive (fibreglass) towers, single man towers, stairway access towers, guard rail scaffold towers, span access platforms, single width alloy towers, cantilever scaffold towers, folding low level platforms, tower bridge decks, podium steps, folding indoor towers, double width scaffold towers and various other custom towers or work assisting towers. If you've got lots of work to do on your property, you might even look at purchasing a DIY style tower scaffold, since these are moderately priced and might turn out less expensive than continuously hiring one out.
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When is it Needed
When work is being carried out on virtually any type of building, scaffolding might well be required whether it's going to be demolished, developed or substantially restored. It matters not if it is a domestic, public or industrial building, and it doesn't matter what the size of it is. High apartment and office blocks which need to be demolished, have scaffolding erected first, which will then be taken apart from the top downwards as the building gets lower. Scaffolding are obtainable for all of those needs and any other role you can think of.
The Primary Components of a Scaffold
- Base Plates
- Scaffold Boards
- Diagonal Braces
- Base Jack
- Guard Rails
Bird Cage Scaffolds Marple
Bird cage or independent scaffolds are frequently employed for single-level usage, especially when working on ceilings for instance. A birdcage structure is excellent for smaller contained projects as it is simple to assemble and stands independently on its own. Comprising at least a couple of rows of standard poles which are connected together by transoms and ledgers at each lift height, birdcage scaffolds are designed to be sturdy and rigid. (Tags: Access Birdcage Scaffolds Marple, Birdcage Scaffolds Marple, Bird Cage Scaffolding Marple)
Tube & Fitting Scaffolding Marple
"Tube & fitting" scaffolding is the most popular method of scaffolding found on building sites in Marple. This scaffolding method involves the use of 48.3mm diameter galvanised steel or aluminium tubes in varying lengths, which are fastened together with an assortment of couplers, clips and clamps to create working platforms in different sizes and shapes. By looking at the precise needs of each Marple construction site, tube & fitting scaffolds can be assembled in a number of designs and configurations, making it a highly flexible solution. With additional measures such as toe boards, brick guards, catch fans and safety netting, tube & fitting scaffolding can easily be made to comply with the relevant Work at Height Regulations. (Tags: Tube & Fitting Scaffolds Marple, Tube & Fitting Scaffolding Marple, Tube & Fitting Scaffold Design Marple)
Marple Scaffolding Tasks
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Scaffolders Near Marple
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The classic Jewish folktale about the crowded house that becomes even more crowded when the wise rabbi suggests adding farm animals to the mix has been told in countless versions over the years, some using the traditional village setting, others a variety of unique twists. This new take on the story is set in a modern-day school building and, when the story begins, the lunchroom is packed with students. It is so crowded that it’s hard to find a place to sit and food spills on everyone and everything. The students write a letter to Mrs. Mensch, the principal, asking for a solution to the problem. Much as the sage, learned rabbi in the original tale, Mrs. Mensch has her own methods that are not apparent to the students. The science fair displays are moved to the lunchroom, the classroom pets are relocated to the tables, and the sports teams are invited in for practice. When the students complain about the overcrowding, which is even worse than before, the sports teams return outdoors, the pets to the classrooms, and the science projects to the hallways. The students can now enjoy the roomy luxury of their “new” lunchroom.
An author’s note credits one version of the story, It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach, as the inspiration for this rollicking book, with its amusing, cartoon-like illustrations and straightforward yet delightful prose. Babay retells Zemach’s story, citing the positive effect it has had on her life and highlighting the Jewish concept of sameach b’chelko, or being grateful for all one has. Babay also uses the opportunity to reflect on the overcrowding in many schools and the toll this takes on dedicated teachers. She expresses the hope that the situation will improve and gives a well-deserved nod to educators who teach in overcrowded schools, emphasizing that a positive point of view goes a long way in ameliorating conditions while working for change.
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Introducing quality criteria
into public procurement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION AND GOALS 6
THE METHODOLOGY 7
Step 1 Formulate main project goals 7
Step 2 Derive possible quality criteria 8
Step 3 Choose a maximum of 4 criteria 11
Step 4 Attribute weights to the criteria 12
Step 5 Test your set by performing a crash test 12
Eligibility criteria 13
Selection criteria 14
Award criteria 14
ILLUSTRATING THE IMPLEME N TATI ON OF ME AT CR I TE R I A 16
Award criteria for the selection of engineering services 16
Award criteria for the selection of a contractor 23
Award criteria for the selection of an architect 29
By Marc Tarabella, Member of the European Parliament
As seen in his proposal of 21 December 2011, the intention of the then Internal Market Commissioner
Michel Barnier was very clear in seeking new Directives on Public Procurement. With public procurement
representing 19% of GDP, this new framework had to be achieved in the most effective manner to serve
the interests of European citizens.
As rapporteur for the European Parliament, I completely shared this point of view and together with my
colleagues we considered several angles of attack, such as better participation of SMEs in the market, the
fight against the race to the bottom, and the promotion and ultimately compelling use of an electronic
I remember well seeking to improve the option of subcontracting by trying to limit it and eventually
improve the transparency of the value chain. Too long of a value chain is not economically useful and
often leads to malfunctions and the exploitation of human beings on some worksites.
But one of the most important points for the European Parliament was the award criterion by which the
“lowest price” would be replaced by the “MEAT” as a key measure. The “economically most advantageous
tender” became a major challenge where social and environmental criteria could be applied. It was a
vital struggle first won within the European Parliament and then in negotiations with the Council who
wanted to keep the alternative of the lowest price.
We remained united and determined in the different political groups of the Parliament and held our
ground on this point.
In order to achieve the goal of a more sustainable investment, it is fundamental to objectify the criteria
so as not to divert investment from its essential purpose, which is to best satisfy the interest of citizens.
These two years of work on these directives will remain for me the most impressive and interesting
legislative work that I have had to face during my European parliamentary career.
By Kevin Rudden, EFCA President
Every year, over 250 000 public authorities in the EU spend around 19 % of GDP on the purchase of
services, works and supplies. The European Parliament adopted Directive 2014/24 which governs the
way public authorities buy goods, works and services by establishing the criteria for awarding contracts.
They ensure that public purchases are made in a transparent manner so as to ensure fair competition and
that contracting authorities get the best value for taxpayers’ money.
Former procurement rules did not always allow public authorities to make the best use of their resources
and could also be unduly burdensome. To remedy these problems, the award criteria in the new rules are
based on the principle of the “most economically advantageous tender” (the MEAT criteria). In particular,
the new rules seek to open procurement contracts up to more innovative solutions to ensure that the
money that goes into procurement is spent in a way that stimulates development. The new rules also
cut red tape for companies bidding and make it easier for small and medium-sized firms to participate.
This guidance produced by EFCA to promote MEAT criteria in public procurement, proposes a 5-step
methodology to identify quality criteria linked to the subject matter. The challenge remains the way the
MEAT criterion is used as old habits on the side of public procurers of using the lowest price criterion to
circumvent subsequent criticism die hard.
Because determining the quality criteria is not always straight forward the guidelines describe a pan
European and proven methodology when drawing up appropriate criteria for the contract award.
Price and cost are two different things. Price is meaningless; you can have a higher price at the start, but
it may serve to lower costs over the lifetime of a construction. When working on price only, it is more than
certain that the product, whether it is a road, or a building, or a whole infrastructure, will not be designed
the optimum way. 5
I NTRODUCTION AND GOALS
In 2014, EU procurement directives were upgraded to enable greater use of
quality criteria when awarding public contracts. Up to then, the heavy reliance
on price as the predominant award criteria had the unfortunate effect of
frequently limiting innovation and encouraging short-term thinking – neither
of which favour the best solutions to today’s problems.
The EU Directive 2014/24 defined new award criteria (Article 67) and Clients
are now obliged to use the ‘most economically advantaged tender’ (MEAT).
Although it is still possible to base an award solely on price (Article 67.2), the
European Federation of Consulting Engineer Associations (EFCA) strongly
recommends that Clients use MEAT – employing criteria other than, or in
addition to, price.
However, determining the quality criteria is not always straightforward. These
guidelines aim to fill a gap by describing a methodology for use by contracting
authorities when drawing up appropriate criteria for a contract award. Five
steps are outlined which lead to the ultimate goal of having the best offer,
in terms of quality and price, selected (given the specific elements of the
In the tendering process, the Client first selects engineering consultancies
or contractors using ‘selection criteria’. It should be made clear that these
guidelines address the second stage of tendering, governed by a set of
‘award criteria’, which concern the project rather than the implementing
organisations. The focus is on selecting the ‘most economically advantaged
tender’. The Appendix contains further information about both selection and
The EU experience of using quality criteria in the tendering process varies
between countries and a point of clarification is needed. Several countries
make use of ‘best value procurement’ (BVP) to procure consultants or
contractors. MEAT and BVP have similar aims but the latter is part of a totally
different approach to project management. BVP, being just one phase in a
total process, can be regarded as a specific application of MEAT.
The methodology being put forward to deliver sound MEAT criteria is based on a systematic, five-step
approach. The steps are:
1. Formulate main project goals.
2. D erive possible quality criteria.
3. C hoose a maximum of 4 criteria.
4. Attribute weights to the criteria.
5. Test the set by performing a crash test.
STEP 1 Formulate main project goals
The first step looks simple, but it may cause some discussion in the project team. The project goals cannot
only refer to the scope of a project – they can never be “the execution of the project” or “the delivery of
150 km of railway”. The reason being that the scope relates to the “what”, the description of the physical
result of the project. The project goals are about the “why”, so they give information about time, money,
or specific goals about sustainability.
In accordance with the EU directives, the subject matter of the contract (the scope) should be clearly
established at the start of the procedure so that bidders can decide whether or not to participate. There
are two types of goal:
• that associated with the product, the realised project
• that concerning the process of realisation
The first is related to the delivery of the project and is used to select an engineering consultant; the
second is related to the implementation process and mainly used when selecting a contractor.
The goals of a project can initially be found by asking ‘why?’ Why widen a road? ‘Because there is too
much congestion’. The solution responds to the problem. Why build a new hospital wing? The problem
is one of ‘too many patients and not enough space’. However, a scenario like the latter may have several
• enabling more patients to be treated
• increasing hospital capacity
• decreasing the queue of patients
so the goal is less straightforward and more difficult to define.
Project goals may also arise from other sources. For example, it is important to limit disturbances in a city
either because the authorities want to create local support for a project, or because policy dictates it for
all major projects in town. The project goal here could be: ‘to minimise disturbance for citizens’.
Another example of a process is where the project goals seek to minimise CO2 emissions when executing
the project. If the Contractor uses electric, instead of diesel, cars emissions can be minimised even though
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We're at the tail end of Women's History Month, and we're coming off of one of the most epic rap battles in history. It's a battle that happened to star Nicki Minaj, now the most accomplished female musician in Billboard history. Sure, she lost to Remy Ma in the eyes of some, but that's almost beside the point. It's 2017, and women like Minaj, Remy and newcomer Young M.A are at the top of the rap game.
So it's worth taking a walk down memory lane and acknowledging some of the most underrated feminist anthems in hip-hop history. I'm calling these records "feminist" not just because they're by women, but also because they tackle some of the most taboo issues in society, namely, a woman's right to her own body, and to decide whether or when she decides to give birth.
Of course, there are the classics, Queen Latifah's "U-N-I-T-Y" chief among them. But here's a look at some tracks you may want to add to that feminist clapback category.
Roxanne Shanté, "Roxanne's Revenge"
Queens, New York, is home to some of hip-hop's most legendary rappers, including Remy's rival, Nicki Minaj. But that list also includes Nas, LL Cool J and Pharoahe Monch, along with one of rap's first pioneering female emcees: Roxanne Shanté.
In the mid-1980s, Shanté was a teenage emcee who found herself in a heated rap beef with a rival Queens rap crew called U.T.F.O. who dropped "Roxanne, Roxanne," a now-classic record about a girl who's "too stuck up" to give a guy her number. In 1984, Shanté released a track called "Roxanne's Revenge," a feminist response in which she takes direct aim at U.T.F.O's all-male members. Shanté's version is an alternate telling of the story, in which the guys were too wack to deserve the girl's attention in the first place.
"Tryin' to be like me, yeah, is very hard/ You think you are God, but you do eat lard," she raps. "Tryin' to be cute, and you're tryin' to be fly/ Don't you know you wish you could be my guy?"
