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Quantum venture firm QWave announces its first round of investments
Scientists and futurists have been thrilled/terrified about the possibilities of quantum computers for decades. These insanely powerful machines can theoretically operate a million times faster than classical computers by transcending mere 0s and 1s to process computations in parallel (For more, read our interactive explainer or watch our video). Until recently, research into this technology has been largely limited to theoretical physics labs. But over the past few months, it's infiltrated the world of startups and private corporations. Google bought one. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin bought one. The NSA is researching it for reasons we can only imagine.
Now there's even a venture fund called QWave devoted to quantum technology and other state-of-the-art physics and materials science. Based out of Boston and launched in December 2012 by former Soviet nuclear physicist Serguei Kouzmine, QWave today announced its first round of investments totaling $7 million. Only one investment relates directly to quantum computing, but Kouzmine says that in the next couple months QWave will announce more investment in quantum information systems. Here are the three high-tech startups included in the round (no photo-sharing apps allowed):
Nano-Meta Technologies, a company based out of Indiana's Purdue University building a "single-photon generator." This device has a number of applications, including the potential to send highly secure "quantum-encrypted" transmissions. Scientists also hope to use photon generation technology to someday build "optical computers," which would use light instead of electricity to process information, making them more energy-efficient for some tasks.
Clifton, an Estonia-based semiconductor manufacturer. Most semiconductors are made out of silicon or germanium, but Clifton uses a compound of gallium and arsenic which the company claims allows for lower power consumption, smaller size, and less sensitivity to radiation and temperature, making it ideal for use in space technologies.
Centice, a North Carolina-based company that built a portable crime lab used by law enforcement officers to identify narcotic or explosive material at the scene of a crime, instead of having to deliver samples to a laboratory.
Investing in state-of-the-art technology companies like these is a thrilling prospect for Kouzmine, who says although he's shifted to entrepreneurship, he's still a scientist at heart. But investing in materials science brings on a host of challenges and risks that most web companies don't have to deal with. Said Kouzmine:
If you build a website one way, and you test it to customers and they realize it shouldn't be blue on top and red on the bottom, it will take you five seconds (to fix). But let's say you build a heartbeat measurement machine, and all of a sudden the technology proves to not be efficient, you are in a much worse position. It's not just to replace blue and red. You have to rethink the whole thing.And yet despite the complexity of these technologies, Kouzmine says it's never been cheaper to start a material science company, thanks to advances in manufacturing. Ten years ago, if you wanted to build a new kind of computer chip or battery, he says, you'd probably need to build it in-house. Now, you can go to a third-party manufacturer with nothing but a blueprint, making the development cycle for hardware almost as fast as the development cycle for software.
It's worth noting that as exciting as quantum technology and optical computing are, there are still many caveats that could keep these fields from becoming commercially viable anytime soon. Last week, MIT's Scott Aaronson told me that if you think of quantum computing in terms of the classical computing revolution of the 20th century, we still haven't even developed the "transistor" yet.
But Kouzmine relishes the risks and uncertainties of investing in physics and material science, because the potential payoff for humanity is much greater than the next big social media app, he says.
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COLLEGE SWIMMING RECRUITING
Learn How To Get Recruited.
Swimming is a very popular sport and swimming at the intercollegiate level is very competitive. As a high school swimmer, unless you’re placing at sectionals or winning state swimming titles, you will need to reach out and contact college swimming coaches directly. College swimming coaches have a small budget for recruiting and finding great additions to their team. They best way to be found by swimming coaches is through a recruiting profile listing all your athletic and academic accomplishments (and of course your best times).
There are close to 170,000 women and 140,000 men who swim competitively in high school. 8.3% of high school female swimmers and 7.9% of high school male swimmers go on to compete in intercollegiate swimming. Swimming at college is very competitive, so you must get your name out there to maximize your recruiting opportunities.
542 colleges affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association have swimming programs. There are 198 schools at D1 level that allocate 9.9 swimming scholarships for men and 14 for women. D2 colleges can award a maximum of 9.9 swimming scholarships per team for both men and women. At NCAA D3 institutions there are 254 colleges that have intercollegiate swimming programs, but no athletic scholarships are granted at this level. It is rare to receive a full ride swimming scholarship. Swimming is classed as an equivalency sport and as such the coach needs to allocate the available scholarships between a large number of athletes. The average team size at the Division I level is 29 for men and 28 for women.
There are only 23 NAIA institutions that offer intercollegiate swimming. The average swimming program team size is 15 for both men and women. Eight swimming scholarships are allocated per program and these are also classed as equivalency grants.
Only 14 junior colleges offer swimming and each school can offer 15 swimming scholarships to both men and women.
SWIMMING RECRUITING TIPS
- The first thing you need to do is register with the NCAA Eligibility Center. Swimming coaches will want to know your eligibility status when you start communicating with them. You must gain eligibility in order to compete at the collegiate level.
- Attend as many college swimming camps as you can. These camps are organized and run by many college athletic programs; swimming coaches, recruiters and scouts will usually be in attendance with a goal of spotting future talent. This is a great way to be seen by coaches.
- Versatility is a key component. If you can compete in multiple events and strokes and also fill some relay spots you will be a more attractive scholarship candidate for coaches. | <urn:uuid:9f91b562-7258-4554-9078-51ab15a646ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://profiles.berecruited.com/high-school-swimming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.978829 | 583 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Beware of Texting Fear Mongering
Reference:Hansraj KK. Assessment of stresses in the cervical spine caused by posture and position of the head. Surg Technol Int. 2014 Nov;25:277-9.
This recent paper that regrettably got a lot of media attention (TV and radio) simply looked at the loads placed on the cervical spine during various angles of neck flexion simulating the typical looking down posture while texting.
Using badly explained biomechanical calculations they published a paper on something we intuitively knew as PTs.
Basically at 0� of neck flexion the load on the cervical spine is approximately 10lbs which is the actual weight of the head.
At 15� of neck flexion the load increased to 27lbs.
At 30� of neck flexion the load increased to 40lbs.
And finally by 60� of neck flexion (which the most typical angle seen on people while texting and crossing the street), the load on the cervical spine increased to 60lbs.
The reason the load is not felt immediately while texting is that the spine is extremely adaptable and soon that posture feels “normal” and “comfortable”.
Assuming that a typical person spends at least 2 hours a day looking down at their smart phone (a conservative estimate) equates to over 700 hours of sustained neck flexion a year. After 5 years of texting there is now over 3000 hours of sustained stress on the posterior neck structures.
Moral of the story: Instead of always looking down at your smart phone, once in a while lift the phone up so it is in front of your eyes. Also do NOT text while walking or when crossing the street. If you get hit by a car, you’ll have more than just neck pain.
Now the other side of the story: Human beings have been looking down since we started eating, cooking, reading, and playing chess.
I got really annoyed when I heard the author of the paper getting media attention by fear mongering on the evening news. With no substantial evidence, he boldly claimed that texting could lead to arthritis, degeneration and even surgeries …what nonsense!
Posted on: July 03, 2015
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Google Chrome is Getting a Huge Speed Boost
Published on April 15, 2016
Are you ready for an even faster Google Chrome?
That’s what the company promised earlier this year with the announcement of Brotli, a revamped compression algorithm that is set to make the browser faster than ever on both desktops and mobile devices.
Google has long seemed to recognize the growing importance of mobile devices, going so far as to make mobile optimization a key pillar of its current SEO parameters. This new data format seems primed to continue that dedication to mobile users, offering smartphone and tablet users, as Google put it, "lower data transfer fees and reduced battery use."
Perhaps this is only natural and pragmatic for the company: After all, Google’s Chrome on Android has a 42% share of the mobile browser market, ahead of Safari on iOS, which has just more than 33%. But with third-party mobile browser Opera Max recently offering its own compression algorithm targeted at saving users time and data on streaming music and video apps, the timing is right for Google to make a major play to protect its consumer base.
There is no official release date set for Brotli compression yet, but it currently being open-sourced by Google and is expected to launch as “part of the next stable Chrome release,” according to TIME.
Have an inside scoop on Brotli or compression in general? Want to talk about how you can put Google products to work for you? Drop Geek a line! Our talented team is always online and ready to talk the ins and outs of website design, content creation, and digital marketing strategy. | <urn:uuid:5ea7e3b9-74d7-4aa8-b91c-cfc43f6ae18c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geekchicago.com/google-chrome-is-getting-a-huge-speed-boost/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950326 | 406 | 1.5 | 2 |
Ask the Underwriter: Can I Use Future Rental Income to Qualify for a Mortgage? I’m making it easier for everyone to understand how the mortgage process works! As part of my brand new "Ask the Underwriter" feature, I’ll be posting your questions and my answers each week.
FHA loans are mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). FHA allows lenders to make mortgage loans with only 3.5% down payments. For most home buyers FHA is the mortgage option that keeps out of pocket money to a minimum.
. to get the best interest rate on an FHA mortgage. Here’s how. It’s important to make sure your credit report and score properly reflect you. Why? While FHA guidelines say that borrowers can.
How Do You Qualify For An Fha Loan How Much of an FHA Loan Can I Qualify for and Afford. – How Much Mortgage Do I Qualify for with FHA? Ultimately, it’s up to the mortgage lender to decide how much of mortgage you qualify for with the FHA loan program. The official guidelines for this program come from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
You can qualify for an FHA loan with a credit score as low as 500 with 10 percent down. To get FHA's maximum financing, you need a credit.
Learn more about Navy Federal Credit Union FHA loans and qualification requirements and see if an FHA mortgage right for you. Get preapproved for your loan.
Fha 203K Approved Lenders Fha Loan Rules And Regulations What are the fha house flipping Loan Rules? – Mortgage.info – What are the FHA House Flipping Loan rules? november 25, 2016 By JMcHood. House flipping is very frowned upon when it comes to government-backed financing, such as the FHA loan. In fact, the FHA has very strict fha house flipping rules.. How the rules affect buyers seeking fha Loans and sellers.fha 203k requirements wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota & Florida – . and refinance. Full and streamline FHA 203k mortgage loans available!. Condos can be eligible if the condo complex is FHA approved. Co-op homes are .
· FHA Mortgage Loans are generally easier to qualify for than a more Conventional Home Loan from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. One reason for this is due to the fact that FHA Underwriters are able to look at more “non-traditional” income from a household – either as qualifying income, or “off-setting income” for those with higher debt to income ratios.
Insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), FHA-loans require lower minimum credit. affecting the potential buyers ability to qualify for a mortgage. Currently 45 million people in the.
They allow buyers to qualify with a low down payment and offer flexible underwriting guidelines. fha loans are insured by the Federal Housing.
Here’s how those differences shake out: Credit scores: Borrowers with credit scores of 500 or higher may qualify for FHA 203(k) loans. For HomeStyle loans, the minimum credit score is 620. Down.
Borrowers with FICO credit scores as low as 580 and bad credit can still meet fha loan requirements. Even borrowers with a credit score as low as 500 can qualify for an FHA loan (they’re expected to. | <urn:uuid:79d87b47-3f2f-4da9-92e3-b14528993a19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.endthemeallimitnow.org/to-qualify-for-fha-loan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.942943 | 718 | 1.515625 | 2 |
While discussing the effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning it is considerable that even with the ongoing breakthroughs in the automotive sector, a significant obstacle to overcome is driving safely in bad weather. On-road visibility reduces by moving in less than ideal conditions, leaving your fleet vulnerable to potential accidents. We explore the question of autonomous vehicle safety and weather in this article. Although many promises and possibilities come with the future of autonomous technology. A lot of work still needs for self-driving cars to maneuver safely under harsh weather conditions.
Challenge as of The effects of Whether in Autonomous Vehicle Functioning
Using sensors such as cameras, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), millimeter-wave radar (MWR), and the global navigation satellite system, decisions must be taken during automatonomous driving in urban areas while recognizing the surrounding environment (GNSS).
An essential issue for automated driving on any road is the capacity to drive under different environmental conditions. The ability to assess the other traffic conditions and to navigate safely presents severe challenges to bring automated vehicles to market. The development of a robust recognition system that can account for adverse weather conditions is another crucial challenge. Adverse weather conditions in the driving environment include sun glare, rain, fog, and snow.
The Top four Challenges as The effects of Whether in Autonomous Vehicle Functioning
Here we are going to present the top four challenges as the effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning.
Water Buildup-The car must feel the puddle ahead, or better yet, measure how deep it is before or around it before driving. Alternatively, it also needs to consider the best route for reaching its destination during rainy conditions.
- Sensors- The primary sensory device in each vehicle is often LIDAR, a survey method. It does not always accurately feel that it is raining, which can interfere with the vehicle’s sensors.
- Slippery road conditions-According to the slippery conditions, the vehicle needs to change its “driving” capabilities. It is essential to take more care, including leaving enough space between cars, accelerating, and braking well in advance.
Hydroplaning-The vehicle needs to make a quick judgment call on the correct course of action, along with spatial awareness, before attempting to acquire or regain control.
While the future seems exciting, in conditions that frequently undergo a dramatic shift in temperature, the idea of autonomous cars cannot still be fully functioning. This is because early autonomous vehicles gets usually tests in places like California or Arizona that are sunny and dry.
Whether the effect on the future of Autonomous Vehicles
The new challenge for autonomous vehicles shortly, when autonomous vehicles and human drivers share the lane, will be to respond appropriately to pedestrians and drivers who alter their driving behavior during severe weather conditions.
Although this is not one of the the direct effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning but still considerable.
The demand for autonomous vehicles designed to drive in stricter weather conditions has increased. Enterprises are searching for ways to fill the gap. For example, one semiconductor maker chose Ontario as a testing area to test the efficiency of vehicles in colder weather.
The visible light camera of AV
The visible light camera is prone to poor weather such as fog and can hardly be seen at night without a light source. However, infrared cameras have a feature that allows them to penetrate through the fog and, since they can measure temperature, can observe pedestrians at night. Yet, because of an image sensor that can detect infrared rays, the infrared camera has a lower resolution than the visible light camera. The resolution of the onboard sensor’s infrared camera is around 1.3 megapixels. Visible light cameras are therefore primarily used, and the current use of infrared cameras is limited.
Importance of Sensors in all conditions
Therefore, it is necessary to consider the configuration of the sensor so that objects can be observed in all directions to avoid effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning. A robust device can be required to cover the observation area with several sensors to inspect critical areas. Furthermore, to make the right situational decisions, the automated driving device needs to process a vast amount of sensor information in real-time.
Since the automated vehicle uses onboard sensors to recognize its ambient environment and makes situational decisions based on the effects of the recognition, knowing the ground around the car and predicting how the conditions will change is critical. Furthermore, for the vehicle to behave smoothly in different traffic conditions, road features such as traffic lights need to be remembered.
Map Matching Technology as on The effects of Whether in Autonomous Vehicle Functioning
To estimate the vehicle’s location, map matching technology is used. Many studies have implemented a map matching technique between the reference digital map and sensor observations in self-localization to avoid the effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning. The reference map provides details on sensor features along roads with precise positions. Generally, three kinds of map structure are used as predefined maps (3D point cloud map, 2D image map, and vector structured map).
A cloud map of 3D points contains details about 3D objects around the road. Although the maintenance cost does not considers for this form of plan, the data size is enormous. By extracting road surface features from a 3D dot cloud, a 2D image map is created. As a consequence, in contrast with the 3D map, the data size is reduces. The vector map includes road and lane boundaries with polynomial curves, such as white lines and curbs. This is called a light guide in terms of data size. But it has a high maintenance cost. As infrared reflectance characteristics become unstable comparing it to non-rainfall, the effect on output during self-localization must also consider. Due to variations in the reflectance features obtained between the map and real-time observation. These false estimations occur in the map matching phase and make the effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning worse.
A travel strategy that complies with traffic laws is the second technology to overcome the effects of whether in autonomous vehicle functioning. When driving along the road, it is essential to obey the traffic rules. In particular, it is necessary to ensure a safe procedure, taking into account the traffic light status’s recognition results and the stop line location when making an entry decision at the intersection. On the zebra crossing, the positional relationship between the oncoming vehicle and pedestrians. When driving through a meeting, it is necessary to remember the priority connection between the current road and the destination road. | <urn:uuid:70f131b6-6073-4b42-954f-d2c408d73c4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.besteconomicalcars.com/autonomous-vehicles/effects-of-whether-in-autonomous-vehicle-functioning.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.941009 | 1,327 | 3.3125 | 3 |
What Is User Experience (UX) And How to Get Started
The user experience (UX) is one of the most important elements (if not the most important element) of a successful software program, mobile app, or website design; however, UX can refer to almost any product or service throughout numerous industries. Poor UX design will prevent users from wanting to interact with your product or service again; good UX will keep your users engaged.
User Experience Overview
So what exactly is UX? It’s the overall experience that a user has with a product or service. Take a website for example. The UX of your website will depend on a variety of elements, from the ease of navigation to the visual layout of each page to how fast each page loads. Each element contributes to the experience a user has on your site.
Importance Of User Experience
A poor UX can sour users on your brand. It can make it difficult to convert the leads that you put so much effort into attracting to your site and it can make it difficult to get potential customers to use your app even after they’ve downloaded it.
Take the UX design of a company website, for example. A lead may end up on your site after performing a Google search for a product that you happen to sell. If your page doesn’t load fast enough or the layout of your e-commerce page is confusing, they may go back to Google and click on another link. If they’re trying to find information about a problem they have on your site and you don’t have a search function that works effectively, they may give up and try elsewhere. Good UX design will help keep leads on your site and make it easy for them to find what they’re looking for.
The Difference Between User Experience & User Interface
User experience and user interface (UI) are terms that are often used interchangeably, but mistakenly so. UI refers to how a service or product functions and looks on the surface. UX certainly focuses on the function of a product or service as well, but in the name of the user’s journey to solve a specific problem. For example, the visual design of a screen on a mobile app or the CTA (call-to-action) button on a website is part of the UI. The UX takes into consideration all of these elements and how they function together to create an overall experience for the user. Essentially, the UI is a part of the UX.
Another way to look at it is to compare it to the human body. When you interact with a person, you’re interacting with what’s on the outside. This would be equivalent to the UI. However, the UX would be everything found inside the body that actually makes it function.
The Basics Of User Experience
Your entire website plays a part in the user experience. This includes everything that makes up how your site looks, from the colors and fonts to the images. Even the negative space on each page affects the UX. This is because a webpage needs to be easy to scan so that users can find what they’re looking for. If a page is cluttered with text all in different fonts, countless images, and clashing colors, then it will be an overwhelming mess.
Beyond the aesthetic of the site, the actual function also affects the UX. For example, your pages need to load quickly, your links need to work, your site needs to be easy to navigate, and everything should be optimized for mobile use (a website not optimized for mobile use will not load properly on smaller screens and can make navigation incredibly difficult).
Minimum Requirements for a Good User Experience (Web or Mobile Applications)
At the very least, your website or mobile app should have these elements to ensure a good UX:
- Relevant Content – It’s not all technical — your website or app needs to have the content that users expect to find. If you’re running a website for an HVAC company, a user expects to find information on A/C and heating systems. You should have content addressing what services you offer or products you sell as well as content that addresses particular problems your target audience is trying to solve (such as through a blog). How effective your site’s visual design is or how easy it is to use won’t matter if you don’t have content that’s relevant to your users.
- Usable Interface – The best interfaces are those that the user doesn’t even have to think about, they just feel natural. To create a usable interface, be consistent throughout your site in terms of the fonts you use, the colors you choose, and the general layout of each page. To avoid clutter, use only two fonts (one for headers and one for body text) and choose colors strategically. Carefully plan the layout of your pages based on importance, and stay consistent. For example, if you use a CTA button at the end of one blog post, adding a CTA link to the beginning of a different blog post will confuse the user – they won’t know where to find your CTAs. Keep in mind that every page should be easy to scan so that the user can find what they’re looking for within seconds.
- Easy Navigation – Your website needs to be easy to navigate. There are several ways that you can ensure this. First, a navigation bar should be easily found, such as at the very top of every page on your site. This navigation bar should include links to the major pages, such as your contact page, your blog, your e-commerce page (if you have one), etc. If you have a significant number of subpages, create drop down menus for each category. Include a link to your homepage on every page. A search function will be beneficial to users who know exactly what they’re looking for as well. Lastly, add breadcrumbs so that users can see exactly where they are on your site and can easily backtrack to previous pages.
- Credibility – Users need to be able to trust your app or website. There are several ways that you can establish credibility. You can do so from their first search by installing an SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. Having this will encrypt any data that transfers between you and your users (for example, if they provide you with personal information). If that data is hacked, it will be encrypted, which means your users won’t have their information compromised. Users will know that your site has an SSL certificate as your address will start with “https” instead of just “http.” The “s” stands for secure.
Fields Related To Building User Experience
We’ve only really scratched the surface of what UX consists of, but one conclusion that’s easy to draw based on everything you’ve read is that the success of your website or app depends on your UX design. Keeping that in mind, building UX involves more than a few different fields. Some of the different departments that focus on UX design include:
- Project Management – Project management involves the planning and organizing of a project, such as a website or app, and all of the resources that go into it. This process includes identifying and managing the lifecycle of the project and applying it to the design process, which is centered around the user.
- User Research – User research is responsible for studying and analyzing user behaviors, user needs, and user motivations.
- Information Architecture IA – IA refers to how the information hosted on your site or app is organized, structured, and presented to your users.
- User Interface Design – UI designers are responsible for determining what users will need and want to do on the site or app. They must design a UI that makes the site or app easy to access, understand, and use to meet the wants and needs of the user.
- Interaction Design – Interaction design is responsible for creating interactive systems that are engaging and that have well thought out behaviors.
- Visual Design – Visual design is responsible for how the app or website looks on an aesthetic level. The look should be consistent with the goals of the brand.
- Content Strategy – Content marketers and writers are responsible for planning, creating, curating, and delivering content that is relevant to your users.
- Accessibility – Websites must be accessible to users with disabilities as well. Elements that could hinder accessibility include text that is difficult for users with vision problems to read and a visual design that may be problematic for users with chronic headache issues or epilepsy. Focusing on accessibility helps ensure that a site or app is accessible and/or beneficial to disabled users.
- Web Analytics – Analytics helps with collecting and analyzing user data, such as how users interacted with your site or app. This information can help identify weaknesses in your UX that require improvement.
User Experience Goes Well Beyond Design Elements
UX doesn’t just begin and end with the design elements of your website or app. There are technology-based impacts as well as human-based impacts that affect your UX as well.
Technology-Based Impacts on User Experience
These technology-based impacts on UX should be addressed when building your app or website:
Stable and Reliable Infrastructure
It won’t matter how much effort you put into the design or interface of a product if your site’s or app’s infrastructure is poor. A stable and reliable infrastructure will help prevent the site or app from crashing due to a variety of reasons. Poor infrastructure can also result in slow down if your site draws a significant amount of simultaneous traffic. Any kind of slow down or crashing obviously affects the UX of your site or app.
Intuitive and Functional Features
Certain features, such as a search bar, can greatly improve the function of a website. However, not all search bars are intuitive. Your search bar should be noticeable and not hidden in your navigation bar, and should be accessible on every page. Also, consider allowing users to search for multiple criteria, which will improve the effectiveness of your search function. Then, add an auto-suggestion mechanism to your search bar. The point of such a tool isn’t necessarily to save users time when typing in what they’re looking for, but to help guide the user by helpfully suggesting searches that may be relevant.
Usage of Automated Personalized Communication
Automation can help improve engagement with users, thereby improving the UX of your site. For example, if they sign up to your email newsletter, you can use automation tools to send out a welcome email as soon as they submit an opt-in form. You can also implement a chat bot on your site that can automatically answer basic questions your users may have on your behalf. This keeps users from having to wait for you to get back to them and allows them to continue using your website in an effective manner.
Human-Based Impacts on User Experience
Don’t assume that your UX is based solely on the technology you use and implement. You can’t just build your site and then wash your hands of it, no matter how carefully you planned the UX design. This is because the UX of your site is also a dependent on your ability to personally engage with your users.
Response Times to Online Communications (chats, forms, etc)
While you can automate some of your responses, this isn’t always possible every time a user tries to engage with you. For example, it’s better to have someone engage with a user in person via live chat on your website if they have questions or concerns. While automation is great for answering basic questions after hours, optimum UX calls for a human to speak with users to answer more complex questions or provide guidance or advice. Additionally, if they fill out a contact form or send you an email, you will need to respond quickly or you could lose your leads.
If your content is poor, users won’t stay on your site for very long. They are likely looking for content that will address a problem or question. If your content isn’t relevant to their problem, they won’t waste their time on your site for much longer. If it is relevant but it’s of poor quality, it will reflect poorly on your brand. If your content isn’t of quality, what assurance do they have that your product or service won’t be of poor quality as well? Good content is essential to not only engaging users, but also to helping build your brand authority, which, in turn, builds trust.
Focussing on UX First Brings Every Other Component Into Alignment
Always start with the user. You’re building a website or app to attract more leads to convert into more sales, so the UX design is the most important element to address. To create a good UX, understand who your audience is, what their needs are, what their problems are, and what solutions they’re looking for. Build your site or app around this understanding of your users (taking into account your business goals and objectives as well) to ensure a good UX design. Remember, good UX revolves around improving the user’s interaction with your site or app and improving the perceptions of your product or any related services.
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COVID-19 Vaccines for the Pediatric Population
Discussing pediatric COVID-19 vaccines with a parent or caregiver can be challenging. There is no perfect approach, but preparation is easier if you know the questions and concerns they are likely to have.
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP), California Department of Health (CDPH),
Public Health Communications Collaborative, and
the County of San Diego have a variety of resources available
for community partners and vaccine providers, and parents and
caregivers, to help encourage COVID-19 vaccination for children and
teens. Please share these resources widely.
Resources for Community Partners & Vaccine Providers
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) provides information about COVID-19 Questions, Myths and Misinformation.
California Department of Health (CDPH) has the California COVID-19 Vaccination Program.
Public Health Communications Collaborative has an Updated Toolkit: Children and COVID-19 Vaccination, Answers to Tough Questions: Children and COVID-19 Vaccines, and other resources on how to discuss COVID-19 vaccines specific to children.
Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Schedule: People Who Are NOT Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised
Resources to Share with Parents and Caregivers
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) provides resources such as When can kids get the COVID vaccine or booster? and COVID-19 which lists articles for parents and caregivers on COVID-19 vaccines for children and teens.
California Department of Health (CDPH) has Get the Facts on COVID-19 Vaccines, Boosters, and Additional Doses (Spanish) and Ask the Pediatrician: COVID-19 Roundup (Spanish).
County of San Diego provides the COVID-19 Vaccines: Children and Teens flyer.
County of San Diego Resources
Please refer to the COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility page for the latest updates.
Additional CoSD pediatric immunization resources:
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Tips to Make Your Explainer Videos Stand Out Amongst All
Do you want to know how to create an outstanding explainer video? This read is going to help you with the 10 awesome tips & tricks that you can use during the explainer video production.
So, without any further ado, let’s jump right into it!
If we recall the past, marketing was limited to brochures, flyers, or video commercials, but with digitalization, the marketing sector has also evolved with it. They have adopted various marketing trends and strategies to engage and communicate better.
Do you remember Mr. Cleaner’s advertisement, which was created in the 80s? Well, most of the other marketers and I do. Almost all-American houses started using the product when this advertisement came out. It has set a cleaning trend and brand’s value with that single animated advertisement.
Many marketing and video production agencies even quote this example in their blogs. The reason for mentioning that old advertisement is to build awareness of how much a well-planned and constructed promotional video can do for your business.
Today, animated videos are the ultimate tool in digital marketing and are highly utilized by companies to run their marketing campaigns. Almost all sorts of industries are using animated videos to engage, educate, and entertain their audience.
Here are some questions that users frequently ask about creating engaging animated videos:
- How to create a compelling animated video? Use animation.
- Who to hire to produce a captivating animated explainer video? Hire the best video animation studio.
- How to create an impactful animated video? Let’s talk about it!
10 Awesome Tips & Tricks to Create Explainer Videos
When we talk about the explainer video, two things come to mind: business and audience. I have researched and collected the 10 effective tips & tricks that help to make the explainer video last long.
- Showcase the Brand Story
When we talk about advertising the business and brand, the story plays an important role in reflecting the brand image to the audience.
Be truthful and transparent about your business and brand story with your audience, as they can smell the falsity. Most companies communicate the actual struggle and success story behind the brand, which eventually builds the credibility of the brand in the eyes of the audience.
- Advertise the Idea & its Implementation
An idea will be the idea until some execution or implementation happens to bring it to life. Your brand values will never be conveyed to its targeted prospects if the animator, scriptwriter, voice-over artist, or editor will not portray them correctly.
They all are interconnected to each other, if anyone leaves a loophole, the rest will suffer, and in the end, the achieved result will never match the expected result.
So, hire the best team that understands your goals and objectives and are skilled in their roles. You can contact BuzzFlick, as they got the badass animation production team.
- Concise but Effective
People usually get bored with lengthy and wordy videos and prefer to watch short but highly informative videos.
Some newbies make the mistake of creating long videos with unnecessary information, which bore the audience, and before even reaching the end, viewers quit watching the video.
So, the conciseness is better. Don’t exceed the video from 2 minutes and keep all the relevant information in the video.
- The What, How, & Why Structure
Just remember that people are watching your video to get some useful information that benefits them in some ways.
Cover the What, How, & Why in your video: What your audience is facing (problems), How your product can fix that problem, and why they should prefer you over the rest.
Here are some time-division practices that you must incorporate into your production strategy while creating a short-animated explainer video:
- You only got 5 seconds to hook the audience to your video, so grab your audience’s attention in the starting 5 seconds.
- In 10-15 seconds, talk about the audience’s pain points. It will help your prospects to take an interest in the video.
- And in the end, throw the solution in a manner that the audience’s step is to click the CTA or perform the desired actions.
- Keep It Simple
There are two aspects that bore the audience are lengthy videos and an unclear message. While scriptwriting, make sure that you embed a precise and compelling message that resonates with your audience.
Keep your script simple and straightforward which directs your audience to perform the targeted actions after watching your video.
- Customer First, Product Second
If you are a company, you must have heard this quote that the customer should always come first. When creating an explainer video, keep it client-oriented, such as how your product will solve the CLIENT’s problem, what benefits the CLIENT can get, and how the product is best for the CLIENT.
Your challenge as a company is to convince the client that they need your product and only your product can resolve their issues.
Once your audience is convinced that only you understand their issues, then they surely are going to listen, buy, and do whatever you instruct.
- Show more than Telling
Our human brain is designed in the formation that it remembers things more when the eyes see them compared to hearing or reading them.
It perceives visual information 60,000 times faster than a voice recording. Just remember that you don’t need to add every detail in the script that you are planning to showcase in your video.
The script can be short, but your visuals should be enriched with information, animation, and creativity.
- The Problem & The Solution
Create a visual atmosphere for the audience before disclosing the solution. Your main goal is to propose a solution to your audience’s problem, but being straightforward is less effective than the carefully designed scenario that revolves around the issues and later suggests the solution.
Wrap a convincing story around your core objective that your audience can relate to, and make sure that it drags your audience towards the actions that you desire them to take.
- The “Click” that Counts
The reason for creating the video is to convert your audience into your potential customers or take specific actions. This can only be possible if you add CTAs (Call-To-Action) into your video that redirects them to the landing or product pages.
