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Otto Scheiner mainly investigates Allergen, Immunoglobulin E, Immunology, Molecular biology and Allergy. His research integrates issues of Complementary DNA, Peptide sequence and Pollen in his study of Allergen. Otto Scheiner has included themes like Food allergy, Biochemistry and Antigen in his Immunoglobulin E study.
Particularly relevant to T cell is his body of work in Immunology. His Molecular biology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Epitope, Binding site and Gene isoform. In general Allergy, his work in Allergy test is often linked to Population and Provocation test linking many areas of study.
His primary scientific interests are in Immunology, Allergen, Immunoglobulin E, Molecular biology and Antibody. His studies in Allergen integrate themes in fields like Biochemistry, Pollen, Botany and Recombinant DNA. His research in Pollen intersects with topics in Timothy-grass and Betulaceae.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Gene isoform and Escherichia coli in addition to Recombinant DNA. His work on Radioallergosorbent test as part of general Immunoglobulin E study is frequently linked to Population, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of science. The various areas that Otto Scheiner examines in his Molecular biology study include Entamoeba histolytica, Genetics, Complementary DNA, Peptide sequence and Epitope.
His scientific interests lie mostly in Immunology, Epitope, Immunoglobulin E, Mimotope and Antibody. Immune system, Allergy, Allergen, Vaccination and Immunotherapy are the primary areas of interest in his Immunology study. His Allergen research integrates issues from Zoology, In vitro and Fishery.
He has included themes like Receptor and Escherichia coli in his Immunoglobulin E study. His research in Mimotope tackles topics such as Molecular biology which are related to areas like Human lung and Monocyte chemoattractant protein. His Antibody research includes themes of Chromatography and Recombinant DNA.
Otto Scheiner mainly focuses on Immunology, Immunoglobulin E, Epitope, Allergy and Allergen. His work carried out in the field of Immunology brings together such families of science as Digestion and Recombinant DNA. His Immunoglobulin E study frequently draws connections between adjacent fields such as Protein structure.
His study in the field of Anaphylaxis is also linked to topics like Fish products. His Allergen research is multidisciplinary, relying on both In vitro, Biochemistry, Fucose and Escherichia coli. His Antibody study combines topics in areas such as Lectin, Antigen and Microbiology.
This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.
The gene coding for the major birch pollen allergen Betv1, is highly homologous to a pea disease resistance response gene.
H. Breiteneder;K. Pettenburger;A. Bito;R. Valenta.
The EMBO Journal (1989)
Identification of profilin as a novel pollen allergen; IgE autoreactivity in sensitized individuals
Rudolf Valenta;Michael Duchene;Karin Pettenburger;Christian Sillaber.
Identification of allergens in fruits and vegetables: IgE cross-reactivities with the important birch pollen allergens Bet v 1 and Bet v 2 (birch profilin)
Christof Ebner;Reinhold Hirschwehr;Leonhardt Bauer;Heimo Breiteneder.
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (1995)
Microarrayed allergen molecules: diagnostic gatekeepers for allergy treatment.
Reinhard Hiller;Sylvia Laffer;Christian Harwanegg;Martin Huber.
The FASEB Journal (2002)
Immunological changes during specific immunotherapy of grass pollen allergy: reduced lymphoproliferative responses to allergen and shift from TH2 to TH1 in T‐cell clones specific for Phi p 1, a major grass pollen allergen
C. Ebner;U. Siemann;B. Bohle;M. Willheim.
Clinical & Experimental Allergy (1997)
Common epitopes of birch pollen and apples—Studies by western and northern blot
C. Ebner;T. Birkner;R. Valenta;H. Rumpold.
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (1991)
Cloning and sequencing of Mal d 1, the major allergen from apple (Malus domestica), and its immunological relationship to Bet v 1, the major birch pollen allergen.
M. Vanekkrebitz;K. Hoffmannsommergruber;M.L.D. Machado;M. Susani.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (1995)
Crystal Structure of a Hypoallergenic Isoform of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1 and its Likely Biological Function as a Plant Steroid Carrier
Zora Marković-Housley;Massimo Degano;Doriano Lamba;Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye.
Journal of Molecular Biology (2003)
Dissection of Immunoglobulin E and T Lymphocyte Reactivity of Isoforms of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1: Potential Use of Hypoallergenic Isoforms for Immunotherapy
Fátima Ferreira;Kora Hirtenlehner;Alexander Jilek;Jasminka Godnik-Cvar.
Journal of Experimental Medicine (1996)
Molecular Characterization of Api g 1, the Major Allergen of Celery (Apium graveolens), and Its Immumological and Structural Relationships to a Group of 17-kDa Tree Pollen Allergens
Heimo Breiteneder;Karin Hoffmann‐Sommergruber;Gabriel O'Riordain;Markus Susani.
FEBS Journal (1995)
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The sprightly Common Yellowthroat usually stays low in thick marshy or brushy vegetation, and is often hard to see. The bold black mask of the male and his distinctive wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty song makes this an easy warbler to identify. The Common Yellowthroat breeds from western Canada across North America and spends the non-breeding season in the coastal southeastern states, throughout Mexico and Central America, and the Caribbean. In Tennessee it is found statewide from mid-April to late October, and occasionally through the winter.
Description: The Common Yellowthroat is plain olive-green above and yellow below with a grayish belly. The male has a broad black mask bordered with white; the female lacks the mask and is duller overall.
Weight: 0.35 oz
Voice: The song is a series of three wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty notes. The call note is a distinctive, husky chip along with a raspy, scolding trill.
- Female Common Yellowthroats resemble female Connecticut Warbler and Mourning Warbler, except they have dusky or grayish hoods and entirely yellow underparts. Both Connecticut and Mourning Warblers are rare migrants in Tennessee and are not often seen or heard.
Habitat: Common Yellowthroats breed in a variety of brushy habitats including fencerows, grassy marshes, abandoned agricultural fields, and brushy pastures.
Diet: Insects and other small invertebrates, and occasionally seeds.
Nesting and reproduction: Pairs form shortly after the females arrive on the breeding grounds, and most pairs raise two broods a season. When the first brood fledges, the female starts the second brood, and the male feeds the fledglings.
Clutch Size: Usually 4 eggs, with a range of 1 to 6.
Incubation: The female incubates for 12 days, with the male occasionally bringing her food.
Fledging: Both parents feed the young, which leave the nest in 8 to 10 days. The parents continue to feed the young for at least two weeks following fledging.
Nest: The female selects the nest site and builds the nest, usually in low, thick vegetation. The nest is a loose, bulky cup, sometimes with a partial roof, made of weeds, grass, sedge, and leaves, and lined with fine bark, grass, and hair.
Status in Tennessee: The Common Yellowthroat is a common summer resident and one of the most abundant of the wood warblers nesting in Tennessee. It usually arrives in mid-April and departs by late October. There are several winter records for this species in the state. The population has been declining in Tennessee and elsewhere in its range for several years.
Dynamic map of Common Yellowthroat eBird observations in Tennessee
- The Common Yellowthroat was first collected in what is now Maryland, and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766, making it one of the first species of birds to be described from the New World.
- Common Yellowthroats are monogamous within a breeding season and only infrequently will males have two mates in their territory. Females, however, are not faithful to their mates and often attract other males with their calls for extra-pair copulations.
Obsolete English Names: northern yellowthroat, southern yellowthroat, Maryland yellowthroat.
Best places to see in Tennessee: This species is common in thick shrubby vegetation across the state from mid-April to late-October.
For more information:
Guzy, M. J. and G. Ritchison. 1999. Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), The Birds of North America, No. 448 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
Nicholson, C. P. 1997. Atlas of Breeding Birds of Tennessee. Univ. Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Sibley, D. A. 2000. The Sibley Guide to Birds. A. A. Knopf, New York, NY.
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The weather is warming up and more people are getting outside. So, now is a wonderful time to learn about what you can see in the spring nighttime sky. However, un like years past where the program was in person and outdoors, now the program can be seen and attended anywhere. Winnebago County Naturalist Lisa Ralls explains.
The Virtual Spring Stargazing program is a free event and will be held over Zoom on Wednesday evening, May 19th, beginning at 7:00 PM, and lasting about 45-60 minutes.
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I was reading my buddy J. Money’s blog over at Budgets Are Sexy this morning, and he had a short poem/essay that really drove home something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
It’s called “The Paradox of Time” and I think it speaks volumes about our culture today (at least here in the USA).
However, I think there’s a more important message for you personally in this.
Please take a moment to read these words by Dr. Bob Moorehead, and I’ll share my thoughts after:
THE PARADOX OF OUR TIME
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints
We spend more, but we have less.
We have bigger houses, but smaller families
More conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense
More knowledge, but less judgement
More experts, but more problems
More medicines, but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often
We have learnt how to make a living, but not a life.
We have added years to life, but not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back
But have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.
We have conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted our soul.
We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We’ve higher incomes, but lower morals.
We’ve become long on quantity but short on quality.
These are the times of tall men, and short character;
Steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare,
More leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are the days of two incomes, but more divorces;
Of fancier houses, but broken homes.
It is a time when there is much in the show window, and nothing in the stockroom.
A time when technology can bring this [message] to you
And a time when you can choose
Either to make a difference …. or just hit [ignore it].
If you’re like me, you probably found yourself nodding along as you read each line. There’s no question that our society has seen major shifts in what we value and how we measure our worth.
You can’t really control that…
…so what CAN you do about it?
Well, you can make better choices in your own life and place higher value on your relationships. You can be proactive in loving your husband or wife. You can choose to value quality over quantity.
In short, you can get away from the idea of just getting more stuff done and instead focus on doing more of what matters in your life.
This of course is easier said than done, but you can make it happen. And I want to help.
As you may know, I’m working hard behind the scenes right now on a new program called Time to THRIVE for Family Leaders.
I’m SO excited to see years of work coming together in a resource that not only helps busy couples find more time but leads you to use your time to enjoy more of the truly important things in life.
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tavo volume, written entirely by himself ("in his own rough English," as he calls it) and certainly written in a style out of all comparison superior in expressiveness and vigour, and even we think in purity, to any thing that is to be found among the great majority of our native travellers and journalists. We are happy to observe, by various hints scattered throughout the volume, that its author by no means considers it as the ultimatum of his literary labours, and look forward with pleasure to the prospect of much information and much amusement, from the future productions of his ready and interesting pen.
things, as our Alexandrian has now given us of the comparatively small matters of Algiers.
We regret that Mr Salamé should have published his account in the form he has chosen. He should have been satisfied with a very small and a very cheap 12mo, and then his book would have sold; but since he has thought fit to beat the gold he really has, over so absurd an expanse of surface, and to charge 15s. for what, with all his beating, covers no more than a very puny 8vo. of 390 pages, we suspect few people will think of giving him a place on their shelves. But, however, that is none of our business-or rather, we should thank Mr Salamé for having adopted a course of conduct which cannot fail to add very much to the interest of the copious extracts we mean to borrow from him. Of these (for, to reviewers as well as to poets, there is nothing like rushing in medias res), the first shall be Salame's account of the destruction of the batteries and ships of the Algerines. Our readers recollect that Lord Exmouth sent in a boat with a letter to the Dey, in which he demanded,
1st, The abolition of christian slavery.
2d, The delivery of all christian slaves in the kingdom of Algiers.Besides, the restoration of all the money which had been paid for the redemption of slaves by the Kings of Naples and Sardinia since the commencement of the year.
Mr Salamé had been employed for several months in the English Foreign Office, before the period of Lord Exmouth's expedition, and was selected to accompany our excellent admiral in quality of interpreter. The important duties of this office seem to have been discharged by him in a manner highly creditable to himself, and entirely satisfactory to all his superiors; nor is this any slight praise for those who are acquainted with the circumstances under which the expedition sailed, and with the obstacles thrown in the way of negotiation by the barbarous and obstinate jealousies of the Dey and his officers, will be sensible that a very rare degree of delicacy and management must have been demanded from the person who carried on the business of communication between Lord Exmouth and the Divan of Algiers. Salamé, like a true oriental, has thrown the whole of the negotiations into a dramatic form, and as he has besides given a drawing of the persons engaged in the conferences as they appeared at the time, nothing is wanting to complete our idea of the whole transaction. It is not often now-a-days that ordinary people are permitted to see so much into the minutiae of public affairs; for despatches, military and naval, are in general as monotonous as a drum, and as dry as a sea-biscuit; and among all officers of the modern school, it is looked upon as the most unknow- "Mr Burgess, the flag-lieutenant, having thing in the world to talk over the ing agreed with me, we hoisted the sigincidents of their campaigns. We nal, that no answer had been given ;' wish heartily that Mr Salamé had and began to row away towards the Queen Charlotte. At this time I was very anxious attended the Duke of Wellington to get out of danger; for, knowing their throughout the peninsular war, or perfidious character, and observing that that some person who did so would Lord Exmouth, on his seeing our signal, have the goodness to write as full and immediately gave order to the fleet to bear amusing an account of those mighty up, and every ship to take her position for
Salamé was in the boat which earried the letter, and waited in it for two hours immediately below the batteries, in expectation of the Dey's answer. The signal being given at the expiration of that time, that no answer had been returned, Lord Exmouth immediately brought his whole fleet close under the walls, his own ship, the Queen Charlotte, casting anchor within a hundred yards of the great batteries on the Mole. But we must take up Salamé a little earlier.
the attack, I had great fear that they (the Algerines) would fire on us;-in short, till I reached the Queen Charlotte, I was almost more dead than alive. After I had given my reports to the Admiral, of our meeting with the Captain of the port, and our waiting there, &c. I was quite surprised to see how his Lordship was altered from what I left him in the morning; for I knew that his manner was in general very mild, and now he seemed to me all-fightful, as a fierce lion, which had been chained in its cage, and was set at liberty. With all that, his Lordship's answer to me was, "Never mind, we shall see now;" and at the same time, he turned towards the officers saying, "Be ready:" whereupon I saw every one standing with the match or the string of the lock in his hand, most anxiously waiting for the word "Fire!"
"I remained on the poop with his Lordship, till the Queen Charlotte passed through all the enemy's batteries, without firing a gun. There were many thousand Turks and Moors looking on astonished, to see so large a ship coming all at once inside the mole, without caring for any thing. When we opened over the mole head, I saw, as I thought, a boat coming out, which I supposed was that of the Captain of the Port, and told his Lordship of it; but on looking with a glass, we found the mistake.
During this time, the Queen Charlotte in a most gallant and astonishing manner, took up a position opposite the head of the mole, and we let go the anchor at three quarters past two o'clock, within eighty yards from the mole head batteries: but afterwards, having found that we had not more than two feet water under the bottom of the Queen Charlotte, his Lordship let go the cable for twenty yards more; and so we were within about one hundred yards of the mouths of their guns; when Lord Exmouth took a position in such a masterly style, that not more than four or five guns could bear on us from the mole; though we were exposed to the fire of all their other batteries, and musketry, we gave them three cheers; and the batteries, as well as the walls, being crowded with troops, they jumped on the top of the parapets to look at us, for our broadside was higher than their batteries; and they were quite surprised to see a three-decker, with the rest of the fleet, so close on them. From what I observed of the Captain of the Port's manner, and of their confusion inside of the mole, (though they were making great preparations,) I am quite sure, that even themselves were not aware of what they were about, or what we meant to do; because, according to their judgment, they thought that we should be terrified by their fortifications, and not advance so rapidly and closely to the attack. In proof of this, I must observe, that at this point their guns were not even loaded; and they began to load them after the Queen Charlotte and
almost all the fleet had passed their batteries. At a few minutes before three, the Algerines, from the Eastern battery, fired the first shot at the Impregnable, which, with the Superb and the Albion, was astern of the other ships, to prevent them from coming in; then Lord Exmouth, having seen only the smoke of the gun before the sound reached him, said, with great alacrity, That will do; fire my fine fellows!' and I am sure, that before his Lordship had finished these words, our broadside was given with great cheering, which was fired three times within five or six minutes; and at the same instant the other ships did the same. This first fire was so terrible, that they say more than five hundred persons were killed and wounded by it. And I believe this, because there was a great crowd of people in every part, many of whom, after the first discharge, I saw running away, under the walls, like dogs, walking upon their feet and hands.
"After the attack took place on both sides in this horrible manner, immediately the sky was darkened by the smoke, the sun completely eclipsed, and the horizon became dreary. Being exhausted by the heat of that powerful sun, to which I was exposed the whole day; and my ears being deafened by the roar of the guns, and finding myself in the dreadful danger of such a terrible engagement, in which I had never been before, I was quite at a loss, and like an astonished or stupid man, and did not know myself where I was. At last, his Lordship, having perceived my situation, said You have done your duty, now go below.' Upon which I began to descend from the quarter deck, quite confounded and terrified, and not sure that I should reach the cockpit alive; for it was most tremendous to hear the crashing of the shot, to see the wounded men brought from one part, and the killed from the other; and especially at such a time to be found among the English seamen! and to witness their manners, their activity, their courage, and their cheerfulness during the battle!-it is really most overpowering and beyond imagination.
"On this subject I wish to give only one remark :-While 1 was going below, I was stopped near the hatchway by a crowd of seamen who were carrying two wounded men to the cockpit; and I had leisure to
The Superb and the Albion had almost reached their proper positions, but the Impregnable being rather slow, and the Algerines having opened a tremendous fire upon her, and the smoke being so thick that she could not distinguish her exact position, Admiral Milne was obliged to lie in that situation and begin the attack; and thus, unfortunately, was exposed to the Eastern and the Lighthouse batteries, which were very strong.
observe the management of those heavy guns of the lower deck; I saw the companies of the two guns nearest the hatchway, they wanted some wadding, and began to call " wadding, wadding!" but not having it immediately, two of them swearing, took out their knives and cut off the breasts of their jackets where the buttons are, and rammed them into the guns instead of wadding. I was really astonished to see such extraordinary magnanimity.
"At last I reached the cockpit; when Mr Dewar, the surgeon, Mr Frowd, the chaplain, and Mr Somerville, the purser, with some other friends, met me, and began to congratulate me on my safe return, for they never expected that I should escape; and they gave me something to eat and to drink, but I could eat nothing, I only drank a litttle wine and water. Now I wished to assure myself if I was out of danger or not, I asked them how much we were above water? They told me that we were pretty safe, because the cockpit was about two or three feet below the watermark, and that I had nothing to fear, as I was now out of the greatest danger.
"Upon this, I was rather relieved, but having heard that several shots had passed through the Queen Charlotte between wind and water, and that the carpenter had been to stop the leaks, I then lost the idea of being quite safe, and I walked in the cockpit always fearful.-Afterwards, observing that the action was going on without an appearance of soon ceasing, I began to encourage myself by thinking, that every living being is uncertain of his existence, and that, throughout our life, we are continually exposed to the mercy of circumstances. And thus, I commenced assisting those poor wounded people after they were dressed; for, humanity and natural sensibility, at such a dreadful time, call upon every body to have pity, and to help the unfortunate. Some of them could not walk; some could not see; and some were to be carried from one place to another. It was indeed a most pitiable sight; but I think the most shocking sight in the world, is that of taking off arms and legs; in preference to beholding which, if I was a military man, I should certainly prefer to be on deck than being with the Doctor in the cockpit.
"From curiosity, I wished to observe the Doctor's operations. But while I was attending to the first one, which was that of taking off an arm, I could not bear it, and felt myself fainting away, especially when the Doctor began to saw the bone! I then went out of sight. At this time, I saw Lieutenant John Frederick Johnstone come down to the cockpit, wounded in his cheek. -After he had been dressed, and remained for a short time, laughing at me, he asked me to help him to put on his coat, and went to the hatchway, wishing to go on deck again; I then held him from behind by the shoulders to make him stop, and
said, "Where are you going? you are wounded." In reply he said, "I am very well now, I must go." And so he went directly.
"After two hours time, I saw him, poor fellow, brought down to the cockpit again, by four seamen, with his left arm taken off quite from the shoulder, and it only hung by a little bit of flesh.
"When I met him in that horrible state, he could not bear to be carried on, but wished to be laid down where he was; and began to call, The Doctor, the Doctor;" when we all took care of him, and the doc tor immediately came, and took off his arm quite from the joint of his shoulder. I saw that all the side of his breast was horribly torn. After he was dressed, we laid him on a sofa, with great care, and were all very sorry, because we never expected that he would live.
"About this time, I was sorry to see my friend Mr Grimes (his Lordship's secretary) conducted below; he had received several wounds from splinters, and was obliged to quit the deck from loss of blood.
"Having seen that the battle was going on favourably, and that the Algerines, after fighting extremely well for about five hours, began to slacken their firing, and that our seamen, every time that an Algerine frigate took fire, or any of the batteries were destroyed, gave a loud cheer, I began to have more courage, and jump up now and then to the lower deck to see what was going on; and so, for the rest of the action, I employed myself in passing the empty powder boxes to the magazine; because I found it more agreeable than attending the doctor.
"I observed with great astonishment that, during all the time of the battle, not one seaman appeared tired, not one lamented the dreadful continuation of the fight; but, on the contrary, the longer it lasted, the more cheerfulness and pleasure were amongst them; notwithstanding, during the greater part of the battle, the firing was most tremendous on our side, particularly from this ship (the Queen Charlotte), the fire of which was kept up with equal fury, and never ceased, though his Lordship in several instances wished to cease firing for a short time, to make his observations, and it was with great difficulty that he could make the seamen stop for a few minutes.
"Several of the guns were so hot, that they could not use them again; some of them, being heated to such a degree, that when they fired them, they recoiled with their carriages, and fixed the wheels by making holes in the planks of the deck; and some of them were thrown out of their carriages, and so rendered quite useless.
I was told that some of the seamen's wives on board the Severn had employed themselves during the battle, in helping their husbands by passing them powder and shot.
"At eleven o'clock, P. M. his Lordship having observed the destruction of the whole Algerine navy, and the strongest parts of their batteries, with the city, made signal to the fleet to move out of the line of the batteries; and thus, with a favourable breeze, we cut our cables, as well as the whole of the squadron, and made sail, when our firing ceased at about half past eleven.
When the action was over, Mr Stair (the gunner) came out from the magazine, and said, that he was about seventy years old, and that in his life he had been in more than twenty actions, but that he never knew or heard of any action that had consumed so great a quantity of powder as this.
"After the ships had hauled out, without any danger, (although the Algerines began to throw some shells from the higher castles) I went on the poop to see his Lordship, and to observe the effect of our shot on the enemy's batteries, and to behold the destruction of their navy, which, at this time, with the storehouses within the mole, was burning very rapidly. ̈ ́
"The blaze illuminated all the bay and the town, with the environs, almost as clear as in the day time; the view of which was really most awful and beautiful; nine frigates, and a great number of gun-boats, with other vessels, being all in flames, and carried by the wind to different directions in the bay.
"I observed, with great surprise, how, in these nine hours' time, our shot had effected so horrible a destruction of their batteries; instead of walls, I saw nothing but heaps of rubbish, and a number of people dragging the dead bodies out.
"When I met his Lordship on the poop,
his voice was quite hoarse, and he had two slight wounds, one in the cheek, and the other in his leg.-Before I paid him my respects, he said to me, with his usual gracious and mild manner, Well, my fine fellow Salamé, what think you now?' In reply I shook hands with his Lordship, and said, My Lord, I am extremely happy to see your Lordship safe, and I am so much rejoiced with this glorious victory, that I am not able to express, in any terms, the degree of my happiness."
"It was indeed astonishing to see the coat of his Lordship, how it was all cut up by musket ball, and by grape; it was behind, as if a person had taken a pair of scissars and cut it all to pieces. We were all surprised at the narrow escape of his Lordship.
Queen Charlotte Impregnable
"At one o'clock in the morning, we anchored, with all the fleet in the middle of the bay; immediately after, Admiral Van Cappellan came on board; and after having paid his congratulations to his Lordship, he said,
My Lord, I am quite happy if I die now, after having got full satisfaction from these pirates; and we owe a great deal to your Lordship for your gallant position with the Queen Charlotte, which was the safety and the protection of more than five hundred persons of our squadron.'
"After we had anchored, his Lordship, having ordered his steward in the morning to keep several dishes ready, gave a grand supper to the officers of the ship, and drank to the health of every brave man in the fleet.
"We also drank to his Lordship's health, and then every body went to sleep, almost like dead men."
Next morning, as our readers will remember,* Lord Exmouth again put
Salamé gives a table of the shot expended in this action, which we transcribe, in the belief that it will open quite a new view to the great majority of our readers.
A List of the general Consumption of Powder and Shot, on board the British and Dutch Squadrons, in the attack upon Algiers, under Admiral Lord Exmouth's command, on the 27th August 1816.
On board of the British Squadron.
Names of Ships.
Prometheus, Britomart, Heron, and Cordelia under weigh
Fury, a Bomb
Infernal, Hecla, and Beelzebub; three Bombs
Total in the British Squadron
Pounds of Round Powder. Shot.
30,424 4462 28,800 6730 24,536 4710
22,520 4110 21,700 3680
13& 16 in.
every thing in order for renewing his bombardment, but before commencing firing, he sent a second letter to the Dey, proposing the same conditions which had been rejected on the preceding morning. With this letter also Salamé went near to the shore, and while waiting for the answer, he had abundant leisure to observe the devastation caused by the fire of yesterday.
"During this time, I was indeed quite surprised to see the horrible state of the batteries and the mole, since the preceding day. I could not now distinguish how it
was erected, nor where the batteries had stood, as well as many fine houses which I had seen in the city the day previous. And I observed too, that they had not more than four or five guns mounted on their carriages, and that of all the rest, some were dismounted, and some buried in the rub
bish. Besides this, all the bay was full of the hulks of their navy, smoking in every direction, and the water out and inside of the mole was all black, covered with charcoal and half-burnt pieces of wood. But the most shocking and dreadful sight was, the number of the dead bodies which were floating on the water.-Among these bodies, we saw a white one, which afterwards, on finding it was one of our seamen, we took with us on board."
The conversations between the Dey on the one hand, and Sir James Brisbane and Admiral Penrose on the other, are afterwards described with much effect; but we have room only for what relates to the treatment of the British consul. He, it will be recollected, was thrown into chains at the first alarm of the fleet, and his wife and child with difficulty escaped in naval uniforms. His house also had been plundered, and for all this, redress was now demanded. Salamé has really contriv
On board of the Dutch Squadron.
Names of Ships.
The other 5 ships
Total in the Dutch Squadron
ed to represent, in a very picturesque manner, the sulky submission of the Barbarian.
Consumption in the British Squadron Ditto in the Dutch Squadron
"Captain Brisbane.-Lord Exmouth desires, that your Highness will punish all those people who insulted our Consul, for he (Lord Exmouth) persuades himself that it was done without your orders. And he also desires, that reparation may be made to the Consul, for the losses he has sustained, to the amount of 3,000 dollars: Should this sun be too much, he (the Consul) will redone are uncertain, the Consul not having turn the overplus, [at present the damages had time to examine his property; and should it be insufficient, your Highness shall make up the deficiency.
"The Dey.-The persons who insulted the Consul are impertinent and low people unknown to me, and did it without my order. And, with respect to the things that the Consul says he has lost, I have already inquired, and been told that he had lost nothing.
"The Consul.-I can show the Dey all the people who insulted and robbed me, for I know them individually.
"The Dey.-Suppose I take them and cut their heads off, will it do the Consul any good?
Captain Brisbane.We do not wish to have any body's head cut off; we wish that you should punish them by bastinados, and put them in irons, as our Consul was: The Consul will show you what things have been stolen and damaged by your people, because we do not desire to make you pay without a cause. And in case you do not wish to punish those people who insulted the Consul, as you say they are unknown to you, your Highness may, instead, make a public apology to Mr M'Donell, for, the indignities offered to him, and the detention
of our two boats, are insults shewn to the English nation; therefore, we cannot pass over this point.
"The Dey-(in confusion)-I know it was
Grand Total of the consumption of powder and shot on board the two Squadrons
"These incredible quantities of powder and shot, which are nearly 118 tons of the for mer, and more than 500 tons of the latter, were spent in the course of about nine hours. And, I think, the Algerines very justly observed, "That Hell had opened its mouth upon them through the English ships.' | <urn:uuid:aa75d6db-24be-45d3-8bb9-c8b3e49664e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.bg/books?id=KPQAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA86&focus=viewport&vq=%22bulk+as+huge+As+whom+the+Fables+name+of+monstrous+size,+Titanian.+Or%22&dq=editions:NYPL33433082425228&lr=&hl=bg&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.988976 | 5,497 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Area of expertise:
Professor Lamine Mahdjoubi is a Professor of the Built Environment. He is an Architect and urban designer. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Urban Planning Design and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
He has advocated innovative approaches to counteracting children's sedentary lifestyles by creating outdoor environments that support and nurture outdoor play and physical activity (PA). This evidence-based approach had a significant impact on play strategies, outdoor play provision in schools, as well as education and public debate. He has been interviewed by local, regional and national media about his work on planning and designing for healthy outdoor play.
He has developed new methodologies using valid and reliable instruments for measuring children's preferences and interaction with outdoor features of the environment. Some of these methods were tested in research involving the measurement of children interaction with outdoor features of their school environments. It entailed exposing children to various sensory cues, consisting of photo-safari, speech frequency and Global Positioning System (GPS). The development and validation of these methods has been the result of a series of doctoral studies, and externally funded research projects, supported by Research council, local authorities, agencies and charities.
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Native Americans culture is unique for many ways. Living on the reservations they were in touch with nature as well as their ancestors. Native Americans are disputed in the country, diverse among tribes, culturally mixed, and recognize their own political stands (Borde wich, 1996, p. 71).
These have changed over the years, but before the reconstruction of the Native Americans the people were identifiable and knew who they were. Before the Europeans came and changed their living they felt one with the land. They believe the land was not to be owned by anyone. The Wak on ” da, a god, who in there words related to all things, made the land. Also, they expressed their feelings for nature as in peace confidence. Before the ‘whites’ took over the land the Native Americans had their own laws, as they do know, but one of the most important laws was to respect and keep peace with the dominant race and others around them.
This meaning the Natives had never wanted to start fighting with the other races (Brophy, 1966, p. 24-25).
They wanted to keep to themselves and keep the land clean and healthy. They did everything in and for nature.
The Indian dances were a spiritual way for the Indians to express themselves. Handed down from generation to generation the dances are not a form of their own movement. They do the steps of the ancestors exceptionally in the religious ceremony dances. The only time a dancer will go outside of the steps is when it’s a personal experiment of the dancer or tribe.
On October 12, 1492, the loud words ring across the deck “Land Ho”. After 70 long days at sea a tattered bunch of sea dogs jump down into a small rowboat and work there way ashore. The man in charged is named Christopher Columbus. Have you ever wondered what the impact was on the Native American population, when they first met the insatiable intruders of the European continent? When I ...
The different tribes are deviate in their own matter; for some wear brightly colored costumes with masks, others wear feathers, and some of the tribes during dances or ceremonies will be simply nude (Fletcher, p. 6-8).
Native American movements have helped, but put them in a deviant stage. Even though the Native Americans see them as spiritual and done for respect the majority see it as a protest and them wanting to go to war.
There have been many movements: Revitalization movement, Handsome Lake movement, Ghost Dance movement, and the Red Power movement. Even though all of the movements are important the Ghost Dance was one of the most significant to the Native America. There were two Ghost Dance movements the second was much larger. Not only did it involve the West Coast tribes, but also the Great Basin tribes.
By the second movement it had gone farther east to the Plain tribes. This movement was to show how sick the Native Americans were getting by the way they were being treated. They directed the movement towards the white leaders. It blamed the European invasion and the Americans for the miserable state of affairs on the reservations and for the destruction of traditional Native Americans living (Nagel, 1996, p. 159).
This movement ended in a massacre at Wounded Knee killing several hundred men, women, and children (Simo, 1991, P.
Native Americans tried to step outside the boundaries of the white Americans or the majority of the nation of the time, to make them go around the nations rules. Although Native American tribes have different means for different names there are two central classes. The soupier is the sacred rites. This belongs to the hereditary duty of performing a certain ceremony in a tribe and also the care of the blessed items connected with that ceremony. In it they tell the child’s name and raise them up for the community to look at.
In our society we would see it as a baptism. In these tribes everyone has their personal name. The man and woman have preserved their name throughout their life. Also, it tells what tribe they belong to for social significance (Fletcher, p. 117).
The second class is commemorating of a personal achievement.
An adult takes them male or female for in achievement. The achievement must be show by protecting his / her people from harm. These names are personal to him / her in defines his / her character (Fletcher, p. 117-118).
North American Indian Tribes North American Indian Tribes 1. Cree: The original homes of the Cree were the north of the present United States though their war parties frequently came into territory now occupied by this country to fight the Dakota,Blackfoot and other tribes 2. Navajo: Dine -they call themselves, is the largest tribe of North American Indians. Long ago, the ancestors lived in ...
The two differ in the way that the second name choosing is chosen after something brave and new has taken place. Were the first name chosen deal with the name the tribe has chosen for that person as an infant or child. Doing crafts such as bowls, rugs, and jewelry were made by the Native Americans. When archeology was created the Native Americans would dig up their ancestors homemade crafts. Then they would recreate the crafts using their ancestor’s ideas.
They would make bowls out of what their ancestors made out of pottery. Then they would sale they ” re made bowls and jewelry in the trading posts (Nagel, 1996, p. 48-51).
The Native Americans solemnly go outside their own community and history. There are many different cultures in the Native American tribes. They are deviant to the majority by the way they perform the societies issues and traditions.
The political ways of their culture is they protest and have movements towards the majority. They showed the government what they thought and wanted. The psychology part of the Native American culture is they kept with their traditions and showed the majority they can stick to what they feel. They never go outside their ancestor morals beliefs or let up on themselves.. | <urn:uuid:b140bd7b-4e5e-41be-a5a3-47cd8f0c2e8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://educheer.com/essays/native-americans-movement-tribes-movements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.977067 | 1,237 | 3.765625 | 4 |
About SAML service providers
This article provides an overview of SAML Service Provider integration.
SAML IDP overview
CIP SAML IDP services facilitate the exchange of authentication and authorization information across different organizations with different security domains.
SAML is an XML-based language used to exchange security assertions. SAML defines the following actors:
- Principal - an end user trying to access a resource
- Service Provider (SP) - a web resource that the principal tries to access
- Identity Provider (IDP) - a server that holds the principal’s identities and credentials
In this service, CIP acts as the Identity Provider to generate SAML assertion responses and provide them to any trusted SAML service providers.
One of the most widely used SAML profiles is Web Browser SSO Profile. CIP IDP services support both variants of Web Browser SSO Profile:
- Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO
- Identity Provider (IDP) initiated or Unsolicited SSO
In the SP-initiated SSO, the user attempts to access a resource on the SP. However the user does not have a current logon session on this site and the user’s federated identity is managed by their IDP. The user is sent to the IDP to log on and the IDP provides a SAML web SSO assertion for the user’s federated identity back to the SP.
In the IDP-initiated SSO, the identity provider is configured with specialized links that refer
to the desired service providers. These links actually refer to the local IDP’s single sign-on
service and pass parameters to the service identifying the remote SP. As a result, instead of
visiting the SP directly, the user accesses the IDP site and clicks on one of the links to
gain access to the remote SP. This triggers the creation of a SAML assertion which
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Introducing the Life Domains
In order to keep some degree of consistency in the use of the Inclusion Web, there are some specific aspects of each of the life domains that need to be borne in mind.