But Shanté took it one step further: These guys were wack, but they also couldn't hold a candle to her as an emcee, not even on the same beat. "And if you're thinkin' that I'm bitin' your beat/ Well, then you just better know, and a-listen to me/ Because my name is Roxanne-a, and I came to say/ I'm rockin' to the beat-a, and I do it every day/ I'm conceited, never beated, never heard of defeated."
Salt-n-Pepa, "None of Your Business"
Fast forward to 1993, when it became crystal clear that hip-hop had the potential to breakthrough to mainstream success. Salt-n-Pepa, a hip-hop trio also from Queens, released their fourth album, Very Necessary. That album produced a handful of classic records that would go on to define the group, including "Shoop" and "Whatta Man." But it also gave us one of the fiercest feminist clapbacks of the 1990s in "None of Your Business".
In the chorus of the song, the group's intent is clear: "If I/ wanna take a guy/ home with me tonight/ it's none of your business!" What they're saying is, I can have sex with whoever I want, whenever I want, and you — conservative white politician or Afrocentric hotep activist — can't stop me.
Lauryn Hill, "To Zion"
Lauryn Hill, one of the most talented and enigmatic emcees in hip-hop history, closed out the soundtrack of the '90s. She'd spent the better part of the decade with the Fugees, a hip-hop trio from New Jersey, giving the world classic lines that challenged rap's more machismo gangsta tendencies, lines like, "So while you imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone/And defecating on your microphone."
But her solo work, 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, though politically conservative in retrospect, still offered up its own poignant pro-choice anthems.
The record that stands out in this regard is "To Zion," a love letter to Hill's then-newborn son, Zion. She'd gotten pregnant at the height of her fame, and resisted people's advice to have an abortion for the sake of her career.
"That song is about the revelation that my son was to me," she told the Rock Backpages back in 1999. "I had always made decisions for other people, making everybody else happy, and once I had him that was really the first decision that was unpopular for me. It was one that was based on my happiness and not what other people wanted for me or for themselves. And it was the best decision that I could have ever made, because I'm the happiest and healthiest that I have ever been."
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A diet extremely high in fat may not seem like the best way to lose fat. But there’s a growing body of research showing that the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is not only good for weight loss, but also may help in preventing disease.
The ketogenic diet, or keto, relies on using your fat as fuel, instead of glucose from carbohydrates or protein. Simply put, the daily ketogenic diet consists of 75 percent fat, 20 percent of protein, and a teeny allotment of carbohydrates, about 5 percent. This balance of macronutrients is intended to put your body in a state of ketosis, which suppresses the release of insulin and blood glucose levels. The benefits of ketosis to your health are improvements in biomarkers like blood glucose, reduction of blood pressure and decreased appetite due to fullness linked to consumption of fats.
You might think this sounds a lot like the Atkins diet — it’s not. The main difference lies in the protein content of the diet. Atkins tends to be very high in protein, while ketogenic is moderate.
It's not the easiest plan to follow, but the theory of ketosis as a possible prevention against disease is gaining attention from cancer specialists. Tumor immunologist Dr. Patrick Hwu, one of the leading cancer specialists in the U.S., has followed the keto diet for four years, although he prefers to call it the fat-burning metabolism diet, or fat-burning diet. More research is needed to prove its benefits, but Hwu, the head of cancer medicine at MD Anderson in Houston, believes in it after seeing improvements in his own health.
Why keto works
The body’s first and preferred fuel of choice is glucose — stored as glycogen. Anytime you eat a carbohydrate, be it lentils or licorice, the body turns it into glucose, or sugar. Because the body does not do well with a lot of sugar in the blood, a hormone called insulin is secreted from the pancreas, and allows the sugar to enter the cells.
Proponents of the ketogenic diet say the problem with a high-carbohydrate diet is that it induces high insulin levels and keeps the body burning sugar and carbs instead of fat. In contrast, on a low-carb diet, the body learns to burn fat preferentially. When this happens, acids known as ketones are released from fat into the body, while insulin levels go down. Ketosis can occur after several days on a low-carb diet.
Low carb, ketogenic foods include:
- nuts, especially macadamia, pecan, and brazil nuts
- olive and coconut oil
- non-starchy vegetables
For Hwu, a typical day's meals include:
A cup of coffee with heavy whipping cream, stevia drops, and unsweetened almond milk
Greens like spinach, zucchini or broccoli, with a controlled portion of meat
Green vegetables with a small portion of tofu
Butter, without the bread, is used liberally with almost every meal.
He indulges periodically on no-added sugar coconut milk ice cream bars, but tries to stay away from fruit, which Hwu considers “nature’s candy”. As it’s not a sweet drink, alcohol such as red wine is OK.
Hwu avoids low-fat and fat-free items, thinks cheese and cream cheese are perfect foods, and macadamia nuts or guacamole — with cucumber or celery but not chips — are ideal snacks.
Bread, pasta, very high protein options and candy are discouraged — although you can have cacao. A typical keto breakfast is eggs cooked in coconut oil and bacon. No cereal.
Carbs need to be consumed in moderation and to be high in fiber.
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The ideal clinical study would be a controlled trial where patients with similar cancers would be randomized to get different kinds of diets, followed by close monitoring of their cancers.
Hwu believes risks of cardiovascular disease and diabetes — which are both associated with high blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol — may be reduced by following the ketogenic diet, based on research. A recent study from Johns Hopkins found a ketogenic diet was not only safe, but effective for adults who had certain severe forms of epilepsy, supporting previous research.
Because the diet is so restrictive, in the first few weeks of following it many people experience side effects bad enough to be known as “the keto flu.”
Symptoms, which usually go away after four to seven days, can range from: insomnia, headaches, bad breath and constipation. Type 1 diabetics, individuals with kidney disease and pregnant women should avoid the ketogenic diet.
Cutting back on protein is one of the largest challenges to the diet. Because high levels of protein in the diet can turn into glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis, the keto theory says too much protein in the diet can mean too much glucose, whisking you out of ketosis. That’s why bacon, which has a ton of fat but not a lot of protein is a preferred food over chicken breast, which is high in protein with very little fat.
There is also a common worry the ketogenic diet may cause ketoacidosis, which occurs when the acidity in the blood increases. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening condition caused by very high blood sugars and a deficiency of insulin in insulin-dependent diabetics, a very different state from ketones produced by a fat-burning metabolism on a low-carb, high-fat diet.
Since I’ve never put a patient on a diet I have not tried myself, I'm following my own 30-day experiment with the ketogenic diet. Stay tuned; I’ll be sharing how my month turns out in a future post.
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When it comes to negotiating the asking price of an antique, most dealers expect it. Now that’s not to say that every dealer likes it; but again, they expect it. In fact, most dealers have already accounted for what they’re willing to let go in a negotiation by adding extra margin into their asking price.
Keep in mind, however, there are dealers who will not negotiate. Some may attractively price their wares to sell from the start, while others just don’t like to haggle. If you go to enough shows, you’ll quickly learn which dealers have a reputation for sticking to their prices. Knowing this going in, you won’t get caught off guard when they don’t budge on price.
Negotiation is a quirky thing. Sometimes, you think you got a great deal. Other times, you may feel like you left something on the table that you shouldn’t have. So the next time you head to a show, here are 5 tips to help you negotiate like pro.
1. The only price that matters is the one that you’re willing to pay.
Ultimately, the only price that matters is the one that you’re willing to pay, not the price that a dealer is asking. Know what you’re willing to pay for an item before asking about its price.
If the price is less than what you prepared to pay, pay it. You and the dealer both get a fair deal.
If the asking price is in the ballpark of what you’re willing to pay, negotiate.
If the asking price is 30% more than what you prepared to pay, you may just want to walk away. You and the dealer might already be too far apart.
2. Keep it simple.
Keep your negotiation method as simple and as direct as possible. Let’s take a look at two ways in which you may be able accomplish this.
Start the negotiation with an offer that is double the difference in the asking price, with the hope of getting a counteroffer that is closer to what you’re willing to pay. For example, if you’re willing to pay $75 for an item that a dealer has priced at $100, you would offer the dealer $50. In this scenario, you’re looking for the dealer to say “let’s split the difference,” in which you would pay $75 – the exact amount you were willing to pay when you made your offer.
A more direct approach, would be to tell the dealer exactly what you’re willing to pay for an item and be willing to hold firm on that offer. If the dealer comes back with a counteroffer of “let’s split the difference,” you would politely decline and restate your original offer. If the dealer doesn’t budge, walk away.
Regardless of how you negotiate, do not nickel and dime the dealer. Again, if the price is less than what you prepared to pay, pay it. If you can’t get to an agreeable price on the second counteroffer, walk away.
3. The “close of the show” myth.
Don’t count on dealers to substantially lower their prices towards the end of a show. Sure, from time-to-time you may stumble on a dealer who is strapped for cash and willing to make a deal; but that will be the exception, not the norm.
The majority of dealers will not be pressed to makes sales “at all costs,” as they have other shows to attend, storefronts, and online stores to sell their wares. Also, if a dealer had a productive show, the last thing they want to do is haggle with you over price as they‘re starting to pack out to go home.
Your chances of a productive negotiation are best when you and the dealer are not pressed for time.
4. Keep your offer on the table.
Experienced dealers do not always take the first offer. Typically, there are two common reasons for refusal. Either they paid more for the item than what you’re offering, or they just acquired the item and want to test the market. Regardless of their rational, when you’ve made a counteroffer and the dealer refuses it outright, let them know that your offer is good until you leave.
Before you exit the show, swing by the dealer’s booth to see if they’ll accept your offer. Don’t be surprised if the dealer refuses your offer a second time. Again, most dealers have other shows to attend, storefronts, and online stores to try and sell the item.
If the item is something that you’re extremely interested in, exchange contact information with the dealer with an understanding that the offer is still good in the event the dealer changes his/her mind in the future. If you don’t hear back from the dealer in a few weeks, contact them again.
5. It’s okay to walk away.
Recalling our first tip, the only price that matters is the one that you’re willing to pay. Not every negotiation will be successful. When a dealer’s counteroffer remains too far above what you’re willing to pay, walk away.
Walking away is tough on both parties. You really want the item and hate to leave it behind, and the dealer just lost a sale. Watching a sale walk away can have a dramatic impact on a dealer, prompting a sudden change of heart.
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HAMILTON — Following years of planning and fundraising, the Bitter Root Humane Association is about to move the critters to a gleaming new shelter.
After years of utilizing an aging shelter against a growing demand for services, the Bitter Root Humane Association finally broke ground on the new shelter in Hamilton last spring, culminating a years-long effort.
“We started this campaign in 2007. And the financial crisis hit a year later, so we had to stop,” Bitter Root Humane Association board member Sue McCormack said.
Now, the new shelter is getting the finishing touches to a facility designed to keep up with the rigors of carrying for thousands of animals every year.
“We used good building materials, but we really waterproofed everything, and we didn't use the best,” explained Bitter Root Humane Association President Kathie Butts. “ We used the most functional and we want this shelter to be here for at least another 50 years, maybe longer.”
Not only will cleanup be a breeze with built-in vacuum and washing systems, but the design is super-efficient. Cats can be handled and isolated to prevent the spread of common disease, stretching their paws on the outdoor "cat-e-ios".
Special rooms are available for treating dogs and cats, right down to laundry and staff facilities, and special kitchens, “but it's for food bowls and it'll wash food bowls in 90 seconds and dry them,” Butts said.
The centerpiece of the new shelter is this big public hallway, where dogs can be viewed, but not disturbed.
“The glass and the glass inside the kennels are two layers of separation that keep all the noise, people, fingers, everything out of those dogs' faces,” Butts said.
“So, when you are looking for a dog and you're looking in this direction, you're going to see the real dog, not the dog that has people running through another dog barking,” Butts continued.
The shelter is designed to handle "cat-astrophe" too. The shelter can be inundated with dozens of animals when wildfire breaks out, or law enforcement has to seize animals. So that's all taken into account, even separating functions like adoption areas.
“We want the animals to be the best they can be. We want people who have to surrender an animal for whatever reason. We want them to feel like they've been honored as well,” Butts explained. “We don't want anybody to walk out of here feeling sad or lonely or anything else. We want this to be a good spot.”
Although the new building is about set to open, there's still going to have to be some fundraising to finish paying for this beautiful new structure.
“We have a fund-raising committee. We have a capital campaign committee. We have done amazing things,” McCormack told MTN News. “We've had some incredibly generous large donors which has made our job a lot easier. But we still [need] meet about $900,000. And so, if you can help us, we would love it.”