Suppose you have provided quality information to your audience through your video, but you have failed to guide them in the direction of what to do next, then the whole video creation will be a total loss to you.
Make sure to add CTAs at the end of the video so that your efforts of keeping your audience connected won’t go in vain.
- Be Consistent
Creating a video for once won’t be useful to your business for long. If you want to keep your audience connected to your brand, keep launching explainers or product videos with some intervals.
You know your competitors, and you should know that competition is getting tougher and tougher each day. So, how will you win that race? By staying connected with your audience through your videos.
The Wrap Up
Hopefully, you have found this read effective and informative, but if you are interested in explainer video production, here are the top 10 animated explainer video companies that can help you create outclass explainer videos for your business.
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Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment….For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. – Psalm 51:4; 2 Corinthians 7:10
True repentance is godly sorrow for our sins against God that is a gracious work of the Holy Spirit in us. True repentance is a gospel grace of God given to believers as a gift from the Lord Jesus Christ as one of the fruits of His life, death, resurrection and ascension for us. True repentance is not what saves a person any more than faith is what saves, but Christ saves us through faith and true repentance. We do not put our hope in our repentance, but in Christ alone that grants to believers repentance. The focus of our salvation is always the grace of God to sinners received by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
But are you truly repentant? Many confessing Christians are not truly repentant. Many confessing Christians may be sorry for being troubled for their sins, but are not so sorry for troubling God with their sins, and offending His Holy character by their sins. We must be aware that there is still a self-centered focus that characterizes our lives, even when it comes to repenting before God. If we are not repentant, if repentance is not what defines us, then how can we say we are true Christian? The fullness of the Gospel era in the full revelation of the New Covenant in Jesus Christ begins with this proclamation:
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”- ESV Mark 1:15
How do we know and recognize true repentance in us? Notice the Psalmist in Psalm 51 in our scripture above; when repenting of sin, the Psalmist knows that the offense if first a sinful offense against a Holy God: “Against, you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight…†Repentance is produced by “godly grief†according to the Apostle Paul. In Psalm 51, David had sinned against others when he sinned with Bathsheba. He had both committed adultery and he had murdered. But his sin was first against God.
The Apostle Paul had written a letter to the Corinthians for their conduct and behavior that was unbecoming to the gospel of Jesus and their response was a realization that they had sinned against God first, even though they had also sinned against the Apostle Paul and others in the congregation. The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 7 contrasts true godly repentance produced by godly grief and what he describes as “worldly grief†that produces NOT repentance, but death.
What is worldly grief? Simply, it is being sorry for having to suffer the consequences for sin, but it is not godly grief that leads to repentance. True repentance is sorry for offending our Creator and God.
Every sin strikes at the honor of God, the being of God, the glory of God, the heart of Christ, the joy of the Spirit, and the peace of a man’s conscience. A truly repentant person strikes against all sin by the power of the Spirit, as the Spirit wars against the flesh, so the repentant person allies himself daily with the Spirit’s work to kill sin by drawing strength from a crucified Christ to crucify all (not merely sins in general, but sins in particular!). Christ has not only paid the penalty of our sins, but in our union with Him by faith, he has granted us power over our sins.
When you sin are you first sorry for offending God? Are you saddened first NOT with the fact that this sin could cause others to disrespect you, or that you might be found out, or that you might have some consequences to suffer, or that it would really hurt your family if they knew what you had done, or that the sin has made you feel guilty and like you’re not a good person, etc.? If this is your first concern, it is usually your only concern.
Sadly, this is what is called repentance many times in Christian churches. But the Bible teaches very clearly throughout redemptive-history, that repentance is first sorrow for grieving God; repentance is sorrow for sinning against God your Creator, and Lord who redeemed you.
This is why the Reformers, particularly Luther and Calvin spoke of repentance being a daily activity as a Christian and what should characterize the true Christian each and every day. As the Psalmist wrote: ESV “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me†(Psalm 51:3). Repentance is to “know your transgressions against God†and that daily you sin is ever “before youâ€. To truly know the saving work and power of Jesus Christ, one must know from the sinful depths which they have been saved. Repentance is a continual turning from sin and folly to the grace of God found in Christ alone.
True daily repentance should be some of our first words out of our mouths to God when we get out of bed each morning. A truly repentant person can never content themselves with one act of repentance any more than they can be content with one act of faith or one act of love in the Christian life (Thomas Brooks). If you want to learn to pray more, then ask God to help you to have a deeper repentance, a deeper knowledge of how much you offend Him in words, thoughts and deeds that sin against Him and are abhorrent to Him in both your committing of certain sins and the omission of certain duties.
True repentance can make you pray more, and it can help you to be filled more with Christ’s joy. Why? Because you will more deeply realize the truth of what Jesus says: “Apart from me you can do nothing†(John 15:5), and so you will seek the grace from Christ alone to live for God. As you learn to depend upon Christ more, you will more and more realize that He is your Savior from sin and your closest friend who teaches you to be obedient to His commands, and fills you with His joy: “My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full†(John 15:11b).
But don’t get too confident in your own self to repent. Repentance is not something you do first, it is something God does in you; repentance is a gift from Jesus Christ. Repentance is something that God gives to you by the working of His Spirit. This is another reason boldly to approach the throne of grace to find help in your time of need (Heb. 4:14-16). You need to be repentant in order to grow, you need repentance in order to be full of joy and walking with God, but you can’t produce repentance on your own. Call out to God for a greater repentance! This too, will keep you in your prayer closet seeking God as he has promised to reward you (Matt. 6).
Jesus gives repentance: ESV “God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.â€- Acts 5:32. Jesus grants repentance. Do you seek Him for it?
Our forefather in the faith, Thomas Brooks reminds us of the fact that we should never fool ourselves into believing that repentance is an act of our own ability: “There is no power below that power that raised Christ from the dead, and that made the world, that can break the heart of a sinner or turn the heart of a sinner to God. You are as well able to melt hard metal like adamant as to melt your own heart; you are as able to raise the dead and to create a world, as to repent….Repentance is a gift that comes down from above….It is not in the power of any mortal to repent at pleasure†(Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices).â€
How do you know that you’re truly repentant and that Jesus has granted you repentance? There are a few main ingredients of true repentance: A sight of one’s own sin, sorrow for sin, confession of sin, hatred of sin, and turning from sin.
A sight of one’s own sins before God. As we learned above, we are to have a sight of our own sinful condition before God, as well as our specific sins we commit against God (this is one important use of the Law of God and the Ten Commandments for the Christian life; the Law is never to be used as a way of gaining salvation, because it only aggravates sin and makes one hopelessly realize their sinful helplessness and need of grace to do anything good for God, but as commands in the Christian life, it helps us to see more clearly our own sins and our need for constant repentance and grace). Many of us are good at spying the sinful faults in others, but we can see no faults in ourselves. Our own sins are veiled with ignorance of our sins due to pride and self-love.
A sorrow for your sin. Godly sorrow is sorry for one’s sin against God. It is not first concerned with the trouble that the sin has brought to the sinner, but the pain that it has brought to the heart of our loving Savior. Remember the penitent tax collector before God; this should be our daily prayer of repentant and act; he “beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ (Luke 18:13). Psalm 38 (various verses) says: “There is no health in my bones because of my sin…My iniquities have gone over my head, they are a burden to me, they are too heavy for me…But for you, O LORD, do I wait; O Lord my God, you will answer.†Anyone who can repent without sorrow must suspect if he is truly repentant. Notice in Psalm 51:17: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.â€
What characterizes true repentance is a broken heart, and deep sorrow for sin because as a Christian particularly your sins have been against grievous to God who loves you in Jesus. Our Lord Jesus tells us that the Christian is characterized by repentance and “blessed†as he teaches in the sermon on the mount: ESV “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.†The Christian is repentant and sorry for sin because the Christian is poor in spirit before God, mournful for one’s own sins as well as the sins of others, and meek.â€
Remember the promise of Psalm 126:5: “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy!â€
Confession of sin. As our sins are ever before God, so God’s promise must be ever before us: ESV “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness†(1 John 1:8-9). An unrepentant person is basically living a lie because they are living as if they have no sin; a unrepentant person is calling God a liar as well (1 Jo. 1:10). But a truly repentant person knows not only our sins before God, but knows that when they confess, God is faithful to His promises, and He is just in that He will never demand another payment for sin, when Jesus Christ has already borne your curse, your sins and your sorrows on the cross for you (Isaiah 53; 1 Peter. 2:22-25).
Confession is self-accusing. Confession brings a sinner before God as one’s own accuser to find a Savior ready and willing to forgive and to cleanse from all unrighteousness. By self-accusing we prevent Satan’s accusations against us. This is what the Apostle John means when He reminds us in confession of our sins to God that we have an Advocate, or a Mediator, or a “Defense Attorney†to stand for us against any Accuser (1 Jo. 2:1-2; Rev. 12:10). Confession should be voluntary and immediate once Jesus has given repentance. As the prodigal son was quick to come to his father and say: “I have sinned against heaven and before you†(Luke 15:18). Remember that if you draw near to God in repentance, he will draw near to you in forgiving mercies and loving grace.
Hatred of sin and turning from sin. This is a recognition that Christ is your Savior from sin, and that the struggle in the Christian life is what the Apostle Paul wrote in seventh of Romans: “What I want to do , I do not do…That which I do not want to do, that I keep on doing.†The Apostle Paul’s hope and our hope is found in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 7:25), but we no longer love sin as we once did, now we hate sin. When you realize that although you are guilty and culpable for your sins before God, but in some mysterious way you hate them so much before God that you can say with Paul that it is “not I but sin living within me†then you know that you have a true hatred of your sins. Paul wrote: ESV “Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.†A sinful, unrepentant person cannot agree with God’s law and believe it is holy, righteous and good. A truly repentant person can love the law of God and hate their own sins in such a way that they (although are culpable) feel like that it is not them doing the sin, but sin dwelling within. This proves that there is no more enmity against God (Romans 8:7-9) because the Spirit of God is at work in the believer’s heart. Our confession (Westminster Confession of Faith, Chap. 15) states this clearly:
“…Upon the apprehension of God’s mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for, and hates his sins, as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavoring to walk with Him in all the ways of His commandments.â€
If you still love your sins, you are not repentant, and you cannot claim assurance of faith. You should really seek God in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to examine yourself to see if you be in the faith; if you love your sins, you should seek to make your calling and election sure (see 2 Corinthians 13:5; 2 Peter 3:9-11). If you sin, and hate your sins, that is one thing; but to sin, and love your sins, that is another. Be careful here that you keep your focus on the dying Savior on the cross and that in your self-examination you don’t get lost within your own bosom and belly! Your hope, our Gospel hope is held out to us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Run to Jesus, run to Jesus, run to Jesus and find in Him forgiveness- -tell Him you love your sins, and need repentance and call upon His name for grace.
Also, be careful with forms of pseudo-repentance, like when you do something really sinful and heinous and you just feel guilty about it because it was such a thing that you should have never done. Watching certain films, listening to certain music, and looking at certain images on the internet can make you feel after the fact guilty for doing such a thing, but there is also a bit of a thrill. You must understand that this is NOT repentance, but a pseudo-repentance. This is more of a shame and guilt because you know that what you have watched, listened to, or done was wrong, but it doesn’t mean you have truly repented and that you are sorry for your sins because you sinned against God’s great holiness, Jesus’ love and the grieved the Holy Spirit. Be warned.
In your hatred of sin, you also turn from your sins. The Christian life is a constant turning from our sins, folly and idolatries to God; the Christian life is a constant, prayerfully watchful turning from flesh to the Spirit of God, to walk by the Spirit and not gratify the flesh (Gal. 5:16-26); the Christian life is a constant turning from worldliness to godliness to live the way you were created in Christ Jesus to live (Eph. 2:10). Is your life described as the Apostle Paul describes the repentance of the Thessalonian Christians?
ESV 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10: For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
Do you know the sweetness of Christ in His forgiving love for you? Do you know that if you confess your sins, He is faithful to forgive you and to cleanse you from all of your sins.
Be not unbelieving. Be not unbelieving in your accepting the righteousness that God requires of every man by faith alone in Christ alone. Be not believing in accepting God’s forgiveness as you confess and abhor your sins because of your love for Him; be not believing in that you continue in your sins thinking that there are no consequences. For the repentant, there is grace and love and mercy found in Jesus Christ; for the unrepentant there is only condemnation and the wrath of God. And remember, do not think that repentance is something like your allowance that you “save for a rainy day†later on in life, as if you could repent when you desired to repent. Like Cain, Pharaoh, and Esau before you, don’t kid yourself into believing that you will somehow repent “one dayâ€; your ongoing unrepentant heart before God is actually hardening you, and will eventually damn you as those unrepentant souls before you. Beware.
Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand…Seek the LORD while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Today is the day of salvation; today is the day of repentance; repent and believe the good news. Jesus says: “Come to me all of you who labor and are heavy-laden with your sins, and I will give you rest; my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Prayer of John Calvin: “Now let us bow before the majesty of our gracious God in acknowledgement of our faults, praying that He will make us more sensitive to them. And as long as we have to walk in this world, let us learn to grieve daily over the weaknesses we are subject to. And after we ask him for forgiveness and pray that He will accept us in His infinite mercy, may He, despite our unworthiness, be pleased to strip us so completely of all our fleshly corruption and so renew us by His Holy Spirit that we will bear His mark and image. And may we be strengthened in the hope of life in heaven, and may we, illuminated by the mind and spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, learn to bear patiently the reproaches of this world and scorn all the arrogance and pride of those who have contempt for God and would seduce us and turn us from the right path.â€
For further reading: Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 15: ‘Repentance unto Life’
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It’s safe to say that if one hasn’t had neck and/or shoulder pain, they probably will at some point in the future. Like lower back pain, once someone has had neck pain, the chances for a future episode are significantly higher. A 2012 study reported that over a 12-month period, 16-18% of participants complained of neck and shoulder pain and 21-38% sought medical treatment. Moreover, 13-21% lost work time because of their neck and/or shoulder pain. The study reported there was a “…strong episodic nature…” as this condition was found to frequently come and go. Neck pain can arise from a number of structures including muscles, ligaments, bone, joint capsules, and more. Typically, a patient presenting with neck pain is treated for a few weeks and is then quite satisfied with their result… until it comes back. Unfortunately, there is usually, “…a next time.” So, the question is, what can we do to prevent the re-occurrence of neck pain?
When considering the many causes of neck pain and the high rate of recurrence, one common finding in those with this popular “come and go” neck/shoulder pain pattern is weakness of the deep flexors muscles located in the front of the neck. One reason for this common finding is that it is very difficult to strengthen the deep, intrinsic muscles of the neck as they are “involuntary” muscles, which means we cannot consciously “flex” or purposely contract them. Also, the larger extrinsic muscles tend to be too tight and by reflex, “turn off” or inhibit the deep neck flexor muscles, compounding the problem.
Therefore, in order to exercise them, we must “trick” the deep muscles into contracting without contracting the larger, extrinsic muscles. This can be accomplished by doing a very specific, controlled exercise with our neck by laying on the back with a partially inflated blood pressure cuff (or by using a special device purposely made for this test and exercise) placed behind the neck. The inflatable bag is pumped up partially to about 20 mmHg and then in a VERY controlled manner, we tuck in our chin and flatten our neck pressing into the bag raising the pressure by 2mmHg and holding that steady for 3-5 seconds. This is repeated in increments by pushing down a little harder until the gauge reads 24mmHg and again, holding that for 3-5 seconds. This pattern is repeated five times or until you reach 30mmHg and the process is then reversed releasing the pressure in 2mmHg increments at 3-5 second holds until you reach 20mmHg again. Sound easy? Not quite!!! This exercise requires “fine motor control” to accomplish the task and most of us haven’t specifically addressed these fine moving muscles and end up only exercising the larger extrinsic muscles by doing traditional neck strengthening exercises, which further inhibits the deep neck flexors.
The first time you try this, you’ll be amazed at how challenging and tiring it is. But, after a few days of performing the exercise, you may find you feel much better! Of course, this depends on the degree of injury one has, but often, once cervical spine stability is improved by strengthening these deep neck flexors, symptoms usually improve as well. So, the question is, can we achieve good deep neck flexor strength by doing a more practical, upright position exercise rather than requiring a costly apparatus that requires a laying down position? In a recent study, researchers found a standing exercise using a movement called a “neck-lengthening maneuver” produced similar results as the laying down exercise (relaxation of the strong, extrinsic – outside – muscles and strengthening of the deep neck flexors). Simply tuck in the chin and stand tall, “lengthening” your neck!
Thousands of Doctors of Chiropractic across the United States and Canada have taken "The ChiroTrust Pledge":
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia will ask the World Trade Organization to intervene in its dispute with China over barley and expects other nations to become involved in the case, Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said on Wednesday.
China effectively ended imports of Australian barley in May by putting tariffs of more than 80% on the crop, accusing Australia of breaching WTO rules by subsidizing barley production and selling the grain in China at below production costs.
Birmingham said Australia would formally ask the WTO to intervene on Wednesday.
“WTO dispute resolution processes are not perfect and they take longer than would be ideal, but ultimately, it is the right avenue for Australia to take at this point,” Birmingham told reporters.
“It’s quite common for other countries to become third parties to proceedings in the WTO; Australia has done so on many occasions, China has done so on many occasions, and I would anticipate that others would do so on this occasion,” he added.
Australia is seeking clarification of recent Chinese state media reports that Australian coal imports have been banned.
Asked about the reports on coal exports, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday that Australia “dresses up as a victim” while China complied with its own laws, regulations and international practices.
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For Many Texas Teachers, Health Insurance Premiums Are Huge — But So Are The Hospital Bills
In the past, Becky Amason rarely worried about making a trip to the doctor’s office — she was covered by her husband’s health insurance plan. But that isn’t the case anymore.
Last year was the first time she’d ever been on an insurance plan offered by her employer, Sanger ISD. Like many other teachers in Texas, she chose the cheapest: a traditional plan with low monthly premiums but a high deductible.
Those plans often work out for healthy folks with no chronic issues — as long as there are no emergencies. But in December 2018, high blood pressure spikes and sudden dizziness sent her to the emergency room. Her doctor told her she was fine — but the examination alone left her close to $5,000 in debt from out-of-pocket costs.
“It was kind of a debacle,” she said. “Afterward, you see the bills roll in and start to say, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I went to the ER.’ Next time, I think I’ll just die if I have to, because it’s so expensive.”
That’s why she was happy to hear Texas lawmakers were wanting to give every public school teacher in the state a $5,000 pay raise — just enough to cover her debt. Senate Bill 3, from state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, would give a raise to full-time classroom teachers and librarians over the next two years, at a total of $4 billion.
But that relief could only go so far. For public school teachers like Amason, a $5,000 pay raise doesn’t address a deeper, systemic issue with health care in Texas: the burden placed on teachers rather than the state and district. For others, who have health insurance plans with higher premiums but lower deductibles, the raises aren’t much more than a dent in sky-high monthly health care costs.
The bare minimum
Nearly 430,000 public school teachers in many of the state’s 1,200-plus school districts get their health care coverage through TRS-ActiveCare, which is administered by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. The Legislature set the program up in 2002, and since then, the state’s been mandated to pay $75 while school districts were required to chip in $150 — at minimum — toward a teacher’s monthly premiums. Districts have the option of paying more, and many do, said Ann Fickel, associate executive director for the Texas Classroom Teachers Association.
“You can have a teacher who is in exactly the same level of coverage, who has the exact same insurance as a teacher in a neighboring district,” she said. “But they’re paying different amounts because the local school just decided to pay a little more or less of their coverage.”
In 2002, that minimum $225 contribution from the state and district added up to 70% of every teacher’s total health care costs, said Monty Exter, a lobbyist at the Association of Texas Professional Educators.
The problem? Lawmakers haven’t increased the minimum. So, as health care costs rise, that contribution share has flipped, with teachers now responsible for 70% of their monthly premiums.
"As the price of health care has increased and statutory contributions have remained unchanged, the TRS Board of Trustees has had to make plan changes and premium increases to sustain the program," said Carolyn Perez, communications director for TRS. "The employee share of the premium has more than doubled since the program began in 2002."
Exter said teachers would benefit in different ways from the two policy ideas: raising teacher pay — like SB 3 does — and raising the minimum contribution the state pays toward teacher monthly health insurance premiums.
“It’s really hard to say which one is better,” Exter said. “And that’s maybe why a little bit of both might be the best way to balance that out.”
Exter said TRS is constantly trying to drive down prices, but it’s limited on how much it can lower health care costs. To really have a major impact, he said, you’re looking at federal legislation, not state.
“The bottom line is that teachers and other school employees, including support staff who are much lower paid than teachers, are being hammered by rising health care premiums while the Legislature has done nothing to provide relief,” said Clay Robison, a spokesman at the Texas State Teachers Association. “Educators’ modest paychecks are being increasingly eroded.”
When their son was first born in 2000, it cost Liz and Jeremiah Peña $100 a month to cover his health insurance, and when their daughter was born two years later, the premiums doubled — but $200 a month was doable.
“We were like, ‘Well, that’s a lot more than before, but that’s still okay,’” Liz Peña said.
Both work for Birdville ISD near Fort Worth, where Liz is an administrator and Jeremiah’s a teacher. Last year, premiums swelled to over $800 to cover vision, dental and health care for Jeremiah and their two kids. Meanwhile, Liz, who has a health issue, is on a seperate TRS plan.
“That’s not even good coverage,” she said. “That is me being on the most basic coverage. I pay everything out of pocket, and I have health issues, but I can’t afford to go on a higher plan.”
The costs have taken a toll in the past few years. Their son, who’s 19, attends college at the University of Houston, where it often gets muggy and hot in the dorms during the fall. One night in October 2018, he called his parents feeling dizzy and dehydrated after a few weeks of increasing his workout regiment. He ended up in the ER, but because it was out of their network in Houston, the family owed nearly $4,000, even though all their son needed was a saline drip.
That debt from medical costs is far too common for some teachers, Jeremiah said, and it can force other teachers to either get another job to make ends meet or leave the profession if the weight gets unbearable.
“The big thing that’s lost on lawmakers is we’re building the future,” he said. “What you put into the system is what you’re going to get out. And when it’s the least amount you put in, don’t complain when the product isn’t that good.”
"Scary times for teachers"
Most school districts, big and small, signed up for TRS-ActiveCare when it was set up in 2002. But there are still some — nearly 10% — that provide health insurance locally because those plans were far more affordable with better benefits than what the state offered.
For the districts that did sign up on TRS-ActiveCare, there are three plans, with ranging deductibles, premiums and copays.
For years, most teachers were signed up on TRS ActiveCare 2, the most expensive plan, but those numbers started declining after 2010 as more and more teachers signed on to ActiveCare 1-HD, which is the cheapest plan but carries a deductible of $2,750 for an individual. Because premiums keep rising, teachers can’t afford the higher levels of coverage, Exter said. By 2016, just over 40% of TRS teachers enrolled in the lower-tier plan with low monthly premiums.
Some public school teachers, like James Willeford have opted to look elsewhere for coverage.
Willeford currently teaches in Wylie ISD; he’s worked in Texas for 12 years since moving from Colorado. At first, he settled on a TRS-ActiveCare plan, but his premiums kept ticking up every year, so he eventually opted out. For the past five years, his family of four has been on a private insurance plan through a friend’s company, which offers no deductibles and zero copays, saving him around $400 a month.
He’s never looked back.
“I went seven years teaching without a pay raise, and when you get a 2% pay increase and your health care goes up 15% — I’m not a math teacher, but it doesn’t take one to realize you’re not going to do very well every year,” Willeford said. “It’s going to be a struggle, that’s what people don’t realize.”
“It’s just scary times for teachers right now.”
Amason, the Sanger ISD teacher, lives just 12 miles outside the district in Denton, home to the University of North Texas, where she has a number of friends who are professors or lecturers.
It’s always an odd conversation, she said, when complaining to them about her sky-high health care costs.
“I found out what they were paying for health insurance versus what we’re paying as teachers, my jaw dropped,” she said. “It’s like, a third of what we pay for a family of four.”
That’s because full-time professors and lecturers at public universities in Texas are considered state employees, where all deductibles and monthly premiums are covered for individuals and greatly reduced for those with families. Public school teachers, however, are not considered state employees.
“They call us ‘government employees’ when it’s convenient, pretty much,” Jeremiah Peña said.
For years, TRS-ActiveCare had an additional option for public school teachers who wanted health insurance benefits that were similar in cost to what’s offered to state employees. ActiveCare 3, for most of its existence, had a $0 deductible for care within the network and $0 copays for office visits and prescription drugs. But starting in 2011, things changed to a $300 deductible for in-network visits.
The option was eliminated in 2014, after a steep decline in enrollment over the years, because eventually so few could afford it, Fickel said.
Public school teachers also receive fewer retirement benefits compared to state employees.
While a majority of states pay into both a pension plan and Social Security for teachers, Texas is one of only 15 states that just pays into a pension fund. This means, most Texas teachers won’t have access to Social Security benefits once they retire.
Among states that only offer a pension plan for teachers, Texas is dead last when it comes to funding its pension programs — by a lot. Texas currently pays 6.8% into TRS after years of only paying 6% — the constitutional minimum. The average of what other non-Social Security states contribute is 18%.
Changing Texas’ contribution to above 10% would require a constitutional amendment approved by voters.
This year, lawmakers in both chambers are pushing measures that would increase contributions to the pension fund, making it financially healthy. If approved, that would also likely mean retirees would receive a one-time check — up to $500 in the Senate’s proposal or $2,400 in the House’s version.
Any help would be welcome news for Liz Peña.
As an administrator for Birdville ISD, she recalls one her department’s “star educators” telling her with tears in his eyes that he had to leave teaching — the only thing he ever wanted to do — because his son’s insulin was too expensive. Nobody’s “eating bon-bons in this profession,” and you truly have to love what you do to make up for the sacrifices, she said.
“When you get up in the morning and you’re so tired, and you know you’ve got to make beans tonight because you don’t have anything else to eat, those days — the reason I keep doing this, the reason my husband keeps doing this — is because there’s a young man or young lady who needs me,” Liz Peña said. “And I just can’t let them down.” | <urn:uuid:ab6ecb7c-3cc6-4252-a6bf-61819ecb0b66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.keranews.org/news/2019-04-14/for-many-texas-teachers-health-insurance-premiums-are-huge-but-so-are-the-hospital-bills | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.973338 | 2,625 | 1.554688 | 2 |
WHAT IS THE COPCC?
The Checklist of Occupational Performance Components in Children (COPCC) is non-standardized assessment tool that can be used by Occupational Therapists with children aged 3 to 6 years.
It allows for informal assessment of all of the components contained in the model, including sensory, motor, cognitive-perceptual, affective and motivation components.
THIS PRODUCT CONSISTS OF THE COPCC ASSESSMENT KIT AND THE COPCC FORMS.
Printable PDF documents that consist of the COPCC Assessment Forms, User Guide and a comprehensive reference list. The PDF documents are licensed to the therapist or practice and you may print unlimited amounts for clinical use.
COPCC ASSESSMENT KIT:
A kit containing all of the materials and toys needed to administer the COPCC to children. One advantage of the COPCC above other paper-based assessments is the inclusion of test items on a three-dimensional level for which the kit is essential. The kit is packaged in a durable bag with handles for easy carrying – ideal to take with you wherever you need to perform assessments.
PLEASE NOTE: This COPCC Assessment Kit DOES NOT include the COPCC Telehealth Version.
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[ by Charles Cameron — the one prediction that never fails to amaze is “surprise”! ]
There are two great paeans to diversity that my mind constantly recurs to: the Svalbard global seed vault, with its more than 750,000 distinct varieties of seed deposited in “black boxes” by various national genebanks — and the Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins‘ great poem, Pied Beauty:
GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
The world is fundamentally dappled: look where you will, you will find general rules — and unexpected exceptions. The whole Syrian opposition business is dappled, it’s a mixed bag, it’s subtle.
I dunno, maybe this can be my motto: keep it subtle, stupid.
Seen from another angle… variety is, as they say, the spice of life.
Or as the Qur’an puts it (49:13):
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Typewriter is a Typewriter font family with 2 styles that was created by Roger White in 1998.
Typewriter is licensed as Public Domain, which means it is 100% for both personal use and commercial use. It can be found as a freeware font but it has been tested here for bugs, used on product and researched by us and known to be safe to use with other software products. Your purchase goes to cover the cost of the time researching, testing and as a donation to assist in continued research into more quality fonts and keeping the site running, this is what you are paying for. Thanks!
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- BOLD 211 glyphs / 215 chars
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Did you know?
Mass of loaded MQ-1 Predator military drone (1,020 kg) is 5 thousand x Mass of a typical banana (204 g)
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Land used for permanent pasture in Burundi (2011) (400 km^2)
Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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Gambling addiction is an impulse-control disorder. One who is a compulsive gambler can't control their impulse to gamble, regardless of the negative consequences to the gambler's life and the lives of their loved ones. These consequences can be severe, leading to relationship or financial difficulties.
Defining gambling addiction
Gambling addiction can be online, through sports betting, going to the casino, playing slot machines or poker. The addiction is characterized when one places bets more and more frequently, bets more than intended, chases losses by betting beyond their means, being completely preoccupied with gambling, and feeling irritated or aggressive when unable to gamble.
Huge losses from gambling can include foreclosure, bankruptcy, legal problems, divorce, getting fired and much more. Gambling addiction can also lead to suicide attempts, and the rate of suicide by gambling addicts is higher than alcoholics or drug addicts.
Chabad Lifeline helps anyone affected by gambling addiction, offering one on one support as well as group therapy for both the addict and anyone affected by the user. Gamblers Anonymous meetings take place at our centre on a weekly basis. | <urn:uuid:036a206f-52cf-497b-8bf2-9e95a3f840f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chabadlifeline.com/gambling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.947375 | 235 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Osteoporosis Care: Available at STAR Locations in Creve Coeur and Chesterfield
More than half of people 50 and older experience the bone thinning and weakening that define osteoporosis, according to the American Physical Therapy Association. Weakened bones can lead to compression fractures in your spine when it carries too much pressure, as well as fractures in your hips and wrists if you fall. While women face the greatest risk, men develop osteoporosis, too.
Fortunately, our physical therapists can help strengthen your bones and muscles, limiting the impact of osteoporosis and protecting your health. They can also help you improve your posture and avoid falls.
Why Choose STAR Physical Therapy for Osteoporosis?
We help you improve your strength and overall function, so you can have confidence while doing your daily activities and the things you love. We offer:
- Experienced therapists: Our therapists have years of experience watching for the signs of osteoporosis and treating it. Some of our therapists have particular expertise in geriatrics and women’s health through board certifications. They serve as a key resource for our program.
- Tailored plans: Exercise plays a key role in controlling osteoporosis. We follow guidelines for exercise safety and effectiveness established by the National Osteoporosis Foundation. We help you progress at a pace you can handle. We also help you find ways you like to exercise, whether at home, in the gym, in the pool or through a class.
- Satisfaction: People regularly tell us they feel very satisfied with our osteoporosis care. We always welcome your comments and suggestions. We want you to have the best experience possible.
Learn more about the benefits of choosing STAR sports therapy and physical therapy.
Osteopenia and Other Reasons to See Us
There are several ways people end up working with us on their bone care. You may:
- Receive a diagnosis of osteoporosis or osteopenia: Osteopenia describes reduced bone density. It is not as severe as osteoporosis. We use similar methods to treat osteoporosis and to prevent osteopenia from turning into osteoporosis.