The life domains have been chosen because these are the areas of life that offer the best opportunity to establish positive roles and relationships with others. Simply using community amenities, such as shopping, helps people develop independent living skills and can deepen friendships with people who go shopping together, but it provides few opportunities to start new friendships. In contrast, joining a community allotment association to grow food together will provide many opportunities to develop acquaintances and friendships, as well as to become established in a positive role in that community. Most friendships we enjoy have begun on one of the life domains named on the Inclusion Web.
Similarly, the life domains focus on relationship and role opportunities, rather than private leisure activities. So, for example, the Inclusion Web explores whether people are attending a college course, rather than undertaking private study. Solitary activities may improve fitness, knowledge or general wellbeing, but the focus of the Inclusion Web is combating isolation and the loss of positive social roles.
Many activities do not fall neatly into one life domain, but can be considered to have elements of two or more domains. The following paragraphs help people to decide which life domains to record particular activities in. Ultimately it’s up to the person and supporter – the important thing is to be consistent between the two Webs.
Arts and Culture
Sometimes people think of sophisticated artistic and cultural activities here, as if artistic creativity is an elitist activity confined to people with exceptional talent. In contrast, this section includes the whole range of creative and cultural activities, not just those that might be deemed elitist – eg. a Karaoke night is just as valuable as going to the opera. on.
This is waged employment at the national minimum wage rate or better, in a mainstream job alongside members of the public. A sheltered workshop (even if it paid good wages) would be counted as part of the Services segment, as it provides few opportunities to build relationships with co-workers who do not use health or social care services. Contact with customers does not really count here as we build our strongest connections with our co-workers rather than our customers.
Three groups are included here, making it perhaps the most diverse of the life domains. Firstly, there are groups gathered around a specific set of beliefs or identity, such as an ethnic identity, sexual orientation or religion. Second, groups that share an idea of how to make the world a better place to live in – mostly political or campaigning groups. Third would be any groups that share a passion that gives the members some common sense of purpose, whether it be collectors, students of history or whatever. What holds this life domain together that that deep sense that this is central to who I am as a person.
Family and Neighbourhood
For many of us being a good neighbour and building a shared community with the people who live close by is an important way of being included in the community. This can be especially important to us at certain times of life – eg. during our childhood or older age. The person’s home can be included on the ‘places’ part of the ‘families and neighbourhoods’ domain..
This is attending college, university or evening classes open to the general public. Attending a course at the day centre would count as a Services activity. Attending a class in the ordinary college would count as a Learning place, but if all of the other students in the class also used the same health or social care service as the person, then the ‘people’ contacts would fall into the Services segment. While solitary learning, such as reading a book alone in your bedroom, is a valuable activity, our focus here is on learning as an opportunity to build a positive social role and potentially to make friends.
Electronic connections (via phone, text messages, email, internet chatrooms, online gaming, Facebook, MSN and the like) are vitally important for many people. Online ‘places’ are those places where one can ‘lurk’ and watch the online behaviour of others without creating person-to-person relationships. Some people maintain contact with their farflung relatives and friends via Skype, while others meet their future partner through online dating and some pursue a hobby or interest via internet research and make significant connections through the intenet.
Many people who have been in touch with health or social services for a long time live entirely within the ‘services’ sector and have nobody in any of the other life domains. Other people (sometimes described as ‘hard to reach or engage’) are not connected here either and might do well to increase their number of contacts with services and support.
Sports and Exercise
This is more than taking exercise, but is the myriad of ways in which people come together with others through a shared interest in sports or physical activity. Walking the dog, wearing the colours of the local football team and meeting with friends to watch the Grand Prix on TV are all included here, as long as the activities bring people together.
Some people volunteer in the same service that also supports them. This can be a useful experience, but the activity remains in the Services segment until the person joins the general public, volunteering alongside other citizens in a mainstream setting. Remember that volunteering can be informal and does not have to be authorised by a volunteer placement organisation. | <urn:uuid:bc4e4dba-481e-40a1-8f4b-e2c2ed1bc9b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peterbates.org.uk/home/the-inclusion-web/tell-me-more-about-the-nine-life-domains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959328 | 1,147 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The Mineral Hill trail is a primarily black-rated, difficult trail that gains 400 feet in elevation over .45 miles and is designated for hiking only. While it isn’t a long hike, it does offer great views on the Wellington Ore Bin, French Gulch and the Tenmile Range. The trail out and back is a total of .9 miles.
To access the trail, park at the B&B Trailhead and cross the road to find the trailhead. Enjoy a dirt trail lined with Aspens and Lodgepoles. The trail gains elevation quickly with rock steps built into the path. Be careful to watch your footing and provide assistance to those who may need it.
Once you reach the top, you can head back down the Mineral Hill trail, or you can opt to keep exploring. Minnie Mine trail is a great way to extend this hike or take a less strenuous way down the hill.
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In the past year or so, you or someone you know has likely taken some school or college courses that are taught over the internet. Online learning, sometimes referred to as distance learning or distance learning, is nothing new – people have been using their desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones to access learning content for years. However, the pandemic has separated learners from their classrooms in an unprecedented way. For many of us, including librarians, this sudden change pushed us out of our comfort zones and we had to adjust to this “new normal” whether we like it or not.
There are two main types of online learning: real-time instruction (synchronous) and instruction that allows learners to learn at their own pace (asynchronous). While some people may feel isolated due to a lack of in-person interactions, online learning is not without its benefits.
With a device connected to the Internet, people can learn from anywhere, whether it is in another state or on the other side of the world. Taking courses online can also save travel time and accommodate those with family or work obligations. What’s more, research has shown that a well-designed online course can facilitate learning just as effectively as in-person instruction.
But what does online learning have to do with libraries? If people take lessons from their rooms, don’t bricks and mortar libraries become useless? Although traditionally known to house physical books, libraries, especially college and university libraries, have a wide range of offerings for distance learners, and we can take the example of the University of London library. ‘Idaho.
Let’s talk about our collections first. Although we have eBooks that people can use online, most of our collection of books is in physical format. If the students live in other parts of the state or country, we send the books with return shipping labels to their off-campus addresses. We can also borrow print materials and media from over 30 other academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest and send these items to off-campus locations.
Although we cannot digitize an entire book due to copyright laws, we may digitize certain sections (a chapter, for example) if people submit a request, then we email them the digital files. . We may also request and deliver electronic copies of materials held by other libraries around the world.
In addition to books, we have other digital collections including journal articles; theses and dissertations; local, national and international newspapers; streaming video for education and recreation; unique digital collections such as resources related to Idaho history and jazz; and many others available online.
The University of Idaho library also offers a variety of services to support online learning. We provide stable Wi-Fi and study rooms and spaces equipped with video conferencing technology for collaborative online work in the library building. Librarians also run workshops on a variety of professional development and continuing education topics each semester, both online and in person, and resources from past library workshops are readily available on the library’s website.
Finally, in addition to calling, texting and emailing us, anyone (yes, anyone) can use our online chat service through our website to get support. 24/7 help. All of these resources and services are just a few examples of how we support online learning.
One final note: you can also find other library resources even if you are not affiliated with a university. In addition to your local public library, did you know that anyone living in Idaho can access thousands of magazines, reference materials, newspapers and more for free through lili.org?
As more schools and colleges embrace online courses, supporting distance learners may have been a late task for some libraries. Although the way we learn has changed over the years, libraries will continue to provide access to information and disseminate knowledge as part of our core missions, and supporting e-learning is just that. one of the many services that will continually improve and evolve.
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A 62-year-old Fargo man nearly lost $47,000 to scammers but was able to escape the fraud, due to help from the North Dakota Attorney General’s office.
“Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated consumer fraud investigator and some good timing, we got lucky,” said Attorney General Wrigley.
The Fargo man fell victim to an “Amazon order” scam in March, after receiving a call supposedly from Amazon wanting to verify a $1,500 order. As soon as the victim said he had not placed the order, the scam artists pretended to transfer him to a federal agency, claiming the federal employee would assist him. Instead, the phony federal employee told the victim that his identity had been used to create several fraudulent accounts and threatened to have him arrested unless he cooperated with the “investigation.” The victim was instructed to wire the money from his bank account to a bank in California to “protect it” while the investigation was ongoing, which he did.
But the man had misgivings almost immediately after wiring the money and called the consumer protection division in the Attorney General’s office. A consumer fraud investigator quickly contacted the receiving bank and got a “fraud hold” placed on the account before the scam artists could remove any money. The consumer protection division worked with the bank for several months, until they were able to get all the money back for the victim.
“Never send money in response to a phone call,” Wrigley emphasized. “I cannot say this enough: if you get a phone call and are instructed to send money – for any reason – hang up immediately. It doesn’t matter what you are told, or who you think you are talking to, it is always a scam.”.
More information about common scams, including the one used on the Fargo man, is on the Consumer Resources page of the Attorney General’s website, www.attorneygeneral.nd.gov. | <urn:uuid:c5e0be68-c412-42e3-862b-59dab7217135> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/state-news/fargo-man-narrowly-avoids-losing-47000-to-scammers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97505 | 418 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Yesterday was another lovely sunny day and it looked like more fab learning took place, well done Class 3. It’s great to see how you are all keeping yourselves busy!! I hope you are not driving your grown ups mad just yet!!!
A big shout out to Zak for his fab Captain Underpants collage and also to Maisie who seemed to be very busy yesterday! Well done to everyone who took part in the scavenger hunt – Jack did it very quickly and Freddie added a worm into his hunting!
At my house, we had a morning of learning and then spent the afternoon working together on some new lego that Maisie got for Christmas. Remember things like this is still learning – we needed teamwork, instruction following, reading and perseverance!!!
I am not going to add anymore specific challenges today as I will be in school myself. Please spend time catching up on everything; maybe make a start on your ‘Trip to an unknown planet’ Holiday Brochure, practice some times tables or spellings and enjoy some reading. Please do keep up with these last three because they really are vital skills. Remember to upload to seesaw to show me what you have been doing. Below are some more web links you may find useful.
Staying Safe Online As we are all spending more time online during this time, there are some great new resources and home learning packs to help support safety online. Packs are available for different age ranges through the link below. Keep checking back as they will be updated regularly.
Andi Dawson As you may remember, during Reading Week we had a visit from local author Andi Dawson, she has now posted storytime videos on her Youtube channel :
And has also created lots of free resources and activities linked to her stories which you can download and complete:FREE resources Why not have an explore!
PARENTS – Please feel free to email if you are wanting any specific help in a certain area. I am trying to keep the activities interesting and fun please alter them to suit your child’s own interests or abilities. I would be happy to answer any questions or queries or discuss any requests or suggestions. I’ll be honest I’m finding this all very strange and I am missing the interaction of the children!! [email protected]
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The endocrine system refers to the collection of glands that secrete hormones directly into the circulatory system to be carried towards distant target organs. Most hormones work through interactions with the brain and have either a direct or indirect influence on each other.
The main glands involved in hormone secretion and activity include: the hypothalamus (gland at the base of the brain), pituitary (gland in the middle of the brain), gonads (ovaries and testes), adrenals (glands located above the kidneys), and thyroid gland (located beneath the voicebox), as well as the pancreas and liver . Testing for individual hormone levels that are produced by various hormone-producing glands can identify irregularities that can produce negative effects on menstrual and reproductive function. The endocrine system is vital for reproductive health.
Without proper endocrine function, our bodies cannot maintain proper hormonal balance.
The health of our endocrine system is essential to our ability to function properly. Our cells are genetically programmed to only receive and respond to messages from certain hormones. Hormone levels can be influenced by stress, fluid changes in the body, minerals in the blood and infection. Each endocrine gland plays a specific role in the ability of our body to maintain proper function. Each endocrine gland also communicates with the other in an amazing design. If one of the endocrine glands is not functioning properly, it may cause a broken link in communication with other endocrine glands or actions of the body, which may greatly impair fertility. Because the endocrine glands secrete hormones, and the hormones are messengers for actions within the body, if the gland is not functioning properly, hormonal imbalance occurs and the ability to reproduce may be impaired.
Endocrine Function Fertility Tests
ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic Hormone): Too much ACTH can result from congenital (a medical condition present at birth) adrenal hyperplasia (CAH ), the enlargement of the adrenal glands. CAH results from inadequate production of glucocorticoids (a class of hormones produced by the adrenal gland). Glucocorticoid precursors accumulate in these persons and are converted to androgenic steroids. These androgenic steroids can lead to infertility. Male hormones produced by the adrenal gland (called androgens) which, when found in excess, may lead to fertility problems in both men and women. Excess androgens in the woman may lead to the formation of male secondary sex characteristics and the suppression of LH and FSH production by the pituitary gland. Elevated levels of androgens may be found in women with polycystic ovaries, or with a tumor in the pituitary gland, adrenal gland, or ovary. May also be associated with excess prolactin levels.
Aldosterone: A hormone in the blood made by the adrenal glands that helps regulate sodium and potassium levels. More specifically, it helps control blood pressure and the balance of fluids and electrolytes in the blood. M easuring the amount of aldosterone released into the body by the adrenal glands can identify a tumor in the adrenal glands, find the cause of high blood pressure or low potassium levels.
C-Peptide: C-peptide can serve as a valuable index to insulin secretion. Low C-peptide levels are expected when insulin secretion is diminished, as in insulin dependent diabetes, or suppressed, as a normal response to exogenous insulin; whereas elevated C-peptide levels may result from the increased ß-cell activity observed in insulinomas. C-peptide determination can be used to supplement insulin measurements as an index to pancreatic activity in the differential diagnosis of hypoglycemia.
CA-125 : A protein found on the surface of many ovarian cancer cells and small amounts of normal tissue. The test measures the amount of CA-125 in the blood. It may be used for women with an ovarian cyst, to help identify endometriosis or to track the progression of endometriosis.
Cortisol: Known as the stress hormone because it is produced in response to stress. As an indicator of adrenocortical function, measurement of blood cortisol level is useful in the differential diagnosis of Addison’s and Cushing disease, hypopituitarism, adrenal hyperplasia and carcinoma. Abnormal cortisol concentrations have been shown to exist in patients with acute infections, severe pain, diabetes mellitus or heart failure, and in women either pregnant or on estrogen therapy.
Growth Hormone: Typically ordered for patients with symptoms of growth hormone abnormalities, as a follow-up to other abnormal hormone test results, or to help evaluate pituitary function. GH is made by the pituitary gland and plays an important role in how the body uses food for energy (metabolism). Growth hormone is also an insulin antagonist (inhibits insulin and its sugar level lowering effects) that, in susceptible individuals, can lead to elevated sugar levels in the blood and diabetes mellitus.
Insulin: Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 1 (IGFBP-1) – the production of IGFBP-1 is suppressed by high insulin levels (hyperinsulinemia), leading to an increase in free IGF-1. IGF-1 works with insulin to exacerbate hyperandrogenism (over production of male hormones) by increasing testosterone production in the ovaries. Thus, a combination of hyperinsulinemia, elevated free IGF-1 and elevated androgens found when low levels of IGFBP-1 are present likely contribute to the endometrial dysfunction, infertility, increased miscarriage rate and endometrial hyperplasia seen in PCOS.
T3 (Triodothyronine): A blood test that checks proper thyroid function. Thyroid disorders may affect ovulation. T3 levels distinguish clearly between normal and hyperthyroid (over production of thyroid hormone) patients, since it is elevated in the latter. Thyrotoxicosis may be caused by abnormally high concentrations of T3 rather than T4. The levels of serum T4 (Thyroxin), TBG (Thyroxin Binding Globulin), TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) and other clinical findings are also used to determine an individual’s thyroid status
T4 (Thryroxine): A blood test that checks proper thyroid and pituitary function. Thyroid disorders may affect ovulation. T4 (or Thyroxin) is the principal thyroid hormone that circulates almost entirely bound to other (carrier) proteins, chief of which is thyroxin-binding globulin (TBG). Given normal levels of thyroid-binding proteins, hyperthyroidism (over production of thyroid hormone) is characterized by increased levels of T4. Hypothyroidism (too little production of thyroid hormone) is indicated by decreased levels of T4. However, abnormal TBG levels may affect the ability of the total T4 concentration to determine thyroid status (either hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism). An estimate of the level of circulating TBG may be determined by doing a T3 Uptake test. In disorders of thyroid function, the total T4 and T3 uptake values will both be either high or low. In normal thyroid patients with abnormal TBG levels the total T4 and T3 Uptake will deviate in opposite directions (one will be high and the other low or vice versa). The total of the T4 and the T3 Uptake values, divided by 100, is known as the Free Thyroxine Index (FTI or T7), a widely used indicator of thyroid status.
TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone): Stimulates the thyroid gland to produce T4 and T3. Measurement of TSH is used primarily to determine the cause of hypothyroidism (too little thyroid production). In primary hypothyroidism, the TSH level is elevated due to impaired production of thyroid hormones. In secondary or tertiary hyperthyroidism, thyroid hormone production is low due to pituitary or hypothalamic lesions. In hyperthyroidism (too much thyroid production), the TSH level is typically suppressed to subnormal levels. TSH can also be used to help determine if a patient has adequate levels of T4.
Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO Ab): Detects autoantibodies directed against thyroid peroxidase (TPO), an enzyme in the thyroid gland that is very important to the production of thyroid hormones. Autoantibodies to thyroid peroxidase are produced by the body itself. TPOAb can attack the thyroid and damage thyroid function. A positive test for these antibodies prior to receiving fertility treatment indicates an increased risk for miscarriage.
Vitamin D 25OH: The most accurate measure of the amount of vitamin D in the body. Low 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels indicate a deficiency in vitamin D that may lead to low blood calcium levels (hypocalcemia), thin or weak bones (osteoporosis and osteomalacia), and high levels of parathyroid hormone (secondary hyperparathyroidism) Vitamin D is also associated with infertility because it supports production of estrogen in men and women. Inadequate vitamin D levels are also associated with an elevated risk of pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure that develops in some women during the last half of pregnancy). | <urn:uuid:c677d1b1-e24b-4186-bd47-37275589d45c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unilabfertility.com/endocrine-function-testing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.90021 | 1,943 | 3.875 | 4 |
American healthcare has a customer service problem. No, customer service in the US is terrible when it comes to healthcare. No, the customer service in the US healthcare system is horrendous. No, healthcare has the worst customer service of any industry in the US.
There. That seems about right.
What makes me utter such a bold statement? Experience. I regularly hear the following from people when they come to my practice:
- “You are the first doctor who has listened to me.”
- “This office makes me feel comfortable.”
- “I didn’t have to wait!”
- “Where’s all the paperwork?”
- “Your office staff is so helpful. They really care about my needs.”
- “This is the first time I’ve been happy to come to the doctor.”
- “It’s amazing to have a doctor who cares about how much things cost.”
- “You explain things to me.”
- “You actually return my calls.”
Each of these things is said as a sincere compliment, with a degree of wonder in their voices. People simply are not used to getting any customer service. By these compliments, I must assume that the majority of people’s experience with a physician’s practice is:
- They do not feel listened to by their doctor.
- Doctors offices are uncomfortable.
- Visits usually involve long waits and extensive (and pointless) paperwork.
- Office staffs are usually unhelpful and don’t act like they care about people’s needs.
- People are never happy to go to the doctor’s office.
- Doctors seldom pay attention to the cost of the care they give.
- “Care” from doctors is often poorly explained, and so patients often leave confused.
- Attempts at communication are seldom fruitful.
Add to this the ridiculous wait times, the unreasonable and confusing cost of care, and the plunging morale that people routinely face in medical practices, and you get a frightening picture of a system supposedly dedicated to helping people. What other industry has such a damning set of “normals.” Airlines? Cable TV companies? DMV offices? I have to confess, this makes my job much easier; it’s a very low bar to cross. Basically, people are amazed that I don’t totally suck. That makes me glad for me and my patients. That makes me really sad for most people.
The obvious question that arises from this is, how did the service that people expect to receive from their doctors get to be so terrible? Shouldn’t professionals who dedicate their lives to helping others, even saving lives, be even remotely concerned about the way these people are treated?
As always, the answer lies more in the system itself than in the people working in that system. The simple truth is that in our system the patient is not the customer; the third-party payor is the customer. The product sold at hospitals and doctors offices is not healthcare, it is CPT and ICD codes, for which they are paid proportionate to the number and severity of those codes. The patients, instead of being the customer, are the raw materials from which codes are extracted. This means that the best business practice for healthcare providers is to extract as many codes from the most patients in the shortest time possible. So the system rewards the exact things people don’t want from their doctors.
You get what you pay for.
There is one piece of evidence that convinces me that the system is the corrupting force that wrecks customer service: me. I spent 18 years in that system and have now been outside of it for the past 3. Since working in a system where I am paid directly by my patients:
- I am always thinking about improving the experience my patients have in my office because they can always leave me.
- I am constantly trying to save them money. Part of this is to justify their “extra” payment to me, but much of it is simply because it is what they want. Making them happy keeps them coming back.
- I have centered my practice around communication and access because that is what my patients (my customers) value the most.
- My office is clean and comfortable. We routinely offer people coffee or tea. I often talk to patients in my office (they sit on a comfy couch), not in the exam room.
- I make it a point to explain things to people so they are comfortable and confident in the care I give. I tell people, “if I can’t explain why you need to take any medication, don’t take it.”
- I put a priority on getting to know new patients to understand their priorities.
- People almost never have to wait in my office (except when they come early).
- We always tell people the cost of what we are doing and of the medications we are prescribing. When people can’t afford medications, we do whatever we can to bring the cost down. One of my nurses dedicates many hours to getting free medications from drug companies for low-income patients.
I do these things for one simple reason: my patients are my customers. The more customers I have, the better income my business gets. My patients won’t stay my patients for long if my service gets anywhere near the norm for doctors offices. There is a bonus, of course: it’s the nice thing to do. My business model makes being nice an asset, not a liability.
I’ve read rants by doctors who rail against the idea of patients being customers. If the patient is the customer, they argue, then aren’t we obligated to give them antibiotics or pain medications when they ask for them? Doesn’t this obligate us to follow the oft-quoted maxim, the customer is always right? This, of course, is total horse hockey (for both regular business and healthcare). Good service is simply good business. But more than that, good service as a physician has a much bigger effect. This is what I’ve seen over the past 3 years:
- Treating my patients with courtesy and respect make it far more likely that they will show the same to me. They seem to like me more.
- That respect (and affection) makes it more likely they will listen to what I say.
- This means that compliance with medications and other treatments is far higher than it ever was. I am able to hold off on antibiotics and handle pain medications much better.
- People don’t avoid coming to see me, and so I can catch problems earlier. This has had life-saving consequences on several occasions.
- When I show respect for people’s time and money, they are much more trusting of me. People open up to me more about things they don’t say to others. They believe I really care, and my office doesn’t contradict that fact.
- Because I care about their lives, they have taken a much higher interest in my life. They encourage me to take days off, ask me about my family, and basically treat me as a person who they care about. Because they do. They value me because they believe I value them. This makes me much happier.
- Good service also makes my staff much happier, as they are beloved by my patients and highly valued by me. This too improves the overall care people get in my office.
In short, good customer service makes being a good doctor much easier and much more enjoyable.
Of course, I’ve had people come to me hoping I’ll be a Pez dispenser for Percocet or Zithromax. These folks are disappointed when I instead take the time to discuss the proper use of these medications. Some leave me. But many who have come with this intent in mind have been so surprised at being treated with caring and respect that they listen to what I say and continue in my practice.
The vast majority of people truly want a doctor they respect and actually like. This may come as a shock to many of my jaded colleagues who routinely face the ire of people stuck in waiting room purgatory, ignored or disbelieved by doctors, and treated as objects instead of people. They think that people are angry because they don’t like doctors. They view the people on their schedule as, at best, the hungry masses they must placate and, at worst, as their adversaries they must conquer. Then they wonder why their patients are so unhappy?
The past three years has taught me otherwise. People want to like their doctors. We just haven’t given them any reason to do so.
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There are a lot of books and study packages and helpful hints on prayer that are readily available throughout the United States and the Internet. The way that they present themselves are like some kind of magic remedying, or sometimes special invocation used to get what we want out of God. It is clear by looking in the book of Matthew chapter 6 that the shoes always been a misunderstanding on how we should approach God in prayer. I think that is of special note, that the Lord himself thinks it’s a is so important that we understand how to pray, and how to seek the Lord, that he left as an example. This example is what we often referred to as the Lord’s prayer or the our father. We can find is prayer located in Matthew chapter 6 starting in verse 9.
Matthew 6:9-13 King James Version (KJV)
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this Day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Laura clearly leaves this prayer as an example of how we should praise, the type of praise and offering the should be offered in prayer, and one of our attitude in prayer. Something that we should also consider, is this prayer closely models the prayer that was prayed by King David, as he will made ready to relinquish his throne to his son Solomon. When David prayed he prayed in this manner.
1 Chronicles 29:10 – 13 (KJV)
“wherefore David bless the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Nine, oh Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in heaven and in the years is thine; thine is the kingdom, oh Lord, and thou art exalted as head of all. Both riches and honor come to the of the, and out rainiest overall; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength into all. Now therefore, our God, we think the, and praise thy glorious name.”
It is no accident, that the Lord chose the model of prayer given in Matthew after the prayer of David given Chronicles. It is often said that David was a man after God’s own heart. This prayer shows how much David understood the Lord, and understood his place in the Lord’s will. First of all David in his heart knew that only God deserves the blessings of all creation. He understood that all power and all glory anything that we could ever achieve is done through God the father. He understood the relationship that God had with Israel. The relationship between God and Israel, God and King David, was very unique and was one built on love. If you look back through the histories of other cultures and their gods, you’ll see quite a different relationship. Other cultures and other religions do not have a loving God who provides everything for them for their benefit out of his good pleasure. This same unique relationship is carried over to us as believers in Christ. This love relationship is demonstrated in the death and the burial in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
So then first we must understand that everything that we have is actually a gift from God. Everything that we own in reality belongs to God. When we speak of everything we are talking about our finances, livelihoods, health, and even the very breath we breathe. If we approach our prayer in the correct attitude, and we give God to credit is due to God, then we find ourselves not asking for petty little things that God already provides for us. Instead we enter into true worship with an understanding of the provisions that are already made by God. In seeking God in prayer, we should seek to return the love that he showed us.
Looking back at Matthew chapter 6 we can also see Jesus was very concerned about our attitude in prayer and why we choose to pray. That we should be seeking the father with all earnestness all sincerity in our heart. Jesus said, “take heed that you do not you’re on before men, to be seen of them”. He also said that we should not present ourselves out before meant just to be seen of men to be doing good things for God but we should be sincere and we should pray secretly in private because God once a one-on-one relationship with us and he once us to really spend time with him. The father does not want us to be superficial in our actions and our hopes and in our love for him. While the our father is a good model and learning how to pray it should not be a repetitious prayer. Instead the model of the Lord’s prayer shows we should love the Lord our God with all of our hearts. The our father also shows that we should have respect for God for the provisions he makes. We should be submissive to his will in our lives by actively seeking his will. We should be living a life that shows that we are his children, because he is a good father who provides far daily needs before we even ask. We do this by forgiving others like he forgave us. We should also acknowledge the fact that it is he who guides us and leads us to our daily lives protecting us from temptations and from the evil things there are around us those who seek to harm us.
Because he does all these things we can with joy in our hearts give praise to our heavenly father because he is the ultimate authority in the universe. He has all authority, provides everything we need, and he does it because he loves us like a good father should. Those of you who have children know that there’s nothing that you would not do for your children to provide for their safety for their health for their financial support, and even for the little toys that they want Christmas. Knowing this then, that your heavenly father who created everything, who owns everything, who wants to give everything to you, can and will provide everything you need if you’ll just come to him. There is no invocation there is no secret formula there is no special prayer. Instead there is a recognition of God for who he is, an understanding that he loves you, and that he is willing to give you good gifts. But of these gifts, the greatest gift that he wants to give you is eternal life in fellowship with him. This was provided the sacrifice that was made by Jesus Christ when he died on the cross to redeem your who and your whole life to the Father. So the question is, if God love you so much to sacrifice his own son, how much more will he give you if seek him first, and you ask in faith, believing he can do whatever you ask.
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The National Transmission Corp. (Transco) has succeeded in testing and applying emerging ICT technologies that will make use of existing power line infrastructures to help the Department of Education (DepEd) to implement the Public Education Network program of DepEd that will provide connectivity and high-speed internet to public schools nationwide amid the pandemic.
Transco President-CEO Melvin Matibag said the Public Education Network-Communications Infrastructure for Learning (PEN-CIL) project would address the challenges of DepEd in ensuring the continuity of learning amid the pandemic and the expected transition to the New Normal by providing internet connectivity in all public schools.
He said Transco would be involved through its Project Lightning in designing, developing and operating the PEN-CIL system with the goal of making the country’s basic education system more resilient especially in times of calamities and crises.
The internet system will be developed with the cooperation of the electric cooperatives nationwide by lending to the government their power lines for the high-speed internet connection that will prioritize the remote rural areas that are expected to be left out by the Telcos due to commercial viability issues.
In Matibag’s report to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, he said PEN-CIL will be piloted at the Baguio Teachers Camp where all buildings and facilities are not yet connected to the internet.
“The PEN-CIL project will maximize the utilization of TransCo assets and utilize the electric cooperatives’ assets. This will translate into new revenues for Transco when it performs the function of administrator and system operator of the DepEd’s PEN-CIL while it is able to support the government’s development objectives,” Matibag said during a recent executive committee (Execom) meeting of the Department of Finance (DOF) for state corporations under its supervision.
Matibag said the positive spillover effect of PEN-CIL is that other government agencies can ride on this national internet network and, in turn, help complete the National Broadband Plan of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DICT).
Dominguez, who chairs the board of directors of Transco, commended the corporation for the progress of the PEN-CIL and its other projects.
“Congratulations on your good progress on the projects,” Dominguez said.
Matibag said using new technologies, Transco’s Project Lightning will enable the transfer of large amounts of data at extremely high speeds using existing power lines, without the need for the installation of new cellphone towers or laying of fiber optic cables.
Under Project Lightning, Transco conducted technology scanning and development on emerging ICT technologies for resilient power grids from 2018 to 2021, Matibag said.
“Through laboratory tests and live trials with the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) power distribution system, Transco concluded that two newly invented technologies can transmit large data at very high speed and can be rapidly deployed using the existing power lines infrastructure,” Matibag said.
Project Lightning will primarily benefit public schools located in remote areas where the construction of broadband facilities would prove too expensive and unprofitable for private telecommunications service providers.
During the Execom meeting, Matibag also briefly discussed Transco’s other priority projects such as the interconnection to the Luzon grid and System Operation while waiting for the interconnection of the island-provinces of Palawan, Mindoro, and Catanduanes to provide affordable, reliable, and stable electricity supply to these areas. (DOF) | <urn:uuid:f123eb63-38f6-47ad-8388-8224cb6f5daf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailyguardian.com.ph/transco-teams-up-with-deped-on-high-speed-internet-for-public-schools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.906737 | 750 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Why Some Young Voters are Choosing Democratic Socialism over the Democratic Party
COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Tuesday night’s Democratic debate approached, members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at Ohio State University tried to figure out where to focus their energy.
At a meeting on campus last week designed to set their goals for the year, they talked about labor organizing, volunteering for Morgan Harper’s congressional campaign and hosting a town hall-style event focused on climate change.
“It’s all related, even though they look like separate issues, ” said Daija Kidd, an African-American studies and sociology double major and co-chair of the Y.D.S.A. chapter, as she tried to get the other members to think about new campaigns for the year.“We have these very specific events that we go to, like the climate strike,” she said. “But I want to do something that is ongoing, because that is the purpose of democratic socialists. I don’t want us to finish doing one big thing and have that be it — I want to keep it chugging along.”
The group’s effort to take on an aggressive and expansive agenda reflects the enormous energy on the far left heading into the 2020 election, and part of the appeal of democratic socialism in this cycle: setting an array of big goals to help deepen a movement that goes beyond one-off protest events and marches.
For many young, progressive Americans, democratic socialism is a far better representation of their ambitions of far-reaching structural change across the economy and society than the agenda of the Democratic Party, which they see as overly influenced by corporate interests, big-money donors and moderate traditionalists.
The attempt at Ohio State to define objectives also comes as the Democratic presidential contenders are locked in a battle over what direction the party should take in order to win in 2020. That dynamic will be on display Tuesday night less than 15 miles from O.S.U., when the candidates gather for the fourth primary debate at Otterbein University in Westerville.
Two top candidates, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have successfully pushed the primary conversation to the left. The D.S.A. saw drastic growth in its membership when Mr. Sanders, himself a democratic socialist, ran for president in 2016, and there are now nearly 60,000 members across the country. (Ms. Warren, who has pulled ahead of Mr. Sanders in polling and is a leading candidate for the nomination, backs many of the same progressive priorities as Mr. Sanders, but has also said she is “a capitalist to my bones.”)
The national leaders of the Young Democratic Socialists of America have seized on Mr. Sanders’s momentum with younger voters to expand their group’s membership, too, growing from 25 registered chapters in 2016 to 84 in 2019, according to a Y.D.S.A organizer. Chapters have begun to spring up at high schools, as well.
The chapter at O.S.U. was small for the past two years, with only 10 or 11 active members. Still, the group managed to create a campus campaign around Fight for $15, an effort to raise the minimum wage of university staff members to $15 an hour. They won that battle in August.
Now, each meeting draws 40 to 50 members, each one with a different reason for joining and something unique to fight for.
For many of them, Mr. Sanders was their introduction to the left. They see the D.S.A. as more than just a vehicle to advance the rights of workers — it is also a home for progressive policies and issues that they don’t see being addressed by the major political parties in a way they agree with.
“I don’t think they’re totally abandoning capitalism per se, but certainly they’re more likely to embrace policies tied to what we characterize as socialism,” said Melissa Deckman, chair of the political science department at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., who is working on a book about the political engagement of Generation Z. “They’re interested in free college tuition or in expanding health care.”
As they grew up in the wake of a recession and watched the effects of climate change unfold, the Black Lives Matter movement form and gay marriage be legalized, the students were often just a click away from finding the next progressive policy to support.
Nathan Webster, a second-year electrical engineering major at Ohio State, learned about the Democratic Socialists of America through protests in his hometown, Painesville, Ohio, aimed at abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“I come from a largely Latino town — some of my friends lost their parents to Border Patrol,” Mr. Webster said.
“Near the end of high school, I realized what politics were and where I fall on the political spectrum,” he added. “Originally I told myself, ‘O.K., I’m a Democrat,’ because I didn’t know any better. I didn’t know that there was something that could be more left.”
For Ricky Vehar, an environmental engineering major, coming out as gay and then coming out as trans moved her closer to the Young Democratic Socialists of America.
“From my background, you wouldn’t really expect me to become super left. I grew up in a middle-class family, in a good suburb,” she said, adding that watching “the discrimination that those communities face not just because they’re gay or trans, but because the system incentivizes discrimination against them, moved me toward the left.”
James Fisher, a second-year student and a co-chair of the O.S.U. chapter, joined the group for similar reasons: they support giving trans teenagers and adults better access to health care through Medicare for All.
“Medicare for All can benefit the trans community in their ability to get good health care, and that’s something that a lot of trans people struggle with,” Mx. Fisher said. “It’s embedded in the language of Medicare for All, that there’s no exclusionary measures to it.”