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Group Wants Farm Subsidies Linked to Environment
The US Senate passed a new five year farm bill last week and the house may take it up as early as this week.
The Prairie Rivers Network, an Illinois environmental group, wants a provision in the bill to link federal subsidies to environmentally friendly farming practices.
The concept called “conservation compliance” would link federally subsidized crop insurance to farmers following certain practices meant to protect wetlands and limit soil erosion.
As far as erosion, this includes installing grass waterways and building terraces on sloped fields.
Prairie Rivers Network Water Resource Scientist, Stacy James, said conservation compliance just makes sense.
“So these are things that are not rocket science, they’re not horribly expensive, and they are things that help the productivity of the farm,” James said.
Western Illinois University agronomist, Marc Bernards, said he believes that policy is “a win, win, win.”
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Male turkeys famously will attempt to mate with a head on a stick. In fact, gobblers prize a snug snood over the whole hen. How far then can a man's ideal sexual partner be stripped?
As hopeless romantics we practice a more esoteric eroticism. Nevertheless, there are patterns.
Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is a strong predictor of women's physical attractiveness. The 'ideal' value varies, but it is always low relative to men's or the average female WHR. Writing in Frontiers in Psychology, one woman asks: why?
Over the last 25 years, research on WHR as an indicator of women's attractiveness has flourished. But its link to female mate value - i.e. how WHR preferences influence a man's reproductive success - is rarely expressed beyond euphemisms like "health" and "fertility" of low-WHR women. (Note: a low or 'narrow' WHR means hips relatively larger than the waist.)
It is a classic example of "just-so storytelling" in evolutionary explanations of human behavior, says Dr. Jeanne Bovet of Stony Brook University (SUNY).
After combing the literature, Bovet defined specific traits that could link WHR with mate value, to be subjected to empirical scrutiny. She asked: can a man select this trait in a mate, based on her WHR? And will he have more and higher-quality descendants as a consequence?
Sex, age, pregnancy and parity
Most of the mate value-related information provided by WHR is relatively basic, suggests Bovet: "Sex, age, pregnancy and number of children can all be reliably inferred".
WHR is high in children and men. In women though, WHR drops around the onset of puberty until early adulthood, then rises again with age and number of children. Temporary increases in waist size are the unique reliable visual cue of current pregnancy. As such, WHR tracks reproduction potential, which is null in prepubertal, pregnant and postmenopausal women; peaks in the twenties; and is unreliable in women with many children or none.
One surprising WHR-related trait enjoys particularly compelling evidence of mate value, however.
That a wider pelvis facilitates delivery of big-brained offspring is a widely accepted idea. Perhaps it was the first to enter your mind in relation to WHR.
Alas though, the mechanical demands of bipedal locomotion strictly limit pelvis size - so that most WHR variance is in fact due to fat storage on the hips and waist. But it appears that the distribution of this fat is likewise a major gatekeeper of brain development.
Fat on the hips, thighs and buttocks is special in women. Even with restricted food intake, the body avoids burning it. But in late pregnancy and lactation, the same fat becomes freely available as the main source of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids critical for early brain development. Abdominal fat interferes with this: it inhibits production of the enzyme Δ-5 desaturase, required for synthesis of the fatty acids.
In keeping with this, one study has shown that women with lower WHRs and their children have significantly higher cognitive test scores - and IQ is negatively correlated with birth order, following the loss of gluteofemoral fat with each child.
A moving target
Evolution of preferences for a low WHR in female mates likely involved a number of these traits. Still more - including WHR as a hormone-driven indicator of sexual and maternal behavior, or a warning of abdominal parasites - remain untested.
WHR's correlation with attractiveness might even prove to be an artifact, with some related physical characteristic like hip size alone, or waist/stature ratio, the real object of men's desires.
But whether rapid cultural evolution and reproductive technologies will relax men's preferences for a narrow female WHR - or if 'runaway selection' for once-useful traits, and pursuit of gene-propagating 'sexy daughters', will intensify them - is a story that will unfold deep into the future.
Please link to the original research article in your reporting: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01221/full
Corresponding author: Dr. Jeanne Bovet, [email protected]
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How to Find a Radiology Technician Program near Torrance California
Congratulations on your career choice to enroll in an x-ray tech school near Torrance CA so you can learn to be a radiologic technician. But now that you have chosen to enter the rewarding field of healthcare, exactly how do you go about choosing the ideal college and program so that you will obtain the appropriate training to become a skilled practitioner? And considering that the majority of states do require that x-ray techs become licensed, depending on where you ultimately practice you may need preparation to pass a licensing examination. So it’s imperative that you research each of the schools you are considering so that you can evaluate each program. A number of prospective students start by searching for technical schools or colleges that are within commuting distance of their residences. Next, they compare tuition and typically gravitate toward the lowest cost. But while cost and location need to be considered, there are other important qualifiers as well. For instance, you must find out if the radiology tech schools are accredited, or if they sponsor internship programs. These questions and others you should ask the colleges you are considering are presented later in this article. But first, let’s talk about what a radiology tech does and the degrees and training choices that are available.
Radiology Technician Career Description
There are multiple professional titles for x-ray techs (technologists or technicians). They can also be referred to as radiologic technicians or technologists, radiology technicians or radiographers. Regardless of the name, they all have the identical primary job description, which is to employ imaging machines to internally visualize patients for the objective of diagnosis and treatment. Some radiologic technologists might also provide radiation therapy for treating cancer. Some elect to work as generalists, while others may choose a specialty, for example mammography. They can work in Torrance CA clinics, hospitals, family practices or outpatient diagnostic imaging centers. The imaging technologies that an X-Ray technologist may work with include:
- Traditional and specialized X-Rays
- Computerized tomography (CT) or “CAT” scans
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Sonography or ultrasound
Radiographers must take care of their equipment and also regularly evaluate its functionality and safety. They are additionally required to retain complete records of each of their diagnostic procedures. As Torrance CA health practitioners, they are held to a high professional standard and code of conduct.
X-Ray Technician Degree Options
The primary prerequisite for attending a radiology tech college is to have earned a high school diploma or equivalent. Radiologic technologist pupils have the option to earn either an Associate Degree or a Bachelor’s Degree. An Associate Degree, which is the most prevalent among technicians, generally takes 18 months to 2 years to finish based upon the program and course load. A Bachelor’s Degree will take longer at as much as 4 years to finish and is more comprehensive in scope. The majority of students choose a degree major in Radiography, but there are additional related majors that may be acceptable as well. Something to consider is that Torrance CA radiographer schools have a clinical training or lab component as a component of their curriculum. It may often be fulfilled by participating in an internship or externship program which many schools offer through local hospitals and clinics in their region. After you have graduated from any of the degree programs, you must abide by any certification or licensing requirements in California or the state you will be working as applicable.
Radiographer Certification and Licensing
Once you have graduated from an Radiologist college, depending on the state where you will be practicing you might need to be licensed. The majority of states do require licensing, and their requirements vary so check with your state. At present, all states that do require licensure will recognize The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification examination for the purpose of licensing, but several offer additional options for testing also. Several states also call for certification as part of the licensing procedure, if not it is optional. However, numerous Torrance CA employers would rather hire radiology techs that have earned certification so it might improve your career options to become certified. ARRT’s certification program requires graduation from an accepted program as well as a passing score on their comprehensive examination. ARRT also requires re-certification every 2 years, which can be fulfilled with 24 credits of continuing ed, or by passing an examination.
Online Radiology Technician Classes
As a part of every degree program, x-ray tech schools will have practical or lab training included in their course of study. This is no different for online degree schools. So even though you can still obtain your online degree, a substantial amount of the training will be completed either in a school lab or in an externship off campus. Practical training is often conducted in area family practices, medical clinics or hospitals in sponsorship with the schools. But the online segment of the training can be accessed in the comfort of your Torrance CA residence. Students who keep working while earning their degree often discover that the online approach to learning is much more practical with their active schedules. Plus online programs are often less expensive than on-campus alternatives. In addition to reduced tuition, costs for study materials and commuting may be lessened also. But just make certain that the online program you enroll in is accredited (more on the benefits of accreditation later). So if you are disciplined enough to learn with this less formalized style of training, then online classes may be the ideal option for you.
Topics to Ask Radiologic Tech Colleges
Once you have chosen the kind of degree that you want to obtain, you can begin the process of finding and evaluating Torrance CA x-ray tech schools. You will also need to determine if you want to attend classes online or drive to a local campus. If you choose the latter, then obviously the location of the college will be important. The cost of tuition and supplementary expenditures will be a determining factor also. But in addition to cost and location, what more should you look at when evaluating schools? Well, you should check out if the schools are accredited, and if they sponsor externship or internship programs. To help you learn some of these crucial details before you make your decision, we have put together a list of questions that you need to ask the colleges you are looking at.
Are the X-Ray Tech Programs Accredited? The majority of xray tech colleges have acquired some form of accreditation, whether national or regional. However, it’s still imperative to make sure that the school and program are accredited. One of the most highly regarded accrediting agencies in the field of radiology is the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT). Schools receiving accreditation from the JRCERT have gone through a detailed examination of their instructors and educational materials. If the school is online it may also earn accreditation from the Distance Education and Training Council, which focuses on online or distance education. All accrediting agencies should be recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or the Council on Higher Education Accreditation. In addition to ensuring a quality education, accreditation will also help in securing financial assistance and student loans, which are frequently not accessible for non-accredited colleges. Accreditation may also be a pre-requisite for licensing and certification as required. And numerous Torrance CA health facilities will only hire a graduate of an accredited school for entry level jobs.
Are Internships Sponsored? Find out if the California xray technician programs you are interested in have partnerships with regional hospitals or clinics for internship programs. Not only are internships a great means to receive practical training in a clinical setting, they are also a way to fulfill the clinical training requirement for most programs. As an ancillary benefit, they can help graduates and students develop professional connections in the Torrance CA health care community and assist with obtaining employment.
Is Job Placement Help provided? You will probably wish to secure employment quickly after graduating, but finding that first job in a new field can be challenging without help. Ask if the x-ray tech schools you are considering have job placement programs and what their success rates are. Rapid and high placement rates are a good sign that the schools have substantial networks and great relationships with Torrance CA healthcare employers. It also corroborates that their graduates are highly regarded and sought after.
Where is the School Located? For many students, the school they select will have to be within travelling distance of their Torrance CA residence. Individuals who have chosen to attend online classes obviously will not have to worry themselves with the location of the campus. However, the availability of area internships will be of importance. Something to keep in mind is that if you choose to enroll in a school that is out of state or even out of your local area, you may be required to pay a higher tuition. State colleges usually charge higher tuitions for out of state residents. And community colleges commonly charge a higher tuition to those students that don’t reside within their districts.
How Big are the Classes ? Unless you are the kind of student that prefers to sit way in the rear of class or get lost in the crowd, you will probably want a small class size. Small classes permit more individual participation and one-on-one instruction. Ask the Torrance CA colleges you are considering what the average student to teacher ratio is for their classes. If practical you may want to sit in on one or more classes before making your ultimate determination. This will also give you a chance to speak with some of the students and instructors to get their perspectives regarding the x-ray technician program also.
Can the College Accommodate your Schedule? And finally you must verify that the x-ray tech college you ultimately select can offer the class schedule you need. This is especially important if you opt to continue working while attending classes. If you need to schedule night or weekend classes in Torrance CA, make sure that they are available. If you can only enroll on a part-time basis, find out if that is an option and how many courses or credit hours you would need to enroll in. Also, ask what the protocol is for making up any classes that you may miss because of illness, work or family emergencies.
Why Did You Choose to Become an Xray Technician?When preparing to interview for an X-Ray Tech job, it's advantageous to consider questions you may be asked. One of the things that hiring managers typically ask radiographer prospects is "What compelled you to choose radiography as a profession?". What the interviewer is attempting to learn is not only the private reasons you might have for being an Xray technician, but additionally what characteristics and skills you possess that make you exceptional at what you do. You will likely be asked questions pertaining specifically to radiography, in addition to a certain number of general interview questions, so you should prepare several approaches about how you want to respond to them. Since there are so many variables that go into selecting a career, you can address this primary question in a multitude of ways. When preparing an answer, aim to include the reasons the work interests you as well as the strengths you possess that make you an excellent X-Ray tech and the best candidate for the position. Don't make an effort to memorize an answer, but jot down several concepts and anecdotes that relate to your own experiences and strengths. Going over sample responses can help you to develop your own thoughts, and provide ideas of what to discuss to enthuse the recruiter.