- Need help after a fracture: In addition to help recovering from a fracture, we can work to make sure one does not happen again. We can help you strengthen supporting muscles, even if you are still wearing bracing.
- Come to us for other treatment: Sometimes people come to us for another condition such as back pain that may indicate weakened bones. (You may not notice the problem yourself until a bone breaks.) If that happens, we will help you arrange a bone density test. If needed, we can provide therapy for osteopenia or osteoporosis.
When creating a treatment plan for bone weakening, your doctor may recommend more calcium and vitamin D for a bone-healthy diet. Your doctor may also recommend medications to build bone, as well as physical therapy.
In addition to reducing pain, our therapists help with:
- Posture and body movement: Lifting and bending can put too much pressure on weakened vertebrae. So can improper posture. We help you find better ways to stand and move, such as when getting out of bed or bending to pick something up. We also help you strengthen your spinal support muscles.
- Exercise: We recommend spending at least five days per week doing 30 minutes of weight-bearing exercise to build bone and slow bone loss. Weight-bearing exercises can include walking, jogging, stair climbing, pool work, dancing, yoga, Pilates and many other options. We help you create a plan you enjoy and show you how to do it safely. We work with you to find local classes and workout facilities if you are interested.
- Balance: We help you address any balance problems you may have to lower your risk of falling. Learn more about our Fall Risk and Recovery Program.
- Range of motion: We evaluate your range of motion, particular in your arms, legs and back. We help correct any problems so that you can stand and move properly, limiting the pressure on your back and lowering your likelihood of falling.
To learn more about our services or make an appointment, please call a STAR location:
- Chesterfield — Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Orthopedic Center: 314.514.3636
- Creve Coeur — Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital: 314.996.3050
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Toys are known as the biggest asset to improve kids social and intellectual ability. No matter there is any holiday or not but still, your kid deserves proper toys in order to keep him associated with some of the beautiful creation of the world. While playing with a toy, he gets back his inner focus and starts the conversation with the toy. In this way, get a solid assistance to interact with social factors with the help of the toy. Sometimes, it is also seen that some toys are harmful to kids. They literally make chaos to the kids those are getting intimate with them. In order to wipe such chances, you should purchase certain toys those have not any type of edge to harm the kids. Here are some beautiful tips to follow in order to purchase the safety and beautiful toys for your kidAge plays a crucial role in purchasing toysAs you are one of the serious parents, you should make sure that the toys you have purchased; they are properly soothing to the age. If your baby is six years old, it is not perfect to gift him a toy which is appropriate for three years old child. Therefore, you should make sure that the toys you have selected; they are soothing to the kids mind.
You can gift him kids artwork in order to keep him happy and to accelerate his creative mind. Make your purchase as per the interest of your kidToday, all most all kids are getting proper insights about the outer world. They are very much attached to TV shows and internets; therefore, they do have specific desire while selecting toys. In this way, you should make sure that the toy you have purchased; it is complementing the wish of your kid. On the off chance, if that is against his wish, it will come with angry rather than happy moments. Decline small toys When the time comes to gift any toys for three to four years old toddler, it is quite dangerous to let them freely handle the toys those have small parts. Always check the warning level on the packet before purchasing it.
These small parts may pose choking in their mouth.Volume control toys You shouldn’t gift your kid a toy which has loud and irritating sound. In order to handle such a situation, make sure that you have chosen toys with volume control. When you’ll see there is noise and kid get irrupted, you can easily reduce the sound level. Great kids storage boxes are available in different kid toys store to make your purchase. | <urn:uuid:14f915f4-d8ed-494b-a090-61b726e7d027> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://likoosh.com/tips-to-purchase-entertaining-and-safe-toys-for-your-kid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.973401 | 494 | 2.21875 | 2 |
In planning any calendar printing undertaking, the obvious truth to pay attention to is that each calendar is a time-sensitive product with a built-in distribution deadline. For a standard 2014 calendar, if your calendar isn’t in the end consumer’s hands before January 1, 2014, they could have already got found an alternate. For a non-standard calendar that deadline may be sooner (eg., a school-year calendar must be within the consumer’s palms near the start of faculty if it’s going to be helpful to them). Working backwards from this absolute deadline can provide you an excellent timeline for the complete project.
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A lushly illustrated gift book, revealing the strange and singular world of mushrooms, toadstools, and their kin.
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President Donald J. Trump loves his Twitter account. Much has been made of Trump's 140-character missives, which he at least in part blasts out to the world unfiltered with his own fingers (and sometimes his staff). Interpreting the data and metadata of Trump's tweets has become akin to a modern form of Kremlinology—the art of reading the temperature of the Soviet Union's leadership by noting who was seated where in the reviewing stands at Red Square.
Twitter may not be the leading social media platform, and it may not be the friendliest place on Earth to exchange ideas. But it does offer an API that lets pretty much anyone mine its metadata. While much of the data associated with tweets is obscured by the usual Twitter clients, those who've followed the tweeting travails of our 45th president are likely aware of the fact that it contains information like what device or software tweets were posted from. In the past, Law enforcement agencies and others have used access to Twitter metadata for a variety of purposes, including surveillance, by tapping into high-volume feeds of Twitter's tweet-stream. But a great deal of information can be gathered with much simpler and accessible tools.
"As any other social media website Twitter know a lot of things about you, thanks [to] metadata," a French security researcher known as X0rz wrote in a recent blog post. "Indeed, for a 140 characters message you will get A LOT of metadata—more than 20 times the size of the initial content you typed in! And guess what? Almost all of this metadata is accessible through the open Twitter API." To demonstrate that, X0rz wrote a Python script called tweets_analyzer, a command-line tool to tap into some of Twitter's vast metadata that may not be accessible from the standard client.
Tweets_analyzer requires a Twitter account for authentication, as well as Twitter API credentials and, of course, a tweaked Python environment. It’s not exactly something to be handed over blindly to the average tweeter. But in the right hands (and with a little patience due to Twitter API rate-limiting), it can help analyze accounts to identify networks of Twitter bots or trolls concealing their actual location and identity. In addition to examining the metadata associated with Twitter users and their tweets, X0rz added a "friends" analysis feature that skims information from the metadata of the accounts followed by the target account, including language, timezone and location data.
For the sake of science, I turned tweets_analyzer loose on a few Twitter accounts to see what sort of information I could uncover. I started with the most obvious of suspects: Donald Trump.
There is high-volume tweeting, and then there is high-volume tweeting. To get a feel for the lower range of "high-volume," I pulled metadata for Trump's last 2,000 tweets, which stretch back to July 7, 2016.
Overall, Trump averaged 9.3 tweets per day since July, though that dropped to 5.7 tweets a day over the last 88 days. During the campaign, more of "his" tweets (50 percent) came from an iPhone client or from some other device (the Web client and iPad, 7 percent) than from his Android phone (40 percent). That has also shifted as the campaign ended—over the past 1,000 tweets, 62 percent are from his beloved Android device and 33 percent are from an iPhone (lately, likely from Trump social media director Dan Scavino’s device).
Unsurprisingly, the accounts Trump retweeted most belonged to his campaign team, to Dan Scavino, his three eldest children, and himself. (Notably, the Drudge Report was also RT'd seven times during the campaign to edge out Donald Trump Jr.) He also mentioned himself by his own Twitter handle more than anyone else by far—twice as much as the @'s for his campaign (and for Hillary Clinton).
Additionally, Trump was loose about using location data, with a significant number of his posts during and after the election carrying location tags. Here are the Top 10 detected places for his tweets:
- - United States 57 (12 percent)
- - Nevada 37 (8 percent)
- - Florida 27 (6 percent)
- - University of Nevada, Las Vegas 21 (4 percent)
- - Manhattan 19 (4percent )
- - Trump Tower 12 (2 percent)
- - Colorado Springs 11 (2 percent)
- - University City 11 (2 percent)
- - Michigan 10 (2 percent)
- - Pennsylvania 10 (2 percent)
Beating the eggs for trolls
Over the course of the past six months, I’ve encountered a rising number of Twitter accounts of questionable provenance launching missives my way. Some are obviously bots—accounts that simply retweet everything from certain users or offer canned (often hashtag-laden) responses. Some are humans out to troll. Others are not so obvious.
"Egg" accounts—Twitter profiles that have the default "egg" avatar instead of a profile photo—are frequently associated with bots and throwaway accounts. But they're also associated with people who just don't post that often and may not know how (or care) to change their profile picture. A sure sign that there's a normal user behind an egg is if geolocation data has been left turned on for the account. For example, one "egg" I had a run-in with had only 1200 tweets since 2012, had both political and gaming hashtags in tweets, and was clearly spending a lot of time in the San Diego area based on the 285 geolocated tweets the account made.
Today, bots and trolls are making a greater effort to put up the veneer required to make accounts look legitimate at a cursory glance. The biggest ones have been careful to turn off location information from posts and may provide a bogus timezone—what sets them apart is volume.
The tweets_analyzer tool by default only pulls the data for the last 1,000 posts—which is typically enough to profile a user for at least a month. But one account I had run into, @HawleysJadefav, generated 1,000 posts in just two and a half days. A pull of 4,000 tweets only went back 8 days, and the account threw up an average of 400 tweets per day. Of the 4,000 tweets_analyzer pulled in, 2,892 were retweets, and the vast majority of all the tweets (97 percent) were recorded as coming from an iPad.
Twitter's API requires developers to use a specific "consumer" key and secret to make posts, and it requires unique names for each client—I can't write a Twitter bot and register it as "Twitter for iPad," for example. But that doesn't mean it's impossible to do mass tweets with an iPad—especially if you have multiple people using the same account.
Without timezone or geographic data, it's still possible with accounts used from devices to get some sort of idea where they're coming from. To do this, you need to look at when they post the most and match it against timezones. The @HawleysJadefav account starts cranking up the volume at 5:00 AM Eastern and hits its second wind at 4:00 PM Eastern. That's not exactly a good match for any timezone except for possibly Brazil or Argentina—or Ecuador, where a number of accounts followed by this one are located. But @HawleysJadefav could just be one very determined person with nothing else to do all day long from dawn until dusk except mash the retweet button on an iPad screen. Only Twitter (and possibly the NSA and FBI) would be able to tell for sure.
Some bots are fairly obvious, especially by their volume. One 1,000-post-a-day account, @USFreedomArmy, generated most of its tweets through scheduled tweets using Sprout Social—the vast majority scheduled to drop at midday (1 PM Central time) each day. In other cases, posts came almost exclusively from an iPhone client, based on the metadata. But many of the links used in posts were shortened using "branded" URL shortener services that were aimed at monetizing tweets using interstitial advertisements. In almost all cases, there was no location associated with the accounts.
To do more extensive fingerprinting of these accounts would most likely require licensing Twitter's raw stream. Getting a real statistical handle on these accounts was more than Twitter's API would stand for, frequently causing tweets_analyzer to run over the usage limit.
Act more like a troll (sort of) for privacy
Most humans don't mass-post and don't use a tweet-staging service like HootSuite or Sprout Social to time their 140-character thought bombs. But many, if not most, Twitter users routinely give up time-sensitive location data with their posts that might be used to gain insight into their movements and possibly their identity. Sure, Donald Trump doesn’t need to worry about someone using his Twitter account to figure out when he's at Trump Tower—but most people don't have the Secret Service watching their condo while they're at work.
Fortunately, Twitter has made it a lot easier for users to strip location data from all of their posts, regardless of what device they make them from. This is done through user settings. But when combined with other sources of intelligence, even what's left after location data is trimmed can offer ample material for an analyst or attacker to work from in order to figure out who to target and how.
It's also important to realize that tweets_analyzer's concept and code could easily be expanded to do much more with the metadata collected from the Twitter API and the posts themselves. An enterprising developer could find ways to extract a lot more information about targeted accounts. So, people concerned about how much they're giving away about themselves should probably take a page from the book of the trolls and find ways to be heard in Twitter without leaving a trail pointing right back to them. | <urn:uuid:c18b635b-39fb-4623-9647-0741a101e2e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/dont-tweet-new-tool-gives-insight-into-whos-behind-twitter-eggs-and-trolls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959103 | 2,085 | 2.15625 | 2 |
It’s John McCain’s war now. Next week, President Bush will announce a troop surge of between 20,000 and 40,000 troops, according to those who have been briefed on outlines of the plan. Though the president will give the speech, McCain is the politician whose career most depends on it. The senator has been advocating more troops since August of 2003. Recently he has advocated for a surge in private conversations with the president and at greater length with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, who is heading up the administration’s policy review.
In the debate that will follow the president’s announcement, McCain will blanket the news outlets making the case for the troop hike. He is also making a deeper personal commitment. The program he’s advocating will almost certainly send his 18-year-old son, a marine, into Iraq. (When McCain was a POW during the Vietnam War, his own father, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, ordered increased bombing raids on Hanoi despite the fact they would endanger his son who was imprisoned there.)
McCain has long benefited from being a supporter of the war but a critic of the tactics. Now they are his tactics, and his political neck is on the line. With his presidential campaign all but announced, McCain is embracing an unpopular strategy that will make an already unpopular war longer and bloodier. The surge plan will take 18 months if everything goes right, say planners. “Are McCain’s people up late at night thinking about this?” asks one McCain person. “Sure, but not in the sense that we’re busy thinking of other things he can do. This is what he thinks we should do.”
But just because the McCain team isn’t thinking about how McCain should change his position for political reasons, that doesn’t mean they aren’t pondering how to manage the political fallout. Here’s what they think might save him if the surge fails:
1. Blame will fall on the Bush team: McCain has been the president’s staunch Iraq ally, but he is also the first to note that the war has been badly mishandled. At an American Enterprise Institute discussion on Friday, McCain said that “there have been many, many mistakes since 2003 that will not be easily reversed,” in the prosecution of the war. He told the audience that everyone in America should read Fiasco, the book that details those many failures. Pointing out that the job was botched is both an act of truth-telling and an act of political defense. If the surge doesn’t work, he will be able to say the Iraq war has been so mismanaged that it was too far gone for the McCain-backed last-ditch attempt.
2. Primary voters will support himanyway: Republican voters are devoted to the military. The troop surge has been promoted by McCain and its architects as a strategy that finally gives the military the tools it needs to meet the challenges it faces. In their eyes, McCain is making a last brave attempt to save a botched mission. So, success or failure, McCain gains with conservative voters. Plus, which of McCain’s GOP challengers will risk criticizing him? They lack standing on the issues, can’t compete with his military record, and have no children actively engaged in the fight.
3. His candor inoculates him: McCain is pushing the troop increase with his famous blunt talk. He promises it will cause more casualties and take a long time. The carnage will increase before it decreases, and in the end it may not work. Straight talk has worked for him politically in the past. Voters have always given him credit for being straight with them. But will they be able to stomach this much truth? | <urn:uuid:b8ccf917-7e84-4780-965d-4510f2628c96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/01/will-the-troop-surge-harm-mccain-s-presidential-campaign.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.979347 | 787 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Educational technology is set for another stellar year in 2018 and we will hopefully see further adoption of EdTech processes and resources in schools throughout Ireland.
To help you prepare for any new technology you may introduce to your school in the coming year, we’ve rounded up the biggest EdTech trends of 2018.
- Mobile Learning
Mobile learning simply refers to education and teaching conducted through use of portable computing devices such as smartphones and tablets.
It will possibly be the biggest EdTech trend of the year thanks to the increased use of smartphones and tablets in classrooms both in Ireland and the rest of the world.
Mobile learning empowers students by providing them with access to high quality learning materials and encourages learning through use of different media (text, video, audio etc.)
Mobile learning also greatly benefits educators as it generates large amounts of data on students’ studying behaviour and habits, data which can later be analysed and used to improve curricula.
- Internet of Things
The Internet of Things, or IoT as it’s also known, is the name for the network through which various computing devices are connected.
This includes everything from a smartphone to smart home appliances, and is generally used to describe the ‘system’ that allows devices to communicate with one another.
In the educational setting, the Internet of Things aims to simplify much of the learning process so teachers can spend more of their time engaging with students and preparing classes and less time on repetitive tasks such as correcting homework.
- Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is an alternative method for delivering IT services and one that utilises web-based tools and applications retrieved from the Internet as opposed to a physical server.
Cloud computing enables a great deal more of flexibility when it comes to IT services in addition to reducing the time it to takes to retrieve data and minimising IT costs.
It benefits schools by providing teachers and students with access to the Internet’s infinite repository of information for a very small fee and should see widespread adoption in 2018.
- Augmented and Virtual Reality
It may be a few years yet before augmented and virtual reality becomes commonplace in the school, but a number of Irish companies are exploring how this technology can be used in an education.
Augmented and virtual reality technology supports active learning as opposed to passive learning and is particularly useful in combatting limited attention spans.
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We can learn a lot from the depression era about living more frugally. The skills people had to use then can still help us save money now.
My Great Grandma had a very interesting life. She walked behind a covered wagon to Oklahoma, she experienced the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in some hard-hit areas of Oklahoma. Hearing her stories is something I miss greatly. She also was a frugal woman that could always make do with what she had.
I often think about the Great Depression and how resourceful people were forced to be. Things are pretty cheap now and our economy has been much healthier, though the last couple of years have been tough. Now it’s so easy to just throw things away when they are broken or when clothing has a hole in it.
However, I think we have lost some useful skills and a good mindset over the years. Making do or doing without is not something many of us live by anymore. It’s creating a lot of waste and wasting money we could use on other things, like experiences with our loved ones.
There is so much we can learn from the trying times of the Great Depression. The resourcefulness was simply amazing. Not only will these skills help us now to be less wasteful and save money, but it also can never hurt to be prepared to have to be more self-sufficient.
Depression Era Tips That Save Money
Make Your Clothes Last
New clothes would have been pretty much unheard of for most families during the Depression. Clothes were mended over and over again. We also should be taking better care of our clothes. Make sure you wash them correctly and if possible line dry. This will save you money and also is gentler on your clothes.
Use It Up
Be sure to use up every drop of personal care, cleaning, and food items. All of the products that we throw out with just a little bit left really adds up.
Make It Yourself
DIY wasn’t just a trend in the Depression it was a way of life. While you aren’t likely going to start grinding your own flour you can make your own bread and other foods from scratch.
You can also make cleaning supplies and even a lot of personal care products can be made from simple ingredients you likely already have on hand. We have the big advantage of Pinterest to help us figure out how to make our own products.
Borrow Instead of Buying
When was the last time you went to your local library? Most books and movies we only watch once so it’s silly to buy them when we can just borrow them from the library for free.
You can also borrow things from friends or family. Just be sure to take care of these items and be responsible, otherwise, people won’t want to share anymore.
There are also options that aren’t free but still save you money in the long run and use up fewer resources. You can use Kindle Unlimited for ebooks and if you already have Amazon Prime you can watch movies and TV shows there at no added cost. If you watch a lot of movies and read a lot of ebooks this will quickly save you money and means less clutter in your home.
Be mindful of the number of products you use. Soaps and detergents are some of the things we often use too much of. You really need a very small amount to be effective, sometimes using too much actually makes it less effective.
Reuse Everything You Can
When clothes can no longer be mended they can become rags, old food jars can store all kinds of things, junk mail can be scratch paper, there is almost always a way to use something in a new way to extend its life.
Grow your own food
Gardens were extremely important during the Depression. They still can help us to save money and to help the environment by reduced transportation requirements for our food. Foraging is also a lost skill that can help your food budget.
Don’t Waste Food
We waste a lot of food these days, 30-40% of it! There are so many ways to use up food “scraps.” Soups and smoothies are good for veggie and fruit scraps. Meat bones can also be good for soups and broths. Citrus peels can clean your garbage disposal or be used to make citrus vinegar for cleaning. And even inedible scraps can go in a compost bin to make your own compost for your garden.
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Re: [APD] Java Fern
I simply put a dumb resin ornament on part of the rhizome that held it
down to the gravel. But I didn't "plant" it under the surface. It took
root fine into the gravel and has been there ever since. Then I
removed the ornament.
Although they grow very slowly and I do not often add ferts (and never
CO2, which probably keeps it growing even slower) it has tripled in
size since I bought it a couple years ago. I realize most folks do tie
it to stuff, but I didn't have anything suitable in the tank at the
time. If memory serves it did take a while to root in to the gravel.
The rhizome is completely above the surface of the gravel, with part
of it touching the gravel and part isn't.
If its helpful here are the tank specs: 20 gal, 55 watts light via PC
indirect sun in summer months, UGF w/power head, planted with 1 large
amazon sword, a few smaller swords, some various vals (very small),
wierd hairy growths on the powerhead but no other (visible) algae,
fish load: 8 small tetras, 1 ghost shrimp, 10 or so MTS. My fert
schedule and water change schedule is irregular.
> Is it acceptable to plant java fern directly in to the substrate or is
> it preferred to tie this plant to a rock or driftwood?
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[APD] Re: CO2 diffusion
BTW tank is a 135g and yes CO2 is off when the lights are off.
i cant locate the name of the chemist at the area water company. The g
entleman had an Oriental surname and has a lot of layers between the person who
answers the phone and his desk! I spoke with 4 different people, always asking
the same question 'How can Kh and Gh be so low and the pH be so high?' before
they put me through to him. He said that the water source was essentially
runoff and was slightly acidic and had to be treated to a high pH to insure no
lead being leached.
Tank is in a bit of a change since i added 8 silver dollar sized discus to
the tank and have been feeding a little bit heavier. Total fish population
before was 75 Cardinal Tetras, 6 Florida flagfish and a couple of albino
will reduce CO2 by 50% and see how the plants respond.
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Jamaica's Alia Atkinson became the first black woman swimmer to both win a world title and break a world record on Saturday, taking first in the 100-meter breaststroke at the world short-course championships in Doha, Qatar.
Atkinson beat Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte by 0.1 seconds, with a time of 1 minute and 2.36 seconds. That ties Meilutyte's world record, but Atkinson's time qualifies as the new record under current swimming regulations.
Atkinson's reaction was priceless — as was her victory, which is hugely symbolic in an overwhelmingly white sport.
This is so much more than just a swimming title. Atkinson's win is a major first in a sport that has, for most of its history, been lily-white. The lack of diversity could be attributed to economics: It costs money to belong to a swim club and team, as well as to register for and attend prestigious swim meets. Swim legend Donna de Varona noted the cost barrier in a 2012 appearance on MSNBC's The Melissa Harris-Perry Show. Throw in a pricey, high-tech swimsuit, and it's easy to see how the sport would be a burden to low-income families — with poverty rates higher among racial minority populations — with few discretionary funds.
But it's not all economic. The New York Times reported on a 2010 study by the USA Swimming Foundation and the University of Memphis that found "fear trumped financial concerns across all respondent race groups in low-income families" as to why, the study claims, nearly 70% of black children cannot swim.
In America, pools were racially segregated beginning in the 1920s and '30s if not by a club's policy then by other, more violent means. As historian Jeff Wiltse, author of Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, explained in an interview with NPR, if people of color were granted swimming access, they were often beaten by whites.
Wiltse specifically talked about Pittsburgh, which "did not pass an official policy of racial segregation at its pools. But rather, the police and the city officials allowed, and in some cases encouraged, white swimmers to literally beat black swimmers out of the water, as a means of segregating pools, as a means of intimidating them from trying to access pools." Guards were also posted outside some pools.
The sport has a history of racism outside the U.S., too. In women's swimming, this was most evident in the needless investigation and questioning of China's Ye Shiwen after she broke the 400-meter Individual medley world record at the 2012 Olympics. Racism occurs on this level when there is widespread disbelief that a person who is not white can excel at a white-dominated sport.
Could this be a turning point? Atkinson clearly knows what she symbolizes in the sport, taking the attention as an opportunity to raise some much needed awareness. "Hopefully my face will come out," she told the Telegraph, "there will be more popularity especially in Jamaica and the Caribbean and we'll see more of a rise and hopefully in the future we will see a push."
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In the Faith Alive issue for August 2017 the Christadelphians explore the theme of worship: how, when, where, why and whom do we worship? Whose example should we follow? Whose should we not? What was worship like in the time of Abraham? And what might it be like in the kingdom?
The Bible is full of examples of true and false worship. True worship exalts the God of Israel, whereas false worship exalts other things or other people above God, often to the extent of denying His power and existence altogether.
Throughout the Bible, we are warned to avoid such false worship, often called idolatry. For millennia, it was common practice among the nations to devise gods who ruled over specific things like the harvest, fertility, rain or sun. Although these gods were said to have power over the elements, worshipping them was ultimately about a human desire for power and control. If a nation wanted rain, they offered sacrifices to the god of the rain. If they wanted to win a battle, they offered sacrifices to the god of war. Far from seeking a personal relationship with their gods and serving them in love, the question on their minds was:
“What can this god do for me?”
Our idols do not live on Mount Olympus, and we do not build household shrines for them into the walls of our living rooms. They are less obvious, more subtle, more insidious. They are hobbies and money, work and friends. They are the things that distract us from putting God first. Often, our biggest idol is our pride and our ego:
“What makes me feel happy? How can I look after number one?”
True worship takes the focus off self and directs our attention towards God. The God of Israel, whom we love and serve, asks for a humble attitude of mind, a gentle spirit and a heart willing to seek out the truth. True worship exalts God and acknowledges that He is in control. Rather than demanding things of God, true worship is about thankfulness and praise for the gifts He gives us.
God is not asking you to build an altar and burn animals on it. Instead, He asks for your commitment, loyalty and love. So let us offer our lives as living sacrifices, and honour our God by trying to imitate Him in all that we say and do. | <urn:uuid:2853a725-402d-4ca1-9c1b-3f3074135212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christadelphians.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/false-opposite-true-worship-which-exalts-the-god-of-israel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.965696 | 486 | 2.375 | 2 |
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C is a general-purpose programming language with features economy of expression, modern flow control and data structures, and a rich set of operators. C is not a ''very high level'' language, nor a ''big'' one, and is not specialized to any particular area of application. But its absence of restrictions and its generality make it more convenient and effective for many task C is a procedural programming language. It was initially developed by Dennis Ritchie as a system programming language to write operating system C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book. We have improved the exposition of critical features, such as pointers, that are central to C programming. We have refined the original examples, and have added new examples in several chapters Cprogramming.com covers both C and C++ in-depth, with both beginner-friendly tutorials, more advanced articles, and the book Jumping into C++, which is a highly reviewed, friendly introduction to C++
Welcome to the learn-c.org free interactive C tutorial. Whether you are an experienced programmer or not, this website is intended for everyone who wishes to learn the C programming language. There is no need to download anything - Just click on the chapter you wish to begin from, and follow the instructions. Good luck The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined. The book was central to the development and. C and C++ Language Syntax Reference Most of the notes in this reference conform to both C and C++. When a syntax distinction between C and C++ exists, it is explicitly noted. Some elements are listed under multiple categories, in which case all but the primary reference have listed with an @ sign C Program to Sort Elements in Lexicographical Order (Dictionary Order) C Program to Store Information of a Student Using Structure; C Program to Add Two Distances (in inch-feet system) using Structures; C Program to Add Two Complex Numbers by Passing Structure to a Function; C Program to Calculate Difference Between Two Time Period This course will give you a full introduction into all of the core concepts in the C programming language.Want more from Mike? He's starting a coding RPG/Boo..
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C was used to perform tasks and operate UNIX. So, keeping performance and productivity in mind, many of the UNIX components were rewritten in C from assembly language. For example, the UNIX kernel itself was rewritten in 1973 on a DEC PDP-11. Ritchie and Kernighan documented their creation in the form of a book called The C Programming Language The C programming language Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED. EMBED (for Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-10-03 18:42:09 Boxid IA171801 Boxid_2 CH107501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Donor bostonpubliclibrary Edition 2. ed., [Nachdr.] Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier.
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C programming language was developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. He uses this new programming language to re-implement UNIX operating system. C is a high-level structured oriented programming language used for general-purpose programming requirements. Basically, C is a collection of its library functions. It is also. C Programming is a computer-programming language that was developed in 1972 to create the operating system UNIX. A programming language is a type of written language that tells computers what to do in order to work. C Programming in particular is beneficial to use because it's recognized worldwide and is used in many applications and systems
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C Programming Language JTC1/SC22/WG14 N843 1998 C Programming Language ISO/IEC 9899:201x 2008 The Java™ Language Specification 1996-2005 An Overview of Objective Modula-2 Benjamin Kowarsch 2009 C Programming Language (Brian W.Kernighan, Dennis M.Ritchie) C# Language Specification ECMA-334 4th Edition / June 2006 A History of C++: 1979-1991 Bjarne Stroustrup. The authors present the complete guide to ANSI standard C language programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. The 2/E has been completely rewritten with additional examples and.
C programming is a procedural language compiled to provide a low-level memory access and ensure programs runs first and efficiently. The program is built with portability in mind thus, it can run in several computer platforms. The program is suitable for beginners in programming and when choosing C language, consider the following pros and cons. Pros: 1. Portable language: The C programs. C language is also known as Procedure oriented programming language. It is a structured programming language. It also named as mid level programming language, since it was designed to have both: a good programming efficiency and.. | <urn:uuid:7e70374d-5cdf-4afe-9742-aba78c63dbcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://svet-vis.com/playlist?list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGAKIXv8Yr6nhGJ9Vlcjyymq1zm-4071ema | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.902085 | 3,814 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Scientists discover how to grow plants in total darkness
Artificial photosynthesis, where plants grow despite not having access to light, could help increase food production on Earth, and may one day be used on Mars.
Researchers in the United States have found a way to grow plants in complete darkness, using a new method of artificial photosynthesis that could have major implications for future crop production.
In a study, published recently in the journal Nature Food, scientists from the University of California Riverside and the University of Delaware developed a process that completely bypassed the biological method of photosynthesis — where carbon dioxide, water and sunlight are used to create energy and biomass in plants.
Instead, carbon dioxide, water and electricity were used to create acetate — the main component in vinegar. Laboratory plants then used this acetate to grow, with the electricity being generated by solar panels, thus still harnessing the power of the Sun.
“With our approach we sought to identify a new way of producing food that could break through the limits normally imposed by biological photosynthesis,” said co-author Robert Jinkerson, a UC Riverside assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering.
Artificial photosynthesis "more efficient"
Photosynthesis is one of the most important biological processes on Earth, evolving over millions of years to provide plants with a renewable source of energy, in order to grow and function. It is estimated that global photosynthesis converts between 100 and 115 billion tons of carbon into biomass each year, capturing an average rate of 130 terawatts of energy.
However, the process is actually very inefficient, with only about 1% of the energy found in sunlight ending up in the plant. The researchers say that their hybrid organic-inorganic method of artificial photosynthesis is much better in this department. In fact, it is up to 18 times more efficient at turning sunlight into food in some cases, they say.
To determine whether the technology could be utilised in future food production, a number of common crop plants were grown in darkness, using only the acetate medium for energy. Cowpea, tomato, tobacco, rice, canola, and green pea species were all able to grow effectively in this environment.
The process was also found to be useful for growing other types of organism, including green algae, yeast and mushrooms.
By freeing agriculture from the shackles of sunlight dependency, the new method developed by the researchers could revolutionise the way we grow crops.
Droughts, floods and climate change would all pose less of a threat to food production, the researchers say, as plants would be able to grow in areas currently unsuitable for agriculture, with less resource-intensive, controlled environments. Of course, this also opens the door to potentially growing food in Space, and even on Mars.