Others joined the Y.D.S.A. because they saw the benefits of nationalized health care firsthand. During a yearlong program in England, Johnny Amundson got very sick and was hospitalized for a month. His program enrolled him in the National Health Service, and he ended up paying just $200 in medical fees, he said.
“I saw that there’s a difference between being able to have insurance, which my family has, and being able to have health care,” Mr. Amundson said. He is now a fourth-year journalism and Russian double major at Ohio State, and he was one of the first members of the university’s Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter.
Nikki Velamakanni, a political science major, joined Y.D.S.A. when she realized that she didn’t want to join the College Democrats chapter on campus because of the stigma around it.
“It’s known to be more centrist, it’s known to be more compromise-y,” Ms. Velamakanni said. “Whereas the left is more, ‘We stand for this and we’re going to fight for it.’”
Dr. Deckman attributes the rise of the Y.D.S.A. to the changing perceptions that younger voters and soon-to-be voters have about government and democratic socialism, and the idea that younger people tend to be more liberal with each passing generation.
“They’re more willing to have a bigger role for government to play in our lives,” she said. “This younger generation is growing up seeing what deregulation is doing to the Earth, is doing to their ability to afford college, among other things. I think that’s why they’re finding democratic socialist ideas appealing.”
Some of their parents were introduced to socialism during the Cold War, giving the word an entirely different meaning.
“Older Americans who lived during the Cold War, they link socialism strongly to communism. So there’s this idea that if we raise socialism, our freedoms, especially religion, are going to be compromised,” Dr. Deckman said. “And I don’t think that sort of baggage matters to younger Americans.”
For Evan Schmidt, a second-year economics major, “socialism is a word only. It doesn’t necessarily have a direct correlation to any sort of regime or empire, which allows for that reconstruction around it.”
He grew up in Manchester, Vt., where the idea of democratic socialism was less taboo thanks to Mr. Sanders. When he moved away, out of what he describes as a “sheltered neighborhood,” he had his first experiences with people who grew up with less than he did.
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Fluorescent proteins (FPs) are indispensable markers for two-photon imaging of live tissue, especially in the brains of small model organisms. The quantity of physiologically relevant data collected, however, is limited by heat-induced damage of the tissue due to the high intensities of the excitation laser. We seek to minimize this damage by developing FPs with improved brightness. Among FPs with the same chromophore structure, the spectral properties can vary widely due to differences in the local protein environment. Using a physical model that describes the spectra of FPs containing the anionic green FP (GFP) chromophore, we predict that those that are blue-shifted in one-photon absorption will have stronger peak two-photon absorption cross sections. Following this prediction, we present 12 blue-shifted GFP homologues and demonstrate that they are up to 2.5 times brighter than the commonly used enhanced GFP (EGFP). | <urn:uuid:147eb58a-9797-4136-85c7-da1d148ccb47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28530831/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.942812 | 196 | 2.125 | 2 |
The World Health Organization, WHO, regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says the number of coronavirus cases in Africa has risen to over 110,900 in the past 24 hours.
The UN health agency gave the update on its official Twitter account on Monday.
According to the tweet, COVID-19 has killed more than 3,300 people on the continent, while more than 44,500 people have recovered from the virus.
“Over 110,900 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent – with more than 44,500 recoveries & 3,300 deaths,” it said.
Nigeria is now fourth in Africa, ahead of Morocco with 7,839 reported cases and 226 deaths, while the North African nation has 7,429 cases and 198 deaths.
The WHO COVID-19 dashboard showed that South Africa, Egypt, and Algeria are the top three countries in Africa with the highest reported COVID-19 cases.
- COVID-19 in Africa: Nigeria overtakes Algeria as toll hits 135,292 on continent
- COVID-19 deaths: Sudan overtakes Nigeria as toll hits 5,400 in Africa
- COVID-19: Nigeria overtakes Ghana as death toll hits 1,689 in Africa
- COVID-19: Nigeria overtakes Ghana as toll hits 84,000 in Africa
- Coronavirus: Ghana overtakes Nigeria as death toll hits 2,223 in Africa
- Morocco: Morocco, India Strengthen Judicial and Digital Partnership
- COVID-19: WHO releases latest update as Algeria overtakes Morocco
- Coronavirus: Sudan’s COVID-19 death toll overtakes Nigeria
- Nigeria records highest COVID-19 deaths in West Africa as toll hits 7839
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Osteopathy is a gentle method of assessing, treating and preventing a wide range of health problems. It is considered a”hands on treatment”. An Osteopath uses combinations of movement, stretching, massage and manipulation of a person’s muscles and joints to improve function, relieve pain and aid recovery.
The Osteopath will take the time to understand their patient, and their unique combination of symptoms, medical history and lifestyle. This helps to make an accurate diagnosis of the causes of the pain or lack of function (rather than just addressing the site of the condition), and from that, to formulate a treatment plan that will achieve the best outcome.
Osteopaths frequently work alongside other health professionals, such as GPs, nurses and midwives as well as alternative medical practitioners. Osteopathy works well to complement other medical interventions including surgery and prescribed medication. You do not need a GP referral to see an Osteopath.
Safety and Regulation
Osteopaths are regulated by the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC). It is against the law to call yourself an Osteopath unless you are qualified and registered with the GOsC.
Conditions treated by Osteopaths
Osteopaths are experts in treatments of a range of conditions and although Osteopaths are well known for treating back pain, Osteopaths treat joint pain, neuromuscular conditions and headaches. These can arise from injury or from daily living, work or activity.
Here are some examples;
- General aches and pains either acute or chronic
- Joint pains including back, hips, knees, shoulder, elbow etc.
- Low back problems, including sciatica, disc and sacro-iliac joints
- Neck, shoulder, upper back and arm problems, including tension
- Headaches of varying types, including migraine prevention arising from the neck area
- Repetitive Strain injuries, including tennis & golfers elbow
- Frozen Shoulder
- Knee, ankle and foot problems
- Muscle, ligament & joint injury
- Trapped nerves
- Arthritic pains or rheumatic pains
Osteopathic patients include the young, older people, manual workers, office professionals, pregnant women, children and sports people
If you want to find out more, Louise Cameron will be happy to talk to you about your health and how you may benefit from Osteopathic treatment.
Your First Treatment
When you first visit an Osteopath, they will spend some time taking a medical history, which will include questions about your general health and lifestyle as well as asking questions about the symptoms or injuries that you are seeking help with. With your consent, they will perform a physical examination which is likely to involve the Osteopath touching areas of your body that are experiencing pain and asking you to move around. They may also look at test results, x-rays and scan reports if these are available.
It may be necessary for the Osteopath to ask you to remove some clothing, so they can see and touch areas of the body that are causing concern. If you are uncomfortable undressing to your underwear then please bring with you clothing, such as shorts and a T shirt, that will enable the Osteopath to work effectively without making you feel uncomfortable. You are welcome to bring someone with you into the examination room if this puts you at ease.
The Osteopath will make a diagnoses and discuss a course of treatment with you. This may involve visiting them a few times for manual therapy, some exercises that you can do by yourself and some lifestyle changes. If the Osteopath believes that your condition would not be improved my Osteopathic treatment they will refer you to your GP or another suitably qualifies professional and may provide you with notes explaining their diagnosis and why they feel Osteopathic treatment may not help you.
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Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization
Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.
The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization's Collapse
The Limits to Growth argued that rampant pollution and resource extraction were pushing Earth to the brink. How does it hold up 50 years later?
The JWST’s First Photos Show Its Extraordinary Power
The cosmic probe’s long-awaited images will kick off astronomers’ science programs.
Bill Gates Is So Over This Pandemic
The acerbic optimist thinks anxious people (like me) need to move on from Covid and start planning for the next vicious pathogen.
Can Reengineered Aluminum Help Fill the Demand for Copper?
As the world converts to electric vehicles and renewable energy, molecular tweaks to aluminum could improve its conductivity.
The Pandemic Fueled a Superbug Surge. Can Medicine Recover?
As Covid swept ICUs, doctors prescribed antibiotics to ward off secondary infections. Now bacteria have evolved resistance—but hospitals are fighting back.
The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift
Scientists are getting closer to understanding the neurology behind the memory problems and cognitive fuzziness that an infection can trigger.
Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
Small pinpricks of blood are used to screen newborns for serious health conditions—but this genetic data can have legal uses too. | <urn:uuid:a461be47-4895-4214-9862-d0275c0a69ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2009/03/eruptions-on-facebook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.88158 | 497 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Photographer Carmen Triana and stylist Juan Camilo Rodríguez collaborate on “Melodía del Río” a meditation on the spiritual resonance of the nature and natural resources surrounding small Colombian villages.
Colombia is a land of extremes. The country’s breathtaking landscapes are among the most biodiverse in the world—a 30-minute train ride from Cocora’s tropical rainforests lands you walking distance from the middle of the Andean mountain range. It’s not just small indigenous communities that thrive on natural resources, but also the young urban creatives reinvigorating Latin America’s fashion capital. Photographer Carmen Triana and stylist Juan Camilo Rodriguez highlight five emerging Colombian labels in this fashion editorial for Document Online. “Melodía del Río”—or “Melody of the River”—is inspired by Colombia’s otherworldly nature and the overwhelming sense of mysticism that permeates it.
“We aim to project the magic and spiritual meaning that people give to earth and its different elements, and how culture and everyday life is projected around these to survive in the countryside,” Rodriguez says. “The mix of beliefs, legends, and myths, it’s what makes culture evolve and live across centuries in Colombia, creating different planes of reality where spiritualism, magic, and habits cohabitate together. In this case we talk about how the metaphysical meets the physical, creating a fantasy. The countryside boy meets the spirit of the river, blooming in the mist forest where he lives his days, living in harmony.”
Manuela Peña, the young founder of ethical label Religare, which is sold in Bogotá’s MADE IN_ concept store, utilizes the same “Cumare” vegetable fibers used by indigenous elders in tiny villages. “Making fashion in Colombia is very inspiring not only for its rich geography full of beautiful landscapes and climates,” says Manuela Peña, founder of ethical label Religare, “but for the ancestral treasures that still preserve the indigenous communities that exist throughout the country.” Olga Piedrahita, known for exquisite textiles printed with images of native flora, collaborates with different artists to show how fashion can weave all other creative disciplines together.
“The brand is all about experimentation and deconstruction,” she says. Rodriguez and Triana also used delicate knitwear by Pepa Pombo, contemporary tailoring by Atelier Crump, and jewelry by CAOS, “We aim to project the magic and spiritual meaning that people give to earth and its different elements,” Rodriguez says, “and how culture and everyday life is projected around these to survive in the countryside.”
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Leicester Print Workshop
50 St George Street
Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm
Tutor: Sue Rowland
A day introduction to printmaking with lino. Design your image and transfer it to your piece of lino. Learn how to cut the design to leave a relief surface. Ink up and print using hand burnishing and the press. Take home your original linocuts at the end of the day.
- Introduction to cutting techniques and mark making on sample piece
- Design on paper and transfer to vinyl
- Cutting your lino design
- Learning to print using a press and hand burnishing.
- Explore printing with different colour inks and using different colour papers.
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There are a growing number of cryptocurrency apps that can help businesses grow. Here are ways to use these apps to increase your business. Use an app to accept payments. Numerous cryptocurrency payment apps available allow businesses to easily receive and process payments in cryptocurrencies. Furthermore, click here for some guidelines to grow your business using cryptocurrency.
This can help you attract new customers and boost your bottom line. You should use an app to sell products or services. Cryptocurrency apps are a great way to grow your business. They allow you to easily manage and exchange your digital currency, which can help you boost your profits.
Develop your cryptocurrency as a brand booster
Creating your cryptocurrency can help promote awareness and interest in this emerging market. Creating a unique cryptocurrency can reach a larger audience and build brand recognition. Additionally, you can increase user engagement and loyalty by providing value-added services related to your cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrencies are a new way of doing business, and they’re always gaining in popularity. But what if you already have a business and want to get in on the cryptocurrency craze? There are a few things you can do to help boost your brand, and one of them is to use cryptocurrency apps. Cryptocurrency apps can help you do many things, including increasing brand awareness and driving traffic to your website.
Cryptocurrency trading apps have become a popular way to invest and grow a business. They allow users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies quickly and easily, making them an ideal option for those looking to enter the market. There are several different features available in this software for trading in cryptocurrencies.
They offer security and anonymity for users, and a growing number of businesses accept them as a form of payment. This is because cryptocurrencies have low transaction fees and can be transferred quickly and easily. Cryptocurrencies are also deflationary, which means their value will decrease over time. However, this does not mean that they are not viable forms of currency for online businesses.
For payments, use cryptocurrency apps.
Cryptocurrency apps are a great way to offer additional payment acceptance methods. They allow businesses to accept payments in various cryptocurrencies, which can help them reach a wider audience. Additionally, they can provide customers with more options when paying for goods and services.
One way to increase the acceptance of cryptocurrencies is to use crypto apps that offer additional payment options. These apps allow customers to pay with cryptocurrencies, fiat, or other altcoins. This increases the number of people who are familiar with and use cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrency apps are an excellent way to accept payments other than just fiat currency. They offer a secure and convenient payment method for your customers. By using cryptocurrency apps, you can increase the amount of money you make. Additionally, you can use them to promote your business and attract new customers.
Spread awareness through social media
Many people do not know how to use cryptocurrency. Social media sites can be a great way to encourage cryptocurrency use. Using social media sites, users can find groups that share their interests and learn about new cryptocurrency use opportunities.
If you want to encourage cryptocurrency use through social media sites, start by educating your friends and family. You can also try using cryptocurrency-related hashtags on Twitter or Instagram. Finally, post crypto-friendly articles and videos on your social media profiles to help others learn about this exciting new technology.
Many people are hesitant to use cryptocurrencies because they do not understand them. However, social media sites can help spread awareness of cryptocurrencies and encourage people to start using them. Social media sites allow people to connect with others who are also interested in cryptocurrencies and learn more about how they work. Additionally, social media sites can help make buying and selling cryptocurrencies easier.
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Ways in Which Geography Impacted Rome's Development
Geography was a major factor in Rome's early development. Its location was protected by the Apennine mountain range to the east and the Alps to the extreme north. The city itself was situated on the Tiber River, about 20 miles from the coast, and the Italian Peninsula provided a relatively central position in the Mediterranean world. With access to Mediterranean trading routes and relative safety from raids and invasions, Rome was in an ideal spot to develop into the capital of a great empire.
1 Tiber River
One of the biggest factors leading to Rome’s development is the shape of the Tiber River, which flows through the center of the city. The river makes a horseshoe-shaped bend, where there is a small island. Around 900 B.C., prior to the Roman Kingdom, this part of the Tiber was one of very few places where travelers, traders and herders of livestock could ford the river. It made that area of Rome an early meeting point for Latin and Sabine tribes as well as the Etruscans, who ruled over much of the Italian peninsula before Rome was built.
2 Seven Hills
The ancient city was made of seven hills on which various local tribes settled during the reign of the Etruscans prior to 700 B.C. The hills provided steady ground for residence as well as a certain degree of protection from invasion from below. Palatine Hill, surrounded by the other six hills, is located just to the east of the island at the river ford, and traditionally is said to be home to the first Romans. The city and culture began with the integration of various peoples living atop each of the hills when they began building permanent residences and common civic spaces around 500 B.C.
3 Agriculture and Empire
Despite its practicality as a meeting place and point of transit, early Rome also needed local agriculture to sustain its growing population. Agricultural techniques such as irrigation and the draining of swampland made much of the land around Rome suitable for farming. Livestock could survive the winter in the relatively mild lowlands, while cooling off in the mountains during the warmer months. Local agriculture alone was not enough to sustain the great city Rome would become. In the time it took to grow from small city-state to capital of an empire, Rome depended on importing necessary goods from its conquered provinces, which ultimately stretched from Asia to the British Isles.
4 Myth and Reality
According to ancient legend, Rome was founded and built by Romulus after being abandoned with his brother Remus on the banks of the Tiber River. There, after the two brothers were raised and nursed to health by a motherly wolf, Romulus killed Remus and built the city in his own name. Despite the mythology, the story of Romulus and Remus reflects two pillars of Roman growth: political and imperial dominance, reflected by the murder of Remus, and the natural blessings of the region itself, represented by the mother wolf who raised the two young brothers. | <urn:uuid:65234bc7-2172-4b39-8e52-707ab9860899> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://classroom.synonym.com/ways-geography-impacted-romes-development-22388.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.977974 | 623 | 3.96875 | 4 |
- Large Christmas light bulb
- Flesh tone acrylic paint
- Paint brush
- Black permanent marker
- Scraps of fabric for dress
- Stiffer fabric for wings
- Wool for hair
- Small flower
- Hot glue and glue gun
1. Start by cleaning the entire surface of the light bulb with alcohol this helps paint stick better. Another way to make the surface more accepting of paint is to lightly sand the outside of the light bulb. Allow drying time.
2. Then using your egg carton turned upside down, poke a hole in one of the departments for the egg and make a hole just big enough to easily sit the light bulb in. This helps keep the light bulb in place while you apply the first coat of flesh tone. It’s also great to avoid getting messy fingers. Allow approx. 4 hours for fist coat to dry.
3. Then apply a second more even coat and let dry for 48 hours before going on to do the facial details.
4. When completely dry start to apply your facial features with a black marker.
5. Apply a thin layer of finishing spray to seal paint. (I use a matt) and allow drying.
6. Take a small scrap of material and sew into a small bag shape with a loose stitch all around opening that can be pulled to gather around metal of light bulb head to form her dress and glue in place.
7. Then take a half-inch piece o the same fabric and cut about 4 inches long to form arms. Put a knot in the middle of the fabric and hot glue to back of Angel then twist each arm of fabric around and hot glue to front.
8. Tie a piece of jute or ribbon around neck in a bow.
9. Take a looped piece of wool and glue to top of head for hair.
10. Glue a loop of jute to the back as a hanger.
11. Cut wings out of stiffer fabric. Then glue to back of Angel.
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An Empowering Approach For Healthier Living…
A couple of weeks ago, Astrid Vlahakis, the podcast host of healYOUnaturally.com and I discussed some of the implications of the research discoveries shared in David Perlmutter, MD‘s recent video with Dr. Melissa Schilling about the connection between Alzheimer’s Disease and diabetes. The information that is emerging about the potential mechanism of hyperinsulinemia in both of these conditions that we have been seeing of late is extremely important and will hopefully provide an impetus for change.
While the actual research findings that Dr. Shilling mentions regarding the physiological mechanisms that seem to be at play are extremely important, as are the dietary and other lifestyle changes that Dr. David Perlmutter, Dr. Mark Hyman, and several other leading Integrative and Functional Medicine doctors have been suggesting, I feel it is time to expose and transform the “elephant in the living room” that has been the missing piece in the dialogue.
You may be asking yourself, “What elephant?” or “What is that missing piece?” The 2015 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) seems pretty clear—with their estimation that 49%-52% of the US population has either diabetes or pre-diabetes, something needs to change. Most obviously, the way we live and eat in North America certainly needs an overhaul. And the information about the potential role of insulinemia (prediabetes) in the development of plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s Disease is also pretty darn clear. The “elephant”…the “missing piece” is the HOW. If it is so clear, then why is the food predominantly consumed in our society not changing?
Why are so many well-intentioned people failing in their attempts to make dietary changes, even when they “know” what they are “supposed” to be eating? And why do the New Year’s Resolutions mostly fail and the majority of efforts to make dietary changes die on the vine, found to be unsustainable?
As I discuss in this podcast with Astrid, the problem is that the realities of human nature—the psychology of eating and the very complex relationships we have with food have not been adequately addressed. The result? Countless numbers of people feeling like failures—feeling discouraged, disheartened, hopeless and helpless to actually succeed in their efforts to reclaim their health. So then, on top of the physical health issues associated with these conditions, we layer a whole host of emotional problems on top—-depression, anxiety, frustration,….even relationship problems when loved-ones get upset when their partners or parents don’t do what they are told to do by their healthcare professionals. Literally, it can turn into a terrible mess.
The truth of the matter that I am now speaking out about is the potential benefits that might be enjoyed if everyone could take a step back and learn more about the psychology of eating and use what we know about emotional eating. By compassionately and intelligently incorporating this information into how we approach changing the paradigm of lifestyle changes, we can avoid most, if not all of these challenges, as well as be better equipped to be successful in actually making the behavioral lifestyle changes that might improve or even reverse some of these conditions!
With the massive body of research about the damaging effects of sugar and other processed carbs, I think we can all agree that these foods are really not our friends, as addictive as they may be and as integral to our lives as they may seem. We are truly blessed by the work of Dr. David Perlmutter and Dr. Hyman, (amongst others), who have been able to help thousands of people turn their lives around by sharing information about this reality, as well as offer very specific dietary protocols to reverse the damaging health trajectory of many peoples’ lives. They have indeed been an inspiration for me personally on my own health journey and the majority of the recipes on my book reflect their influence, so that followers of their work can joyfully enjoy the recipes in the book.
That said, many individuals are not ready or emotionally able to follow such strict protocols. For a lot of different reasons, the stress of making lifestyle changes can be overwhelming to a lot of people. The “comfort foods” that they have grown to rely on to help them cope with the challenges of living are just too hard to let go of. Because of this, the incidence of “failure to comply” with medical advice becomes normative. This very large subgroup (which I would venture to guess is actually the majority of the population) typically are not successful in their lifestyle change efforts—and just surrender to their inevitable rapid loss of health and accelerated date of expiry.
I find this reality tragic. This is a reality I know all too well, witnessing my own dad living with diabetes and heart disease, enduring open-heart surgeries, amputations, dialysis and a barrage of other treatments. I loved that man, who was lucky to live to the age of 67. He was a wonderful human being, as are countless others.
How I Am Trying To Make A Difference…
So, for those of you wondering why I am so passionate about not using any cane sugar in my book YUM and why I’ve tried to reduce the glycemic index (GI) as much as possible with the recipes, this information, the podcast interview and the Perlmutter-Shilling video will help you better understand some of the science behind what I’ve done in creating the book. You will also understand why while the book is mostly extremely low-glycemic, as well as why I have also included some recipes that while lower than standard fare may not be as crazy-low in GI as the rest of the recipes. This is also why I resisted all suggestions to include any “meal plans” or other prescriptions in this book.
I want to help not just those who are already on board with making significant lifestyle changes, but also empower those who have been reticent or even resistant to make dietary changes—people like my dad, to whom I have dedicated the book. This is also why I “hold the reader’s hand” as I teach them about the psychology of eating, about the challenges of changing habits, and easy principles to make lifestyle and other habit changes with ease, given the realities of being the habit-driven beings that we are as humans.
If you or anyone you love has been touched by Alzheimers Disease, diabetes, pre-diabetes/hyperinsulinemia, or any other neuro-degenerative conditions, such as Parkinsons Disease, you’ll realize how important these two interviews are. I hope you enjoy this information and these interviews, knowing that you are also invited to share any part of what I have to explained or linked here with others you love who you think might also benefit from the information and empowerment.
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If the visitor can't go to the trade fair, the trade fair has to go to the visitor. In this article you will learn how this looks in detail, what virtual trade fairs look like, how they are organized and what there is to consider.
Trade fairs are fixed dates in many persons working schedules. They are used for exchange, inspiration, discovering trends, acquiring customers and networking with the industry.
For many, they are indispensable in terms of awareness within the industry and customer acquisition - but what if no trade fairs are possible?
Virtual trade shows are the solution. They function as digital replicas of physical trade fairs you're familiar with - only online and not location-based. Visitors navigate around a digital trade fair environment, can move online through exhibition halls and experience a foyer, rooms for workshops, stages with speakers and exhibition stands. It's just like traditional trade fairs - only from the comfort of your desk at home.
As with their role models, virtual trade fairs are also limited in time and follow their own agenda. Sometimes the offers are recorded and are then still accessible on-demand afterwards.
In addition to the obvious purpose of digitizing a trade fair, virtual trade fairs can also be used for internal events by large companies such as annual kick-offs or, for example, for virtual partner events.
Virtual and digital trade shows differ in two main ways. Here you can find out what that means.
While a conventional trade fair takes place at a specific real location, the virtual trade fair has only a virtual space. For the individual, of course, this makes a noticeable difference in everyday working life. At present, however, this is not always possible.
This may be distressing for some, but a virtual trade fair also has many advantages: For exhibitors, there are sometimes immense costs for an elaborate exhibition stand, which can often only be partially recycled. Travel and hotel costs are also eliminated for both organizers and visitors. It also saves time - but the overall experience is definitely somewhat different.
Even the biggest fans of digitization will confirm it: There's nothing like personal contact with people. This is also a point that many people appreciate about trade fairs. Personal exchange, feedback and discussions with customers and potential customers, networking with colleagues.
Virtual trade fairs have to make use of various tools here to ensure interactivity: This is achieved with the help of chats, webinars and interactive streams, social media integrations.
During the lockdown, there was often no choice but to move the already planned trade fair into the virtual space. But this definitely has many advantages that are also worth considering when hybrid models of conventional and virtual trade fairs are planned for the future.
If you move your trade fair to a virtual format, some costs are eliminated: rental of the location, costs for caterers, service and security personnel. Exhibitors save costs for the exhibition stand, for hotel and accommodation and the latter is also eliminated for visitors.
A virtual trade fair is a sustainable format and is therefore ideal for green events and anyone who wants to organize events sustainably. Think of all the trade show setups and booths: Many of the materials and furniture cannot be reused and will be disposed of after the trade fair. Also, the catering and all the disposable cutlery, glasses and serving bowls quickly pile up. There is also no need for all the partly unused give-aways and quantities of flyers and information material.
Whereas at a conventional trade fair you have to rely on the most attention-grabbing design elements possible, and may only be able to capture who has left their data with you, virtual trade fair offer completely different forms of data. Visit times, dwell time, quantity and type of interactivity and leads can even be evaluated in real time. Many tools even offer connections to common CRM tools - so you can immediately capture and process a trade fair lead in your system.
During a worldwide pandemic and beyond, hygiene is an important factor in favour of virtual trade fairs. Virtual concepts have almost no potential for contagion and in 2021 this was often the only way to hold a trade fair at all. You can also save the personnel costs for on-site safety specialists.
A virtual trade fair stand is closely related to the term "virtual reality". With a virtual trade fair stand, you create a digital twin of a trade fair stand that also exists or could exist in physical reality.
In order to bring the simulation to life digitally, a wide variety of software solutions are possible.
The actual goal of a virtual trade fair stand: Trade fair visitors - or rather users should be able to visit it like a real trade fair booth. One of the most important points to consider is interactivity. A virtual trade fair booth limits the communication channels. It is the responsibility of an organizer to make it experienceable. Communication is the key here! As with a real trade fair stand, you should offer information material in the form of brochures. This already is one of your advantages with a virtual booth: While you can otherwise only offer the brochures that they have previously printed out and taken with them, with a virtual booth you have the linking possibilities of the entire Internet at your disposal - you can respond much better to certain specific requests.
Related to this topic: be sure to emphasize interactivity! Create opportunities for interaction using video chats for 1:1 and group conversations, text chats, opportunities to like, share and post on social media.
Of course, innovative digital options such as virtual reality and 3D rendering are exciting in this context. In a study by Digital Affin, it became clear that 33% of attendees would like to see a virtual trade show booth with 3D and VR, while 67% could do without it. This can suggest several conclusions: Visitors are not yet used to these relatively new technologies, or perhaps even overwhelmed, or simply see them as unnecessary. Depending on the target group and industry, these results can also be interpreted differently. For example, VR and 3D are arguably more common at tech and innovation trade shows than at agricultural trade shows.
Maximilian Mayr, Managing Director of the digitalization pioneer and technology company vystem, offers some important tips on the subject of virtual trade fair stands: "Take away your participants' scepticism about the perhaps new digital format right at the beginning, for example with a short welcome and explanatory video. With a virtual trade fair stand, you have virtually immeasurable possibilities in terms of design and information. Don't flood your attendees, but share well-chosen individual pieces such as videos, photos, PDFs and link collections mainly to your own company website." With this checklist we have compiled the following tips on how you can avoid these mistakes at your virtual trade show.
At first glance, planning a virtual trade fair seems like a huge project, especially if it wasn't originally planned as a virtual trade fair at all.
Incidentally, the biggest mistake in organizing virtual trade fairs is quite easy to fix, according to Meyer: "Often, a structured schedule is missing. This is because the process of planning, promoting and implementing digital events is unfortunately often underestimated, and the quality of a virtual trade fair suffers as a result. Detailed organization is almost more relevant for virtual trade fairs than for offline events. "Bloopers" can be overplayed live. If, for example, a speaker at a virtual trade fair is not available at the necessary time, it is difficult to fill this gap."
First of all, it should be clear which concept and which goals you want to pursue with your virtual trade fair. Who do you want to address, who do you want to reach with which statement? What distinguishes it from other concepts with which you are in competition - what is your USP ? When should your trade fair take place?
Just as at a conventional trade fair, framework conditions for the individual exhibitors' stands must also be defined for a virtual trade fair. A space plan is needed! How are individual stands arranged and how large are they? This way you can set guidelines for your exhibitors and their planning.
Speakers and programs are important drivers for your marketing. The more interesting exhibitors and participants find your program, the more likely they are to accept. Look for speakers and work out program points in detail. Do not hesitate to contact your favorite speakers several times.
Speakers and exhibitors often go hand in hand. Rely on quality exhibitors who have valuable contributions to make on your topic and address them personally. Mailing lists, press releases and classic online marketing are all suitable for attracting widespread attention.
It's a misconception that good products and ideas don't need marketing. Make sure that you arouse the interest of your target group and then keep it. Use as many different channels as possible: social media, newsletters, websites, online marketing, print, PR, trade magazines - everything that helps you reach your target group.
No trade fair without visitors. You surely want to attract as many people as possible to your trade fair - after all, with a virtual trade fair, even more people can be present virtually right away. Managing so many people and addresses and different newsletters and groups works best with a tool like Sweap. This way you send the right information to the right target group and get a good overview of reporting and relevant key figures.
This is not a separate step in itself, but it is still extremely important: Make absolutely sure that the technology is working properly. Interactivity is one of the most important success factors of virtual trade fairs. For this, the technology must be right. Bloopers may be able to be overplayed at live trade fairs. But if the technology doesn't play along at a virtual trade fair, the entire trade fair is in jeopardy.
No show without a dress rehearsal. This is true for theater, concerts and all stages in the world - and also for virtual trade fairs. Try everything out, have team members who didn't work directly on the implementation or even non-specialist friends and acquaintances put your trade show environment through its paces. Also invite all exhibitors to do the same.
It's showtime: Now the excitement is rising! As with a conventional trade fair, you should place the implementation of this event in the hands of experienced event or project managers, so that nothing can go wrong.
The trade fair is over? But it's not quite over yet. The key to success can lie in the right follow-up. Successful follow-up can be more elaborate than it seems at first glance.
Go through data and create KPIs - A virtual trade show has the advantage that you can collect tons of data in real time. This gives everyone involved much better insights: About click numbers, reach, visits and visit duration, which booths and material were viewed the most and so on. Summarize the most important metrics - for your exhibitors, the press, guests and future events.
Budget control - The day of truth! Do all invoices fit? Check the budget once again.
Feedback and thank you: Send a thank you to all participants and also the guests and ask for praise and criticism. Make a note of suggestions for future planning.
Press: Success stories and the KPIs you collected and analyzed in the first step can be shared in a renewed press release. Maybe you realized the first virtual trade show in the industry - or were able to come up with another innovation? You should point this out in any case.
Measuring success: Have you achieved your goals? Record all the details about this as well.
A good software solution is essential for the implementation of a successful virtual trade show. Technical failure, as already mentioned, can hardly be overplayed at a virtual event. Sweap offers you a reliable software for attendee management, more precisely for guest registration and guest management, furthermore Sweap offers an interface to other platforms.
For virtual fairs we work with our partner vystem, a software for digital fairs from Isardigital. This software offers live stages and presentations, 1:1 and group conversations, custom design implementations, gated content, active visitor engagement and, of course, an analytics section. A case study of Sweap and vystem working together can be found here among others, together both systems were used for the implementation of the first ever digital education fair in Berlin.
Virtual trade fairs can take place in a wide variety of industries - admittedly, some have it easier than others. For example, the BIldungsmesse mentioned above, as well as other fairs related to education and training, job and career fairs, or fairs with mainly digital topics such as online marketing (e.g. DMXCO), digitization, or gaming, are more likely to be implemented in a virtual environment. Especially since the audience there is very online-savvy and is sure to quickly find its way around a new digital interface.
The situation is probably different for traditional topics, a target group that is not online-savvy, or topics that require multiple senses - such as a trade show for perfumery or gastronomy. But here, too, new virtual trade fair concepts can be found, even if hybrid concepts are more likely to be found here after the pandemic, so that the senses of smell and taste are not neglected. Current examples are the leading trade fair for the hotel and catering industry, intergastra, which took place virtually for the first time, and Agriculture2food from the agricultural sector.
Admittedly, the switch to virtual trade fair offerings was not voluntary for most organizers - there was simply no other option due to the pandemic situation. But the upheaval could also be a good thing: Virtual trade fairs have many advantages - increased reach, better data, sustainability, cost efficiency and, last but not least, hygiene. However, the "human touch" is missing. "The future will be hybrid," Maximilian Mayr also believes. The combination of an offline trade fair, accompanied and supplemented by a digital parallel event, is something we will encounter more often in the future."
Virtual event: This does not have to be a boring webinar or a pixelated conference livestream. With a few good ideas and the right tools, it can become an event with real added value that will inspire your participants.
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Quantum Science with Optical Vortices
The discovery of “twisted light” with orbital angular momentum (OAM) has generated a lot of excitement because of the potential applications, especially for using the discrete OAM basis to increase bandwidth for communications. We are extending this concept to study the vortices that carry this quantized angular momentum as objects that interact in a two dimensional fluid — formally analogous to traditional quantum fluids like Bose-Einstein Condensates and superfluid Helium.
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Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists say Myanmar’s military has intensified its assault on freedom of expression by closing media outlets and arbitrarily detaining journalists
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 22 2021 (IPS) - Two human rights groups have called on the military in Myanmar to release journalists arbitrarily jailed and allow them to work without harassment and prosecution.
Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) told IPS that they will double down on those demands until all journalists are released and the operating licenses of newsgroups are restored.
“From revoking media licenses and raiding newsrooms to arbitrarily arresting and prosecuting media workers covering the current human rights crisis in the country, the Myanmar military is desperately trying to hide from the world the appalling crimes it is committing against its own people every day,” Emerlynne Gil, Deputy Regional Director at Amnesty International, told IPS.
The calls follow a briefing by the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani who said that ‘deeply distressing reports of torture in custody’ were adding to the crisis unfolding in the country.
Protestors have taken to the streets of Myanmar since a Feb. 1 coup by the military. Journalists covering the anti-junta protests have been particularly at risk of being detained, after the military amended Section 505(a) of the country’s penal code to include offences that include knowingly spreading ‘fake news’. The amendments give the military increased latitude to arrest journalists.
“The death toll has soared over the past week in Myanmar, where security forces have been using lethal force increasingly aggressively against peaceful protesters, and continue to arbitrarily arrest and detain people throughout the country,” Shamdasani said last week.