Select the Ideal Radiology Tech School near Torrance CA
Picking the best x-ray tech degree program is a critical first step toward starting a gratifying new career furnishing diagnostic medical services to patients. The ideal radiographer must be in good physical shape. X-Ray techs frequently stand for the greater part of the day and move and at times lift the patient to obtain the correct image. Candidates must also show a capability to pay close attention to detail and to comply with the safety guidelines developed to protect both the patient and the medical team. X-Ray technicians work very closely with patients, other technicians as well as the doctors and radiologists. Possessing social skills is a necessity in order to have a good work environment and furnish the best available care to patients. As we have discussed in this post, there are a number of questions that you should ask each program you are looking at prior to making your ultimate decision. This is similarly true whether you enroll in an online program or commute to classes on campus. By asking the right questions you can evaluate and compare each program so you can focus your options before making your decision. And with the proper training and your dedication to be successful, you can achieve your goal to work as a radiographer in Torrance CA.
Some Background on Torrance California
Torrance is a U.S. city in the South Bay (southwestern) region of Los Angeles County, California. Torrance has 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of beaches on the Pacific Ocean. Torrance has a moderate year-round climate with warm temperatures, sea breezes, low humidity and an average rainfall of 12.55 inches per year.
Since its incorporation in 1921, Torrance has grown rapidly. Its estimated 2013 population was 147,478. This residential and light high-tech industries city has 90,000 street trees and 30 city parks. Known for its low crime rates, the city consistently ranks among the safest cities in Los Angeles County. Torrance is the birthplace of the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). In addition, the city of Torrance has the second-highest percentage of residents of Japanese ancestry in California (8.9%).
Torrance was originally part of the Tongva Native American homeland for thousands of years. In 1784 the Spanish land grant for Rancho San Pedro, in the upper Las Californias Province of New Spain and encompassing present day Torrance, was issued to Juan Jose Dominguez by King Carlos III—the Spanish Empire. It was later divided in 1846 with Governor Pío Pico granting Rancho de los Palos Verdes to José Loreto and Juan Capistrano Sepulveda, in the Alta California territory of independent Mexico.
In the early 1900s, real estate developer Jared Sidney Torrance and other investors saw the value of creating a mixed industrial-residential community south of Los Angeles. They purchased part of an old Spanish land grant and hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to design a new planned community. The resulting town was founded in October 1912 and named after Mr. Torrance. The city of Torrance was formally incorporated in May 1921, the townsite initially being bounded by Western Avenue on the east, Del Amo Boulevard on the north, Crenshaw Boulevard on the west, and on the south by Plaza Del Amo east of where it meets Carson Street, and by Carson Street west of where it meets Plaza Del Amo. The first residential avenue created in Torrance was Gramercy and the second avenue was Andreo. Many of the houses on these avenues turned 100 years of age in 2012. Both avenues are located in the area referred to as Old Town Torrance. This section of Torrance is under review to be classified as a historical district. Some of the early civic and residential buildings were designed by the renowned and innovative Southern California architect Irving Gill, in his distinctive combining of Mission Revival and early Modernist architecture.
Historically the El Nido neighborhood was home to many European immigrants, such as originally Dutch, German, Greek, Italian and Portuguese people. These were soon joined by Mexican-American and Hispanic and Latino immigrants, employed in the growing early 20th century agriculture, petroleum, and manufacturing industries, such as the fish canneries.
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The crypto scene is often seen as a mass of competing and adversarial tribes. However not this fall, when 15 protocols join forces to collaborate and pool developer communities to build a literal stack of technologies that collectively enable a ‘new data economy’, centred around privacy, the decentralisation of insecure cloud architecture and the deconstruction of platform monopolies, called ‘The Convergence Stack’.
The Convergence Stack spans IoT hardware through internet networking, storage, routing, databases, middleware and machine learning leveraging innovations in distributed ledger technology and crypto assets to coordinate decentralised networks of stakeholders to enable a more peer to peer and open web.
The two day event called Diffusion 2019 will take place in Berlin on the weekend of the 19-20 October 2019 and will be focused on the practical application of distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and programmable tokens, to create a new data layer, and enable other deep technologies like AI and IoT to combine and converge in order to define the next major web cycle.
- 350 developers will apply to test their skills to hack using 25m+ lines of open source code over a 2 day period for thousands in prizes
- Hack teams will be drawn from some of the worlds largest corporations, technical universities, leading dev shops and the crypto scenes best indie github contributors
- The first protocols to be publicly announced include: Fetch.AI, Cosmos, IOTA, Chainlink, Enigma, Sovrin, Evernym, Haja Networks, Agoric Systems, Ocean Protocol, FOAM, Alkemi, RightMesh and SEED with more over the coming months
- Winners will present to leading investors including event hosts and ‘Europas: blockchain hottest investor 2019’, Outlier Ventures and enterprise partners
- The event will take place at The Factory, Berlin over two days on 19-20th October 2019
Jamie Burke, Founder of Outlier Ventures and pioneer of The Convergence Stack commented:
“This represents a big step for the industry. For the first time, we are bringing people to work together to take on the current Web paradigm which works for no one other than Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google’’.
“We need a wide range of skills from across cryptography, machine learning, smart contract dev, IoT, and crypto-economics to make Web 3 a reality. We believe this is the first step in a truly collaborative effort reminiscent of the early Internet to make p2p mainstream.’’
Leading decentralised projects from across the crypto scene will formally be present including IOTA, Cosmos, Chainlink, Fetch.AI, Enigma, Sovrin, Evernym, Haja Networks, Agoric Systems, Ocean Protocol, FOAM, Alkemi, RightMesh and SEED to celebrate the technical progress and talent across their communities.
It will be a hackathon-style event with teams of developers competing in challenges including dapps, network improvements, stack integrations, tooling and documentation to accelerate adoption and network growth. The event will also feature a series of exclusive product launches, live demos, enterprise partnership announcements and Q&As from founders and core dev teams from across The Stack as well as presentations from leading developers, economists and system engineers.
Outlier Ventures Labs hosted a virtual conversation with two technical leaders of the core components of the Convergence Stack: Toby Simpson, CTO of Fetch.AI, decentralised AI for the machine economy and Ken Ebert, Software Architect and OS Engineer, Sovrin the new standard for digital identity. OV Labs showcased a LIVE demo of the highly synergistic technologies in practice, introducing their latest project: ANVIL. If you are a developer, the Stack enables you to be part of an ecosystem of open-source technologies spanning hardware, software and p2p networking. As a business who produces, processes and derives value from data, the Stack offers a framework for navigating decentralisation, blockchain and Web 3. | <urn:uuid:a285d70a-2228-403a-a893-e1444a62a5ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.the-blockchain.com/2019/08/06/fifteen-future-technology-protocols-meet-for-convergence-stack-hackathon-at-diffusion-event-in-berlin-19-20th-october-2019/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.877647 | 813 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Indianapolis – The Agricultural Services Agency (FSA) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds growers that the FSA offers home and farm loans to underserved applicants as well as beginner farmers and breeders. Underserved or entry-level farmers and ranchers who cannot obtain trade credit from a bank can apply for direct or guaranteed FSA loans.
âAgriculture and ranching are capital intensive activities and the FSA is committed to helping producers start and maintain their farms,â said Susan Houston, Acting State Executive Director of the FSA in Indiana. “FSA loans are designed to ensure that everyone has access to credit, including underserved and entry-level farmers and ranchers.”
The USDA defines underserved applicants as a group whose members have been subjected to racial, ethnic, or gender bias because of their identity as group members without regard to their individual qualities. For the purposes of the Farm Loan Program, underserved groups are American Indian or Alaska Native, Asians, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Hispanic and women.
In order to qualify as a beginning farmer, the person or entity must meet the eligibility requirements outlined for direct or guaranteed loans. In addition, individuals and all members of the entity must have operated a farm for less than 10 years. Candidates must participate materially or substantially in the operation. For farm ownership purposes, the applicant must not own a farm greater than 30 percent of the average size farm in the county at the time of application. All applicants for direct farm ownership must have been involved in the business operations of a farm for at least three years within the past 10 years prior to the date the application is submitted to the FSA. Replacements for the full three years of experience may be made based on education, military experience, participation with a SCORE mentor, and farm management experience as a hired employee. Your local FSA office will be able to provide more details on acceptable substitutions.
If the applicant is an entity, all members must be related by blood or marriage and all members of the entity must be eligible entry-level farmers. At least one of the members must have three or more years of experience in the business operations of a farm by the date of submission of the application.
Direct loans are granted to applicants by the FSA. Secured loans are granted by lending institutions which arrange for the FSA to guarantee the loan. FSA can guarantee up to 95% of the loss of principal and interest on a loan. The FSA guarantee allows lenders to make agricultural credit available to producers who do not meet the lender’s normal underwriting criteria.
The Direct Guaranteed Loan program offers two types of loans: farm property loans and farm loans.
Farm property loan funds can be used to buy or expand a farm or ranch; purchase any easements or rights of way necessary for the operation of the farm; construct or improve buildings such as a dwelling or a barn; promote the conservation and development of soil and water; and pay closing costs.
Farm business loan funds can be used to purchase livestock, poultry, farm equipment, fertilizers, and other materials needed to operate a farm. Funds from the operating loan can also be used for family living expenses; refinancing of debts under certain conditions; pay the salaries of hired farm workers; installing or improving water supply systems for the home, livestock or irrigation; and other similar improvements.
The repayment terms for direct operating loans are expected to range from one to seven years. The financing of direct loans to agricultural property cannot exceed 40 years. Interest rates for direct loans are set periodically based on the government’s cost of borrowing. The secured loan terms and the interest rates are set by the lender.
For more information on FSA’s agricultural loan programs and guidelines for underserved and beginning farmers, please contact your local FSA office or visit farmers.gov. | <urn:uuid:c5504af4-871b-495e-831e-f11d8b1b38c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gdevresources.com/usda-provides-agricultural-loans-to-underserved-and-beginner-farmers-new/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.953551 | 786 | 1.875 | 2 |
Seasonal status of white spot syndrome virus in broodstocks, nauplii and postlarvae of black tiger shrimp (<i>Penaeus monodon</i>) in Bangladesh
Keywords:Bangladesh, broodstocks, nauplii, postlarvae, seasonal, shrimp, WSSV
Seasonal variation of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) prevalence in broodstocks shrimp, nauplii and postlarvae were investigated from 2004 to 2006 in Bangladesh by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. There was consistent pattern of fluctuation of WSSV prevalence in broodstocks, nauplii and postlarvae. WSSV fluctuation pattern in three stages were more or less similar for each year. Average lowest prevalence in broodstock was 0% in September and highest was 90% in May-June during the monsoon season in Bangladesh. The WSSV fluctuation patterns for nauplius correlated with broodstock patterns with average lowest prevalence of 0% in September compared to the highest of 40% in July. Similarly, average lowest prevalence of WSSV in postlarvae was 0% in December and highest was 14% in July. It was evident from this study that WSSV prevalence in broodstock, nauplius and postlarvae remained high during the monsoon season and low during the winter season when the water current, salinity and tidal flashing remained more or less stable in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.
Key words: Bangladesh; broodstocks; nauplii; postlarvae; seasonal; shrimp; WSSV.
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A curriculum guide is a packet of practical ideas for teaching that is written in a convenient format as practical teaching notes for use by either you or your colleagues. It is a how-to guide that covers steps for achieving specific objectives, principles governing behavior, or descriptions of effective teaching strategies, interventions, and accommodations that a special educator can use in the classroom. Curriculum guides might include the title of the strategy or principle, explanation of its educational purpose (goal or objective), task analysis of teacher and student activities, and student assessment procedures.
Create curriculum guides for teaching reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics as a reference, in a format that will provide you and your professional colleagues with practical information necessary for effective teaching of students with ID. Ensure the curriculum guide is sufficiently accurate, thorough, and clear so the reader can implement the strategies. The guide should be usable by any of the teachers in the student’s school.
Each strategy should be referenced. There should be a minimum of three references for each subject
Academic Instruction for Students with Moderate and Severe Intellectual Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms
From Different to Differentiated: Using “Ecological Framework” to Support Personally Relevant Access to General Curriculum for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities.