“Imagine someday giant vessels growing tomato plants in the dark and on Mars — how much easier would that be for future Martians?” said co-author Martha Orozco-Cárdenas, director of the UC Riverside Plant Transformation Research Center. | <urn:uuid:79474ba6-f042-49ab-953d-334b1c88c289> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/science/scientists-grow-plants-in-darkness-nature.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.947331 | 629 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Monitoring ECVET implementation strategies in Europe in 2013
18 Mar 2014
The aim of the European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) is to allow individuals to gain a full vocational education and training (VET) qualification, or to update/upgrade their VET qualifications in a flexible way, by use of credits.
ECVET requires qualifications to be described in terms of learning outcomes that will be then defined as units that might translate into credits. Learning outcomes recognised in form of credits may be transferred between education and training institutions, whether in the same country or abroad, and accumulated towards achieving a full or a partial qualification. If the VET system allows it, learning acquired in non-formal and informal settings may be assessed and validated as credits to be used for transfer and accumulation purposes. In this context, ECVET is more likely to reach its full potential if linked to the European qualifications framework (EQF)/national qualifications framework (NQF) developments that support the description of qualifications in terms of learning outcomes, as well as with national arrangements and practices for validating non-formal and informal learning.
This report covers ECVET developments in 38 countries and regions up to September 2013; it is the fourth since 2010, when Cedefop started its regular ECVET analysis in relation to national VET reforms. The deadlines of the ECVET recommendation set 2013 as the year for ECVET’s gradual application to VET qualifications at all levels of the EQF, following more than three years of testing and development. | <urn:uuid:72836cc9-4bd3-45f7-a671-0c0c05e024c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.skillsforemployment.org/skpEng/countries-detail/ISL | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.934739 | 335 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Sample facade elements at the Towarowa Towers construction site
Sample, representative fragments of the building façade appeared at the Towarowa Towers construction site. The aim is to show and initially evaluate the foreground architectural solutions of the towers.
The mock-ups placed at the construction site in Prosta St. show standard elements of Towarowa Towers façade: a two-storey façade of the building podium, loggias and a glazed bay window of the future residents’ apartments. In this way the investor, architects and site engineers can evaluate key architectural solutions such as colors of aluminium panels to be used on the façade, sliding doors to the loggias, glazing of the bay window, openable windows and panels as well as finishing of loggias/balconies and illumination of the building. For the mock-ups, materials were used to create the final façade image of the towers. The mock-ups of a part of the elevation, which appeared on the construction site, serve the purpose of checking the aesthetics and quality of workmanship of the investment. Towarowa Towers is a unique residential project, where everything must be executed with utmost care. | <urn:uuid:1a4fe2ad-e314-41b9-b525-3ff49d2d5236> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asbud.com/en/news/sample-facade-elements-at-the-towarowa-towers-construction-site/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936217 | 247 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Five "defenders of free speech", including a blind Chinese lawyer and a jailed Egyptian blogger, have been honoured at a London awards ceremony.
Cheng Guangcheng was jailed for four years in August 2006
The annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards salute people who have contributed to the defence of freedom of expression.
They are given to those who use film, the law, books, journalism, campaigning or whistleblowing to achieve this.
The awards' organisers said each winner was symbolic of under-reported stories.
The whistleblower award went to Chen Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer in the Shandong province of China.
Known as the "barefoot lawyer", he is a blind activist who publicised reports of forced abortions, as late as eight months pregnant, and sterilisations in the city of Linyi to enforce China's one-child policy.
Mr Chen was sentenced in August 2006 to over four years in prison for property damage and organising a crowd to disturb traffic.
The 2007 award for journalism went to 22-year old blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman, who wrote under the name Kareem Amer.
He was recently sentenced to four years in prison after using his web log to criticise the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university, and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator.
The literature award went to assassinated Lebanese journalist Samir Qasir, well known for his criticism of the former pro-Syrian Lebanese authorities, for his book Being Arab.
Qasir died in a Beirut car bomb attack in 2005.
The campaigning award went to Siphiwe Hlophe, from Swaziland, for her work with women who have HIV/Aids.
Having suffered discrimination first hand when she was diagnosed with HIV, Ms Hlophe co-founded an organisation called Swazis for Positive Living which aims to fight gender discrimination related to HIV/Aids and help other victims.
This year's film award went to Israeli director Yoav Shamir for his film Five Days, a documentary about the Israeli Defence Force and the planned evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza.
Index on Censorship chief Henderson Mullin said the five winners were all symbolic of the under-reported world that Index on Censorship tries to highlight.
"They are all stories that are under-reported and that we would like to bring to mainstream attention," he told AFP.
"The people that we end up choosing tend to be symbolic of what we do and symbolic of the under-reported stories."
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), likewise referred to as sexually sent infections or STIs, are very typical. Countless brand-new infections happen annually in the United States.
Sexually transmitted diseases are passed from someone to another via sex consisting of vaginal, dental, and also anal sex. They can also be passed from someone to one more through intimate physical contact, such as foreplay, though this is not extremely typical.
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Chlamydia is the most commonly reported Sexually Transmitted Disease in the United States It’s spread mainly by genital or anal sex, but you can get it via foreplay, too. Sometimes you’ll notice an odd discharge from your vaginal area penis, or pain or burning when you pee. However only about 25% of females and also 50% of males get signs and symptoms.
Chlamydia is caused by microorganisms, so it’s treated with prescription antibiotics. After you are dealt with, you need to get retested in three months, even if your partner has actually been treated as well.
New cases yearly in the USA: More than 1 million.
This infection originates from a bloodsucker that passes from one person to an additional throughout sex. It can spread out from a guy to a female, a lady to a male, or from one lady to an additional woman. Females normally create the infection inside the vaginal area or the urethra. Male can develop trichomoniasis inside the penis. The infection normally doesn’t spread to the mouth, rectum or other parts of the body.
The majority of people with trichomoniasis don’t have signs and symptoms. Occasionally contaminated people experience itching or melting throughout peeing. Discharge from the penis or the vaginal canal is an additional indicator of trichomoniasis. These signs might reoccur. It takes prescription antibiotics to do away with the infection.
Genital Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
New instances each year in the USA: More than 14 million.
HPV is one of the most common sexually transmitted infection. There are greater than 40 sorts of HPV. They can contaminate the genital areas, mouth or throat. A lot of males and females that are sexually energetic will access least one sort of HPV eventually in their life. Vancouver Wa Std Testing
HPV spreads from someone to one more through vaginal, rectal or oral sex. You can obtain the virus even if your partner has no symptoms. Fortunately, injections protect individuals against lots of sorts of HPV.
HPV infections are typically not hazardous. They frequently go away on their own within two years. The trouble is some sorts of HPV can result in severe health issue. These include genital excrescences cancer cells. Many people infected with HPV have no signs and symptoms until they create various other wellness concerns.
Syphilis Vancouver Wa Std Testing
is a common Sexually Transmitted Disease with a notorious background. Brought on by the germs Treponema pallidum, it can result in severe issues if left neglected sent by direct contact with syphilis sores, which can show up on the outside genitals and also the mouth, as well as in the vaginal area or anus. That implies it can be transmitted by foreplay, in addition to genital or anal sexual intercourse.
Actually, some researchers think that foreplay is in charge of the increase of syphilis in men that make love with men. Because syphilis sores can appear on areas not covered by a condom, condoms just reduce the chance of transmission however don’t remove it completely.
The small pain-free sores (chancres) of early syphilis may recover on their own, yet that doesn’t suggest the condition is gone. It’s just ended up being harder to spot and deal with.
Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is starting to become a major cause of cervicitis in ladies and also nongonococcal urethritis in males, conditions also triggered by gonorrhea as well as chlamydia. In 2007, a popular research study of UNITED STATE teenagers found that this previously little-known Sexually Transmitted Disease had gone beyond gonorrhea in frequency. Why did it take so long to acknowledge the value of this now common STD? Due to the fact that a lot of situations of MG do not cause symptoms as well as it was difficult to recognize until the brand-new innovation appeared. There is still no diagnostic test of MG that is cleared by the FDA for use in the USA.
There are two kinds of herpes, HSV1 as well as HSV2. HSV2 is the type most connected with the well known genital sores that the majority of people have actually heard about and fear. HSV2 can additionally spread out by mouth to genitals and also the other way around, as well as it is incurable. Vancouver Wa Std Testing
The signs of herpes can be treated with antiviral medications, but service providers of the herpes virus can still infect their partners, despite if they are experiencing an outbreak or otherwise.
Prophylactics can minimize the risk of having this unpleasant STD, however they are not 100-percent effective, considering that herpes can be spread out with skin-to-skin call. It is critical that you seek medical interest promptly if you think you or a sexual partner may have gotten this STD.
Liver disease, like HPV, can be found in several kinds. However, it is liver disease B that is most connected with sexual call. Hepatitis C can likewise be passed via sex-related get in touch with. Liver disease is so rampant that health officials believe near 1.25 million individuals in the United States are contaminated with some sort of hepatitis. Both of these pressures influence the liver and also can bring about scarring, cirrhosis, and also also liver cancer.
Some never experience signs and symptoms. For those that do, it may take some time for them to appear. In these sorts of Sexually transmitted diseases, you may experience fatigue, queasiness, as well as abdominal pain, in addition to fever as well as joint pain. While liver disease is absolutely nothing to fool around with, there is an upside as there is an injection that can protect you from liver disease.
There are several ways to avoid or decrease your risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or sexually transferred infections (STIs).
One of the most effective means to avoid is to not have (avoid) sex.
Remain with one clean companion.
An additional trustworthy way of avoiding is to stay in a long-lasting mutually virginal relationship in which both individuals make love just with each other and also neither companion is infected.
Prevent genital as well as rectal intercourse with new partners up until you have both been tested for. Oral sex is less risky, but make use of a latex condom or dental dam to prevent direct (skin-to-skin) get in touch with between the oral as well as genital mucous membrane layers.
Obtaining immunized early, before sex-related exposure, is additionally effective in avoiding particular sorts of. Vaccines are available to avoid human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis An as well as liver disease B.
The Centers for Condition Control and also Avoidance (CDC) recommends the injection for girls and boys ages 11 as well as 12. If not totally immunized at ages 11 and also 12, the suggests that ladies and also females with age 26 and kids and also males with age 26 get the vaccine.
The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given to newborns, as well as the liver disease A vaccination is suggested for 1-year-olds. Both vaccinations are suggested for people who aren’t already immune to these conditions as well as for those who go to enhanced threat of infection, such as men that make love with men as well as IV drug users.
Use condoms and also dental dams regularly as well as appropriately. Vancouver Wa Std Testing
Use a brand-new latex condom or dental dam for each sex act, whether oral, genital or rectal. Never ever utilize an oil-based lube, such as oil jelly, with a latex prophylactic or dental dam.
Prophylactics made from natural membranes are not suggested because they’re not as reliable at avoiding. Remember that while prophylactic reduce your threat of direct exposure to most, they supply much less security for entailing revealed genital sores, such as or herpes. Additionally, nonbarrier forms of birth control, such as contraceptive pill (oral contraceptives) or intrauterine devices (IUDs), don’t secure versus Do not consume alcohol exceedingly or make use of medicines.
If you’re under the influence, you’re more likely to take sex-related dangers.
Prior to any type of severe sexual contact, connect with your companion regarding exercising more secure sex. Be sure you particularly agree on what activities will certainly as well as won’t be ALRIGHT.
There’s proof that male circumcision can help in reducing a male’s threat of getting from a female that is contaminated (heterosexual transmission) by as high as 60%. Male circumcision might also assist avoid transmission of genital as well as herpes.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized making use of the combination medicines emtricitabine plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Truvada) and emtricitabine plus tenofovir alafenamide (Descovy) to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infection in individuals that are at extremely high risk.
Your physician will suggest these medicines for prevention just if you don’t already have infection. You will certainly require an examination prior to you begin taking and after that every 3 months as long as you’re taking it. Your physician will certainly additionally check your kidney function prior to suggesting Truvada and remain to test it every six months. If you have liver disease B you need to be evaluated by a transmittable disease or liver expert prior to beginning treatment.
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We all have experienced how the level of curiosity keeps diminishing with every added year in an individual’s lifespan. The degree of being curious gradually subsides as we grow up and our thoughts get influenced and shaped by society at large. However, what we forget is that it is this curious mind that fuels imagination and gives rise to discoveries and inventions. Steve Jobs would not have been what we know him today had his curiosity for typefaces not led him to attend a seemingly assumed useless class on typography. His development of design sensibility became an essential part of Apple computers and Apple’s core differentiator in the marketplace. It is safe to say that curiosity is the key to the discovery of any next breakthrough idea.
Curiosity fuels imagination, creative work and innovation. It is not just about solving problems. Instead it is about exploration and expansion of thoughts and ideas. Alan Sentman, Ph.D. Senior Scientist says “Science as a field is entirely based on curiosity. Science at its basic core is a framework of processes to observe ‘everything’ with a goal of understanding how it works.”
Then, why should the corporate world remain deprived of this skill which surely can be manifested in innumerous forms for propelling a healthy organizational climate of growth?
In fact, it is quite often seen that organizations work hard to attract people with inquisitive mindsets and then they stick them in an environment in which curiosity is discouraged.
Creating a culture starts with seeing the individuals beyond job titles to identify what unique gifts they can bring to the table. Let us dig deeper into what all can be done to cultivate a culture of curiosity that will enhance the organization’s performance as a whole.
Promote all kinds of learning for your employees
Generally all companies L&D strategies are related to solely professional development of employees. There are budgets sanctioned for professional development plans (PDPs) that are must to exhaust in order to be eligible for performance appraisal cycle. Much emphasis is given to PDPs by ignoring the aspect of personal development of an individual which actually forms the base of an individual. The rationale for personal development has a direct consequence to the increased level of curiosity. Hence, organizations must allow their people to feel free to request support for any kind of learning they want. Such openness surely pays off in work related future goals. Imagine an employee – a project manager, who had once requested from his training budget to pay for a portion of his photography classes. Now he runs the branding programs of the company by taking an additional responsibility as the de facto in-house photographer. His new interest and genuine talent resulted in saving company’s huge cost that could have been spent on hiring an outside photographer. And alongside, the by-product of such culture is increased motivation, loyalty, retention and a great learning ecosystem in all true sense.
Encourage Inquiry and questions for curious leaders
‘Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers’ says Voltaire - the French enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Invoke inquiry in people’s mind and style of working. Let them write agendas in form of questions like ‘How should we prioritize these projects?’ or ‘What models of engagement might we offer the client?’ Encourage curious questioning and logical reasoning between teams. Promote a culture where people are not scared or apprehensive to speak up. Let them ask curious questions, share ideas and contribute. And as a result, your company will produce more productive meetings among a highly energizing team. In fact, team meetings must be rooted in scientific inquiry and research. Let them plan for projects with iteration and experimentation with an agenda to explore new paths. Invoke thoughts that may not be stereotyped and challenge their assumptions. Remember, work is more rewarding when curiosity and discovery are embedded in it.
Empower leaders to create a culture of curiosity
Many great leaders feel that it is their curiosity that constantly drives them to lookout for something new and different, in ways that they can show up and share their work with larger group of people. There is no doubt about its essence as every product innovation created has resulted from people asking questions or looking at something differently. It is hence imperative for leaders to power curious individuals and organizations to measure, benchmark, and act on the opinions that drive success by recognizing curiosity at the heart of everything their employees do. Remember what Albert Einstein had said “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
Take time to reflect on what kind of curious culture does your organization dwell on. Is curiosity encouraged in your organization? Do you crush other people’s curiosity with comments like, ‘We have always done it that way’ or ‘this will never work!’ Remember it is curiosity that will create the next Google or Microsoft. | <urn:uuid:74c99cfd-7d78-4373-9201-31e1720bd77a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.peoplemattersglobal.com/article/culture/cultivating-a-culture-of-curiosity-to-enhance-organizational-performance-23440 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967818 | 990 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Smallsticks is the Hockey NZ categorisation for kids aged 5 - 12 years old.
Youth Hockey is the classification for kids school year 9 - 13
The Hockey NZ Resource Hub has a range of training activities for coaches. These include a combination of skill and game-based activities. All activities come with a diagram, information about what you need, how the activity works, and some coaching points. You can even save the activity to your device or print a hard copy.
Sportplan lets you have your own personal library to create, design and save your ideas; it helps to plan sessions, create your own drills & has a huge database of hockey drills for all areas of the game.
Our Vision: More people participating in hockey and having life-long love for the game
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Our back garden is a haven for birds and squirrels. Our garden has been certified a National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Habitat. We're proud of that!
We feed 12 months of the year and have several birdbaths around the garden for water. In winter, we have a birdbath heater on one of them so that our feathered friends can drink or bathe no matter what the temperature.
We welcome our feathered visitors and enjoy seeing the winter residents return as well as seeing our summer friends and their young cavorting around the yard. We enjoy, too, the occasional migrator that stumbles upon our food supply! It's always a great day when we see a stranger!
We love their antics both in summer and winter and besides feeders, Husband Jim enjoys putting food in unusual places. Because of that, he has trained the birds to feed in places other than the feeders.
What a thrill is was last week to see the two doves enjoying lunch on the statue. So busy were they with gathering seed that they didn't realize that I had snapped their picture!!!
And the same day, I looked up and at the pond . . . . where the day before 10 robins had been
Was Herr Squirrel getting a drink as well. It was a warmer day and the pond wasn't frozen over -- that day and the day before, besides the robins, were lots of sparrows and finches and even a tufted titmouse drinking from the pond.
By the time I got the camera, Herr Squirrel was sitting up and soon bounded away.
It's nice to be able to not only feed the birds and squirrels but to make sure they have a source of water as well.
What little the food and water cost us is repaid over many times by the birds themselves!
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Vancouver's Leader in Transition toward Strong, Resilient, Complete Communities
Time: February 4, 2017 from 10am to 2pm
Location: VanDusen Botanical Garden
Street: 5251 Oak Street
Website or Map: http://www.vandusengarden.org
Event Neighbourhood and Type: kerrisdale, shaughnessy, gardening
Organized By: VanDusen Botanical Garden
Latest Activity: Feb 1, 2017
VanDusen member: $55 / Non-member: $62
This course with long-time VanDusen gardener, Casey Werfl, takes a seasonal look at pruning, with focus on flowering shrubs, and renovation pruning.
Casey will give a brief overview of the universal guidelines and logic for pruning, and some basic botany to help you understand how plants respond to being pruned. Class will cover knowing when and how to prune flowering shrubs for maximum blooms, and how to rejuvenate a plant and stimulate lots of new growth through renovation pruning. Course will include a walk in the Garden to examine plants in need of pruning and how to do it, see the results of past pruning and demonstrate proper techniques. Dress for the weather.
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Really, I have no desire to hear them from leaders of parties who described his organisation as terrorist, who believed that sanctions were wrong, whose jolly young members wore T-shirts demanding he be strung up. Of course, not all Tories were pro-apartheid, but I can already feel the revisionism revving up.
By 1984Jerry Dammers had written Free Nelson Mandela. But apartheid continued to exist, propped up by the Tories. Some of their elder statesmen, such as Norman Tebbit, still see Thatcher’s policy as a success.David Cameron denounced it in 2006, saying she had been wrong to condemn the ANC as terrorists and to have opposed sanctions. Too late for those veteran campaigners such as Peter Hain, who had seen the massacres in the townships and knew it was a life-or-death struggle.
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Working with Race, Culture and faith systems in the Context of Professional Curiosity:
This course will explore diversity and culture within safeguarding. It aims to provide participants with a deeper understanding of working with families and developing confidence and clarity between acknowledging that all families parent differently and how to use a baseline of what is acceptable for children and their development.
Domestic abuse is any type of controlling, bullying, threatening or violent behaviour between people in a relationship. It isn’t just physical violence; domestic abuse includes any emotional, physical, sexual, economic / financial or psychological abuse. This course is intended to enable practitioners to develop informed and responsive interventions that support victims and prevent repeated abuse.
• To explore the complexities and dynamics of abusive relationships and it’s impact on victims
• To consider the cycle of abuse, a ‘victim’s journey’ and the reasons why victims stay in abusive relationships
• Explore gains and losses of leaving a relationship & Impact of Economic Abuse
• To challenge the common myths, stereotypes and social tolerance of the different forms of domestic abuse
• To identify practical tools to help support victims including Power & Control Wheel & Claire's Law
• Awareness of new legislation - Domestic Abuse Bill - Coercive Control
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Kudos to all my Austin, Texas genealogy friends who will be attending the Texas State Library and Archives Commission‘s first event devoted to black family history research Saturday, February 13, 2016, from 12 noon – 3 PM! This event is in collaboration with the Austin History Center and the Carver Genealogy Center
Attendees will learn best practices and tips for starting their family research, as well as, learn about area resources, and have an opportunity to ask questions related to their research.
Noon – 12:45 pm – Documenting Your History workshop led by LaToya Devezin, African-American Community Archivist at the Austin History Center.
1 pm – 1:45 pm – Resources for African-American [sic] at TSLAC presented by Tonia Woods, Senior Reference Archivist at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
2 pm – 2:45 pm – Genealogy Discussion forum moderated by Cynthia Evans, Genealogy Coordinator at the Carver Genealogy Center.
Seats are limited. Parking is available at the Capitol Visitors Garage and metered parking along San Jacinto Blvd. For more information or to reserve a space, email Ashley Stevens, Education and Outreach Coordinator at [email protected] or call at 512-463-9807.
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Seasonal allergens present in infancy may leave you prone to certain conditions later in life.
Circadian rhythm and sunlight play an important role in mental health.
For centuries, physicians used astrology as a medical tool to help diagnose certain conditions, illnesses, and diseases. They believed signs of the zodiac influenced specific body parts, and astrologers believed—without evidence—that the moon caused insanity.
The medical profession has advanced significantly since then (to say the least) and no longer relies on star charts for diagnosis. However, there may be some seeds of truth behind the idea that the season of your birth month could affect your health.
The connection between birth month and disease
Depending on when you were born (winter, spring, summer or fall), you could have a higher or lower risk for: schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, sleep disorders, Type 1 diabetes, heart disease, bipolar disorder, and allergies, to name a few. For example, experiencing seasonal dust mites in infancy connects to a significantly increased risk of developing asthma later in life. Dust mite allergen levels are usually highest between July and October; therefore people born during these months have historically higher rates of asthma and allergies.
Moreover, data scientists at Columbia University have discovered a relationship between birth month and nine types of heart disease. Their research shows that New Yorkers born in March face the highest risk of atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, and mitral valve disorder.
What your birth month says about your health
The reasons your birth month correlates to your health have to do with the complex ways in which human biology is modulated by seasonal changes. A study in Current Biology summarizes the conditions that have been reliably associated with birth month:
- Alcohol abuse: March – July
- Alzheimer’s disease: January – March
- Autism: March – August
- Bipolar disorder: January – April
- Type 1 (childhood) diabetes: March – June
- Down’s syndrome: June – August
- Eating disorder: February – May
- Epilepsy: January – March
- Glaucoma: April – June
- Multiple sclerosis (Northern Hemisphere): April – June
- Multiple sclerosis (Southern Hemisphere): October – December
- Narcolepsy: February – April
- Parkinson’s Disease: April – June
- Personality disorder: March – May
- Seasonal affective disorder: March – April
- Schizophrenia (Northern Hemisphere): December – January
- Schizophrenia (Southern Hemisphere): June – September
Among the studies of the correlation between various diseases/disorders and seasons of birth, a large meta-study conducted in 2003 stands out for finding connections between birth month and mental health. This meta-study analyzed more than 86 million births from 27 different parts of the world and concluded that people born in the winter months have an increased risk for schizophrenia compared to those born in months with more daylight hours.
All of this has to do with circadian rhythm, the internal clock that is central to many life functions. The body’s processes that influence everything from cell growth and reproduction to the functioning of digestive tissue, lungs, heart, liver, and patterns of social behavior depend in part on light — specifically, sunlight. Thus, changes in sunlight exposure over the course of the year or being born in a month with less sunlight could affect physical and mental functions, as is observed in seasonal affective disorder.
However, it is important to not be overwhelmed by these connections. Being born in a certain month does not mean that you are going to get a certain disease. Though associations between birth month and disease have been found, they are not fully understood, and the overall risk is part of a complicated mix of other variables like family history and lifestyle. It is also important to get your health information from trusted experts and not from pseudo-sciences like astrology.
It is important to get your health information from trusted, credentialed medical experts and not from pseudo-sciences like astrology. Personalized, preventative care from a skilled doctor is the best way to safeguard your health.
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Military Intelligence Service
Under a shroud of secrecy and with the backing of the United States War Department, the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) trained and graduated nearly 6,000 linguists—the majority of whom were Japanese Americans. Due to the security-classified nature of their activities, Nisei members of the MIS never received as much publicity as their counterparts in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RTC) and 100th Infantry Battalion . They ultimately played a decisive role in the victory of American forces over Japan in the Pacific. They were among the first soldiers to arrive in Japan after its surrender, and they became some of the first American observers to witness the destructive effects of the atomic bombs that had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Nisei later served in important positions in the occupation of Japan and more than seventy MIS linguists provided translation and interpreter services for the war crimes trials held in Japan, China, the Philippines, French Indochina, and the East Indies. As Japanese Americans, these linguists turned out to be instrumental in bridging cultural and linguistic differences and helped to establish the foundations for postwar relations between Japan and the United States.
Role of the MIS in World War II
During World War II, MIS graduates took on active service in every combat theater and engaged in every major battle launched against Japanese military forces. According to Major General Charles Willoughby, G2 Intelligence Chief for General Douglas MacArthur, these Nisei "shortened the Pacific war by two years." They served with the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force as well as with British, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Chinese, and Indian combat units fighting the Japanese. Trained as interrogators, interpreters, translators, radio announcers, and propaganda writers at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at the Presidio in San Francisco, and at Camp Savage and Fort Snelling in Minnesota, MIS graduates came to be considered the "eyes and ears" of American and Allied Forces in the war against Japan. By September 1945, they had translated 18,000 captured enemy documents, printed 16,000 propaganda leaflets, and interrogated more than 10,000 Japanese prisoners of war. These men faced some of the most dangerous situations during the war, often being placed on the front lines of battle against the Japanese while simultaneously trying to avoid "friendly fire" from American soldiers who could not distinguish them from enemy Japanese. According to John Aiso , an MIS veteran, "We may have been the only soldiers in history to have bodyguards to protect us from our own forces in combat zones so we would not be mistaken for the enemy." More than one MIS soldier became a casualty from "friendly fire," and many MIS personnel had to ensure that Caucasian soldiers who could vouch for their loyalty accompanied them into battle.
Besides the constant danger of "friendly fire," the Nisei were well aware that imperial forces considered them to be Japanese nationals, and capture meant certain execution as traitors. Their identities doubled the dangers they faced in battle from both Japanese and American soldiers, both of whom perceived them as the enemy. Unlike the Navajo Code Talkers also utilized by the American military, these linguists who operated in the Pacific were confronted by the very real possibility of encountering and fighting against friends, acquaintances, and family members. Many of them had close personal ties to Japan or had attended school in Japan. Throughout the war, many had unexpected meetings and spontaneous reunions with former teachers, classmates, and family members, emphasizing the complicated and personal nature of war for the men of the MIS, particularly as combat came closer to Japan. Takejiro Higa, for example, wondered what would happen if "I meet somebody I know, or my relative, my classmate" in battle or in the prisoner of war (POW) camps. This was Higa's biggest concern—one that weighed heavily on his mind since contact between siblings or former classmates fighting on opposing sides took place fairly regularly. During the Battle of Okinawa, Higa unexpectedly encountered two of his childhood friends as well as his seventh and eighth grade teacher, Shunso Nakamura, who was "dumbstruck, never dreaming he would see one of his former students with the invading forces."
The war took on a very personal element as these soldiers also encountered civilian populations with familiar faces and family ties. One of the most dangerous yet valuable services the men of the MIS provided in Okinawa was to persuade people who were hiding in the numerous deep caves on the island to surrender. If they did not, the Americans would dynamite the caves to prevent Japanese soldiers from using them as hideouts. During the Battle of Okinawa, the men of Okinawan descent, such as Seiyu Higashi, Jiro Arakaki, and Shiney Gima, would often ask for permission to search for their parents or relatives in the mountains or civilian compounds.
Throughout the war these linguists were often present at the most critical encounters—both military and diplomatic—between Japanese and American forces. MIS personnel had the greatest impact in the Pacific Theater where they participated in every major battle and campaign against Japan. MIS soldiers served as undercover agents in the Philippines, fought behind enemy lines with Merrill’s Marauders in Burma, experienced jungle warfare in New Guinea, landed with the Marines on the beaches of Iwo Jima, and crawled into the caves of Saipan to persuade suicidal enemy forces to surrender. Throughout their experiences, they confronted their dual identity as American citizens of Japanese ethnicity, fighting to prove their loyalty against the country of their parents. Numerous soldiers had family members within the incarceration camps, while others knew of relatives still residing in Japan. When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, all but ending the war, many Nisei experienced mixed emotions, as many had family members still living in these two Japanese cities.
The Occupation of Japan
According to Nisei veteran Hideo Uto, the "tremendous task of occupying the Japanese homeland" fell upon linguists skilled in communicating in Japanese, including second-generation Japanese Americans who were put to work in all phases of the occupation program and in all parts of Japan. During the occupation of Japan, Nisei interpreters worked closely with both the Marine officers in charge of restoring Nagasaki and Nagasaki City and prefectural officials. In addition to issues related to public welfare and the rebuilding of cities, they were also responsible for the demobilization of Japanese military personnel from various overseas posts in Siberia.
Another important concern for American forces was the arrest and prosecution of Japan's military leaders—a task which also involved Nisei personnel. Many Nisei participated in the prosecution of the individuals housed in Sugamo Prison during the war trials that began in December 1945 and lasted until 1948. More than seventy linguists, most of them members of the MIS, provided translation services for the war crimes tribunals and served as the interpreters for the trials held in Japan, China, the Philippines, French Indochina, and the East Indies. In addition to working directly with Japanese and Japanese officials, many Nisei officers were assigned as language aides and cultural liaisons to key General Headquarters (GHQ) officers.
Administrative matters also constituted an important concern for American forces as a new Japanese constitution needed to be written. MIS graduate George Koshi became intimately involved in this historic undertaking, which forever renounced war as a "sovereign right of the nation." The new constitution also forbade the existence of a Japanese military. To maintain internal security, the constitution provided for a national Police Reserve force, which came about with the assistance of MIS personnel such as Raymond Aka. Further, members of the MIS, including Shiro Tokuno and Shigehara Takahashi, participated in the implementation of the compulsory agrarian land law throughout Japan in October 1946. This revolutionary piece of legislation remanded nearly six million acres of farmland to individual farmers and eliminated the prewar rural domination by large landowners.
During this period of upheaval and reorganization in Japan, two organizations staffed by MIS personnel proved critical to maintaining order. The first, the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD), extracted civil intelligence information from various mass media sources in Japan to monitor and ensure the orderly implementation of occupation policies originating from MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. The CCD was responsible for censoring all forms of Japanese communication. The other important organization in the occupation was the Counter Intelligence Corps, or CIC, which had offices in all major Japanese cities. Several hundred Nisei special agents and investigators worked throughout Japan to detect and prevent subversive activities.