Shamdasani told the press that hundreds of illegally detained people are unaccounted for and ‘this amounts to enforced disappearances’.
Representatives of press rights group CPJ told IPS that journalists in Myanmar are living in fear.
“They are scared that the crackdown will become more targeted against media and that the junta intends to establish a new censorship regime, similar to the harsh measures imposed on the media by previous military governments,” CPJ’s Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin told IPS, adding that “at least 5 independent news organisations have already had their operating licenses revoked for arbitrary and vague reasons. Other groups fear they could be next.”
Reports of press censorship by authorities in Myanmar are not new. In 2018, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights assessed press freedom and high-profile journalist prosecutions through 5 individual cases. The ensuing report, ‘The Invisible Boundary – Criminal prosecutions of journalism in Myanmar’, cited harrowing experiences by the targeted journalists and stated that the unlawful arrests and prosecutions created ‘an invisible boundary for media personnel, that they cross at their peril’. It concluded that freedom of expression and press freedom were under attack.
Earlier this month, the UN Security Council said it was deeply concerned about developments in Myanmar. According to the UN, at least 37 journalists have been arrested in Myanmar since Feb. 1, with 19 still unlawfully detained.
“The Security Council strongly condemns the violence against peaceful protestors, including against women, youth and children. It expresses deep concern at restrictions on medical personnel, civil society, labor union members, journalists and media workers, and calls for the immediate release of all those detained arbitrarily,” a statement from the President said.
Amnesty International says a free press in Myanmar is more important than ever.
“It is all the more urgent now to ensure access to information in Myanmar amid escalating violent repression of peaceful protesters and severe internet restrictions, and all attempts to hamper the right to seek, receive and impart information must cease immediately,” Gil told IPS.
Six journalists have been charged under Article 505(a) of Myanmar’s penal code.
“We are also calling on the regime to refrain from imposing any new laws or measures that would restrict media freedoms,” Crispin told IPS.
A Human Rights Council Resolution of Mar. 12 consists of 9 recommendations of the Government of Myanmar, meant to protect journalists, freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
Among other measures, the Council wants the authorities to decriminalise defamation and amend the country’s media law to ensure that the Myanmar Press Council can mediate in disputes with media outlets and journalists.
The Council also wants the immediate and unconditional release of all journalists in detention, an end to all current cases against journalists for exercising their right to freedom of expression and ensure access to restitution for the journalists who have been arrested and persecuted.
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According to many sources, pickleball is now the fastest growing sport in the United States. The sport transcended fad status during the pandemic, as suddenly every neighborhood tennis court was now accompanied by paddles slamming wiffle balls.
In 2021, pickleball participation soared to 4.8 million players, according to research from USA Pickleball. This 14.8% annual growth from 2020 follows a 21.3% rise from 2019 to 2020. This even exceeds a ridiculous average annual growth rate of 11.5% over the past five years. While everyone seems excited about the sport’s explosion, from Leonardo DiCaprio and the Clooney family to a Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steelers grandmother’s “hustle,” there’s fallout from the tumultuous flames. From coast to coast, the mighty mass of pickleball players encroaches on the hallowed green acrylic-coated concrete.
The Sports and Fitness Industry Association claims that pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the United States. And he relentlessly steals tennis from his players and his real estate pic.twitter.com/nkvDXL1gcC
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 2, 2022
What is pickleball? Pickleball is similar to ping pong in that it is easy to master and hard to master. The rules of pickleball are similar to those of other racquet sports with some minor modifications. Similar to its basement cousin, pickleball is accessible to all ages and fitness levels as there is only a small amount of ground to cover. Just over a quarter the size of tennis courts, pickleball curbs measure 20 by 44 feet and are divided down the middle by the netting. Each side is divided into right and left service courts, with a “dead zone” 7 feet in front of the net on each side.
Although the sport is democratic, that does not mean that pickleball is a unanimous choice. The game can draw the ire of tennis players who hit alongside pickleball encounters of 20-30 people. Unlike the concentrated intensity of two-to-four-person tennis matches, most pickleball rallies feature the shouting, teasing, cheering, and din of 20-30 contestants, attendees, and barking golden retrievers.
Pickleball tournaments are fast, rowdy and can include up to 16 players in an area similar to the size of a tennis court. There is a suburban tie in the collection. The equipment is cheap. All players need to set up are shoes, a paddle, a net and a perforated polymer ball. However, tape goes to the top of tennis courts, as do chalk lines and multi-colored tape that mar the clean surface below.
In Long Beach, California, tennis players and pickleball players jousted as the latter encroached on the former’s territory in various public parks. One side wondered why people were pooping during the party, and the other pointed to the plastered courts and weak nets tied down by pickleballers. Each threw verbal jabs at the other throughout the spring, threatening to alert the authorities. The dispute became so heated that the Long Beach City Council became involved. His solution? Assign a former city councilman and current owner of a non-profit pickleball association to lead operations at the Seal Beach Tennis & Pickleball Outdoor Center. Let’s call this one to follow…
In Exeter, New Hampshire, none other than tennis great Martina Navratilova weighed in. One of the top three female tennis players of all time told pickleball players to go create their own court.
“I say if pickleball is so popular let them build their own courts :),” Navratilova tweeted.
I say if pickleball is so popular, let them build their own courts 🙂 https://t.co/WA1BBQaoWw
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) May 10, 2022
It’s not just tennis players who are expressing their displeasure with the pickleball hordes. Dozens of lawsuits claim that pickleball violates various municipal codes and/or association rules, and local governance often doesn’t know what to do.
In 2021, Roxanne Hudson lived next to pickleball courts in the remote Iron Mountain area of Michigan. Hudson told the local newspaper Daily News that she and her husband “just want to move” as the sound of paddles and plastic balls continues “hour after hour” and “drives you crazy”. City manager Jordan Stanchina proposed limiting play between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., but about 20 pickleball supporters attended a council meeting to oppose it.
“We’re going to try to dampen (the noise) somehow,” Mayor Dale Alessandrini said after 40 minutes of public comment.
It is not yet known if the Hudsons are staying.
Last year in Ridgewood, New Jersey, a local blogger wrote that the village of about 25,000 people had “declared (d) war on pickleball.” On Mayne Island, British Columbia, about 100 miles north of where pickleball was invented in 1965, the local Capital Daily featured the long-running saga of beginners encroaching on tennis, dubbed, The Pickleball Shot.
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Elm Leaf Beetle (Pyrrhalta luteola) is a debilitating insect that affects elm trees by feeding on the elm leaves and reducing the trees ability to photosynthesise.
Victorian Vegetation Management can provide a range of treatments to your affected Elm trees to eliminate Elm Leaf Beetle. Give Brett a call on 0429 665 088 and have a chat about what solutions can be applied at this time of year.
Unfortunately, the Elm Leaf Beetle is now established in eastern areas of Victoria including the Mornington Peninsula, Gippsland, Berwick, Dandenong Ranges, and the southern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and is beginning to spread to western Victoria. As the beetle is a hitchhiker, it is expected to continue its spread throughout South-Eastern Australia, unless it is checked by some means. (Friends of the Elms, 2001)
There are a number of treatments available to the tree, depending on the season and the general health of the tree.
For more information about the elm leaf beetle and the treatments Victorian Vegetation Management can provide, check out the below links.
There is good information on the City of Whitehorse – Elm Leaf Beetle page.
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Want to grow food, but don't have much room? In this joint Village Vancouver, Fairview False Creek South, Marpole Oakridge, and Westside Neighbourhood Food Network workshop, instructor Rhiannon Johnson will cover the techniques and challenges specific to gardening in small spaces, both indoors and outdoors. We'll look at soil, fertilizing organically, watering, types of containers, different sun orientations and, of course, what to grow in your space.
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A fully electrified car weighs between 40 and 100 kilogrammes of non-grain oriented electrical steel. Steel producers are concentrating on strengthening and thinning electrical steel, a magnetically soft material, without affecting its magnetization. As a result, the motor’s overall weight is decreased.
The South Africa EV Steel Market accounted for $XX Billion in 2021 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2022 to 2027.
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Use of machine learning to curb and combat cyberbullying by Instagram sets a great example for AI technology experts to make world a better place to live in
With cyberbullying on the rise, Instagram on its blog announced that it will be using technology to detect bullying in captions and photos uploaded on the network.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram on the blog said, “In honor of National Bullying Prevention Month in the US, the upcoming Anti-Bullying Week in the UK and anti-bullying efforts around the world, we are pleased to announce these new ways to combat bullying on our platform.”
He also mentioned that while Instagram users can directly report a photo or a post that promotes or supports bullying, the new filter will automatically filter such posts and inform Instagram team about the same.
The use of machine learning technology
Setting a perfect example for AI innovators and machine learning experts, Instagram’s artificial intelligence or machine learning technology will scan photos and their captions before sending them to Instagram community operations team for review.
Mosseri outlining the need for the same mentioned on the blog, “This change will help us identify and remove significantly more bullying — and it’s a crucial next step since many people who experience or observe bullying don’t report it. It will also help us protect our youngest community members since teens experience higher rates of bullying online than others. This new technology has begun to roll out and will continue to in the coming weeks.”
Activating cyberbullying Instagram filter
Instagram users will need to activate the ‘Hide Offensive Comment’ filter after logging in to their accounts. The network has also given its users a choice to manually filter specific words that they think promote or support bullying.
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A phonebook, brick, pudding mold, sieve and a silk scarf: that's what you need to get good data visualizations. At least, according to Liz Turner, one of the speakers at the first edition of ‘Big, Open & Beautiful: all about data’.
Holding the Yellow Pages, Liz starts her story. "This book is packed with useful information, but nobody will read it. Whilst it looks extremely boring, it gives me inspiration. How can I make the information in this book visible?" She dives back into her bag and pulls out a brick. "This can be seen as a part of your dataset. A building block, not very exciting. But when you combine this stone with others, something useful and meaningful arises." Next is a mold for pudding. "I brought this, because it is important to think about the form in which you want to pour all these separate elements. Ask yourself what makes sense for your target audience. What do they understand and what helps them the most?"
It almost seems as if Liz dragged along her entire kitchen, because now she pulls a sieve out of her bag. "You should always filter your data, so you get to the really good stuff. Decide which data is useful." Many questions from the audience follow on this step in the visualisation process. Because when you visualize data, you are an intermediary between the data and the recipients. You make a selection of the data and that gives you a certain power. With your choices, you decide what people know and see.
Finally Liz unties her silk scarf, which she was wearing around her neck. It portrais the steps you take in live and the design is inspired by silk scarves that soldiers used to wear. Those scarfes displayed an 'escape route', in case they were shot down in a hostile area. "Useful information, but why not also make it beautiful, fun and entertaining?"
Liz shared the stage with four other speakers, each with very different backgrounds. Kay Coenen (Infographic Media) showed a number of cases. For instance the digital 3D map he made for UWV, which shows statistics of young job-seekers in the Netherlands. Laurens Schuurkamp (Waag) showed spectacular live visuals he made for the TV program The Spiral. In this project, he had to deal with data that was not yet generated. He had to visualize this data for individuals and as a communal artwork. Bert Spaan (Waag) tolled us all about Smart CitySDK, a project that focuses on the opening and reusing of mobility data: "For me, the project is successful if we create a space where data becomes visible and usable for others." Finally, Gerlinde Scholler introduced us into the world of data journalism. With her company ‘The World is a Flatland’, she translates complex stories into beautiful images and books. | <urn:uuid:1aa0e6fa-4a0f-46a9-b99b-5a15c6fbf996> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://waag.org/en/article/visualize/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955912 | 604 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The MRC was one of the original signatories of the Concordat on Openness on Animal Research, which was launched in 2014.
Signatories commit to:
- Be clear about when, how and why we use animals in research.
- Enhance our communications with the media and the public about our research using animals.
- Be proactive in providing opportunities for the public to find out about research using animals.
- Report on progress annually and share our experiences.
Why do you do research using mice?
In order to offer diagnoses and therapies for a disease, we need to understand its causes. The mouse is key for our investigation of diseases at MRC Harwell. It’s physiologically similar to humans and it can develop many of the same diseases, meaning that it can be of great use for the detailed study of the molecules, cells, tissues, and organs involved in human diseases, as well as development of new treatments. Animal research is only undertaken where there are no alternatives, such as cell, tissue, organoid, or computational modelling.
What type of animal research do you carry out?
We generate or use genetically altered mouse models of human disease that enable us or other researchers to better understand those diseases and to develop new treatments.
- How do I find out more about what happens at the Mary Lyon Centre?
For more information about animal research, we encourage you to visit the following websites:
- Home Office information on research and testing using animals – https://www.gov.uk/research-and-testing-using-animals
- Understanding Animal Research – http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/
- A tour of the Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell – https://www.labanimaltour.org/harwell
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There was once a young man who was dying, in one way or another. And as his lungs heaved with the effort of breathing, and his heart beat tediously on, Death came to sit with him and hold him in her arms. She laid his head in her lap and stroked his hair and brushed away his tears with an edge of her black velvet cloak. He listened to the waves crashing on the shore, and he wondered what it would be like to die.
Ja'el is the matriarch of an ancient Canaanite tribe living near the location of a historic battle between General Sisera, who commands a battallion made up of 900 iron chariots, and (though not mentioned in this particular slice of flash fiction) the biblical Israelites. When Sisera abandons his soldiers to save himself, Ja'el is in a position to take action, but her tribe has a peace treaty with Sisera's king.
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Strange behaviour at Carleton University last week has been linked to a new virus, called Overwijkitis, being researched in university labs. University officials are strongly advising that students remain in their homes and away from anyone who may be infected. Those who have been infected can be distinguished from others by a distinct red mark on their hands. Anyone with these red marks is infected.
Zombies infect one other person per day in order to stay alive. It is expected that the virus will spread next to neighboring towns and cities.
Zombies Present in Local High Schools: Due to the high number of Carleton University students who live in the Glebe neighbourhood, Glebe students have been quarantined in their classrooms to decrease the chance of Overwijkitis spreading to the rest of Glebe. Students in math classes may be at a higher risk, since the virus has been extremely active amongst math teachers at Carleton U. Classes that should be extremely cautious are Ms. Bernstein's, Mr. Overwijk's (in particular), Mr. Phillip’s as well as Mr. Needham's classes.
Initially there were 3 students with the Overwijkitis virus. The virus was first discovered at Glebe only on day 4 of the infection. Create a graph, table and equation to model the situation. Assume the day of infection is DAY 0. What patterns did you see when filling in the tables and writing equations? Do Zombie Attacks appear to be linear or exponential? Why?
State all of the following characteristics: X Intercepts (a.k.a.Roots, Zeros), Y Intercept, Domain, Range, End Behaviour Maximum / Minimum Point(s), Intervals of increase, Intervals of decrease, Intervals of concave up, Intervals of concave down, Inflection Point(s), Asymptotes
How many students were infected with the virus when it was first discovered at Glebe?
If there are 170 Advanced Functions students, how many days until they are all infected?
Figure out when all of GCI (1475 students) is infected.
One Overwijkitis infected student had the idea of switching the axes of the graph drawn. Draw the new graph.
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I'm headed to Europe at the end of the month and have an old travel converter from 1996 that I'd like to bring... does anyone know if this would still work? Have things changed in the world of converting technology?
It should work just fine. Just remember many things today are dual voltage and just require the plug adapter and not the power converter. Just check the device.
I usually bring an extension cord so can plug several things in at once - kindle, cell phone, net book, etc.
The simply answer is that it will work just as well today as it did in 96 but a better question is do you need it? And if you need it, is it the proper size? So tell what you intend to use it with.
In 2000 I looked at digital cameras, and the one that was recommended to me, Kodak, only charged on 115V, so I would have needed a converter. In those days, converters on the market, at least what I could find, were transformers, and except for very low wattage, were very heavy.
Everything has changed in today's world of converting technology. Converters for higher wattage work electronically and are not so heavy, but the wave form they produce is not good for small electronic devices (cell phones, laptops, cameras), but today, most of these devices are so-called "dual voltage" (100V-240V) and can operate on most electrical services.
Lastly, a lot of converters have only European 2 pin input or US 2 blade input and need an Europlug adapter. First, the 2 pin Europlug is only approved for 2½ amps (about 575 watts), so you'll be violating European safety codes by using it. Secondly, if the converter is not grounded, the receptacle for the American plug will not be polarized, which most US appliances like hair dryers and curling irons relay on for safety per UL.
So the answer is, if it is undamaged it will probably work as well as it would have in 1996, but it wasn't really safe then, and it won't be any safer today.
Thanks all. I plan on brining my iPhone5 and charging that. Does that change things?
The iphone should be dual voltage and not require a converter.
Your iphone6 should be fine with just a plug adapter since the charger is designed to accept any voltage in the range of 120 - 250volts. Small point - technically it is not dual voltage. It will accept anything in the range. However, don't bring a hair dryer.
Most cell phone chargers today bear the CE mark (European equivalent of UL) and are double insulated (square in a square symbol) and are fine for use in Europe with just a Europlug.
If the only device you'll be charging in Europe is an iPhone you do NOT need a Voltage Converter, as iPhone chargers are designed for operation from 100-240 VAC. You will of course need an appropriate Plug Adapter.
There are two main principles of voltage conversion used, and it's important to match the conversion method with the appliances that will be connected. Unpleasant consequences (sometimes involving smoke or sparks) can result if incompatible products are connected together. For solid-state chargers, ONLY a Transformer type of Voltage Converter should be used.
Throw the Voltage Converter back in a drawer, as you won't need it.
A plug adapter from 20 years ago may be awkward since many receptacles now want a three-prong grounded plug.
Helpful information. Thanks all.
"A plug adapter from 20 years ago may be awkward since many receptacles now want a three-prong grounded plug."
By code, the ungrounded type C receptacle, with just two sockets for round pins, is, no longer acceptable in continental Europe. Note, that is the receptacle. The plug is still legal, but only on appliances drawing less than 2½ amps, mostly lamps or double insulated electronic power supplies.
On the continent, grounded receptacle are mostly the German Schuko, type F, and the French version, type E, Switzerland, type J, and Italy, type L (see). A non-grounding, two pin Europlug adapter will usually fit in any of these receptacles (I have an old two-pin adapter that is too fat on the ends to fit in the pointed Swiss receptacle).
One additional point to mention.....
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Tinnitus describes a ringing in the ears that frequently accompanies hearing loss. Based on the stats from the Hearing Health Foundation, an estimated 48 million people in the US and nearly 477 million worldwide experience these symptoms, specifically as they age. While preliminary tinnitus hardly ever shows a serious condition, it can be very tough to live with as it advances and ends up being more serious. doctor who treats tinnitus
There could be lots of possible causes of tinnitus. It could vary from direct exposure to loud noises, age, hereditary factors, or perhaps particular constraints in one’s diet plan. Unfortunately, as soon as tinnitus sets in, it is really challenging to eliminate the ringing noise. There are some medical treatments for it, but due to its limited success at totally bring back good hearing, individuals now want to alternative natural options to provide relief and even prevent it from taking place completely.
In the myriad of offered services, customers can get very baffled regarding which are good alternatives to require to address their tinnitus challenges. We intend to evaluate the available options and sort out the finest tinnitus relief supplements for 2021. We also detail how we assess and made our choice at the end of this post. Be sure to read till the end if you want to know how we did our comparison. doctor who treats tinnitus
Recent research study suggests that hearing ringing sound in ears is merely a sign. That’s why, even wearing ear plugs do not stop the constant ringing. Instead, the origin of tinnitus is swelling taking place in the brain.
Silencil includes a blend of 28 thoroughly mixed plant extracts and vitamins. These active ingredients are specially chosen to lower swelling in the brain and to motivate brain repair work and recovery. The description video lay it out in an easy 5-step method to recovering from Tinnitus as a simple explanation of how Silencil works. doctor who treats tinnitus
We do not have a complete list of all the 28 herbal components. We listed the popular ones listed below. In addition, they do have research study backing on their efficiency in boosting brain health. The discussed active ingredients are:
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- Vitamin B1, B2 and B6
- More various active ingredient compared to the other two suggestions in this post, which may mean more variety of brain boosting nutrients in it.
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Who is it for?
Chronic inflammation is something that impacts an individual’s entire health and not only the brain. It might also be affecting your brain if you observe other symptoms of swelling in your body. As such, you might wish to give Silencil a try to assist you to prevent or eliminate you of Tinnitus.
Tried and tested by 197,357 individuals, Quietum Plus is a practical herbal extract formula which is created to assist individuals to relief Tinnitus, a continuous ringing in their ears. In its exclusive mix, it includes 12 plant extracts which is backed by research to be able to have therapeutic effect in managing and improving Tinnitus. doctor who treats tinnitus
What are the 12 natural components in there? Here they are:
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- The picked 12 plant extracts in the formula are backed by research study to assist in managing and improving Tinnitus.
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- Required consistent use of Quietum Plus for a minimum of 90 days to be able to get finest outcomes.
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Synapse XT is a 100% natural method that address the origin of Tinnitus which is thought to be in the brain. With its mix of 8 Powerful Herbal Ingredients that work in synergy, it possibly can deliver on health benefits such as much better communication in between brain cells, support your memory and brain health for clearer thinking and hearing.
So, what are the 8 Powerful Ingredients utilized? They are Hibiscus, Hawthorn Berry, Garlic and Specific B-Vitamins to reverse the years of brain deterioration, and Green Tea Extract to increase critical neural connections, Juniper Berries to clear your brain of toxins and Vitamin C to shield your brain against diseases. doctor who treats tinnitus
These active ingredients are then combined in a particular ratio and in a particular order for best outcomes. The manufacturing facility at which Synapse XT is made is FDA approved and GMP licensed.
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Who is it for?
I ‘d say certainly offer Synapse XT a shot if you have attempted the above two recommendation and yet is still looking for another option. Because different ingredients could work in a different way for various people, that’s why.
What was our selection criteria for the 3 Best Tinnitus Relief Supplements?
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‘Bitterbrush’ – a documentary on two cowgirls riding the range in Idaho
By Eleanor Ringel Cater
Tom Robbins had the right idea. Even cowgirls get the blues in the understated yet oddly mesmerizing documentary – “Bitterbrush.”
However, they also laugh a lot, tickle a puppy’s tummy, tame a wild filly, and gaze upon some of the most magnificent scenery the American West has to offer.
Hollyn and Colie are pals who’ve been riding the range together for five or six years (neither is sure which). These twentysomethings make their living rounding up cattle. It’s seasonal work, roughly late spring to early fall. It’s isolating as well. For about four months they have only each other, though Hollyn’s fiancée, Elijah, drops by occasionally to see her and help out.
Filmmaker Emelie Mahdavian catches up with them during a stint in the Idaho mountains. Their new temporary home is a dusty rustic cabin with a chair, a hat rack and running water. “Living high on the hog,” they joke.
Slowly we get to know them. One carries the ashes of her favorite dog (they have about seven helping them out) in a flour tin. The other remembers how the sadness of her mother’s days on life support were somewhat leavened by the fact that, as she sat by her hospital bed, “I got to memorize her hands.”
The work is constant. Aside from rounding up cattle, they mend barbed-wire fences, help a sick cow, saddle-break the aforementioned filly (she’s a palomino, so they name her Marilyn, after Marilyn Monroe), etc. Being exhausted – “mentally, physically, metaphysically” – is part of the job.
And about midway through, something happens, the sort of life-changing something that would be the entire plot of a different kind of movie. But here, it’s just another part of life, dealt with in the same matter-of-fact manner they handle everything else.
Overwhelming almost everything is the film’s backdrop – the sheer immensity of the magnificent landscape, the breathtaking beauty of the star-spangled sky. No wonder these cowgirls love what they do; no matter how hard things get; they’re living in the middle of a John Ford movie.
Yet Mahdavian isn’t after poetry here. Her picture is as spare and basic as Hollyn and Colie’ s work. It probably helps to like animals or documentaries or both. Still, there is beauty here. And integrity. And a lulling sense of the natural order of things.
Except, in this case, the natural order of things includes cell phones. These two are making a living, not pretending to be cowgirls on a dude ranch.
Jean-Luc Godard, in his usual preening manner, once criticized American movies for never showing people at work. “Bitterbrush” proves him wrong. And it does so in a surprisingly memorable way.
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Hazel had a deep interest in local history. She was instrumental in moving the Old Post Office to its present site in Lakeside Park to found Oakville's first museum on land deeded to the Town of Oakville by Hazel and Juliet. Hazel was also a founding member of the Oakville Historical Society. She is probably best known locally for her written history of the Town, Oakville and the Sixteen: the History of an Ontario Port, published in 1953. Her other books include The Mark of Honour, Frontier Spies, and British West Florida and the Illinois Country.
Oakville and the Sixteen
The following is text written by Gordon Sinclair in relation to Hazel Matthews.
Dear Mrs. Matthews;
The story about yourself in relation to “Oakville and the Sixteen” will be spoken, by me, at 5.45 pm next Wednesday, the 9th at CFRB so I hope you can find time to listen.
It’s not a really good piece, and is not a review because this is not a book review program. Today in getting my script in shape I started to read and was quite surprised, before I’d stopped, to have covered 88 pages. That’s a fair slice for the opening nibble and is proof that I found the work exciting. Not just interesting but exciting.
Then as I started putting words down Mother, who is 81 and thus acquainted with some of the old days became interested and she’s now well into the book. So you have two appreciative Sinclairs.
Personality Story #484
Wed. Dec. 9, 1953
Mrs. Hazel Chisholm Matthews.
And now it’s personality time.
Again it’s the time of day when Gordon Sinclair looks over the people in the news, selects an interesting subject, and tells a story or so about him…..or her.
And our personality of this afternoon is Mrs. Hazel Chisholm Matthews, author of Oakville and the Sixteen one of the best historical records of the century.
Back in 1837 the present Town of Oakville was established on the banks of 16 Mile Creek by William Chisholm and the town has continued to expand from then till now.
This fall William Chisholm’s great granddaughter, Mrs. Hazel Chisholm Matthews has completed…and the University of Toronto Press has published…a closely indexed 520 pages about Oakville and its people.
Along the way, since getting interested in Oakville and its history, Mrs. Matthews has helped set up a museum in Oakville’s original customs house.
She also has other Trafalgar Township addresses, one with her sister Dr. Juliet Chisholm who is both artist and doctor, and one on a family farm to the North of the town.
Mrs. Matthews spends some parts of each year in New York City where she was educated but much of the writing of Oakville and the Sixteen was done in that old customs house and the research…years of it…was done by Mrs. Matthews herself.
In asking for information from which to write this sketch I didn’t get much about her personal life but I did get an interesting view on the mature woman’s outlook and I’d like to read it….listen:
“What I find most interesting is that I attained the age of 50-odd before discovering what fun people can have. Too many home-makers feel that once their children are grown up life loses much of its interest. This is just plain nonsense. Most older people, men and women, fail to realize what they miss by not doing something which interests them, not as a so-called “hobby”, but as real work for no monetary return. The more difficult it seems the more absorbing this work becomes.
“Books, magazine articles and radio programs about amateurs in almost any line seem popular, yet few bestir themselves to find the same enjoyment.
“My experience has been that historical exploration led to physical exertion which at my age I had thought impossible. Now I will tackle anything. In a world where there are so many things to see, learn, and tell about, there is little reason for either loneliness or unhappiness.”
This I think, will give you a pretty good glimpse at the character of Hazel Matthews who says, in a preface to her comprehensive history that she has the persistence of a termite.
She was born in Oakville 56 years ago, educated in New York City, and studied, as a girl and a young woman, subjects which she disliked.
That means she did NOT study history.
Once she did dip into that habit-forming subject Mrs. Matthews never turned back and it’s almost a certainty that she knows more about Oakville than anyone else who ever lived.
Her elder son, a Varsity graduate in engineering, was with the RCAF during the war while a younger son also flew during the campaign in the South Pacific; with one was with the United States Marines.
Each of these two boys has two daughters.
Mrs. Matthews herself has one daughter, an Oakville portrait photographer under the name of Nancy Hart. Some of her photographs and some of Dr. Chisholm’s drawings help illustrate Oakville and the Sixteen.
One of the odd places in which Mrs. Matthews go both information for her book and display for her museum was in the creek bed….16 Mile Creek.
Day after day she waded the stream in all seasons but spring, when the water was too high, looking for old tools or stones or discarded scraps that might link her with the past.
She’s also a regular at auction sales in Trafalgar Township and Halton County. Auctioneers have come to know that the most useless looking bits of apparent junk are what Mrs. Matthews likes to buy and then put away in the Oakville museum.
Around the house Mrs. Matthews has had a variety of pets running from snakes to fishes to cats. She has five Siamese cats now but has even had a pet skunk.
She is absent-minded and can get so absorbed in letters and papers of the period 1800 to 1840 that she can forget where she is and even forget about eating or sleeping.
One way the absent-mindedness shows up is in Mrs. Matthews’ habit of sometimes calling a person by the name of his great grandfather.
Her book, clearly enough, was not written for profit. It’s not the sort of book that will sell in the popular class, but even if it were the years of research that went into it would never be paid for it dollars.
But as a genuine work of local history and research Oakville and the Sixteen is beyond price and it’s good to see that at the same time as Toronto Varsity brought it out here Oxford University was publishing in Britain.
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed by the United States Congress on October 12, 1998, after months of tense debates over its provisions. President Clinton signed the Act into law two weeks later, on October 28th.
The Act is intended to implement the treaties negotiated at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva conference in December 1996, but it also includes other measures dealing with related issues.
The bill was initially supported by the software and entertainment companies, but scientists, librarians, and academics opposed it, as was the case with the ‘No Electronic Theft’ Act (1997).
Some Basic Principles
It is now illegal to get beyond anti-piracy protections integrated into most commercial software.
The manufacturing, marketing, or distribution of code-cracking equipment that are used to illegally copy software is prohibited.
However, in order to undertake encryption research, analyse product compatibility, and test computer security systems, it is necessary to crack copyright protection mechanisms.
Under certain conditions, nonprofit libraries, archives, and educational institutions are excluded from anti-circumvention regulations.
In general, protects Internet service providers from liability for copyright infringement simply by sending data over the Internet.
Service providers, on the other hand, are expected to delete information from users’ websites that appears to be infringing on copyright.
Limits the liability of nonprofit higher education institutions for copyright infringement by faculty or graduate students when they serve as online service providers and in specific conditions.
Several Years Later
Several years after its passage, the DMCA remains a contentious law with far-reaching implications, supporting copyright holders’ efforts to regulate access to and downstream use of their property. The notion of “fair use” has never been in jeopardy as much as it is right now. There have been several high-profile court decisions involving challenges to DMCA provisions, and new legislation is being considered to restore the balance that some say has been skewed by the statute. The American Library Association has written “friends of the court” briefs in some of the legal issues (such as Universal v. Remeirdes, a.k.a. “the DVD case”) and closely monitors Congressional activity that affect libraries’ ability to serve their communities.
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March 4, 2019
CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO ZIMBABWE
On March 6, 2003, by Executive Order 13288, the President declared a national emergency and blocked the property of certain persons, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes or institutions. These actions and policies had contributed to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe, to politically motivated violence and intimidation in that country, and to political and economic instability in the southern African region.
On November 22, 2005, the President issued Executive Order 13391 to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 by ordering the blocking of the property of additional persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.
On July 25, 2008, the President issued Executive Order 13469, which expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 and authorized the blocking of the property of additional persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.
The actions and policies of these persons continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, the national emergency declared on March 6, 2003, and the measures adopted on that date, on November 22, 2005, and on July 25, 2008, to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond March 6, 2019. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
DONALD J. TRUMP
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By Bob Weaber, Ph.D., Professor and Cow-calf Extension Specialist, Kansas State University
The process of analyzing individual performance records and converting them to meaningful predictors of an animal’s genetic merit is a process that has undoubtedly been debated in countless pickup trucks, sale arenas, coffee shops, kitchen tables and most certainly many professors’ offices. In many ways, the genetic evaluation of beef cattle is very complex. However, the basic premise used to compare animals is very simple. The basis on which an animal is evaluated is how it (and/or their progeny and grand-progeny) performed against its contemporaries. In other words, how did the animal perform within its contemporary group?
We know that not all the differences in an animal’s performance are related to its genetics. Part of the difference is due to environmental effects. The result of the expression of an animal’s genetics in an environment is an animal’s phenotype. Every performance measure cattle producers take of an animal is a measurement of the animal’s phenotype. For example, we know, and adjust for the fact that the weaning weights of calves born to 2-year-old dams are lighter than the weights recorded for calves born to 5- or 6-year-old dams. An individual calf’s weaning weight is the result of the calf’s genetics for pre-weaning growth and the environment in which the calf was raised. This environment includes the herd, year and season it was born, the amount of milk provided by the calf’s dam, which was influenced by the amount of grass she ate, the age of the dam, the calf’s sex, and other effects that would also be experienced by the calf’s contemporaries.
EPDs were designed to predict an animal’s genetic value after environmental effects have been removed. Since EPD are calculated on the basis of comparisons, it makes sense that we must make fair comparisons. In a sense, we want to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. When animals are appropriately grouped with contemporaries in terms of similar management and environment, then differences in performance are likely due to differences in genetics. Thus, proper contemporary grouping is critical for EPD to be accurate.
The contemporary group helps animal geneticists separate genetic differences from environmental effects so that animals are compared on a level playing field. A common technical definition of a contemporary group is “a group of the same breed (not required in multi-breed systems such as the IGS multi-breed system), born within a specified age range, raised at the same location or in the same herd, of the same sex and managed alike from birth until time of measurement.” More simply put, a contemporary group is a group of animals that have had an equal opportunity to perform.
Many breed registries help breeders to define correct contemporary groups according to the breed percentage (not required in multi-breed systems), sex, calving period and herd, but producers must carefully group animals according to other management and environmental factors like health and nutrition. Even so, individual breeders are ultimately responsible for the accurate contemporary grouping of their animals. It is likely that only you know the management history of your herd. When completing performance data entry forms, consideration should always be given to the management and nutrition of the calves and their dams, and then they should be grouped accordingly.
In theory, contemporary grouping is easy, but the application of contemporary grouping in real life can present many challenging decisions. A common error in building contemporary groups is breeders not assigning enough groupings to accommodate calves that have received unequal treatment. Just as damaging, some breeders create too many contemporary groups. Assignments should be as simple as possible while still accounting for major differences in management. A useful method to aid in contemporary grouping is to assign distinct contemporary group codes to animals that are exceptions to regular management practices. For example, calves that received preferential treatment (cattle being fitted for a show, for example) should be placed within their own contemporary group.
It is important to note that contemporary groups never increase in size after the calving season is over. A contemporary group may, however, decrease in size. Often, as calves get older the contemporary group will decrease in size due to culling, injury, sickness, death or assignment to sub-groups that reflect different management treatments. Contemporary groups cannot be recombined once animals have been defined to be members of separate groups.
Reporting complete data is an important part of a contemporary grouping that deserves special attention. In order to make EPD as accurate as possible, it is critical that complete and accurate performance data be submitted on every calf born in your herd. Incomplete or inaccurate data reduces the reliability of each animal’s EPD. The preciseness of an animal’s EPD, particularly animals that have no progeny, depends greatly on an animal’s own performance record.