Impact of Curriculum Modifications on Access to the General Education Curriculum for Students with Disabilities
This might help them with doing the assignment. So this is the link. http://www.teachhub.com/how-create-curriculum-map | <urn:uuid:fab4ca17-d6ef-41e6-b18a-6c1f3723f32b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://termpaperspro.com/2021/07/09/guide-a-curriculum-guide-is-a-packet-of-practical-ideas-for-teaching-that-is-wri/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.912075 | 322 | 4.25 | 4 |
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Discover the etymology behind the common description of "Machiavellian" to describe deception, dishonesty, and cruelty to meet a goal. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli was written as a means of governing using means that were meant to deceive and manipulate a government's constituency even to the point of advocating the use of evil as a means of political expediency. In this classic work, the end justifies the means reigns paramount to Machiavelli's system of government.
108 pages. paperback.
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Skillset and Match
Skillset and match (Cedefop’s magazine promoting learning for work) – September 2019 issue 17
The September 2019 issue of Skillset and match, Cedefop’s magazine promoting learning for work, is now available to read and download.
European Commission Vice-President designate Margaritis Schinas (until recently the Commission’s Chief Spokesperson), in his last interview as Jean-Claude Juncker’s right-hand man, looks back on the Juncker Commission, talks about investing in skills for tomorrow’s jobs and about Cedefop’s role at the interface between education and training and employment.
New Cedefop Executive Director Jürgen Siebel analyses skills and perspectives;
European Training Foundation Director Cesare Onestini outlines the agency’s new role in human capital development;
The process to reach and support 128 million low-skilled adults in the EU, Iceland and Norway;
Cedefop’s toolkit tackles early leaving from education and training;
Occupation in focus: ICT technicians;
Vocational education and training makes for an attractive choice in current EU Presidency holder Finland;
A young chef from Germany talks about following her dream (watch the full interview).
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Personal loans can be obtained for a myriad of purposes, from elective plastic surgery to paying for your dream vacation. They can be used for home improvements or debt consolidation, and assist in building your credit score if repaid in a timely fashion. The first and most important consideration to mull over is whether you really need a loan in the first place and if it is a wise financial move to purchase something on borrowed funds which will attract interest. If the answer is yes then be absolutely certain that any repayments you agree to undertake will be affordable to you.
Personal loans are traditionally offered by banks and you can comparison shop online and obtain free quotes before actually making an application. The likelihood of you obtaining a loan will be heavily influenced by your credit score, so it pays to know what this is before you search, so you can estimate what level of interest rate you would be offered.
Compare not only the APR of a loan but all the charges associated with it, and avoid any loans which include early repayment penalties. Remember that the sooner you can repay the loan, the less interest you will pay to the lender overall. Never pay an application fee to apply for a loan. Loan providers are required by the Federal Trade Commission to detail both the APR and all fees, so be sure to read the terms and conditions carefully before applying.
You will need to consider if your needs will be best met with a secured or unsecured loan. Secured loans require you to sign over collateral to obtain the loan, which is then at risk. The interest rates offered will be better on a secured loan than an unsecured loan, which are a higher risk to the lender.
If your credit is poor or bad then you may not be able to find a reputable bank willing to extend you a loan, but there are thousands of bad credit loans advertised on the internet. Many do not even require a credit check, but of course you should expect to pay higher rates of interest on the loan. Payday loans are an option for short term loans and if you comparison shop wisely you should come across offers which have very low fees. If you need a longer term loan then bad credit loans abound but be absolutely sure of what you are signing if you apply.
Always be certain that you really need a loan before applying for one, and do not apply without comparison shopping for the best deal to suit your needs first. Remember not to apply until you have narrowed your personal loan provider down as each application is registered on your credit report. | <urn:uuid:72896975-a25c-4780-b256-6248bbf3b5e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indiantiger.org/what-to-consider-when-searching-for-a-personal-loan-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.968494 | 506 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Where are the Faroe Islands? The Faroe Islands, also called the Sheep Islands, are 18 islands of different sizes that form an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland, Norway and Scotland.
The Faroe Islands belong to Denmark, so you don't need a passport to enter, even if the islands are not an EU member. The Faroese crown is the currency of the islands. The total area is 1,399 km2 and the coastline is 1,289 kilometers long.
The fact that individual islands are separated by straits and fjords not only looks beautiful, but also brings the advantage that each such small place is located at most five kilometers from the sea. So, wherever you are in the Faroe Islands, it will not be difficult to get to the water. | <urn:uuid:b4a5842a-bbe4-4ac2-b0a9-041a103a52cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.insecam.org/en/bycountry/FO/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.962357 | 164 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Frank is always provocative and thought-provoking
Criminal Justice in America by Marshall Frank. AuthorHouse, 2008. 276 pages.
In Criminal Injustice in America: Essays by a Career Cop (AuthorHouse, ISBN 978-1-43892062-7), former policeman Marshall Frank gives us his take on the criminal justice system through a series of essays. Although Frank has explored the ideas behind these essays in numerous newspaper columns and novels, here he attempts an in-depth assessment of what he calls our “desperately fractured” criminal justice system.
Frank, who used to reside in Maggie Valley but recently relocated to Florida, begins his book by giving us a look at his background — cop, columnist, novelist, lecturer — and a list of his prejudices. He correctly writes that he considers himself “a centrist conservative, though I have some liberal leanings about social issues, like appropriating government funds for stem cell research, keeping a strict separation of church and state, and endorsing gay rights.” He adds that “I, for one, relish independent thought and hope my readers do the same.”
Certainly Criminal Justice in America trots out some rarely-heard ideas regarding radical change in the criminal justice system. Frank’s views on sex crimes, particularly those committed by child molesters, run contrary to the thinking of most Americans today.
Here, for example, he strongly recommends that child molesters, who according to Frank seem as drawn to their vice as drunks to booze or addicts to crack, receive counseling and help when apprehended. In another chapter, Frank suggests that all federal judges, including Supreme Court judges, have term limits of 15 years. He calls for the elimination of the requirement of a unanimous verdict, as well as for the elimination of the 12-person jury. He advocates the automatic deportation of all illegal aliens convicted of a felony, after they have finished their sentences, and recommends the completion of the fence along the border with Mexico to halt immigration and to slow the problems caused by illegals within the criminal justice system.
These and many other of Frank’s suggestions make Criminal Injustice in America a book well worth reading. The essays are written like newspaper columns and are easy on the eyes, and the conversational style is easy to comprehend.
Yet Criminal Justice in America does present some problems for the discerning reader.
In addition to a good number of typos and mistakes in the book, the statistics, which Frank uses abundantly, sometimes raise more questions than they answer. He writes, for example, that “the Catholic Church scandal earlier in this decade saw 4,392, (or 4 percent of all Roman Catholic clergy in the United States) being accused of sexually abusing children, as far back to the 1940s. (Per the John Jay Report commissioned by the Conference on Catholic Bishops).” Besides the minor mistake here — it is the Conference of Catholic Bishops — we are left in the dark. Does this mean that only 100,000 men have served as priests in the United States since the 1940s? And of the accused, how many priests were convicted?
This foggy statistical analysis extends throughout the book. In the very next paragraph, we learn that during a five-year period there were more than 2,500 cases in which educators were punished for actions from bizarre to sadistic, “all involving sexual misconduct. More than 1,800 of those incidents involved young people, eighty percent of whom were students.” Questions: what were the other 20 percent? If we’re making some sort of comparison to priests, how many educators were accused as well as convicted?
Another complaint that might be directed at Criminal Justice in America is the cost of the programs recommended by Frank. Exorbitant as criminal justice costs now are, to institute the recommendations listed in this book would make the recent stimulus package look like the work of pikers. Many chapters in this book recommend creating more judges, more attorneys, more counselors, more day cares, more educational programs. To be fair to Frank, he lists these changes under the heading of “The Magic Wand,” which is a sort of personal wish list, yet the cost of these programs versus the cost of the current system — in money, in resources — is never compared on any realistic level.
Finally, Criminal Justice in America advocates more repressive and constrictive government than we already have now. In his discussion of abortion, for instance, Frank writes that we should “create legislation making it a crime to harass and harangue pregnant women at abortion clinics.” Even if we assume that the majority of Americans might favor such a move, is it not possible that such a recommendation, enacted into law and enforced by armed police, would lead to other protesters being banned? Frank writes that we need to expand “law enforcement sting operations throughout America to catch pedophiles surfing the Internet for children.” This idea not only increases law enforcement on the Internet, but raises the question: where in the hell are the parents in their children‘s lives? Why aren’t they watching out for children? Frank writes that we should “pull radio licenses from stations that play gansta rap on the public air waves.” Again, why pull radio licenses when the country allows such music to be created in the first place? And pulling radio licenses — what if the government next decides that we shouldn’t listen to gospel music or to certain political broadcasters?
Frank tell us at the beginning of Criminal Justice in America that he once met a house painter at a yard sale who recognized him.
“The painter extended his hand and said, ‘Howdy, I know you. I don’t always agree with what you say, but you sure do make me think.’ That’s better than a paycheck any day.”
The painter’s remarks hold true in regard to Criminal Justice in America. Frank is his own man, blunt, outspoken, sometimes out of his league but always a searcher, a digger after facts and solutions. Few readers, liberal or conservative, will agree with everything this former Miami homicide detective says in his critique of our laws and courts.
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The use of drones, high-resolution cameras, thermovision technology or artificial intelligence in the form of deep neural networks allows you to look at the hunting economy in a completely different light.
It is a tool directly supporting the process of estimating the status of the game's population. It is adapted for use in field conditions due to its transparency and simplicity.
The project of the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS and Taxus SI is a response to the lack of a universal method for estimating the population of large game. The main goal of the project is to develop a new method of hoof monitoring using thermal imaging cameras, unmanned aircraft and verification of its usability and potential advantage over existing methods. The project is run as part of the Applied Research Program of the National Center for Research and Development, implemented from 2015 and will last until the end of 2018.
The Taxus SI project implemented in cooperation with the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS and the University of Warsaw is a continuation of the earlier project. The main objective is to verify the innovative method of inventory of animals in real field conditions. In addition, as part of the project, a method will be developed that uses BSP to estimate damage from animals in large-area agricultural crops. The project is being carried out as part of the funding granted by PGL Lasy Państwowe, implemented from 2017 and will last until the end of 2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has already caused colossal loss of lives and livelihoods around the world. It continues to create havoc – destroyed livelihoods, communities and families – in different countries, like Brazil and India. In India, particularly, a vicious second wave, compounded by an acute Oxygen crisis, has generated an apocalyptic crisis.
This global health emergency has taken a terrible toll on individual lives by expanding the spectrum of anxiety, alienation, deaths, destitutions, loneliness and loss. Conservative commentators, writers, columnists and typewriters of ruling class voices locate the impact of these crises and its outcomes in individual problems or state and government failures.
There is no doubt that states and governments have failed to protect their own citizens who elect them to power. But, the same states and governments have enabled conditions for billionaires and millionaires to expand the profits of their corporations at a massive scale during this crisis.
The corporate profits and palaces of corporate honchos are relatively well-insulated from the virus. For them, this pandemic has become an opportunity to thicken their ledgers, at a time when people are dropping dead without basic medical care, such as oxygen support.
It is clear that mass vaccination will bring an end to this pandemic at some point of time in the near future. The lockdowns will end and economic activities will restore the sources of livelihoods for the working classes. But, during these tough times, it is important to ask difficult questions to fix accountabilities. These accountabilities are both political and intellectual questions.
Are anxieties, multiple forms of alienations, deaths, destitutions, loneliness and losses simply individual problems?
The ruling classes have used medical science and psychologists for a long time to argue that these are individual problems. These problems are either biological problems or mental health issues. The crisis only accelerates these problems. The counselling and therapy industry helps individuals and society recover from these problems temporarily.
The ruling class intellectuals and their corporate media outsource these problems to god, fate and religions to create a moral and spiritual hiding ground, where individuals are disposables based on their skills and abilities. Such processes produce democratically-elected ruthless leaders all around the world. These leaders stand with their crony capitalist friends while ignoring mass sufferings.
Pandemics and all the socio-psychological problems that come with them are older and more fundamental than the current global health crisis. Such pandemics are killing people since centuries. Medical science and psychology have failed to provide any permanent solutions to these problems.
Thus, it is important to locate the issues of anxieties, alienations, deaths, destitutions, loneliness and losses as political and ideological questions. There is no individual, moral or religious answer to them.
Pandemics move beyond national boundaries. These are global humanitarian issues created, sustained and promoted by a market driven capitalist society devoid of any form of commitment to people and the planet.