According to the dominant literature, the efforts made by Nisei of the MIS during the occupation of Japan contributed to the rebuilding of Japan through the development of personal relationships between Japanese and Americans. As members of both cultures, they exploited their dual identity to bridge cultural differences and create understanding and reconciliation between the two nations. Many scholars as well as veterans themselves have argued that their loyalty arguably belonged to both Japan and the United States: while they worked for an American military victory and were active during the occupation of Japan, they also possessed a deep and abiding interest in the welfare of the Japanese people during the rebuilding of Japan. Other scholars like Eiichiro Azuma offer a more critical perspective of the actions of the MIS during the occupation of Japan as Nisei soldiers were also used as direct enforcers of United States military domination against Japanese nationals. Thus, to protect their reputation of uncompromised loyalty, some Nisei soldiers also behaved in a most "undemocratic" manner to Japanese citizens as they served as "middlemen" between occupying forces and the general population.
Both perspectives, however, recognize the challenges facing Nisei soldiers of the MIS who held American citizenship yet possessed ethnic and cultural ties to Japan. As "cultural brokers" between Japan and America, their dualistic identities posed a challenge both in the United States and Japan as they were identified as cultural liaisons but were never really embraced by both sides. The nebulous position occupied by members of the MIS enabled these soldiers to engage in a wide variety of activities and behaviors that were both celebrated and criticized by American and Japanese officials during and after the war. As such, a nuanced perspective of the role of the MIS is necessary to understand the diversity of their experiences and actions particularly during the occupation of Japan.
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- Aiso, 177.
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- Michael Tsai, "Sohei Yamate: Hawai'i Nisei Recalls Tojo's Imprisonment at Sugamo Prison," The Hawai'i Herald 14, 14 (1993): A-28.
- Koshi also served as defense counsel during the war crimes investigations and trials held from December 1945 to mid-1948 in Tokyo and Yokohama. The Pacific War and Peace: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Military Intelligence Service 1941 to 1952 (San Francisco: Military Intelligence Service Association of Northern California and the National Japanese American Historical Society, 1991), 72.
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One of the frustrating experiences for any photographer is getting underexposed images. It makes the photo vague and unattractive and hides some crucial details. But luckily, this photo doesn't need to go to the trash folder. Instead, we have scoured the internet and come up with some reliable solutions to fix photo underexposed issue in an instant.
Please give it a thorough read and find out which method comes up with your expectation. Don’t forget we also have a bonus software that can enhance any underexposed image with just one click.
Before moving forward, it's essential to understand why you're getting an underexposed image. Underexposure is a lack of light in pictures. That is when a photo appears gloomy or too dark than it should be, or its important detail is hidden in the shadow parts.
Underexposure is due mainly to issues in camera settings or human error, but many other factors also sometimes come into play. Below are the three common culprits of underexposed photography.
1. Lack of Light
Arguably the most evident yet the most common reason for getting dark images. Sometimes, the environment doesn't simply have enough light, or the light is constantly changing.
It requires you to change the camera settings like exposure to compensate for the imbalanced light. But chances of making an error while tweaking settings quickly are high, resulting in underexposed images.
2. Improper Camera Settings
Flash settings of a camera can also result in underexposed images. For instance, the photo can be gloomy if your camera's shutter speed is too fast for the flash to keep up. Similarly, at times the flash doesn't go off, resulting in photo underexposed/.
Also, check if your flash setting is relatively lower, which has a high chance of affecting the photo.
3. Metering Issue
Another top reason for poor dark images is the metering mode on your camera. It happens when the image background is too dark or too bright, making it hard for the camera sensor to read details. Thus, even with proper flash settings, you may end up getting underexposed images.
Photoshop is still the industry standard for photo editing. It comes loaded with many tools to let you fix the unexposed image and enhance its clarity and brightness. What's best about this program is that it offers several ways to improve an image's overall quality and make it more transparent.
Adobe Photoshop might be too expensive, but it can transform even ordinary images into extraordinary ones. You can adjust skin tone, customize the background, add or remove blurs, remove red eyes, whiten teeth, and perform many other editing tools to enhance an image.
Want to find out how to fix underexposed photos in Photoshop? Here are some valuable instructions you need to follow:
Step 1: Install and set up Adobe Photoshop on your PC, and import the image you want to fix.
Step 2: Go to the Adjustment Layer at the bottom of the Layers palette.
Step 3: Choose Brightness/Contrast.
Next, ensure the Preview box is checked and adjust both sliders until you’re satisfied with the image’s quality.
Step 4: Click on Shadows/Highlights and move the sliders one by one to adjust the image’s sharpness accordingly.
Step 5: Select the Levels option.
Drag the middle slider to the left to brighten your image, then tweak other sliders according to your requirements.
Step 6: Go to the Blend modes in the Adjustment Layers.
This mode can make the image much brighter and clearer. Experiment with Blending settings to fix your image as much as possible.
As excellent and versatile this program is, it doesn't offer any plan to purchase the app. Instead, users need to pay for it monthly, and not to mention. It is among the most expensive editing tools of 2022. Plus, its interface is quite tech-savvy, and it's common to spend several hours getting acquainted with it.
Wondershare Repairit is an effective program that guarantees to fix any gloomy image with a single click. It has one of the most advanced repair algorithms that automatically detect and fix issues in an image.
Wondershare Repairit is an effective program that guarantees to fix any gloomy image with a single click. It has one of the most advanced repair algorithms that automatically detect and fix issues in an image. ot only an underexposed photo, but a damaged/corrupt image of any format is easily repaired by this feature-rich tool. No matter how badly corrupt the image is or if it is missing any bytes or color, Repairit can bring it back to life in no time. Plus, it works on inaccessible or unreadable images and repairs them effortlessly.
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Follow the below instructions to repair underexposed images using Repairit:
Step 1: Install and run Wondershare Repairit on your PC.
Select Photo Repair on the left tab, then click on Add to import your underexposed photos.
Step 2: Click on Repair and wait until Repairit fixes your images.
You will see their detailed information After uploading the underexposed images. Click on the "Repair" button to fix the underexposed images.
Step 3: Preview and save the repaired photos.
After the photos are fiexed, click the "Preview" button to check the photo quality before you save the fixed photo. If you are satisfied with the fixed photo, you can press the "Save" button to download it into your computer.
If the fixed photo quality doesn't meet your expectation, try the "Advanced Repair" function, just need to upload a a sample photo that has the same format as the underexposed one. See the detailed guide for "Advanced Photo Repair".
Undoubtedly, no photographer would ever want to take a bit to dark or gloomy photos. So check out the below tips that you should keep in mind to avoid getting an underexposed image.
1. Set a Low ISO:
The ISO number on your camera determines the sensitivity of its senor to light. A high ISO number on a sunny day often overexposes the image.
So, adjust the ISO number depending on where and when you’re shooting. For instance, it’s an excellent option to set ISO 100 on a sunny day, ISO 400 on a cloudy day, and ISO 800 when shooting indoors. On the other hand, if the environment is quite dark, then go for ISO 1600+.
2. Set Medium to Fast Shutter Speed and Aperture:
The shutter speed determines how the camera shutter opens and exposes light onto its sensor. A too fast shutter speed increases the chances of overexposing the image. Anything around 1/60 is an excellent place to start, but your environmental conditions greatly influence the shutter speed.
Similarly, if the aperture or f-stop is too low, it can let in too much light and overexpose the photo. Go with a medium aperture around f/8 and adjust it from there.
3. Use the Light Meter:
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She showed that Deaf and blind people deserved respect. She helped support various Deaf-Blind programs. Helen inspired people with disabilities because she was persistent. The organization printed books and music in braille and these books helped blind people so they could understand and learn new things.
- 1 Why Helen Keller is an inspirational woman to?
- 2 What lesson can we learn from Helen Keller?
- 3 How did Helen Keller’s book proved to be so inspiring for others?
- 4 Why is Helen Keller admired?
- 5 How did Helen Keller influence the world?
- 6 What major events did Helen Keller influence?
- 7 What is the moral story of Helen Keller?
- 8 What is the conclusion of Helen Keller?
- 9 How did Helen Keller managed to have a good life?
- 10 Who influenced Helen Keller?
- 11 What was Helen Keller’s biggest accomplishment?
- 12 What makes Helen Keller a hero?
- 13 What did Helen Keller invent?
Why Helen Keller is an inspirational woman to?
Her story is truly inspirational. In her lifetime, she was an author, a political activist and a lecturer, and she campaigned for women’s suffrage and labor rights, among other things. And, she’s well known for being the author of the following inspirational and wise words: “ Security is mostly a superstition.
What lesson can we learn from Helen Keller?
There are many lessons to be learned from Helen Keller. One lesson is to never give up. Others can use this lesson in their lives by persevering, even when there are challenges. Another lesson is to work hard, which Helen did to learn how to speak and earn a degree.
How did Helen Keller’s book proved to be so inspiring for others?
This book has been inspiring others to persevere in difficult circumstances for over one hundred years. Helen Keller was deaf and blind for a large portion of her childhood. She not only learned how to communicate and read with the help of her teacher, Miss Sullivan, but she also became a successful writer.
Why is Helen Keller admired?
Helen was honored numerous times for her courageousness and persistence throughout her life. In 2003, Alabama honored her by putting her on the state quarter. Many can admire her because she put forth a lot of effort toward being able to communicate with the people in the world around her.
How did Helen Keller influence the world?
As Helen Keller traveled the world, she changed the lives of millions of people with visual impairments. She brought them courage and hope. Thanks to her visits, many real improvements became available such as better job training, more braille books, books on tape, and better educational opportunities.
What major events did Helen Keller influence?
She supported the suffrage movement, embraced socialism, advocated for the blind and became a pacifist during World War I. Keller’s life story was featured in the 1919 film, Deliverance.
What is the moral story of Helen Keller?
The theme of The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is the power of perseverance to overcome great obstacles. Keller is struck with an illness when she is a very young child that makes her blind and deaf, and she exists in a world of confusion. Another theme of this book is the power of the right kind of education.
What is the conclusion of Helen Keller?
In conclusion, Helen Keller is important to me because she inspired millions of people. Helen also helped other people in other countries who were blind and deaf. She helped many people live a long life. Helen Keller was determined and overcame her challenges.
How did Helen Keller managed to have a good life?
Despite being blind as well as deaf, she learned to communicate and lived a life devoted to helping others. Her faith, determination, and spirit helped her to accomplish far more than many people expected. In fact, she won the admiration of famous figures from all over the world.
Who influenced Helen Keller?
Helen Keller, in full Helen Adams Keller, (born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S.—died June 1, 1968, Westport, Connecticut), American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities.
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10 Major Achievements of Helen Keller
- #1 Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (CNS) — For 72-year-old Ben Dettinger and his wife, Wanda, 70, of Mink Shoals, just north of Charleston, the chemical spill that has crippled the water system in West Virginia’s capital has been a particularly scary turn of events.
“We didn’t hear about it until 7:30 p.m. on Thursday (the day of the spill) and that was three hours after they put a ban on water use; and we had water with our meal,” Wanda said. “Of course we were very concerned when we heard the news.”
Frantically, they tried to call the West Virginia State Police but were unable to get through. They did get in touch with the governor’s office, where officials told them not to drink anymore of the water. Thankfully, Wanda said, they had not gotten sick.
The Dettingers are part of the population that officials with Catholic Charities West Virginia in the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese are most concerned about in the disaster — the elderly and the poor.
“For you and me, it’s an inconvenience not to have water,” said Elizabeth Hardy, the Catholic agency’s western regional director in Charleston. “We can go to the store and buy it. For those who are low-income (or elderly), it’s difficult. … We assisted about 1,400 families Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 11 and 12) with donations of water. All of our services right now are geared to those who have limited income or who are poor.”
The disaster occurred when a chemical used in the coal preparation process leaked from a tank at a Freedom Industries facility into the Elk River, which flows into the Kanawha River through Charleston. A ban on using tap water was issued late afternoon Jan. 9, and the following day a federal disaster declaration was issued for West Virginia. About 300,000 people in nine counties have been affected.
Since the disaster began, the Dettingers said they have received outreach from many in the Charleston-area who want to help.
“We have had so many people — neighbors, the church — giving us water,” Wanda told The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the statewide diocese. “It was a bad thing to have happen, but I have seen so many people lending a helping hand. I am so thankful for all those who helped us, and I just hope this doesn’t happen again.”
The Knights of Columbus from the Dettingers’ home parish of the Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Charleston delivered water to them at their home.
“There’s plenty of water now in Charleston, but there are a lot of elderly people who cannot access it,” said Msgr. P. Edward Sadie, rector of the basilica. “The Knights of Columbus brought down a truckload of water from Clarksburg and they have been distributing it to individual families and made it available Sunday after all the Masses. … One of the Knights and I then took water to some of the parishioners we know who are unable to get their own supplies of water.”
Through its partnership with a group called Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, Catholic Charities West Virginia has been trying to meet the physical and spiritual needs of individuals and families impacted by the chemical spill, said Mark Sliter-Hays, Catholic Charities’ executive director. The organization mobilized a drive for bottled water, baby wipes, sanitizers and paper products Jan. 10-11.
“A 26-foot truck was filled with these donations from local residents as well as large donations from the Diocese of Youngstown (Ohio) and Sam’s (Club), Lowe’s, Riesbeck’s and others,” Sliter-Hays said, adding that the agency’s mobile van in Parkersburg was sent out filled with distilled water, bottled water and sanitizers.
“In the more rural areas, we have assisted two organizations in feeding large groups,” he said. “To meet the pastoral needs, a staff member has been requested to provide spiritual care.”
He added that his agency planned to apply to Catholic Charities USA for a funding grant to help more of those affected and that it would “continue to monitor the situation.”
As the crisis continued, Hardy said people were hoping for an end in sight of the disaster. “There is a little bit of nervousness on when our area will go back to normal,” Hardy said. “Our businesses were all closed Friday, schools were closed.”
West Virginia American Water Co. announced the afternoon of Jan. 13 that it was lifting the ban on water use in certain areas. The company, with the help of the West Virginia National Guard, had begun flushing the water system.
The Courier-Journal daily newspaper reported Jan. 14 that the contaminated water was heading down the Ohio River and expected to reach Louisville, Ky., sometime Jan. 17.
City officials there said the tainted water should not adversely affect residents but the paper reported that regional officials were not giving “a blanket assurance that the chemical contamination poses no health threats.”
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Editor’s Note: Catholic Charities West Virginia is collecting financial donations to support long-term relief. To make a tax deductible gift, call (304) 905-9860 or visit www.CatholicCharitiesWV.org.
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Rowan is editor of The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.
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Smart technology is ever developing alongside the Internet of Things (IoT), but with more devices comes more opportunity for hackers, phishers and saboteurs to get into your devices and gain control.
You wouldn’t leave the doors and windows open when you leave the house – and the same applies for your smart technology. Learn how to keep your smart home safe.
Think of all your devices. A hacker can gain access and control of a device and use functions and features – for example, downloading data, using cameras and preventing you accessing it.
Whilst hacking the actual device in question is an option, it is often far easier to hack a phone or app that controls it, or a wifi connection linked to it, so consider the whole chain of connectivity for your smart home.
Remember that sometimes it is not control or use of the device the hacker wants – some will hack apps that show activity patterns to know when you are out, and burgle your house the old fashioned way.
We’ve heard it all before – but keeping passwords secure is so important to smart home security. Use a combination of upper and lower case, symbols and numbers, but try not to use chains of numbers, easy words (like your name) or the same password for everything. Don’t make it easy!
Making sure all the latest updates are installed on all your devices is vital. With each update comes a host of new information and patches for your device to defend against harmful or destructive vulnerabilities – for example, the recent Wannacry attacks were followed by updates for most devices to protect against the new-found information.
3: Buy Trusted Brands
There is a reason that brands are trusted – the cheap knock-off equivalent at the local market just won’t cut the mustard. Go with reliable and renowned brands who offer strong customer support – and ask them for security tips with your new devices.
Also have a look at built in security measures on your new device – for example, Nest offer 2 step authentification for logging in, making it more secure than just a password. Generally more trusted brands will provide better security and keep your smart home safe.
4: Hide your Wifi
Firstly, make sure your wifi is set up to use WPA or WPA2 settings, instead of the weakest option, WEP, which is often the default.
Secondly, disable guest networks – this is a good starting point to make it harder to get in and keep your smart home safe.
5: Create Two Wifi Networks
Create 2 wifi networks if your router is a ‘dual band’ version – create one network for secure shopping, banking and sensitive data, and one for general use like phones and gadgets. This means that if a hacker gets access to the less secure network, the other one is still safe.
6: Switch Off Unused Features
Lots of the features that come switched on as default are never used by the owner. Run through your devices to make sure any unused features are switched off to reduce the routes available for hackers to get into your devices to keep your smart home safe.
7: Create a Perimeter Fence
Any devices that it is possible to add security software to, do it! Smart phones are a key device to ensure antivirus and firewall are installed on, as this can be a gateway for hackers to access other devices in your smart home.
Change your wifi username to something a bit random, obscure – or even comical. Just as long as it isn’t the basic random numbers and letters you got when it was sent to you, or your name – anything that makes it easy to identify that you or your home are the owner of the network.
[Need ideas? Our fave comedy names are ‘Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi’, ‘Martin Router King’, and ‘the LAN Before Time’ – get creative!]
9: UTM/USM Appliances
If your home is super connected and filled with smart technology then you may need something more. UTM (Unified Threat Management) or USM (Unified Security Management) appliances are defined as:
“The evolution of the traditional firewall into an all-inclusive security product able to perform multiple security functions within one single system: network firewalling, network intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS), gateway antivirus (AV), gateway anti-spam, VPN, content filtering, load balancing, data loss prevention, and on-appliance reporting”
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- POSTED ON 12/9/2017
- CATEGORY: History,
Rescuing a Pioneer Cemetery
By Mychel Matthews (view original article here)
HAGERMAN — The oldest graves around here are 165 years old, under a cairn along the Old Oregon Trail near Salmon Falls. Others graves are closer to town.
Johnny Smalley was bitten by a rattlesnake. And Harry Cline, aka outlaw Bronco Pete, was killed by a posse in 1898 when he crossed the river to say goodbye to his girlfriend at Kanaka Flats.
Smalley and Cline and some 90 or so others are buried in Hagerman’s Pioneer Cemetery, among the dozen graveyards in Gooding County.
The Pioneer Cemetery, with only a few dozen marked graves, has been all but forgotten.
“I bet half the town doesn’t even know it’s here,” said Tom Smith, Hagerman Cemetery District sexton.
But one man has taken it upon himself to change that.
“My goal is to get it cleaned up and presentable,” said Hagerman resident Stan Bartlett. Those interred here “deserve more respect than they are getting.”
Bartlett has spinal cancer, and he wants to devote the rest of his life to doing something meaningful.
The graveyard hasn’t been used in decades. Some of the graves may never have had markers; others were made of wood and have disintegrated over the years. Few pioneers could afford etched headstones.
“I got out of treatment in the middle of July and started working on it,” the 78-year-old Bartlett said Thursday. “I just went down there and went to work.”
Thomas Jasper Ayres drowned in the Snake River in 1900 at the age of 23. Billy Wilson and Samuel Baker were murdered in 1892 by James Cross.
Some of those buried in the Pioneer Cemetery were moved from a cemetery in Bliss decades ago when the interstate came through the area.
Jimmy Rickert and T.J. Allison are also buried here. Rickert was gathering coal along the railroad tracks in 1908 and was hit by a train. Allison, a 75-year-old gold miner, died in his camp wagon in 1910.
Finding out who lies where has been a challenge.
“I’d like to find a map of all the plots,” Bartlett said. As of Thursday, he didn’t know a map existed.
“He’s going to be thrilled to know I found a map,” Smith said.
Bartlett has cut down encroaching trees and repaired broken headstones. The work is slow and never ending, he said, as he demonstrated how he makes 7-foot swaths through pin grass and crested wheat with his weed-eater.
He carefully traversed the rough cemetery ground, resting occasionally against the broken branch of a tree.
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The Edwards Middle School held its annual holiday raffle on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 20 and 21, and it was an opportunity for sixth-grade students to “buy” gifts for family and friends for the holidays.
Rather than paying for gifts with money, students “spend” raffle tickets they have earned for demonstrating school wide core values. The Edwards Middle School core values include good attendance, respect for staff and peers, positive participation in class, and classwork and homework completion. The theme of this year’s holiday raffle is “Happiness doesn’t result from what we get but from what we give,” a quote from Benjamin Carson.
Every year for more than a decade, The Edwards Middle School staff donates new and lightly used items that students can “buy” to give as gifts for family members. Among the many items in the raffle are toys for younger siblings, clothes of various sizes, school supplies, beauty products, handbags, books, jewelry, and gift cards. Gifts are wrapped at school and students return home ready to spread the joy of giving.
Nancy Barnett, speech-language pathologist and co-organizer of the event with Stephanie Crement, said, “This is a great opportunity for our students to buy gifts for their families and to focus on the spirit of giving.”
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Reliability of Automotive PCBs
From being purely mechanical assemblies, automotive vehicles have progressed to include electronic parts. A top brand automotive vehicle today contains about 150 control units consisting mostly of sensors and processors. According to a study, more than 60% of the electronics exists within the dynamical system, the body, and the chassis of the automotive vehicle, while most of it concerns digital signals and power electronics. The study estimates the share of electronics in automotive vehicles will soon cross 70%.
According to Rush PCB, automotive systems with electronics require Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). While the global requirement of PCBs for the automotive industry was US$4.6B in 2014, the latest estimates put this figure over US$7B by 2020. This increase of electronics in automotive performance has resulted in improvements in:
Environmental Aspects: There have been tremendous improvements in fuel saving and exhaust reduction.
Security Aspects: There is reduction in traffic accidents.
Convenience and Comfort Aspects: There is increased use of air-conditioners, computers, communication, and entertainment equipment inside automotive vehicles, making them more convenient and user-friendly.
Requirements of PCBs in Automotive Vehicles
It is necessary that PCB manufacturers catering to the automotive industry conform to international standards such as ISO 9001. Rush PCB complies with the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and adheres to the strictest standards of manufacturing and assembly.
In 1994, the automotive industry followed the QS9000 quality control system. However, in the early 2000s, the industry was following a new quality control system ISO/TS16949, based on the ISO 9001 standards.
PCB Reliability: The industry measures reliability of automotive components in two aspects—lifespan and environmental. Lifespan reliability requires components to perform normally within the entire lifespan of the vehicle. Environmental reliability requires all components to continue functioning without changes even when there is a change in the environment.
Presently, the industry-expected lifespan of an average automotive vehicle is about 10 to 12 years, and the electronic systems and PCB must perform normally within this period, without failure.
While operating, automotive vehicles must withstand environmental changes such as from extremely hot summers to freezing cold winters, from frost to rain to sunlight, and internal temperature changes as a result of regular operations. Apart from temperature excursions, automotive electronic systems including PCBs must withstand current surges, electronic interference, mechanical vibrations, and humidity.
PCB Categories: Modern automobiles contain electronic equipment at different positions and performing different functions, which require a variety of PCBs. Based on the use of substrate materials, automotive PCBs follow a general classification of two main categories—organic resin-based and inorganic ceramic-based PCBs. The automobile industry widely uses organic resin-based PCBs in different positions for different functions. The industry relies on inorganic ceramic-based PCBs where high temperature resistance is necessary, as these have excellent dimensional stability, making them suitable for applications in motor systems operating at high temperatures.
Read About: IPC STANDARDS FOR PCBS
In general, the industry also uses rigid and rigid-flex PCBs for gauges indicating vehicular speed, mileage, and in air-conditioning equipment. Audio and video entertainment equipment within vehicles also use such double- and multi-layered flex PCBs. In-vehicle security control equipment, wireless positioning equipment, and communications equipment regularly use flex, multi-layered, and HDI PCBs. Automotive power transmission and motor control systems require use of special boards such as metal-based PCBs.
High-Frequency Substrates: Automobiles with predictive braking and collision resistance safety systems require transmitting microwave high-frequency signals. These require PCBs with substrates using low dielectric loss materials such as PTFE. These require special drilling and feeding speeds during drilling.
Thick Copper PCBs: Advanced electric power transmission systems and increasing electronic functions in automobiles requires PCBs capable of supplying large currents and handling higher heat dissipation. PCBs with thick copper traces meet these requirements of high current. While fabricating double-layer PCBs with thick copper is relatively easy, fabricating multi-layered PCBs with thick copper in the inner layers is more difficult.
PCBs with Embedded Components: For decreasing product size, it is necessary to increase the assembly density. One of the ways of doing this is by using PCBs with embedded components. Mobile phones and automotive electronic equipment use this technology intensively. Manufacturers use several methods for fabricating PCBs with embedded components, most popular among them being the excavation method, lamination method, ceramic method, and module method. The advantage of using PCBs with embedded components is their relatively higher reliability, which suits the automotive requirements of resistance to vibration, humidity, and heat.
HDI Technology: Most entertainment and communication equipment in automotive electronics require HDI PCBs with multiple layers. This technology involves micro-vias with laser drilling, plating, and lamination positioning for automotive PCB manufacturing.
Read About: DIFFERENT STACKUPS FOR HDI PCBS
Testing Reliability of Automotive PCBs
As automobiles belong to high-reliability product category, and there are concerns with public security, PCBs meant for automotive use must pass special reliability tests, such as:
TCT or Thermal Cycling Tests: Based on their position within the automobile, PCBs acquire one of five grades, with the TCT temperature range as:
|Grade||PCB Position||Low Temperature||High Temperature|
|A||Within the Cockpit||-40 °C||85 °C|
|B||Below the Base Shield||-40 °C||125 °C|
|C||Motor||-40 °C||145 °C|
|D||Driving Medium||-40 °C||155 °C|
|E||Inner Motor||-40 °C||165 °C|
After the Thermal Cycling Test is over, automotive PCBs must work normally.
Thermal Shock Test: Automotive PCBs must work in environments with high temperature, especially the thick copper PCBs that produce their own heat as well. Therefore, automotive PCBs must have a higher heat resistance.
THB or Temperature-Humidity Bias Test: The THB test for automotive PCBs tests them in multiple environments, which includes humid environments such as during rainy days. Conditions for the THB test include temperature 85 C, relative humidity 85%, and DC voltage bias of 24V, 50V, 250V or 500V. THB test considers the Conductive Anodic Filament or CAF migration in PCBs, leading to reduction of insulation and short circuits.
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When I am out shooting, I am always trying to think of how I can get the most out of my equipment. I am thinking about how I can expand my ability to create using my camera, lenses, and filters. And, what about my flash, what I can I do with that? Flashes today are a lot different than when I started in photography. Back then you had a manual mode and an auto mode and that was about it.
Most modern flashes today have a multitude of functions. Balanced fill flash, front curtain, and rear curtain sync. High-Speed Sync also is known as FP (focal plane) mode. Some flashes can be set to fire multiple bursts creating several flash images on a single frame. Many flashes available today are set up to be used off-camera. Back in the good old days if you wanted to get your flash off of the camera you could use an off-camera cord. That was OK for close work but the wireless flashes setup of today permit unlimited flash positioning.
One of the modes I use quite a bit is the High-Speed Sync or FP mode.
First a little bit about how it works.
High-Speed Sync is also known more accurately as Focal Plane flash. Here it is in a nutshell. flashes and cameras have a maximum shutter speed that the flash can be synced to. On most of the older cameras that was 1/125th of a second. Cameras today can sync at 1/250th. With these cameras, if you set a higher shutter speed one speed faster than the sync speed, you will get a black band usually at the bottom of the image. If you increase the shutter speed another stop faster the black band will double in width. So if your camera has a sync speed of a 1/250th and you set your shutter speed to 1/500th you will see that black band. Increase the speed to 1/1000th and the band doubles in width. Go ahead, increase the speed to a 1/2000th and see what happens?
This occurs because the flash and camera cannot, in the normal mode, sync to the higher speed, and the black band is caused because the shutter is not open all of the way when the flash fires.
In the normal flash setting, the flash waits to fire until the instant that shutter curtains are open all of the way. The flash only fires for that instant.
In High-Speed Sync. Wait. Let’s call it the focal plane mode or FP mode because that helps explain what is happening. In FP mode when you press the shutter button on the camera the flash starts firing. The flash continues to fire all of the time that the shutter is opening and closing. So the functional difference between the standard and FP mode is that in the standard mode, the flash fires only for the instant that the shutter is all of the way open. In the FP mode, the flash is firing and continues firing during the entire operation of the opening and closing of the shutter, thus there is no black band.
When we use the FP mode we have to be aware that the flash is working very hard to put out that continuous flash and so flash distance is decreased. Also, the batteries are being drained at a faster rate and the flash may heat up if fired continuously. When I use this mode to shoot water drops, I have my camera set in high-speed continuous shooting mode and my Nikon SB-900 would get to the point of overheating and shut down to protect the flash. So how hot was hot? So hot, that I would open the battery door and drop the batteries out on to a plate. I did not want to hold those batteries in my hand. Not for long anyway.
Ok, so that is how it works now on to what does it do for me?
High-Speed Sync is useful for almost all types of photography. It can be used for shooting portraits. It can be used when shooting sports as long as you are close enough to the action and have a powerful enough flash. Small flashes can be convenient to carry around but if you are planning on buying a flash to do this kind of shooting my advice is to go big or go home! To get any good distance when in FP mode you need a flash with a lot of punch! That said, I have been using my little Promaster 100SL. Coming in just south of $150.00, it has been doing a pretty darn good job at garden distances.
If you are going to use a flash in FP mode for portraits or sports I would recommend a more powerful flash unit.
Lately, I have been using the 100SL flash in FP to shoot hummingbirds, bees, and plants and flowers on my deck. Did someone say quarantined?
I use the FP mode to get high shutter speeds when I am shooting the little birds to slow down the wings and to slow down the fast-moving birds in general. I get a stop action effect that I do not quite get at the slower shutter speeds. Using the high shutter speeds also causes dramatic flash fall off creating dark, sometimes black backgrounds that make the bird stand out. When I shoot flowers with the fast shutter speeds I get the same result. Very dark backgrounds that make the colors of the flowers pop! Sometimes people who shoot a lot of plants and flowers will carry a piece of black velvet to place behind the subject to get that black background. I have done that, but it is kind of a pain because it is another thing to carry and it also picks up lint and little pieces of debris that are almost always white (Murphy’s Law) and they show up in the photo so I have abandoned the velvet practice and now just use my flash to get the darkened background effect.
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I just stepped outside my house and counted two roadrunners, three starlings, five house sparrows and one house finch. Based on my calculations, there are a lot of birds in the world, but you don't have to listen to me. Researchers ran the numbers and figured out there are over 50 billion birds living on our planet.
"Humans have spent a great deal of effort counting the members of our own species -- all 7.8 billion of us," ecologist Will Cornwell in a University of New South Wales said in a statement. "This is the first comprehensive effort to count a suite of other species." Cornwell is a co-author of the bird-count study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday.
It took the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people to help reach the 50 billion bird number. The researchers used nearly a billion observations contributed to the eBird database by over 600,000 citizen-scientists between 2010 and 2019. From there, computer algorithms took over.
The team worked the numbers on 9,700 species of birds, which is about 92% of all living bird species, creating estimates for each population based on the eBird data along with calculations on the birds' "detectability." "Detectability can include factors like their size, color, whether they fly in flocks, and if they live close to cities," UNSW said.
The data pointed to a select few species that belong to "the billion club" of birds with an estimated global population topping a billion. Those abundant birdies are the house sparrow, European starling, ring-billed gull and barn swallow. That explains the starling and sparrow sightings just outside my house.