It is important to report all the calves born on your farm or ranch and their respective weights. Granted reporting all data takes more effort, but the benefits far outweigh the costs. Sending performance data to many breed registries on “computes” or non-registered animals is often at a reduced or no charge. If you do not report all the data, the overall performance records of your operation will not be as accurate as they could be. Every calf should be weighed at birth. No exceptions! Yes, especially weigh the DEAD ones. It is important that both the sire and dam of a dead calf get the credit they deserve. Reporting only the good calves does not identify the poor-producing parents. Not only will reporting each calf aid the accurate calculation of EPD, it will also keep the dam’s production record current. Often breeders will try to economize by only sending in data and registering a portion of their calf crop, usually the top end.
The practice of only reporting part of the contemporary group data is seriously flawed! It is as important, maybe more important, to identify the bottom end of the genetics and cull them, as it is to identify the top end. Additionally, by not reporting the bottom end of the calves, the top end doesn’t get the credit they truly deserve.
For example, a producer has 10 bull calves. The average weaning weight for all 10 calves is 625 pounds (see Table 1). Note that calf #1 is 101 lb. below the group average and has a ratio of 84, while the best calf (#10) is 117 lb. above the average with a ratio of 119. It is important to remember that National Cattle Evaluation programs focus on the deviations (or difference) of calf weights from the average of the contemporary group rather than each calf’s adjusted weight.
Now let’s consider the calves if the producer reports only the heavy half of the calves. The new group average is 675 lb. The average weight, ratios, and deviations are shown in the right portion of the table. With the new grouping, the heaviest calf (#10) has a ratio of only 110 and a deviation of +67 lb. He still looks good, but not as growthy as he really is. More importantly, notice calf #6. When all the calves are considered, he was slightly above the average (ratio = 102, deviation = +14). If only the heavy calves are reported, he now looks inferior with a deviation of -36 and a ratio of 95. When data is only submitted on the best or poorest calves, they are being treated unfairly. And, the resulting culling and selection decisions the producer makes will be flawed.
Each calf you raise depends on you for a fair comparison relative to its mates. Many producers think it is advantageous to only report the best calves, when in fact it penalizes them. Only you know how your calves have been managed. Make sure your contemporary groupings reflect this knowledge. Common contemporary group criteria used in genetic evaluations are listed below. Some helpful tips for breeders to use in creating contemporary groups are included in the section ‘A Guide to Contemporary Grouping.’
A Guide to Contemporary Grouping
- Use group codes on registration application or performance data submission forms to assign calves to contemporary groups.
- Use the group codes to put a sick or injured calf into a single animal contemporary group if the illness or injury affected the calf’s performance.
- Take weaning weights and measurements on all calves on the same day (when a majority of the calves are between 160 and 250 days of age), including as many calves in each contemporary group as legitimately possible.
- Weigh all animals in a group before separating them, especially before separating show calves or bulls for a test station.
- If the age spread of calves in greater than 90 days, choose two or more weigh dates, using as few as possible.
- Have progeny from two or more sires in each contemporary group.
- When calves are within an appropriate age range for each trait, record yearling weight, height, scrotal circumference, pelvic area, and ultrasound measurements on the same day.
- If carcass data are to be collected on cull bulls, heifers or steers, report weaning weights on all animals. These data allow selection of replacement females and bulls to be accounted for in genetic evaluations and help prevent bias in the predictions.
- Do not weigh each calf individually as it reaches 205 days of age but rather weigh each calf in a group individually when calves average approximately 205 days of age.
- Do not include calves receiving special treatment (show, bull test, sale) in the same group with those that did not receive an equal opportunity to perform.
- Written by Bob Weaber, Ph.D.
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Cover Your Coughs And Sneezes
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Put your used tissues in a waste bin with a liner and lid.
- Clean your hands right away after you cough or sneeze.
- If youre washing your hands with soap and water, wet your hands and apply soap. Rub your hands together well for at least 20 seconds, then rinse. Dry your hands with a paper towel and use that same towel to turn off the faucet. If you dont have paper towels, its OK to use clean cloth towels. Replace them when theyre wet.
- If youre using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, be sure to cover all parts of your hands with it. Rub your hands together until theyre dry.
How To Prevent A Cold Flu And Covid
For most people, having a cold, the flu or COVID doesnt require a trip to the emergency room. Most symptoms resolve after some much-needed rest, but that isnt always the case.
To decrease your chances of catching a cold, flu or COVID, remember to wash your hands frequently. Washing with warm, soapy water for at least 20 seconds can help get rid of the germs on your skin.
Avoid contact with people who are sick. And if you become sick, stay home to keep from infecting others.Remember, the best way to prevent the flu and COVID-19 is by getting vaccinated, says
Dr. Martin. The symptoms may be similar and having both viruses at one is possible. This is something youll want to avoid, especially older adults, young children and those with certain medical conditions.
If You Are More Likely To Get Very Sick From Covid
Your healthcare provider might recommend that you receive investigational treatment.
- For people at high risk of disease progression. The FDA has issued EUAs for a number of investigational monoclonal antibodies that can attach to parts of the virus. These antibodies could help the immune system recognize and respond more effectively to the virus. The NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelinesexternal icon provide information about these drugs and describe what is known about their effectiveness. If used, they should be administered as soon as possible after diagnosis and within 10 days of symptom onset. Your healthcare provider will decide whether these investigational treatments are appropriate to treat your illness.
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Don’t Throw Away Your Masks
Experts don’t yet know exactly how much safer the COVID-19 booster makes us against the virus. One study found that people who got a single-shot Johnson& Johnson COVID vaccine experienced a 35-fold increase in antibodies after receiving a Pfizer booster shot, and a 76-fold increase in antibodies after a Moderna booster. And the initial two-dose regimen remains extremely effective in preventing COVID-related hospitalizations and death.
But getting a booster doesn’t mean it’s time to throw away your masks and act like the pandemic is over. “Getting an additional dose of a vaccine does not make you Superman,”Celine Gounder, MD, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health, told HuffPost this week.
It’s important to continue with best practices, like mask-wearing and social distancing in public, and washing your hands regularly. “It’s still the same precautions, but the fact is that you have just improved your immunity,”Charlotte Baker, DrPH, MPH, assistant professor of epidemiology at Virginia Tech, told NPR last week. “So if you’re somebody who is not really high risk, you can feel a little bit better about your chances of contracting COVID.”
What About Other People In My Home
Part of caring for yourself at home may involve preventing the spread of disease to others. This can seem pretty difficult, especially if you live with other people or have a caretaker. However, some simple steps to take include:
· Stay in a separate room
· Ensure good airflow in shared spaces
· Cough/sneeze into the elbow
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How To Stay Safe Before And After Vaccination
Follow Fauci’s fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you livewear a face mask that fits snugly and is double layered, don’t travel, social distance, avoid large crowds, don’t go indoors with people you’re not sheltering with , practice good hand hygiene, get vaccinated when it becomes available to you, and to protect your life and the lives of others, don’t visit any of these 35 Places You’re Most Likely to Catch COVID.
Eat This, Not That!
Is It Allergies The Flu Or Coronavirus How To Recognize Symptoms
With COVID-19 appearing in Houston at the end of flu season and the beginning of allergy season, how do we know the difference?
RodeoHouston has been cancelled for the first time in 80 years Austins SXSW has fallen victim to the virus, too. Conferences, schools and businesses across the country are deciding if or when to shutter to prevent the opportunity for community spread.
For these reasons, it is perfectly understandable that you may have concerns over symptoms you may be feeling, like a tickle in your throat or a persistent cough. However, with coronavirus testing kits in short supply across the country, it is not advised that every person be tested if they feel ill, and certainly health care providers cannot be testing individuals multiple times per person.
If youre experiencing a runny nose and itchy eyes, chances are youve just got a cold. These tend to be localized to the head, giving you some nasal backup, and maybe even a nasal headache if the pressure builds up. This could be alleviated with over the counter antihistamines like diphenhydramine or loratadine , and you are probably not seriously ill. Unless you have a preexisting condition like asthma, you will likely not experience shortness of breath due to allergies.
The flu and coronavirus affect entire systems of your body. While you may not experience a runny nose like you might with allergies, youll likely have a sore throat, a cough, shortness of breath, joint and muscle ache, and a fever.
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What Are The Symptoms Of Allergies
Allergy symptoms range in severity from person to person, can be stronger at certain times of the year and aren’t contagious. “For example, someone who suffers from allergies may have their worst symptoms during the summer months, when it’s hotter and plants and grasses pollinate,” says Dr. Martin. They can also be caused by normal things in your environment think pollen, dust, pet dander and mold.
Allergy symptoms can include:
- Nausea or vomiting
Like most respiratory viruses, COVID-19 can be spread person-to-person through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
Thats why its important to take the recommended measures to protect yourself and others by getting vaccinated, washing your hands, avoiding touching your face and staying home if youre sick, says Dr. Martin.
If you have respiratory symptoms, screen yourself. Based on your results, you can schedule a COVID test . If you test positive, call your doctor.
Its important to identify positive cases of COVID, so that we can take proactive measures in protecting our communities, says Dr. Martin.
Things To Try If You’re Feeling Breathless
If you’re feeling breathless, it can help to keep your room cool.
Try turning the heating down or opening a window. Do not use a fan as it may spread the virus.
You could also try:
- breathing slowly in through your nose and out through your mouth, with your lips together like you’re gently blowing out a candle
- sitting upright in a chair
- relaxing your shoulders, so you’re not hunched
- leaning forward slightly support yourself by putting your hands on your knees or on something stable like a chair
Try not to panic if you’re feeling breathless. This can make it worse.
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How To Avoid Spreading Covid
COVID-19 can easily be passed from one person to another. It can spread in droplets in the air or left on surfaces after a sick person coughs or sneezes. It can also spread if someone touches a sick person and then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.
Follow the instructions in this section to help keep COVID-19 from spreading to people in your home and community.
- If you have COVID-19 symptoms and are waiting for your test results, follow these instructions until:
- You get your test results and theyre negative. If you had a rapid test and get a negative result, get a PCR test to check your results. Keep following these instructions until you get a negative PCR test result.
How Can I Access These Treatments
Depending on your medical history, risks, and symptoms, your health care provider can help you determine whether a therapy that is FDA-approved, or available under an EUA, is right for you.
The following websites contain information regarding access to monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19:
You can also contact your state health department for treatment information.
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Treatment In The Hospital
- Slowing the virus. Antiviral medications reduce the ability of the virus to multiply and spread through the body.
- Reducing an overactive immune response. In patients with severe COVID-19, the bodys immune system may overreact to the threat of the virus, worsening the disease. This can cause damage to the bodys organs and tissues. Some treatments can help reduce this overactive immune response.
- Treating complications. COVID-19 can damage the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, and gastrointestinal organs. It also can cause other complications. Depending on the complications, additional treatments might be used for severely ill hospitalized patients, such as blood thinners to prevent or treat blood clots.
- Supporting the bodys immune function. Plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19called convalescent plasmacan contain antibodies to the virus. This could help the immune system recognize and respond more effectively to the virus, but currently the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelinesexternal icon find there is not enough evidence to recommend these treatments.
Understanding Colds Flu And Covid And Your Treatment Options
Maureen Caro, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner
This winter is gearing up and along with it are the cold and flu! Everyone is very concerned about COVID-19, and there is considerable overlap with symptoms from cold, flu and COVID-19. Of course, the best information comes directly from your provider! At Health Partnership Clinic, we encourage our patients to utilize the patient portal and email any questions or concerns.
A general rule of thumb for differentiating cold and flu is that you can work through a cold, but you cant work through flu. Of course, I am not recommending anyone go to work with any kind of symptoms this year! However, people coming in pajamas and uncombed hair and falling asleep in my clinic are likely suffering from flu versus a simple cold. Flu tends to cause a fever , muscle aches, severe headache, fatigue. Cough, congestion, and sometimes diarrhea is also common. Colds tend to be more of an annoyance, a little cough, post-nasal drainage, feeling tired.
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Drugs Approved Or Authorized For Use
- The Food and Drug Administration has approved one drug, remdesivir , to treat COVID-19.
- The FDA can also issue emergency use authorizationsexternal icon to allow healthcare providers to use products that are not yet approved, or that are approved for other uses, to treat patients with COVID-19 if certain legal requirements are met.
- The National Institutes of Health has developed and regularly updates Treatment Guidelinesexternal icon to help guide healthcare providers caring for patients with COVID-19, including when clinicians might consider using one of the products under an EUA.
How To Treat Symptoms
- For a fever over 101, alternate Tylenol and Advil so youre taking a dose of one or the other every 3 hours.
- Use both cough suppressants and expectorants .
- Drink a ton, hydrate hydrate.
- Rest lots.
Most healthy people will have mild symptoms. A study of more than 72,000 patients by the Centers for Disease Control in China showed 80 percent of the cases there were relatively mild.
But infections can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death, according to the World Health Organization. Older people with underlying health conditions are most at risk.
The CDC believes symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 14 days after being exposed.
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Side Effects Can Be More Severe After Second Dose
Adults age 55 and older typically have fewer side effects than younger people, but you may still feel under the weather for a few days after your vaccine.
“It means your body is doing what you asked it to do, said Buddy Creech, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program in Nashville, Tennessee.
Expect more side effects after the second dose. In addition to a sore arm, common symptoms include tiredness, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, chills and fever, according to the CDC.
Dean Blumberg, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at UC Davis Health, pointed out two other post-vaccine symptoms doctors have been seeing: a rash or itchiness around the injection site that arises five to 10 days after vaccination sometimes referred to as COVID arm and swollen lymph nodes under your arm.
Youll Have A Severe Reaction
This can include shortness of breath, tightness in the chest, coughing up thick mucus, loss of appetite, chills, sweating and new loss of taste and smell. A severe reaction to COVID-19 can land you in intensive care and can lead to pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and, at worst, death. According to the World Health Organization, about 1 in 5 people will have a severe reaction. Older adults and those with chronic or underlying conditions are more likely to have this type of reaction.
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If I Cant Shorten The Disease What Can I Do
What you can focus on, is controlling your symptoms and keeping yourself comfortable. This could be as simple as staying in bed, getting lots of rest, and eating healthy food. If you have body aches or a fever, you may want to take a fever reducer/pain reliever, such as Tylenol .
If you are congested or have a cough, there are several over-the-counter medications you can try. Sudafed, DayQuil, NyQuil, Robitussin, and Mucinex are just a few of the brands that contain different active ingredients. When you are choosing what to take, be sure to read the labels carefully. If you have chest congestion and want to cough out the phlegm, a cough expectorant may be best for you. Alternatively, if you are trying to sleep through the night and dont want to be bothered by coughing, a cough suppressant may be best. Try to match up your most bothersome symptoms with the medication descriptions on the box. Also, make sure you are not doubling up on any active ingredients. For example, DayQuil already has acetaminophen in it, so you would not want to pair it with Tylenol.
How To Manage Your Symptoms
Its helpful to keep a daily journal of your symptoms and the medications you use to manage them. This will help you see how your symptoms are changing over time. This can be useful if you need to contact or visit your healthcare provider.
If you use a device for sleep apnea or a home nebulizer, talk with your healthcare provider before using it. These devices may spread the virus that causes COVID-19.
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What Is The Recommended Pain Reliever For Covid
Early on in the pandemic, the World Health Organization recommended using acetaminophen instead of ibuprofen for managing symptoms of COVID-19 or side effects from vaccination. However, researchers have found little to no evidence that one type of pain reliever is riskier than another.
While recommendations related to the management of COVID-19 are rapidly changing, most doctors still prefer acetaminophen over ibuprofen. If you cannot take acetaminophen or experience no relief from symptoms despite taking the maximum dose , you can take ibuprofen instead.
Keep Track Of Your Temperature
- Measure your temperature 2 times every day: once in the morning and once in the evening.
- If youre getting chemotherapy and have a new fever of 100.4 °F or higher, call your healthcare provider.
- If you have a fever of 102 °F or higher that lasts for 24 hours and doesnt get better after you take acetaminophen, call your healthcare provider.
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Looking at today’s Zhihu hot list, “How do you think of Wuhan University Love Psychology Students Climbing the window? Do college students need to learn how to love?” I thought I was a blind love brain when I was in college, and I didn’t know what love was When I was in love, I started to fall in love.
The chapter of the thoughts about love is basically a little bit about the chapter of love. Remember to talk about understanding and responsibility when talking about marriage. These two points are deeply impressed, and the others have forgotten. The husband and wife need to understand each other and tolerate each other; the two formed a small family and they must take the corresponding responsibility.
Zhihu has also done a survey. Do you think university needs a class of love? There are 18 hours before the survey, and 78%of netizens have chosen to choose. I also think it is necessary. Through the study in the classroom, we can give us a mature view of love. When I was in love in college, my friends around me said the most to me “the woman IQ in love is negative”. I don’t know how many confused things I did at the time, weaving a scarf for my boyfriend, and a small thousand thousand thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands Paper crane and peach heart, embroidered cross stitch pillow.
My husband and I met when I was in college. From love to marriage to the seven years of seven years, I have occasionally noisy, and I have never mentioned the words of divorce. What I think of is more responsible, with parents and children. Parents have made a good example for us, and we also have to make a good example for the children.
At present, my relatives and friends are divorced very little. I think this is a good phenomenon. The low divorce rate indicates that their happiness is higher, and it is also conducive to children’s growth. Sometimes I am also thinking that if we all have a mature view of love, we are all obeying some rules of marriage. Is the divorce rate decrease? | <urn:uuid:5a23b2e0-a86a-4499-84c7-c84f41fa39b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bridgelamps.com/bridge-lamps/4164.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.976841 | 454 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Some business ventures will go on to become gigantic like Wal-Mart, while others will stay small and local. The vast majority; however, fade into oblivion. Businesses fail at an alarming rate, and online businesses are particularly susceptible to failure.Read the following article to learn some great Website marketing tips.
Short-term promotions should help better the placement ranking of your site’s PageRank. You can buy a page ranking if you as an affiliate. This is the same as a storefront offering a loss leader item to spin an income increase at a later date.
If you belong to message boards, put the link in your signature, which will make it appear with every post you make. This is an easy way to passively promote your website whenever you talk to anyone on the Internet.
Internet promotion serves the ultimate purpose of problem recognition and trying to fix it. When you start your day, be aware of the problems you are solving.
Create a list of FAQs about your site. For each issue or question, offer a thoughtful answer, and mention any products you sell which can offer a solution whenever possible.
This will help them to remember you. This will allow you highlight your products and services.
Always utilize signatures when you email others, even if the email is only personal. This is your business card in the cyber-world, and you should distribute it at every opportunity.When you send emails, it can lead to more traffic and higher revenue.
It is always important to keep tabs on the techniques employed by your competitors. Check out other websites in your field to discover what they can improve upon. If you notice major gaps in the offerings on other sites, incorporate it into your website! That will make you a strong competitor!
Make sure you utilize social media as a part of your Online marketing strategy. Twitter is a great as it lets you have casual dialogue with your customers.
If you employ a good enough plan for affiliate marketing, then you probably have some idea which of your products and services are the most profitable ones. Use these to market your other related products and generate more sales. These products get a boost from your main sellers, and won’t require you to advertise as much as you do for unrelated products.
It is most important to gain your customers trust you and maintain their trust.
You can anticipate more business if you have more payment options available. While just having credit card payment might seem like enough, you should let people pay with their checking account or payment systems such as Paypal.
You need to make sure to clearly advertise this without being excessive. You needn’t have to give a large amount to see results.
Make use of good quality graphics that showcase what you are selling on your products have an image. “Before and after” pictures are very effective marketing tools.
If you are not a great writer, there are places that will put it out there to people on other niche sites. This is a very easy way to boost your business profile.
Give stuff away for free from your website. One of the most effective free offers is an interesting and relevant article. For example, if you run a construction business, your customers may find home improvement tips valuable. This tells customers that you are concerned about their needs and motivated to assist them in finding solutions to their concerns.
Use tech tools to help measure how many visitors become customers to help improve your online marketing strategy.
Offer incentives for referrals. You can transform one sale into five by offering customers a free sample or a refund for referring three friends to the site. People just love receiving free stuff and using this as a referral tool will help generate a lot of extra business for you.
Try using the word ‘guarantee’ when deploying an website marketing page. Your customers want to be assured that they will not going to lose money by purchasing from you. There are a number of different guarantees that you can make on everything from quality to durability to satisfaction. The guarantee you select should be dependent on the product that is for sale.
For successful internet promotion, try mentioning guarantees in your promotional content. The word “guaranteed” implies that you stand behind your products, but the mere offer of a guarantee seem to allay many concerns. A guarantee helps them feel confident about buying from you than they would from a competitor that doesn’t offer the guarantee.
Adjectives work very well in order to pique the world of your audience. Come up with your product.
You can create an excellent hook for your market site by being innovative and offering propriety merchandise that is not available on any other website.
While any interested person can simply Google your business’s name, make it simpler by having an address they can easily remember and type into their search bars.
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is certainly a main open public health problem credited to improved incidence, past due diagnosis and limited treatment options. in HCC sufferers. TGF- reliant cytostasis can be blunted in another group of cell lines (HLE, HLF, FLC-4) revealing high quantities of TGF- and Smad7 and displaying considerably decreased Smad3 Atrasentan hydrochloride signaling. Of those, HLF and HLE display past due TGF- signatures, which can be linked with poor treatment in HCC sufferers. RNAi with Smad3 blunted cytostatic results in PLC/PRF/5, HuH7 and Hep3B. HCC-M and HCC-T represent a third group of cell lines missing cytostatic TGF- signaling despite solid and extended Smad3 phosphorylation and low Smad7 and TGF- phrase. Inhibitory linker phosphorylation, as in HCC-T, may disrupt C-terminally phosphorylated Smad3 function. In overview, we assort 10 HCC cell lines in at least two groupings with respect to Atrasentan hydrochloride TGF- awareness. Cell lines reactive to the TGF- cytostatic plan, which recapitulate early stage of liver organ carcinogenesis display transcriptional Smad3 activity. Those with annoyed TGF-/Smad3 signaling are insensitive to TGF- reliant cytostasis and might stand for past due stage of the disease. Control of this change continues to be complicated and cell range particular. These features may end up being relevant to discriminate stage reliant TGF- features for the style of effective TGF- described therapy in liver organ cancers. Launch HCC can be the third most fatal cancers in the global globe with significantly increasing occurrence [1,2]. Small treatment choices and postponed medical diagnosis triggered by past due taking place symptoms high light the immediate want to define the heterogeneity of oncogenic systems in HCC and to recognize early disease biomarkers and brand-new drugable goals. TGF-, a multifunctional cytokine, indicators via canonical Smad non-canonical and type Smad 3rd party paths controlling the phrase of more than 500 genetics. Canonically, TGF- binds to TGF- receptors type II (TRII) which eventually get and activate the type I receptors TRI/ALK-5 by phosphorylation, leading to downstream C-terminal phosphorylation of receptor (Ur)-Smad protein. Phospho-activated R-Smads after that complicated common mediator (Company)-Smad4, translocate into the work and nucleus seeing that Atrasentan hydrochloride transcription elements in conjunction with co-activators and co-repressors . TGF- can be prominent in broken liver organ and represents a crucial regulator of hepatic stellate cell account activation and liver organ fibrogenesis upon many types of liver organ harm. It shows cytostatic results causing apoptosis in specific hepatocytes and interfering with hepatocyte growth during liver organ regeneration. Persistent liver organ damage progresses towards cirrhosis and HCC frequently. During this procedure, TGF- can be believed to change from cytostatic to oncogenic actions on hepatocytes getting a plasticity aspect that induce epithelial mesenchymal changeover (EMT), receptor and cytokine production, invasion and migration. Cancerous cells can circumvent the cytostatic results of TGF- either by mutational inactivation of primary path elements, as TGF- receptors or Smad aminoacids, or by interfering with cytostatic divisions of TGF- signaling (for examine, 5). Such mutations had Rabbit polyclonal to AK3L1 been referred to in intestines, pancreatic, ovarian, gastric, and throat and mind carcinomas , whereas they are uncommon in HCC . This signifies that changed hepatocytes primarily retain an unchanged TGF- signaling equipment with changes of the tumor-suppressive hand just. Although lacking a general system of this procedure in HCC, many research have got supplied ideas. Hence, a hyperlink between removal of the adaptor proteins ELF, phrase of its inhibitor PRAJA and faulty Smad3 signaling leading to significant liver organ disease was reported [7,8]. Further, constitutively turned on Ras was proven to work as starting stage switching TGF- results from cytostatic to tumorigenic . TGF- inhibitory Smad7 was discovered upregulated in a limited amount of researched sufferers Atrasentan hydrochloride [10,11]. After that JNK mediated linker phosphorylation of Smad3 inactivated cytostatic Smad3 signaling and caused hepatocarciongenesis . Although such dual function of TGF- provides lengthy been potential and observed ways for a tumorigenic change had been referred to, solid mechanistic indicators to sub classify individual cohorts are not really obtainable still. This can be, nevertheless, of maximum relevance since TGF- described therapy can be presently envisaged and scientific studies are underway for past due stage HCC sufferers. In purchase to broaden the understanding, we completely researched TGF- cytostatic and signaling results in 10 HCC cell lines, for the first time under comparable conditions strictly. Our outcomes high light the heterogeneity of HCC cell lines in response to TGF-, but allowed id and portrayal of two general groupings – one getting reactive the various other getting insensitive to TGF–induced cytostatic plan (i.age. inhibition of growth and/or induction of cell loss of life). While the previous portrayed low endogenous TGF- and Smad7 amounts and demonstrated significant Smad3 transcriptional activity, the last mentioned displayed the opposing features. 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Background The chemical surface structure of the porous titanium grafts has not been found to study in the literature on the similarity of chemical surfaces of different commercial dental implants. Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the chemical composition and surface energies of white (WPTG) and black porous titanium granules (PTG) by energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDX) analysis to compare with different commercial dental implant surface. Materials and Methods The surface chemical compositions of six commercially available dental implants with different surface structures, PTG and WPTG were examined by EDX analysis. Surface analyzes were performed on the apical, middle, and coronal parts of each implant and on the top, flank, and valley regions on each side. Surface analyzes of dental implants were evaluated at x200 and x2000 magnifications. The EDX evaluation of PTG grafts were evaluated at x250, x2000, x5000, and x50 000 magnifications. Results PTG grafts showed elements of Na (8.88 +/- 9.98%), Cl (2.44 +/- 1.96%), and Al (0.99 +/- 0.37%) as well as Ti (90.06 +/- 11.34%) molecule at x5000 magnification. In WPTG, Ti (%34.55 +/- 6.41%) and O (%65.44 +/- 6.42%) molecules were detected. Conclusions It has been found that PTG surface was not made of pure titanium, it has different chemical molecules at larger magnifications. Cell culture and experimental studies are needed to establish a relationship between the different commercial implants and the surface structure of the titanium granules. | <urn:uuid:c9455382-f5de-40e2-a47a-ec526642b7ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.ksbu.edu.tr/yayin/995ab796-0c3f-4cf9-aec5-9af55eaf5977/the-chemical-surface-evaluation-of-black-and-white-porous-titanium-granules-and-different-commercial-dental-implants-with-energy-dispersive-x-ray-spectroscopy-analysis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.940388 | 338 | 1.578125 | 2 |
When deploying hose lines it is important that the line is kink free as you move into the fire area. I am still hearing that the “low pressure nozzles make the line kink more and that it is difficult to ensure that the lines stay kink free as crews move in.” We are now running 4 people on almost all engines. This is more than enough people to run a line. We have been using low pressure nozzles for almost 12 years. Line management is a key skill that all crews (engine, truck, rescue squad and EMS units) must take ownership of. Many companies across the county use low pressure fog and smooth bore nozzles, and still manage to put fires out.
There are many benefits to running low pressure nozzles.
No moving parts inside the nozzle
Easy to maintain
Lower pump pressures
Reduced nozzle reaction
Just to name a few. In the past we used variable fog nozzles that needed to be pumped at 100psi. After many tests we found that many springs in these nozzles were stuck in place. We found that many nozzles were only delivering 80gpm. The nozzle pattern looked great, but the reduced gpm put us in a dangerous position. Once we switched to low pressure nozzles crews noticed more nozzle reaction and felt that the new nozzles were more difficult to use, but once crews were shown that they were now getting the correct gpm there was an understanding.
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Wrong or false beliefs, adopted as popular opinion by a nation’s population, often destroy that nation and culture, Lyndon LaRouche warned. It is not the evil leaders, but false ways of thinking about what it means to be human, that sets a population on the path to its own destruction.
A towering American patriot who understood this was James Fenimore Cooper. In the years between the 1804 assassination of Alexander Hamilton by the traitor Aaron Burr and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Cooper was one of two great Americans who best carried the torch for the ideas and principles of the founding of our Republic, the other being John Quincy Adams.
Over the next two weeks, Pat Ruckert will look at Cooper (1789-1851) and his fight to save the American Republic and to uplift our citizens with classical culture. Cooper, like so many truly great, and often under-appreciated Americans, came under attack by the enemies of this nation, who saw in Cooper a man who had “constituted himself the literary antagonist of the monarchy, aristocracy, and feudality of all Europe, and particularly England.”
Tonight, we will look at Cooper’s life, as a political organizer and an artist.
Next week, we will look at several of Cooper’s brilliant novels which powerfully address the difference between the oligarchies of Europe and the revolutionary principles of our Republic.
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Alternative Strategien für den Pflanzenschutz
Schwinges, Patrick; Conrath, Uwe (Thesis advisor); Schirawski, Jan (Thesis advisor)
Dissertation / PhD Thesis
Dissertation, RWTH Aachen University, 2019
According to estimates the worldwide population will exceed the mark of nine billion people until the year 2050. Tightly connected to this development, the demand for major crops for food and feed rises. To satisfy those demands is challenging, especially as the food production is threatened by various pathogens. Since over 150 years, pesticides are an effective tool to protect plants from pathogens. However, the extensive application of fungicides not only promotes the emergence of fungal strains with reduced sensitivity to active ingredients, but also raises ecological and health concerns. Thus, a worldwide reduction of pesticide use is demanded and therefore, alternative strategies for plant protection are desired. In this study, an approach was pursued, which is based on the usage of leaf binding peptides coupled with an antimicrobial protein. By application of the amphiphilic peptides “liquid chromatography peak I” (LCI) and thanatin (THA), the coupled eGFP protein was immobilized on soybean leaves. This binding withstood not only simulated but also natural rainfall. Furthermore, the bifunctional fusion protein DS01-THA serves as protective agent and reduces Asian soybean rust (SBR) severity on inoculated soybean plants by 30 % in a rainfast manner. Another strategy that might contribute to a more sustainable agriculture is based on the identification of naturally occurring antifungal compounds that may complement current disease management strategies which widely rely on the use of chemical fungicides. Therefore, in the second part of this study the focus was to identify antifungal molecules that are secreted to plant leaf surface. To disclose such plant protectants a variety of plant species were inoculated to identify plants on whose leaf surface the germination of P. pachyrhizi was impaired. Only sunflower plants were found to suppress the germination of fungal spores. This effect is likely associated with the presence of the fluorescent coumarins, scopoletin and ayapin. By investigating the biochemical function of enzymes from the phenylpropanoid pathway genes were identified, which are likely involved in coumarin biosynthesis in sunflower plants. Heterologous expression of candidate genes in E. coli facilitated the production of the coumarins esculetin, scopoletin, isoscopoletin and scoparone in precursor feeding experiments. When co-expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana HaF6’H1 and HaOMT3 not only enabled biosynthesis of antifungal scopoletin but also scoparone, which is not native to this plant. Because foliar applied scoparone provided protection of soybean from Asian soybean rust, engineering of this metabolic pathway in soybean may provide a possibility to reduce susceptibility to this devastating disease and decrease fungicide usage.In addition, whole transcriptome analysis of sunflower leaves identified CYP genes which expression correlated with the accumulation of ayapin upon treatment with CuCl2. This data may serve as a basis to elucidate the so far unknown biosynthetic route of this antifungal compound and enable engineering of crops that are capable of synthesizing ayapin. Generating plants that are capable of producing blends of different coumarins may hinder adaptation of pathogens to these antifungal substances and may provide more durable protection. | <urn:uuid:943f4f22-29c6-4b3c-a635-4e0e589c6b26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bio3.rwth-aachen.de/cms/BIO3/Forschung/Publikationen/~hlcr/Details/?file=814691&lidx=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.920897 | 751 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Concerning Ceremonies why some be abolished and some retained 4 The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read
The Order how the rest of the holy Scripture is appointed to be read
A Table of Proper Lessons and Psalms
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On The Way To Coherent VCSEL Arrays
Replacing an oxide aperture with one based on the tunnel-junction allows a shift to a planar design that facilitates the fabrication of coherent arrays BY ANTOINE PISSIS AND EVGENY ZIBIK FROM II-VI
DEPLOYED IN DATA CENTRES, computers, TVs and smartphones, the VCSEL is undoubtedly a great commercial success. Although it doesn't deliver the optical power and efficiency of its edge-emitting cousin, it has the upper hand in many other regards, combining lower fabrication costs with a far, far smaller footprint and surface emission, which simplifiers testing and integration into more complex systems.
One of the key differences between the VCSEL and the edge-emitter is the approach that's taken to confine the light and ensure optical feedback, a pre-requisite for stimulated emission. In a VCSEL, the mirrors above and below the cavity are formed from a stack of alternating layers of III-Vs that combine to create a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). These mirrors have a very high reflectivity - it is typically around 99 percent - but they do not confine light in the lateral plane. So, to accomplish this feat in a GaAs-based VCSEL, which may emit at 850 nm or 940 nm depending on whether its has GaAs or InGaAs quantum wells at its heart, an aluminium-rich layer is added and subsequently oxidised to form an electrically insulating layer. This oxidised layer, equipped with a lower refractive index, features a non-oxidised region in the middle that acts as an aperture, confining current and guiding light. With this architecture, VCSELs are able to combine efficiency with a low threshold current, attributes that ensure commercial success.
Despite all the engineering effort devoted to its development, the oxide aperture has its limitations. One of them arises from a variation in the oxidation depth across the wafer, which makes it challenging to guarantee good reproducibility of apertures when diameters are smaller than 4 µm. A second limitation arises from having to oxidise a layer close to the active region. Due to this restriction, there is a need to etch the semiconductor through the top mirror and form a mesa around the aperture of the VCSEL, as this exposes the aluminium-rich layers to the oxidation process. A significant consequence of this pair of limitations is that it restricts the defining of an aperture of arbitrary shape, and in turn constrains the cavity geometry of the VCSEL.
Any loss of freedom when designing the cavity geometry is far from ideal. Why? Because the cavity geometry is the key design factor for selecting and promoting the resonating optical modes of the laser - and these modes govern its optical properties. Thus, if it were possible to find a way to control mode formation within the optical cavity of the VCSEL, this could extend the capabilities of this class of laser, and possibly enable it to serve new applications.
Turning to tunnel junctions
At II-VI in Zurich we have tackled the issues associated with an oxide aperture by introducing a tunnel-junction lithographic aperture. This breakthrough allows us to switch to a planar design that avoids the limitations of a mesa-based geometry. Using this architecture, we can produce VCSEL arrays, such as that with 19 elements shown in Figure 1 (due to the planar design, the 19-element array structure is not visible). Thanks to this planar design we enjoy greater flexibility, resolution, and reproducibility of all VCSEL cavities, because they are defined by lithography rather than the standard oxidation process. What's more, our planar structure improves heat dissipation and guarantees excellent device reliability.