Anxieties are not only mental and emotional shifts embedded with nervousness, fear and worries, but also reflect physical symptoms like increased heart rate, panic attack and adrenaline rush. These issues are not natural and individuals suffering from these issues are not born with anxieties.
Human beings grow up with different forms and levels of anxieties based on their social, political, cultural, religious and economic conditions. Anxieties can be spiritual, economic, sexual and personal, but they are produced by different institutions and structures – such as families, schools, universities, homes, hospitals, prisons, workplaces and relationships.
These institutions are heavily influenced by political and economic systems of the country. Anxieties are less in more egalitarian, secular, democratic and progressive societies whereas authoritarian, hierarchical, unequal, insecure and conservative societies are fertile grounds for anxieties.
The capitalist system, its ideology, institutions and processes have formed an organic alliance with all forms of reactionary, conservative, religious and authoritarian forces. Capitalist markets find their natural ally in authoritarian politics and religious fundamentalists.
The religious and authoritarian forces work as shock absorbers of alienation and loneliness produced by capitalism as an economic, political, cultural and social system. The capitalist system is a breeding ground for multiple forms of loneliness and alienations.
This pandemic has helped socialise issues of mass alienation, loneliness and social distancing as a survival strategy. The psycho-social distance between people, their work and workplace has produced enormous levels of alienation and loneliness. Online work, social media interactions and indoor entertainments are time-killing machines. They can never replace face-to-face interactions where affection, love, share and care have their material and emotional foundations.
Ideas of rationality and science have taken a backseat with the growth of reactionary forces in politics and society. The capitalist system helps these forces grow for the survival of its crisis-ridden system. The lonely, alienated and hungry individuals can never fight capitalism as a system to reclaim their rights.
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely weakened the collective bargaining labour movements, social, economic and political struggles for human emancipation from conditions of poverty, hunger, homelessness, unemployment and different forms of inequalities. These conditions produce multiple forms of anxieties, alienation, deaths, destitutions, loneliness and loss, which then weaken individuals, families, states and societies and make them subservient to the interests of capital.
It is important to locate these issues as political questions and systemic issues, and not individual problems. The various struggles against the pandemic are struggles against capitalism that brings pathogens from the wild and destroys the natural life world.
Our collective survival depends on our collective abilities to understand these fundamental issues and take collective responsibilities to struggle for emancipation from all forms of capitalist narratives in politics, culture, society and economy. There is no second or third way. The only alternative is to understand and fight back capitalism till its end.
Views expressed are the author’s own.
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Achnatherum diegoense is a species of grass known by the common name San Diego needlegrass. It is native to southern California, where it is known from San Diego and Ventura Counties and the Channel Islands, and Baja California.
It is a resident of chaparral and coastal sage scrub ecosystems below 350 feet in elevation, especially near streams. This is a bunching perennial grass reaching heights between 110 and 140 centimeters. The inflorescence is up to about 25 centimeters long. The hairy spikelet is about a centimeter long not counting the long awn, which can be up to 5 centimeters long and has two distinct kinks.
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Alphabet Activity Series - Sound Jigsaws and Word Matching Workbook - Grades K - 1 - Print Version
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On Wednesday, dozens of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, accompanied by soldiers, invaded the archeological area in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The Mayor of Sebastia, Mohammad Azem, said several army jeeps accompanied the colonists through the town, and headed to the archaeological area after sealing it off.
He added that the soldiers prevented the Palestinians from entering the site and all surrounding areas during the invasion.
In related news, the soldiers invaded the al-Biereh city, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, leading to protests, especially after the army closed a road leading to the Industrial Zone.
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(CNN)The New York Police Department says it will soon expunge DNA profiles of some people who've never been convicted of a crime from the city's local DNA database as part of a larger reform of its collection policies.
NYPD says it will remove some non-convicts from its local DNA database
A law firm that has been critical of the policies, however, says the reform does not go far enough.
The decision relates to a databank, maintained by the city's chief medical examiner's office, of DNA that the NYPD has collected in its investigations, including from people questioned, arrested or charged but never convicted.
The NYPD says the database has about 82,000 samples, and that roughly 32,000 of those are from people who are or were suspects in investigations. The other 50,000 samples relate to other aspects or types of investigations, including from missing people, according to NYPD Assistant Commissioner Devora Kaye.
Until now, a person who wanted to remove DNA from the city's database required a court order.
The database will be audited for profiles to remove "in the coming weeks," Kaye said Friday.
"These changes are common sense and incorporate feedback we have gathered without compromising the ability for officers to successfully identify criminals, build strong cases and bring justice for victims," city Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a news release Thursday.
In the initial audit, DNA profiles will be removed if these three conditions are met, NYPD says:
• The profile is at least two years old.
• The person has not been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor.
• The person is not currently a suspect of a crime.
There is an exception. DNA would stay in the database for people who had been arrested or prosecuted in a case in which there's been no judicial conclusion about the person's innocence.
Profiles created from now on will automatically will be reviewed, using the above criteria, upon reaching their second year.
As a backstop, the database will be reviewed every four years for profiles that are at least four years old -- providing an out for profiles that hadn't met the expungement criteria in previous reviews.
The Legal Aid Society, a New York City law firm that focuses on social justice issues, said Thursday it was not satisfied with the NYPD's plan.
Terri Rosenblatt, supervising attorney for the firm's DNA unit, issued a statement arguing the NYPD shouldn't be able to store DNA of people who haven't been convicted.
"(The NYPD's) vague suggestion that they will agree to expunge some samples provides little comfort to our clients -- including kids as young as 12 -- who are among the tens of thousands of people in the ... index now or may be in the future," Rosenblatt said.
"Our lawmakers should step in with real control and oversight of the NYPD and act to ban unlawful and unregulated DNA collection. All New Yorkers should reject anything less," Rosenblatt added.
State law governs a state DNA databank, which requires a conviction before a sample is included.
The reforms also include, according to NYPD:
• People can get the medical examiner's office to remove their profile even without the review, and without a court order, if they provide a certificate of disposition showing they've been acquitted. This won't require a lawyer or a hearing.
• Collection of DNA samples from juveniles will be limited to investigations involving felonies, firearm crimes, sex crimes, sexually motivated crimes, and hate crimes. Exceptions can be made by the chief of detectives.
• Officers and detectives must notify a juvenile's parents or guardians that DNA is going to be collected from the juvenile.
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William G. Bowen is the immediate past President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a position he held from 1988 to 2006. He graduated from Denison University in 1955 and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University three years later. Bowen joined the Princeton faculty in 1958, specializing in labor economics. From 1967 to 1972 he served as Provost of the University. In 1972 he became the University’s President, a post he held until 1988; during those 16 years, he also taught courses in economics and public affairs.
Under Bowen’s stewardship, the Mellon Foundation has taken a marked turn to the political left, with its philanthropic focus shifting heavily towards racial preferences and “diversity” initiatives, environmental advocacy, and immigrant rights.
In 1989 Bowen oversaw the establishment of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program, whose mission was “to increase the number of highly qualified candidates for PhDs in core fields within the arts and sciences who come from minority groups that are seriously underrepresented in these fields — principally African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans.” In 2004, more than 100 MMUF fellows were awarded doctorates.
Also under Bowen’s leadership, the Mellon Foundation expanded its “Conservation and Environment Program” (CEP), which embraces the tenets of an anti-capitalist, anti-development worldview. Throughout the Foundation’s history, numerous Mellon CEP grants have been earmarked for the acquisition of private land, which in turn is sold to the federal government and is thereby effectively rendered off-limits to human habitation or development. The CEP continues to fund such land-acquisition initiatives by supporting the organizations Trust for Public Land and the Wilderness Society.
In 1998, Bowen co-authored (with Derek Bok, former President of Harvard University and former dean of Harvard Law School) the much-publicized book The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. This monograph strongly advocates racial preferences in college admissions, and calls into question whether the very concept of academic “merit” is even valid or measurable.
Other books that Bowen has authored or co-authored include: Equity And Excellence in American Higher Education (2006); The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values (2002); The Sacred and the Secular University (2000); Universities and Their Leadership (1998); Inside the Boardroom: Governance by Directors and Trustees (1994); The Charitable Nonprofits: An Analysis of Institutional Dynamics and Characteristics (1994); The Economics of Labor Force Participation (1969); and The Wage-Price Issue: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Bowen is the founding Board Chairman of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization that helps universities plan business models and develop electronic infrastructures. He serves as a trustee on the Board of the Trust Committee, which oversees the Rockefeller Family Trusts. And he has served on the boards of Merck & Co, Journal Storage, American Express, the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund. | <urn:uuid:a0fd64cd-21be-4f6d-88e5-7f6ed7f4dd1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/william-bowen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.942978 | 652 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Dental lasers are a modern innovation in dentistry. There are several different types of dental lasers, and each has different biological effects and procedures associated with it. For clinicians, understanding each laser type and how it works is essential. Listed below are some of the most common dental lasers used today. The advantages and disadvantages of dental lasers are discussed. This article is for informational purposes only. To gain more knowledge, please consult your dentist or another medical professional.
Disadvantages of dental lasers
Compared to traditional methods of dental care, dental lasers reduce the risk of infection, bleeding, and scarring. But they are still expensive and dentists often pass the cost onto their patients. To offset this expense, they may offer more convenient appointment times. While laser technology is still in its infancy, there are still some drawbacks. For these reasons, patients should seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider before using this technology. check how to solve health problems in Canada
Dental lasers are used for a variety of procedures. They are used for hard tissue and soft tissue procedures. Hard tissue lasers are best used for cutting teeth, preparing them for composite bonding, or repairing worn dental fillings. Soft tissue lasers, on the other hand, help seal nerve endings and blood vessels and reduce bleeding in soft tissues. They can even eliminate the need for sutures for some procedures.
Dental lasers aren’t a substitute for a scalpel or drill, though they are used for many aspects of dentistry. Lasers can remove cavities and reshape gums. They can also treat cold sores and bacteria in the mouth. Because they don’t produce heat, dental lasers do not require anesthesia. Because the laser doesn’t produce heat, patients can remain calm during dental procedures. Also, lasers don’t work on pre-existing gum tissue, meaning they can’t remove damaged teeth.
The use of dental lasers is limited. Some dentists prefer to use conventional methods, which involves using a dental drill. But this type of treatment is not suitable for all cavities. Lasers can be used to remove tooth decay, reshape gums, and control problematic bacteria. And despite the advantages, some dentists prefer to use dental lasers for other procedures. There are some drawbacks, but the technology is constantly evolving.
In addition to being more expensive, dental lasers may not be appropriate for certain procedures. For example, lasers cannot remove pre-existing dental fillings. The process may require the use of a manual scalpel or drill, and local anesthesia is still necessary. The risk of damage to the tooth and gum is still present, but it is lower than that of a traditional drill. You may want to research dental lasers further before deciding on the procedure.
The longer wavelengths of dental lasers are better suited for soft tissue procedures, as they are highly selective. The longer wavelengths of the lasers have a high absorption coefficient in water, which makes them ideal for treating soft tissue. As a result, the ablation of the tissue takes place through the explosive fragmentation of interstitial water. However, this type of lasers is not as effective on hard tissues.
Procedures that can be performed with a dental laser
A dental laser is a surgical tool that acts like a scalpel, allowing dentists to safely perform procedures without the use of x-rays or local anesthetic. They are often used to remove biopsies and lesions and can perform several other procedures. Dental lasers can perform hard and soft tissue procedures, depending on the specific need of a patient. Lasers can be used to reshape gum tissue and bone. Laser frenectomy can be used to loosen the attachment of the tongue to the tooth, a condition that can cause difficulty speaking or breastfeeding.
Lasers are highly precise and can allow dentists to perform a variety of dental procedures. The dentist can choose the power output, duration of exposure on tissue, and the exact location of the focused area. Laser dentistry is generally considered safe and effective for most patients, although some patients may want extreme comfort. Approximately 6 percent of general dentists own a dental laser and use it for soft tissue applications. Dental lasers are also becoming increasingly affordable and effective, and their use is expanding rapidly.
Recovery time from a laser procedure is often much shorter than that of other dental procedures. Patients will typically be instructed to stay away from certain foods for 24 hours following their procedure. However, if the procedure is minor enough, they can return to normal activities the following day. If a patient chooses to undergo a dental laser treatment, they should expect a shorter recovery time than with traditional hand pieces.