The study also highlighted species with low estimated population numbers, including the Chinese crested tern and noisy scrub-bird. "We'll be able to tell how these species are faring by repeating the study in five or 10 years," Cornwell said. "If their population numbers are going down, it could be a real alarm bell for the health of our ecosystem."
The team emphasized the numbers are estimates and there is still "considerable uncertainty." They didn't go out and count every single bird -- that would be impossible. Relying on bird-watchers means there are some weaknesses in the numbers, particularly on regions where eBird isn't used as much.
"Our findings, while rough in some areas, represent the best-available data we currently have for many species," said co-author Shinichi Nakagawa, a UNSW ecologist and statistician.
The researchers hope more people will get involved with birding and logging their avian observations through eBird. It can be as easy as getting to know the birds that hang around your home. Lead author Corey Callaghan said, "You can usually find a bird or two to identify and watch anywhere you go, anytime of the day, anywhere in the world." | <urn:uuid:2029e3ca-5602-43f5-97c1-f2e8e4735b35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnet.com/science/breakthrough-study-finds-there-are-50-billion-wild-birds-on-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.963101 | 607 | 3.453125 | 3 |
by James Bonnet
In the previous two story course articles I talked about the characters, actions and events in great stories that create the metaphors that reveal the collective wisdom hidden in our DNA and the details of the passages – which in turn reveal the extraordinary things the great stories are telling us about ourselves.
In this article we will talk about the Storywheel, which is a way looking at the passages that emerge from the patterns hidden in these great stories, and these passages are, in one form or another, reenactments of our evolutionary path, either from the POV of the individual or the species as a whole.
Storywheel illustration from “Stealing Fire From The Gods”,
chapter 10, page 49. Click illustration for larger image.
Every great story, ancient or modern, has a place on this Storywheel, and when they’re looked at all together in this way, they give up their deeper, more amazing secrets, and you begin to see how they are all really connected and have a common purpose: to guide us to higher states of being.
On the right side of the wheel, the upside, you have stories with happy endings. The central character resists temptation, performs a selfless act, and ascends to a higher plane. On the left side of the wheel, the downside, you have stories with tragic or unhappy endings. The central character gives in to temptation, performs an abominable act and descends to a lower plane.
And it’s all about connection and disconnection – a connection to ourselves, a connection to our communities, a connection to the world, a connection to the cosmos or spiritual dimension Or the reverse – a disconnection from these same dimensions of ourselves.
All of the stories at the beginning of the cycle have something important to tell us about our maturing psyches and are helping us to connect with ourselves.
In Eros and Psyche one of the tasks Psyche has to perform for Aphrodite to recover her relationship with her estranged husband, the god, Eros, is to sort a huge mound of seven different grains into separate piles. The miraculous helpers that come to her aid are a large army of ants, and these ants are a perfect metaphor for that part of our minds that has the ability to sort complex collections of similar things into separate categories.
E. T. is all about a child’s first encounter with the spiritual dimension.
Dracula and The Exorcist are all about puberty. When I was researching a film I was writing called The Cross and The Switchblade, all of the young drug addicts I spoke to at a rehab center in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn told me they had become addicted at age 13. Dracula is all about our vulnerability to sex and drugs at that tender age. In The Exorcist, every other word out of the mouth of the preteen the devil has taken possession of starts with “Sh” or “F.” I have two daughters and four teenage grandchildren, so I’ve certainly seen that behavior before.
In the next section, A Christmas Carol shows us how we can reconnect with our society and change our destiny by transforming our characters. When the Ghost of Christmas Future is showing Scrooge his own tombstone, the kneeling, pathetic nearly repentant Scrooge asks him: “Are these things that will be or things that may be?” The answer to that question, and the point of the whole story, is that these are things that “will be,” if he does nothing, and things that “may be,” if he does something about it, if he repents and changes his character. If he changes his character, he will change his future. In other words, at any given moment we have a certain destiny. And, if we’re not content with that destiny, we can do something about it. We can transform our futures by transforming ourselves. If we change who we are, if we awaken our humanity, we can change our destiny. That’s great news.
In Groundhog Day Bill Murray is reliving the worst day of his life. And this is a very profound story. If you are tired of reliving the same horrible day, it shows you exactly what you have to do to break that enchantment – namely, make yourself both capable of love and worthy of love. Now that’s not easy to do, but if you can manage it, you will wake up in a whole new, magical world.
Armageddon, Casablanca, and Braveheart can help us connect to the world. And now we’re talking about male and female heroes who are willing to sacrifice themselves for people they don’t even know.
Religious stories and myths like the stories of Jesus, The Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi and the upside of The Garden of Eden help to connect us to the cosmos and the spiritual dimension.
On the downside, it’s just the opposite – and these stories tell us how we can be disconnected from the higher spiritual self, the world, our society, and ultimately from ourselves.
In The Garden of Eden, after the arrival of the serpent, the story tells us that if we fall too strongly under the spell of the lower primordial self, we will be disconnected from the higher self (God,) and driven out of Paradise – we will lose that higher state of consciousness.
The Godfather, Macbeth and The Dark Knight tell us how we can be alienated or disconnected from the world.
Othello shows us how we can be alienated from our lovers. Jealousy is one of the things that can do that to our relationships.
And finally The Wolfman, Taxi Driver, Psycho andDoctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reveal how we can become disconnected from ourselves.
There Will Be Blood and Citizen Kane are two films that show us all of the stages of this decline. Daniel Day Lewis is being successively alienated from his Spiritual self, the World, his family and finally himself. Orson Wells in Citizen Kane follows the same tragic declension – which is why this story appears in so many different places on the wheel.
No one story contains the whole truth. The process is accumulative. Each story contributes a little bit of the vital information hidden in these great stories and bit by bit each step of the passage is revealed. The more hidden truth the story contains, the more powerful and appealing it will be, the more relevant it will be to our lives and the more likely we are to remember it.
And it all works together to tell us, among other things, how the mind works, how consciousness is developed, and how the structures and dimensions of the psyche interact and are transformed into higher consciousness.
The truth of the matter is that the patterns hidden in great stories are incredible artifacts that have carried critical information concerning our evolutionary path through the ages. But unlike the ancient teeth, bone fragments, stone tools and arrowheads, which reveal a tantalizing but incomplete and ever changing record of our physical and cultural evolution, the artifacts hidden in great stories give us an astounding view of our past, present and future emotional, psychological and spiritual evolution.
And why is all of this important to writers and filmmakers? Because, as I’ve said before and will repeat often, these hidden structures have enormous power. And if you support the things you really want to write about with these hidden structures, your stories will make a powerful psychological connection – and have universal appeal.
And why is this important to everyone else? Because if you work with these magnificent tales, and fathom their secrets, you can transform your life into a great story.
Unlocking the secrets of story awakens the power of story within you. Work with that power and you can steal fire from the gods. Master that power and you can create stories that will live forever.
When I was seven years old, I wanted to be Captain Marvel, a super hero like Superman. In everyday life, Marvel was a handicapped newsboy named Billy Batson. But when he needed to become Captain Marvel to fight evil or protect the innocent, he cried out “Shazam!” and was hit by a lightning bolt, and that lightning bolt transformed him into the superhero.
On Thanksgiving of that year, when my whole family gathered at my Aunt Marie’s for our traditional Thanksgiving dinner, I snuck into one of the empty bedrooms and spent three hours alone in that room praying to God to make me Captain Marvel. And with tears in my eyes and all the sincerity I could muster, I promised to use the power only to do good.
After three hours, I stood before the mirror on the dresser, trembling with a sense of destiny and having absolutely no doubt that I was about to be transformed into the most powerful force for good on earth. I cried out “Shazam,” and braced myself for the mega volts.
But nothing happened. I repeated the gist of my vows, clenched my fist and shouted the magic word two more times. Still it was in vain. I was stunned and very disappointed. It severely damaged my relations with the Supreme Being.
Thirty years later I realized that the storywheel is Shazam. The great story is Shazam. That is how we transform ourselves from handicapped, inauthentic newsboys into human marvels, by following that path. The great story uses its imagery to stimulate our imaginations and give us little tastes of paradise which trigger fantasies that lead us to desires for positive actions in the real world. Then as we pursue these goals, the stories guide us through the passages using meaningful connections, each story revealing a little bit more of the truth. And piece by piece, bit by bit, drop by drop, the whole truth is gradually revealed. And, despite ourselves, we find our Selves, realize our dreams, and, like Captain Marvel, Hercules, and King Shahryar in 1001 Nights we reach our full potential. The creative unconscious self is the source of that wisdom and that power. The great story is the guardian of that wisdom and that power. And if you unravel their mysteries and fathom their secrets you can participate in your own creation. | <urn:uuid:5a60722b-fc66-4248-b450-5a3e0db8583a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://storymaking.com/the-storywheel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.945458 | 2,112 | 2.5 | 2 |
If you’ve been curious about your home’s history, you probably already know you can find basic details about it on sites like Zillow or Redfin. Even your home’s title report, which you or your agent should pull in escrow, contains useful information. But what if you want to dig deeper? There are some tools that can help you research your home's original owners, interesting events that may have happened in or near your property, and even what it used to look like—so get digging.
A good place to start your search is Trulia’s Property Sitemap, which includes a bit more detail than a standard Trulia search. If that doesn't yield much—and you're still in touch with the agent who helped you buy the house—there's always the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) database (it’s typically restricted to use by real-estate agents). “The list of ways to discover the history of a house is endless,” says SRES-certified Realtor Chantay Bridges. “We search out an address and can see tons of history including pictures, zoning, even maps with boundaries and ownership of varying properties.”
Okay, yes, it’s a little morbid. But the website DiedInHouse.com will tell you (you guessed it) whether anyone has died in your home. There are instances in which real-estate agents have to disclose this information, but many states don’t require it. So if you don’t ask, you might not know.
For $12, the site will compile a report that tells you whether a death has occurred in your home and when it happened. Beyond that, it will also tell you if there have been any fire incidents or meth activity in the house.
Historical Maps of Your City
Some cities have historic maps that you can search by address. There’s no guarantee they include photos of your home, but it’s worth a shot. You can look up historic photos of interest near you using WhatWasThere.com, for example. Otherwise, you’ll have to run a search for historic maps specific to your city. Here are a few maps for major U.S. cities:
And while it’s not exactly ancient history, you can look up your home’s Google Street View history, too: Just search your address in Google Maps, click on the photo of your home to access Street View, and then look for the timeline, which goes back to 2007. You can also try searching for your home’s address in Google Images to see what pops up.
To find your home’s previous owners or purchase history, you’ll have to search your county tax assessor’s office, county recorder, or your city hall. “At times we may search them all,” Chantay says. “It depends on the type of search and what information you are seeking—you can discover property deeds, previous owners, any encumbrances on the house, lawsuits, etc. You can even see personal history, such as if an owner is in bankruptcy or divorced.” Yes, really, that kind of thing is a public record! | <urn:uuid:5155455d-5bf6-4a2e-bee9-a1e686e05293> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/property-history-how-to-look-up-the-history-of-your-home?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ad&utm_mailing=ARD_Daily_PM_061922&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5faea8946c91bd375f7cd918&cndid=62717908&hasha=07e00658007376b2fb774b902124fa90&hashb=57b8aef13aaf216d40dd38576ef363f9ea507e24&hashc=9db565cfbc3c161696b983e49535bc36151d0802f2b79504e0d1958002f07a34&esrc=subscribe-page&utm_term=ARD_Daily | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.944299 | 696 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Tours in Sikkim
Tours in Sikkim is most refreshing tourism activities of India to explore the Sikkim and Darjeeling. Sikkim the former Tibetan Buddhist Himalayan kingdom - is without doubt one of the most spectacular regions in the world. For years, it was considered one of the last Himalayan Shangri-La because of its seclusion, magnificent mountain land, and ancient Buddhist monasteries. Sikkim's natural beauty of cascading waterfalls, vibrant terraced hills, pristine lakes, and snow-capped peaks offer a rare opportunity to experience one of the most inspiring environments in the world. Over time, the peaceful tenets of Buddhism have produced a humble and friendly people who truly enjoy sharing the unique treasures of their rich heritage.
Their culture comes to life in art, mysticism, music, architecture, and religious traditions. In Sikkim, you will meet local artists and artisans in their studios and learn the timeless traditions of creating sacred art. As you explore the centuries-old monasteries, you will receive lectures from lamas and monks who impart their in-depth knowledge and personal experience. Your exciting tour also includes a visit to Darjeeling, one of the most charming towns in the eastern Himalayan foothills. Established by the British in the mid-19th century, Darjeeling is situated on a 7,000-foot ridge.
It is surrounded by tea plantations and offers stunning Himalayan vistas including the 28,201-foot Kanchenjunga - the world's third highest mountain peak. We invite you to explore Sikkim's breathtaking landscape and fascinating Buddhist culture and discover why this is truly a remarkable part of the world. Join us and see why a Wisdom Tour offers a rewarding cultural exploration of the many facets of Tibetan Buddhist life, spirituality and history.
We offer variety of tours in Sikkim and Darjeeling so if you are interested to travel in Sikkim for tour program please take look our designed programs if it is not suitable just let us know your interested then we will propose you new program itinerary just for you. | <urn:uuid:c130e90c-1ee8-4ccf-a11d-aa0513881c51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alpineadventureclub.com/tours-in-sikkim.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.940539 | 435 | 1.523438 | 2 |
FILE PHOTO: People walk on St. Peter’s Square after the Vatican reports its first case of coronavirus, at the Vatican, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment.
The calls were contained in a 225-page manual for church leaders and workers to mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical “Laudato Si” (Praised Be) on the need to protect nature, life and defenseless people.
The compendium suggests practical steps to achieve the goals of the encyclical, which strongly supported agreements to contain global warming and warned against the dangers of climate change.
The manual’s section on finance said people “could favor positive changes … by excluding from their investments companies that do not satisfy certain parameters.” It listed these as respect for human rights, bans on child labor and protection of the environment.
Called ‘Journeying Towards Care For Our Common Home’, one action point called on Catholics to shun “shun companies that are harmful to human or social ecology, such as abortion and armaments, and to the environment, such as fossil fuels”.
Another section called for the “stringent monitoring” of extraction industries in areas with fragile ecosystems to prevent air, soil and water contamination.
Last month, more that 40 faith organizations from around the world, more than half of them Catholic, pledged to divest from fossil fuel companies.
The Vatican bank has said it does not invest in fossil fuels and many Catholic dioceses and educational institutions around the world have taken similar positions.
The document urges Catholics to defend the rights of local populations to have a say in whether their lands can be used for oil or mineral extraction and the right to take strong stands against companies that cause environmental disasters or over-exploit natural resources such as forests.
Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Andrew Heavens
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Associations as time passes to ED go to or hospitalization were assessed using a competing risk model that included loss of life being a competing risk based on the method of Great and Grey.22 This evaluation makes up about a diminishing risk place from censoring due to mortality and it is often found in CKD cohort research.24,25 Three group comparisons had been designed for creatinine level change of at least 30% vs significantly less than 30%, potassium level disturbances (hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, and normokalemia), and therapy discontinuation vs continuation. level and hyperkalemia after initiation of RAASI therapy weren’t associated with crisis department trips or hospitalizations and frequently resolved at another dimension. Mortality was elevated among people with a rise in creatinine degree of at least 30% however the association had not been significant after modification. Signifying Structured lab monitoring might instruction suitable continuation of RAASI therapy for outpatient healthcare specialists, but nearer monitoring may be required for people with severe increases in creatinine levels. Abstract Importance Renin angiotensin aldosterone program inhibitors (RAASIs) advantage people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Elevations in serum potassium and creatinine amounts are normal known reasons for discontinuation of the therapy, but their challenges and incidence aren’t well characterized in community practice. Objective To judge associations of elevated creatinine amounts, hyperkalemia, and therapy continuation with the chance of crisis department (ED) trips, hospitalizations, and mortality within 12 months after RAASI therapy initiation in people with CKD. Style, Setting, and Individuals This potential cohort research included 4661 people with nondialysis CKD recently recommended a RAASI or a diuretic who had been treated at 36 outpatient principal care offices associated with Brigham & Womens Medical center and Massachusetts General Medical center, Boston, from 1 January, 2009, through 31 December, 2011. Individuals finding a brand-new prescription for the diuretic had been used to supply context. All individuals acquired a BAY-876 baseline way of measuring renal function with least 1 follow-up dimension of creatinine and potassium amounts within 3 months from the prescription. From January 1 Data had been examined, 2009, through Dec 31, 2012. Exposures Adjustments in creatinine and potassium amounts within 3 months following the prescription therapy and time discontinuation. Primary Methods and Final results Crisis section trips, hospitalizations, and mortality within 12 months. Results A complete of 4661 people had been contained in the evaluation (2506 [53.8%] females; mean [SD] age group, 71?; 3931 [84.3%] white; and 4198 [90.1%] with CKD stage 3). Of the, 2354 people (50.5%) received RAASIs and 2307 (49.5%) received diuretics. Creatinine level boost of at least 30% after RAASI therapy initiation was within 158 of 2354 people (6.7%); hyperkalemia in excess of 5.0 mEq/L, in 251 of 2354 (10.7%). Boosts in creatinine degree of at least 30% (unadjusted chances proportion [OR], 1.40; 95% CI, 0.89-2.21), hyperkalemia (unadjusted OR, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.64-2.06), and therapy discontinuation (unadjusted OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.71-1.46) weren’t connected with ED trips or hospitalizations, that was in keeping with outcomes from competing risk analyses. Preliminary boosts in creatinine degree of at least 30% had been connected with mortality in the full total cohort (altered OR [aOR], 2.17; 95% CI, 1.45-3.25). Nevertheless, the result was only unbiased for diuretics (aOR, 2.27; 95% CI, 1.41-3.66) rather than for RAASIs (aOR, 1.82; 95% CI, 0.83-3.99). Conclusions and Relevance Acute creatinine and potassium level disturbances after initiation of RAASI therapy in people with CKD seem to be sustained often frequently not sustained rather than connected with ED trips or hospitalizations, despite therapy continuation. Results from this research suggest that boosts in creatinine level had been independently connected with mortality among people prescribed diuretics however, not RAASIs. Organised laboratory monitoring during RAASI therapy initiation might guide best suited continuation of therapy in the outpatient placing. Launch Renin angiotensin aldosterone program inhibitors (RAASIs) are being among the most typically prescribed medicines. In randomized scientific studies (RCTs), they decreased blood pressure, postponed chronic kidney disease (CKD),1,2 improved cardiovascular final results, and reduced mortality3; benefits accrue across age group,4 competition,5 and comorbidities.6,7,8,9 Therefore, RAASIs are believed first-line treatments for hypertension and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events.10,11,12 Elevations in serum potassium and creatinine amounts are implications of RAASI therapy. Although RCTs claim that long-term benefits outweigh these severe dangers,13,14,15,16 latest research increase concern for individual harm and elevated health care BAY-876 expenses potentially connected with these occasions. A Rabbit Polyclonal to OR countrywide cohort study in the United Kingdom15 reported elevated mortality, cardiovascular occasions, and end-stage renal disease with incremental goes up in serum creatinine amounts BAY-876 after initiation of RAASI therapy. Likewise, among cardiovascular realtors in america, RAASIs had been the most regularly associated with crisis department (ED) make use of owing to undesirable drug occasions, resulting in inpatient hospitalization in as much as 25% of situations.17 People with CKD are vunerable to goes up in creatinine and potassium amounts aswell as increased threat of ED trips requiring hospitalizations.18,19 Such. | <urn:uuid:175a42a3-daf0-42db-a9fd-23df5a505cf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.techblessing.com/2021/10/%EF%BB%BFassociations-as-time-passes-to-ed-go-to-or-hospitalization-were-assessed-using-a-competing-risk-model-that-included-loss-of-life-being-a-competing-risk-based-on-the-method-of-great-and-grey-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937002 | 1,282 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Managers play a key role in the effective execution of critical activities within an organization, including strategic planning, production and operations management, human resources, employee and labor relations, and many other functions. The study of management can lead you to careers in almost any industry or sector of the economy as an effective managerial leader.
The Management major provides you with a well-rounded education to prepare for this important organizational role. The curriculum contains coursework in quantitative methods, behavioral principles, and strategic management and emphasizes skills required for team management and supervision in all types of organizations.
As a management major, you can choose to enhance your career potential and enrich your business background by completing a dual major in both management and a related field of interest such as marketing, international business, finance, or economics.
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Zero-Carbon Transition – Latest signals of change (28.08.20)The We Mean Business coalition
Here are just some of the signals of change from the past week, demonstrating the transition to a resilient and inclusive zero-carbon future remains underway.
A group of 20 business leaders have joined the call for a green recovery in India, through a joint statement coordinated by The Energy Resources Institute (TERI). The European Union is expected to propose an increase in the region’s pollution reduction target to 55% compared with 1990 levels by 2030. New research shows that the tougher EU target of 55% is technically and economically feasible. Germany has launched its first ‘green’ bond, to raise funds for environmental projects. The UK’s 100 largest pension funds, with assets of more than £5 billion each, will be required to publish climate risk disclosures by the end of 2022 under new regulations. And WBCSD together with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have forged a new collaboration to create the enabling conditions for a sustainable financial system.
Mercedes-Benz has joined The Climate Pledge, the initiative founded by tech giant Amazon, and Amazon has announced it is adding more than 1,800 electric vehicles (EVs) from Mercedes-Benz Vans to its delivery fleet in Europe this year. British supercar maker McLaren has committed to end its production of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030 as it switches to full electric. German auto component manufacturer Continental has committed to set a science-based target. EV100 has welcomed three new members committed to accelerating the transition to EVs, including India’s online retailer Flipkart and UK tech retailer Dixons Carphone. California has approved a $437 million project to install nearly 40,000 EV chargers, with Southern California Edison. UK pub chain Green King will roll out EV charging across its 2,700 establishments. And Jaguar Land Rover has developed a process to turn recycled aluminium into new premium cars.
UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged India to stop building coal-fired power stations. Investors have called on South Korea to follow Japan’s lead on curtailing overseas coal funding. Danish wind turbine maker MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has committed to set a science-based target, while Australian power utility AGL Energy has committed to EV100. Exxon Mobil has been removed from the Dow, as investors increasingly differentiate on the carbon intensity of energy-related stocks. Nordic hedge fund Storebrand has divested from Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto due to ‘unacceptable’ climate lobbying. And the UK saw its highest ever share of wind energy due to Storm Francis.
Zero-Carbon Built Environment & Heavy Industry
Engineering and architecture group Arup has had its science-based target approved. The cost of producing hydrogen from renewable electricity is forecast to fall by as much as 64% by 2040, according to new research. Walmart revealed it has cut 230 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from its supply chain in the past three years, meaning the world’s largest retailer is on track to achieve its 2030 emissions goal.
Zero-Carbon Land Use and Nature Based Solutions
The UK Government has launched a consultation process on new legislation that would make it illegal for businesses above a certain size to use commodities grown on land which has been deforested illegally. Indonesia has been awarded $104 million from the UN’s Green Climate Fund to help conserve forests. HSBC and Pollination have launched a joint venture to provide investment opportunities in ‘natural capital’. Extinction Rebellion has launched a “sea-faring sister” organization, focusing on ocean-related climate issues. Finnish food packaging company Huhtamaki has committed to set a science-based target. Scientists have developed an ‘artificial leaf‘ and the US has officially joined the One Trillion Trees initiative. | <urn:uuid:7b52426a-f84e-472e-87aa-377192fefefb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/zero-carbon-transition-latest-signals-of-change-28-08-20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.94865 | 813 | 1.5 | 2 |
By Nicole Madigan
The power of thumb scrolling and emotional connections is real. With the immense popularity of social media sites, the consumer is closer than ever to their favorite brands. With a single tweet, a customer can compliment or complain about a brand or product and reach other Twitter users around the world.
Consumers have more power than ever to influence brands by starting a movement on social media. Social media influencers have exploded onto the scene, making money for brands that support them by demoing or promoting sponsored products. Trends on social media can also have a huge impact on a brand, such as raising money for an important cause. By using social media to share their purpose and vision in an engaging way, brands can foster loyalty with consumers using creative marketing methods on social media.
Connect Using Influencer Marketing
Social media, in all its forms, has some way of engaging with others. ‘Social media influencers’ are people who know how to engage their audiences so well that they get paid to do it through sponsorships. Social media influences create connections with their audiences by sharing advice, photos, blogs, and personal stories. These methods create trust and loyalty with their audiences. And there are brands who have figured out just how much they can benefit from influencer marketing.
Sprint is a good example of a company that leveraged influencer marketing. Sprint started a campaign called #LiveUnlimited, and they collaborated with several social media influencers who have hundreds of thousands of followers (even into the millions). The influencers Sprint chose to represent their brand were also people who lived lifestyles that centered around the word “Sprint.” For example, Bradley Martyn lives a high-energy lifestyle filled with extreme sports, fitness, and healthy eating.
Sprint knew that finding likable and popular people would help accelerate their campaign and bring attention to their brand. Those who follow people like Bradley Martyn (4 million plus) feel a connection to him through his inspirational lifestyle. In addition, Sprint promoted cross-cultural ties by including Latin elements, which opened up a whole new level of connection. Sprint connected with younger consumers and turned them into loyal customers.
Put Your Customers First
A study posted to CapGemini found that 82% of emotionally connected customers will help promote a brand using word of mouth to friends and family. This is brought on by a level of trust between the customer and the brand. Your brand can help build trust and establish an emotional connection by seeking what your customers want. According to Forrester, almost 95% of leaders say that customer service is key to brand trust.
A brand that consistently ranks high in exceptional customer service is Costco. They spend time and money to train their employees well and also take great pride in the service they provide. In 2019, Costco ranked first in online customer service by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The retailer asked more than 62,000 customers to choose their favorite stores, and Costco scored an 83 out of 100. Costco maintains a customer-first approach which builds trust and loyalty.
Costco is also highly rated for the way they treat its employees. The brand has an employee retention rate of 94%. They do this by offering above-average wages and medical and dental insurance. The cost of the benefits is offset by the employee retention rate, as Costco does not have to spend extra money hiring new employees on a regular basis. The cost of retention is much lower than the cost of hiring new people, and happy employees provide better service. This methodology builds brand loyalty not just for consumers but for the employees as well.
Take Advantage of Social Media Trends
In the summer of 2014, the famous ALS #IceBucketChallenge exploded onto the social media scene. Created by Pete Frates and Pat Quinn, they used social media to challenge others to dump a bucket of ice water on their heads. Anyone nominated to perform the ice bucket challenge was encouraged to donate money for ALS research or dump the bucket of ice water on themselves. The challenge helped raise awareness for ALS and also over $120 Million in just one summer. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease.
Many brands jumped on the #IceBucketChallenge bandwagon, which was a way for them to gain some attention and show off their philanthropic efforts. For example, T-Mobile and their CEO (at the time) John Legere both donated money to the ALS Association and had his employees dump several buckets of ice water on his head.
This challenge was a chance for brands to make a connection with existing and new potential customers. Watching CEOs of massive corporations get dunked with ice water helped make them feel more real and more accessible. The social media fervor around the #IceBucketChallenge translated into new connections between brands and their consumers
So what should you do?
The best advice to get started with consumer connection-making is to watch what other brands are doing. How are they building loyalty with their customers? They may be using a mixture of different strategies or going all-in on one. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to building loyalty, meaning your brand should take the time to test different methods based on the strategic purpose and see what sticks. Consumers are eager to get to know you, so let your true self shine. | <urn:uuid:7b952858-9f18-43c7-b30e-2ab78f8f2174> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mccicorp.com/blog/step-up-your-brand-loyalty-by-forging-consumer-connections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966653 | 1,089 | 1.78125 | 2 |
From the medical point of view it is important that the surface roughness in a knee prosthesis be small in order to reduce the wear friction due to the physical contact of the prosthesis with bone. Given the complex form of the knee prosthesis, formerly the finishing process was carried out through a manual technique. However, this technique has many drawbacks. In this work a mechanochemical method (MCM) for finishing is proposed in order to obtain a proper surface state of the prosthesis. The selected MCM consisted of a mild wear procedure which employs HLB-11 as tensoactive additive. Composition of the knee prosthesis pieces was as follows: 26.5% Cr, 4.5% Mo, and the balance was cobalt. In order to optimize the prosthesis manufacturing, the evolution of the surface state along the finishing process was studied and a 3D analysis of the surface topography was carried out. To do this, two types of topometers were utilized, one of them with a tactile sensor and another one with an optical sensor. Fourier transform was applied to data roughness in order to determine the skweness (Rsk) and kurtosis (Rku) roughness values.
3D Characterization of Surface State in a Knee Prosthesis
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Hilerio, I, Barro´n, MA, & Vite, M. "3D Characterization of Surface State in a Knee Prosthesis." Proceedings of the World Tribology Congress III. World Tribology Congress III, Volume 2. Washington, D.C., USA. September 12–16, 2005. pp. 679-680. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/WTC2005-63850
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FirmoGraphs tracks and analyzes thousands of blog posts from hundreds of companies each year, providing a window into the soul of engineering and company firm marketers. In this blog, we review the blogging habits in a brief and easy-to-understand form. Our coverage includes the blogging habits of architecture, engineering, and consulting (AEC) organizations listed in ENR’s top 200 environmental firms.
2021 Overall Statistics
Of the 200 top environmental firms, 164 maintain regular blogs. During 2021, these organizations posted a total of 11,320 articles. We categorize blog posts according to their subject matter.
- Qualifications and Staffing: these posts deal with the capabilities of a firm and individual staffers, hires, promotions, and other personnel changes, typically without deep discussion.
- News posts include news about a firm, including M&A, awards, and events.
- Projects posts primarily are about projects done for customers, who usually are identified but may also mention news or provide some insights.
- Insights posts may mention news or projects but are more in-depth looks at one or more topics that highlight a firm’s subject-matter expertise.
In the following chart, 42.6% (or 4,818) of the posts were News posts; 37.8% (or 4,282) were Insight posts; 8.4% (or 947) were Projects posts and another 11.2% (or 1,273) were Qualification & Staffing posts.
Blog Fraction by Type
The Most Popular Topics of 2021
FirmoGraphs maintains a list of hundreds of search terms of interest relating to the U.S. infrastructure and environment markets. In 2021, “sustainability” was the most-frequently used of our terms in AEC blogs. Other popular terms included data-driven management, transportation, mining, design build, and PFAS.
The Top 10 search term appearances in 2021 blogs are summarized below:
To read this table, sustainability was mentioned 3,715 times in the blogs of 113 AEC firms.
The following bar chart also shows the monthly break-up of these terms. In 2021, the “sustainability” search term appeared the most in November, or 372 times. We think that mainstream media conversations about climate change as well as other ESG considerations have led this to become the most talked-about topic, with a substantial and growing market for projects related to climate adaptation, renewable energy, and environmental sustainability.
“Sustainability” Search Term Frequency per Months
In our last Blog o’ Blogs, we mentioned how PFAS was one of the most talked-about topics in blog posts of the first nine months of 2021. For 2021, 63 firms mentioned PFAS nearly 1,300 times in 436 different blog posts. PFAS reached the highest spike in March, being mentioned 209 times, which was probably due to the Environmental Protection Agency issuing two actions on February 22 meant to address the presence of PFAS in drinking water. You can read all about it here.