When manufacturers produce 940 nm VCSELs with an oxide aperture, fabrication tends to involve two steps (see Figure 2 (a)). The first is to take an n-doped GaAs substrate, load it into an MOCVD or MBE reactor, and deposit the VCSEL heterostructure that consists of an n-doped bottom DBR, a low-doped laser cavity that includes the active region, and a p-doped top DBR. After this step, the VCSEL emitter is still to be defined. To accomplish this - the second step in VCSEL fabrication - the epitaxial structure must be etched and oxidised to form the aperture of this emitter. Once this is done, the VCSEL emitter is passivated to protect it from further oxidation, and metal contacts are deposited.
We adopt a markedly different process flow when forming our tunnel-junction lithographic aperture VCSELs (an overview of this approach is provided in Figure 2 (b)). Rather than using a single growth process, we form our epitaxial structure in two sub-growth steps, separated by an aperture processing step. Fabrication begins by growing the bottom structure, consisting of an n-type bottom DBR and a partial laser cavity containing the active region. Terminating this bottom structure are highly doped p++ and n++ layers, which form a tunnel junction. Applying a direct bias to the laser leads to a reverse bias of the tunnel junction, allowing electrons and holes to tunnel through it.
With our VCSELs, optical lithography defines the area where current flows. Our etching step removes much of the tunnel-junction layers, leaving just the area that is to become the VCSEL aperture. The processed wafer that results from this localised etching is sent back to the growth reactor, where a top growth completes the epitaxial structure, adding an n-type DBR and an n-contact layer.
During the second growth, we fully define our VCSEL cavity in the vertical and lateral directions. Two of the consequences of the shallow post, formed by etching that creates a tunnel junction that is only present in the aperture area, are a local increase in the cavity optical thickness and a cavity resonance shift. This shift, equivalent to an effective refractive step, confines light laterally and restricts the VCSEL cavity in the plane of the wafer.
Another merit of our design is that by growing an n-type region over a p-type region outside the aperture, where the tunnel junction is etched away, we create an interface that acts as a p-n diode biased in the reverse direction. This provides a local blocking of current flow, thereby ensuring that current can only flow through the area containing the tunnel junction. Thanks to this design, current is laterally confined by the lithographically-defined aperture.
To complete our VCSEL fabrication process, we protect the surface with a passivation layer, prior to depositing ohmic metal contacts. Note that our process does not require any oxidation, unlike that for producing VCSELs with oxide apertures.
For VCSELs with an oxide aperture, it is the mesa lithography and the oxidation depth that define the aperture's shape and dimension. With this process, the aperture is defined by the mesa border shape that is transferred toward the mesa centre via oxidation. With our VCSELs it is a very different state of affairs: the dimensions of the aperture are determined by the tunnel-junction's area, which is defined by lithography. This enhances the control of the aperture shape.
We have used our approach to successfully fabricated VCSELs that have a 2 µm-diameter emitter. Our process provides good reproducibility over the entire wafer. In comparison, even with careful monitoring of the mesa oxidation depth, it is challenging to realise such reproducibility with an oxide aperture. Variations arise from local non-uniformity of the aluminium content in the oxidation layer - this influences the oxidation rate.
Our mesa-free, fully planar structure offers the possibility of fabricating dense arrays of VCSEL emitters, such as the array of 19 emitters shown in Figure 1 (in that array, VCSELs have 2 µm-diameter apertures and are arranged on a hexagonal lattice with a 5 µm pitch). One of the attributes of this array is that its footprint is smaller than that of the single mesa of an oxide aperture VCSEL emitter.
Figure 1. Optical microscopy image of a 19-emitter VCSEL array defined by a tunnel-junction lithographic aperture. A near-field image is presented in the inset
Measurements of this compact array reveal that it produces more than 25 mW of optical power at 25 °C, and has a power-conversion efficiency in excess of 30 percent at drive currents up to 30 mA. Near-field images show uniform current injection to all emitters within the array, thanks to the excellent conductivity of the n-doped top DBR and the tunnel junction. One consequence of such a small aperture size is that each emitter operates in single mode, resulting in a single spectral peak for the array.
Figure 2. A comparison of the fabrication process flow for a standard oxide aperture and a tunnel-junction lithographic aperture VCSEL array. For the same aperture size and number of emitters, the tunnel-junction lithographic aperture process allows an arrangement that is more compact.
Figure 3. Electro-optical characteristics in CW operation, for a 19-emitter VCSEL array defined by a tunnel-junction lithographic aperture
An additional advantage of our mesa-free structure is that it opens up the possibility to exchange light between neighbouring emitters. For this to happen, the emitters need to be close enough to each other to enable evanescent coupling. When this occurs, the phase of light that's emitted is locked, creating a coherent array, with all emitters acting as a single laser.
With our lithographic aperture technology, we can control both the emitter diameter and the spacing between emitters to an accuracy that is less than 100 nm, and is limited only by the lithography tool resolution. In comparison, in standard VCSEL arrays with oxide apertures, the presence of the mesa trenches prevents coherence, which holds the key to enhanced characteristics and high brightness.
One of the characteristics for coherent arrays is interference in the far field. We have observed this with our arrays formed from VCSELs with the tunnel-junction lithographic aperture (see Figure 4). By modifying the spacing between our emitters, we have adjusted their coupling strength. When we bring them closer together, this leads to more pronounced interference patterns. Using a 5 µm pitch between the emitters, which are 2 µm in diameter, we obtain a far-field pattern that is similar to that from a single-emitter. When we reduce this pitch to 3.3 µm or 2.5 µm phase-locking results, with the source operating as a coherent emitter array with distinct narrow far-field lobes. By controlling the optical phase shift between emitters, we alter the far-field pattern on demand. As one would expect, increasing the number of emitters increases the output power: operating at room temperature, we have realised more than 10 mW of optical power from a coherent array of 7 emitters; and in excess of 17 mW from a coherent array with 19 emitters. | <urn:uuid:63da2a4e-7eaf-4823-a52f-7af3aef25688> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/114568/On_The_Way_To_Coherent_VCSEL_Arrays/feature | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.915019 | 2,354 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Toulmin's argumentation model is an effective tool in the description of one step of an argument. However, there is a need to consider more than this model to portray a comprehensive argumentation process. The purpose of the study is to investigate types of global argumentation structures that emerged while prospective middle school mathematics teachers were working on conjecture-generation activities related to geometry. The participants were junior prospective middle school mathematics teachers at a state university in Ankara, Turkey. The eight global argumentation structures that emerged via conjecture-generation activities of two groups were classified as mono structures and hybrid structures. According to the findings, three types of mono structures, which are the reservoir-structure, the funneling-structure, and the branching-structure, were seen among four possible cases. Three types of hybrid structures were observed among eleven possible combinations of the mono structures, namely, the reservoir-funneling-structure, the line-branching-structure, and the line-reservoir-branching-structure. | <urn:uuid:3293ad95-374b-4c1b-a3ae-90a2f10d4342> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.hacettepe.edu.tr/publication/details/f3d989e1-31a1-4fd6-abef-e849fdae80e5/types-of-global-argumentation-structures-in-conjecture-generation-activities-regarding-geometry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952473 | 210 | 2.609375 | 3 |
As the nation’s oldest private military college, Norwich University is deeply intertwined with American history, where alumni from the school have helped protect the country in almost every war since the institution was established in 1819. Since its inception, a number of prestigious individuals have been a part of Norwich University and stand out for the numerous sacrifices they made in protecting the United States of America, including the five individuals noted below.
Captain Alden Partridge
Born on February 12, 1785, in Norwich, Vermont, Captain Alden Partridge is the founder of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (now known as Norwich University). Partridge started his academic career at Dartmouth College in 1802 and transferred during his senior year to the United States Military Academy at West Point. For fifteen years Captain Partridge served and taught at West Point, earning a number of accolades and ranks such as professor, Captain and eventually University Superintendent. Eventually, Captain Partridge left West Point to establish a military institution that was innovative, enlightening and featured a curriculum balanced on both military and civilian studies. Under these principles, Captain Partridge founded the academy that would soon become Norwich University. Within three years of its founding, the institution had almost 500 students from 21 of the 24 states, marking the early beginning of an institution that has now grown to approximately 3,500 students studying on campus and online.
Lieutenant Colonel William D. Munson
Lieutenant Colonel William D. Munson was born on February 7, 1833, in Colchester, Vermont and is best known for leading the 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Gettysburg. After graduating from Norwich University, Munson worked as an engineer before organizing and training the 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment for the Civil War. While leading the Regiment, Munson was a part of an administrative team featuring the future vice-president of Norwich University, Francis Randall. Together, Randall and Munson commanded the 13th Vermont Infantry Regiment in overcoming the Confederate Army on Cemetery Hill, which proved to be a major turning point in the Civil War.
Lieutenant General Edward H. Brooks
On April 25, 1893, Lieutenant General Edward H. Brooks was born in Concord, New Hampshire. Lieutenant General Brooks is well-known for leading the legendary 2nd Armored Division, a troop so powerful in combat that it was known colloquially as “Hell on Wheels”, during the invasion of Normandy. Lieutenant General Brooks attended Norwich University where he studied civil engineering. After graduation, Lieutenant General Brooks joined the Army where he fought in three major wars: World War I, World War II and the Korean War. While serving, Lieutenant General Brooks received a number of awards, the most prestigious of which include the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal.
Harold Denny Campbell
Born on March 30, 1895, in Middlesex, Vermont, Harold Denny Campbell is best known for his supreme flying skills, as well as his participation in the historic battle of Belleau Wood. After graduating from Norwich University in 1917, Campbell joined the Marine Corps and fought in World War I. After the war, Campbell became an acclaimed aviator, receiving a number of accolades and awards, one of which includes the prestigious Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy, which is presented to mark a year of excellent flying by an aviator.
Major General Jonas Mansfield Platt
Major General Jonas Mansfield Platt was born on September 21, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York. Major General Platt is well known for fighting in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, as well as a number of other battles during World War II and the Korean War. Upon graduating from Norwich University, Major General Platt joined the Marine Corps where he served for 30 years. During this time, he served on the USS Washington during World War II, as well as fought in Vietnam in 1965, where he was designated Chief of Staff of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force. While serving, Major General Platt received a number of awards, including the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star and the Purple Heart. After retiring in 1970, Platt continued serving our country within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Captain Partridge, Lieutenant Colonel Munson, Lieutenant General Brooks, Harold Campbell and Major General Platt all played an integral role in American history, helping to protect America and its citizens. For their excellence and bravery, Norwich University is proud to have these individuals continue to inspire current and future Norwich graduates.
Norwich University is an important part of American history. Established in 1819, Norwich is a nationally recognized institution of higher education, the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), and the first private military college in the United States.
With Norwich University’s online Master of Arts in History, you can enhance your awareness of differing historical viewpoints while developing the skills needed to refine your research, writing, analysis and presentation skills. The program offers two tracks – American History and World History, allowing you to tailor your studies to your interests and goals.
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I disagreed with him on many things. I thought him an outright fool on more than one issue and occasion.
(Yes, yes, I know how literary “icons” and the modern intelligentsia and the types of men who believe politics to be the answer to all existence – human or otherwise – like to cluster around each other to breathlessly and mutually glorify their own supposed genius. But I am far more skeptical of “modern genius” in all its many fictional forms. As a matter of fact I rarely see any real evidence of the supposed “modern genius” of self-styled “modern geniuses,” and their numberless cohorts, ever, or at all.)
But narrowing his views down to the strictly literary disciplines I did often agree with him on these scores: there is a new illiteracy (not in the inability to read and write, but in the poverty of having ever read or written anything of any real value at all), and letter writing is dead and with it much of higher human writing.
Otherwise the Grass is dead too. I doubt it will ever green again.
Author of The Tin Drum and figure of enduring controversy
Monday 13 April 2015 05.38 EDT
Last modified on Monday 13 April 2015 09.40 EDT
The writer Günter Grass, who broke the silences of the past for a generation of Germans, has died in hospital in Lübeck at the age of 87.
German president Joachim Gauck led the tributes, offering his condolences to the writer’s widow Ute Grass. “Günter Grass moved, enthralled, and made the people of our country think with his literature and his art,” he said in a statement. “His literary work won him recognition early across the world, as witnessed not least by his Nobel prize.”
“His novels, short stories, and his poetry reflect the great hopes and fallacies, the fears and desires of whole generations,” the statement continued.
Tributes began to appear within minutes of the announcement of Grass’ death on Twitter by his publisher, Steidl.
In the UK, Salman Rushdie was one of the first authors to respond, tweeting:
The Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk had warm personal memories: “Grass learned a lot from Rabelais and Celine and was influential in development of ‘magic realism’ and Marquez. He taught us to base the story on the inventiveness of the writer no matter how cruel, harsh and political the story is,” he said.
He added: “In April 2010 when there was a mushroom cloud over Europe he was in Istanbul and stayed more than he planned. We went to restaurants and drank and drank and talked and talked … A generous, curious and a very warm friend who also wanted to be a painter at first!”
A life in writing: Günter Grass
Grass found success in every artistic form he explored – from poetry to drama and from sculpture to graphic art – but it wasn’t until publication of his first novel, The Tin Drum, in 1959 that he found the international reputation which brought him the Nobel prize for literature 40 years later. A speechwriter for the German chancellor Willy Brandt, Grass was never afraid to use the platform his fame afforded, campaigning for peace and the environment and speaking out against German reunification, which he compared to Hitler’s “annexation” of Austria.
Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig – now Gdansk – in 1927, “almost late enough”, as he said, to avoid involvement with the Nazi regime. Conscripted into the army in 1944 at the age of 16, he served as a tank gunner in the Waffen SS, bringing accusations of betrayal, hypocrisy and opportunism when he wrote about it in his 2006 autobiography, Peeling the Onion.
The writer was surprised by the strength of the reaction, arguing that he thought at the time that the SS was merely “an elite unit”, that he had spoken openly about his wartime record in the 1960s, and that he had spent a lifetime “working through” the unquestioning beliefs of his youth in his writing. His war came to an end six months later having “never fired a shot”, when he was wounded in Cottbus and captured in a military hospital by the US army. That he avoided committing war crimes was “not by merit”, he insisted. “If I had been born three or four years earlier I would, surely, have seen myself caught up in those crimes.”
Instead he trained as a stonemason, studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin, and joined Hans Werner Richter’s Group 47 alongside writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Heinrich Böll. After moving to Paris in 1956 he began working on a novel which told the story of Germany in the first half of the 20th century through the life of a boy who refuses to grow.
A sprawling mixture of fantasy, family saga, bildungsroman and political fable, The Tin Drum was attacked by critics, denied the Bremen literature prize by outraged senators, burned in Düsseldorf and became a global bestseller.
Günter Grass is my hero, as a writer and a moral compass
Speaking to the Swedish Academy in 1999, Grass explained that the reaction taught him “that books can cause offence, stir up fury, even hatred, that what is undertaken out of love for one’s country can be taken as soiling one’s nest. From then on I have been controversial.”
A steady stream of provocative interventions in debates around social justice, peace and the environment followed, alongside poetry, drama, drawings and novels. In 1977 Grass tackled sexual politics, hunger and the rise of civilisation with a 500-page version of the Grimm brothers’ fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife. The Rat (1986) explored the apocalpyse, as a man dreams of a talking rat who tells him of the end of the human race, while 1995’s Too Far Afield explored reunification through east German eyes – prompting Germany’s foremost literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, to brand the novel a “complete and utter failure” and to appear on the cover of Der Spiegel ripping a copy in half.
His last novel, 2002’s Crabwalk, dived into the sinking of the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945, while three volumes of memoir – Peeling the Onion, The Box and Grimms’ Words – boldly ventured into troubled waters.
Germany’s political establishment responded immediately to the news of Grass’s death. The head of the German Green party, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, called Grass a “great author, a critical spirit. A contemporary who had the ambition to put himself against the Zeitgeist.”
“Günter Grass was a contentious intellectual – his literary work remains formidable,” tweeted the head of the opposition Free Democratic party, Christian Lindner.
Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best
The foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was “deeply dismayed” at the news of the author’s death, a tweet from his ministry said.
Steinmeier is a member of the Social Democratic party, which Grass had a fraught relationship with – after campaigning for the party in 1960s and 70s, he became a member in 1982, only to leave ten years later in protest at its asylum policies.
“Günter Grass was a contentious intellectual who interfered. We sometimes miss that today,” SPD chairwoman Andrea Nahles said.
While there were plenty of tributes recognising Grass as one of Germany’s most important post-war writers, social media users swiftly revived many of the controversies of his divisive career, bringing up his membership of the SS and his alleged anti-Semitism.
Speaking to the Paris Review in 1991, Grass made no apology for his abiding focus on Germany’s difficult past. “If I had been a Swedish or a Swiss author I might have played around much more, told a few jokes and all that,” he said. “That hasn’t been possible; given my background, I have had no other choice.”
The controversy flared up again following by publication of his 2012 poem What Must be Said, in which he criticised Israeli policy. Published simultaneously in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Italian La Repubblica and Spanish El País, the poem brought an angry response from the Israeli ambassador to Germany, Shimon Stein, who saw in it “a disturbed relationship to his own past, the Jews, and Israel”.
Despite his advanced age, Grass still led an active public life, and made vigorous public appearances in recent weeks. In a typically opinionated interview for state broadcaster WDR, which he gave in February after a live reading from Grimms’ Words, Grass called his last book a “declaration of love to the German language”.
He also talked about how the internet and the loss of the art of letter-writing had led to a “new illiteracy”. “Of course that has consequences,” he said. “It leads to a poverty of language and allows everything to be forgotten that the Grimm brothers created with their glorious work.”
He also remained critical of western policy in the Middle East (“now we see the chaos we make in those countries with our western values”), and talked about how his age had done nothing to soften his political engagement.
“I have children and grandchildren, I ask myself every day: ‘what are we leaving behind for them?’ When I was 17, at the end of the war, everything was in ruins, but our generation, whether for good reason or not, had hope, we wanted to shape the future. That’s very difficult for young people today, because the future is virtually fixed for them.” | <urn:uuid:26b92c23-0025-4f03-9e63-e9ce9ed587a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wyrdwend.wordpress.com/tag/language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.977422 | 2,163 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Ethiopia’s land use over the past few decades has shown a significant change with an increased engagement of different government institutions and the private sector that have been using the country’s land for a myriad of development projects.
Studies have also shown that the land use changes that include fragmentation of agricultural land and its intensification of use have led to degradation of resources and subsequently a reduced productivity which has profound impacts on the livelihoods and food security of people as well as on the national economy.
After analyzing the legal and policy documents related to land use, LAND sponsored studies revealed that they are overlapping, competing, conflicting, incomplete and contradictory and do not in any way make for a comprehensive land use policy that would embrace the priorities of all sectors and guide the efficient use of land in an integrated manner. LAND’s studies underline the need to develop a national land use policy to reverse the negative trends and optimize land use and investments in land and natural resources for now and in the future.
Other land use studies conducted also pointed out the need to have a policy framework which is the foundation for putting the country on the right path to achieve a continued and sustainable social and economic development.
It is against this backdrop that LAND started advocating for an overarching and comprehensive national land utilization policy that provides a framework for a holistic, regulated, and integrated use of land to advance social and economic development of the country.
As part of the efforts to advocate for an overarching land use policy, LAND primarily focused on generating and gathering evidence that shows the trends of land use in the country. Apart from analyzing the legal and policy framework, LAND closely worked and supported renowned research institutions including the Water and Land Resource Center Institute and recognized researchers who have excellent track records in the area of land use policy.
LAND’s efforts to gather evidence finally led to five studies that analyzed landscape transformation and subsequent changes observed on natural resources and socioeconomic development in Ethiopia in the last three decades; review of current Ethiopian policies and laws on land use; international experience on preparing and implementing national land use policies and their impacts on socioeconomic development; and the importance of a sound and robust land use policy.
Based on the evidence, LAND started to create a platform for discussing findings of the studies and the way forward with its key government partner, the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Presentations were made to the Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources and his management team as well as senior officials of other sector ministries and relevant institutions. The Minister realized the seriousness of the problems caused by lack of a comprehensive and integrated national land use policy and made a commitment to move the policy development forward. The Minister and his team were instrumental in putting the land use policy development high on the government’s agenda, as manifested by the Prime Minister’s decision to set up a high-level ministerial committee comprising eight ministers to oversee the development of a national land use policy and its implementation.
The policy development process reached another milestone in June when H.E. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn officially announced his government’s decision to develop a comprehensive national land use policy that provides a framework for a holistic and sustainable use of land to achieve social and economic development at a high-level meeting.
The Prime Minister, who also chaired the meeting, said, “Land use policy is at the heart of all development endeavors that aim to bring about economic transformation. Our success in achieving the transformation depends on the effective use of our land according to its potential.”
Accordingly, he officially ordered the development of a comprehensive and integrated national land use policy immediately and a national land use plan within the coming three years for implementation in the third Growth and Transformation Plan. He also urged all federal and regional government officials to ensure that the country’s land and natural resources are put to their best use until the policy comes into effect and the national land use plan is implemented.
More than 230 participants including ministers, regional presidents, the Prime Minister’s senior advisors and leaders of renowned academic institutions in the country attended the high-level event.
Two committees in charge of the policy development were set up prior to the meeting. The first is a technical committee or taskforce which is composed of all ministries and government agencies that have a mandate on using or regulating the use of land and natural resources. Under the auspices and coordination of MoANR, this taskforce is charged with preparing a draft of the policy by bringing together expertise and perspectives and priorities of all sectors on land use. The second is a high-level ministerial committee comprising eight ministers that will oversee the activities of the technical committee and the formulation of a sound and robust national land use policy and plans for its implementation. Members of the Ministerial committee include the MoANR; Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Ministry of Livestock and Fish Resources; Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity; Ministry of Urban Development and Housing; Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Natural Gas; Ministry of Industry; and Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
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U-M researchers testing ways to make aspen-dominated forests resilient to climate change
PELLSTON—In an aspen-dominated hardwood forest at the northern tip of the state’s Lower Peninsula, University of Michigan scientists are testing ways to make the region’s forests more resilient to climate change.
About 12,000 mature trees—mostly aspen—are being cut on 77 acres at the U-M Biological Station, a 10,000-acre research and teaching facility just south of the Mackinac Bridge, near the town of Pellston.
The idea of the UMBS Adaptive Aspen Management Experiment is to replace some of the century-old aspen with a mix of tree species and age groups that may be better equipped to handle a warming climate, extreme weather events, and stresses such as insect pests.
The harvesting started in March, paused in May for bird-nesting season and student summer research, and will be completed in September. By the time it’s done, about 200 truckloads of logs will have been hauled to a nearby mill for processing into wood siding and trim for homes.
Cutting some of the mature aspen, which are nearing the end of their lifetime, will stimulate the regrowth of new aspen trees and should boost understory species, as well, said U-M ecologist and biogeochemist Luke Nave, who leads the project.
“We’re reaching a point with our climate where we can’t pretend that it’s not changing. To sit by and do nothing, when we have a forest that is vulnerable to climate change, would be irresponsible,” he said.
Nave is standing in front of a tall stack of bigtooth aspen logs ready for transport to the Upper Peninsula mill. Nearby, two large, noisy machines move methodically through the forest, cutting aspen trees into 8-foot, 4-inch logs, then stacking them. Some of the trees are 100 feet tall, with trunks nearly 2 feet in diameter.
Aspen in the Great Lakes region are considered “climate change losers,” according to Nave, and are not expected to fare well as the region’s climate continues to warm in the coming decades. Stands dominated by a single species and containing trees of a uniform age and canopy height may be especially vulnerable.
“I’m not a finance guy, but you can think of forest management in terms of investment strategies. You don’t put all your investments in one place. You try to diversify, because it protects you against risk,” said Nave, an associate research scientist at the Biological Station and in the U-M Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
“So, if you have different tree species arrayed in different age classes across the forest, that’s a diversified investment strategy that increases your capacity to respond to climate warming, drought and severe weather events.”
The U-M aspen management project is a formal demonstration site of the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework, a regional collaboration among scientists, land managers and private landowners to advance climate change adaptation efforts.
A 2014 forest vulnerability assessment by the Framework concluded that suitable habitat for aspen in northern Michigan will sharply decline by the end of this century if little is done to rein in global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
The U-M aspen management project involves a $178,000 timber sale to Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, which operates a mill in the eastern Upper Peninsula town of Newberry that employs 127 people. The mill makes LP® SmartSide® siding and trim, one of Louisiana-Pacific’s best-selling products.
The timber sale is expected to yield 8,600 tons of wood—7,700 tons of aspen plus other hardwoods and some pine, according to Travis Kangas, a Louisiana-Pacific resource manager.
The cutting is being done at a Biological Station site known locally as the Pellston Hill. Three aspen management strategies—resistance, resilience and transition—are being tested by harvesting trees on four units totaling 77 acres:
- The transition treatment aims to rapidly move the forest away from mature-aspen dominance, toward more diverse cover types, including longer-lived species. All mature aspen will be removed from this plot while all other tree species—red oak, sugar maple, red maple, striped maple, yellow birch, paper birch, ironwood, basswood, hemlock, red pine, jack pine, white pine and balsam fir—will be retained.American beech, which is in a severe, disease-driven decline across much of Michigan, is also present at this site. Non-diseased individuals will be retained to study whether they are naturally resistant to their insect and fungal pathogens.
- The resistance treatment will attempt to retain aspen and birch in a location that’s cool, shady and moist with north-facing slopes and a high groundwater table. Those factors could enable trees on this 25-acre unit to resist climate change-driven drought and heat. Nearly all the saleable trees will be cut and removed, with the intent of regenerating a mix of aspen and birch.
- Two resilience treatments seek to maintain aspen stands in the future but to increase diversity of species, age classes and stand structure. Most of the mature aspen will be removed, while most of the understory trees will be retained, including red oak, red maple, non-diseased beeches, and some red and white pines.
The 77-acre harvesting zone is within a 452-acre management area that includes untreated reference areas and several young stands that regenerated after being clear-cut in the early 1970s or early 1980s.
“The forestry community is still very early in the process of learning what it means to adapt to climate change. So, demonstration projects like this will provide really useful information that will help the whole community learn about climate adaptation,” said Stephen Handler, a climate change specialist with the U.S. Forest Service in Houghton, Michigan, and who also works for the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science.
Revenues from the Biological Station timber sale will fund a study of tree-harvesting impacts on groundwater and soil carbon throughout the 452-acre management area. Proceeds from the sale will pay for the installation of dozens of groundwater monitoring wells, as well as analysis of thousands of soil and groundwater samples collected from the wells, Nave said.
The aspen management experiment will also create future research opportunities for students and faculty researchers who spend time at the U-M Biological Station each summer.
Louisiana-Pacific’s Kangas said he inspected the Biological Station’s timber-sale site last year to estimate the amount of usable timber and its market value, a process called cruising. He said he was impressed by the size and health of the aspen trees—mostly bigtooth aspen with some trembling (also known as quaking) aspen.
“This is a high-quality site for aspen,” Kangas said. “I couldn’t believe the size and volume of the trees when I first cruised it. You see aspen like this in Canada, but you just don’t see it in Michigan.”
A few hundred yards away, down a muddy dirt road, a two-man crew—one operating a machine called a processor (also known as a harvester) and the other at the controls of a forwarder—cuts the trees and stacks the logs.
The jaws at the end of the processor’s long arm grasp the base of each tree, cut it, then flip the tree onto the ground horizontally. Limbs are sheared away as the processor pulls the tree trunk past a large chainsaw blade that quickly slices it into logs. Then the forwarder, with giant claws like some oversized arcade game, scoops logs from the ground, stacks them neatly into its bed, and transports the load to the roadside pile where a logging truck will take them to the mill.
Aspen exploit disturbances like this to regenerate a new generation of trees. Where these mature aspen trees are cut, the roots will send up countless new “suckers” to replace them, said Dean Reid, a consulting forester who set up the timber sale for the university and who acted as the liaison with Louisiana-Pacific.
“You can get 15,000 to 20,000 aspen stems of regeneration per acre,” Reid said. “But aspen need direct sunlight, so most of those stems will die if shaded, and the others will compete and crowd each other out.”
The aspen now nearing the end of their lifetime at the Biological Station were established following the epic logging and wildfire disturbances that transformed the forests of the Upper Great Lakes region more than a century ago.
After northern Michigan’s forests were cleared in the late 1800s, a series of wildfires swept through the region and devoured the slash, the woody debris left behind after logging. Most of the Biological Station’s mature aspen date to the period between 1908 and 1919, which is the last time the property was severely burned by post-logging wildfires, Nave said. The U-M Biological Station was established in 1909.
A big part of the research mission for generations of Biological Station researchers and students was to document the forest’s recovery from that cataclysm. Today, through projects like the Adaptive Aspen Management Experiment, researchers there are studying how the forest will cope with a different threat, one whose effects are already being felt: climate change.
The aspen management strategies being tested at the U-M Biological Station were developed through the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework, a project of the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science.
In 2014, the Framework issued a report, which was published by the U.S. Forest Service, titled “Michigan forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis.” The report examined the climate-change vulnerability of forests in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula and eastern Upper Peninsula over the next century.
The study’s authors, which included U-M ecologists Inés Ibáñez and Knute Nadelhoffer, focused on two plausible climate scenarios tied to global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. They examined a high-emissions scenario—which the authors said “may be more realistic based on our current global greenhouse gas emissions trajectory”—and a lower-emissions scenario.
The high-emissions scenario projects an 11.2-degree Fahrenheit summer temperature increase in the assessment area by the end of the 21st century. At the same time, summer precipitation is projected to decline by 3.8 inches under that scenario.
This potential double whammy may result in “a much higher degree of summertime moisture stress” in the forests than indicated by precipitation values alone, according to the report.
Under both the high- and low-emissions scenarios, winters are expected to continue warming faster than other seasons and snowfall totals are projected to decline, with more winter precipitation falling as rain. Intense precipitation events may continue to become more frequent than in the past, according to the report.
“Two of the principal climate vulnerabilities that we’re looking at here at the Biostation are water stress during the summer growing season and the possibility of increased windthrow—entire trees being blown over, roots and all—from ice storms and other intense precipitation events,” Nave said.
“I can tell you anecdotally—from a dozen years of living and working at the Biostation—that there’s been more rain and freezing rain in the winter. And these very tall, mature aspen, which grow to a uniform height and are unable to root deep because of a dense subsoil, are prone to being blown over in strong winds and during ice storms.”
Additional aspen cutting in the 452-acre management area could be considered in the future, pending the results of the current study, Nave said. Future work could also include the planting of seedlings from tree species already present at the Biological Station (red oak, white pine, bigtooth aspen, sugar maple), as well as the introduction of tree species that currently reach their range limits nearby to the south (white oak, northern pin oak, shagbark hickory).
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The fight continues to provide every American, who requires addiction treatment, access to such services. In 2016, many addiction experts were hopeful about the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). And for good reason, the bill was created to provide greater access to addiction treatment services, which experts believe is the best opportunity we have at curbing the American opioid epidemic.
Lawmakers once believed that addiction was something that we could arrest our way out of; that fear of jail or prison would be enough incentive for people to stop abusing drugs. If only it were that easy. We know now that addiction is a debilitating mental health disorder that must be treated, rather than punished. It does not matter how many times you lock an addict up, without something like a program of recovery to replace the behaviors typified by addiction, addicts will more times than not fall back into the cycle upon release—in turn resulting in recidivism.
While CARA received overwhelming bipartisan support, lawmakers disagreed on how to fund the bill. Many believe that the legislation lacks the necessary funding to accomplish its goals. Fortunately, funding may be found packed into another piece of legislation that was approved in House of Representatives this week, known as the 21st Century Cures Act. Packed within the 996-page measure are several programs for improving healthcare in America, including provisions for strengthening existing mental health parity laws and $1 billion in funding for opioid addiction prevention and treatment, USA Today reports. Please take a moment to watch a short video on the subject:
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Much like CARA, the Cures Act received bipartisan support and is a piece of legislation that the current White House Administration supports. There are critics of the Cures Act, but hopefully it will help reign in the opioid epidemic, which claims lives every day of the week. In a statement, the Executive Office of the President wrote:
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Many patients get anxious about the pain during hair transplant surgery. Some patients are indecisive about the operation because of the fear of pain. Hair transplant hurt like any other medical intervention and degree depends on patient’s pain threshold. If a patient has low pain threshold, he/she feels pain stronger. Yet, only a few first injections hurt. In opposite, people with high pain threshold feel almost nothing. Once local anesthesia is done, there is no more pain for a couple hours, skin gets completely numbed.
Is No Pain Hair Transplant Possible?
What type of anesthesia is done in hair transplant? Is no pain hair transplant possible? How proper anesthesia increases comfort during the hair transplant operation? We will try to provide you with detailed answers.
There are three types of anesthesia applied in the hair transplant:
- Local Anesthesia is used in most hair transplant operations. It is applied on donor and recipient areas.
- Sedation is when patient sleeps during the surgery. He/she does not remember any interventions that are made during the operation.
- No Needle Anesthesia presents a modern pump-like applicator, that spreads anesthetic solutions under the skin.
Local anesthesia is used in most cases, patients stay conscious, like during dental treatments. Anesthetic solution is injected under the skin to block sensitivity of the nerves. The skin remains numbed for a couple hours so the surgeons can do hair transplants. There is no commonly known narcosis in hair transplant surgery.
Local anesthesia is applied twise with the FUE:
- The back of the head donor is anesthesized before harvesting the grafts.
- Once grafts are collected, recipients area gets anesthesized as well. The patient goes through the pain two times per session. This pain lasts only first 30-60 seconds.
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This tool helps to reduce the pain in local anesthesia. The purpose of the pump is to increase patients’ comfort during the operation. It rapidly spreads anesthetic solution under the skin without any injections. Although, there is tiny pain similar to insect bites. Local anesthesia injections are applied anyways once the pump blocks nerves, patients feel no pain. We usually use the pump in patient who have low pain threshold. If the threshold is average, we apply local anesthesia injections directly.
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A flexible solution for Class D audio amplifiers
How to efficiently design different number of channels in multiple products with same design
BY JUN HONDA
International Rectifier, El Segundo, CA
Audio systems used in home entertainment are becoming more feature rich as new media and formats demand extended audio features. One example is the AV receiver and home theater system. From a DVD that contains 5.1-channel audio tracks to a Blu-ray Disc that carries 7.1-channel surround sound, newer formats are increasing the number of audio channels.
The Sound Bar system, with two to four channels to assist weak audio performance of thinner flat TVs is another good example. To address the variations in the different number of channel configurations, IR has developed a three-channel Class D amplifier driver, the IRS2053M, and the four-channel IRS2093M to accompany the IRS2092(S) single-channel driver. The 7.1-channel Blu-ray Disc system can be build with two four-channel drivers, while the three-channel Sound Bar system can be built with a three-channel IC. At the same time, consumers are demanding sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing appearance of the equipment.
This article demonstrates how to efficiently design different number of channels in multiple products with same design.
New media; more channels
Before the advent of DVD, users listened to music with a two-channel stereo. The DVD introduced up to six channels with the Dolby Digital audio format for movie playback. The Blu-ray Disc supports up to eight channels. At the same time, more consumers began using computer-based entertainment systems in their living room with its convenient on-demand content streaming services and internet browsing. Preparing for this trend, Intel updated its AC’97 audio codec standard to High Definition (HD) Audio capable of up to eight channels of audio tracks.