Many patients are leery of the cost of a dental laser because of the cutting-edge technology involved. While the procedure can be more expensive, most dental insurance policies will reimburse the dentist for the entire procedure. A dental laser will also allow dentists to save more gum tissue and tooth structure than a conventional drill. Finally, laser dentistry is less invasive than traditional dental treatments. Many procedures using a laser can be completed in a single appointment and without the need for anesthesia.
Although laser dentistry is relatively simple to use, there are several steps to ensure safety during the procedure. First, all dental laser users should wear protective eyewear to prevent exposure to the beam. These eye protections must be wavelength specific. Second, the laser should be properly maintained and free from dust and other reflective materials. And third, dental laser users should limit their environment. In addition, a dentist must ensure that the laser is in working condition.
Another important factor to consider is the type of laser that will be used. Dental lasers are specialized instruments that use different wavelengths of light. The wavelength of light depends on the type of procedure and the tissue being treated. The most common types of lasers for dentistry are carbon dioxide lasers and diode lasers. These lasers are best for soft tissue applications. Laser dentistry is quicker and easier than traditional methods and can help patients feel less anxious.
Cost of dental laser treatments
The cost of dental laser treatments varies from patient to patient and can vary depending on the type of procedure performed. The cost of dental laser treatments depends on several factors, including the type of laser equipment used, the facility in which the procedure takes place, and the dentist performing the treatment. However, dental laser treatments are generally less expensive than non-laser procedures. Many insurance plans will reimburse the costs depending on the type of procedure performed.
Lasers are used to seal the tubules at the root of the tooth. This minimizes bleeding and subsequent tissue damage. Dental laser treatments require little post-treatment care, so patients do not usually experience much pain or discomfort. However, it is imperative that patients follow the instructions given by their dentist regarding dental care after a laser procedure. You may feel some soreness or swelling around the affected area, but no more than a few sores or bumps.
The cost of dental laser treatments depends on the complexity of the procedure. The most common procedure involving lasers is gum line sculpting, which can cost anywhere from $50 to $350 for each tooth. It depends on the condition of the gum tissue and the number of teeth being treated. The cost of gum laser treatments varies from patient to patient, and there are many options available. But, a good place to start comparing prices is on the Internet.
In addition to dental laser treatments, you may be able to use your HSA or FSA funds to help cover the cost. If you have these funds, you can ask your provider if you qualify for reimbursement for these treatments. Typically, these procedures are covered up to a certain amount, but this depends on your specific needs and insurance coverage. If your dental insurance plan does not cover the cost of laser treatments, you may be able to find a provider who will accept the treatment regardless of its cost.
Another benefit of using lasers is that the procedure can save you money because of the elimination of local anesthesia and drills. Because lasers can detect cavities, you can avoid cavities by taking preventive measures. Additionally, laser dentistry has the added benefit of preserving more of your tooth’s structure and gum tissue than traditional dental techniques. You can even avoid getting a cavity if you have a filling, which may make it difficult to treat.
If you are suffering from a number of dental problems and are looking for a treatment option to treat them, dental lasers may be the best choice for you. These pain-free dental laser treatments are available to those who suffer from canker sores, root canal infections, gum disease, and damaged nerves. If you are looking for a dentist near you, contact Hanford Dental Associates. They are conveniently located at 112 W Ivy St in Hanford, California and offer a dental laser treatment.
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Whose face is on the dime? It’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That’s no arbitrary choice. FDR had polio as an adult. He fought back and became governor of New York and then the only four-term president of the United States.
For two decades, from 1938 forward, The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis campaigned to fight polio epidemics. Each January, children and adults contributed to the national “March of Dimes” to raise funds for research and treatment. FDR was the symbol of the campaign, a figure of hope for an otherwise dreadful, often fatal, disease.
After his death in 1945, the dime was redesigned to honor this great president and his work to combat polio. Within the next decade, effective vaccines were found for polio. So, the National Foundation changed its mission to fighting birth defects and, under the name March of Dimes, has been successful for 50 years.
This transition is a classic case of an effective agency remaining in existence beyond its initial success. Why not go out of business after the job is done? Because there is no reason to dismantle an organization that is well-known and proven to be competent.
Now we understand why the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an agency known for implementing misdirected policies, is changing into a “Department of Rural Affairs.” American farm policy has been a disgrace and a joke for more than a generation. Congress has the USDA subsidize organizations and institutions that neither need nor deserve government support.
Try as it may, the USDA cannot keep the farm economy from shrinking in its relative importance. Farming does not keep pace with the growth of the American economy. Nor are we willing still to accept the idea that domestic farming is the essential backbone of our economy.
So where does that leave the USDA? If its historic mission is done, it has to have a new mission. Unlike the March of Dimes, it does not have a record of success, but it does have a congressional constituency that wants it to continue pumping money into “rural” districts.
There is the rub. What is rural? According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, rural is that which is not urban. Unfortunately, the bureau does not do a good job of telling us what is urban. But who cares? We all know what “rural” means-anything the USDA chooses to fund.
Now this is good. The census of 2000 identified 24 percent of Indiana’s population as rural. However, 36 percent of us lived outside any city or town. What’s the difference? Some of us lived in unincorporated areas that were urban in nature, subdivisions with housing densities that were comparable to nearby urban areas. Another 5.6 percent of us lived in 400 cities and towns with fewer than 2,500 people. Are such places rural or urban?
What the funding agencies choose to find of consequence is what counts. If they can rationalize giving money to places with populations in excess of 10,000 or more because they “serve” rural populations, then so be it. We will benefit if old agencies stay alive by transforming themselves into something new that saves our cities and towns.
States and the federal government have instituted practices that destroy urban areas. In Indiana, larger cities and towns persistently are denied the powers they need to serve their citizens. The propertytax mess is laid at their door by the mismanagement and malignancy of the General Assembly. If the USDA and other agencies want to finance projects in our cities and towns because it helps the donors stay in existence, bring it on.
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Melatonin is an endogenously produced molecule in all humans. As you age, the amount of Melatonin the body produces reduces drastically. This reduced level of endogenous Melatonin leads to a number of changes within the body.
Firstly, a summary of the COVID 19 infection process.
Melatonin is already used treat virus related disease, it has been established for as long as 30 years ago. For example, scientists had shown that the encephalomyocarditis virus (which is unique only to animals),when treated with melatonin, it prevented paralysis and death.
Semliki forest virus, West Nile virus were also similarly treated with Melatonin.
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, which is transmissible to human is also diminished in the presence of Melatonin.
Aleutian mink disease virus is another example of a virus treated with Melatonin.
Treatment of hospitalised COVID-19 infected patients with Melatonin. Ongoing study.
In summary, Melatonin is useful for combating Covid-19 because Melatonin reduces the cytokine and the associated oxidative stress. Melatonin is known to have both of these effects under many different experimental situation.
The virus enters the lungs and the alveolar sac, where it initiates these events and giving melatonin orally, intravenously, or by aerosol inhalation maybe effective in reducing the associated severe disease and death of these individuals.
Melatonin inhibits the cytokine storm and the associate acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), this is caused by or contributed to by oxidative stress. Melatonin prevents the recruitment of these inflammatory cells and their activity in terms of releasing cytokines, this is responsible for the series of events that culminate in this very serious condition.
The COVID-19 pandemic has infected hundreds of thousands and killed tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. The high mortality is caused by the uncontrolled innate immune response and destructive inflammation.
Melatonin negatively regulates the overreaction of the immune response, reducing inflammation and improving the bodies adaptive immunity against COVID 19.
The naturally occurring levels of Melatonin decrease as we get older, there is evidence and rationale suggesting it could be used as a prophylactic or treatment.
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Business Technique For Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
A business is defined as a legally listed state or relationship involved in enterprise pursuits. Most businesses are because of-income enterprises or low-profitable ones that work in order to reach a sociable purpose or further your own public cause. There are lots of types of businesses that are available in the world today. One of the most notable and well-known organizations incorporate:
A small company, often known as a only proprietorship, is a kind of enterprise the spot that the seller keeps immediate acquisition. The phrase ‘soul’ inside the brand denotes the small business owner is the only person who operates the assets. Various kinds of smaller businesses are single proprietorships that create their own personal earnings. Other businesses are franchises, partnerships or owned by a firm. Franchises are fantastic instances of your small business belonging to yet another provider.
A alliance is really an agreement amongst 2 or more folks, where by everyone leads to money for the venture but preserves shares during the endeavor. Partnerships can be from a exclusive proprietorship and the other joint venture. If they are not connected by blood.
Very little relationships are a kind of limited accountability business the spot that the small business owner is recognized as its spouse and there are no joints or partial legal responsibility concerning online business strategies, each one partner possesses a partial obligation for the measures of each and every other companion, even. Generally, the business owner is known as its associate. This has been found out that there could be a formidable motivator to obtain a mate to eliminate the value of the union caused by substantial business procedures, even so. It happens to be critical in order that companions abide by business procedures that happen to be fixed decrease from the working arrangement or conventional functioning deal.
A broad collaboration is a kind of enterprise that is accessible only for the advantage of all lovers required. They share in the earnings of the organization but you will find no limits wear how individuals revenue are given away. You can find not really personal culpability that is needed when reaching small business choices.
Limited relationships build a third party which has reduced obligation. In most cases very little partnerships can cause an aura of have confidence in relating to the companions. The collaboration brings about a 3rd party containing no personal obligation for your business’ financial obligations. If they are in fact those inducing the debts to occur, the union does share in the culpability for those business’s financial obligations, however. Because of this it is essential that the actual partnership and limited union deals include stipulations in cases where the partners usually do not will continue to make their installments.
A different type of company is a C-firm. Mainly because a majority of the Board of Directors is going to be C-corporations rather than folks, a C-corporation is different from a lone proprietorship or even a relationship. A C-institution lacks to shell out income taxes naturally profits being that they are publicly dealt firms and they are not controlled from the shareholders in the institution.
A final kind of company to discuss would be the S-business. An S-business differs from a joint venture or maybe a exclusive proprietorship simply because it does not have two celebrations. Instead, an S-organization is done by one particular business, the stockholders, who personal the company. When they elect to use increase taxation, the only way through which an S-corporation can increase tax bill rewards is. Elected people will pay income tax in line with if they are acquiring dividends. Which means that the dividend settlement could well be removed from the particular profiles.
There are plenty of ways in which these firms can be helped by the development of an LLC or maybe a organization. Most businesses that integrate will need their tax returns submitted to allow them to find the several credits obtainable. Business people should pay a modest amount of government tax bill since they are regarded your small business. Sole proprietorships and C-businesses do not require to file government tax returns. However, these companies may need to fork out some status income tax as they are accepted as business run inside the state where they can be incorporated.
Limited relationships and typical relationships should also sign-up together with the point out wherein they are incorporated. Many state governments call for that all of the relationships or LLCs sign-up. Limited partnerships can discuss spouses or reduce spouses. Allowing limitless lovers to participate in on the relationship is not going to minimize culpability for the partnership’s credit card companies. General partnerships normally have a alliance binding agreement that outlines their relationship and present with regard to theirfinancial obligations and resources, and net belongings.
A only proprietorship, also known as a C-Corporation, differs from a collaboration or restricted culpability business in some means. A bottom proprietorship has no partners and there are no rules on who is able to sign up for as associates. Also, there is not any condition which the company match quarterly or yearly gains. C Corporations are developed for the advantages of the entrepreneurs. They normally take advantage of the money in their enterprise to generate ventures and pay back financial obligations. | <urn:uuid:605396dc-aad3-43b1-9d6c-1c7655b9ea4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chigado360news.com/business-technique-for-limited-liability-companies-llcs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.967225 | 1,052 | 2.25 | 2 |
Last month we discussed why compressor stations are so important. This month we will explore some of the potential hazards of, and safety requirements for, natural gas pipeline compressor stations.
Natural gas pipeline compressor stations are a critical part of the natural gas delivery process. These stations are necessary in order to transfer natural gas hundreds of miles from where it is processed to where it will be used. But in order to make sure the gas flows freely, it needs to be compressed periodically along the pipeline, to keep it moving. This is why above-ground compressor stations are necessary about every 50 to 100 miles along the natural gas transmission pipeline.
People often assume that because a natural gas pipeline compressor station has something to do with natural gas that they are dangerous to be around, and should be located far away from any homes or businesses, but this is simply not true. Since 2002, the first-year safety data about pipeline compressor stations was collected, there have been no incidents of anyone being injured at a compressor station. So why are pipeline compressor stations so safe?