“PFAS” Search Term Frequency per Months
In November 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that allocates $550 billion in new spending over five years to rebuild roads, bridges, rails, and airports, provide high-speed internet access, and address climate concerns. Therefore, it does not surprise the term that caused a lot of discussions was transportation infrastructure. Eighty-seven organizations mentioned it in nearly 1,060 blog posts. Also, in November, FirmoGraphs wrote a blog about it.
“Transportation Infrastructure” Search Term Frequency per Months
Who is Blogging
FirmoGraphs has also analyzed another aspect of the blogging habits of firms by annual revenue of their environmental practices. The following table illustrates how many companies are in each category, their blog posts in the whole of 2021, and the average number of posts for each category.
Table: Blog Counts by Environmental Revenue Size
It is interesting to note that the most-prolific bloggers are in the $250 million to $1 billion environmental revenue range, posting more than 4000 blogs in a single year. It is probably not too surprising that the largest firms, in the > $1 billion category, have the highest average number of postings at 176 / firm.
One final view here is provided by our preferred business intelligence tool, Qlik Sense™, where we've created a tree map that shows the Top 10 bloggers in the four topical categories. It can be interesting to see how different firms tend to emphasize different types of postings.
In addition to blogs, which we cover as a ‘fun’ topic, our primary business is to collect and analyze data on infrastructure projects in the transportation, energy, water and environmental remediation sectors. We help you find project ideas, in your wheelhouse, months or years ahead of those projects being let.
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A Literature Investigation on Hedge Funds: Crisscrossing Pompous Edges by Revisiting History
- 1Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, MP, India
- 2Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, MP, India
Res. J. Management Sci., Volume 5, Issue (11), Pages 36-40, November,6 (2016)
Hedge funds in the previous years have become attractive with regards to money and portfolio management. An investment partnership started by Alfred Jones in 1949 in USA that was regarded as the first Hedge Fund adapted to store and enhance wealth management in the coming times almost for 80 years then. Even the Great Depression period of 1930’s and the breakdown of Bretton Wood Conference in 1970 and later on the first oil crisis in 1973-74 also characterized the remarkable growth of hedge funds in money management. But it was in 1998, the near breakdown of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) that initiated a international liquidity crisis and that called out for the scrutinization of hedge funds typically for their publicized performance problems. It would be more appropriate to exactly figure out how the mood of hedge funds swings and why. For this the paper attempts and presents a chequered history of hedge funds and to explore their current scenario in the present financial world.
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پارامترهای ظروف دریایی:
حداکثر وزن باربری:
Tank containers must be at least 80%% full, to prevent dangerous surging of the liquids in transit. On the other hand, they must not as a rule be over 95%% full, or there will not be sufficient ullage space for thermal expansion. The extent of thermal expansion may be calculated for each cargo on the basis of the following formula:
- ΔV = Va · γ · ΔT
- Ve = Va (1 γ · ΔT)
- ΔV : change in volume
- Va : volume at initial temperature a
- Ve : final volume at temperature e
- γ : coefficient of cubic (thermal) expansion
- ΔT : temperature difference in degrees kelvin
Tank containers intended for transporting foodstuffs must be labeled "Potable Liquids only".
Some hazardous materials must be transported in tank containers with no in- or outlet openings below the surface of the liquid.
Tank containers are generally designed for an operating pressure of up to 3 bar (above atmospheric). The test pressure used is 4.5 bar (above atmospheric).
If the cargo requires temperature-controlled transport, tank containers can be equipped with insulation or heating. The temperature of the cargo may be precisely controlled using temperature sensors.
Tank containers are used for liquid cargoes, such as:
- Foodstuffs: fruit juices, spirits, sweet oils
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CIA nominee regrets agency undertook harsh interrogation
WASHINGTON — Amid an intensifying public debate on torture, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA on Tuesday said the harsh interrogation program the agency ran at black sites after the Sept. 11 attacks should not have been undertaken.
Gina Haspel’s letter to the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee appeared aimed at shoring up support for her Senate confirmation.
“I have learned the hard lessons since 9/11,” Haspel wrote. “With the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior Agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken.”
Haspel said she would “refuse to undertake any proposed activity that is contrary to my moral and ethical values.”
Haspel’s letter was requested by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who is among key Democrats whose votes will be crucial in the narrowly divided GOP Senate, especially after Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona urged colleagues to reject the nominee over her past role in CIA interrogations.
McCain’s comments sparked a fresh debate over now-banned torture techniques ahead of Senate voting. Trump has said the country should consider using the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. And Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was integral to the post-Sept. 11, 2001 strategy, said last week if it were up to him, “I’d do it again.”
Haspel testified at a Senate hearing that torture does not work as an interrogation technique and that as director her strong “moral compass” would ensure she did not carry out any administrative directive she found objectionable.
After the hearing, McCain, who is battling brain cancer home in Arizona, called Haspel a patriot for her long service to the CIA. But her role “in overseeing the use of torture by Americans is disturbing. Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying.”
A career intelligence officer and now acting director, Haspel faces ongoing questions over her work running a covert detention site where terror suspects were brutally interrogated. Senators also want more information about her role destroying videos of the sessions.
While Haspel is expected to easily clear the panel in a closed-door vote on Wednesday, her confirmation at the full Senate depends on winning support from key Democrats, largely those from conservative or centrist states, who are under enormous pressure from outside liberal and human rights groups to block her.
Most Republicans are expected to back her. But Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is opposed, and Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona has raised concerns about the nominee.
“The United States must be an example to the rest of the world, and I support that,” she said in her letter.
Warner has not yet said how he would vote ahead of the panel’s closed session Wednesday. But he felt Haspel was more forthcoming in her private meetings with senators, and asked her to put in writing some of what she told them.
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Really Hoping someone can Translate this Old Chinese Painting Poem and Seal into English for me.
edited, picture added.
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the text, with my best guess:
水殿亭¹亭荷 飛鳧浴³晚波 香
凮²吹不斷 時送采蓮歌 為
¹the actual character is a variant (u+20158), i guess most os, app can't display it correctly. have a look of this page:
²凮 (u+51ee) is a variant of 風 (u+98a8)
³浴 is my guess only, might be wrong :(
edited, here's an variant adjusted, character "浴" assumed, interpretation of the poem:
[near] a building at the shore (水殿), [growing] nobly and honestly (亭亭) [are] lotus flowers (荷)
wild ducks (飛鳧) are bathing (浴) in the evening (晚) ripple (波)
[lotus] scented (香) breeze (風) is blowing (吹) non stop ((不斷)
occasionally (時), [the breeze] is carrying (送) [the sound of] the song of harvesting lotus root (采蓮歌)
[pending] for (為) fifth brother (五兄) who named "兆南"'s comment / criticism (雅正)
"大人" is a courteous title added to "兄"
"雅正" is a courteous term for "begging for other's comment" (懇求他人指正)
"之" referred back to the painting and poem.
"丁酉" is one of the sexagenary cycle, for indicating year, it would be 2017-60i (i is any integer)
2017 - 0%, 1957, or earlier, are more likely.
"冬月" means eleventh month of lunar calendar
now, the trickier part: 石泉何濂畫
"石泉" i would interpret as "石泉縣", a small county in 陝西
cause, in the past, it's common to declare one's ancestral home (籍貫) before one's name. and, it's very unlikely that one would write his given name / courtesy name before his surname.
"何濂" is the author of the painting and poem, with "何" as surname, "濂" as given / courtesy name.
畫 means "draw / paint"
the seal is
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BIM Academy and BK AsiaPacific partnered to deliver the Building Intelligence 2017 Conference on 6 November, attracting over 120 senior construction professionals to the interactive BIM event.
With the 2017 Hong Kong government policy address explicitly requesting that consultants and contractors use Building Information Modelling (BIM) when undertaking the design and delivery of major capital works projects from 2018 onwards – the interest in BIM is surging. This combined with the growing international impetus towards a global digital built environment are clear markers that now is the time to consider how to embark on your organisation’s BIM implementation strategy.
The conference was opened by Ms. Ada FUNG Yin Suen, BBS, JP, deputy director of Housing (Development & Construction), Hong Kong Housing Authority, closely followed by founding chair of the Hong Kong Institute of BIM (HKIBIM), Francis Leung. We then heard case studies and lessons learnt on the value of BIM and the importance of effective data management for improved building performance.
Unlike many BIM conferences currently in Hong Kong, this was an interactive discussion based event, giving delegates the opportunity to ask questions, and learn and share in intimate expert round table groups.
Ten discussion groups took place focussing on a variety of digital construction topics, including BIM for contracts and legal, BIM and well building, BIM for asset management. BIM Skills – mind the gap, BIM the business case, BIM for clients, BIM for civil infrastructure, BIM 4D tools, BIM technologies and BIM standards.
The plenary questions to the panel raised several interesting points, comprising of top five barriers to BIM implementation in Hong Kong. These included readiness of supply chain, lack of client awareness and understanding, difficulties of moving the traditional sector forwards, the need for additional awareness and communication with the FM sector and the need for consistent standards.
Building Intelligence was extremely enlightening demonstrating the current status of maturity of BIM in Hong Kong and the drivers for BIM as a value creator,” Keith Fletcher, operations director, Jones Lang Lasalle
“We are delighted with the success of the conference and workshops which allowed us to bring together expertise from the international and local market to demonstrate the real value of BIM to clients, contractors and designers in the Hong Kong SAR. We plan to build on this momentum in the region over coming months,” Peter Barker, managing director, BIM Academy (Enterprises) Ltd
“Building Intelligence was a well managed conference with practical workshops and interactive roundtable discussions. The participants learnt a lot and really enjoyed the day,” Benny Chow, director of sustainability, AEDAS
BA (Hons) Business Management, MSc Strategic Project Management
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Two days after the Lok Sabha gave its approval, the Rajya Sabha too on Wednesday passed the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 by virtue of a voice vote after discussion. The Bill was moved by Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, in the Upper House of Parliament. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on September 21.
“The FCRA is a law for national and internal security. Its main motive is to ensure that foreign funds do not dominate the political and social discourse of India,” Rai said as the Rajya Sabha discussed the Bill. He said that the Bill proposed to make the Aadhaar Card for Indian, and passports or OCI paper for international citizens, mandatory in order to verify their identity, adding that the Home Ministry had consulted the UIDAI and MEITY before proposing this move.
“Experience says that many organisations attempted to hide their identity and were successful in doing that. The reason behind this is that they had no fear because their identity was not established completely. So Aadhaar card has been brought in to establish their identity,” Rai said.
Earlier in the day, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, V Muraleedharan, announced that the Centre has decided to recommend the adjournment of the House sine die on Wednesday. “I have to inform members that the government has decided to recommend adjournment of the House sine die today. But some important legislative business passed by Lok Sabha has to be disposed of before adjournment of the House sine die,” Muraleedharan told the Rajya Sabha.
Highlights of the FCRA Bill, 2020:
- It regulates the acceptance and utilization of foreign funding by individuals, associations, and companies.
- Foreign funding is the donation or transfer of any currency, security, or article by a foreign source.
- The Bill amends the earlier Act and prevents the transfer of foreign funding to any other person.
- The Bill reduced the limit of usable foreign contribution from 50% to 20%, which means anyone who receives foreign funding, cannot use more than 1/5th of the amount to meet administrative expenses.
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Advances in machine intelligence have enabled conversational interfaces that have the potential to radically change the way humans interact with machines. However, even with the progress in the abilities of these agents, there remain critical gaps in their capacity for natural interactions. One limitation is that the agents are often monotonic in behavior and do not adapt to their partner. We built two end-to-end conversational agents: a voice-based agent that can engage in naturalistic, multi-turn dialogue and align with the interlocutor's conversational style, and a 2nd, expressive, embodied conversational agent (ECA) that can recognize human behavior during open-ended conversations and automatically align its responses to the visual and conversational style of the other party. The embodied conversational agent leverages multimodal inputs to produce rich and perceptually valid vocal and facial responses (e.g., lip syncing and expressions) during the conversation. Based on empirical results from a set of user studies, we highlight several significant challenges in building such systems and provide design guidelines for multi-turn dialogue interactions using style adaptation for future research. | <urn:uuid:0204ab7e-140b-44b2-b787-69f244939f26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.catalyzex.com/paper/arxiv:1910.07514 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.93629 | 224 | 1.835938 | 2 |
This sun goddess was the chief deity of the Shinto pantheon. In the Nihongi she is the daughter of both Izanagi and Izanami but in the Kojiki she springs from Izanagi’s left eye. During one of the conflicts with her brother Susanowo the storm god she withdrew to a cave in protest of the storm god’s incessant belligerence. Susanowo had been overstepping his bounds by causing it to storm day and night and had even soiled himself in his sister’s personal rice patties. (Dude had issues. Let’s face it. )
Since this deprived the world of the light and warmth it needed to survive Omoigane, the god of wisdom, devised a, well … wise … plan to lure Amaterasu back to her rightful place as the supreme deity. He had the one-eyed smith god Amatsumara forge a large mirror and place it outside the cave Amaterasu was hiding in. The dancing goddess Uzume, well … danced … magnificently before it, prompting cries of appreciation from all the other assembled deities.
Amaterasu, curious about all this commotion from inside her cavern hiding place, asked what was going on. Omoigane shrewdly claimed they had found a deity even more illustrious than Amaterasu herself. This prompted her to peek out of the cave, and, catching sight of her own reflection in Amatsumara’s mirror, was so entranced by its beauty that she ventured out of the cave. Tajikara, the god of physical strength, seized her and prevented her from fleeing back into the cavern while the god of magic sealed off the mouth of the cave with a straw (or in some myths rainbow-hued) rope, thus preventing the sun goddess from ever withdrawing into it again.
The assembled gods then punished Susanowo by stripping the storm god of much of his godly power before exiling him to Earth, where he had a series of adventures like Hercules. He settled in Izumo where he headed an extended family of deities who included Okuninushi the god of medicine. The Izumo Cycle of myths are among the most memorable in Shinto mythology. Much later Amaterasu sent her grandson Ninigi to the Earth to assume control of the world from the descendants of Susanowo in Izumo. | <urn:uuid:f0f35079-fe8c-4a49-a303-dd1857f2cf55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://glitternight.com/2012/03/21/shinto-deity-amaterasu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.972194 | 488 | 2.078125 | 2 |
LOS ANGELES - More than two dozen people from 13 states were reported to be infected with multi-drug-resistant infections, with the outbreak being linked to puppies purchased from pet stores, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC and public health officials in several states are investigating a outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infections.
“30 people infected with the outbreak strain of Campylobacter jejuni have been reported from 13 states,” the CDC said in a press release. “4 hospitalizations have been reported. No deaths have been reported.
FILE: A chihuahua puppy stands and looks out in Petland in Altamonte Springs, Florida, Saturday, December 15, 2007. (Photo by Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“Epidemiologic and laboratory evidence indicate that contact with puppies, especially those at pet stores, is the likely source of this outbreak,” the CDC continued.
Among the 24 people interviewed, 21 of them (88 percent) reported contact with a puppy, 15 of them (71 percent) reported contact with a puppy from a pet store, 12 of those 15 people (80 percent) were linked to Petland, a national pet store chain, according to the CDC. Additionally, five of the 12 people (42 percent) were Petland employees.
“Laboratory evidence indicates that bacteria from ill people in this outbreak are closely related genetically to bacteria from ill people in the 2016–2018 outbreak of multidrug-resistant Campylobacter infections linked to pet store puppies,“ the CDC said.
Campylobacter bacteria isolated from clinical samples from people ill in this outbreak are resistant to commonly recommended, first-line antibiotics, the CDC said.
Most people infected with Campylobacter infection develop diarrhea (often bloody), fever and stomach cramps two to five days after being exposed to the bacteria, according to the CDC. The illness usually lasts about a week and most people are able to recover without antibiotic treatment.
Antibiotics are needed only for patients who are very ill or at high risk for severe disease, such as people with severely weakened immune systems, the CDC said.
“The investigation is ongoing. CDC will provide updates when more information is available,” the public health agency said.
The CDC also listed advice and best practices for pet owners and pet store workers. The advice for pet owners includes washing hands with soap and water, as well as taking the puppy to a veterinarian for a checkup. The advice for pet store workers includes hand-washing, clean-up procedures and other illness prevention measures.
Petland responded Monday in a statement.
“Petland learned today that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will be releasing an update tomorrow in regards to human cases of Campylobacter infections reported between January and November of 2019,” the company said.
“Petland takes the health and welfare of our employees, our customers and our pets very seriously. Since an earlier outbreak in 2016, in which no specific source of infection was identified, Petland has implemented all recommended protocols from federal and state animal and public health officials to prevent human and puppy illness,” the company continued.
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Other TitlesICSD 132502/232502 F16. Vocational Wayfinding
CitationStrauss, Gideon. "ICSD 132502/232502 F16: Vocational Wayfinding." (2016). Syllabi. Institute for Christian Studies.
PublisherInstitute for Christian Studies
Description“What am I to do with my life?” “Who am I?” There appears to be an inextricable connection between the work that we do and our sense of who we are. As the poet David Whyte has suggested, work is for all of us a pilgrimage of identity. It is not, however, a pilgrimage for which any of us are provided with a GPS device, allowing us to navigate in straight lines with comfortable certainty towards clear career objectives that cohere in obvious ways with an immutable sense of our identity. Instead, this pilgrimage is more like the experience of Polynesian sailors, who traversed the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean with the help of the stars, memory, and close attention to the patterns of the waves on the surface of the ocean as these reflected features of the ocean (including far-off islands). Polynesian wayfinding was a way of navigating that required alert improvisation and frequent reorientation from within a perpetually shifting context. Our vocational pilgrimages require of us to find our way in a similar manner. In this course we will explore particular practices, frameworks, and tools, by means of which we can engage in vocational wayfinding. Prompted by our readings we will consider some of the relationships between work and identity: How does my work prompt my discovery of my sense of self? How do I try out possible selves in relation to whatever in the world is calling me toward particular kinds of work? What am I to do with my life? We will give close attention to those passages in our lives (in particular young adulthood and the middle passage of life) when both our work contexts and our experience of our identity are most obviously in flux. In addition, we will consider how to contribute skillful leadership and insightful mentoring to others as they engage in their own vocational wayfinding, particularly in the contexts of the workplace and educational institutions.
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Contents Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2 Organizations of Information: Semantics, Cybernetics, Entropy and Signals Chapter 3 Information Forms and Dependence Chapter 4 Evolutionary Dimension of Information Processing: Semiotics Chapter 5 Spatial Dimension of Information Processing: Coupling, Cohesion, and Chaos Chapter 6: Temporal Dimension of Information Processing: Emergence Chapter 7: Information Processing, Complexity, and Crisis Chapter 8: Barriers to Optimal Information Processing Chapter 9: Setting up the Organization for Optimal Information Processing Chapter 10: Recap and Real Time Chapter 11: Future of Information Processing Epilogue Appendix A: Organizing for Cyber Terrorism Appendix B: Bibliography and Suggested Readings About the Authors List Of Tables And Figures Figure 2.1: Information Lost In Communications Figure 3.1: Dashboard of a Classic Ferrari Figure 3.2: Aspects of Information Processes Figure 3.3: Principle Factors Affecting Problem Resolution Figure 3.4: Three Realms of Information Organization Figure 4.1: Semiotic Square Figure 4.2: Semiotic Ladder Figure 4.3: 9/11 Time Line Figure 5.1: Signal Space of the Organization Figure 7.1: Yin Yang Figure 7.2: Crisis Management Model Figure 7.3: Probability to Consequence Aspect Figure 7.4: A Signal Processing Model Figure 9.1: Information Processing Framework Figure 10.1: Timeline
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ANALYSIS: By Josef Benedict
Today, we are watching history repeat itself in Southeast Asia in the worst possible way.
Once again, the Myanmar military has launched a brutal military campaign against the Rohingya minority, killing civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
And once again, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has failed to take a stand against horrors unfolding in one of its member states.
There is no question that what is taking place in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State is ethnic cleansing. Since August 25, when a Rohingya armed group attacked security posts and killed at least 12 security officers, the Myanmar military has responded with vicious, unlawful and disproportionate violence targeting the Rohingya population as a whole.
Soldiers have torched entire villages and opened fire on people fleeing in panic in what amounts to a clear and deliberate campaign to drive the Rohingya people out of their country once and for all.
The Asean Charter, the treaty that binds Asean states together, declares a clear commitment to human rights, and Asean leaders have been paying lip service to this for years.
So the crisis in Rakhine State would have been – perhaps still is – an opportunity to prove that this was more than just talk. Instead, the regional bloc has so far, once again, proved that it is both unwilling and unable to address ongoing violations.
It took Asean almost a full month to even issue a statement on the situation, but the organisation might have been better off staying silent.
When it finally did materialise, on September 24, the statement by Asean foreign ministers, expressed “concern” over developments in Rakhine State, but completely failed to even mention the word “Rohingya” and atrocities so obviously inflicted on them by the security forces.
Instead, the foreign ministers labelled the crisis a “complex inter-communal issue” and only condemned the August 25 attacks on Myanmar security forces and “all acts of violence”.
The statement was so bland that at least one individual Asean member state felt a need to distance itself. The Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman called the statement a “misrepresentation of the reality of the situation”.
It is to Kuala Lumpur’s credit that it has taken a strong stance on the crimes of the Myanmar army, even though its treatment of Rohingya refugees inside its own borders leaves a lot to be desired.
Strong and urgent Asean action is all the more important as there is no sign of the violence in Rakhine State ending any time soon. Despite the claims by Aung San Suu Kyi – Myanmar’s de facto leader – that the fighting has stopped, Amnesty International was able to confirm fresh burnings in Myanmar as late as last week.
Fleeing in desperation
And people continue to flee in desperation into Bangladesh – more than half a million according to latest UN figures.
There is also a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding within Rakhine State, as the Myanmar government has cut off aid agencies’ access to affected areas and severely restricted their life-sustaining activities in other parts of the state.
Recently, we have received credible reports that Rohingya are not just fleeing violence but also face the very real risk of starvation, as food is running desperately short in many places.
The Rakhine State crisis could also have spill-over affects across Southeast Asia as a whole. Many of us will still remember the “boat crisis” in 2015, when thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshis were stranded in the Bay of Bengal as governments in the region refused to let their boats in.
Asean countries must ensure that refugees are able to take safe routes to enter their countries, and that no one is forced to return to a country where they could face persecution or serious human rights violations, as the Rohingya most definitely will.
Asean should immediately hold an emergency summit to deal with the crisis in Rakhine State. Its members must also acknowledge and condemn the human rights violations being committed by the Myanmar military in strong and unequivocal terms.
Crimes against humanity
And make no mistake, what we are witnessing in Rakhine State are, under international law, crimes against humanity – surely a concern to Asean as well.
Asean states must also work to ensure that the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya does not succeed, and that Myanmar ends all persecution, and discrimination against and segregation of the Rohingya.
All this would be well within the provisions of the Asean Charter, which allows its leaders to take action “in the case of a serious breach of the Charter” and to “address emergency situations affecting Asean by taking appropriate actions”.
It is time for Asean to bring to the fore these core values – of responding to emergencies and of respecting human rights – which are just as germane to Asean and part of its constitution as the over-flaunted principle of “non-intervention”.
This is a moment of truth for Asean, when the association has to decide which side of history it wants to be on. With ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity taking place on its doorstep, will it do everything it can to end and redress it or simply sit idly by?
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It’s National Immunization Month. It’s back to school month.
Do your kids have their vaccines to be back in the classroom? The state of Florida requires the following shots for public school:
- Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria & acellular pertussis)
- MMR (measles, mumps & rubella)
- Hepatitis B
Even when the immunizations are not required, several shots are recommended, which guard against highly-preventable diseases.
Need a boost?
While many vaccines are required before children start kindergarten, the CDC recommends older children also receive a booster shot for some viruses, such as varicella (chicken pox) and Tdap.
Take the pain out of shots
Children usually get about 20 vaccinations in their formative years. Taking the focus away from the needle will make the experience much more bearable (for everyone involved). Try these simple shot distractions to keep you kid calm:
- Blowing soap bubbles, which also helps them breathe deeply through the process.
- Singing familiar songs or reading a story. You get bonus if it makes them laugh!
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An intermediary service provider is defined in Law No. 6563 on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce ["E-Commerce Law"] as "natural or legal persons that provide an electronic environment where others can conduct financial and commercial activities.” Electronic commerce platforms such as n11, Trendyol, GittiGidiyor, and Amazon, which are among the most important actors of electronic commerce today, are included in this definition under our legislation. In essence, these platforms mediate the contract's conclusion and performance by bringing buyers and sellers together via the internet. In this article, the liabilities of e-commerce actors as "intermediary service providers" will be discussed in light of recent Court of Cassation decisions.
Pursuant to the Protocol No. 15 amending the European Convention on Human Rights ["ECHR / Convention"], the time-limit for the application to the European Court of Human Rights ["ECtHR"] was reduced from 6 months to 4 months, effective as of February 1, 2022. Accordingly, once remedies available as per domestic laws are exhausted, the application should be filed with the ECtHR within 4 months following the final court judgment. Having said that if the court decision was adopted before February 1, 2022, the ECtHR application based on this decision will still be subject to 6-month time-limit.
On December 9, 2021, the Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) published its report entitled “Analysis Report on the Financial Technologies in Payment Services” (“Report”) which evaluates the effect of the use of financial technologies (“Fintech”) in the financial sector, the obstacles to innovation and competition in the relevant markets and the entry of big technology (“Big Tech”) companies (e.g., Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple) into the market. The Report notes that Fintech includes: (i) innovative products and services that emerged in the financial sector as a result of the radical technological transformation, (ii) new entrants other than the incumbent players that offer these services, and (iii) Big Tech companies which started to offer financial services.
“Regulation on the Principles of the Asset, Right and Receivable Inquiry on the National Judiciary Informatics System” [“Regulation”] was published in the Official Gazette dated January 22, 2022 and entered into force on the same date. The Regulation basically sets forth the procedures and principles regarding the inquiry of the debtor's assets, rights and receivables via the information systems integrated into the National Judiciary Informatics System [the so-called "UYAP"].
Although it is the first thing that comes into mind, share acquisition is not the only way to acquire a target. Turkish laws allow acquisitions to be completed through a number of other methods such as asset acquisitions, business acquisitions and merger, depending on preference of the buyer. This article will explain the processes for the acquisition methods concerning joint-stock and limited liability companies covering the requirements for valid acquisitions and matters to consider.
A new law proposal amending certain provisions of Law No. 5651 on Regulation of Broadcasts via Internet and Prevention of Crimes Committed through Such Broadcast and Turkish Criminal Code is submitted before the relevant commissions of Grand National Assembly of Turkey (“TBMM”) and has been published on TBMM’s website on February 3, 2022.
Corporate governance principles are essential in order to protect benefits of minority shareholders and investors. Appointment of independent members is one of the most important elements that ensure proper implementation of the corporate governance principles. As a part of corporate governance principles regulated under the capital market legislation, independent board members must be appointed by the companies who are expected to objectively supervise the company and enlighten the public if necessary. It is important to have an independent member who will execute his/her duties without being influenced in order to create reliable cooperation.
Purchase price is invariably among the most contentious points during the negotiation phase of an M&A transaction. Especially in cross-border transactions, the buyer may wish to minimise risks by opting for alternative payment methods. One is these methods is “earn-out,” where a part of purchase price will be calculated by reference to the future financial performance of the target company. Statistics pertaining to the year of 2020, indicate that earn-out clauses were used in around 27% of the acquisitions concluded in the United States. Also, earn-out clauses are frequently being used in share purchase agreements concluded in Europe. This is especially the case in deals involving start-up companies, where the uncertainty increases on the factors of target company's future performance and the buyer does not have any in-depth market experience.
Since the President's speech on December 20, 2021, "FX-Protected Deposit Accounts" have been at the forefront of talks on banking and finance applications. The instrument, of which the legal foundations were laid with Communiqué No. 2021/14 on Supporting the Conversion of Turkish Lira Deposit and Participation Accounts ["Communiqué"] published in the Official Gazette immediately following the speech, on December 21, 2021, found an ever-expanding field of application with amendments adopted in the following days and finally took its final form. In this article, we will examine FX-protected deposit accounts with their legal basis. | <urn:uuid:c2754f72-b384-4a95-86c9-c0a805ddcc46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ceelegalmatters.com/turkey?start=126 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.952493 | 1,093 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The creations of sculptor Arlindo Armacollo, 77, were first made for a church in Paraná, south Brazil six years ago, but have recently gone viral and caused an international debate over their bizarre appearance.
One Twitter user described the statues - made from shop mannequins, orange peel and and 11lbs of beeswax - as a 'Brazilian Horror Story' while others pointed out the statues of The Queen, Micheal Jackson and Nelson Mandela were 'questionable'.
Critics of the artwork, which is now displayed at a museum named after Armacollo's father, were quick to give their opinion, with one writing on Reddit: 'At least they tried'.
Another wrote: 'They looks like 80s action figures blown up to human size scale.'
A third said: 'Were these wax figures done by the same guy that did Cristiano Ronaldo's bust?', in reference to the widely ridiculed statue of the footballer that was unveiled in 2017 at Madeira Airport.
Someone else wrote: 'Why is Marilyn Monroe looking hench AF?', while another shocked commenter said: 'The pure fuel of nightmares'.
Another person commented on the Princess Diana waxwork: 'This is more offensive than any debate about an episode of The Crown will ever be.'
Other famous faces on display at the museum include late singer Elvis Presley and Western star Charlie Chaplin.
The artist also created the figures of academic Albert Einstein, former US President John F. Kennedy and Mahatma Gandhi.
The sculptor also made a statue of the activist Martin Luther King wearing a black suit with a tie.
But the septuagenarian artist isn't bothered by the criticism, and said the art isn't 'about making money'.
Speaking to the Guardian, he said: 'I couldn’t care less. If it was about making money it might bother me whether people appreciated what I was doing or not.
'But I do the things I do because I enjoy them. I did this for our town. If people like it, come and visit. If they don’t, don’t, why worry?
This article has been adapted from its original source.
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IAM Architectural Patterns
Concept of IAM Architectural patterns took years to reach maturity sufficient to be published as a form of best practices for corporate Identity and Access Management. Architectures described here apply to small and large enterprises, however smaller companies may not directly see the consequences of bad implementations and may not consider IAM Architectural patterns implementation leading directly to reasonable ROI.
Historically IAM evaluated from meta-directory solutions, automation and certification components. They aimed to enforce responsibility for IAM managed entities therefore improve security and operational efficiency within organizations.
Historical background that includes various paradigms such as RBAC / ABAC or discretionally access controls left IAM hanging in No Man's Land between business and technical end-points. This is one of the major drivers that let companies see IAM to be crucial but hardly achievable via IAM systems. | <urn:uuid:834a74cf-a988-4a15-bbf5-665a9f520ba7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.penguinconverters.ch/iam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.921029 | 180 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Some consumers confuse the role of appraisers with that of home inspectors. But important differences exist between the services offered by those professionals.
Money vs. maintenance
Appraisals are completed to provide a credible, reliable opinion of a property’s value. Inspections are performed to give prospective homebuyers insight into a home’s plumbing, electrical, roof and other features to help determine its condition.
Lenders and homebuyers
Lenders order appraisals to get a stronger understanding of risk relating to the underlying collateral offered in a mortgage. Appraisals are not technically provided to confirm a sales price, although they can help lenders and consumers in making sound financial decisions. Home inspections are requested by consumers, and while not required, certainly have benefits.