New media; higher-definition format
To enhance the user experience, codec formats have been upgraded. The Compact Disc, which came out in 1982, replaced other forms of analog audio media with its two-channel 16-bit resolution at a 44.1-kHz sampling rate. The DVD offered configuration options at various sampling rates up to 192 kHz with 24-bit resolution. Now the Blu-ray Disc offers up to eight channels and higher bit rates. For this reason, audio amplifiers require compact yet higher audio performance.
Energy savings in home entertainment
The issue of energy savings is becoming increasingly important to consumers. For example, the latest Energy Star Standard Version 2.0 Audio/Video Specification sets energy-efficiency goals in audio amplifiers during normal operating conditions in addition to standby power consumption in home entertainment systems.
The requirements accelerate conversion from linear mode amplification classes such as commonly used Class AB to Class D. To meet today’s stringent Energy Star efficiency criteria, the Class D amplifier is the solution of choice.
Typical home entertainment system configurations
The home entertainment system encircles the audience with speakers as shown in Fig. 1 . For a simpler setup, the virtual surround technique is a convenient way to simulate the surround-sound experience with fewer speaker systems. This results in various system configurations.
One example of a virtual surround application is an entry-level home theater system called the Sound Bar. This system uses 2.1 channels that use two full-range speakers and a subwoofer to create a perception that there are more speakers outside the equipment.
Fig. 1. Home entertainment audio system configurations.
Class D amps save space, energy
While newer media formats demand more audio playback channels from a box, consumers demand that the equipment have a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing appearance. Taking advantages of high-efficiency Class D topology simplifies thermal management to cut bulky mechanical components.
The Class D audio amplifier, whose operational concept was invented decades ago, is now an attractive viable solution enabled by the advancement of switching device technologies in addition to small size and comparable audio performance to today’s silicon figure of merit. The highly efficient topology allows designers to integrate multiple channels in a small space as a result of its significantly lower heat dissipation compared to a traditional Class AB amplifier.
Scalable design unifies platform
To accommodate a variation of audio configurations from two to eight channels with 50 to 250 W per channel to address different media or different grades of products, designers benefit from scalable design features. By using such a chipset approach, one unified system design can address many product lines with same technical competence.
For example, International Rectifier offers single-, triple-, and quadruple-channel Class D audio amplifier driver ICs IRS2092(S), IRS2053M, and IRS2093M along with a range of MOSFETs to design different numbers of channels with output power on the same base design.
By unifying three important common features (PWM modulator design, gate drive design, and protections design), these ICs offer a convenient scalability feature. The one-, two-, and three-channel Class D amplifier driver ICs use the same design core so designers stay in the same overall design and hence save design time to market.
To design various products on the scalable design platform, designers change only a small segment of the design (see Fig. 2 ). First, choose a MOSFET to the target output power by determining the amp’s operating voltage. This sets the MOSFET voltage rating. Because power dissipation in MOSFET has a minimum value at a certain balance between on-resistance (RDS(on) ) and gate charge (Qg ). The largest die size is not the answer for all power levels.
Fig. 2. Tailoring design to a given spec in a scalable design platform.
Once the MOSFET is selected, choose a most convenient and cost effective driver IC(s) according to the required number of channels. Select the appropriate dead-time amount according to the gate charge of the MOSFET. Larger MOSFET switches are slower so require longer dead time to ensure both high- and low-side switches are not turned on simultaneously, thereby minimizing dead time while preventing shoot-through.
Next, calculate component values in the overcurrent protection section to set proper thresholds. Finally, adjust closed-loop gain required to target output power by tweaking input resistance. The higher the output power, the higher the voltage gain. When necessary, change one resistor to change PWM frequency with a resistor in the integration network. The new tailored design is ready to go.
Scalable design reduces time to market
By using two IRS2053M three-channel Class D audio drivers (see Fig. 3), a six-channel DVD home theater amplifier can be designed featuring a 100-V 58-mΩ DirectFET MOSFET IRF6665 for 200-Wrms output power per channel for 4-Ω speakers.
Fig. 3. Three-channel Class D amplifier.
PWM loop design, output demodulation filter design, and over-current protection design are common to all IR gate driver ICs.
Staying with the same circuit design, this unified platform approach enables quick derivatives, such as an three channels for a Blu-ray home theater system, or a three channels for a Sound Bar and so on, with minimum design effort and hence fast time to market. ■
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AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Treasury Department is once again looking at a controversial proposal to identify who controls unhosted cryptocurrency wallets, but attendees at Consensus 2022 were promised the measure would allow space for innovations that help fight financial crime.
Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said that storing crypto anonymously outside of regulated venues allowed people to bypass sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) checks.
“We're working to address the unique risks associated with unhosted wallets,” Adeyemo said during an onstage interview Friday, warning that current arrangements allow inadvertent transactions with criminals or sanctioned individuals.
“Unhosted wallets are effectively just addresses on a blockchain,” he added. “It can be difficult to determine who really owns and controls them, creating opportunities to abuse this heightened anonymity.”
Enforcing "know-your-customer" (KYC) identity checks on the owners of private wallets was first proposed by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin back in 2020, but the proposal has been repeatedly postponed under the Biden administration – while parallel moves in the European Union have raised hackles in the industry for crimping innovation and privacy.
"I understand and respect the need for and the desire for privacy, but we need to make sure that we're also in a place where we're not creating avenues where those who want to move funds illicitly are able to use digital assets more than traditional assets," Adeyemo said.
The idea that crypto payments could evade sanctions placed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine has only heightened the stakes, but officials are promising to work with the sector, not against it.
Read more: The Unhosted Crypto Wallet Rule Is Back
“The only way that we can stop illicit actors from operating … [is] in partnership with investors and with innovators,” Adeyemo said, vowing to ensure that “responsible actors in the space are the partners of government, rather than working in opposition to us, or feeling as if our rules don't give you the room to innovate in a way that helps us solve these problems.”
He gave few clues about how that might work, saying, “I'm not gonna get ahead of our rule-making process,” but promised it would be flexible enough to work with an industry that changes from year to year.
“We have not seen that crypto has been the main avenue of evasion” of Russian sanctions, he said. “But where we do see it, we're going to go after it.”
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Contents include: On Jackson`s Inequalities for Approximations in L2 of Periodic Functions by Trigonometric Polynomials and of Functions on the Line by Entire Functions. The Olovyanishnikov Inequality for Multivariate Functions. Bernstein-Durrmeyer Type Quasi-Interpolants on Intervals. Adaptive Approximation of Curves. An Efficient Definition of the Divided Difference. Extended Cubature Formula of Turan Type (0,2) for the Ball, The Multivariate Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Bezout`s Theorem and Nullstellensatz, Canonical Point Sets for Best One-Sided L1-Approximation by Quasi-Blending Functions, A Characterization Theorem for the K-functional for Kantorovich and Durrmeyer Operators, Some Error Estimates in Learning Theory, B-Spaces and their Characterization via Anistropic Franklin Bases. On Optimal Recovery of Heat Equation Solutions; Markov`s Inequalities in Integral Norm for Oscillating Weighted Polynomials. Standard and non-standard quadratures of Gaussian Type; Inequalities for Real-Root Polynomials. On Smooth Interpolation. Thoughts over the Smale`s Mean Value Conjecture. Twelve Proofs of the Markov Inequality. New Technique for Error Analysis of Finite Element Approximations of Parabolic Problems with Non-Smooth Initial Data. On Generalized Tractability for Multivariate Problems. On Polynomial Interpolation on the Unit Ball. | <urn:uuid:511535c3-7e02-4a10-b852-62b49ca4ae5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://press.bas.bg/bg/books-103/show-104(448) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.783018 | 341 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Breeding crops with roots a metre deeper in the ground could lower atmospheric CO2 levels dramatically, with significant environmental benefits, according to research by a leading University of Manchester scientist.
Writing in the Annals of Botany, Professor Douglas Kell argues that developing crops that produce roots more deeply in the ground could harvest more carbon from the air, and make crops more drought resistant, while dramatically reducing carbon levels.
In principle, any crops could be treated in this way, giving more productive yields while also being better for the environment.
Although the amount of carbon presently sequestered in the soil in the natural environment and using existing crops and grasses has been known for some time, Professor Kell’s new analysis is the first to reveal the benefits to the environment that might come from breeding novel crops with root traits designed to enhance carbon sequestration.
Professor Kell, Professor of Bioanalytical Science at the University as well as Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has also devised a carbon calculator that can show the potential benefits of crops that burrow more deeply in the ground.
With this, he has calculated that — depending on the time it takes them to break down -breeding crops that could cover present cropland areas but that had roots a metre deeper in the soil could double the amount of carbon captured from the environment. This could be a significant weapon in the fight against climate change.
The soil represents a reservoir that contains at least twice as much carbon as does the atmosphere, yet mainly just the above-ground plant biomass is harvested in agriculture, and plant photosynthesis represents the effective origin of the overwhelming bulk of soil carbon.
Breeding crop plants with deeper and bushy root ecosystems could simultaneously improve both the soil structure and its steady-state carbon, water and nutrient retention, as well as sustainable plant yields.
Professor Kell argues that widespread changes in agricultural practice are needed, in an environment in which edible crop yields also need to increase substantially and sustainably, and where transport fuels and organic chemicals will need to come from modern (rather than fossil) photosynthesis.
It is known that massive CO2 reductions in the atmosphere over geological time have happened because of the rise of deep-rooted trees and flowering plants.
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Spreading Cheer and Joy to MWS Bethany Nursing Home
We kickstart our SSDB project this year by engaging the residents at MWS Bethany Nursing Home – Choa Chu Kang. First, we asked for donations of dry food items and other ...
Walking into Choa Chu Kang Bible Centre, you will find a kindergarten that upholds the vision of “a Christian Kindergarten with a vibrant learning community, nurturing children of Curiosity, Creativity and Kindness”.
Stepping into any one of their classrooms, you will be instantly greeted with the colourful display of student work and teaching resources. The amount of dedication and effort put in by the teachers can be seen through the creative use of classroom wall space. Choa Chu Kang Bible Centre Kindergarten is a SPARK accredited institution, recognized by MOE as a quality preschool. The kindergarten offers programs that nurture 21st century skills like critical thinking and problem solving so that the children will be adaptable, confident, independent and life-long learners.
The teachers engage the children in purposeful play, with learning corners set up in every classroom. Each corner is designed with a specific purpose of developing children in any one of six areas: environmental awareness, motor skills development, numeracy and literacy, socio-emotional awareness and creative expression.
Besides purposeful play, teachers make use of “hands-on” activities like “Show-and-Tell” in thematic teaching, Music and Movement lessons and fieldtrips. In Music and Movement lessons, children are given the opportunity to explore various musical instruments, sing, dance and creatively express themselves.
As Information Technology has become integral into our daily lives, the kindergarten conducts weekly optional computer lessons. Children are guided in the use of the internet for learning.
Children are brought out for field trips every semester. An example will be the visit to Unity Primary School to prepare the children for primary education. This is followed by a project documenting their reflections of the visit. The kindergarten also has a strong character development programme that imparts Christian values to the children through Bible stories. Together with a sound curriculum and dedicated teachers, Choa Chu Kang Bible Centre Kndergarten develops the holistic learning of children in the cognitive, physical, aesthetics, social and moral domains.
Parents quote 1:
“As parents, we always want the best for our children, be it materially, emotionally or psychologically. Although these needs must first be met in a home environment, the school plays a vital part too. This is why we chose Choa Chu Kang Bible Centre Kindergarten for our two daughters.
The teachers respond accordingly to our children's needs: identifying and addressing their weaknesses, at the same time building on their strengths. We are glad that they are strict in enforcing class discipline but are flexible in meeting the needs of our children.
The different activities that the school has planned are apt and well thought-out. The learning corners are fun and have allowed the girls to apply what they have been taught. The singing sessions and Bible stories have become part of their daily lives and often times they will sing the songs at home, in the car or even in the bus. We think this is important because it bonds the girls together. And needless to say, our daughters look forward to all excursions because they like to go out with their friends and enjoy learning beyond the classroom.
Thank you, Mrs See and all the teachers for your love, patience and care for our children. Thank you for teaching them how to be caring and helpful above achieving good academic results. Thank you Mrs Chew for teaching all the wonderful songs that reminds them of God and His love for us. Thank you for believing in them. As Proverbs 11:25 rightly puts it: "... [the] one who waters will himself be watered".
Once again, thank you!”
Mr & Mrs Hwang (parents of Shine & Dawn)
Parents quote 2:
“We enrolled my son, Arnold Thomas, into Choa Chu Kang Bible Centre Kindergarten in year 2009. Thomas graduated in year 2011.
What we could see and what impressed us with CCKBCK : The school environment and facilities are well organized and maintained. The classrooms, courtyard and play areas are suitable for children.
What is our impression of the principal and teachers:
We always see friendly smiles on their faces. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Principal, Mrs See for the very kind support and effort taken in the planning and implementation of the school programs, such as the learning corner activities, excursions and centre events.
Thank you to the English and Chinese teachers for being kind, patient and supportive to Thomas and preparing him well for Primary one. I believe that Thomas had a good start for mother tongue in Chinese.
What we would like to see next:
Our daughter, Arnold Anya Veeraya, is in class K2A. She will have the same wonderful experience as her brother, having fun and enjoying their learning journey at CCKBCK.” | <urn:uuid:75e2ffbb-7313-4ef3-9f2b-27ee9f0f2b4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecda-staging.littlelives.com/community/startsmalldreambig/schools/choa-chu-kang-bible-centre-26518 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952701 | 1,040 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Stoloteuthis japonicaTsunemi Kubodera and Richard E. Young
Stoloteuthis japonica is based on a single immature male of 10 mm ML taken off one of the Okinawa Islands at 25°48.98´N, 126°30.66´E. Because of its small size, characteristics that could distinguish this species may not be developed. This species lies within the latitudinal range of Iridoteuthis iris although it is found further west than is known for the latter species (i.e., I. iris is known from from as far north and west as 32°N, 177°E).
The junior author of this page suspects that Stoloteuthis japonica is a junior synonym of Iridoteuthis iris. However, apparent differences exist in the shape of the funnel-locking apparatus and the absence of a posterior fin lobe in S. japonica. The uncertainty of the presence of a tentacular organ and the position of the photophore tubes needs resolution. The absence of maturity related features of the arm, so important in species identification in the Heteroteuthinae, emphasize the need for larger specimens.
Kubodera, T. and T. Okutani. 2011. New additions of luminous bobtail squids to the Japanese cephalopod fauna (Sepiolida: Sepiolidae: Heteroteuthinae). Venus, 69 (3-4): 145-161.
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Today we’re featuring a guest post from Carrie Ellen Brummer, an artist, teacher, learner, and dreamer who is writing a compelling book about… well, I’ll let her share the story.
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When I finished my presentation for my visual arts honors’ thesis, I cried my eyes out. I was standing in front of all my professors and the 40 plus people who attended, with tears running down my cheeks.
“Don’t worry, this usually happens… Nice shoes.” My sculpture prof and his wife knowingly patted me on the back and wandered off to look at a peer’s paper installation.
Speaking about my art in front of that group is the most intimidated I have ever felt. Art can be scary, even for artists! Why? The art world promotes and celebrates an elitist attitude that discourages most people from engaging with it.
I HATE IT.
The arts are a celebration of our cultural heritage, historical and social evolution, and ultimately the human spirit. No other species creates, with awareness, like we do. Yet, we live in a world where art is hidden away and set in intimidating environments, leaving the general populous scratching their heads.
We deserve more.
ARTspeak is an e-book born out of my frustration with the current art world. It is for the art curious, the art insecure and anyone who supports the arts. My goal with the book is to offer insight into the artistic process and teach strategies for interpreting and reading art. In ARTspeak I share:
- The basic tool set of an artist.
- Examples of how to use the tools for reading and understanding art.
- Questions to ask when looking at an artwork.
- Further resources for art appreciation.
Art is a language just like any other and if you don’t have training or practice in a language, how can you engage with the culture?!? Is it not interesting that as we develop into a more visual society with advertisements, movies and graphic novels in our everyday, we lack the tools to engage with those visuals? Do you want to be a passive observer, taking in those images, or do you want to have a voice and active role in digesting the images around you? We all have a reason for our opinions… it is time that we begin to understand why.
Sneak preview of the book’s introduction:
In my introductory art course at Colgate University, I had a professor who started with a dialogue asking us to define art. He presented slides of all kinds of images and we were to guess whether the image presented showcased something already labeled “Art” or if it was “just” a photograph. We went through slide after slide and people were shouting out yes, no, with some dialogue and argument in between. At one point, we came to this image of a bike. The tires, rather than the normal circular shape we all know, was hexagonal (not sure about the number of sides really). It was toward the end of the class and we were all beginning to wear out. A student laughed out loud and said, “Well, that is definitely not art.”
The professor paused, looked at all of us with a bemused smirk, and replied, “That is one of my pieces.”
I don’t want anyone else to feel the way that student did. I felt my stomach sink into the floor on that day. I hope ARTspeak can be one way for people to build their confidence to speak about and engage with the arts.
Can’t wait for ARTspeak to be released at the end of July 2011? Want some basics of art interpretation? Read my post, “Discussing Art: A Beginner’s Guide.”
If you think ARTspeak could be of interest to you please keep up to date with Artist Think, my blog that supports art education, creative inspiration and artistic goal-setting. I will publish the book via the blog. Subscribers will get the book two weeks sooner than the general populace as a thank you for supporting the arts and Artist Think! ARTspeak will be free to the public so please spread the word and share it with others. We all deserve more from our arts, will you be a part of it?
A special thank you goes out to Patrick Ross of The Artist’s Road for this opportunity to guest post. It is an honor to participate in a blog that celebrates the arts!
Carrie Ellen Brummer has been an arts instructor for more than 6 years, and currently teaches IB Visual Arts in Dubai, where she leads workshops on incorporating the arts into regular classroom curricula. She has won teaching grants in both the United States and Dubai for different artist projects, one of which promotes consumption awareness. She blogs at Artist Think and tweets at @ArtistThink. The striking visual art on this post was provided by Carrie and reprinted with the artists’ permission. | <urn:uuid:2e4a282b-44ff-42df-b1db-bc6bfdba8b94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artistsroad.blog/2011/04/27/art-for-everyone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.957447 | 1,067 | 2.046875 | 2 |
by John Bryson, M.S.E, Sr. Manager, Corporate Employment Consulting, NEXT for AUTISM
I’m often asked why I work in disability employment helping young people with autism and other disabilities prepare for and find meaningful work. My answer is always the same. I’m motivated by a case that lit a fire in me. Its senselessness was impossible to ignore.
At a community vocational program where I worked years ago, I often visited with a young man named Jerry.* Jerry was on the autism spectrum, and he attended the workshop daily. I particularly enjoyed seeing him, as his smile always brightened my day and lit up the room with positivity. One day, I found Jerry diligently bent over a task he’d been given. When he saw me, he excitedly demonstrated his job. He took a bag containing a thousand cotton swabs, dumped them into a yellow plastic tray, inspected them, and then one-by-one put all one thousand cotton swabs into another bag. Jerry repeated this process several more times until the day ended. When he came back the next day, he’d take out that same bag of cotton swabs and repeat the process all over again.
Though this type of “training” was common in vocational programs for people with developmental disabilities, its lack of ambition riled me. The rationale was to occupy participants and train them for jobs that required limited skills, but having worked with people with autism and other developmental challenges, I know they are capable of so much more if provided with the right training, goals and opportunities.
Jerry clearly demonstrated that he could perform tasks with accuracy, repeatedly. He had a positive attitude and a good work ethic – all qualities that any employer would value. But his “job,” as he was taught to call it, was an unacceptable option, a time-wasting activity, instead of a skill-building exercise. We could do so much better for Jerry with a more thoughtful approach to finding a job that fits his many qualities.
At NEXT for AUTISM, our employment consultants tailor positions to the skills of people like Jerry. We help applicants to prepare, apply for, and retain jobs. And we work with employers to teach them the value of workers with autism and other disabilities. Our goal is to guide employers toward creating an environment that embraces differences and increases their bottom line.
I work in transition services, training teachers and administrators to design employment programs that focus on the individual skills of each student, matching those skills to the employment needs of the marketplace. This ensures high school students have in demand skill sets so they can more effectively transition into adulthood. We’ve supported students to obtain employment in retail, clerical, manufacturing, food service, hospitality, technology, digital video, and more.
Each year, when the school starts, I get that feeling of excitement, just as some of the students might. I’m looking forward to working with new groups of young people who, like Jerry, are capable and ready for meaningful work with our support.
*Names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.
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EDWARDS – James W. Smolka, Director of Flight Operations at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, was selected to become a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP).
A Fellow is the highest membership status in the SETP, and is bestowed by vote of other Fellows of the society for distinction in experimental flight testing.
“It is a great honor, and I am very humbled, to be included in the ranks of so many professional test pilots who have made aviation and space exploration history,” said Smolka. “These are exceptional pilots and astronauts whom I look up to, who are my role models, my colleagues, and my friends.”
Fellows of the STEP must have been a member of the organization for at least one year, have been an experimental test pilot for at least five years and have been designated for at least a year as an Associate Fellow of the society with at least 10 years of experimental flight test experience.
A veteran research test pilot at NASA Dryden, Smolka came to the center in 1985 after 13 years on active or reserve duty in the United States Air Force. Over the course of his 27 years at NASA Dryden, Smolka has flown a wide variety of specialized research and mission support aircraft, including work as project pilot on some of the center’s high-profile aeronautical research projects.
Included among them were the F-18 High Angle-of-Attack Research Vehicle (HARV), which explored engine thrust vectoring capabilities, the Advanced Controls Technology for Integrated Vehicles (ACTIVE) F-15, which explored axisymmetric thrust vectoring, and the F-15 QuietSpike® concept to reduce the effects of sonic booms generated by supersonic aircraft. Smolka, along with four others, was awarded Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine’s Laureate Award for Aeronautics/Propulsion for their work on the QuietSpike® project in 2008.
In his current position as Dryden’s Director for Flight Operations, Smolka is responsible for the center’s fleet of 22 highly modified manned and unmanned aircraft that are flown on worldwide science, astronomy, and flight research missions, as well as the flight and ground crews that fly and maintain them. He previously served as the center’s chief engineer for two years, in charge of the Airworthiness and Flight Safety Review process.
Smolka has amassed nearly 9,000 hours of flight experience in his 40-year flying career.
A distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Smolka was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force in 1972. He received his pilot wings in 1973 and served in a variety of flying roles during his active duty service, earning Air Force command pilot and master parachutist wings.
Smolka retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of colonel in 1999 after 27 years of active and reserve service.
Other new Fellows of the SETP for 2012 with connections to the Antelope Valley or Edwards Air Force Base include:
- Retired Air Force Flight Test Center commander and veteran test pilot Maj. Gen. W. D. “Doug” Pearson.
- Former NASA astronaut and Air Force test pilot Charles Precourt.
- Former Air Force and currently Boeing test pilot and SETP 2013 president Steven Rainey.
- Former U.S. Army rotary-wing test pilot and NASA Ames Research Center pilot Daniel Dugan.
- Former Air Force test pilot and current United Airlines captain Joseph Sobczak.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion DCF has made the following commitments to addressing equity as part of Wisconsin’s Putting Families First efforts to dramatically reduce the number of children in out-of-home care. "We include diverse perspectives in shaping our child welfare transformation through engaging a wide range of voices and addressing barriers to inclusion." "We strive for justice in the child welfare system through addressing systemic oppression, inequality and racism." These commitments and values are not DCF’s alone, but are shared by individuals and child welfare agencies across the state of Wisconsin. DCF remains committed to centering diversity, equity and inclusion in ongoing efforts to truly put families first through supporting local conversations and through improving policies and practices. Policies to Support LGBTQ+ Youth One way that DCF is supporting local agencies in having crucial conversations and to increase equity throughout the child welfare system is through inclusive policies related to LGBTQ+ youth. On March 2, 2022, the US Department of Health and Human Services released an information memo affirming what is equally true right here in Wisconsin: LGBTQ+ children and youth are over-represented in the child welfare system and yet remain underserved. This population of individuals is historically and currently vulnerable, and are subject to higher rates of physical violence and emotional harm prior to, and during, their involvement with the child welfare and youth justice system. And collectively, we are called to action to better meet the needs of these children and their families. National research conservatively estimates that approximately 20% of children and youth in out of home care identify as LGBTQ+. Applying that estimate to out-of-home care data in Wisconsin, this would equate to more than 380 children in this state who may identify as LGBTQ+ in out of home care alone. This substantial population of children, both in home and in out of home care, need attention and care. Division of Safety and Permanence and the Department of Children and Families stand unequivocally in support of LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families and remain committed to ensuring that policies and programs advance the priority of building affirming and inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ youth and families to thrive. Likewise, DCF calls upon our child welfare workforce, service providers and out of home care providers at all levels, to engage in education and action in better serving LGBTQ+ youth and families. To support this effort, DCF has released an Issue Brief titled Working with LGBTQ+ Youth and Families in Child Welfare. This document outlines background information supporting the call to action, as well as definitions and resources – many of which offer free training opportunities that may be of benefit to you and your agency. Perhaps most importantly, this document identifies initial action steps necessary to better support the LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families whom we serve in the child welfare system and to enact best practice. | <urn:uuid:75848a7b-c438-4cae-93f4-7cdb2a85e467> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/family-first/diversity-equity-inclusion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95453 | 563 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The world’s hottest social media is onboarding the metaverse bandwagon, which might be a major catalyst for widespread adoption. And clearly, that’s happening with the metaverse, said Talia Hussain, a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Design Innovation at Loughborough College London with expertise in sustainability and social influence. On their different social media platform, the team behind the undertaking and several other neighborhood members began a heated debate to determine the potential benefits and commerce-offs for this token break-up.QUICK’s total supply will grow from 1 million tokens to 1 billion. In a press announcement, High Fidelity said that members of High Fidelity’s metaverse team would be a part of the company, and Rosedale would rejoin Second Life as a strategic advisor.
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Fold-Out Solar System
The book folds out into one long, beautifully illustrated and double-sided picture of the solar system (not to scale, of course) – 8 illustrated pages on the front, 7 illustrated pages on the back. The picture features the sun, planets, a selection of significant spacecraft, comets, asteroids, and moons. The artwork is lovely and richly detailed, and the book can stand on its edge, so it can be left open and on display on a desk or bookshelf. The objects on the front have basic labels telling you what everything is but do not distract from the artwork. The back has a reduced version of the same artwork (as only 7 pages), and is annotated, packed with brief descriptions and interesting, fun snippets of information about all the objects and spacecraft shown, so kids can begin to find out about them and develop an interest in space. The back also includes explanations of terms such as ‘planet’ and ‘asteroids,’ etc. and a fact box for each planet with information such as size, distance from the sun, number of moons, etc. to give an idea of the scale involved. | <urn:uuid:7dcadca4-84bd-4a67-addf-a145b435c790> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://treasurebox-toys.com/products/fold-out-solar-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.945295 | 240 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Beware of stereotypes based on ideological assumptions. As Europe's economy has surged, it has maintained fairness and equality. Unlike in the United States, with its rampant inequality and lack of universal access to affordable health care and higher education, Europeans have harnessed their economic engine to create wealth that is broadly distributed.
Either believe what I tell ya or what the conservatives say, but I'm the one who's retiring to Paris. Be nice if the conservatives who malign 'Old Europe' actually left the U.S. and experienced it. You see ladies in burqas shopping right next to ladies wearing the latest Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Donna Karan. It works, unlike this dysfunctional mess we have here.
Demosthenes (thanks to the lovely Avedon) looks at this too, riffing off the Krugman article Gord linked to the other day:
The French's shorter hours would be conducive to greater productivity while they actually are working, and a greater quality of life while they're not. Honestly, aside from a slight hit to GDP--that, in America, principally consists of increased compensation to the already fantastically wealthy and slightly greater pay for those with no time to enjoy it--I honestly fail to see the problem.
There's a reason why the dollar is doing so poorly against a currency (the Euro) that, by rights, ought to have been worthless 5 years after its inception.
And, by the way, I thought the U.S. hegemony* would have been accomplished (if you read my books) by a strong dollar as opposed to military might as Bush and the neocons believe. My vision for the future would be Europe and Asia rallying around and accepting the dollar (after the fiscal discipline and growth of the Clinton years, and our 'sole superpower' status) as the 'universal currency'; an economic sphere, as it were, from which a global government (hegemony) would arise sometime (a century or two) in the future. I believed, before Bush gained control, an idealistic sea change in the Mid East and East Asia would come about due to economic pressures, and their entrance into the 'First World', and would signal the beginning of a more progressive direction for the world to take.
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Like it or not, advertising has long been a powerful force in shaping and depicting our changing moods and social values – for better or for worse. Print advertisements of the late 19th, through the mid-20th century, were notorious for being sexist, racist, and advocating plenty of unhealthy advice. All reasons why collectors flock to antique and vintage ads. Let’s revel in our former ignorance shall we?
Burp The Baby… Then Handover The Insulin.
Smooth As A Baby’s Face.
Honey Boo Boo Approved Tonic.
Toothache? Have Some Cocaine!
Not Sure What To Say About This One…
Ho. Ho. (cough, cough, cough) Ho!
Beer. It’s What’s For Dinner.
Have You Been Cleaning? Because You Look Fabulous!
Excuse me? Run That Question By Me One More Time.
There’s Nothing Worse Than Stale Coffee. Nothing.
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Social Radar Technologies
The suite of MITRE's Social Radar technologies allows a deeper understanding of the human domain, providing sociocultural situational awareness through lenses focused on networks, groups, sentiment, and behaviors.
Social Radar technologies allow analysts to detect, track, and understand social change in information-dense environments faster than humans alone are typically able. A combination of tools does so by processing and analyzing news, blogs, and tweets in near-real time to:
- Detect and track trends in sentiment
- Identify major shifts in emotion
- Isolate influence campaigns
- Identify author age and gender, and
- Develop short-term forecasts, and support option analysis and decision making
MITRE's Social Radar tools have been integrated as a prototype system and applied in multiple real-world use cases. The tools have broad application across industry sectors, including defense, intelligence, security, and health. Using these tools, we can answer the following questions:
- Does the public feel positive or negative about a topic, including individuals, organizations, events, ideas, or things? Is sentiment trending over time?
- How are levels of emotion (such as anger, or happiness) around a given topic changing? Has emotion entered a new phase? When did the change begin?
- What tweets say about a topic? Who are key influencers?
- What do we know about who is tweeting? How does content vary by gender, age, and location?
- Are any groups or organizations manipulating the social media environment? Is it working? What ideas are taking hold?
- Can we evaluate courses of action such as messaging campaigns, and visualize what may happen? Can we then assess how effective the campaign is?
Social Radar technology allows us to rapidly achieve situational awareness of the human environment, identify alternative courses of action—whether through words or deeds—and better understand the potential outcomes of those actions. In complex environments, where understanding human sentiment, emotion, and behavior is critical to success, Social Radar helps see through the noise, signals changes in the human landscape, and provides a path for effective interaction.
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Third Drill Hole Intersects Further Copper Mineralisation
Commenting on initial drilling results, Cobre Executive Chairman and Managing Director, Martin Holland, said:
"The ongoing hole further illustrates the strike length of intersected copper mineralisation in this exciting target which remains open-ended. The footprint of mineralisation, which now extends over more than 3km, is very much in-line with known deposits in the Kalahari Copper Belt.... "
Based on visual estimates, confirmed with pXRF readings, drill hole NCP09 has intersected a 15m zone of copper mineralisation starting from 106m downhole. Mineralisation consists of malachite, chrysocolla and fine-grained chalcocite which include vein, fracture fill and fine-grained mineralisation along bedding and foliation planes. The mineralised zone is steeply dipping and expected to sub-crop under approximately 65m of cover. The hole is still in progress having intersected further (minor) copper mineralisation in veins as well as tight folding.
Drill hole NCP09 targets the southwestern extension of anomalous mineralisation intersected in NCP08, NCP07 and historical drill hole TRDH14-16a (2m @ 1.8% Cu and 8 g/t Ag), located over a strike length of 3 km.
This initial drill programme was designed to test the first of 57 ranked targets across KML's extensive license holding on the relatively unexplored northern margin of the KCB. Proving the occurrence of a significant strike length of copper mineralisation highlights the potential of this district to deliver new discoveries.
Drill hole NCP09 is located 1 km southwest of NCP08, testing for further strike extensions to significant chalcocite mineralisation intersected in NCP08. Together with holes NCP08, NCP07 and TRDH14-16a, a total of 3km of mineralised strike length has now been established. All of the holes target mineralisation associated with the redox contact between oxidised Ngwako Pan Formation red beds and overlying reduced marine sedimentary rocks of the D'Kar Formation on the northern limb of an anticline structure. Drill hole 14-16a intersected vein hosted chalcocite mineralisation on the contact, returning assay results of 2m @ 1.8% Cu and 8 g/t Ag. The first hole in the current programme, NCP07, returned significantly better results, intersecting a broad zone of copper mineralisation which was then repeated in NCP08 which intersected a thick zone of chalcocite mineralisation.
NCP09 was drilled through a section of steeply-dipping, folded, D'Kar Formation sandstones, siltstones and breccias, possibly intersecting the contact with underlying Ngwako Pan Formation at 124m downhole. Visible mineralisation is noted from 109m downhole consisting of malachite, chrysocolla and chalcocite. Visual logs were confirmed with pXRF 1m composite samples which were taken by cutting a grove along the drill core and then analysing the composite powder with a pXRF (Figure 1*).
Plan and sections of ongoing drill hole NCP09 are illustrated in Figure 2*.
Ngami Copper Project (NCP) and Kitlanya West background
The NCP is located near the northern margin of the KCB (Figure 3*) and includes significant strike of sub-cropping Ngwako- an / D'Kar Formation contact, on which, the majority of the known deposits in the KCB occur. The project is located immediately east of KML's Kitlanya est licenses collectively covering a significant portion of prospective KCB stratigraphy. In terms of regional prospectively the greater license package includes:
- Over 500km of prospective sub-cropping Ngwako an / D'Kar Formation contact which has been divided into 57 ranked targets;
- Strategic location near the basin margin typically prioritised for sedimentary-hosted copper deposits;
- Outcropping Kgwebe Formation often considered a key vector for deposits in the northeast of the KCB;
- Well defined gravity low anomalies indicative of sub-basin architecture or structural thickening (a number of the deposits in the KCB are hosted on the margins of gravity lows);
- Relatively shallow Kalahari Group cover (between 0m and ~60m thick); and
- Numerous soil sample anomalies identified on regional sample traverses.
KML is targeting analogues to the copper deposits in Khoemacau's Zone development (Figure 3) in the north-eastern portion of the KCB. These include Zone 5 (92.1 Mt @ 2.2% Cu and 22 g/t Ag), Zeta NE (29 Mt @ 2.0% Cu and 40 g/t Ag), Zone 5N (25.6 Mt @ 2.2% Cu and 38 g/t Ag) and Mango NE (21.1 Mt @ 1.8% Cu and 21 g/t Ag).