Pipeline Compressor Stations Are Constructed with Rigorous Safety Standards
Pipeline compressor stations must be engineered, constructed, operated, and maintained in accordance with Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) safety standards. This organization inspects compressor stations all throughout the design, construction, and operation of every compressor station, pressure vessel, and natural gas transmission pipeline.
Compressor Station Construction & Management Are Highly Regulated
The permitting process for constructing a new natural gas compressor station is very meticulous, requiring the coordination of multiple federal, state, and local government agencies, must meet or exceed all federal requirements, and follow all state and local laws before construction can begin. Here are a few of the agencies involved with regulating the construction, operation, and maintenance of pipeline compressor stations:
- PHMSA– Inspects and confirms that the compressor station is designed, constructed, and operated in a safe manner.
- EPA– Ensures that compressor station emissions meet air quality standards, protect surface and groundwater, and mitigates all surface area impacts near the site and along the transmission pipeline.
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)– Confirms that the station is necessary and needed by the public.
- US Fish and Wildlife Service– Protects the fish, wildlife, and vegetation near the compressor station.
Each of these organizations also coordinates with state and local agencies to protect all aspects of the near the compressor station.
Compressor Stations Are Relatively Quiet
Another misconception about natural gas pipeline compressor stations is that they are loud when in operation. The FERC monitors the station to ensure that it adheres to the proper noise standards. These standards ensure that the noise of any operation, modification, upgrade, or expansion to an existing pipeline compressor station must not exceed 55 dB(A) at the nearest inhabited areas such as homes, businesses, schools, parks, etc. 55 dB(A) is about as loud as a normal indoor conversation.
Pipeline Compressor Stations Have Limited Impact on the Environment
Because the natural gas pipeline compress stations are designed to transport the gas, it has already been processed, so there are no emissions or further processing of the gas at the compressor stations. The stations do not produce any dust or smoke. Compressor stations also pose no threat to the groundwater, storm water or drinking water because the station, and the pressure vessels and pipelines connected to it, only transport natural gas, not oil or liquid natural gas.
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The Transition into Summer
By Esther B. Hess, Ph.D.
Dear Developmental Doc:
I feel very uncomfortable sharing a deep dark secret that I think many parents of special needs kids secretly harbor, I HATE SUMMER VACATION! I am dreading trying to figure out what I am suppose to do with my autistic child for the better part of June, July and August, knowing that he will be ‘flipping out’ as soon as the structure of the school year ends. I need help now! Thanks, Evelyn S., Palos Verdes, CA.
You’re right, most developmental specialists concentrate on advising parents how to help their child with the challenges preparing for the transition back to school with little to no mention on the difficulties that our children face with the ‘freedoms’ supposedly offered through the lazy days of summer. The truth is that the same developmental lags that account for the struggles in September are equally responsible for the melt downs in June. And much like in early Fall, I suggest that summer can be made into an enjoyable experience, if parents take the time to create a plan that offers stability and certainty for their youngsters with special needs.
- If your school district’s budget permits, check out summer school options. While a scaled down program and typically new classroom might initially confuse children on the spectrum, ultimately our kids are relieved to continue within the rhythm of the academic year.
- Look for a camp program that fits your child’s strengths. If your child is able to navigate with typical peers, summer might be an ideal time to enlarge your child’s inclusion possibilities. Explore programs that your child has an interest in (animal themed, science minded, etc.) and check to see if the camp’s policy encourages attendance for children with developmental differences.
- If you plan to travel during the Summer, pick a destination and stay a while to let your child get used to the new environment. Touring is stressful for most people, but for children with autism, navigating numerous airports and getting use to new hotels can feel nightmarish. If you do feel that your child is ready to ‘see the world’, let them prepare with you a travel book of different places and activities that they will be exposed to, so that a social story (check out www.socialstories.com) can be created to help them prepare for each upcoming destination. Don’t forget to schedule numerous breaks in the day to give your child a chance to regroup and reorient before the next activity.
- Beyond transition concerns, the underlying neurological issues that create challenges for our children on the spectrum do not go away in the summer. Create a summer program that takes advantage of therapeutic opportunities by considering the addition of an intervention that you had put off during the school year due to your child’s crowded schedule. For example, therapeutic horseback riding is great way to help with awareness of others, motor planning and your child’s posture control, while social skills groups give opportunities to practice the tough task of making and keeping friends, while keeping other people’s perspectives in mind.
- Make a regular play date schedule. Not only do our children learn valuable skills by figuring out how to navigate with peers, but also informal social gatherings can offer parents and neuro-typical peers support and camaraderie.
By taking the time to thoughtfully plan ahead, parents can support the transitional challenges of our special needs kids and ‘take the bite’ out of the dog days of summer. Enjoy –and don’t forget the sunscreen! Esther B. Hess, a.k.a. the developmental doc…
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Having new life join your herd is wonderful but now that they are here you might be wondering about best practices for caring for your new calves. Here, our Stanwood vets go over best practices for your calves including feeding, housing, and health care.
Taking Care of Your Calves
Your calves represent the future of your farm so the utmost care must be taken to ensure that they prosper so your farm can prosper. While they are young it is up to their caretaker to ensure that they thrive.
This will depend on the purpose of your herd. If it is for a beef herd then you can initially let the mother cow to nurse the calf. This will form a bond between the two and the mother should act as protection for the calf against predators. Afterward, they can start on solid feed at 3 weeks and should be weaned onto solid feed at around 4 to 8 weeks. Confirm with your veterinarian about the exact schedule for weaning for your particular breed of cow.
If the calf is orphaned or is from a dairy herd you will want to start them on a bottle. Calves need to drink on average 8% of their birth weight in milk replacement.
When feeding your calf solid feed and water keep the feed/water tray/ bucket off the ground and where they don’t have to dip down too much to get their feed. This will reduce contamination from defecation and urination.
There are various configurations of pens, shelters, and hutches to keep calves in. The main points that any of the options should have is:
Ventilation: There should be a good source of ventilation.
Drainage: Your cow should not be standing in a puddle of its urine.
Temperature: The calf should be kept warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Bedding is highly recommended for calves and can include straw, shavings, or sawdust. The benefits for calves are that it reduces stress and can decrease the risk of disease.
In the beginning, you will want to keep the calves separate to avoid disease spreading. After they are weaned they can live in groups of 3-5 similarly sized and aged cows and after 4 months their group size can go up to 12.
Spreadsheets are your friend. It is recommended that you weigh your calves periodically and record this information along with how much they are eating. Your vet should be able to give you expected weights for calves at each stage and age of development. This can be used as a metric to determine the health of your calf and if medical intervention is required.
You should inspect your calves daily and if you spot something unusual about a calf, quarantine the calf and any others that were in the group with it and call your vet for advice. Catching issues when they are small and treatable is normally less expensive than losing a calf.
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Hungarian-American hedge fund manager, investor, and philanthropist, George Soros, has made headlines once again as he just gave $18 billion of his $23 billion approximate fortune as a donation to his grant-making organization called Open Society Foundations (OSF).
As what Reuters reported, the 87-year-old business magnate has picked up the pace of transferring that much money to the OSF. Because of this transaction, the group earned a significant boost and is now one of the behemoths in American philanthropy, the second-largest group in the United States to be exact. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation remains as the biggest grant-making group for its $40 billion worth of total endowment.
The Strait Times reported that Soros subtly and gradually made the donation, considered as one of the biggest contributions from a private donor to a foundation, throughout these past few years. Meanwhile, Financial Times wrote that Soros gave away such money for the future of his foundation. The organization only confirmed the transfer to the public on Tuesday.
Its budget for 2017 is currently at $940.7 billion. In CNNMoney’s report, OSF Director of Public Affairs and spokesperson, Laura Silber, said that the foundation’s expenses since the ’80s have accumulated to $14 billion.
What is the Open Society Foundations?
Looking deeper into the OSF, George Soros established the organization back in 1979 when he acquired sufficient money from his job as a hedge fund manager. Soros founded the foundation with the aim of endorsing democracy and other causes like human rights, health, education, equality and journalism by financially backing civil society groups, universities, media establishments, and communities worldwide.
With recent issues like police abuse and the escalating discrimination against the LGBTQI community, the OSF has started funding programs focused on addressing these concerns. As part of its mission, the organization also looks to unite the nations to work on solutions to worldwide problems like corruption and freedom of information. It seeks to provide protection and help in furthering and enhancing the living conditions in populations that some governments have neglected to pay attention to.
The OSF has established many offices in countries like Afghanistan, Angola, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan and Spain. It also set up hub offices in Belgium, Hungary, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Aside from awarding grants to organizations, the OSF also gives grants to people usually in the form of fellowships and scholarships. Those who are applying for a scholarship must meet the organization’s qualifications to become an OSF scholar, while those who are looking for a fellowship with the foundation must consider if their values are in line with those of the OSF.
Five biggest charitable donations in 2016
Before Soros’ donation to his foundation, other entrepreneurs and philanthropists have given huge sums of money to various organizations, and Forbes compiled a list detailing these big donations in 2016.
1. Phil and Penny Knight ($500 million)
Nike co-founder Phil Knight, along with wife Penny, gave the University of Oregon, Phil’s alma mater, a $500 million donation for the construction of the university’s science center. According to Michael Schill, the president of the University of Oregon, the Knights’ contribution is the largest donation made to a public flagship university throughout Oregon’s history.
2. Nicolas Berggruen ($500 million)
German-American investor Nicolas Berggruen made a $500 million donation to the Berggruen Institute, an independent think tank centered on making public policies, during its fifth anniversary. With the endowment, the institute can develop more activities and events to gather experts to work on the current social and political problems and also support its Los Angeles headquarters.
3. Phil and Penny Knight ($400 million)
The Knights are once again on Forbes’ list for their contribution worth $400 million to Stanford University. The money will help the university form the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program. The program will support a total of 100 well-performing students annually.
4. Howard and Lottie Marcus ($400 million)
The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev received a $400 million bequest from the late Howard and Lottie Marcus. According to the university, the Marcuses’ donation has been the largest amount given to an Israeli university. They have been backing the university since the late 1990s for its efforts in desalination and desert farming. Most of the $400 million will be allotted to the university’s water research.
5. Michael Bloomberg ($360 million)
The philanthropic organization of the former New York City mayor gave $360 million worth of donation to various organizations such as Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the World Health Organization to help them in their anti-tobacco efforts.
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Alexander Technique for Back Pain
This 10 min video summarises the NHS randomised trial that was done to show the effectiveness of learning the Alexander Technique to help deal with back pain.
‘Extensive coverage has today been given to a study that found the Alexander technique – a method of teaching improved posture – is beneficial for easing back pain. The study on the technique involved over 500 people with chronic back pain from general practices across the UK. It found that people who received one-to-one instruction in the Alexander technique, along with exercise, had reduced back pain and improved disability after one year compared to those receiving standard care.’
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Why Train at BAS…
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The two videos below are 30 second snapshots showing that applying the Alexander Technique in your life can make activities a lot easier!
Running with the Alexander Technique…
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In the common vernacular, there are healers and seers.
What are the primary paths of shamanism?
As in dreamers versus stalkers, or oracles and seers and such?
I see it this way: shamans have to become accomplished stalkers, dreamers, seers, and healers, as well as a few other things, but according to each individual's predilections, they will end up specializing in one area.
Twilight threw shadows up the hills like dark bony fingers. Watching the growing, slowly moving shadows, he saw them creep into the edge of the trees like a dark hand insinuating itself into a living glove.
The darkness seemed to grip the earth, seizing it away from the sinking sun, stealing the light, carrying it into the forgetful sleep of an approaching night. He settled back slowly on his heels, feeling the first coolness of the approaching evening flit about his face in the light breeze.
The day had been hot, hotter than most. He shifted his position to sit more comfortably on the flat stone he had perched on to rest. He took off the rough gloves and looked thoughtfully at his hands, inspecting the new blisters and old calluses, which the gloves were supposed to prevent, but somehow never seemed to do.
The deathwalker is not a grim reaper; they are releasing that which is trapped, moving that which is beyond life, but not yet truly within the clutches of death.
The gravel crunched coldy beneath his feet. Looking down, the little boy wondered at the different sounds walking made on the frozen gravel path.The full moon gave the ground a pearlescent glow as his footsteps echoed in the cold. He added the sounds and colors to his seven year old memory.
Where do the Makers come from?
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