Lenders base the loan amount on the appraisal; if a property appraises for less than the loan amount, usually the buyer has to make up the difference. However, even if the numbers work, buyers might not be willing to purchase a property if many physical issues exist.
Appraisal reports include property features such as lot size, number of bedrooms and bathrooms and amenities such as swimming pools, along with a comparison to neighboring properties. Home inspection reports typically highlight items such a water damage, mold and termite damage. Consumers are encouraged to carefully review both reports to confirm factual accuracy, and point out any errors, as appropriate.
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On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City. His address appears below.
I CAME HERE BECAUSE of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America.
This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.
At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.
The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and fore t; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm one’s membership and allegiance to the body politic-to society-to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our children’s future.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives. Everything that makes man’s life worthwhile–family, work, education, a place to rear one’s children and a place to rest one’s head-all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer-not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
And even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high Or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity 0f any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.
These are the sacred rights of Western society. These were the essential differences between us and Nazi Germany, as they were between Athens and Persia.
They are the essence of our differences with communism today. I am unalterably opposed to communism because it exalts the state over the individual and the family, and because of the lack of freedom of speech, of protest, of religion, and of the press, which is the characteristic of totalitarian states. The way of opposition to communism IS not to imitate its dictatorship, but to enlarge individual freedom, in our own countries and all over the globe. There are those m every land who would label as Communist every threat to their privilege. But as I have seen on my travels in all sections of the world, reform is not communism. And the denial of freedom, in whatever name, only strengthens the very communism it claims to oppose.
Many nations have set forth their own definitions and declarations of these principles. And there have often been wide and tragic gaps between promise and performance, ideal and reality. Yet the great ideals have constantly recalled us to our duties. And-with painful slowness-we have extended and enlarged the mea rung and the practice of freedom for all our people.
For two centuries, my own country has struggled to overcome the self-imposed handicap of prejudice and discrimination based on nationality, social class, or race-discrimination profoundly repugnant to the theory and command of our Constitution. Even as my father grew up in Boston, signs told him that No Irish Need Apply. Two generations later President Kennedy became the first Catholic to head the nation; but how many men of ability had, before 1961, been denied the opportunity to contribute to the nation’s progress because they were Catholic, or of Irish extraction? How many sons of Italian or. Jewish .or Polish parents slumbered in slums-untaught, unlearned, their potential lost forever to the nation and human race? Even today, what price will we pay before we have assured full opportunity to millions of Negro Americans?
In the last five years we have done more to assure equality to our Negro Citizens, and to help the deprived both white and black, than in the hundred years before. But much more remains to be done.
For there are millions of Negroes untrained for the simplest of jobs, and thousands every day denied their full equal rights under the law; and the violence of the disinherited, the insulted and injured, looms over the streets of Harlem and Watts and South Side Chicago.
But a Negro American trains as an astronaut, one of mankind’s first explorers into outer space; another is the chief barrister of the United States government, and dozens sit on the benches of court; and another, Dr. Martin Luther King, is the second man of African descent to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent efforts for social justice between races.
We have passed laws prohibiting discrimination in education, in employment, in housing, but these laws alone cannot overcome the heritage of centuries- of broken families and stunted children, and poverty and degradation and pain.
So the road toward equality of freedom is not easy and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand-though all change is unsettling. Still even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.
And most important of all, all the panoply of government power has been committed to the goal of equality before the law, as we are now committing ourselves to the achievement of equal opportunity in fact.
We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous, although it is; not because the laws of God command it, although they do; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.
We recognize that there are problems and obstacles before the fulfillment of these ideals in the United States, as we recognize that other nations, in Latin America and Asia and Africa, have their own political, economic, and social problems, their unique barriers to the elimination of injustices.
In some there is concern that change will submerge the rights of a minority, particularly where the minority is of a different race from the majority. We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions they can make and the leadership they can provide; and we do not believe that any people-whether minority, majority, or individual human beings-are “expendable” in the cause of theory or policy. We recognize also that justice between men and nations is imperfect, and that humanity sometimes progresses slowly.
All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.
In a few hours, the plane that brought me to this country crossed oceans and countries which have been a crucible of human history. In minutes we traced the migration of men over thousands of years; seconds, the briefest glimpse, and we passed battlefields on which millions of men once struggled and died. We could see no national boundaries, no vast gulfs or high walls dividing people from people; only nature and the works of man-homes and factories and farms-everywhere reflecting man’s common effort to enrich his life. Everywhere new technology and communications bring men and nations closer together, the concerns of one inevitably becoming the concerns of all. And our new closeness is stripping away the false masks, the illusion of difference which is at the root of injustice and hate and war. Only earthbound man still clings to the dark and poisoning superstition that his world IS bounded by the nearest hill, his universe ended at river shore his common humanity enclosed in the tight circle of those who share his town and Views and the color of his skin.
It is your job, the task of the young people of this world, to strip the last remnants of that ancient, cruel belief from the civilization of man.
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future. There is discrimination in New York, the racial inequality of apartheid in South Africa, and serfdom In the mountains of Peru. People starve in the streets of India, a former Prime Minister is summarily executed in the Congo, intellectuals go to Jail In Russia, and thousands are slaughtered in Indonesia; wealth is lavished on armaments everywhere in the world. These are differing evils; but they are the common works of man. They reflect the imperfections of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, the defectiveness of our sensibility toward the sufferings of our fellows; they mark the limit of our ability to use knowledge for the well-being of our fellow human beings throughout the world. And therefore they call upon common qualities of conscience and indignation, a shared determination to wipe away the unnecessary sufferings of our fellow human beings at home and around the world.
It is these qualities which make of youth today the only true international community. More than this I think that we could agree on what kind of a world we would all want to build. It would be a world of independent nations, moving toward international community, each of which protected and respected the basic human freedoms. It would be a world which demanded of each government that it accept its responsibility to insure social justice. It would be a world of constantly accelerating economic progress-not material welfare as an end in itself, but as a means to liberate the capacity of every human being to pursue his talents and to pursue his hopes. It would, in short, be a world that we would be proud to have built.
Just to the north of here are lands of challenge and opportunity rich in natural resources, land and minerals and people. Yet they are also lands confronted by the greatest odds-overwhelming ignorance, internal tensions and strife, and great obstacles of climate and geography. Many of these nations, as colonies, were oppressed and exploited. Yet they have not estranged themselves from the broad traditions of the West; they are hoping and gambling their progress and stability on the chance that we will meet our responsibilities to help them overcome their poverty.
In the world we would like to build, South Africa could play an outstanding role in that effort. This is without question a preeminent repository of the wealth and knowledge and skill of the continent. Here are the greater part of Africa’s research scientists and steel production, most of its reservoirs of coal and electric power. Many South Africans have made major contributions to African technical development and world science; the names of some are known wherever men seek to eliminate the ravages of tropical diseases and pestilence. In your faculties and councils, here in this very audience, are hundreds and thousands of men who could transform the lives of millions for all
time to come.
But the help and the leadership of South Africa or the United States cannot be accepted if we-within our own countries or in our relations with others- deny individual integrity, human dignity, and the common humanity of man. If we would lead outside our borders, if we would help those who need our assistance, if we would meet our responsibilities to mankind, we must first, all of us, demolish the borders which history has erected between men within our own nations-barriers of race and religion, social class and ignorance.
Our answer is the world’s hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress.
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. It is a revolutionary world we live in, and thus, as I have said in Latin America and Asia, in Europe and in the United States, it is young people who must take the lead. Thus you, and your young compatriots everywhere, have had thrust upon you a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived.
“There is,” said an Italian philosopher, “nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” Yet this is the measure of the task of your generation, and the road is strewn with many dangers.
First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills-against misery and Ignorance, Injustice and violence. Yet many of the world’s greatest movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and the thirty-two-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal.
“Give me a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world.” These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation: Thousands of Peace Corps volunteers are making a difference in isolated villages and city slums in dozens of countries. Thousands of unknown men and women in Europe resisted the occupation of the Nazis and many died, but all added to the ultimate strength and freedom of their countries. It
IS from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
“If Athens shall appear great to you,” said Pericles, “consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.” This is the Source of all greatness in all societies, and it is the key to progress in our time.
The second danger is that of expediency; of those who say that hopes and beliefs must bend before immediate necessities. Of course, if we would act effectively we must deal with the world as it is. We must get things done. But If there was one thing President Kennedy stood for that touched the most profound feelings of young people around the world, it was the belief that idealism, high aspirations, and deep convictions are not incompatible with the most practical and efficient of programs-that there is no basic inconsistency between Ideals and realistic possibilities, no separation between the deepest desires of heart and of mind and the rational application of human effort to human problems. It is not realistic or hardheaded to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgment, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief-forces ultimately more powerful than all of the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to Vision In the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It is this new idealism which is also, I believe, the common heritage of a generation which has learned that while efficiency can lead ~o the camps at Auschwitz, or the streets of Budapest, only the Ideals of humanity and love can climb the hills of the Acropolis.
A third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. Aristotle tells us that “at the Olympic games it is not the finest and the strongest men who are crowned, but they who enter the lists …. So too in the life of the honorable and the good it is they who act rightly who win the prize.” I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions In every corner of the world. .
For the fortunate among us, the fourth danger is comfort, the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who have the privilege of education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. There IS a Chinese curse which says “May he live in interesting times.” Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. And everyone here will ultimately be judged-will ultimately judge himself-on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.
So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are-if a man of forty can claim that privilege-fellow members of the world’s largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but for men and women everywhere. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you With yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country I have visited, you are all In many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generations of any of these nations; and that you are determined to build ~ better future. President Kennedy was speaking to the young people of America, but beyond them to young people everywhere, when he said that “the energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it – and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.”
And he added, “With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.” | <urn:uuid:d74422d6-e2d6-4a41-9be3-ef290f06ca05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1966-robert-f-kennedy-day-affirmation-address/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966027 | 4,289 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Will a stuck contact eventually come out?
Your eye should expel the lens eventually, but if you’re still freaking out, call your eye doc.
How do you deep clean gas permeable contact lenses?
Place a drop of cleaner (from the small bottle) onto the lens and your hand. Rub lens gently but firmly with the little finger of your other hand for 30 seconds. Rinse away the cleaner and any debris with saline.
How do you remove protein deposits from gas permeable contacts?
In some cases, your eye care professional may also recommend adding an enzymatic cleaner to your regular lens care regimen to help remove protein deposits. When recommended, enzyme cleaning typically is performed weekly. You also may choose to use a rewetting solution as you wear your lenses.
Can you use a plunger to remove soft contact lenses?
There are two basic methods of removing scleral contact lenses: with your fingers, or with the aid of a plunger. After you wash your hands well, look straight ahead. If you’re using a plunger, wet the tip with saline and attach it to the lower third of the lens. Press gently on your eye, and pull up and out.
What to do if you Cannot remove a contact lens?
If you can see a contact lens in your eye but can’t remove it, don’t try to pull the lens off. Instead, first put a few drops of saline solution or lubricating eye drops into your eye. Wash your hands before trying to slide or gently pinch the contact out of your eye.
Can I sleep with a contact stuck in my eye?
Sleeping in contact lenses is dangerous because it drastically increases your risk of eye infection. While you’re sleeping, your contact keeps your eye from getting the oxygen and hydration it needs to fight a bacterial or microbial invasion.
How do you tell if there is still a contact in your eye?
Signs You May Have a Contact Stuck In Your Eye
- You’re experiencing a burning sensation in one or both of your eyes.
- You have red, irritated eyes.
- You’re experiencing a sharp, scratching pain.
- It’s difficult to open your eyes without experiencing pain or irritation.
Why do my gas permeable contacts get cloudy?
When gas permeable contacts become cloudy, it’s usually due to tiny particles of dirt or debris that get stuck inside or around the lens. … If this should happen, simply remove the lenses and gently rinse them with artificial tears. This usually resolves the issue quickly. You can always contact our office for help, too.
Can gas permeable lenses dry out?
Alternatively, gas permeable (GP) or rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses are made with a hard material that in some cases does not dry out like soft lenses and they are able to hold a certain amount of moisture beneath the lens to keep the eye from drying out.
Can I use regular hydrogen peroxide to clean my contact lenses?
“You should never put hydrogen peroxide directly into your eyes or on your contact lenses,” Lepri says. That’s because this kind of solution can cause stinging, burning, and damage—specifically to your cornea (the clear surface that covers your eye).
How do you remove calcium deposits from contacts?
These types of deposits can be eliminated by proper hand washing before lens handling and applying make-up after lens insertion (Figure 4).
Can you use biotrue on gas permeable lenses?
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OMG! I’ve voted in California for decades, and founded the National Voter Corps. How can I possibly be “unregistered?!”
Well, I moved this summer and had notified the California DMV which automatically updates the voter registration records. Last week the DMV reported they were correcting several thousand voter registrations due to a software problem. So, I checked my voter registration status.
“Unregistered” – me? In disbelief, I tried again. This time the screen said I was registered. I trust the California government to fix this problem, but voters in Virginia, Georgia, Texas and many others cannot. Those states are actively trying to de-register voters.
You’ve heard the stories about gerrymandering and false claims of voter fraud used to deny citizens their right to vote. More and more we see editorials, articles and books warning our country is at risk. The latest, “How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” is the subtitle of One Person, No Vote, a new book by Carol Anderson reviewed in the September/October Washington Monthly.
Want to turn your angst into action? National Voter Corps has launched a major campaign to help protect the vote in several voter suppression states. To join, contact [email protected]. Help warn these voters, so on Election Day, they won’t be saying “What do you mean, I’m not registered?!” | <urn:uuid:30d4d1bc-3b01-45a1-821a-53d43efe08b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nationalvotercorps.org/2018/09/what-do-you-mean-im-not-registered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.937675 | 304 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Working on education and talent of the future
Society has a great need for highly educated technical staff with a broad orientation and social commitment. Therefore, we want to educate the talents needed for the future.
Within the programme Creating talent for society, we meet this need by developing innovative and multidisciplinary education at bachelor, master, PhD and post-doctoral level.
We also create platforms for exchange, cross-fertilisation and talent development for our students and staff. In addition, we create opportunities for continuous learning paths for students, staff, alumni and employees (life-long learning).
In 2018, the second location of the UT Mechanical Engineering programme at VU started. The first batch is now in the third year of their bachelor. They will graduate this summer. Go to the programme website for more information and registration procedures for the programme 'Mechanical Engineering' at VU Amsterdam. You can also find more information about this programme on the UT website.
In addition to Mechanical Engineering, we are exploring the possibilities of starting other joint bachelor programmes. Like Mechanical Engineering, these are initially second locations of the UT, taught at the VU. The most concrete initiative at the moment is the second location of Creative Technology, a very interesting programme from the cooperation point of view. It is a technical programme that is accessible to any secondary school student. The 'CreaTe' programme has been successful in Enschede for years. Graduates progress to various technical masters, such as Interaction Technology, Data Science, or Industrial Design Engineering.
For this second location, concrete ideas for the curriculum are currently being developed. At the same time, we are working on an application file that should substantiate the feasibility of this educational initiative.
Technical master's programmes
Significant growth in the inflow of technical master's programmes at UT is crucial if we are to meet the need on the labour market for highly educated technical specialists. We therefore want to develop a well-functioning system of bridging programmes between the bachelor's programmes at VU Amsterdam and the technical master's programmes at the UT. Between now and 2023, we will take the following steps in any case:
- Transfer of VU bachelors to UT master's programmes
We are jointly scanning the opportunities for linking VU Amsterdam bachelor's programmes to UT master's programmes. To ensure that VU students can move on to technical master's programmes at the UT, we will focus on information, bridging programmes and minors.
- Start of Sports Data Science specialisation
In September 2021, the ‘Sports Data Science’ master's specialisation started at the UT and we aim to start this specialisation at VU Amsterdam in 2023 as well.
Go to the programme website for more information and registration procedures for the master's specialisation ‘Sports Data Science’ at the UT.
We are keen to use our cooperation to contribute to the new challenges facing higher education. We are therefore exploring how we can strengthen our national and international Life-long learning proposition within socio-technological academic education. One way to do this, is by linking the existing offerings of both universities and developing new joint propositions. We want to better connect the strengths of both institutions through the following steps, e.g. by knowledge exchange in digitalisation, Life Long Learning offerings from Impact programmes and by exploring whether and how we can give our staff and alumni preferential access to our Life Long Learning programmes from 2023. | <urn:uuid:00c0f6f8-ff83-4a18-a9bf-741b318fd11e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vu-utwente.nl/en/education-and-talent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.920703 | 718 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Shooting Stars Services
Shooting Stars Services - Finding Your Flight Path
Ok now it's time chart a course that teaches the student-athlete to be a student of .........( fill in the blank)! What does that mean learning how to Learn, Listen and Respond through preparation to compete. Whether it's truly knowing how to prep and study for a test in the classroom or in competition. Establish learning strategies and proven rituals that give the Star the confidence to thrive and start to build credentials while it's still FUN but hardwork starts to meet talent and you learn to SHOW UP and invest in their dream!
As the flight continues through those formative years approximately (9-12) or if the kid is new to the sport for any age, coaches are fighting over the athleticism your kid may possess but it's up to you to keep the flight on course. NO DETOURS! Let your SHOOTING STAR find their path and start to OWN a piece of it by speaking with the coaches, making study schedules, learn how to get better through playing at home when no one is watching and practice is not required. In other words, start cutting that umbilical chord and let them think! Let them play anything but start to keep an eye on what they do best and keep it in the plan to start building that confidence, and self-esteem. You still fly the plane and the kid is still a passenger but they now know the flight plan. For example, for those out there playing five sports, music and theatre let them know if they are not a MANCHILD like Lebron James or a music prodigy you probably need to trim something if you want to excel. If excellence is not the goal and fun is the primary purpose. Let them play! Maybe you have a cross-trainer that's a star point guard/receiver and sprinter. No problem! Parents manage your own expectations and leave them alone LOL! The Stars have to start understanding reality and consequences but remember you are the pilot they are still passengers looking out a window. They have to learn about the power of belief as well! Our philosophy, products and services support ways is to help you keep the flame burning and build that student-athlete circle of influence that let's the Shooting Star realize the possibilities.
Flight plan Knowledge + Great Coaching + FUN + Hardwork + Compete + Success + Failure=Big Progress.
Build on the basics cut down on overloading and avoid coaches pulling the kids where possible to make early decisions.
TURBULENCE -> Burnout, Pressure, Failure, Weakness, Fatigue, Injuries, Bullying, Life
Getting to the Top
Fighting thru the Pressure
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Convenience is key to keeping customers happy – understandably, it’s top of mind for most businesses because happy customers usually translate to greater revenues. But as the information-hungry consumers we are today, we’re increasingly demanding and time poor, constantly looking for ways to interact with businesses as quickly and easily as possible.
While telephony had historically been the communication channel of choice for customer service queries, newer channels such as Facebook Messenger and interactive SMS have recently become the go-to channels for certain things like leaving customer feedback and changing account details.
The reason for this change in channel preference is clear from both sides; Customers are looking for the quickest way to interact with a business, and businesses are looking for the most cost effective channels to resolve customer queries in the most effective way.
That being said, with the more recent popularity of virtual, or ‘voice-activated’ assistants such as Siri (Apple), Cortana (Microsoft), Google Now (Google) and Alexa (Amazon), is the way we search for services about to do a u-turn away from the keyboard and back towards the human voice?
Thanks to the invention of these virtual assistants and recent breakthroughs in natural language understanding, consumers now have the option to interact with a business without even picking up a phone.
Voice is booming, and it’s already changing the way we interact with brands and devices.
Amazon’s Alexa, an AI driven personal assistant, is becoming a more familiar part of many households with more than 11 million sold before January 2017. Living in the cloud, Alexa listens to its owner through a number of different physical devices including Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap and Fire TV.
Essentially, what Alexa enables is convenience. She answers our questions, reads recipes or news, searches for Spotify playlists, makes to do lists and, of course, orders products through Amazon all just by us talking to her.
Talking shop – the race is on!
Big retail brands are already beginning to see the value of voice – so expect to be doing your shopping through voice in the near future. Tesco recently trialled voice ordering through Google Home, which enables customers to buy products using voice with the view of creating a more frictionless shopping experience.
Amazon has taken this one step further. To spur the use of Alexa for shopping Amazon has previously promoted Alexa-only deals, whereby users simply have to say “Alexa, what are your deals today?” and Amazon provides key products at discounts, presumably based on its knowledge of the consumer.
Alexa and the other voice-activated assistants represent the front line in the e-commerce battle. Having an online presence is rapidly becoming the price of entry for brick-and-mortar retailers aspiring to become cross-channel retailers. Finding another way of integrating the online store with automated replenishment services, combined with the growing number of digital assistants is poised to quickly become a necessity. So if you haven’t already, it’s time to familiarise yourself with the Alexa Skills Kit.
Alexa – what’s my balance on my credit card?
If you can shop online using voice, why shouldn’t you be able to online bank using it too? Capital One has already teamed up with Amazon to allow customers to access their bank accounts using voice via Alexa. Customers can just ask Alexa what their balance is, make a payment and ask when one’s due all by using voice. Banking via virtual assistant gives us a glimpse into the already very exciting AI powered future.
Similarly, FedEx is building an app that lets you ship packages by saying, “Alexa, I want to ship a package,” Once customers have completed the package details, a FedEx truck arrive as the customers desired location to pick up the package and ship it to where the customer intends it to be.
So how can your company prepare for the Voice evolution?
First things first, if you haven’t already, make sure your office has a voice-activated assistant – there’s plenty to choose from. Besides the obvious advantages of letting your developers experiment, setting up a device in your office can really start paying dividends for everything from scheduling a meeting to ordering stationary.
At a time when customers are used to reading about high profile data privacy breaches on an almost daily basis, trust, is a key consideration. Amazon is currently developing speaker recognition features for Alexa so we could soon see a surge in biometric security to ensure that purchases and financial information are secure and safe – critical if consumers are going to adopt the technology and keep coming back. So keep your eyes peeled for announcements to make sure you and your business stays ahead of the curve.
And finally, look at the bigger picture. Ensuring your website and apps account for voice-enabled searches is a very small piece of the puzzle. Implementing natural language understanding to deliver a seamless customer experience across multiple devices, that all talk to each other, will be the next.
Begin to think about integrating data from Amazon Alexa to deliver relevant messages via SMS, e-mail or push notifications to customers on the move. Alexa is restricted to just the home at the moment, so consider how you can also combine geo-location technology with spending habit information from Alexa to create the ultimate digital experience for the ‘on-the-go’ consumer.
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Local manufacturers will adopt new digital technology and workers will gain new skills thanks to a brand new £2.7m programme of support from the West of England Combined Authority, led by Metro Mayor Dan Norris.
Efficiency and sustainability is the name of the game, as 80 plus West of England firms will embrace robots, futuristic virtual reality tools and digitise their manufacturing processes.
Advice from experts will be on hand about future proofing manufacturing processes and the skills that workers need for 21st century world class manufacturing.
Metro Mayor Dan Norris said: “A thriving manufacturing sector means using the very latest tech. So I’m really delighted that this £2.7m West of England Combined Authority-led programme will mean our local workers will be able to access the training they need to thrive. As everyone knows we are in the midst of a climate emergency. It is so very, very important for everyone to pull together to reach our stretching net-zero 2030 targets. These tools will help our amazing manufacturers to become greener.”
Made Smarter Commission co-chair Brian Holliday (MD, Siemens Digital Industries) said: “The adoption of digital technologies, such as AI, robotics and virtual reality, is central to driving productivity and growth amongst manufacturers.
“The West of England Made Smarter programme is a fantastic, independent initiative and will help businesses in the area seize on the huge opportunities presented by digitalisation.”
The programme is funded by the West of England Combined Authority with training supported by the University of the West of England, Bristol and1-1 digital acceleration sessions led by the National Composites Centre. It has been created to meet the particular needs of manufacturers in the West of England.
The programme is now open for applications.
Find out more about Made Smarter West of England on the Growth Hub. | <urn:uuid:c0afc337-34a1-4767-98fe-254e07127317> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/news/support-for-manufacturers-to-go-digital/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.928657 | 378 | 2.109375 | 2 |
We live in a world awash with data. The rise of connected devices, sophisticated sensor networks, social media, and interconnected databases has led to an unprecedented flood of information. Making sense of the data that surround us is inherently a liberal art.
Large and complex datasets can be used to address societal challenges (e.g., climate change, energy and transportation, health, inclusion and systematic racism and inequality). Potential downsides exist as well in terms of loss of privacy, algorithmic bias, and broader ethical concerns.
To best meet these challenges, we need an integrated humanistic and scientific approach to understanding our data-infused world. Data science-related majors at Amherst include computer science and statistics, though many other majors facilitate the application of data science, including (but not limited to) anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, English, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Making sense of the data that surround us is inherently a liberal art. | <urn:uuid:a0541244-3717-4b1f-8f63-ecabab21f41f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acalert.amherst.edu/amherst-story/science_at_amherst/data-science | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.905501 | 203 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The city lights of Spain and Portugal define the Iberian Peninsula in this photograph from the International Space Station (ISS). Several large metropolitan areas are visible, marked by their relatively large and brightly lit areas, including the capital cities of Madrid, Spain—located near the center of the peninsula’s interior—and Lisbon, Portugal—located along the southwestern coastline. The ancient city of Seville, visible to the north of the Strait of Gibraltar, is one of the largest cities in Spain. The astronaut view is looking toward the east, and is part of a time-lapse series of images.
The network of smaller cities and towns along the coastline and in the interior attest to the extent of the human presence on the Iberian landscape. The blurring of city lights is caused by thin cloud cover (image left and center), while cloud tops are dimly illuminated by moonlight. Though obscured, the lights of France are visible near the horizon line on the upper left, while the lights of northern Africa are more clearly discernable at right. The faint gold and green line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon (or Earth limb).
The Iberian Peninsula is the southwestern-most of the European peninsulas (together with the Italian and Balkan peninsulas), and includes the Principality of Andorra, as well as the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic. The approximately 590,000 square kilometer landmass is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the northwest, west, and southwest and the Mediterranean Sea to the east. Its northeastern boundary is marked by the Pyrenees mountain range.
Astronaut photograph ISS030-E-10008 was acquired on December 4, 2011, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 24 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 30 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by William L. Stefanov, Jacobs Technology/ESCG at NASA-JSC. | <urn:uuid:d2802225-2770-4a60-8f12-e4ecb9dd968f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/76777/iberian-peninsula-at-night | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.94173 | 520 | 3.4375 | 3 |
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Citation Information : Immunohematology. Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 107-111, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/immunohematology-2019-242
License : (Transfer of Copyright)
Published Online: 20-March-2020
Many hospital transfusion services have assumed responsibility for the coordinated management of human allograft tissue. This overview summarizes logistical aspects of tissue management based on the experience of a centralized tissue service at a large academic hospital, in which tissue is stored in a location remote from patient care areas. Operational aspects include determination of which personnel classifications will perform the necessary functions, establishment and maintenance of the standing tissue inventory (including pros and cons of alternative approaches to inventory acquisition), and necessary considerations for making tissue available for surgical cases in the hospital. The nature of communications regarding tissue orders for individual surgical cases is discussed, as well as mechanisms for storage of tissue and transportation and delivery of tissue to the surgical suites. Finally, options for the disposition of tissue that has been dispensed from the tissue service but was not used during the surgical procedure are summarized. With attention to these details, a tissue service can provide reliable, high-quality tissue in a timely fashion. | <urn:uuid:9ceaa46f-55ba-4537-866e-d941beadab06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exeley.com/immunohematology/doi/10.21307/immunohematology-2019-242 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.945818 | 256 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the writers of the Nancy Drew and The Dana Girls mystery book series. The name "Carolyn Keene" is the invention of Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which was known for packaging books for children. Ghost writer Mildred Wirt Benson was the first and primary writer of the Nancy Drew books before additional authors, including Edward Stratemeyer's daughter Harriet Adams, took over the mantle. The classic Nancy Drew series includes 78 books and the first, The Secret of the Old Clock, continues to be the most popular book. "Carolyn Keene" is also credited as writer to Nancy Drew spin-off book series River Heights and the Nancy Drew Notebooks. | <urn:uuid:d4113046-17c1-4c2d-b160-ecd6aa28fb21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://preview.barnesandnoble.com/b/contributor/carolyn-keene/_/N-2k5g;jsessionid=031831F76F5E0C53D32A9319515B4CB9.prodny_store01-va10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.963428 | 149 | 1.515625 | 2 |
bulk - Calculates the average bulkiness of amino acid sequences
bulk calculates the average bulkiness score of amino acid sequences.
Non-informative positions are excluded, where non-informative is defined as any
c("X", "-", ".", "*").
bulk(seq, bulkiness = NULL)
- vector of strings containing amino acid sequences.
- named numerical vector defining bulkiness scores for
each amino acid, where names are single-letter amino acid
character codes. If
NULL, then the Zimmerman et al, 1968 scale is used.
A vector of bulkiness scores for the sequence(s).
- Zimmerman JM, Eliezer N, Simha R. The characterization of amino acid sequences in proteins by statistical methods. J Theor Biol 21, 170-201 (1968).
# Default bulkiness scale seq <- c("CARDRSTPWRRGIASTTVRTSW", "XXTQMYVRT") bulk(seq)
14.46227 16.58857
# Use the Grantham, 1974 side chain volumn scores from the seqinr package library(seqinr) data(aaindex) x <- aaindex[["GRAR740103"]]$I # Rename the score vector to use single-letter codes names(x) <- translateStrings(names(x), ABBREV_AA) # Calculate average volume bulk(seq, bulkiness=x)
77.34091 93.71429
For additional size related indices see aaindex. | <urn:uuid:e6da271e-7272-4c23-bc19-1ed03a4797b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alakazam.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/bulk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.667229 | 372 | 2.359375 | 2 |
There is no “i” in Phalanx
Across calescent karstic plains,
attentive, observant, at walking pace,
for a more than suitable place
to play these noble and momentous games,
purposely, resolutely stopping at this very ground
we converge and then assemble in formation
aligning and establishing our corresponding location
shields brought up and eyes directed all around.
There is no certified start to victory.
There is no established end to self-defeat.
There is no single push that doesn’t come down to shove,
after which we hold, advance or consider our retreat.
The battle starts and shields meet shields
as outer layer on outer layer peels off and drops;
forward with counter-jabs and counter-blocks,
the winning forces shed more blood as the losing army yields.
There is no I in Phalanx.
There is no me in attack.
There is no volition in my ammunition
but there is no heading back.
As victor forces scatter defeated ranks
fallen bodies insist on being active players
tripping up their remaining slayers
prolonging this conflict with mutilated arms, twisted torsos and lifeless shanks.
There may be stop but there is no end
and some sense of quiet but never peace.
There is some faint attempt to circumvent
but there is no means to cease.
And two thousand years later
archeologists dig for artifacts
and scour the settled ground
in which is conceivably found
the trace of the last impact.
This is what was left behind
and not much more
but then, what will be left again
when two thousand more years occur
and someone else digs around
excavating some hint of a sign
of those that previously searched these dusty mounds?
At some future moment this is all totally untraceable,
the conclusion of which is particularly inescapable:
no matter the plan or materiel,
all efforts are unavoidably replaceable
but much more to the point,
chalked up or not,
is ultimately and permanently erasable.
— Zumwalt (2011) | <urn:uuid:af852294-753d-4d0e-9435-b44fef9c92fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zumpoems.com/tag/ephemeral/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.924027 | 480 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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