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Cobre Limited (ASX:CBE) is a copper and base-metals explorer with projects in Western Australia and Botswana. The Company recently discovered a new high-grade VMS deposit enriched in Copper, Gold, Zinc and Silver in Western Australia, and is currently exploring approximately 8,100 km2 of tenements within the Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB) in Botswana. | <urn:uuid:69c94c2f-3819-4c8a-bd5f-23eeea631419> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/111251/materials-111251.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.919271 | 1,190 | 2 | 2 |
Unpredictable, sudden weight loss in dogs can be symptomatic of a larger issue, or it may just be because they are exercising more and eating less than usual. If your dog drops over 10% of his or her total body weight in a short period and with no discernable outside factors, then you should be concerned. Just like with human beings, you need to keep tabs on your dog’s weight since it is so often an indicator of health, like any other bodily change. Below we discuss six typical causes of rapid weight loss in dogs that you should watch out for.
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Causes Of Sudden Weight Loss in Dogs
Weight loss in dogs resulting from parasitism is much less common than it was in previous years, thanks to a growing percentage of pets receiving monthly protection against intestinal parasites and heartworm. It would be best if you remembered that not all products are equally effective at staving worms off. In particular, there aren’t a lot of products designed to kill whipworms. Pets can contract whipworms by directly ingesting eggs from the environment, such as contaminated water or soil. Some symptoms of intestinal infection in dogs to watch out for are:
- Weight loss
- Vomiting (persistent or intermittent)
- Soft stool
- Decreased appetite
- Increased gas
Typically a fecal exam is required for a vet to diagnose intestinal parasites. The vet examines your dog’s feces to look for eggs or other parasite life stages (depending on the kind of parasite in your dog’s system). Treatment of intestinal parasites generally consists of a broad-spectrum dewormer, along with a monthly preventative medication to stop any reinfection.
There are many types of cancer that can cause unexplained weight loss in dogs. Cancer is typically more prevalent in older dogs, and malignant forms of cancer can be life-threatening. Several malignant cancers in dogs are directly linked to weight loss, like lymphoma, osteosarcoma, and hemangiosarcoma. Weight loss due to these malignant tumors may occur both due to the metabolic demands of the tumor itself and because discomfort and pain are reducing the dog’s activity and appetite. Other canine cancers, like oral melanoma, may make swallowing and eating a painful process, causing the dog to stop eating.
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Advanced Heart Disease
Like those with kidney disease, pets with heart disease won’t immediately start to lose weight at the start of the disease. Some dogs may even look like they’re gaining weight (despite eating less) due to fluid accumulation in the body. Loss of appetite isn’t always the easiest way to recognize if your pet’s weight loss should be concerning. If you notice a small amount of unexpected weight loss, you may want to add more calories to their diet. If your dog eats more and puts the weight back on, then they’re probably okay. Moreover, make sure to isolate the food of the affected pet from the food the rest of your pets eat to lessen food stealing or sharing. To control the experiment, try your best to avoid feeding table scraps or too many treats.
Pets with kidney disease, unlike some of the other conditions for which weight loss is a symptom, generally don’t lose weight right away (as mentioned above with heart disease). Weight loss is usually correlated to chronic forms of the disease. If your pet is diagnosed with kidney disease after you’ve noticed them losing weight, then it’s most likely they’ve suffered from the illness for a long time. As the disease progresses, dogs typically don’t feel well and deal with the loss of appetite, vomiting, and dehydration. This kind of weight loss from chronic illness typically impacts muscle and body fat, causing your pet to become emaciated.
Metabolic disorders like hyperadrenocorticism (Addison’s disease) and diabetes mellitus can significantly impact the body condition of your pet. Metabolic conditions often display complicated clinical signs, and advanced diagnostic testing may be necessary to identify these conditions.
Also known as Cushing’s Disease, hyperadrenocorticism is the overproduction of cortisol in your dog’s blood. A tumor in the pituitary or adrenal gland is usually the cause of excess cortisol. 80% of Cushing’s Disease cases are from a benign pituitary tumor. Another common symptom of Cushing’s Disease is hair loss. If your dog is losing weight and hair, they may have Cushing’s Disease.
Diabetes mellitus is a disease that affects your dog’s ability to produce enough insulin for breaking down blood sugars. When insulin levels are unbalanced, it can cause severe weight loss in dogs along with the following signs:
- Increased appetite
- Frequent urination
- Excessive thirst
If you suspect that your dog may have diabetes, you’ll want to contact your vet to create a management plan.
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GI problems can cause weight loss over time, as excessive vomiting and/or diarrhea can make it difficult for your dog to retain nutrients. Both diarrhea and vomiting can be due to various causes, which is why you should speak with a vet to pinpoint the underlying issue. Maldigestion or malabsorption may affect the intestine’s ability to break down and absorb essential nutrients from the diet. Pets suffering from gastrointestinal disorders will typically be very underweight, no matter how their diet is changed until a medical solution is put into place.
Is It Normal for Dogs to Lose Weight as They Get Older?
Yes, as your dog ages, its metabolic rate also changes. Mature dogs actually need about 20% fewer calories than younger dogs to maintain their weight. So as your dog ages, you’ll want to feed them dog food that is specially formulated for their older age because it will have less fat and fewer calories.
But as a dog matures from old to very old, it is very normal for them to lose weight. At this point, your senior dog may have a decreased appetite due to the lack of smell/taste, or they may have difficulty chewing or swallowing.
If your older dog is losing weight but eating, then it may mean they need a higher fat diet. In this situation, you’ll want to increase their food’s fat content and calorie content so that every bite counts.
How Do I Know if My Dog is Too Thin?
The best way to know if your dog is too thin is to take them to the veterinarian. Your vet can evaluate your dog’s body conditioning score. A healthy dog weight has an ideal body conditioning score of a 4 or 5, according to the World Small Animal Veterinary Association.
Tufts University’s Veterinary School states that when looking at your dog, if you can see the ribs, lower back vertebrae, and pelvic bones, then your dog may be too thin, and you should take them to the vet for assessment. A healthy dog will have ribs you can easily feel but not necessarily see.
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Does Walking a Dog Help Them Lose Weight?
Yes, in addition to veterinarian-recommended dietary changes, it is very important to walk your dog to help them lose weight. You should try to walk your dog for at least 30 minutes every day.
If your dog is severely overweight, then you’ll want to take walks slow and follow their cues by listening to their breathing. If your dog’s breathing becomes too labored, slow down or take a rest. Go at their pace and build up to 30-minute walks.
What Should I Do if my Dog is Losing Weight?
The best thing to do is call your vet. They’ll be able to assess your dog’s body condition and rule out any of the conditions that could be affecting your dog’s weight.
Should You Take Your Dog Losing Weight To The Vet?
Many of the common causes of weight loss carry similar warning signs or symptoms. You should evaluate the possible causes of your dog’s symptoms and weight loss to figure out if you need to take a trip to the veterinarian.
Questions To Ask
If you’ve identified that your dog has been losing weight for no apparent reason, you need to think about some of the circumstances surrounding their condition. Here are some questions you should ask yourself:
- Is your dog’s coat sparse, coarse, or dull?– An unhealthy coat could be symptomatic of malnutrition, poor nutrition, or an intestinal parasite. A healthy coat should be smooth and shiny. Contact your vet if you notice a sudden change in your dog’s coat.
- Is your dog ill?– Any identifiable illness could be the cause of your pet’s weight loss. You should be extra careful if the disease seems to last a long time. Prolonged, chronic illnesses can result in significant weight loss.
- Has your dog suffered head trauma?– A dog can get a concussion just like a human being, and resulting in nausea and dizziness can cause them to lose their appetite and lose weight rapidly.
- Is your dog on medications?– If your dog is currently on a course of medications for an illness, the weight loss could be due to either the side effects of the disease itself or a lack of appetite as a side effect from the medications they’re taking.
Why is my dog losing weight but still eating?
If your dog is still eating but losing weight, it may be a sign of a bigger problem. Your dog is either not eating enough calories to support its lifestyle or your dog may have a digestion or absorption issue.
Why is my dog losing weight and drinking lots of water?
Excessive thirst can be a sign of dehydration, illness, reaction to a medication, or diet. But when your dog is losing weight at the same time, it might be a symptom of diabetes. You’ll want to contact your vet to assess your dog’s insulin levels.
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Johannes Gutenberg, a metal smith of the early Renaissance period, was the first to devise a printing press with removable wood or metal letters, making it easier to print hundreds of copies of any book or written material. Although, an extraordinary idea, the press was simply made. It was constructed of a few wooden beams, holding a wood frame box containing the letters. This frame was pressed down to paper lying on a workspace to make the print. To demonstrate what the Johannes Gutenberg printing press looked like, you can make a model using white poster board.
- White paper
- Carbon paper
- White poster board
Draw out a rectangular box pattern on a piece of white paper. Measure the sides of the rectangular box side you want. If you are making a model of about 12 to 16 inches tall, make each beam side approximately 2 inches wide by 12 to 16 inches long so you get a finalized rectangular column shape. Draw each side out on the template, so you can fold them into the rectangular beam shape. Draw out the top and bottom sides of the template, making them the same width as your sides but only 2 inches long so they can fold over the column sides and close the beam at both ends.
Add tabs to the end sides and bottoms of the beam template. Each tab should be approximately 1/4-inch wide and 1 inch long.
Place a piece of carbon paper over the white poster board you use for the model. Put the white box drawing over the carbon paper. Trace the rectangular template onto the poster board. Remove the carbon paper and place it on another area of the poster board and retrace the box. This will give you two exact-sized rectangular beams.
Make another two shorter rectangular beams similar to the vertical ones you made, but make them half as long. These will be the top and bottom crossbars for the printing press.
Cut a hole in the top and bottom side of the top crossbar before you glue the rectangular shape together.
Fold and glue the rectangular shapes together. Roll a paper tube and insert it through the holes of the top crossbar.
Cut a rectangular piece of cardboard that fits through the center of the columns to simulate the printing frame that holds the letters. Glue this to the bottom of the paper tube. Pull the tube up and down to make sure it works like the press that pushes the letter frame down onto the paper.
Measure the interior space between the vertical beams, and cut a rectangular piece of poster board to this size. Add two tabs the length of the vertical beams on each side of the rectangular piece. Glue each side to the columns, making the work table where the paper lays for the printing press. Be sure to glue this piece high enough so that the paper tube and top rectangular piece can be pushed up against it.
Cut a small rectangular piece of paper and glue it to the work table area to demonstrate how the press pushes the top frame down onto the paper to print.
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Improving University Science Teaching and Learning - Pedagogical Projects 2022 - Volume 17
This is the seventeenth volume in a series of publications of educational development projects made by participants in the teacher development course for assistant professors and post-docs held by the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen.
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8 Things Happy People Do Differently
Wouldn’t it be great to be happy all the time? I’d love to get rid of those dark moments. With so many people suffering from anxiety, stress, depressed moods and more, we need to find natural solutions.
Over the last few years, as I’ve gone about my life, I’ve wondered what happy people do differently. This list isn’t conclusive, it’s not backed by any scientific data, it’s what my gut tells me in the pursuit of happiness as a student of life.
#1 Absolute Forgiveness
Happy people forgive. They move forward. Storing up bitterness, anger and resentment chips away at your happiness stockpile. Elyse recently posted about how happy people are thankful, but they also forgive. Holding on to issues inevitably causes rumination and removes the possibility of total peace and completeness. Sometimes you might feel you’re not ready to forgive, that the anger still burns deep. But, the more you can ease into that forgiveness and move forward, setting the issue aside and forgiving, the more you can move on with your life and smile.
#2 Comparison Abstention
Happy people don’t compare. They don’t look at someone skinny and decide that they’re too fat. They don’t look at someone with an expensive car and decide that they’re too poor. They don’t look at people that they believe they’re ‘better’ than and feel a sense of superiority. They look at people for who they are and they look at themselves in the same way. Happy people have made their own choices along the way and are content with them. Happy people don’t just stay away from comparison, they have no need for it in their life.
#3 Total Empathy
Happy people are empathetic. They can relate. They understand. Happy people know that we can’t all be at our happiest 100% of the time. When they are there for others, when they empathise, they provide that very much needed support. In doing so, a multitude of endorphins are released as they help others, making them feel happier. And in doing so, they learn.
Happy people seek self improvement. Happy people learn. They use the Knowledge Protocol – something I outline in my book but essentially it’s knowing how much you don’t know. They have a thirst for knowledge, a thirst for self-improvement. They want to be better. When they learn, they challenge themselves, they find out more about themselves and they create new adventures.
#5 Choose Yourself
Happy people choose themselves. Just like the title of James Altucher’s bestselling book, Choose Yourself, happy people make their own choices and choose to do so. They choose to make the choices that they want to make. They choose to do what they want to do. This isn’t selfish, this is honest. They’re honest with themselves. Happy people build themselves up by choosing themselves and, in doing so, add value back to others.
#6 Letting Go
Happy people let go. In a similar vein to forgiveness, they let go of their baggage and they move on. They don’t hold on but let the stress slide off their shoulders as they move forward. While happy people strive for self-improvement, they leave their baggage at the front door and enjoy the moment.
#7 Being Present
Happy people are present. Happy people saviour the moment. They know that the past is the past and the future is the future. Sure, they need to spend time considering both, but they also treasure the very moment that they are in, inhaling the smells that surround them, gazing at the beauty in front of them, hearing the birds chirping, tasting the exquisite cuisine and feeling the textures with their finger tips. They use all their senses to the full and experience what it is truly like to live in the moment.
#8 Care For Yourself
Happy people care about themselves. They know that they need to stay fit. That’s mentally fit and physically fit. #4 was about self-improvement – working on the mental game. There are many more avenues to take towards that. And there’s also the physical side. Happy people know that staying fit is important – exercise raises your happiness levels – but they go a step further in looking after themselves. Happy people see their doctor and get medical check ups. They recognise that what they eat is the fuel that they’re putting into their body – they don’t expect to get results if they don’t fuel their body correctly. Happy people take care of themselves.
What makes you happy? What’s not on this list that you find makes you happy?
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در درس مربوط به معرفی دیکشنری چند لایه، گفتیم که در لایه اول از دیکشنری چهار لایه، قرار است ۶۱ کلمه پایه و در لایه دوم ۳۰۰ کلمه بعدی را یاد بگیریم.
در ۱۶ درس اول از این مجموعه، کلمات لایه اول را به کمک تصاویر مناسب، جمله و توضیح یاد گرفتیم..
در درسهای قبل هم تعدادی از کلمات لایه دوم را یاد گرفتیم. در این درس و درسهای آینده، یادگیری کلمات این لایه را ادامه میدهیم.
[X is a circle.] = X is a shape. Someone can mark a flat surface to make this shape. You think like this about the shape of X: The distance between the centre of X and each part of X is the same as the distance between the centre of X and each other part of X.
[I drew a circle around one of the words you wrote.]
picture, pictures, picture of, pictures of
[J is a picture of K.] = J is something that a person or machine makes. K is something you can see, like a person or a place or some other thing. J has a flat surface, and a person or machine causes different parts of this surface to become different colours. Because of this, when you see this surface, you see something that looks like K.
[I drew a picture of an animal and two trees.]
[X is a piece of stone.] = X is something hard and heavy that people do not make and that is not alive. Very many of these are parts of the ground or are far below the surface of the ground. X can be very small or big like a building.
[Some people make buildings using many pieces of stone.]
find, finds, to find, finding, found
[You find X.] = You now know that X is here in this place. But before now, you did not know this. Maybe you wanted to know where X was, but you did not know before now.
[This animal is trying to find some food.]
با توجه به تصویر زیر، تمرین بعد از آن را جواب دهید:
Tony drew two circles on a flat surface.
Lisa drew __________ on the other flat surface.
- a picture of a tree
- a picture of Tony
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NEW YORK (AP) — On each side of the abortion debate, legislators and activists emboldened by recent political developments plan to push aggressively in many states this year for bills high on their wish lists: either seeking to impose near-total bans on abortion or guaranteeing women’s access to the procedure.
For abortion opponents, many of whom will rally Friday at the annual March for Life in Washington, there’s a surge of optimism that sweeping abortion bans might have a chance of prevailing in the reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court that includes Donald Trump’s appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Legislators in at least four states — Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and South Carolina — are expected to consider bills that would ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, possibly just six weeks into a pregnancy.
Conversely, results of the midterm elections buoyed supporters of abortion rights in several states, including New York, Rhode Island, Maryland and New Mexico. Abortion-rights groups there are now hopeful that lawmakers will pass bills aimed at protecting access to abortion even if the Supreme Court eventually reversed or weakened the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a nationwide right to abortion. Tuesday will mark the 46th anniversary of that ruling.
“With big electoral victories in state legislatures and governorships, many states are now primed to provide the last line of defense for a woman’s ability to control her body, life and future,” said Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health.
Here are some of the notable bills likely to be considered:
PROTECTING ABORTION ACCESS
NEW YORK: For years, Republicans who controlled the New York Senate blocked efforts to codify abortion rights in state law as a bulwark against any undermining of Roe v. Wade. However, Democrats, who have long controlled the legislature’s lower chamber, took control of the Senate in the midterms, and are expected to swiftly enact the long-sought protections. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, easily re-elected to a third term, says the legislation is among his top priorities.
In a recent speech, Cuomo said Trump’s Supreme Court nominees “don’t even pretend to be objective jurists. They’ve already announced their intention to impose their morality on the nation and roll back Roe v. Wade.”
RHODE ISLAND: Although abortion is readily available in Rhode Island, the state has never removed some decades-old laws that sought to restrict abortion rights. A bill to scrap those old laws, and reinforce the right to abortion in case Roe is reversed, has been reintroduced in the 2019 session after failing the past two years. A co-sponsor, Sen. Gayle Goldin, says chances are better this year because the midterms increased the number of abortion-rights supporters in the legislature.
MARYLAND: Democratic House Speaker Michael Busch says lawmakers will take up a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Maryland, in case protections are overturned or weakened by the Supreme Court or federal government. Maryland passed legislation in 1991 to protect such rights, but supporters of the proposed amendment say it would be a stronger guard against any future legislative efforts to restrict abortion. If the measure wins legislative approval in the Democrat-controlled legislature, it would go before voters in a future election.
MAINE: A new Democratic governor who supports abortion rights, Janet Mills, has succeeded anti-abortion Republican Paul LePage. Mills would likely sign a recently introduced bill that would require Maine to fund some abortions that are not covered under Medicaid. Democrats control both chambers of the legislature.
NEW MEXICO: Democratic legislators — who control both chambers — are backing a bill that would remove New Mexico’s criminal ban on abortion. A 1969 statute made it a felony for an abortion provider to terminate a pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, birth defects and serious threats to a women’s health — though the law has been unenforceable since the Roe decision.
Newly inaugurated Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham — who succeeded Republican Susana Martinez — favors overturning the dormant abortion ban.
RESTRICTING ABORTION ACCESS
OHIO: During eight years in office, GOP Gov. John Kasich signed more than 20 anti-abortion bills, but twice vetoed the most draconian measure to reach his desk — the so-called “heartbeat bill” that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. But Kasich has now been succeeded by fellow Republican Mike DeWine, who suggests he will sign a heartbeat bill. And the proposal has finally won the endorsement of Ohio Right to Life, which previously considered it too contentious but now believes it has a chance of prevailing in court.
“With the additions of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, we believe this is the most pro-life court we have seen in generations,” said Ohio Right to Life board chairman Marshal Pitchford. “Now is the time to pursue this approach.”
KENTUCKY, MISSOURI, SOUTH CAROLINA: Lawmakers in these states, where Republicans control the legislature and governor’s office, also have drafted heartbeat bills for consideration this year.
The South Carolina measure would require testing for a detectable fetal heartbeat prior to an abortion; anyone performing an abortion after a heartbeat was detected would be guilty of a felony. A similar measure has been filed in Missouri; its potential punishments include fines and suspension or withdrawal of medical licenses.
Kentucky already is entangled in three abortion-related court cases, but Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer said he would be pleased if the heartbeat bill triggered additional litigation.
“I would be proud if it’s Kentucky that takes it all the way up to the Supreme Court and we challenge Roe v. Wade,” Thayer told reporters. “That would be absolutely the pinnacle of my career in the legislature.”
ARKANSAS: Like Kentucky, some of Arkansas’ previously approved anti-abortion laws remain caught up in legal fights. But two new measures were filed ahead of the 2019 session: One would toughen requirements for reporting abortion-related complications to state health officials; the other would prohibit doctors from performing an abortion if they know the woman seeks it solely because the fetus is diagnosed with Down syndrome.
Indiana, Louisiana and Ohio previously enacted bans on Down syndrome abortions which have been blocked in federal court. Indiana is asking the Supreme Court to review its case. North Dakota enacted a similar ban in 2013 that has not been challenged; the state’s sole abortion clinic says the issue hasn’t arisen under its policy of not performing abortions after 16 weeks into a pregnancy.
OKLAHOMA: A Republican state senator, Joseph Silk, has filed a bill that would include abortion in the state’s definition of felony homicide, potentially punishable by life in prison. Its chances of advancing are uncertain, but Oklahoma lawmakers did approve a bill two years ago that would have outlawed abortion and imposed prison sentences of up to three years on anyone performing the procedure.
That bill was vetoed by then-Gov. Mary Fallin. She has been succeeded by fellow Republican Kevin Stitt, who declined comment on Silk’s bill after it was filed.
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If you are new to the world of upholstery, choosing the right fabric may seem like an overwhelming task. It’s a big investment and you don’t want to choose the wrong material! What do you need to know before going out to purchase a quality product? This blog post will discuss fabric durability, fabric contents, patterns and more! I'll even share a few tips for you to consider before choosing a fabric and hopefully keep you from battling snags or stains in the future!
Shopping for upholstery: How to Read the Information and what you need to know.
No matter where you buy your fabric, every upholstery fabric comes with a list of information regarding its performance qualities. Think of it as your fabric cheat sheet! (I know what you are thinking, I don’t want to read all that information. I just want to pick the one I like and be done with it!) However, I encourage you to take the time to read and understand the information provided to make sure your fabric will last as long as you're expecting. Here are some of the key things to know on that little information sheet.
Durability. Double Rubs. Wyzenbeek Test.
Durability, double rubs, and the Wyzenbeek test are one and the same. This is an industry developed test where a machine tests the strength of the upholstery. During this test a piece of cotton or wire is placed on a special machine and rubbed against a fabric in a back and forth motion until there are signs of “noticeable wear” which simulates how a fabric will be used and abused over time. This helps classify fabrics as being ideal for light, medium and heavy duty applications. Depending on the materials in the upholstery, similar to the shirt on your back, some materials are stronger withstanding than others, and higher quality.
It helps to be able to recognize the range for the durability test. Understand that there are a wide range of double rubs above 30,000 and can reach up to 100,000+ products and those are typically used in high traffic areas for commercial design, such as transportation stations, airports, healthcare and so on.
Think practical and keep this chart in mind when you go shopping for your next piece of furniture. You may absolutely love that silk velvet couch, but will it get destroyed in your home with kids and pets? Think about how you live and who will be using the piece. Furniture in high traffic areas will need a more durable fabric, while furniture that acquires less wear and tear (like a headboard!) can use a less durable fabric.
Insider note: "Double rubs" is essentially the idea that every 'sit' comes with the abrasion of sitting, and again when you stand. If it helps, you can literally think of it as the two times your rear end slides across the seat to sit down and get back up.
Pattern: Horizontal & Vertical Repeats
Now that we have our fabric durability squared away, let's move on to something more fun, like pattern! There are a couple of things to consider when you start to look at patterns. The scale of the pattern you choose can help create texture and add emphasis in a space. Pattern sizes vary from small to large, and even oversized patterns.
At ID8 we typically try to reserve oversized patterns in a limited capacity (i.e. throw pillows, or 1-2 amazing accent chairs) within the space so they are not overstimulating. It's fun to have that seasonal Santa shaped pillow or full blown sequined pillow for a room, but it's also nice to be able to put those away when you are ready for a change.
Fiber: What is fabric made of?
Every upholstery fabric has it's own charm and unique impact, but just like different strengths of upholstery work better for certain applications, different fabrics work better for certain applications too. It's important to understand and consider these factors including; type of furniture (formal or informal), do you have pets, how easy can it be cleaned, children, stain resistance, and of course, how expensive is it, before you purchase your fabric. Here's a few of the most popular upholstery fabrics and a few pros and cons about each!
- Linen - Linen is an affordable fabric, however it can wrinkle and stain easily. It can shrink when it is washed, so it needs to be professionally cleaned.
- Cotton - Cotton is the most popular upholstery fabric. One pro is that it can be died in any color imaginable and it is available in different grades so it works for a variety of budgets. It's also super soft and comfortable! A few negative are that it soaks in spills quickly and wrinkles easily.
- Wool - Wool is a durable and sturdy fabric that is available in many varieties, however if it gets wet it can trap odors that are hard to get rid of. It is an environmentally friendly material.
- Leather - One of the most durable fabrics is leather. It's a great option for high traffic areas and doesn't absorb spilled materials, making it easy to maintain.
- Polyester - Polyester is often used with other fibers and adds wrinkle protection to the fabric. It also retains dyes really well and available in many colors. It is stain resistant and abrasion resistant, which makes it very durable. Polyester is the most produced synthetic fiber.
- Acetate - Acetate is resistant to pilling and humidity, however it lacks strength and is not resistant to scratches. This fabric isn't suitable for everyday use, but might be a good option for a formal sitting area.
- Velvet - Velvet is an elegant and regal fabric. It also has excellent insulation properties! Unfortunately, velvet is difficult to clean and maintain and expensive.
- Rayon - Rayon is very soft and comfortable and can be durable. However, Rayon can scratch easily and is prone to wrinkling.
- Silk - Silk is expensive and should only be used on furniture without heavy use. One downfall about silk is that it requires professional cleaning if something is spilled on it.
What the CROCK is that?
Crock is a term used with fabric to refer to the possibility of dye transfer. This can be noted in the description or in the fabric care. Ideally any product that has a chance of dye transfer should be avoided for seating options and be limited to curtains and the backsides of furniture to avoid staining clothing. Think about your new favorite blue jeans staining your hands the first few times you wear them. That would be HORRIBLE in a chair.
Can't find the right design? Order online!
Can't find the right pattern or color you are looking for? Try looking online! (The horror, right!?) How often do you order something online only for it to come to you in a different color than what was represented online?
I am so guilty and have made it a habit to repeat this mistake over and over again when ordering clothes. However, when it comes to ordering textiles online, many companies offer you the opportunity to order a fabric sample. Some do it free of charge, while others charge for the sample or shipping, regardless, ordering a sample first can save you time in the long run and keep you from ordering a material you don't care for. Bonus! By ordering a sample you also get the opportunity to touch and feel exactly what you are ordering so there are no surprises. A pattern can be gorgeous, but the material may not be soft or comfortable and depending on where you are using it, you may want to know how the look and feel of the fabric will hold up in your room.
How much fabric do I need?
There are a couple different options for you when it comes to knowing exactly how much fabric you need. And it depends on what and how you are using the fabric.
- The DIYer: If you are going to be recovering your chair, you should consider using an online fabric calculator. This is the online fabric calculator I've used and I am impressed by the way it categorizes measurements and calculates quickly. Keep in mind if you are not experienced in re-upholstering something, you may want to consider purchasing extra fabric to allow for ... let's call it "practice". (I am a well "practiced", almost professional!) Another benefit of ordering extra fabric is, leftover upholstery can make for an excellent coordinating pillow or some fun DIY art.
- The Hirer: If you are hiring someone to reupholster your piece. Check with them first, as they may have upholstery on hand, preferred manufacturers with samples and offer different pricing.
- Some things that you may want to do prior to having your piece reupholstered:
- Contact them or visit and have images of the piece you are trying to have redone
- If you haven’t selected an upholstery yet:
- Ask them about what upholstery they offer in-house, or who their preferred vendors are
- Ask them their opinion on what would be best for your piece in terms of durability; they are the experts, just like asking your doctor health questions
- Inquire about timeline; this can include both start date and time to completion; these folks tend to be busy - especially if they have a good reputation! It can take varying degrees of time to have pieces completed (factors including staff, complexity of piece and additional projects is all part of the equation).
- Some things that you may want to do prior to having your piece reupholstered:
- The Orderer: If you are ordering a new piece of furniture from a store or online, they may will provide you with select options or manufacturer options for just give the fabric option to the manufacturer and take care of that.
"What is crypton fabric? Do I need it?
Are you shopping for new furniture? Recovering old furniture? Crypton keeps coming up as an option, but what really is crypton? Do you really need it?
Crypton is actually NOT A FABRIC but a finish applied to a wide range of fabrics from different companies and manufacturers. This finish is designed to help resist moisture, stains and odors and is also said to extend the life of furniture by at least five years. We're a fan of lists in our office, so we created this "Pros" list on why Crypton is a good choice.
Easy to clean
Falling asleep on the couch with wine friendly
Accident prone wife friendly
When thinking about your household and the numerous things you can’t control, this option can make those factors easier to handle. (Wouldn't it be nice to breezily walk over to wipe up spilled juice? Like, "no big deal, I got this!") Okay, maybe not that casual, but it is nice to know your fabric is protected for life's predictably unpredictable moments.
Crypton isn’t just for upholstery. You can get Crypton mattress protectors, crib mattresses, car seats, lift chairs, patio furniture and even dog beds. Crazy right? I'm all about options and love investing in ways to make life easier.
When you're ready to reupholster that old chair or purchase a new couch, keep these tips in mind. Whatever fabric might appeal to you, make sure you think about the furniture use, the fabric durability, and the overall pattern and texture of the fabric. Think and plan, and you'll enjoy your "new" piece of furniture for years! | <urn:uuid:6d68b272-a157-4497-ad79-ecc93442c612> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://id8arc.com/material-of-the-month-textiles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.953 | 2,440 | 1.765625 | 2 |
一. 單項選擇. (每小題1分，共30分) ( )1.Can you play____ soccer?
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( )2.Although I want to buy a computer, ___I don ’t have enough money.
( )3. The weather in Xining is sunny. In ___ parts of Qinghai, it is cloudy.
D. the others ( )4.Would you like ______to eat?
A. something delicious
B. delicious anything
C. anything delicious
D. delicious something
( ) 5.The meat is _____expensive and eating ____meat is bad for your
A. too much ,much too
B. much too, too much
C. too much, too much
D. much too, much too ( )6. Tina is ____ athletic than Jane.
( )7. The twins _________ have blue eyes and curly hair.
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( )8.---____ does your brother go to the beach? ---Once a week.
A. How long
B. How often
C. How much
D. How far ( )9.---Can you come to my birthday party? --__________.
A. That ’s too bad.
B. No, they can ’t.
C. Sure, I ’d love to
D. Do you think so? ( )10. His hair is longer than ____.
C. she ’s
( )11. My dad didn ’t go to bed ______ he finished his work last night.
( )12. They held(舉行) a sports meeting ____ the morning of April 30.
( )13. Is your brother good at______ basketball?---Yes, he is. A. to play B. plays C. played D. playing ( )14. Tom always goes home ____ his bike. A. by B. take C. on D. ride
( )15. A large number of _________ playing computer games.
A. girl; likes
B. boy; likes
C. kid; like
D. kids; like
( )16._______of the Class 1 students is in the classroom. They are having
a P.E lesson on the playground.
D. None ( )17.She is ______baby and she is very lovely.
A. a 8-month-old
B. an 8-months-old
C. an 8-month-old
D. a 8-months-old ( )18.Do you find this book_______?
D. frustration ( )19.-----Must I hand in my exercise book now, Mr Zhao?
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Just like consumer data, businesses generate a lot of data too. This data is collected from a variety of sources, both internal and external. The type and volume of data can vary greatly depending on the industry, size of the company, and other factors. But what are the typical sources of B2B data? In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the most common sources of B2B data. Here’s a closer look.
Related: Sources of MQL for B2B Marketers
These are data sources that are freely accessible and in the public domain. Examples include:
There are a number of tools that offer B2B data for free. This can be a valuable resource for businesses looking to expand their customer base. However, it is important to be aware of the quality of the data before you use it.
Always check the source and make sure the information is up-to-date. Otherwise, you could end up wasting your time and money on marketing campaigns that produce no results.
2. Social media platforms
For B2C companies, social media platforms are undoubtedly valuable. However, what many people don’t realize is that these same platforms can also be powerful data sources for B2B companies.
LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook are all popular sources of B2B data. You can find lists of companies or individuals who work in certain industries or search for keywords related to your industry.
Data sources like these are hidden from public view and can only be accessed through subscription, permission, or payment. They include:
1. Paywalled websites
Paywalled sites restrict visitor access to content until they agree to pay a subscription fee. This limits the number of people who can view information, essentially censoring what’s available to the public.
It may come as a surprise to some that many paywalled websites also offer valuable B2B data. This data can provide businesses with detailed information about their customers, competitors, and the market as a whole. By accessing this data, businesses can make more informed decisions about their products and services, and how best to reach their target markets. Thus, it is well worth considering paywalled websites when looking for accurate and up-to-date business data.
2. DaaS (data as a service) providers
DaaS (data as a service) providers are revolutionizing the way businesses access and use data. By providing on-demand access to a broad range of data sets, DaaS providers make it easy for businesses to get the data they need when they need it. This can help businesses make better decisions, improve their operations, and compete more effectively.
Customers can store their data on the provider’s server and access it from any device with an internet connection. This allows customers to focus on their core business while leaving the storage and security of their data to the experts.
As a business, you know that generating leads is essential to your success. But what are the best ways to find high-quality leads? And where do you start looking for data? FunnL is a B2B data provider that offers its customers an Inside Sales Platform. This platform provides users with high-quality leads based on their ideal customer persona. So whether you’re just starting out and need help finding your target market or you’re looking for more refined data, we can help. | <urn:uuid:d85acaa7-e9b8-4c86-9494-d7ab01b8171d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://funnl.ai/what-are-the-sources-of-b2b-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.943148 | 712 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications
Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications covers the beneficial properties of Trichoderma in enhancing global agricultural productivity. Trichoderma are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both agriculturally and industrially. In many cases Trichoderma are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi has opened new avenues for its various applications. This book covers i) Current state of Trichoderma taxonomy, and species identification, ii) Trichoderma and plant-pathogenic fungi interactions, iii) Trichoderma interactions with plants, including rhizosphere competence of Trichoderma, antagonistic potentials, plant growth promotion, and management of various abiotic stresses in plants, iv) Practical aspects of Trichoderma commercialization in agriculture, v) Biosynthesis of metal-based nanoparticles and its application, and vi) Negative impact of Trichoderma strains in the environments.Reading this book should kindle further discussions among researchers working in fungal biotechnology, microbiology, agriculture, environmental science, forestry, and other allied subjects and thus lead to a broader scope of Trichoderma-based products and technologies. The knowledge shared in this book should also provide a warning on the potential risks associated with Trichoderma.
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- 2022 The Editor
Choosing a Book Format
EPUB is the standard publishing format used by many e-book readers including iBooks, Easy Reader, VoiceDream Reader, etc. This is the most popular and widely used format.
Audio DAISY format is used by GoRead, Read2Go and most Kurzweil devices.
Audio (MP3) format is used by audio only devices, such as iPod.
Braille format is used by Braille output devices.
DAISY Audio format works on DAISY compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream.
Accessible Word format can be unzipped and opened in any tool that supports .docx files. | <urn:uuid:c7893290-8037-4093-85b4-dbe1b2f2ebd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bolivia.bookshare.org/es-419/bookshare/book/4586877 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.871981 | 450 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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